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A celebration of women Six months ago, BizClik Media Group decided to mark International Women’s Day 2021 with a series of special supplements celebrating the Top 100 Women in Supply Chain. At a time when women are facing increasing challenges in the workplace due to Covid-19 but finally making headway on gender parity, I am delighted to say that the hardest part of this process was cutting down our nominations to just the very best 100. All of the women featured here had earned their place as well as the respect of their peers, through hard work, talent and determination. They have battled discrimination their entire lives, yet still rise to the top of their professions. Today, we celebrate these women and every woman, and we will continue to do that as a business – 365 days a year.
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SUPPLYCHAIN DIGITAL MAGAZINE IS PUBLISHED BY
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Women in Supply Chain Nominated by you, chosen by us; we celebrate the female executives that are having a profound impact on global supply chain development
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ou’d think that expanding our usual Top 10 format would have made the selection process easier, yet that wasn’t the case: we were overwhelmed by the quality and volume of responses generated by our public poll, something that I believe reinforces the powerful impact female leadership is having today. Empowering women in business is something we both ardently support and track as a publication. We congratulate everyone on this list for their dedication, vision, and inspirational leadership.
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Warehouse & Distribution Manager for LAM
Founder
President
Ana Paula Antonelli Siemens Healthineers
Tania Seary Procurious
Esther Kestenbaum Ruby Has Fulfillment
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Deputy Supply Chain Director
Group Manager Procurement Solutions
Lizeth Cárdenas Guzman
Vaishali Baid WNS Denali
Huawei del Perú
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Director Business Processes
Co-founder and Managing Director
Category Manager, Global Procurement
Samantha Biedron Schroeder Tyson Foods 6
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Lisa Smith Prewave
Mary Campion Northern Trust Corporation
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Co-founder & CMO
Vice President, Inventory and Demand Management,
CEO & Co-Founder
Johanna Småros RELEX Solutions
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Isabelle Leclerc
Vice President Supply Chain
Cascades
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Stephanie Thomas
Associate Professor of Practice & Executive Director of Women Impacting Supply Chain Excellence-WISE
University of Arkansas
Jessica Scaggs Dollar General
“ What an amazing group of women! Proud and humbled to be recognised in this group”
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Kim Davis
Client Solutions and Operations Representative
Apex Logistics International
Divya Demato GoodOps
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Shelley Simpson
Chief Commercial Officer; EVP People and HR
J.B. Hunt Transport Services
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Hermione Parsons
Director and Industry Professor, Centre for Supply Chain and Logistics
Deakin University
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“ Wow! Thanks for including me among such amazing company”
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Founder
Supply Chain Consultant and Warehousing/3PL
Lora Cecere Supply Chain Insights
Courtney Flynn Supply Savvy
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Co-founder
Chief Supply Chain & Procurement
Global Director, Supply Planning
Lisa Morales-Hellebo REFASHIOND Ventures
Mary Beth Lang Kaiser Permanente
Alma Arzate Apotex
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Partner & National Procurement Leader
President & CEO
Chief Operating Officer
Angela Ma
PwC Canada 8
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Hannah Kain ALOM Technologies
Emmanuelle David LANVIN
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Eva Ponce Cueto
Executive Director, Supply Chain Management
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Elizabeth Door
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SVP SCM Europe
Vice President Strategic Initiatives
Carina Tyralla Adidas
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Brigitte Michaud
Senior Vice President and Chief Purchasing Officer
Senior Vice President, Global Supply Chain & External Manufacturing Operations
Whirlpool Corporation
STADA Group
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Chief Operating Officer
Melco Resorts & Entertainment
Carey Chong Lazada Group
Augusta Vargas-Prada
Vice President, Global Supply Chain
Raquel McElyea Dorman Products
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Kim Shelby
Head of Global IT Business Operations
Rotary International
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Nicole Tretwer
Head of Logistics Services, APAC
Swarovski
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Senior Vice President and Chief Procurement Officer
Global Senior Procurement Manager - Technology
Chief Technology Officer
Angela Qu
Lufthansa Group
Saima Lodhi Booking.com
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Vice President, Merchandising and Supply Chain
Vice President Digital Supply Chain
Andaleeb Dobson
Wendy Herrick
Julie Elmore Dollar General
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Julia Formosa
Director Strategic Sourcing (Chief Procurement Executive)
Unilever
Greater Toronto Airports Authority
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Director Of Procurement
Vice President, Manufacturing & Supply Chain Operations
Regional Sales Executive
The Source
Amelle Mestari
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Susanna Zhu
The Hershey Company
Jen Kottka
TMC Transportation
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Director, Marketing and Communication Region Americas
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Daphne Robboy DB Schenker
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Seema Mohanty
Global Supplier Manager for Fungicides
Patricia Moser i3 ADVANTAGE
“Very honoured to be part of this list together with some truly awesome professionals”
Rashmi Shukla Amazon
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Thuy-Dzung DO
Director - Digital Technology
VF Corporation
Bayer
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Chief Marketing Officer
Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Strategy WMG
Head of Supply Chain Technology, Asia-Pacific
Amanda Luton
Supply Chain Now
Jane Godsell
University of Warwick
Priti Jauhari
Johnson & Johnson
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Commercial and Procurement Lead
Chief Exectuive Officer
Colleen Shepherd Consultant
Manufacturing company FLEX builds products which build the world. “My focus is on leading and supporting our amazing employees around the globe,” says Advaithi.
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Vice President Industry Strategy and Market Development
Director, IT, Technology Services & TELUS Health
JoAnn Martin
Martin is a supply chain industry expert and a strategic leader, who has worked across demand and merchandise planning for a quarter of a century.
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With experience from Pfizer, AMP and Tourism Holdings, Shepherd brings this knowledge to bear in her current capacity as a consultant.
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Revathi Advaithi
Mariam Saad TELUS
A great multi-lingual leader, Saad has led procurement with integrity and a loyal network for over 20 years, in sectors ranging from telecoms to mining.
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Vice President - Europe Sourcing
VISA
Vice President, BioPharma Global Supply Chain
Over 25 years, Bornstein has built her experience within the most senior procurement roles by driving digitalisation, diversity and inclusion into her teams.
The supply and inventory manager is confident in Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine: “We have developed a system that does not waste any precious vaccine.”
Alisa Bornstein
Tanya Alcorn Pfizer
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Vice President, Technology & Innovation Procurement
Regional Head of Supply Chain Operations - APAC & Japan
Robyn Dittrich BHP
Dittrich’s skills range from sales management to government and ministerial relations, which have taken her career across the tech and manufacturing sectors.
Shalyn Lee HP
Lee joined HP fresh from college and has played a role in its supply chain for 25 years. She now brings her vast experience to this senior role.
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Head of Country Procurement - Europe Region
Supply Chain Specialist
Virginie Vast Amazon
Vast has dedicated herself to supporting diversity, inclusion and sustainability. Vast has ceaselessly driven proactive change management and found innovative solutions.
“ I am honoured and humbled to be selected, together with my fellow amazing peers in the industry to celebrate International Women Day!”
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Martina Marchiori Evotec
After studying business administration and supply chain management, Marchiori moved to the pharmaceutical sector, as a Supply Chain Coordinator.
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Supply Chain Specialist
VP & Business Leader Contract Packaging Services
Imene Hamoudi B. Braun Groupe
The trilingual pharmaceutical supply chain professional has 4 years of experience in dealing with multinational companies; she credits her collaborative mindset.
Cathie Wood
Metro Supply Chain Group From her 18 years of experience in management, Wood’s leadership has a record in successful manufacturing processes.
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Supply Chain and Manufacturing Group Director
Director of Purchase & Supply Chain
Chief Sustainability Officer and Head of International Institutional Af-fairs
Haribo France
Kering
Bridon has worked in the food and beauty business for over 17 years, as a Senior Director in supply chain and also in sourcing.
Daveu is “dedicated to creating a future where industry is decoupled from relying on large amounts of new natural resources”.
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VP Manufacturing Meals & Beverage Division
CEO & President
Stéphanie Rott LVMH
A beauty and fashion veteran, Rott now spearheads supply chain for the world’s biggest and most influential luxury goods brand.
Anne Vallet Bridon
Kelly Porter
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Annette Clayton
Campbell Soup Company
Schneider Electric North America
Porter cut her teeth at PepsiCo before joining Campbell, and recently made the move from VP of logistics to manufacturing.
An experienced leader, Clayton is also a vocal advocate for decarbonisation in supply chain, seeing it as a powerful force for climate action.
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Vice President Internal Medicine Global Supply Chain
Chief Procurement and Supply Chain Officer
Emer Cunningham Pfizer
With more than two decades' experience in the pharmaceutical industry, Cunningham specialises in complex team management.
Lynn Torrel Flex
Torrel leads her team with innovative solutions to manage the requirements from customers and suppliers, thus increasing profit all round.
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Consultant, Startegy & Operations
Founder and CEO
Vinita Shah
Deloitte Canada
Shah has a passion for professional problem solving. She is also an avid climber - from Himalayan treks to walking hands-free on the CN Tower.
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“Great to see that there are so many interesting women on the forefront of procurement and tech”
Malin Schmidt Kodiak Rating
The tech-entrepreneur and business builder brings together the best of design, technology and innovation to Kodiak Rating.
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Michelle Grose VP Global Logistics
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Anna Spindler
Vice President of Procurement
Unilever
Western Governors University
Grose is a passionate supply chain leader with an enviable resume, including senior roles at Walmart, Starbucks and Microsoft.
Spindler upholds ethics and integrity throughout her work, navigating challenges in a manner colleagues have likened to a Porsche.
“How humbling to be honored in this way. Thank you for the vote of confidence and recognition”
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Senior IT Procurement Manager
Vice President, Global Supply Chain - Direct Sourcing
Diana Karlsson Vattenfall
After studying at Harvard Law School, Karlsson has professional experience in strategic procurement and supply chain optimisation.
Jacquelyn Howard Starbucks
Howard holds 30 years of corporate experience, where she has built global leadership skills and evolved supply chains in the USA and China.
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Jackie Sturm
Corporate Vice President Global Supply
Intel
Sturm has been with Intel for nearly three decades, working across compliance, strategy, finance, manufacturing and global supply. She describes her personal focus as “ensuring and driving the competitiveness of value add manufacturing and healthy ecosystems in support of such ventures”. Sturm is a respected advisor and member of the Electronics Industry Citizenship Coalition, and has testified to the US Senate Finance Committee on International Trade. She also sits on the boards of KM Laboratories, Aptare and Mamta24x7, and is a Board Advisor to Banff International Research Station.
Supply Chain Center of Excellence, Sustainable Supply Chain
IBM / Consultant
Driven by a mission to make a meaningful impact for clients, colleagues, partners and communities, Sheri Hinish has 14 years of experience in supply chain. As a senior leader at IBM, Hinish supports the company’s Global Supply Chain Transformation teams, focusing on sustainable supply chains, omnichannels, and innovation. In recent years, Hinish has been recognised as a Supply and Demand Chain Executive ‘Pro to Know’ (2020 and 2019), the People's Choice 2020 Global Woman in Supply Chain Leader, and received a Corporate Vision Excellence award recipient for 2020’s Most Influential Leader in Supply Chain & Technology.
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Vice President of Global Supply Chain & Procurement Operations
Global Vice President Supply Chain - Skin Care and Skin Cleansing
Joselina Peralta
Troy Corporation
Describing herself as a “thought business executive with global entrepreneurial vision,” Joselina Peralta is currently Vice President of Global Supply Chain & Procurement Operations, Troy Corporation, and has 22 years of experience in consumer products (CPG), chemicals and pharmaceutical industries. Her areas of expertise include: delivering multimillion-dollar cost savings while optimising productivity, governance and performance, as well as strategic leadership, global supply chain logistics, procurement, project management, change management, talent coaching, process excellence and redesign, and customer and supplier relationship management.
Ampy Cheung Aswin
Unilever
Starting her almost 24 year career at Unilever in 1997 as a Management Trainee, Ampy Cheung Aswin has worked her way through the ranks. Aswin has taken on the role of Regional Supply Chain Manager, Regional Supply Chain Director, Vice President of Supply Chain and Vice President of Logistics, for multiple brands, products and regions, before becoming the Global Vice President Supply Chain (Skin Care and Skin Cleansing). Currently, Aswin volunteers as part of the Vanguard Catalyst to accelerate business models that address systemic problems and pioneer future fit growth.
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Sarah Barnes-Humphrey Founder / CEO
Lets Talk Supply Chain / SHIPZ Starting out in the supply chain industry as an Import Cargo Agent at Icecorp Logistics in 1998, Sarah Barnes-Humphrey is, today, influencing millions of leaders in the supply chain industry around the world. Founding Lets Talks Supply Chain in 2018, Barnes-Humphrey, is a supply chain podcast host interviewing top innovators and supply chain professionals in the industry. In addition to Lets Talk Supply Chain, Barnes-Humphrey also founded SHIPZ in 2018, a collaborative online transportation booking platform for international freight movements and a supply chain ecosystem.
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Lebogang Letsoalo Non-Executive Director
SONAE ARAUCO
With 20 years of experience in end-to-end supply chain management, Lebogang Letsoalo strives to be an advocate for professionals, youths, entrepreneurs, and women in supply chain. Letsalo holds four recognitions and awards for her work in the supply chain industry: Top 10 most inspiring women within State Owned Entities (Financial Mail, 2008); Global Business Leadership Award, International Conference on Gender & Sustainability (New York, 2017); Africa’s Most Influential Women in Business and Government in the sector of Manufacturing (2019); and The 100 Global Most Influential Women in Supply Chain (2019).
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Letsoalo is Chairperson and a co-founder of the African Women In Supply Chain Associations (AWISCA)
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Maria P. Villablanca Co-Founder and CEO
Future Insights Network Maria Villablanca’s career journey began in 2003 at the World Trade Group. Over the years she has had the opportunity to work in multiple companies and sectors. Her passions include leadership, sales and business development, and in her current role she is driven to help organisations navigate the challenges presented by fast paced environments, In 2018, Villablanca Co-Founded Future Insights Network, a fast growing membership network of more than 50,000 Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Digital Transformation executives, which she chairs.
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Lani Lindsay
Vice President, Replenishment and Supply Chain
Walmart Canada
Being a strategic thinker, developing collaborative partnership with a shared vision, Lani Lindsay has a quarter of a century’s experience in retail, supply chain, distribution and logistics. During her career, Lindsay is driven to make fundamental business change, while maintaining the corporate vision, and has developed high-impact, accountable and customerorientated teams. Some of her key areas of expertise include: inventory optimisation, channel management, product flow, supply chain, distribution, network design, business analysis, financial management, project management, outsourcing, IT Strategy and business architecture.
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Angie Slaughter
VP of Sustainability, Logistics, SVC & Capabilities Procurement
AB InBev
With a supply chain and engineering career spanning 24 years, Angie Slaughter is the current Vice President (VP) of Sustainability, Logistics, SVC & Capabilities Procurement at AB InBev. Driven to ensure transformational change in the industry, Slaughter has held several roles in the way of sustainability and procurement functions. Whilst Slaughter currently works in Sustainability, Logistics, SVC & Capabilities Procurement, she has prior experience in noncommercial indirect and capabilities, raw materials energy & fluids, energy and utilities, water and wastewater, engineering and brewing.
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Megan Smith
Chief Executive Officer
Symbia Logistics
Building on her family's legacy of 150 years, Megan Smith has been in and around the supply chain and logistics industry all her life. Over the last decade Smith has started and sold many businesses tackling some of the most challenging challenges in the industry. Today, Smith oversees a workforce of 1,300 employees at Symbia Logistics, harnessing her entrepreneurial spirit, tenacity and conviction that we are all equal to build powerful and successful teams, and a company with diversity initiatives at its roots.
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Senior Manager, Global Procurement & Import-Export
Head of Content Supply Chain
Maayan Nissan
Aygyun Agaeva
DAVV Productions
Align Technology
With 17 years of experience in the supply chain industry, Maayan Nissan is a well seasoned executive in the world of procurement and supply chain. Over the years Nissan has developed long-term sustainable end-to-end operational infrastructure, strategic collaboration, and formed and managed multi-functional global teams in what can only be described as a fast paced and complex industry. Nissan’s areas of expertise include: supply chain, global procurement, management, commercial and legal negotiation, cogs optimisation, outsourcing, business strategy, operational excellence, innovation and high-tech corporates.
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Helen Davis
Head of Supply Chain BPC & HC
Unilever
An experience and motivated supply chain professional, Davis is proud of her “innovative, strategic, and collaborative" approach to supply chain management. She cut her teeth at Coca-Cola in the late 90s, rising from Section Leader to Vice President Supply Chain US Region. Davis has worked for several other leading consumer brands, including cosmetics giant Estée Lauder, and RB, the group behind the Durex, Nurofen and Dettol brands.
Agaeva is a multiindustry supply chain specialist, versed in the rapidly evolving oil and gas, healthcare, retail, cosmetics and telecommunications sectors. With 15+ years of experience in supply chain and procurement, she is praised by peers for “always looking for improvement with a collaborative mind set”. She took the reins in her current role in July 2020, and continues to offer consulting services to clients to build strong teams, consistently improve SCM, shape best practices and optimise towards reduced cycle time and minimised inventory levels.
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Meghan Milks Nicholas
Vice President, Supply Chain Development
Peloton Interactive
Formerly the Senior Director, Supply Chain Strategy & Planning at Dollar General, and previously Director, Supply Chain Analytics at The Home Depot, Milks Nicholas is a retail supply chain veteran. Recently she hopped on her bike and made the move to Peleton Interactive, the world’s leading interactive fitness platform. A champion of women in leadership roles, Milks Nicholas is a proactive Member of the Board of Directors and Programming Officer of the Nashville Chapter of Network of Executive Women, a North American women's leadership organisation serving the retail, consumer goods, financial services and technology industries.
“ Thank you Supply Chain Digital for the recognition! I am honored to be included with this group of talented and inspiring female leaders!”
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Alexandra Lopez
SVP and Chief Procurement Officer
Cisco
Alexandra Lopez is responsible for reshaping procurement at global technology leader Cisco. She has a varied remit that covers sourcing and supplier management, contracts, purchasing, travel, contingent workforce, ethics, risk, and supplier diversity. A proven leader, Lopez held senior leadership roles at Hewlett Packard and American healthcare consortium Kaiser Permanente prior to joining Cisco in 2010. She has been recognised as one of the 100 most influential women in supply chain, and is a fervent believer in raising the glass ceiling and providing programmes and services to women and girls as a board member and former president of the Silicon Valley non-profit YWCA.
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“Many thanks to Supply Chain Digital for this nomination! I'm really honored to be part of this list!”
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Jennifer Tangco
Vice President, Centre of Excellence
Metro Supply Chain Group
An expert in the fields of team leadership, supply chain and logistics, in addition to coaching and development, peers describe Tangco as having a “black belt mindset” and being able to “analyse each member of her team, identify their keys strengths, provide coaching, clear direction and pull it all together”. The University of Toronto alumni has volunteered with the Oasis Arts and Social Change Program, as well as serving as a committee member for not for profit Canadian Athletes Fund.
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Victoria Bryazgina
Head of Supply Chain Development
United Metallurgical Company Bryazgina is a certified public speaker, in any one of her four languages: Russian, English, Italian and Mandarin. She has studied supply chain management at both Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Rutgers University, in addition to having a Bachelors degree in Economics. Bryazgina has 10 years of experience in supply chain management and development, with a background in logistics network development and supply chain management strategy. Across her SCM projects, Bryazgina has facilitated supply chain design and optimisation, individual business processes modelling and the implementation of specialised planning and scheduling systems and plans to develop sustainable opportunities into her work.
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“Thank you! It's amazing to be nominated as one of the Top 100 Women in Supply Chain to celebrate International Women's Day”
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Adele Sale
Procurement Director
AstraZeneca
A former student at Loughborough University, Sale studied International Business and followed it up with a Masters in IT. She has had a multitude of career highlights and experiences, from working at J.P Morgan as a financial analyst in the Channel Islands to Rolls-Royce in Derbyshire as a strategic sourcing Manager. Sale later spent three years working for Dyson in Singapore. She is presently employed as Procurement Director for biopharmaceutical AstraZeneca, one of the companies spearheading the COVID-19 vaccine effort. Sale is fluent in Japanese, and in her spare time loves nothing more than watching West Ham football club hammer their opposition.
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Katherina-Olivia Lacey Co-founder and Chief Product Officer
Quincus
The co-Founder of Quincus, which provides solutions for ecommerce and logistics, Lacey is “Passionate about truly understanding the drivers of customer growth” and a self-confessed ‘consumer Nerd’. Fascinated by experimental growth, consumer behaviour and the possibilities of social media, she works between Singapore, UK and France. She has also spent years volunteering for causes to alleviate poverty and push for the dignity of others. With The Red Cross, she supported families and individuals in a crisis, by facilitating the distribution of food and appropriate clothing. She has also volunteered for The Salvation Army and Amnesty International. supplychaindigital.com
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“This is truly an honour to be recognised by my colleagues, clients, and the business community in Indonesia”
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Elsie Qian
CEO Americas
Apex Logistics International Working her way up through the industry from the bottom, Elsie Qian is a proven leader. She helped establish Apex’s Americas division almost single-handedly when it first launched in 2003. In fact, she was half of a twoperson team that expanded the Asian freight forwarder’s reach into the continent from a silo in Los Angeles. Flash forward close to 20 years and Apex is a recognised leader. Far from seeing her gender as a barrier, Qian believes being a women in a leadership role in what is a male-dominated industry makes her different, “and that makes Apex different”, she told Lets Talk Supply Chain (see #22).
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Lishia Erza
Chief Executive Officer
ASYX Supply Chain Finance & Tech
Lishia Erza is a passionate expert in automation and sustainability in supply chain. With a varied career, including 15 years in corporate and public affairs, Erza brings her considerable experience to bear in her current role helming ASYX, a sustainable supply chain finance and collaboration technology company. There she stewards businesses of all sizes through their supply chain digital transformation journeys, with clients across Asia and Africa. Currently based in Indonesia, she spent a decade working and living overseas - an experience she credits with giving her a “fresh perspective” and informed her passionate advocacy for entrepreneurship in women and young people.
TOP 100 WOMEN
“Thank you for the recognition and congratulations to all those being honoured!”
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Cathi Kalkanis-Schmidt Vice President Global Accounts
Arvato
Cathi Schmidt is a seasoned and multi-skilled business professional, with experience in sales, brand development and marketing. Her past roles include a threeyear stint as VP of Business Development at M&A technology provider Datasite, and Director of Sales at e-commerce and supply chain management company ModusLink. In her current role she oversees global accounts for Arvato Bertelsmann Supply Chain Solutions, a leading international provider of supply chain management and e-commerce solutions, and one of the core units of the Germany-based global services company.
“ Honoured to be recognized, proud to represent all women and grateful to Arvato!”
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Tammy McNeil Vice President Human Resources
DHL Supply Chain McNeil is a recognised leader in supply chain with close to 30 years experience under her belt. She joined DHL Supply Chain just over a decade ago and is responsible for thousands of employees across North America. Along with other DHL peers and colleagues around the world, she is an emphatic and vocal proponent of raising the bar for diversity and inclusion in the workplace. She is passionate about people, making connections and improving lives. supplychaindigital.com
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“ It’s important we drive the industry towards all tubes being recyclable”
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Ann Tracy
Chief Sustainability Officer
Colgate-Palmolive
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racy has worked across each of Colgate-Palmolive’s four categories during her 30-year career, overseeing at different points logistics, supply chain and manufacturing. She now leads the American consumer products giant’s global sustainability strategy - a facet of the business that is in many ways unique. Led by Tracy, Colgate’s goal is 100% recyclability across all its products and packaging, and it has pioneered several innovations towards this mission. A breakthrough was the development of recyclable tubes for oral care products, which it has open sourced and is working with peers and even competitions to increase adoption, a move which earned it recognition in the
2020 Fortune Change the World list. “It’s important we drive the industry towards all tubes being recyclable,” Tracy said in an interview with the New York Stock Exchange last September. “We’ve spoken to nearly 20 different companies, some of them competitors, and we’re really encouraging the move to happen as quickly as possible so we can get tubes out of the landfill and into the recycling stream.” This is just one initiative in Tracy’s sustainability work at Colgate, and dovetails neatly into her wider commitment to sustainable business. Alongside her CSO role, Tracy is a Board Member of the UN Global Compact Network’s USA chapter, the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative.
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TOP 100 WOMEN
“ As we go after many of the worlds most unmet diseases - ebola, TB - the ability of the supply chain and […] our capabilities become incredibly important”
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Kathryn Wengel
EVP & Chief Global Supply Chain Officer
Johnson & Johnson
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ohnson & Johnson claims to reach more than a billion people everyday through its supply chain, across consumer, medical devices and pharmaceuticals. As Executive Vice President & Chief Global Supply Chain Officer, Wengel and her global teams have an enormous impact on the world. She has served at Johnson & Johnson for nearly 35 years, including a near 20-year stretch at its pharmaceutical company Janssen. But it is Wengel’s commitment to championing the advancement of women in supply chain that makes her a truly worthy winner. She sits in the advisory board of AWESOME, the nonprofit dedicated to fostering and promoting the interests of women in
supply chain leadership roles, and was awarded the organisation’s Legendary Leadership Award in 2014. Wengel also wields her influence and experience to put her beliefs into practice. Internally, she spearheads initiatives as the executive sponsor of the Johnson & Johnson Women’s Leadership & Inclusion (WLI) initiative, as well as the Johnson & Johnson Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, Manufacturing and Design (WiSTEM2D) programme. This is not Wengel’s first recognition, nor will it be her last, having received numerous plaudits over the past decade for her expertise in supply chain and advocacy for amplifying the voices of women in the industry.
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