ProcureCon Awards 2008 Judges
Gordon Crichton, Director, Institut du Management de l’Achat Industriel (MAI)
Gordon became director of MAI in 1990. MAI is a post graduate institute which has full time, part time, and in-company activities specialised in purchasing management. The MAI is widely considered to be the reference in its field today. The institute supplies young purchasing professionals to multi-nationals throughout Europe. Over the past 10 years, the MAI has worked directly, reorganising purchasing structures and offering training support to leading companies. More recently,
Gordon’s activities have been dedicated to developing and implementing purchasing transformation programmes for major multinationals.
Barbara Lavernos, Head of Purchasing, L’Oreal
Barbara Lavernos has led the Purchasing team of L'Oreal for almost four years. Since 2005, she has taken advantage of the increase of competitiveness in the market to completely reposition the role of Purchasing within probably one of the most marketing driven companies on earth. From a country-led purchasing organisation she put in place seven sourcing centres each focusing on a region or a business line. Following the new mandate of her CEO she has also focussed her team beyond the traditional Purchasing boundaries by also incorporating Innovation Execution, Risk Management and Corporate Social Responsibility in their objective. To support all these changes, Barbara has completed a full overhaul of her 400 person team. She has in a very short period of time recruited external people for senior roles, promoted high potentials from other functions within L'Oreal to key positions and last but not least she has organised a massive group wide training programme in which she has personally been involved from beginning to end. Today the Purchasing team of L'Oreal is one of the rising stars of the FMCG industry and one used as a benchmark by many other companies.
At the ProcureCon 2007 Awards, L’Oreal won the Awards for Corporate Responsibility and People Development.
Luis Ferreira, Corporate Procurement Director, EDP
Luís has been the procurement director of EDP – Energias de Portugal since 2005. Previously, he was the General Purchasing & Logistics Director for Volkswagwen – AutoEuropa, and also NPM Logistics Director, having participated in purchase and inventory centralising processes in Group VW, Bentley, Audi, Skoda, Seat, Lamborghini and Bugatti. Luis is a member of CIPS (Chartered Institute for Purchasing & Supply) and MCE Management Centre of Europe.
EDP won the Innovation Award at the ProcureCon 2007 Awards, in connection with their 4-level supplier qualification system, Sinergieconnect.
Geraint John, Editor, CPO Agenda
Geraint John is editor-in-chief of CPO Agenda, the international business review for chief procurement officers and senior purchasing executives in larger organisations. Launched in spring 2005 and published quarterly on subscription by Redactive Media Group in partnership with the UK’s Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS), it offers practical, insightful, objective and thought-provoking articles written by leading practitioners and other specialists in this field. Subjects covered include leadership, strategy, supplier relationship management, risk, performance measurement, organisational design and technology. Geraint is also editor-in-chief of Supply Management, CIPS’s fortnightly magazine, which has a circulation of over 40,000. As a business journalist, he has been covering procurement and supply chain issues for more than seven years. Previously, he was deputy editor of People Management, the UK’s market-leading magazine for HR professionals.