Alan is a thought leader and a strategic thinker with nearly 20 years of experience in Procurement, Strategic Sourcing, Procure-to-Pay and Supply Chain Management. Most of his career has been spent in senior procurement positions at Fortune 500 companies, where he had the responsibility for billions in spend and hundreds of millions in savings.
His extensive international and cross-industry career spans a series of well known Fortune 500 companies, including such large enterprises as; Cemex, Unisys, Nokia, Hanesbrands, Nortel Networks and Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits.
He is known as a persuasive executive who has been successful at developing and implementing “game changing” Operations and Supply Chain processes and technologies, while challenging the “Status Quo”.
Over the last 7 years, Alan has led major transformation initiatives to drive higher value and reduce costs, while all the time focusing on ROI. He has also specialized in the creation of Indirect Procurement organizations for enterprises that did not previously have them and advising new Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) on successful strategies to build their departments and run them efficiently.
Alan is very active as a speaker at various industry events and with many professional procurement organizations. Furthermore, he is an Advisory Board member for the Information Technology and Operations Management Department of Florida Atlantic University (FAU).
