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In this episode of Supply Chain Now, Greg and Scott are joined by co-hosts Enrique Alvarez and Adrian Purtill as they welcome Meta and David Robinson to the podcast.

David Robinson is the founder and managing director of Higher Ground Development, an organization that works directly with coffee cooperatives. In 1998, David also founded Up-Country International Products Inc., the sole distributor and marketer of Sweet Unity Farms Coffee.

Meta Robinson is an IT product manager with over 10 years of experience in e-commerce strategy, systems integrations and digital marketing. She is a business partner at Sweet Unity Coffee for the last 8-10 years; managing US operations for the company.

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In this episode of Supply Chain Now, Scott, Greg, and Enrique welcome Dale Wilkinson with goodgigs to the podcast.

Dale Wilkinson is the Former Executive Producer for FOX Network, Facebook Watch, PopSugar, and 17 year veteran of the advertising and entertainment industry, Dale Wilkinson is now the Founder of goodgigs, a platform and community for mission-driven companies to connect with professionals who want to use their skills for good.

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In this episode of Supply Chain Now, Scott and Greg welcome Zach Ramirez with Ally Logistics to the podcast.

Zach Ramirez is the Director of Sales and Marketing at Ally Logistics. After working with a major food distributor in the Grand Rapids area, fulfilling roles both in sales and logistics, Zach was driven to pursue the world of marketing. After working in a video strategy agency, Zach left to launch his own web and marketing agency. With a background in video advertising and a successful corporate consulting track record, Zach is passionate about educating the logistics industry on the power of marketing and clean sales processes. Zach is a believer in playing to people’s strengths and bringing out the best in the teams he has the privilege of working alongside.

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In this episode of Supply Chain Now, Scott, Greg, and Kevin L. Jackson welcome Sandro Natale and Thomas Carter to the podcast.

Sandro Natale was handpicked to oversee the deployment of Wi-Fi, Digital Signage product offerings with AT&T to large-scale businesses, ensuring suitable price points and functionality. He was selected to manage cross-functional teams to ensure the proper delivery of all features to clients and developing go-to-market strategies for company product offerings, ensuring offers are well communicated to drive customer demand and seller awareness. He leads product development efforts to ensure design, scope, and delivery of all contractual features.

Thomas Carter is an entrepreneur innovation futurist with over 25 years capital markets fintech experience. He has taken two companies public and has helped over 400 with capital markets advisory. Thomas is the founder and chairman of Dealbox, a digital issuance capital markets advisory company focused on emerging blockchain ventures. He is the founder and CEO of Total Network Services Corp, a blockchain infrastructure company focused on technologies that make blockchain crypto easier.

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In this episode of Supply Chain Now, Scott welcomes Rod Sherkin back to the podcast.

Rod Sherkin is the founder and president of ProPurchaser.com. Prior to entering cyberspace, he was the senior executive responsible for supply chain for both Pillsbury and Ball Packaging, where, for 15 years, he honed his negotiating skills with suppliers. Rod has spent the last 20 years sharing what he learned with other procurement professionals. Learn more about the company here: www.ProPurchaser.com

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This Supply Chain Now Classic Episode originally published in August 2020.

This episode of Supply Chain Now features Stephanie Thum. Stephanie is a long-time customer experience consultant and former practitioner who has spoken and written extensively on the field and practice of customer experience as a business discipline. Her experience includes work with government, B2B, technology, and nonprofit organizations. She served as one of the U.S. federal government’s first agency-level heads of customer experience from 2012-2016. During this time, she also served as an advisor to President Obama’s cross-agency task force on customer service, now known as customer experience. Her background also includes work as the Executive Strategist for CX Content for the Customer Experience Professionals Association and as the Chief Advisor for Federal CX at Qualtrics, where she counseled governments around the world on effective customer experience practices.

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In this episode of Supply Chain Now, Scott and co-host Enrique Alvarez welcome Patrick Nelson to the podcast.

Patrick has gained both local and national accolades for his military service, academic career, and work as

a professional speaker and trainer including being named the inaugural NFL-Tillman Military Scholar. He is an experienced leader that spent nearly seven years in the U.S. Army as a paratrooper and completed three combat deployments leading soldiers. His military awards include the Bronze Star Medal and the Purple Heart Medal.

Patrick is an engaging facilitator that has led leadership development programs for a variety of clients, from Fortune 500 clients to small businesses and across a variety of industries. Off the proverbial leadership field, he serves his community by actively volunteering with Tee It Up for the Troops, a non-profit organization that raises money for wounded veterans.

Patrick studied at Minnesota State University and received a Bachelor’s Degree graduating Magna Cum Laude. He also has a Master’s Degree in Sport Management from Minnesota State and a Masters in Organization Development from Pepperdine University.

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In this episode of Supply Chain Now, Scott & Greg welcome Polly Mitchell-Guthrie and Patrick Van Hull with Kinaxis to the podcast.

Polly Mitchell-Guthrie is the VP of Industry Outreach and Thought Leadership at Kinaxis, a supply chain planning and analytics software company. Previously, she was Director of Analytical Consulting Services at the University of North Carolina Health Care System and worked in various roles at SAS, in Advanced Analytics R&D, as Director of the SAS Global Academic Program, and in Alliances. She has an MBA from the Kenan-Flagler Business School of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she also received her BA in Political Science as a Morehead Scholar. She has been very active in INFORMS (the leading professional society for operations research and analytics) and co-founded the third chapter of Women in Machine Learning and Data Science (now more than 60 chapters worldwide.)

Patrick Van Hull is an industry thought leader within the Kinaxis Strategy Office. His diverse career in supply chain began as a practitioner with roles in inventory management at CVS Health, supply demand management at Apple, and inventory and production planning at both Rio Tinto and Dell. Following his time in the high-tech, mining and consumer products industries, Patrick was a research vice president at SCM World, and then Gartner. There, Patrick’s responsibilities included leading research coverage on S&OP and integrated business planning, while also partnering with senior executives to advance the capabilities of their supply chains via facilitation of group workshops, one-on-one strategy development calls and exclusive networking events. Prior to joining Kinaxis, Patrick was a part of the Digital Supply Networks practice within Deloitte Consulting. Patrick holds a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Duke University. He currently resides in Rhode Island.

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In this episode of The Supply Chain Buzz on Supply Chain Now, Scott and Greg discuss the top news in Supply Chain and welcome special guest, David Shillingford, with Resileince360.

David Shillingford is the Chairman of Resilience360. Resilience360 is an innovative, cloud-based platform that helps companies to visualize, track and protect their business operations. The solution facilitates intuitive supply chain visualization, tracks shipments and ETAs across different transport modes and enables near real-time monitoring of incidents capable of disrupting supply chains. Learn more at: www.resilience360.dhl.com.

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In this episode of Supply Chain Now, Scott and co-host Jeff Miller welcome Shan Muthuvelu and Steffanie Ness to the podcast.

Shan Muthuvelu is the CEO and President of UCBOS Inc. He has over 25 years of global business operations, management consulting and SCM solution architecture experience in the Retail, Manufacturing, FMCG, Food & Groceries, Pharmaceutical and Distribution industries. He has assisted many software vendors who are leaders in the Gartner Magic Quadrant such as Manhattan Associates, Oracle, and others, and TOP Global Consulting firms such as, KPMG and others in Digital Maturity, Supply Chain Transformation and Modernization journeys. He helps customers develop their Composable Enterprise, Cloud, Omni-Channel and Digital transformation roadmaps focused on Supply Chain, Fulfillment and Customer Experience. He has served over 100 Tier-1 Manhattan Associates', Oracle and ITOrizon customers in designing and implementing SCM solutions around the world.

Steffanie Ness is the VP, Global Sales for UCBOS Inc. Steffanie began her career at Price Waterhouse Coppers and has over 20 years in multiple business and technical roles in various industries; Intelligence, Aerospace, Publishing, Education. Specializing in a data and content centric enterprise systems and processing, Steffanie helps organizations reinvent how they leverage their data to reduce costs, drive revenue and enhance market agility.

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