Official Event Advisory Panel
Quest Events would like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank the official event advisory panel who contribute their valuable time and expertise to ensure the agenda for this event is timely and relevant for all stakeholders working in the Australian supply chain managament sector.
Ron Hurley
General Manager Supply Chain
Fuji Xerox
Ron Hurley has 16 years’ experience in Supply Chain Management, including seven years working in the Automotive Industry for a Tier 1 supplier, supplying Toyota, Holden, Ford and Mitsubishi OEM and Part and Accessories (Gates Rubber Company) and eight years working in the electrical wholesale and retail (HPM Legrand). Ron joined Fuji Xerox as the Supply Demand Manager End of 2012 and was promoted recently to the General Manager of Supply Chain
Phillip Barrett
Commercial General Manager Supply Chain
Telstra
Expert in Procurement and Supply Chain Leadership and Team Management - Currently managing a Telstra team of 16 procurement and supply chain professionals across multiple categories with an annual spend of $2.5b. Ability to build, develop and promote high performance teams by focusing on ‘leading by example’, promoting team work, open communication, diversity, trust, ensuring expertise (and success) is acknowledged by utilising coaching and mentoring techniques from varied areas including my background as an elite athlete and sports coach.
Generating Value and Mitigating Risk- Setting and oversighting the commercial strategy of the team, developing policies and procedures, overseeing the operational execution and ensuring that the team delivers on all its objectives including achieving targeted savings, reducing costs, improving productivity and value added benefits, customer and supplier advocacy levels and engagement plans and risk mitigation. (Achieved over $400m in savings over 3 years managing the Mobile Device category).
Customer and Sustainability Focus - Extensive involvement in the Telstra Supplier and Customer Net Promoter Score (NPS) processes. Sustainable procurement focus aligned to Telstra's overall sustainability strategy (i.e. Use of indigenous suppliers, domestic violence safe connections program establishment and environmental focus - mobile muster.).
Transformation of Supplier Partnerships - Put in place extensive supplier engagement and relationship management plans and agreements across all categories including the strategically important mobility category ($2b AUD per annum spend) with suppliers such as Apple, Samsung, HTC, Microsoft (Nokia), and Sony to create and deliver incremental business value for the mutual benefit of all parties.
Travis Brooks-Garrett
Partner
Freight & Trade Alliance
Travis joined Freight & Trade Alliance (FTA) as a Partner in 2015 with responsibility for the overall growth of the organisation as well as supporting the membership in critical advocacy matters.
FTA is Australia’s leading representative body for border-related trade issues, representing a cross-section of 217 international freight logistics and import/export trade entities that are responsible for approximately 70% of inbound containerised trade into Australia. Whilst the bulk of the membership are freight forwarders / customs brokers, FTA is increasing its reach to major importers and members include Woolworths, Myer, Target, Pacific Brands, Super Retail Group, Toshiba, Origin, Pfizer, Novartis, Boehringer Ingleheim, ThyssenKrupp and the like.
Travis has also started writing for industry newspaper Lloyds List with an opinion column focusing on logistics, automation and intermodal issues
From an advocacy standpoint FTA is currently represented on peak committees including the National Committee for Trade Facilitation (NCTF), the Australian Trusted Trader (ATT) IAG and Department of Agriculture Cargo Consultative Committee. FTA is also an accredited customs broker CPD and Continued Biosecurity Competency (CBC) training provider.
FTA works actively with other associations and provides a secretariat / support role to the Australian Interantional Movers Association and consultancy services on border compliance requirements associated with landside logistics operations.
Before joining FTA, Travis Brooks-Garrett has held Senior Management Roles in Training Organisations including as a General Manager of Real Institute, the Victorian Manager for Navitas Workforce Solutions and the National Sales & Marketing Manager for Futurum Australia
Travis has received honours for work in this area including the African Achievement Award by the Hon. Kate Lundy, Minister for Multicultural Affairs, for helping African Australian connect with education and employment opportunities
In this capacity Travis also worked extensively with the Freight & Logistics sector designing training solutions for organisations including North Queensland Stevedoring Solutions (NSS), BCR Freight and Qantas Freight. Travis was also involved in helping Indigenous Australians find employment in the logistics sector and for this work Real Institute was awarded the Keith Campbell Leadership in Logistics Mentoring Award by the Logistics Association of Australia (LAA) for designing and implementing a Certificate III in Warehousing & Distribution for 88 Indigenous employees.
Jonathan Dutton
Director
JD Consultancy
Jonathon Dutton was the founding Managing Director of CIPS Australasia for over eight years up until February 2013. He was responsible for all aspects of CIPS activities as the global peak body for professional procurement & supply management in the region. He represented the profession and its standards to the highest levels of business and government. As a former qualified procurement manager himself, as well as sales manager turned marketing director, Jonathan can easily draw on experiences from both sides of the negotiating table. Jonathan has worked in senior positions for British Airways, QANTAS, Regus & CHUBB, and is a fellow of four institutes covering procurement, marketing, management and the royal society of arts. He is also a graduate diploma member of the institute of company directors, and has a degree in economics with accountancy and business law.
Jonathan is married with two young children and lives in Melbourne, and can be reached easily through LINKED IN or his website.
Amrik Sohal
Director of the Australian Supply Chain Management Research Unit
Monash University
Dr Amrik Sohal is a Professor in the Department of Management, Faculty of Business and Economics at Monash University. He is also the Director of the Australian Supply Chain Management Research Unit. He has received research grants from the State and Federal Governments, the Australian Research Council and Monash University. In 2001, Professor Sohal received the Vice-Chancellor's Award for Postgraduate Supervision and in 2004 he received an award for research excellence from the International Association for Management of Technology.