At the 2025 edition of the North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit series we sat down with Seth Davies of Competitive Solutions to talk about his B2B podcast, The Pulse of High Performance. Executive Platforms has collaborated with Competitive Solutions since its earliest days, and there are few organizations better positioned to speak to senior executives about how they have achieved success and what advice they would want to share with an audience of business leaders at all stages of...
At the 2025 edition of the North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit series we sat down with Johan Beukema of BCI Global to have a conversation about site selection and footprint optimization in a world where these decisions are always important, but recent events are bringing them into sharper focus than ever. We have had the pleasure of speaking with the experts at BCI Global at many Executive Platforms’ events over the years. In this episode we talk about which questions are always im...
At the 2025 edition of the North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit series we sat down with Matt Delaney of Covalent to talk about the advances and new capabilities Artificial Intelligence is bringing to the important fields of workforce management and workforce development, especially as it relates to manufacturing organizations. How does one separate the optimism and enthusiasm for AI from what is really practical and applicable to companies working today? What do the real-uses cases ...
At the 2025 edition of the North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit series we sat down with Andrew Siprelle and Tom Lange to talk about something every manufacturing leader with shopfloor experience knows intuitively but has spent a career trying to prove: Sometimes fixing the little things even when everything else is working right pays bigger dividends than the ‘big wins’ that everyone understands but require time and resources to deliver an often temporary solution. Figuring out wher...
At the 2025 edition of the long-running and successful North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit series we recorded a special episode of Executive Platforms’ BluEPrint Podcast series speaking to the challenges and opportunities submitted by attendees of the event as they filled out their delegate profiles, weighted by popularity. In this wide-ranging, organic conversation, three manufacturing executives share their thoughts and experiences on the issues and ideas they care about. It is a...
At the most recent edition of the Biomanufacturing World Summit series we sat down with Kawa Chiu of Abdera Therapeutics to talk about advances in targeted radiotherapeutics and some of the supply chain implications of recent developments. Radiotherapeutics differs from traditional radiation therapy in that an antibody or small molecule delivers radiation internally to the cancer cells, sparing healthy tissue that might be damaged by externally applied radiation. A lot of great progress is be...
At the 2025 edition of the North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit series we sat down with some of the team from AlixPartners to talk about what manufacturing leaders can do to move their operations forward at a time when long-term planning is off the table for the time being. The answer is surprisingly positive! Making the mental shift from working on the strategic big picture to the tactical best practices that day-to-day operations depend upon opens up many opportunities...
For this special episode of Executive Platforms' bluEPrint Podcast series we sat down with two of the top speakers from the 2025 edition of the long-running North American HR Executive Summit series for a wide-ranging discussion about the issues, ideas, challenges, and opportunities that are top of mind for human resources leaders today, as suggested by the attendees of the event. Give it a listen! This roundtable includes… Panelists: Denise Abbott Senior Vice President Hu...
At the 2025 edition of the North American HR Executive Summit series we sat down with Mark Fordyce of Workvivo by Zoom to talk about how a new generation of tools and technologies are changing the way leaders interact with and understand their people. How can HR professionals best leverage these new abilities to improve things like employee job satisfaction, retention rates, skills development, and productivity? We also discussed ways to build better connections between the HR and Finance fun...
At the 2025 edition of the North American HR Executive Summit series we sat down with Barbara Hess of CCS Medical to talk about the power and responsibility HR professionals have to help the C-Suite executives of their organization set a tone and reflect the values they want to see in their company culture. While leading by example is always important and valuable, there are all kinds of tangible dividends that pay out when a workforce sees what its leadership care about and put their energie...
At the 2025 edition of the North American Finance Executive Summit series we sat down with Elmar Licharz of Volkswagen, Guru Ramamurthy of Bayer US, and Tatiana Simonelli of Alfasigma —all members of the NAFES25 speaker faculty— for a wide-ranging discussion about the issues, ideas, challenges, and opportunities that are top of mind for finance leaders today, as suggested by the attendees of the event. Give it a listen! This roundtable includes… Panelists: Elmar Licharz Ch...
At the 2025 edition of the North American Finance Executive Summit series we sat down with Rob Konferowicz of CCH Tagetik. A new generation of Enterprise Performance Management tools is coming online. As the older tools become less and less suited to a changing business landscape, many finance professionals are being asked to make informed choices in relatively short time frames about the technologies they will be using for many years to come. Should contracts be renewed for the next edition ...
For this special episode of Executive Platforms' BluEPrint Podcast series we had some of the top speakers from the 2025 edition of the North American Finance Executive Summit series sit down and speak to the challenges and opportunities submitted by attendees of the event as they filled out their delegate profiles, weighted by popularity. This wide-ranging conversation will see four senior executives from four very different companies speaking to the issues, ideas, innovations, and ins...
At the 2025 edition of the North American Finance Executive Summit series we sat down with Mandy Jacomet, the Chief Financial Officer of NeighborWorks Toledo Region to talk about her experience bringing lessons learned and best practices she had gained through work in the private sector and applying them to a non-profit organization without always having the resources a finance leader may have had in a for-profit environment. How do you achieve everything you need to achieve within necessary ...
In the run-up to the 2025 edition of the North American Sustainability & Responsibility Summit series we spoke with Jessica Monserrate and Jordan Keller of BASF, a 150-year-old chemical company with 111,000 employees working in 230 production and R&D sites in 90 countries. BASF is committed to ambitious sustainability targets, including a 25% reduction in Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and achieving net zero across all scopes by 2050. In this wide-ranging conversation,...
In the run-up to the 2025 edition of the Medical Device Manufacturing Excellence Summit series we spoke with Shawn McCarthy, Jessica Swanson, and Peggy Hansen of Regenity Biosciences about exciting developments in the Medical Device space, with a particular emphasis on both the power of collaboration and the importance of a regulatory strategy. Regenity is an industry-leading CDMO working with 120 different industry partners and offering special expertise in regenerative devices. In this wide...
There is a podcast Executive Platforms would like to bring to the attention of our network of senior executives. For everyone interested in online speech, especially issues like trust and safety, content moderation, regulations and compliance, and how technology is changing the way people engage with one another, we recommend the Ctrl-Alt-Speech Podcast co-hosted by Techdirt’s Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation’s Ben Whitelaw. In this episode we talk about how the podcast came to be, w...
At the 2024 edition of the Biomanufacturing World Summit series we sat down with Diluks de Silva to talk about Cell and Gene Therapies. For many years we have been hearing these and other Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMPs) are moving towards commercialization, and each individual therapy that has been approved is heralded as a pioneer to be celebrated and studied for lessons learned and best practices. This year something like 40 cell and gene therapies came to market, and by every i...
At the 2024 edition of the Biomanufacturing World Summit series we sat down with Hari Pujar of Tessera Therapeutics and Flagship Pioneering to offer a concise but still in-depth look at the present and future of biopharmaceutical manufacturing, especially as it relates to Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMPs). Incredible progress has been made and is being made, but of course there are bottlenecks to be addressed as the industry grows, and as these new treatments become commercially ava...
At the 2024 edition of the Biomanufacturing World Summit series we sat down with Martin Müller and Søren Thuesen Pedersen of Novo Nordisk to talk about opportunities biopharmaceutical manufacturers have to work together to lower costs, standardize equipment, build win-win scenarios for procurement and supply chain, and similar initiatives where competitive advantage and IP are not at stake, but costs and compliance and other performance metrics can be improved through joining forces and agree...