Leadership Lessons in Supply Chain
Featuring some of the most successful business leaders globally
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Rodolphe Saadé
Chief Executive Officer
CMA CGM

David S. Taylor
Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer
P&G

Revathi Advaithi
Chief Executive Officer
Flex

Bom Suk Kim
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Coupang

Michael Dell
Chief Executive Officer
Dell

Pier Luigi Sigismondi
President
Dole

Mary Barra
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
GM

Søren Skou
Chief Executive Officer
Maersk

Frank Appel
Chief Executive Officer
DHL

Chan Chun Sing
Minister of trade and industry Singapore

Yossi Sheffi
Director
MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics

Marc Engel
Chief Supply Chain Officer
Unilever

Sandra MacQuillan
EVP and Chief Supply Chain Officer
Mondelez

Sami Naffakh
Chief Supply Officer, Member of the Group Executive
Reckitt Beckinser

Jon R. Moeller
Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer
P&G

Dave Clark
SVP Worldwide Operations
Amazon

Carsten Rasmussen
Chief Operating Officer
Lego

Kathryn Wengel
Executive Vice President & Chief Global Supply Chain Officer
JnJ

Andreas Wendt
Board of Management Member for Purchasing and Supplier Network
BMW

Alexis DePree
Chief Supply Chain Officer
Nordstrom

Ewan Andrew
Chief Supply Chain Officer
Diageo

Francesca DeBiase
Chief Supply Chain Officer
McDonalds

Johannes Giloth
Chief Operating Officer
GEA

Tommy Nielsen
Chief Operating Officer
Vestas

Ivanka Janssen
Chief Supply Chain Officer
Philips

Tim Cook
Chief Executive Officer
Apple

Barbara Lavernos
Deputy Chief Executive Officer
L’Oréal

John Kern
SVP, Supply Chain Operations
Cisco Systems

Michael Corbo
Chief Supply Chain Officer
Colgate-Palmolive

Stéphane Bancel
Founding CEO
Moderna

Anthony Tan
Group CEO & Co-founder
Grab

Grant F. Reid
CEO & Office of the President
Mars

Jim Rowan
CEO Ember Consumer & President Ember Healthcare - Board Member
Ember Technologies

Albert Bourla
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Pfizer

Jim Hagemann Snabe
Chairman
Siemens and A. P. Moller Maersk

Daniel Zhang
Chief Executive Officer
Alibaba Group
AUTHORS

Radu Palamariu
Managing Director Asia Pacific
Alcott Global
Radu is the Managing Director Asia Pacific of Alcott Global and the Global Head of Supply Chain & Logistics Practice. He has been working on C-level and top management executive search assignments with Top Fortune 500 companies and local Asia conglomerates, particularly for manufacturing, logistics, transportation, supply chain management and ecommerce.
A frequent speaker at industry conferences across the region, he is a contributor on latest technologies shaping supply chains, as well as human resources trends and developments. He is the host of the “Leaders in Supply Chain” Podcast, which is consistently ranked among the top 10 global industry podcasts.
Radu has been featured in Bloomberg, Logistics Insight Asia, Bangkok Post as well as the MIT Supply Chain Talent Magazine. And has been named as one of the top 3 Global Supply Chain Influencers on LinkedIn.

Knut Alicke
Partner at McKinsey and Head of Supply Chain Europe
Knut Alicke, partner McKinsey and Head of Supply Chain Europe. Knut is also a visiting professor of supply chain at the University of Cologne. And one of the global experts on the topics of operations, supply chain, and risk.
At McKinsey & Company, Knut is a leader of the firm’s work in manufacturing and supply chain. He advises clients on a variety of topics including supply chain management, digital supply chains, and advanced analytics, and supply chain transformations.
Knut has written several articles on subjects related to supply chain and is the author of a highly regarded book on supply chain management, “Planning and operation of logistics networks: cross-company supply chain management (in German)”.