Ralph Lauren

Halide Alagöz is Executive Vice President, Chief Product Officer of Ralph Lauren Corporation. Ms. Alagöz is responsible for all areas of supply chain, from product development, sourcing to delivery of our products worldwide. She leads the Company’s production, sourcing and logistics functions and partners with the brand, regional and other corporate teams to strengthen the brand, drive profitable sales growth and deliver strong shareholder return. She also oversees Ralph Lauren’s Sustainability initiatives. Ms. Alagöz joined the company in 2016.

Prior to joining Ralph Lauren, Halide was with H&M Corporation for 18 years, most recently in Hong Kong as the Head of Purchasing.  During her tenure with H&M, Halide was responsible for various Regional and Global Supply Chain operations.  During her time with H&M, Halide and her family have lived in Hong Kong, China, Bangladesh and in her native country, Turkey.  Halide earned both her Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Engineering and her Master’s Degree in Engineering Management from Istanbul Technical University.  

Halide is a member of the Board of the American Apparel and Footwear Association (AAFA). 

Independent


As Executive Vice President of Supply Chain, John Church had responsibility for worldwide sourcing, product logistics, manufacturing and global engineering. He assumed this position in 2013 after joining General Mills in 1988 as a product developer in the Big G cereal division.

John led several new product initiatives including the development and commercialization of Multi Grain Cheerios in 1991.

John transferred into manufacturing in 1993 and held leadership roles before becoming plant manager of the Covington, Georgia, plant in 1998. He returned to Minneapolis in 2001 as Director of Operations, Integration, where he led the successful integration of the manufacturing and logistics networks of the Pillsbury Company and General Mills. He was named Vice President of Engineering in 2003 and Senior Vice President of Supply Chain in 2008.

John is a board member of the Courage Center in Golden Valley, Minnesota, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of individuals with disabilities.

Independent

Frank Crespo served as Chief Supply Chain Officer for Indigo. Prior to joining Indigo, Frank spent eight years as Vice President and Chief Procurement Officer at Caterpillar Inc., responsible for the Global Purchasing Division. He also led Caterpillar’s global procurement strategy and the company’s relationship with its supply base.

Frank joined Caterpillar from Honeywell International Inc., where he was Vice President and Chief Procurement Officer, responsible for setting strategic direction, developing and managing the supplier base, driving supplier alliance relationships, and building and delivering people excellence within the organization. Frank, who joined Honeywell in 2007, brings more than 20 years of high-tech industry and military procurement and business experience to this position.

A native of Pittsburg, California, he received a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the United States Naval Academy and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

He serves on the National Advisory Council and the Supply Chain Advisory Council for the Marriott School of Business, Brigham Young University, and as a member of the board of trustees for Proctor Hospital.

Shell
 

Clare Harris is Executive Vice President, Chief Supply Chain Officer for Shell. The supply chain organization she leads has worldwide accountability for driving end to end supply chain sustainability and performance, contracting and procuring goods, services and energy for all of Shell’s businesses, and operating warehousing, marine, air and road logistics.

Prior to taking her current role in 2021, Clare was EVP Venture Development in Shell’s Integrated Gas and Renewable Energy Solutions business, leading growth portfolio restructuring and new venture development following the acquisition of BG in 2016.

Clare first worked for Shell in the mid-90s after completing a degree in Earth Sciences at Oxford University. After spending 4 years working in Shell’s Sustainable Development team, Clare moved to serve in the UK Foreign Office as the Commercial Attaché in Libya. Rejoining Shell, Clare held a range of commercial, strategy, business and operational leadership roles in Europe, Africa and the Middle East before moving to Singapore to lead Shell’s integrated gas business across the eastern hemisphere. Clare has served on Joint Venture Boards in India, Malaysia, Brunei and Canada.

Cisco

John Kern is Senior Vice President of Supply Chain Operations at Cisco. He leads a global organization responsible for accelerating innovation, enabling profitable growth, and delivering an unrivaled customer experience. His functional accountabilities include new product introduction, product lifecycle management, sourcing and supplier management, planning, manufacturing, logistics and quality.

Since joining Cisco in 2003, he has held various leadership positions in the supply chain. Previously, he managed Product Operations, Supplier Management and Quality Operations, the key interfaces between the supply chain, Cisco's product development team and the global supply base. Prior to this, he managed the Global Supplier Management organization, responsible for enabling Cisco innovation through effective sourcing and supplier development.

Prior to Cisco, he worked in the networking and semiconductor industries, including seven years at Texas Instruments in sales management and business development roles. He also served six years in the Army National Guard as a field artillery officer.

John is also passionate about improving childhood education, with a focus on reducing gaps in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). He shows his commitment and helps realize Cisco's STEM corporate social responsibility initiatives by serving on the board of two nonprofits: Resource Area For Teaching (RAFT), supporting the next generation of thinkers and innovators through hands-on learning, and the Krause Center for Innovation (KCI), a learning center for K-12 teachers that emphasizes technology integration and STEM curriculum.

He holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame.

Stryker

Viju Menon was named Group President, Global Quality and Operations at Stryker in April 2018. His scope includes leading regulatory and quality, global supply, manufacturing and direct procurement, and supply chain operations, including logistics and integrated business planning.

Prior to joining Stryker, Viju served as Senior Vice President, Global Supply Chain, at Verizon, a Fortune 15 company and leading provider of wireless, fiberoptic and global internet networks and services. Viju was responsible for Verizon’s end-to-end supply chain across all business units. Viju joined Verizon in 2010 to take on the newly created role of VP, Supply Chain, at Verizon Wireless, and radically transformed the wireless devices supply chain, delivering significant shareholder value.

Before joining Verizon, Viju had nearly 20 years of Intel semiconductor manufacturing and supply chain experience. At Intel, he served as Head of Worldwide Supply Planning Operations for all products, microprocessors and chipsets across a complex global network of Wafer Fabs and assembly/test factories. Prior to that, Viju served as Platform Chair of the chipsets factory network and as factory manager, where he led the startup and best-in-class ramp of a new assembly/test chipsets factory. Viju has also managed engineering and manufacturing organizations at Intel Wafer Fabs.

Viju has published several journal articles and conference papers on factory operations, line yield improvement, constraint management, and flexible manufacturing. He is a keynote speaker at various global manufacturing and supply chain conferences.

A Fellow of MIT’s Leaders for Global Operations program, he holds graduate degrees from the MIT Sloan School of Management and School of Engineering (Electrical). He also holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in computer science engineering from the University of Kerala, India, and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

Intel

Jackie Sturm is Vice President and General Manager of Intel’s multibillion dollar Global Supply Management Group. She is responsible for all of Intel’s strategic sourcing and procurement worldwide, delivering on solutions that meet stringent objectives across a complex and diverse set of businesses, technologies and supply ecosystems. Her organization is frequently recognized for high performance, as a seven-time winner of Intel’s prestigious Intel Quality and Achievement Awards, and most recently cited by Gartner as No. 5 in its Top 25 Global Supply Chain. Jackie is a member of Intel’s Ethics and Compliance Oversight Committee, and directs the Supply Chain Environmental and Social Governance Program, which includes Intel’s first-mover Conflict Minerals initiative.

She has been at Intel since 1993 and has held various positions in the company, including in the Technology Manufacturing Group, NAND Systems Group, Intel Capital, New Business Group and Intel Communications Group. Prior to Intel, she worked for Hewlett-Packard and Apple Inc. She is a passionate advocate for manufacturing and engineering as economic foundations for global competitiveness.