Munish Dhanker

Associate Director, Strategic Procurement, Bell Canada

“While we celebrate our past successes, in order to sustain the momentum we need to take on bigger challenges and make bolder bets in the future, I am looking forward to ProcureCon Canada 2015 to share some of these ideas with other procurement practitioners that will help us to be an even more value added function at our respective organizations.”

Munish Dhanker has worked as a procurement professional in the Telecom, Consulting, High tech and Automotive industries both on direct and indirect spend categories. As a management consultant at IBM he worked with clients to create highly effective procurement organizations, devised and implemented sourcing strategies including low cost country sourcing, developed procurement metrics and deployed e-procurement solutions. He currently leads the Corporate Services team at Bell Canada managing over $500M in annual spend under Financial & IT Services, HR Benefits and Training, Contractors and Consultants.

Eugene Fernandez

IT Procurement & Contract Management, Comtech Group

“ProcureCon Canada 2015 will provide as it did for me in 2014, a compact three days to network with some of the leaders in orchestrated procurement in Canada in corporate sector and public institutions. It also enables me to pick up a minimum of 10 current best practices in: sales growth using vendor collaboration and innovation, risk management, talent development and category spend savings. This enables immediate application on return to your organization.”

Eugene Fernandez is a Senior Management Executive in Supply Chain with over 30 years experience in Canada, US, Middle East and India. His experience in some of the top 25 global supply chain organizations includes as Management Consultant. Eugene implemented through Procurement Transformation 10% spend savings within a year, in both direct and indirect categories, in numerous global industries; many with over $2 billion addressable spend. He has proven record in five companies of increasing Net Profit 25%, in six months, with no investment.

Hersh Glass

Global Commodity Procurement Specialist, SAP Canada Inc.

“Today more than ever, procurement is looked to by its business partners to provide value-add services. ProcureCon Canada will enhance my strategic tools required to meet my business partners’ needs in a fast changing procurement landscape.”

Hersh Glass is a strategic procurement professional, focused in the high-tech industry: SAP, Celestica. Hersh’s roles have included both direct and indirect spend categories, including application consulting services, customer training, professional services, facilities, marketing, and HR related commodities. In addition, his various roles have included project team work to implement new Procurement systems and processes.

Michael C. Johnson

Senior Contracts Manager, Shell Canada Limited

“ProcureCon Canada 2015 will give attendees an opportunity to engage leaders across multiple industries and take away valuable knowledge on best practices, strategies, and tactics that can be used to optimize and improve new or mature supply chain organizations in the face of complex and dynamic global economic conditions.”

Mike Johnson is a supply chain professional with over 15 years of experience leading multi-national organizations in the oil & gas and aerospace industry. His diverse experience includes coordination of logistics operations as well as contracting and procurement activities in North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. He is currently based in Calgary and manages procurement and strategic supplier management for multi-billion dollar capital project work being conducted by Shell Canada in northern Alberta. He leads a multi-national team based in Canada with indirect and cross-functional teams in the U.S., Europe, and Asia.

Sheraz Kashif

Sr.Procurement Manager Indirect & Logistics, Procurement & Sustainability, Mondelēz International Inc.

“ProcureCon Canada provides great networking and learning opportunities to procurement leaders and allows us to get familiarized with the latest procurement trends and challenges. It’s a forum that provides a comprehensive overview of the talent and strategies that helps organizations steer through tough the challenges of today’s market. I am excited and honored to be a participant.”

Sheraz is a highly progressive customer oriented procurement / integrated Supply Chain leader with 19 years of global experience working for multi-billion dollar conglomerates/ Fortune 100 companies, including Siemens, Rogers Communications and currently Mondelēz International (Ex KRAFT). In these challenging procurement and supply chain leadership roles he has lead global teams in Europe, Middle East Africa, North America and Asia, managed budgets in excess of a billion dollars and delivered stellar results in achieving cost efficiencies and making significant contributions to the bottom line through creative, out of the box, supply chain and procurement solutions and state of the art processes. He has received higher education, MBA Supply Chain Management from the UK (University of Leicester) and Leadership & Negotiation certification from the USA (Harvard Business School). He specializes in Creating procurement and supply chain functions from scratch or transforming an existing one to optimize and introduce excellence.

Jeff Russell

Director, Procurement, Crane Supply

“I’m most excited about the opportunity to hear from my colleagues on what they are working on, the challenges they are facing and to learn how they are overcoming those issues. It’s critical to attend because it’s a one-of-a-kind conference in Canada that is geared towards procurement/supply chain professionals, focused on our needs and requirements.”

Jeff Russell is currently the Director of Procurement for Crane Supply – a Canadian national wholesaler of pipes, valves and fittings. He has 20 years’ experience in Procurement/Supply Chain Management, having previously worked with such companies as Honeywell ES&S (Aerospace), Pratt & Whitney Canada, ABC Group of Companies (Tier 1 Automotive) and NPB-Melville Software (now Tyco Healthcare). In his current role, he is directly responsible for managing a spend of $145M, all global sourcing initiatives, global ocean freight and Canada Customs. He currently resides in Vaughan with his wife Naomi and their two children, enjoys hockey in the winter, golf in the summer and the when the opportunity strikes itself, the martial art judo.

Kathy Simon

Director, Indirect Procurement, !ndigo Books & Music Inc.

“I’m most excited about ProcureCon Canada 2015 because we set the bar even higher from 2014! I attended the last conference and it is a terrific forum for like-minded professionals to network and exchange best practices. The high quality presentations coupled with interactive workshops provide an excellent opportunity for everyone to learn new ways to advance procurement’s status and overcome obstacles. The conference’s great vibe allows for strong bonding and a sense of belonging in times when procurement still needs to find its strong voice in the ever-competing corporate world.”

Kathy Simon is an accomplished executive with over 18 years of procurement/purchasing experience in various industries such as manufacturing, wholesale, transportation, financial and retail, having worked at Purolator, TD Bank and currently Chapters/Indigo. Kathy’s specialties are procurement strategy development and implementation, procurement revitalization/turnaround within organizations, procurement-specific training and knowledge-management, IT Procurement, Vendor Management, contract drafting and management.

Rachel Wolfe

Owner, Bottom Line Procurement, Formerly Senior Procurement Specialist, Teck Resources Limited

“Research shows that most companies lose significant revenue / profit due to weaknesses in their procurement practices. This conference is an exciting opportunity for procurement practitioners and senior executives to understand the impact that procurement has on their company’s bottom line and determine across industries where opportunities lie to move procurement to a measurable instrument of strategy.”

Rachel is an independent contractor providing project procurement planning and execution services. Most recently Rachel held a leadership position at Teck where she implemented an organizational model for project development covering the enterprise mining and energy capital project portfolio of over $12 billion. Rachel draws her knowledge from over 18 years of experience in developing and implementing exceptional global service offerings in extremely political and decentralized environments from providing corporate auditing and advisory services (Arthur Andersen and KPMG), to developing and implementing business planning, finance management, performance measurement models and managing key global corporate accounts (oneworld Airline Alliance), and then managing the procurement activities for multi-billion dollar mining capital projects for a global EPCM (Fluor) prior to leading the project procurement function at Teck.