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SIMON BELTRAN

President and Chief Revenue Officer O’Neil Printing Sector: Business Services

Supply chain challenges will continue to impact our business and the clients we serve. From raw material availability and associated inflation to the impact on timing from logistics providers, we will continue to see the effects on our client programs. We are doing everything possible to communicate early and often with our vendor partners and clients.

Our operations and procurement teams are closely managing our inventories of paper, ink, plates and packaging supplies. Our on-hand inventories are certainly higher than in years past to help us deliver quickly on client expectations.

We have proven that much of the impact of supply chain stress can be overcome with proactive decision making, better planning, and risk management.

O’Neil Printing oneilprint.com Simon Beltran is a recognized business and thought leader with more than 12 years of executive level history, excelling in leadership within the distribution, manufacturing, e-commerce, physical and digital communication marketplace. In his role as president and CRO of O’Neil Printing, Beltran oversees all aspects of the technology and revenue organizations, including sales, marketing, product, technology solutions and client experience to ensure clients benefit across a full spectrum of technology-driven solutions, excellence in print and fulfillment services, and marketing supply chain expertise.

LORRY BOTTRILL

Chief Executive Officer Mercy Care Sector: Healthcare

As with all sectors, the pandemic has had an impact on the workforce in the healthcare industry. Workforce opportunities will continue to impact the healthcare industry in 2022. Mercy Care is in the process of developing a Workforce Development Task Force to help address the situation. This task force will include participation from providers, so we can hear from them directly. The task force will be focused on developing additional effective workforce recruitment and retention strategies, to create a strong pipeline of workers throughout the healthcare continuum. Our plan is for this pipeline to include physical health and behavioral health workforce opportunities.

As with all projects of this scope, the most important thing we can do in this early stage is to listen, and that’s what we’re doing. We’ve had many conversations with multiple providers in recent weeks and months to further understand the situation. Solutions will require innovation, flexibility and collaboration to ensure continuity of quality care for patients, and an environment that supports those delivering that care.

Mercy Care mercycareaz.org Lorry Bottrill, CPA, is chief executive officer of Mercy Care. In addition, Bottrill serves on the board of directors for the Desert Southwest Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Foundation for Senior Living and Health Current, which is Arizona’s electronic health information exchange. She also leads the Home Matters Governance Fund in Arizona and is vice president of the Arizona Health Plan Association.

CHARLES ECKERT

Principal and Managing Director Red Hawk Garage Suites by Red Hawk Development Corporation Sector: Real Estate

Inflation is a nasty bug. Call it the coming pandemic of 2022. However, real estate, like other hard assets, is often an inflation hedge provided demand does not dry up — and demand for all things real estate in Arizona is increasing, not diminishing.

For new construction, and as business owners generally, our inflation challenge is to determine where to price our products to preserve a sufficient profit margin without destroying our business’s value proposition. For new construction specifically, given the opaque and volatile nature of construction cost fluctuations, the pricing model is even more difficult to discern.

However, Red Hawk’s Garage Suites is a market niche and, as such, our value proposition covers more than a storage solution: It is a lifestyle choice and a commercial real estate investment as much as it is a place to store your “stuff.” While we have seen some fallout because of market uncertainty generally, we continue to experience strong demand because of our multidimensional value proposition.

Red Hawk Garage Suites redhawkgaragesuites.com An accomplished real estate developer operating principally in north Phoenix/Deer Valley, Red Hawk Development offers services in land acquisition, site planning, zoning and entitlements and offsite, onsite and vertical development, and brokerage. Charles Eckert has developed 16 successful projects in Arizona with a market value of $50 million. Eckert’s past roles include VP at Marcus & Millichap and Colliers International, senior positions at Oracle & MCI, and founder of Southern Capital Mortgage.