Greg Bodkin has 23 years’ experience in engineering, operations and supply chain roles covering engineering, financial services and medical devices industries.

Michael Blatchford is Chairman of the Lean Network Committee. The Lean Network is a not-for-profit organisation run by practitioners, for practitioners with the explicit purpose of disseminating the body of knowledge known as Lean Thinking. Michael has worked in engineering and operational management roles for 17 years, for organisations including Caltex, Steggles and Valspar Australia.

Murali Dharan specialises in sustainability leadership, supply chain transformations and technology solutions, and has a strong track record of leadership in commercial and non-profit organisations, with a particular focus on CSR.

Steve Bray is a founding partner of supply chain consulting firm GRA.

Guy Callender, PhD, is Foundation Chair and Professor of Strategic Procurement at Curtin University, Perth Australia. His broad research interests include strategic procurement, public policy and organisational behaviour, with specialist interests in supply risk, procurement spend analysis and efficiency.

Trevor Cameron has a Master in Management and an MBA. He has previously been employed for more than 20 years as a global procurement manager for a major global agricultural organisation, a principal in a tier-one consulting organisation, and general manager procurement and CPO in the mining sector.

David Couper started his career in the logistics and transport industry in 1989 as an express courier driver with Ansett Couriers. When Air New Zealand purchased the freight business, David moved to Owens Transport. In 2002 David was appointed Logistics Manager at Foodstuffs Wellington and later General Manager. He is a member of the Road Transport Association (NZ) and the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (NZ).

Grant Davis has held senior sales positions with some companies such as Eagle Global Logistics, Annett Australia and Star Track Express. He joined DHL Global Forwarding in Jan 2005 and led the Victorian Sales and Customer Service teams until being appointed to his current role as Vice President Sales – Australia in April 2010.

Rajat Dhawan specialises in e-procurement, strategy development and supply chain analytics. He has consulted to a number of private and public sector clients and holds a PhD in Strategic Decision-Making from the University of Sydney.

Kevin Farrington is an experienced supply chain optimisation professional with more than 20 years’ experience spanning many industries. He has held positions in some of Australia’s blue chip companies focusing on the retail supply chain (FMCG) and for past ten years has led supply chain optimisation in the very dynamic telco sector. Recently Kevin held the position of Regional COO – APAC responsible for Service Implementation and Delivery, and now is a portfolio leader in the area of Supply Chain Optimisation and is a key member of the Brightstar Global Operator Services team. Recently a mentor in the field of Supply Chain Management, he holds an MBA, is Six Sigma Green Belt certified, transformational change management experienced and has accessed courses in Supply Chain Management from institutions such as IMD and MIT Sloan School of Management.

Deborah Ellis has been a supply chain consultant for the past 20 years. She has led strategy and network modelling projects, and innovative projects that apply supply chain principles in new areas, including in cash distribution. Deborah has also collaborated extensively with John Gattorna, most recently on applying dynamic alignment to diverse businesses including major FMCGs in Indonesia and India, a distributor in Greece and a Swiss-based global 3PL.

Dr John Gattorna, for more than two decades, has researched, consulted and worked in various capacities in and around enterprise supply chains. He established and led the Australian and South Asian Accenture supply chain practice, and has since focused on advising boards and C-level management on how to improve the ‘alignment’ of their respective businesses with customers, suppliers and third party providers. His latest book is ‘Dynamic Supply Chains’.

Margaret Gilbert has more than 21 years' procurement experience both within New Zealand and internationally, including Asia, the Pacific, Europe, and the Middle East.  She has experience in government and private industry as well as for international organisations (IMF).  She consults in all things procurement, and is an author and experienced conference speaker.

Scott Githens has more than 15 years' supply chain and change management, spanning a 10-year career with Accenture and the past 5 years with OneSteel.

Wayne Harrison has more than 20 years’ experience as a highly respected negotiation and communications strategist. His corporate experience includes senior executive roles with Henkel KGaA and Pathfinders Downunder.

Robert Heaton brings more than 15 years’ global IT experience with prior appointments as Global Director for Sales Operations for J.D. Edwards based in Denver, United States, and European Sales Operations Manager for SAP, based at corporate HQ in Walldorf, Germany.

Jay Horton advises corporations and governments on strategy and organisational planning throughout Australia, Hong Kong and South East Asia.

Richard Jones has overall responsibility for GS1 Australia’s engagement with more than 18 industry sectors. He has more than 17 years of barcoding and data capture experience, and has also been involved in the adoption of GS1 standards in healthcare and the creation of GS1net for grocery.

Roger Knowles has been with the Australian Antarctic Division for eight years and prior to that worked for British Aerospace (BAE Systems) in setting up a greenfield site and supply chain for the Lead- in Fighter Project with the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF).

Brian Levitan has both qualifications and extensive experience in three major business improvement methodologies of the 21st century: Lean Thinking, Six Sigma and Theory of Constraints.

Mark Millar leverages more than 20 years of global experience to provide independent consulting, education and advisory services that create value for clients by improving performance in their logistics and supply chain activities in China and the Asia-Pacific region.

Peter Lambert was appointed Head of Human Resources and Corporate Services at DMO in January 2008. His responsibilities include workforce and HR management, governance, assurance, ministerial and corporate communications, coordination of support to ADF operations, external agreements and performance reporting, business process improvement, information management and business systems. He is also responsible for the sustainment of Defence’s logistics ERP and the delivery of major upgrades to this system.

His previous appointments have included senior executive responsibilities in the areas of information management, ICT infrastructure provision, ERP support and upgrade, program and project management, special intelligence, information operations and related fields of endeavour. He has led successful transformation and change in all these areas.

Greg Lane had extensive experience in supply chain management with British Gas prior to joining Queensland Gas. He has held logistics roles in remote area development and ultra-deep sea developments, including ultra-deep water projects in the Far East, and onshore/ offshore, shallow ice infested water projects in Central Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East.

David Johnston has previously held a number of positions at E3 Associates, and worked for six years at IBM in the development organisation responsible for IBM’s mainframe forecasting and replenishment solutions. In his current role, he is responsible for strengthening executive level relationships with JDA’s manufacturing, wholesale and distribution customers and key prospects.

Steve Lewis a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Transport and Logistics, and has been involved in transport for more than 27 years. Over the past seven years, Steve has overseen the trade development of the world’s second largest bulk export port, and prior to this held senior management posts in public transport in Perth, including Deputy Chief Executive of MetroBus, and Managing Director of Connex in Western Australia.

David Penny’s diverse career in the materials handling industry spans over 30 years, starting in production engineering in the UK, moving through system design, project implementation, and sales, to the industry management role he holds today. He has been responsible for the design and development of some leading and award-winning logistics systems projects in Australia and New Zealand.

Most of Phil Turner’s career has been with MARS Inc., in Australia and the UK across a range of functions including R&D, engineering, production and supply chain. He also worked with Goodman Fielder in their Baking Division as National Logistics Manager. In his current role he oversees a system where the majority of product distributed and sold in Australia/New Zealand comes out of China, is picked and packed in Australia and delivered direct to the customer.

David Walters has published a number of textbooks and articles on business and marketing subjects, and is the Australasian editor for the International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management.

Ken Nobbs has been with NEHTA since August 2005 as the Project Lead for the Supply Chain initiative, one of twelve initiatives around e-health being delivered by NEHTA. He was previously with Deloitte as a management consultant and has broad health experience spanning more than 10 years working within the pharmaceutical and medical device industry.

Paul Niven has previously worked as business unit and brand manager for Schering-Plough in Australia and the UK.

David Nichols joined AME Systems as Plant Manager in 2008, after 24 years at McCain Foods, Australia. Since 2008 he has successfully led the team through many challenges including the introduction of new technology and a significant dip in activity related to GFC followed by a rapid return to pre-GFC levels.

Rob O’Byrne led the Logistics Bureau team that has been supporting QGC in developing its logistics strategy for the new gas fields in central Queensland. He has spent 30 years in the supply chain and logistics fields and has 15 years’ consulting experience.

Hugh O’Donnell is an accomplished business leader with a strong track record of achieving business excellence within a strategic context. He held senior leadership positions with Amcor, UpRight International, Searle and Yves Rocher in Australia, USA and Ireland. He now works as a facilitator, coach and adviser developing a customised approach to meet client needs.

Derek O’Donnell gained experience in a range of multi-national manufacturing companies in Ireland in the semi-conductor, domestic appliances and pharmaceuticals industries. He joined Coca-Cola Amatil in 2001 and has completed a range of finance and supply chain roles in CCA since then. He manages key components of the national supply chain function for the Australian Beverages division of CCA.

Owen Corey started his logistics career at the age of 18 at the Coles Grocery Distribution Centre in Goulburn. Moving on to Linfox, he held several positions including state and national safety roles within warehousing and transport, which included responsibilities across Asia. He held a national safety role at VersaCold, and now with Woolworths Owen focuses on safety behaviours and driving cultural changes as well as fully implementing the Retail Logistics Supply Chain (RLSC) Code of Conduct.

Mike Owen has more than 30 years’ involvement in senior inventory, procurement, logistics and supply chain, sales, marketing and executive management roles, complemented by consulting, project management and contracting exposure. Mike is President of the Logistics Association of Australia.

Dean Pinniger has been with AME Systems for more than 20 years, holding positions including Client Service Manager, Methods Engineer for Nissan, Quality Manager and Production Manager. He has also worked for Dunstan Farmers Engineering as Business Manager.

Shane Falkiner’s transport career started as a soldier in the Army in 1977.For the next 21 years he worked predominantly within military transport operational fields. On discharge from the Army he worked with several major transport companies, such as Finemores and Toll Holdings, before joining Linfox in 2001. His team is responsible for transport regulation and compliance management of road transport obligations for thousands of motorised units and trailers across Linfox globally.

Darren has worked in the Electrical Wiring Harness industry in Ararat for over 25 years.  He joined AME Systems as a trainee manager, working as a technician, before becoming Client Service Manager and then Quality Assurance Manager.

Graham Porter has held leadership positions with several companies within the aircraft maintenance and manufacturing sector, including Air New Zealand, GE Aircraft Engines and British Aerospace. He took on his current role in 2007 and has led the transformation of Spotlight’s supply chain through changed purchasing and sourcing strategies, as well as streamlining the flow of product to stores.

Craig Stanford joined CEVA Logistics in May 2008. Prior to his appointment, he held senior leadership positions for companies including Cadbury Schweppes, Mayne Logistics, Australia Post, Owens Global Logistics and Caltex. Craig began his career working for Esso and has broad business experience spanning operations, planning, account and business development and business re-engineering.

Mike Reed works with a number of leading companies in the Asia Pacific region assisting them in achieving business excellence. He has specialist expertise in strategy management, product and portfolio management and integrated business management.

Colin Seftel has worked for a Zambian copper mine as an electrical engineer, Eskom as a project engineer, the Koeberg Nuclear Power Station project and Petrel Engineering. He was formerly chairman of the SAPICS Cape Town Chapter Committee, currently serves as a director of SAPICS and is a member of the APICS (USA) International Sub-Committee. In 1996, he became the first practitioner in South Africa to be awarded a Fellowship in Production and Inventory Management (CFPIM) by APICS.

Brett Shemmell has been with BlueScope Steel for more than 20 years, which has given him a breadth of steel industry experience across marketing, sales, operations roles and implementation of tools such as SAP.

Michael Haire has been with Metcash for 10 years and is responsible for the integrity and the quality of inbound and outbound data for the Metcash Trading Group. In addition, he is charged with driving and delivering the group e-commerce strategy. Michael is passionate about data and the importance data quality plays in reducing the cost of doing business and its impact on relationships with trading partners.

Marcel Sieira has been involved in the e-commerce and supply chain sector for the past 13 years. He joined GS1 Australia in 2003 to assist the organisation grow the professional consulting services and develop new services. He is currently focused in the development and launch of GS1 Recallnet, GS1 Locatenet, GS1 GoScan and a range of other traceability and sustainability services.

Dr Gaurav Singh has undertaken research and client projects in the area of supply chain management, production management, scheduling, rostering and general optimisation for numerous industrial clients.

Dr Palitha Welgama has more than 18 years' experience in simulation modelling of logistics systems and optimisation areas. He has been working at Rio Tinto for 11 years, and prior to that he has worked at CSIRO for six years.

Leon Stackpole has nine years’ experience in environmental management and sustainability working for EPA Victoria. He also has practical operational and technical management skills gained while working in the food processing sector.

Bob Stahl has spent the last 30 plus years as a practitioner and coach developing leading edge processes for manufacturing, logistics, and supply chain management. He is a teacher, writer, and S&OP Coach with an extremely strong track record of success. Bob has worked with many of the world’s leading corporations and has authored six books – including Sales & Operations Planning-The How To Handbook, 3rd Edition, and Sales & Operations Planning-The Executives’ Guide. Three of his books are used in the APICS certification program. He is S&OP Editor for the Foresight Journal of the IIF (International Institute of Forecasters) and writes a quarterly column on S&OP. He also heads up the consulting practice for TF Wallace & Company.

Tom Stanic has more than 30 years’ experience in customer service, warehousing and distribution. The first 10 years were in the FMCG area and since then at Crown Forklifts. Both he and his staff have completed their certificate in Competitive Manufacturing, and applied the principles to Lean Warehousing.

Andrew Stephen joined the DMO after gaining extensive experience working within various supply chain management roles across Europe and Asia with DHL.

Maree Storer is, in addition to her current role, a PhD candidate sponsored by the CRCBeef at the University of Queensland Business School. She is exploring how developing strategic supply chain relationships and resultant supply chain competence relate to utilisation of supply chain innovation capacity.

Mal Walker has worked for numerous high-profile organisations, including Dematic, Deloitte and Symonds Henderson. He is a former LAA state and national president.

Mark Grant has senior executive experience with government and companies including Stockland, Transfield and KPMG. He has particular expertise in the assisting clients with the design and delivery of large-scale industrial facilities.

Aaron Relph leads the distribution and logistics of material throughout the Energex energy network and works with many facets of the supply chain. He has more than 12 years’ experience in warehousing and logistics, specialising in the manufacturing and energy sector. He holds qualifications in Supply Chain (Logistics) and Business Management.

Angela Tatlis has been a supply executive in several blue-chip multinationals and now spends her time working with organisations so they can better develop practices to lead their teams to success.

James Tupper has run more than ten IGD Performance Improvement Programs to reduce retail supply chain waste by 10,000 tonnes. They have been held since 2003 in London, Dublin, Stockholm and Leeds and three others are currently under way.

Jyotirmoyee Bhattacharjya’s PhD focus is on IT-enabled interaction capabilities, their antecedents and consequences in value chain networks. She has a diverse research background in quantitative and qualitative research.

Brad Welsman has 30 years’ experience in automation and IT and has spent the past 15 years managing the design and implementation of integrated materials handling systems and paperless picking technologies in Australia, the Asia-Pacific and, most recently, Europe.

Diarmuid McArdle has more than 20 years’ experience in automation in logistics and manufacturing, and was part of Coles’ recent Supply Chain Transformation Program.

Nancy Wendorf is a popular international speaker.  She manages a business arena for Secure Voice Products that include strategic development, execution of new product, new business development, technical delivery services, supplier partnerships, and negotiations with government, commercial, domestic and international market customer-relations management.

Omar Devlin has significant international consulting experience coupled with an academic background. He is passionate about the advances in supply chain management enabling businesses to succeed. In his senior supply chain and management experience across BlueScope Steel, a career highlight was implementing a full redesign of the supply chain management process, transforming the way the organisation reviewed, operated and steered the supply chain to profit.

Terry Davis spent 14 years working in the global wine industry before joining Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA) as Group Managing Director in November 2001. During his time at CCA the company has diversified from non-alcoholic beverages into premium alcohol beverages and food brands, and is one of the largest food and beverage companies in Australia.

Simon Ratcliffe is the Executive Director of Operations for the Just Group, a seven-brand, 1000-store apparel and stationery retailer in Australia/New Zealand. Simon has led supply chain strategy, design and delivery for more than 15 years across three industries. He worked for British Airways in many roles including leading BA South Asia and the global Catering Supply Chain. More recently, he was the Supply Chain & Logistics Director for Marks & Spencer PLC. Simon is past Trustee of Transaid Charity and an MBA graduate.

In his 25-year career, Arthur Mesher has emerged as one of the foremost pioneers, business developers and thought leaders in the logistics industry and is considered by many to be one of the founders of the modern-day concept of on-demand logistics networks.

In the US in the early 1980s, he pioneered one of the industry’s first store and forward communications networks, which enabled a JIT manufacturing strategy with a network of suppliers and carriers for MTS and Northern Telecom. In the mid 1980s, Mr Mesher helped start up VOCAM Systems and Bowes and in 1992 continued his pioneering work in on-demand networks for logistics by delivering the original definitional work on the concept of federated logistics networks, published by Benchmarking Partners. He subsequently served as an advisor to top executives at AMR SABRE Technologies and also CSX Corporation, which led to the development of the first client/server-based, on-demand freight management system for global cargo visibility. In 1995, Mr Mesher founded the Integrated Logistics practice at the Gartner Group, where he provided guidance to hundreds of global corporations on their logistics strategies.

As Chief Executive Officer of Descartes, Mr Mesher oversees the company's marketing and sales, product development, network operations, and customer and corporate services, with direct responsibility for the executive management team.

Giuseppe De Vincenzo joined CEVA in 2002 when he took over as Key Account Manager of the Fiat Group of companies, attended
by CEVA. With vast experience in logistics, he previously worked for global automotive companies Nissan and Fiat in Italy before his
appointment as Vice-President of CEVA Logistics in Brazil. He took up his appointment as CEVA’s Executive Vice President, South Pacific
in 2010.

Air Vice-Marshal Margaret Staib was appointed Commander Joint Logistics in January 2010 and, as Australia’s Senior Defence Strategic Logistician, is accountable for the oversight and assurance of the Defence logistics capability. In a previous posting to Joint Logistics Command, Air Vice-Marshal Staib was Director General Strategic Logistics Branch where in 2008, she led the development of the logistics contribution to the Force 2030 Defence White Paper. Now as Commander Joint Logistics Air Vice-Marshal Staib has carriage of implementing significant White Paper reforms that will transform Defence logistics.

Mike Khodl works for Michigan-based Dematic Corp, one of the world’s leading suppliers of logistics automation solutions, systems and service. His responsibility within global Dematic is for North America which includes operations in the U.S. and Canada.
Mike has been involved in the development of logistics solutions for production, warehousing and distribution operations for the past 24 years. During this time he has focused on leading engineering operations, technology advancements and logistics operations planning. Mike has worked in consulting, solution development, project management, engineering management, strategic business development, product management and executive management.
He also participates in and supports industry trade associations, such as Retail Leaders Industry Association (RILA), Material Handling Institute of America (MHIA), and CEMA (Conveyor Equipment Manufacturers Association). Mike has an Electronics Engineering degree from DeVry University in Chicago, Illinois.

Roddy Martin has been with CCI since July 2010, and was previously employed at AMR Research for 12 years as SVP, Research Fellow and Distinguished Analyst.
He has a millwright trade, engineering technician diploma, and graduated cum laude B Sc Electrical Engineering with two final year awards from the University of Pretoria in South Africa. Roddy was instrumental in AMR Research’s focused research on the verticalised transformation of manufacturing and supply chains to demand-driven value networks. At CCI, he is responsible for the TRACC Supply Chain and Change Management products.

During his career, Mario Carniato has been a process engineer, and worked in managerial roles in sales, production, transport, warehouse, operations, customer service and e-supply chain. His experience includes roles with Comalco, Crane Group and Berger Paints. He is an innovator for supply chain processes, and has also facilitated a major project to revamp Kimberly-Clark’s product innovation management process.

Peter Lambert was appointed Head of Human Resources and Corporate Services at DMO in January 2008. His responsibilities include workforce and HR management, governance, assurance, ministerial and corporate communications, coordination of support to ADF operations, external agreements and performance reporting, business process improvement, information management and business systems. He is also responsible for the sustainment of Defence’s logistics ERP and the delivery of major upgrades to this system.

His previous appointments have included senior executive responsibilities in the areas of information management, ICT infrastructure provision, ERP support and upgrade, program and project management, special intelligence, information operations and related fields of endeavour. He has led successful transformation and change in all these areas.

Ken Bean has more than 39 years’ experience in the retail wholesale industry. Previously,he was General Manager of Coles Myer Logistics
Pty Ltd and was responsible for Coles Myer Asia’s buying offices. Ken has also held senior roles in corporate development as well as finance and administration. He has significant industrial property development and construction experience and is currently a member of the Logistics Association of Australia and the Australian Logistics Council.

Nola started her working life as a nurse, but has run her family’s long-distance road transport company, based in Traralgon Victoria, with her husband for the past 38 years. She is currently chair of Transport & Distribution Training Victoria, a member of the Victorian Freight & Logistics Council, chair of the Transport & Logistics Workforce Advisory Group and chair of Women in Supply Chain.

Maria has been responsible for the successful implementation of global standards within the supply chain in more than 18 industry sectors throughout Australia. She works with a wide range of industry associations and organisations, including the Australian Retailers’
Association, Australian Industry Group, the Australian Food & Grocery Council, Logistics Association of Australia and the Australian Industry Information Association.

The area of research for Dr Marcus Blosch, PhD, is supply chain issues in Asia and global supply chains. He has a background in logistics and business operations. He leads Gartner’s APAC Supply Chain research agenda, is based in New Zealand and has broad supply chain coverage in his research. Prior to joining Gartner, Marcus worked at DHL’s global headquarters driving global change programs as part of the strategy to create a global logistics business focused on providing value-added services. He was responsible for creating and
managing the projects that would bring this about, each with significant IT and business change components.

After graduating from the Royal Military College Duntroon Australia in 1992, Shane Azzi was appointed as a Logistics Officer within the
Australian Army. Following 10 years in the military he took up a role as Commercial Manager at Pacific National. He then joined Mars and
has held the positions of Outbound Supply Chain Team Process Leader for Asia Pacific within their SAP project, National Logistics Manager and National Supply Chain Manager, which involved the management of all planning and operations across the supply chain, before his appointment as Commercial Director.

Jason Walker is responsible for the development and delivery of environmental services to Australian Industry Group (Ai Group) members. He has extensive experience in environmental management and sustainability projects across a range of industry sectors including water, plastics and chemicals and manufacturing. Jason holds undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in environmental management and business.

As one of Australia’s leading economists, Chris Richardson is an expert in the Australian and global economies, as well as Federal budget analysis, property, ageing and industry trends. Chris is a Director of Deloitte Access Economics, heading up their Macroeconomic Policy and Forecasting Group. He is also the author of the Business Review Weekly’s Eco column, and is often asked to comment on economic trends in the media.

Mark Chamberlain has worked for Scotts for the past 15 years. Prior to this he spent seven years with the Australian Defence Force (Army). He began as a driver with Scott Corporation and has been a driver trainer, operations supervisor and compliance officer leading to his current position, which oversees 350 staff and a fleet in excess of 180 tankers, 290 trailers and 150 prime movers.

Shaun Owen began his career in information technology more than 25 years ago. In 1986 he founded IT software company Creative System Professionals, and in 1998 his consulting work began to apply technology to transport problems for major clients. This led to the formation of Transtech Consulting Services in 1999, a business specifically targeted towards using technology tools to solve real-world transport challenges.

Carla Geddes works with companies on improvement. Her career includes international roles with Reckitt & Colman, Procter & Gamble and Goodman Fielder. She is the author of the Better Practice Picture Book, and founded the High Performance Consortium in Victoria and a similar consortium in Sydney. She was founding president of the NSW chapter of the Association of Manufacturing Excellence and founding chair of the Australian Supply Chain Council.

Dr Juanita Day has more than 20 years’ international, commercial experience adding value to business’ technical, economical and social practices. Her current role includes strategy development and implementation, knowledge management and product stewardship for Amcor. Her project work supports internal sustainability initiatives, as well as providing external support to customers with their sustainability initiatives.

Lis has worked in the FMCG sector for more than 25 years. She was recently appointed as Operations Director of Tip Top, a dvision of George Weston Foods. Previously, she was Director of Operations ANZ for Kraft Foods, and ANZ Manufacturing Director of the Baking Division at Goodman Fielder. Most of her career has been in Europe working for large blue-chip companies such as Cadbury Schweppes, Avon Cosmetics and European food group, Uniq Plc.

Grant Enders’ career includes positions as Country Director for Exel Pty Ltd in Thailand, Exel’s largest logistics operation in Asia at the time, and for Philip Morris in Malaysia and Australia. He has been with Coles for just over six years, and during this time has worked across Supply Chain, leading various functions. These include a project on direct overseas sourcing and contract management and running Coles’ Red Meat department and Vendor Management office. He joined the Replenishment division in January this year.

Mark Brommeyer has spent 28 years in the health sector, and has significant experience in e-health strategy and change management, and a passion for supply chain reform. He has provided consultancy, project and change management services in public and private health sectors in Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, China, England and Wales. Mark is a Registered Nurse and leads the supply chain area at NEHTA incorporating the national product catalogue and eProcurement operations.

Fung Har Chan is the Senior Business Analyst of Supply Chain at NEHTA, leading key elements of the E-Health Supply Chain Reform Program.

Moving from working as a management consultant for 4 years, delivering tactical solutions, Fung Har has broad commercial and public sector experience.

Fung Har has a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Psychology, a B.Sc. in Applied Biochemistry and a Postgraduate Diploma In Information Technology.

At an executive level Trevor Barrows has been a catalyst in the communication of the economic ‘levers’ that drive business performance and sustainable supply chain services. Within supply chain consulting services Trevor explores innovations in providing financially sustainable operations management. He has a postgraduate double Masters in Marketing & Logistics (Monash), Bsc Degree in Electrical Engineering, is certified as an ISO Lead Auditor and is a speaker at many sustainability industry seminars and member of innovative sustainability community groups to promote Australian industry.

Graham Gordon has significant experience spanning telecommunications, 4PL supply chain solutions, management consulting and defence. Twice a Brightstar customer through periods of major supply chain transformation in the telecommunications sector, Graham’s forte is to transform top-level vision statements into strategic plans, operational strategies and outcomes that deliver end-to-end value chain improvements leading to tangible top and bottom line outcomes. Graham has an outstanding track record in delivering results, driving positive change and working at board level to achieve a business’s mission and goals.

Pete has more than ten years’ experience in the logistics and supply chain industry in both commercial and operational roles while working for FCL Interstate Transport Services Pty Ltd and Linfox Australia Pty Ltd. He has a strong understanding of supply chain structural issues and how the marriage of technology and improved supply chain processes can drive value into clients’ supply chain. He acts as a subject matter expert on transport and logistics, in addition to heading up Bestrane’s sales team.

Reggie started his career with the NSW Police in 1987 in surveillance, tactical and intelligence units, and then served with the Royal Australian Navy as a Clearance Diver for four years before changing services to the Australian Army. Between 2001 and 2005 he was an operator within the counter terrorist unit, responsible for response to domestic and international terrorist actions against Australia. In 2005 he worked in security management throughout the Middle East and Europe, mainly concerned with the operations of private companies within hostile environments. Reggie took up his current position in 2009, which has involved the sourcing and implementation of technology and systems and development of new procedures, to provide protection for the global headquarters of Westfield.

David is an expert strategic management consultant with more than 20 years’ experience in consulting services. He has held senior positions with AT Kearney (principal operations), Deloitte Consulting (Supply Chain Practice leader) and Dawson Consulting (Managing Partner). He has a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical and Industrial) from the University of Melbourne and an MBA from the Melbourne Business School.

Colin has overseen more than 3000 automation projects throughout Australia and New Zealand since 1988. As a hands-on director he personally shepherds a number of client projects through all development stages - from initial consultation through to on-site installation and testing. RA's turn-key solutions integrate many technologies from end-to-end, affording Colin a unique, inside perspective on the history and future of automation in Australia. Additionally, Colin travels the world to share and assess new automation technologies, build relationships with suppliers and participate in conferences and exhibitions to hone his insight of international best practices and benchmarking.

After years in the structural engineering and industrial construction then materials handling and distribution industry, Alec methodically compared, analysed, designed and tested what he considers to be the ultimate economical lightweight steel pallet that would have IP protection. He served for two years as an executive committee member of a steel industry association and participated with the then Australian Institute of Steel Construction Standards Committee. He has numerous qualifications and accreditations and, over the years, memberships of professional associations including being a past fellow of the Australian Institute of Directors.

Saul has more than 12 years’ experience in distribution and warehousing operations and 10 years in senior management. Saul is the Vice President of the DHL Australian Healthcare business – a fundamental requirement of this role is the initiation and implementation of strategies to grow the business in Australia, and offer a comprehensive supply chain solution for all multi-national healthcare manufacturers. The business is divided into five sub-sectors, focused on Pharmaceutical pre-wholesale, Animal Health, Med Surg & Device, Consumer Health and Direct to Market distribution. In addition Saul is responsible for the achievement of annual budgets, capital expenditure, debt control and customer cost reduction strategies.

For the past 12 years Aaron has led operational and project teams as Woolworths has transformed its supply chain through Projects Mercury and Refresh. Most recently, Aaron has led major investments in construction and automation implementation in Distribution Centres across Australia and New Zealand, taking them from concept and design through to implementation and commissioning. This has included implementation of automated solutions in Melbourne, DC expansion in Perth and earthquake recovery works in Christchurch. Aaron is a Monash MBA graduate.

Brian was engaged to establish Local Government Procurement (LGP) in 2006 having worked previously with the WA Local Government Association, preceded by a 12-year career consulting to some of Australia’s largest corporate companies, specialising in cost management. Since establishing LGP, the company has grown into the premier procurement body in its sector, providing stakeholders with a range of contracts and innovative services.

James is the Founder of Magnetized Markets, the procurement technology business that developed the VendorPanel solution used by LGP. As part of the development process, James conducted research into quote-based sourcing trends of 297 organisations in Australia, and spent three months in North America running workshops on the same topic with representatives from 84 public and private organisations. James’ previous experience was in outsourced vendor management with clients including ANZ, Macquarie Bank, Fairfax and GE.

Adam is a supply chain application consultant in the Infor Consulting Services group. He is responsible for managing implementation of supply chain management software to customers located locally and internationally. He provides organisational support, project management skills and change management requirements to customers implementing Infor’s enterprising software solutions. Adam is currently finalising a Master of Supply Chain Management through Southern Cross University. He previously has completed an Advanced Diploma of Logistics Management and a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment.