Keynote and Closing Session Speakers

Keynote

Peter D. Gibbons
Executive Vice President, Global Supply Chain Operations
Starbucks Coffee Company

How Influential Is Your Supply Chain?
Your supply chain has a significant impact on your company’s success, but your supply chain strategy will only be as good as your organization’s strategy and overall business plan. This session will explore the role that supply chains play in business success, and how to use its influence to deliver exceptional bottom-line results. The keynote presentation will also reveal how supply chain leaders can increase their value to their companies by viewing their supply chains as solutions and sources of business innovation.

About the Keynote Speaker
As Starbucks’ executive vice president of global supply chain operations, Peter Gibbons is responsible for all of the products that contribute to the Starbucks Experience, from the coffee in your cup to the cup itself—even the table it rests on—at every Starbucks store in the world. He has responsibility for the overall business management of Starbucks’ manufacturing, engineering, procurement, distribution, planning, transportation, inventory management, and worldwide coffee and tea sourcing. His background includes leading manufacturing and supply chain efforts throughout Europe, Latin America, and North America.

Closing Session

About the Closing Session Speaker

Dr. John Lund
Sr VP Supply Chain Management
The Walt Disney Company

Since 2006, Dr. John Lund has served as senior vice president, supply chain management, responsible for optimizing the performance of supply chains across Disney’s Parks and Resorts worldwide. He began his career with Disney in 1992 as transportation development manager for Euro Disney in France. By 1995, he was named director of telecommunications, transportation, and multimedia. Prior to joining Disney, he worked eight years at The RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California, where he advised the US government on national security strategy, political-economic affairs, military force structure planning, and logistics.