Dr John Gattorna, B.E (Melb); MBA (Mon); PhD (Cranfield)

John Gattorna has been working in the distribution/logistics/supply chain space for over 25 years, and he has the scars to show for it. He started his professional life as a degree engineer, and after nearly a decade working in construction and heavy industry with a public utility and two US multi-nationals, he switched to logistics.

During the last two decades he has worked in the SC space in various capacities; research; consultancy; teaching; and more recently ‘thought leader’ and author. John is much sought after as a Keynote speaker on the international conference circuit, and continues to write at a prolific rate, with a nice blend of the conceptual and the practical. He is Australian by birth, lives in the ‘Emerald city’ of Sydney, but spends 6 months a year working inside companies from Asia to the Middle-East, and South America. His latest book, Dynamic Supply Chains, is to be released in the UK in mid-August 2010 ( FT Prentice Hall, London), and in the US (FT Press, NY) about a month later. Already, some of the best global corporations are applying his radical ideas to the transformation of their respective businesses.

He may be contacted on e: john@johngattorna.com; and his website is worth a visit: w: www.johngattorna.com

 

Gerrit-Jan Steenbergen, VP 3i Innovation Centre

Gerrit-Jan Steenbergen joined Zetes in 2010 and is responsible for leading research and development within the 3i Innovation Centre. Created around the 3 principles of ‘Innovate, Integrate and Improve’, the aim of the Innovation Centre is to provide cross border technology and systems integration expertise, which enables customers achieve greater supply chain traceability, real time data visibility and improved operational performance. The technology centres of excellence within the Innovation Centre include Voice Recognition, Image ID and RFID.

 Prior to this role, Gerrit Jan was Global Head of Store Systems at AS Watson, where for the past 10 years, he led the development of strategic IT store solutions for the group including EPoS and other store based IT.  With over 15 years of business and ICT experience managing complex system developments and global, multi-cultural projects and roll-outs, Gerrit-Jan is a regular lecturer and author of publications including ‘The Cost and Savings of Auto-ID’ and ‘More Quality’.

Prof D John Mangan

John Mangan is Professor of Marine Transport and Logistics, and director of postgraduate taught programmes in marine technology, at Newcastle University (School of Marine Science and Technology), Visiting Professor at the University of Hull (Business School and Logistics Institute), and Co-editor of the International Journal of Logistics. He is a Principal Investigator on a five university consortium, EPSRC funded, research programme into Low Carbon Shipping (£1.65 million research programme, 2010-2012).

Born in Cork, Ireland, he holds a PhD degree from Cardiff University, Masters degrees from both Cranfield and Lancaster Universities, and a BSc degree from University College Cork. He was a Fulbright Scholar at Boston College and also spent a sabbatical teaching at MIT. Initially he worked as an air freight clerk (Aer Lingus) and then as a civil servant (Irish Civil Service – Marine and Finance ministries). He subsequently held academic appointments at University College Dublin, the Irish Management Institute, and the University of Hull (where he was founding Director of the University of Hull Logistics Institute), prior to taking up his current post at Newcastle. He has conducted a range of consulting assignments for both public and private sector clients and has served as an independent evaluator for the European Commission’s TEN-T programme.

His teaching and research is primarily focused upon global logistics and supply chain management, maritime transport, and logistics management development. He has an extensive raft of publications and is author of one of the standard textbooks in logistics and supply chain management (Mangan et al, Wiley, 2008). He is currently supervising eight PhD students and regularly sits on PhD examination committees; in addition he is external examiner at a number of UK and Irish universities.  
 

Ingrid Miley

Ingrid Miley is the Industry and Employment Correspondent for RTE. In that capacity she is responsible for television and radio coverage of news stories on various aspects of employment in Ireland - including industrial relations, social partnership, employment law, migration, exploitation of workers and the economy.

She previously worked for RTE in a number of different roles including investigative reporting with Today Tonight, Prime Time and the business programme Marketplace.

She holds an Honours BA degree in French and German from Trinity College Dublin and an MA in Translation and Linguistics from the University of New Brunswick in Canada.

She qualified as a barrister in 2003.

Ingrid will host a Q and A Session featuring an expert panel made up our Keynote Speakers which will be opened to the floor to give delegates a chance to ask any questions that they may have relating to SCM.

Joe Reynolds

Joe Reynolds is Chairman of Reynolds Logistics Ltd a leading transporter of petroleum products. Reynolds have enjoyed 24% year on year growth for 10 years and now hold 25% of the petroleum road transport market in Ireland. They entered the UK market in 2000 and are the largest transporter of Lubricants with Shell and BP as core customers. The company’s success has been built on logistical innovation with a core belief in high safety standards. Much decorated by the industry Reynolds have twice been awarded Transport company of the year in Ireland, a silver medalists in Europe, Health and Safety awards internationally and a Partnership in Business (in conjunction with Shell Petroleum) awarded by a UK trade body. Joe Reynolds sits on the Transport Council of IBEC. The company ISO 9000, OHSAS 18001 & ISO 14001 registered.

Visit www.reynoldslogistics.com for more information.