The Future of Supply Chain & Logistics Is Here

Simon Kalouche

CEO & Founder

Nimble Robotics

Simon Kalouche is an inventor, engineer and entrepreneur developing next-gen intelligent robotic systems as founder and CEO of Nimble Robotics. Prior to founding Nimble, Simon was a PhD student and researcher at Stanford advised by AI icon Fei-Fei Li and the father of self-driving cars, Sebastian Thrun. Simon received an M.S. in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from The Ohio State University. Simon has developed intelligent robotic systems for warehouses, dynamic legged robots for the Department of Defense, space robots for NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab and autonomous off-road vehicles for the Air Force Research Lab. Simon holds dozens of research publications and patents and his work is featured in premium outlets such as WSJ, Forbes, Tech Crunch, IEEE Spectrum, The Verge, Wired, and Modern Material Handling. Simon is a Forbes 30 under 30, a NDSEG Graduate Research Fellow, a James R. Swartz Entrepreneurial Fellow and a NASA Space Grant Fellow.

Amiee Bayer-Thomas

Chief Supply Chain Officer

Ulta Beauty

Amiee Bayer-Thomas was named Chief Supply Chain Officer of Ulta Beauty in September 2020, after having held multiple store leadership positions since joining the company in 2016. This included serving as Senior Vice President, Stores – West Division and Corporate Store Operations where she drove operational excellence and a team of 21,000 associates across more than 700 stores. Prior to joining Ulta Beauty, Amiee was the President of Thomas Advisory Group LLC – a consulting firm within the retail and beauty industry. She previously held various positions of increasing responsibility with JCPenney from 2007-2015, including Divisional Vice President Store Operations and Vice President of JCPenney Salons, and at Limited Brands Inc. from 2002-2007. Amiee is also a former member of the International Salon/Spa Business Networking Board. She is a recipient of JCPenney’s Chairman Award and Limited Brand’s President’s Award, as well as several culture awards at Ulta Beauty – recognizing her as a transformational, values-based leader with a passion for developing high-performing teams, driving continuous improvement in retail operations, and delivering outstanding customer experiences. Amiee holds a bachelor’s degree in management from the College of St. Benedict, where she focused on international business including studying at the International College of Cannes. She holds a Lean Six Sigma Belt and advanced facilitation, presentation. and communication certifications. When she isn’t transforming iconic beauty and fashion retailers, Amiee is passionate about giving back to her community by serving as a Board Member for the YWCA, mentoring several young professionals, and spending quality time with her husband and daughter in Chicago.

Biswaranjan Sen

Global Chief Product Supply Officer, Beauty & Wellbeing

Unilever

Biswaranjan (Bish) Sen is the Global Chief Product Supply Officer Beauty & Wellbeing at Unilever under the company’s new Compass organization. He joined Unilever in 1991 and has worked in R&D and across various parts of the Supply Chain including manufacturing, planning, logistics, customer service and procurement. Bish was a member of the Board of Directors of Unilever Indonesia with responsibility for the Supply Chain between 2009 and 2012. Following his subsequent roles as Vice President Procurement Chemicals and Vice President Group SC Personal Care, he became an Executive Vice President in Unilever in May 2017, responsible for Unilever’s Beauty and Personal Care Supply Chain thru 2021. He was the architect of the end-to-end Digital Transformation of Unilever’s Global Supply Chain. Bish is also responsible for Unilever’s global Decarbonisation Technology strategy. Bish holds a degree in Chemical Engineering.

Sami Naffakh

Chief Supply Officer

Reckitt

Sami Naffakh is Chief Supply Officer at Reckitt, having re-joined in July 2020. Sami’s responsibilities include global oversight of Reckitt’s end to end supply chain operations, as well as the advancement of our Quality and Health & Safety functions. Sami has over 25 years of international leadership experience in fast moving consumer goods companies such as Unilever, Danone and Estee Lauder – as well as Reckitt where he held several leadership positions from 2003 to 2009. Most recently, Sami was Executive Vice President at Arla Foods, the Danish farmer-owned dairy cooperative, where he headed up supply chain operations globally.

Kenneth Engel

SVP, Global Supply Chain, North America

Schneider Electric

Ken has over 35 years of Supply Chain Management experience and 30 years with Schneider Electric. He has a diverse background of executive level Supply Chain and Business leadership positions as well as global experience working across China, Asia Pacific and North America. Ken has proven to be a key leader in Schneider Electric’s award-winning supply chain transformation and mission: To STRIVE to be the most agile, innovative, planet- and customer-centric supply chain.

Moid Alwy

EVP, Chief Supply Chain Officer

American Tire Distributors

Moid is the Executive Vice President and Chief Supply Chain Officer at American Tire Distributors (ATD) leading the end to end supply chain organization inclusive of demand planning, inventory management, transportation, distribution, logistics, sales and operations planning (S&OP) and final mile delivery. Prior to ATD, Moid spent 20 years in various leadership roles at Target in supply chain operations and strategy. He led critical efforts around omni-channel supply chain initiatives, development of strategy and scaling Target from a $70B retailer to a $100B+ in 3 years. Prior to Target, Moid spent two years at US Bancorp, where he was responsible for the successful technology integration and implementation of mergers and acquisitions. Moid graduated with a degree in Information Systems and Mathematics from Luther College.

Ben Sun

General Partner & Co-Founder

Primary Venture Partners

Ben is a Cofounder and General Partner at Primary. Forbes' Midas List ranks him as one of the top 100 tech investors in the world. His founder-first approach originates from having been one: His experiences cofounding Community Connect, one of the first social networking companies, and LaunchTime, an incubator, inform how he supports founders in the portfolio. Ben focuses his investing activities on primarily consumer-facing companies. Ben has been active in the NYC tech community for over 20 years. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur and investor, Ben worked at Merrill Lynch in the Technology Investment Banking Group, but he really began his career at the age of eight when he worked in his parents’ Chinese restaurant.

Danielle Doggett

CEO & Founder

Veer Voyage

Founder of the award-winning SAILCARGO INC. and Veer Group (which is nominated for the EarthShot prize), Danielle was named by the Royal Institute of Naval Architects as one of the most influential women of the past century, and was listed by The Ocean Opportunity Lab as an inspirational female founder to watch. Originally from the Great Lakes of Canada, Danielle began sailing at age 13. A graduate of the ‘’Enkhuizer’’ Sea Academy, she learned Dutch to graduate. She obtained her 200T masters ticket at the age of 21 which empowered her to captain of the flagship of Barbados, cargo schooner RUTH. Danielle wrote and implemented the successful beach-launch of RUTH, which was the largest ship built in the history of the country. She is co-founder of a Costa Rican non-profit that plants thousands of trees and creates jobs in a vulnerable coastal community. Each year Danielle’s company sponsors a young lady to sail on the tallship ST. LAWRENCE II – a ‘’thank you’’ to the Canadian ship that first inspired her.

Phoebe Wang

Investment Partner

Amazon Climate Pledge Fund

Phoebe Wang serves as the investment partner at Amazon Climate Pledge Fund, a $2 billion venture investment fund supporting the development of sustainable technologies and services that will enable Amazon to meet its net-zero carbon goal. Her investment focus area covers climate tech companies in transportation & logistics, energy generation, storage, and utilization, buildings, manufacturing & materials, circular economy, food & agriculture, and carbon removal. She has over a decade experience in climate tech with strong passion in fighting climate change for the future generations. She was also an ex-entrepreneur and built a start-up in technology commercialization. Phoebe was the recipient to Top 10 Entrepreneur by Silicon Valley Innovation & Entrepreneurship Forum (SVIEF) in 2016, Global Corporate Venturing Top Rising Star in 2020, and the US Department of Energy (DOE)’s Business C3E Award in 2022. Phoebe is a Charterholder of Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), with an MBA concentrated in Climate and Finance, and a BSc in Materials Science and Engineering. Phoebe has invested in frontier tech companies such as Genecis Bioindustries, ZeroAvia, Veros Systems (acquired by Baker Hughes), Ionomr, Aurora Hydrogen, Bluware, Quanterra, South 8 Technologies, Antora, Celadyne, Li Industries, Aurora Hydrogen, Connected Freight, FreeWire, Xpansiv, Zubie, and currently sit on Rocky Mountain Institute Third Derivative Corporate Advisory Board, Global Corporate Ventures Advisory Board, Counterpart Venture Council Advisory Board and Rice Alliance Energy Advisory Board. She is a frequent guest lecturer at Brandeis University, UC Berkeley, MIT and Rice University. In her free time, Phoebe enjoys reading, working out and practicing vipassana.

Maia Benson

Managing Director

Forum Ventures

Maia Benson is a partner and Managing Director at Forum Ventures where she invests in and works with early stage B2B SaaS founders from inception to scale. She has spent over 20 years founding, building and scaling award-winning SaaS products and platforms for Entrepreneurs and SMBs at places like LexisNexis, Pitney Bowes and most recently at Shopify, where over 5 years, she helped found, launch and scale their Shipping and Fulfillment products from inception to 60%+ merchant adoption and $Bs of transportation spend. In addition to her venture work at Forum Ventures, Maia continues to angel invest and advise next gen eCommerce and Logistics tech Founders.

Gary Horsfield

Chief Supply Chain Officer

BIC

Nicole Glenn

CEO & Founder

Candor Expedite, Inc.

Nicole Glenn founded Candor Expedite in 2017 after more than two decades in the transportation brokerage business, with a vision to build the smartest and most efficient freight business that delivers on its client’s promises. Today Candor is recognized as a leading certified women-owned business headquartered in Texas – with offices in Illinois and Kansas. Logistics is in Nicole’s DNA having held several operational positions for a variety of transportation brokerage companies over the years. Through these roles she learned the nuts and bolts of moving freight along with the biggest challenges both shippers and carriers face each day. In 2008 Nicole moved to the sales side of the business, working her way up to president of K & L Freight Management, Inc., and in 2016 became head of Cherry Logistics Corporation. After 20+ years of working for others, Nicole wanted to build her own team. With her strong network and excellent industry reputation, it wasn’t long before Candor became one of the top transportation companies in the business - known for its hot shot ground, high touch, time sensitive shipments and white glove delivery services. Nicole credits her success with an amazing team that consistently provides superior customer service, real-time updates, precision, and open communication. Nicole is a certified member of The Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC). She is a member of The Expedite Association of North America, Women in Trucking, and the Transportation Intermediaries Association. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in management and marketing from Northwood University. Nicole has received numerous accolades including being named one of the Top Women-Owned Businesses by Women in Trucking, and a 2021 Enterprising Women of the Year Champion, an annual tribute to the world’s top female entrepreneurs. Additionally, Nicole is one of the founders of The Ladies Leadership Coalition (LLC), a new podcast hosted by female business leaders to profile successful business women.

Henrik Müller-Hansen

CEO & Founder

Gelato

Henrik Müller-Hansen is the Founder and CEO of Gelato, a global software company from Oslo, Norway. Gelato offers global creators and merchants production and distribution on-demand in 32 countries. The distribution network today connects 130+ production partners across the world and shipped 4 million orders to 184 countries and territories in 2022. Previously, Henrik was CEO of Tele2 Norway, a $400m pan-European telco. Henrik holds a MSc in Finance and Accounting from the Stockholm School of Economics. 1992-1994, he served in the Underwater Demolition Team, Swedish Navy.

Sander Sebastian Agur

CEO

Clevon

Sander Sebastian Agur was born in 1991. He joined Cleveron AS in 2018 and, for the period 2018-2022, performed managing partner duties. Being the CEO of Clevon, his area of responsibility is primarily business development, including at the international level, and investor relations. Sander Sebastian Agur has acquired applied higher education at the Estonian Aviation Academy and completed additional training at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam, majoring in commercial aviation operation. Before joining Cleveron AS, he worked in aviation and managed international business development in various Estonian IT companies. From 2013-2014, he worked in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications in the Safety Investigation Department. From 2014-2016, at the company Estonian Air AS, he contributed as a planner of the flight network. From 2014-2016, Sander Sebastian Agur worked at ERPLY as Senior Vice President. Thanks to previous experience, Sander Sebastian Agur has outstanding prerequisites in the global arena to open growth opportunities in scale and increase the company's income and sales goals to fulfil and create new customer relationships.

Lisa Morales-Hellebo

Managing General Partner & Founder

REFASHIOND Ventures

Lisa Morales-Hellebo is a VC, seasoned entrepreneur, futurist, and community builder. She has honed her skills for spotting and coaching winning teams over her 27+ years working with startups to F500s on strategy and execution across branding, product development, and innovation. She is passionate about helping fashion tech and supply chain startups achieve industry adoption, growth, and scale. Lisa is catalyzing the paradigm shift to localized fashion demand chains as CEO and Founder of REFASHIOND OS (rOS), which acts as a digital agent for local fashion value chains, from fibers to finished goods; delivering sustainability, living wages, and better margins; Made in the USA. She is also a founder of The Worldwide Supply Chain Federation, an organization that is changing how supply chain professionals learn about, collaborate, and adopt early-stage supply chain innovation around the world. The New York Supply Chain Meetup is its founding chapter, attracting hundreds of attendees from around the globe to its monthly events. Lisa is a Founder and Co-Managing General Partner of REFASHIOND Ventures — a NY-based venture fund that invests as the first institutional check in early-stage startups refashioning supply chains across Data & AI, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing, and Next Generation Logistics; defensible through economic moats. She’s a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University with University Honors, serves on select Advisory Boards, has been featured in numerous publications, and has received a number of awards, including being selected as the Top Woman in Supply Chain 2022 by Supply & Demand Chain Executive Magazine.

Lizeth Cárdenas

Head Of Supply Chain

Samsung Electronics

Bhavani Subramaniam

Chief Supply Chain Officer

Serta Simmons Bedding

Bhavani Subramaniam is the Chief Supply Chain Officer of Serta Simmons Bedding (SSB). In this role, he is responsible for SSB’s supply chain functions including Manufacturing, Quality, Engineering, Planning, Logistics and Technology. Bhavani has 25 years of experience in global supply chain and operations with leading consumer and retail brands. He joined SSB from Walmart, where he led Supply Chain and Inventory Management for various divisions and helped scale their eCommerce business. Prior to Walmart, Bhavani led Global Transportation and Last Mile Delivery at Starbucks, and was responsible for setting up their supply chain in India. He also played operations and supply chain leadership roles at Amazon and Sara Lee. Bhavani earned a bachelor’s degree in Statistics from the University of Mumbai and an MBA from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Emily Sewell

SVP, Operations

Hubble Contacts

Emily Sewell is an accomplished supply chain executive with a passion for optimizing operations to deliver outstanding customer experiences. She has extensive experience in e-commerce and has worked with a range of industries, including subscription cosmetics, optical healthcare, and consumer goods. Emily is well-known for her ability to balance cost-effective solutions with value creation, making her an invaluable asset to any organization. Currently serving as the SVP of Operations & Supply Chain for Hubble Contacts, Emily has played a crucial role in driving the company's growth and success. Hubble Contacts is an industry disruptor in the direct-to-consumer contact lens space and has expanded from the US to 26 international markets since launching in October 2016. Emily's responsibilities at Hubble Contacts include procurement, compliance, final-mile, forecasting, and reverse logistics, among others. Apart from her work at Hubble Contacts, Emily enjoys mentoring junior supply chain professionals and sharing her knowledge and expertise with others. Emily's dedication to excellence and her ability to drive results make her an engaging and informative speaker on topics related to supply chain management, e-commerce, and customer experience.

Carlos Ruiz

SVP, COO, North America

L’Oreal

Evan Smith

CEO & Co-Founder

Altana AI

Evan Smith is the co-founder and CEO of Altana Technologies. Altana Technologies transforms the world’s public and non-public data into the world's only intelligent, dynamic map of the global supply chain. Through Altana, organizations across the public and private sectors are building a more resilient, secure, inclusive, and sustainable globalization. Prior to Altana, Evan has been a founder, investor, and leader in several supply chain, clean technology, and data businesses. Evan holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics from Yale University.