TCC Leadership Series

Will future CEOs come from supply chain?

Webinar description:

UPS, McKinsey, and Spencer Stuart will debate the role of supply chain executives in steering global corporations to success.

Supply chain leaders today have become strategic players in enabling companies to stay resilient and operationally efficient in these changed markets of unplanned disruptions and inflationary pressures. 

In this third installment of TCC’s leadership series, we discuss how supply chain and procurement leaders will dominate corporate leadership actions as they deal with current challenges and opportunities. How will they drive corporations to stay agile, competitive, and collaborative amidst pressing sourcing and fulfillment challenges?

Philippe Gilbert

Executive Vice President
UPS Supply Chain Solutions

Philippe is responsible for the UPS Supply Chain Group: UPS Global Logistics and Distribution, UPS Global Freight Forwarding and Coyote Logistics.

He is continually focused on unifying the strengths of the group and presenting customers of all sizes with the seamless global solutions offered in the group’s vast portfolio of services. 

Those solutions can range from a-la-carte offerings to industry vertical packages custom-tailored for healthcare, e-commerce, industrial manufacturing, aerospace and others that allow small to medium sized businesses easily enter and excel in the global marketplace. 

His previous experience includes DB Schenker Logistics Americas and West Europe Regional CEO roles and GEODIS Wilson Executive Vice President. Philippe sits on the UNICEF USA Board of Directors. He is passionate about supporting the organization’s mission of promoting global child health and wellbeing. 

Philippe is proud of his French/Spanish heritage but is comfortably at home almost anywhere in the world. He enjoys swimming, water and snow skiing, jazz and street art and he’s always in search of the perfect espresso and baguette. Philippe and his wife Ida, a native of Louisiana, have been married for more than 20 years. Their son Gabriel is off to university. 

Philippe earned a Finance degree from Institut Superieur de Gestion (I.S.G.) in Paris. He speaks fluent English, Spanish and French, and he’s working on his Portugnol.

Hypatia E. Kingsley

Consultant
Spencer Stuart

Hypatia Kingsley serves as a leading member of the Financial Services, Boards and Education Not for Profit practices globally, with a particular emphasis on global fintech. 

With more than twenty five years of experience, Hypatia specializes in a range of advisory, succession and search assignments across fintech leadership in consumer financial services, commercial/corporate banking, payments, asset and wealth management and alternative investing in the United States and Greater China.

Hypatia holds a B.A. in East Asian studies from the University of Wisconsin and an M.A. in Chinese history from the University of Hawaii. She was a graduate fellow at the East-West Center in Honolulu and a Eu-Tong Sen Research Fellow in Hong Kong while receiving her M.A. She is fluent in Mandarin.

Tom Linton

Senior Advisor
McKinsey & Company

Tom Linton is a senior advisor at McKinsey & Company and an independent director of and advisor to other companies. He previously served as chief procurement and supply chain officer of Flex (NASDAQ: FLEX) and held similar positions at LG Electronics, Agere Systems, and Freescale Semiconductor. 

Mr. Linton spent 20 years at IBM, developing and founding several world-wide trading and technical centers. After leaving IBM, Mr. Linton helped found E2Open, Inc., a supply chain software company. He has served as chief procurement officer of Agere Systems, Freescale Semiconductor and executive vice president and chief procurement officer at LG Electronics.

Mr. Linton is a widely recognized expert on operations, with a focus on procurement and supply chain, and was honored with the Institute of Supply Management’s prestigious J. Shipman Gold Medal in 2019 and the Life Time Achievement Award from the Procurement Leaders Organization at the World Procurement Congress in 2017. In 2015 Mr. Linton received the Procurement Leaders award on Global Risk Management.

He is a former chair of the Institute of Supply Management which issues the monthly Report on Business® and the Purchasing Managers Index (PMI®). He recently co-authored “The Living Supply Chain; The Evolving Imperative of Operating in Real Time”, currently a leading book on Supply Chain Management. His articles and talks on supply chain management have appeared in the Harvard Business Review, Supply Chain Management Review, Inside Supply Management, Supply Chain Management review and The Procurement Leaders Quarterly.

Bailey Hallingby

Consultant
Spencer Stuart

Bailey Hallingby is a core member of Spencer Stuart’s Global Aviation, Aerospace & Defense, Transportation & Logistics and Supply Chain practices. With more than 10 years of executive search and leadership advisory experience, he specializes in senior executive and board director recruitment across a diverse group of operators, manufacturers and service providers.

Bailey works with clients across all modes of transportation, serving a broad range of clients in passenger and air freight; trucking and road transport; rail and ocean; third-party logistics; warehouse, distribution, and supply chain services.

Prior to joining Spencer Stuart, Bailey served as a financial adviser at Firestone Capital Management. Earlier, he spent six years in institutional equity sales at WR Hambrecht and Dahlman Rose & Co. in New York City.

Bailey earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics, cum laude, from Columbia University.

Sanjay Bonde

Chairman and CEO
TCC

Sanjay Bonde serves as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of TCC. Sanjay is an expert in strategic finance, supply chain finance, international finance, M&A, and corporate development. During his career leading companies in senior-level business roles, he has helped companies develop innovative financial and corporate development strategies driving business growth globally. He has lived and worked in Europe, Asia, and the US and led several cross-functions in addition to Financial Strategies, including Product Development, Marketing, Solution Sales, Supply Chain, and Talent Management. 

Sanjay also serves as the Chairman of Monarch Tractors, Board Advisor to a Pritzker Family holding company, and has been CEO of Wintec, a technology-led, semiconductor and supply chain business. He is also the founder of an electric vehicle company, Genze, and Bonde Ventures. He actively supported the formative period of Mahindra Finance, a non-banking finance company with US$ 11 billion in assets and over 35,000 employees and was Vice President & General Manager at Bristlecone Inc, a Mountain View, California-based inventory and supply chain optimization company catering to global semiconductor and hi-tech industries. Called upon for his expertise in both finance and technology, Sanjay has provided strategic advice to varied technology companies in Silicon Valley. 

Sanjay currently resides in Menlo Park, California. He received executive leadership training at Harvard Business School and the London School of Economics after earning his MBA/MMS and BE in Electronics and Electrical Power Engineering from the University of Mumbai.

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