Automotive Logistics Europe 2012

Bo became chairman of Russian carmaker GAZ in 2009 when he moved over from GM where he was group vice president for Global Purchasing and Supply Chain. This year he was named the best executive of the year in the Russian automotive industry for his achievements model renewal, cooperation between GAZ and international automakers, and positive financial results of the company in 2010.

Susanna is currently Vice President for Global Purchasing and Supply Chain at General Motors Europe. She has worked with General Motors for 14 years, spending some time in finance supporting purchasing in addition to buying fuel tanks, injection mould and raw material and steel. Prior to her current assignment Susanna was Executive Director for Global Logistics at General Motors.

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Matthias joined Ford in 1987. He has worked in material planning and logistics since 1996, and has held various functions within IT. He has held the position of Director of Material Planning and Logistics since 2009 and his responsibilities include product definition, supply chain management, plant logistics, inbound logistics and material flow. He also holds a Master of Science in Mathematics.

Colin joined Nissan in 1991, working in Sunderland across logistics and production control and also across both companies in supply chain management and purchasing. In 2001 he was part of Nissan’s efforts to create a regional logistics structure, and he worked in parallel with Renault on cross-functional logistics and vehicle inventory in Europe. He is now Vice President of the new Renault-Nissan management team Alliance Logistics.

Dror has over 18 years experience in logistics in an international setting. His previous roles include Managing Director of Business Development Benelux, Multi-country and Nordic at TNT Logistics, Director of European Supply Chain at Stanley Works and Director of Logistics at Nike EMEA. As Vice President of Logistics Services and Operations CNH, he is currently responsible for inbound and outbound logistics activities in North America, South America, Asia, Oceania, Europe and Russia.

Levent, fluent in English, Turkish and Japanese, graduated from Istanbul Technical University as a naval architect and marine engineer. He worked for white goods manufacturer Vestel Electronics for over 3 years and moved to Toyota Turkey during the establishment phase as a production engineer. He worked across production for 10 years and then into production control for another 10 years, based in the Toyota headquarters for 2 years. He has been in his current role since January 2011.

Mathias' career at BMW has spanned over 25 years, and in this time he has worked across all aspects of the supply chain. With his previous roles more operationally driven, he is now in a more commercial role as the General Manager of Vehicle Distribution.

Andreas, as Logistics Director, currently has responsibility for all logistics activities for Opel/Vauxhall across Europe. He has been working in the global purchasing and supply chain function of the General Motors and Opel/Vauxhall organization for more than 16 years and in various purchasing management functions in Germany, France and China. He is a graduate of the TU Darmstadt, Germany.

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Dennis started his career in the freight forwarding industry, before joining Lear as senior analyst of transportation and logistics. In 2005 he moved to the interior product division and in 2007 became commodity manager for transportation and logistics in Europe. He then took over responsibility for supply chain management of tier two divisions and ten plants, and is currently director of logistics and materials.

Greg has extensive supply chain experience across many industries since 1980, including 17 years working in the Australian oil industry before spending 6 years managing logistics for Brambles Australia . He joined General Motors Australia in 2000 as Director of Supply Chain Aftersales and then transferred to North America in 2004 working within Aftersales Supply Chain prior to commencing current role in 2008.

With over 24 years at Ford, John has successfully managed a wide variety of projects in 13 different countries, ranging from manufacturing plant installations to transatlantic logistics. After working on the launch of Ford's first volume car plant in China, he is now responsible for inbound logistics for all Ford of Europe parts sourced in emerging markets. His other current interests include CO2 foot printing of Ford's global freight network.

Michael, based in Switzerland, is responsible for leading and implementing EAME wide transportation related projects including the design and implementation of transportation networks. He joined AGCO from CLAAS where he worked as Head of Transportation. Prior to this he worked at DHL Freight as Project Manager. He began his career at Nestlé and fluently speaks German, English and basic Russian.

Raymond has spent over 25 years in key functions for Ford, across sales and marketing, manufacturing, finance and logistics. Prior to his current role, he spent 6 years as a board member of Ford Credit Germany. He is now responsible for parts purchasing (global sourcing), transportation (inbound, outbound), warehouse operations (with 8 Parts Distribution Centres in Europe), parts inventory management and parts analysis and cataloguing.

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Eduardo has been working in the automotive business for the last seven years, first in parts logistics and now in finished vehicles and production supply. Eduardo has previous experience in a project management position in the retail sector (Ahold) and other operational positions in the electronic components manufacturing sector (Tyco).

Coming from the forwarding business, Felice has more than 30 years experience in customer service, transport and logistics. He is responsible for the procurement of solutions for transport and logistics services (except North America) globally.

Hans-Bert has a PhD in mechanical engineering and worked for 5 years at the Technical University Aachen before joining Ford in 1990. He has had various positions within Ford, ranging from product development to manufacturing and quality management positions. Since 1991 he has been responsible for Ford of Europe's vehicle distribution.

Hubert Paul joined INERGY Automotive Systems mid 2007, after a spell at Delphi where he worked as international logistics and lean manager between 1999 and 2007. Prior to that, he worked for Alstom Transport in France, India, US and Korea, and also in the Electrolux Group and Ford Motor Company both as purchasing manager and in variety of manufacturing roles.

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Altan joined Tofas a joint venture between Fiat Group Automobiles and Koc Group in 1992, and was initially part of the team that set up the CBU logistics department. In 2003, he took over various responsibilities, including commercial projects coordinator, Fiat brand manager, and Alfa Romeo and Lancia business unit director. In March 2008, he was appointed in his current post, responsible for inbound and outbound logistics for the carmakers plant in Bursa, and foreign trade operations of the company.

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After 11 years with Daimler and Chrysler, Michael joined Magna Steyr in 1992. He is now the Director of global supply chain management and is responsible for procurement, logistics and supplier development. Michael lectures on the subject of supply chain management at the Graz University of Technology. He also lectures for the Professional MBA Automotive Industry, Vienna University of Technology and the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava.

Ingar has held various commercial and operational in Hoegh Autoliners starting in 1981. He was in charge of capacity management since 2006, and a member of top management group since 2007. In 2009 Ingar was appointed Head of Region Americas and in April 2011 he became Chief Operating Officer, moving to Oslo. He then became Chief Executive Officer in November 2011.

Ralf has worked for Delphi since 1989 is various logistics assignments and has a bachelor in business and administration from the Ultrecht Business School in the Netherlands. His current focuses include logistics engineering, setting logistics strategy, generating logistics networks and supply chain optimisation.

Thomas, who holds a degree in industrial engineering, started his career with Plastifol in 1990 as a logistics coordinator. He joined Continental Teves in 1995 as a logistics expert for reengineering of logistics processes and in 1999 he was recruited by ArvinMeritor as a logistics manager. He is now responsible for the supply chain management at Magna Exteriors and Interiors within Europe.

Wolfgang spent six years at ITT Automotive Europe working on supply chain optimisation projects. Since 1998, to the present day, he has worked at Continental Automotive Division, responsible for various logistics projects and for packaging standardisation in the department of Customs, Transportation and Packaging. He also holds a Diploma in Mechanical Engineering.

Emmanuel is a graduate of the Telecom Business School. After holding several operational management responsibilities with international road transportation groups, he joined GEFCO in 2004 as commercial market line manager for the automotive suppliers market. He took his present position in 2009, covering automotive inbound and outbound commercial activities, as well as other strategic markets for GEFCO (industry, electronics and FMCG).

Kai is Chief Operating Officer for Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics and globally responsible for its ocean services and supply chain management division. Kai has more than 15 years experience in the outbound logistics sector and has a diploma in Business Engineering, specialising in logistics.

Joining CHEP in 2003, Marcelo held management responsibilities in finance and supply chain before taking current responsibility for the automotive and industrial solutions business. Prior to CHEP, he was Managing Partner of Logic Consulting in South America; an organization focused on cost optimization solutions for blue-chip companies. From 1992 to 1997, he worked at Colgate Palmolive in Argentina, leading the sales team and then customer service. Marcelo holds an MBA from the INSEAD Business School and a Bachelor of Science in Finance and Economics.

Richard has 25 years air cargo industry experience in Europe and Asia. He joined Air Partner in 2004 as freight manager, to oversee a period of extensive growth within the division, became group freight director in 2009, was promoted to UK trading director in 2011 and is a group operating board member. Richard continues to have overall responsibility for the companys eight 24/7 freight offices worldwide and its new 'go now' Time Critical door-to-door service.

Carlo joined Ballsystem in 2008, with the task of creating an international network with key actors in the sector. Fluent in 5 languages, he spent two years in the United States studying marketing and sales at Nazareth College of Rochester, and now holds a Master in International Business. He is now responsible for key accounts and worldwide business development at Ballsystem.

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Colin has over 20 years experience in automotive, logistics and packaging including product design, developing logistic solutions across multiple sectors and advanced container management control to major automotive companies. He has overall responsibility to develop the Goodpack global packaging service within Europe, including supply chain packaging optimisation and advanced control techniques.

Michael has over two decades of experience in global vehicle forecasting. Prior to becoming Managing Director in November 2011, Michael served as Director of Global Vehicle Production Forecasts for IHS Automotive. Michael has an MBA and a degree in international and developmental economics. He is a board member of the Society of Automotive Analysts (SAA) as well as a participant with the Canadian Automotive Partnership Council’s (CAPC) Trade and Infrastructure Committee.

John has spent his career to date working in or connected with the international Automotive Industry. His experience has been in technical, commercial and marketing roles at GM Vauxhall, Automobiles Peugeot, Castrol International and Group Lotus. Joining Odette International in May 1999 he is responsible for the running of the London-based organisation, which is funded by the European motor industry to bring experts together to develop standards in B2B communications, supply chain management and engineering data exchange.

Rodney has been involved with many blue chip companies to create and action cost down opportunities and enhance supply chain efficiencies. He has 20 years of logistics industry experience with specialist expertise in packaging in the automotive sector. He was with the Linpac Group for 17 years, and became commercial director. He now has his own consultancy, working with companies such as Macro Plastics, Orbis Corporation, MJ Systems, DHL, and Ford.

Volker leads in the area of SCM consulting services – this includes procurement, strategy consulting and consulting in the analytical method for the optimization of business processes. Previously, he was responsible for the global supply chain management (sales planning, order management, production planning, procurement) at a global automotive supplier and prior to joining IBM, he held various management positions with leading industrial and consulting firms (including KPMG Consulting / BearingPoint).

Graham graduated from Northumbria University in Biology and began a career in the pharmaceutical industry. A keen interest in motor vehicles and logistics led him to look for a career in the automotive industry, and he joined Evolution Time Critical in 2007. Graham works with European OEMs and tier suppliers to analyse supply chain strengths and weaknesses, and develop contingency plans to support production in the event of any disruption.

After graduating in physics from the Technical University of Aachen, Matthias started his professional career at INFORM as a project assistant in April 2001. One year later he became project manager and then senior consultant. In 2005 he was appointed as Head of Industrial Solutions. Since working at INFORM Matthias has managed a large number of SCM projects in different sectors and industries, gaining an extensive experience in inbound, in-house and finished vehicle logistics, especially in the automotive industry.

After graduating from the Academy of World Trade in Frankfurt, Peter began his career at DHL in the position of global account manager, dealing with major automotive companies such as Robert Bosch. He went on to become Director of International Business Development for Menlo Worldwide Logistics, in which he led automotive business in the Asia-pacific region. At Geodis Wilson, Peter is responsible for developing and expanding the company’s automotive logistics business worldwide.

Rudolf started his business career in the shipping Industry in 1976. Since then he has held various senior positions in the shipping and automotive industry. This included assignments in Brazil, Mexico and United States, with his main focus the transportation of finished vehicles in a global network from factories to dealers. He joined MOL in 2001 and was appointed director of their car and ro-ro activities in Europe and Africa.

Sergey graduated from the Moscow Physical Technical Institute in 1989 and then the Academy of Foreign Trade the following year. Since 1990 he worked in the UK as a marketing consultant and in 1999 he became a board member of DARS Consulting and since 2008, board member of DVTG/Far Eastern Transport Group.

Bruce, with over 30 years’ international public and private sector experience, is a freelance consultant for automotive, aerospace and industrial (AAI) logistics, defense procurement, and supply chain solutions; specializing in aiding non-European companies enter the market. He is also an advisory board member at Lincoln International, a leading mid-cap investment bank in Frankfurt, and a partner in TranSolutions Consulting, a North American supply chain consulting firm. From 1996 to 2009 he worked in various roles for Ryder Systems and since 2010 as a senior advisor to Caterpillar Logistics.

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Lorenzo started his business career in the automotive sector in 2001, working across sales management, mechanical maintenance and body work. Since 2007, as Commercial Director of ARAL, he has managed a wide variety of projects in Europe, South America, North Africa and Russia, specializing in hail recovery management and body work solutions. As General Manager, his main task is to internationalize ARAL, studying and proposing innovative and high quality solutions in the automotive sector, in the case of natural disasters and retrofit operations.

Biography to be published shortly.

Biography to be published shortly.