Roel Bellens | Opinion
is professor and head of the financial management department at European University College Brussels, and managing director of Strategus, an independent research consultancy specialising in value creation. Roel has been an adviser to many companies, including ABN Amro, Canon, Grolsch and United Technologies. From 1978-86 he was a senior executive at Johnson & Johnson in Japan and the UK.
Betsy Harrington | How to…
is vice-president, global supply, at BHP Billiton, the world’s largest mining company. Based in Melbourne, Australia, she leads a function with 1,100 staff worldwide and an annual spend of over US$15 billion. Prior to joining in 2003, she was a senior procurement executive at Alcoa in Pittsburgh, US, responsible for global processes, e-procurement and M&A integration. Betsy started her career in human resources.
Jonathan Hughes | Performance measurement
is a director and head of the sourcing and supplier management practice at Vantage Partners, a specialist relationship management consultancy in Boston, Massachusetts. Jonathan has worked with leading companies across a range of industries, including healthcare, IT, telecoms, retail and manufacturing, and has written for a variety of publications, including Harvard Business Review.
Andy Davies | Public-private partnerships
is head of procurement at Surrey County Council in the UK, where he leads a 45-strong function managing an annual spend of more than £480 million. Andy has recently led negotiations to establish innovative public-private partnerships in education, and earlier in his career led a team bringing private finance into the operation and renewal of London Underground’s power distribution system.
Raju Patel | Professional services
is chief executive of Fulcrium, a London-based independent advisory firm on services buying whose clients have included British Airways and Colgate-Palmolive. He was previously at Accenture, where he worked on board and director-level strategies for Fortune 100 companies in areas such as mergers and acquisitions. Raju started his career in procurement at the European Space Agency in Germany.
Patrick Le Laouenan | Post-merger integration
is vice-president, corporate purchasing and real estate assets, at Sanofi-Aventis in Paris. Prior to joining Sanofi in 1994, he was purchasing director at the cosmetics firm Yves Rocher, having originally started his career as a raw materials buyer at Saint-Gobain in the early 1970s. Patrick is a vice-president of the Compagnie des Dirigeants et Acheteurs de France (CDAF), its professional purchasing body.
