Confirmed Speakers ALSC Digital Strategies Europe 2024


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Jean-Christophe Deville

Vice President of Supply Chain

Toyota Motor Europe


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Since summer 2023, Jean-Christophe (JC) Deville has been vice-president of supply chain for Toyota across Europe, responsible for inbound, vehicle logistics and service parts logistics, along with production control and supply chain planning and engineering processes, as well as digitalisation strategy across TME. JC was previously responsible for production parts and vehicle logistics, and he led vehicle logistics for the carmaker since 2021, taking the reins at a time of strong sales growth for Toyota. JC started his career in the mid 1990s at an automotive Tier-1 supplier, with positions in Europe and China. He joined Toyota in 1999, holding positions in purchasing, product planning and manufacturing. He strives to bring Toyota lean manufacturing methods across supply chain and logistics and to make the supply chain a competitive differentiator for Toyota.

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Alexandre Lerma Martin

Manager of Logistics, Customer Driven Supply Chain

SEAT


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Alexandre Lerma Martin is an industrial engineer, master in production management and master in business administration from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. He completed his last university course and his thesis in the Technische Universität München. He has developed his professional career mainly at SEAT S.A where he has worked for 13 years. He started as a logistics innovation project manager, production and logistic planning manager, fast lane process manager for production, supply chain customer order process manager for sales. He is also the co-author of several data science papers. He currently holds the position of Customer Driven Supply Chain manager, as the responsible for the supply chain digitalization and the design of the customer order process for new models.

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Aleksej Kruekov

General Manager Overseas Service EMEA

CATL (Contemporary Amperex Technology)


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Aleksej Kruekov joined CATL in June 2021 as Senior Manager for Service and Aftersales. With almost 15 years of experience in automotive industry he is leading a fast growing aftermarket department of CATL covering Europe, Middle East and Africa. With more than 60 service stations already in operation in the EMEA region, Aleksej and his team has built a strong service eco-system to ensure professional and efficient service for the 3 main segments: passenger cars, commercial vehicles and battery energy storage systems. Before joining CATL Aleksej was working at BMW AG for more than 10 years as a lead buyer for the high voltage lithium-ion cells and cell modules. Responsible for the global sourcing and supplier network worldwide, covering the whole supply chain, starting from the raw materials and up to the fully assembled battery system with a clear focus on sustainable solutions. Aleksej has a degree in Transport Systems Engineering from the Technical University of Riga, Latvia and M.Sc. in Micro- and Nanotechnology from the University of Applied Science in Munich, Germany.

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Paulina Chmielarz

Industrial Operations Digital and Innovation Director JLR

JLR


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Since summer 2023, Paulina Chmielarz has been responsible for driving technology and process transformation across JLR’s Industrial Operations (IO) department, which includes manufacturing, supply chain and procurement. In this role, which reports directly to executive director of IO, Barbara Bergmeier, Paulina leads a workstream focused on accelerating technology, connectivity and automation across processes, from cloud systems to business process automation to product lifecycle management. Prior to this, Paulina Chmielarz held the position of Manufacturing Business Office Director at JLR, where she played leading roles in industrial strategy, systems and planning, make/buy decisions, and in-plant logistics operations. She has been instrumental in JLR’s digital manufacturing strategy, and holds responsibility for the implementation this year of a cloud-based ERP, with the rollout of SAP S/4Hana across all UK operations. Paulina joined JLR in 2016, during which time she has played key roles in global production and logistics processes, systems and engineering. She was essential in developing JLR’s material and logistics flows for its plant in Nitra, Slovakia, and later held roles in defining business processes and manufacturing systems. Before joining JLR, Paulina worked in a variety of industries including machining, medical equipment, electronics and automotive, including for a tier-1 supplier and Chinese OEM Qoros. She graduated from Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland, in 2008 with a double Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering.

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Tammo Hilgerloh

Head of Supply Chain Digitalisation

Schaeffler Technologies


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Tammo Hilgerloh is responsible for the strategic direction of digitalisation and data for global tier-1 supplier Schaeffler Technologies’ corporate supply chain management, including the digital transportation of logistics operations. In this role, which he has held since April 2023, he manages the company’s IT product portfolio and architecture for transport logistics, including identifying business processes that can be digitalised, driving data-driven solutions and innovations. Tammo Hilgerloh has been with Schaeffler since April 2012 in a variety of production and logistics planning roles for international projects, including in China, North America and Europe. Prior to his current role, he led supply chain network and design, with responsibility for development digital solutions for end-to-end supply chain design, including for footprint optimisation, emissions reduction and inventory optimisation. Hilgerloh has a degree in mechanical engineering with a focus on production and logistics from Leibniz University in Hanover.

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Saba Azizi

Overseas Service Network & Development Manager

CATL (Contemporary Amperex Technology)


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Saba joined CATL in 2021 and currently serves as the After-Sales Service Network and Development Manager at the world-leading lithium-ion battery company for electric vehicles. In this role, Saba leverages over ten years experience in the automotive industry to drive the company's international presence and ensure unparalleled customer satisfaction. Additionally, as a Business Development Manager for the EMEA region, Saba plays a crucial role in the strategic expansion of the service network and the efficient management of supply chains, solidifying CATL’s position as an industry leader. Before joining CATL, Saba spent six years at Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi, gaining extensive experience in after-sales strategy and execution. At Renault, Saba supervised a team responsible for ensuring the timely supply of parts from automotive suppliers. The team's efforts were guided by KPIs aimed at achieving zero VOR (vehicles off the road) and eliminating back orders, contributing significantly to the goals within the procurement team in the aftermarket department. Saba holds a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Industrial Engineering. A passion for innovation and sustainability drives Saba to support CATL’s vision of a greener future through environmental responsibility and advanced technology.

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Frank Göller

Head of Digital Strategy and Portfolio for Production and Logistics and Vice-President Internationalisation, Catena-X

Audi


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In 2024, Frank Göller took over responsibility for driving digitalisation across Audi’s production and logistics, leading a team focused innovative technology, data standards, modernising IT architecture, artificial intelligence and leveraging long data chains with the Catena-X shared data group. Göller previously spent four years at Volkswagen Group, where he was entrusted with designing and controlling group-wide digitisation activities in production and logistics, where he helped orchestrate the conversion of IT architecture and value-added processes towards achieving autonomous, continuously networked and digitally planned production. Before joining Volkswagen Group in 2019, Frank Göller held various management positions in industry and consulting and set up his own start-up in the field of ‘green energy’. For him, digital change in companies is essential and, above all, can only be implemented in the triad of people, processes and products. Since May 2021, he has also been an active member of Catena-X Association, the shared data group for the automotive industry, currently serving as vice-president internationalisation, as a representative of Audi to support the automotive industry's shared vision of end-to-end data chains and a collaboratively used data ecosystem.

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Ekaterina Serban

Head of Privacy and Information Security for Industrial Technology and Consumer Goods Sectors

Bosch


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Ekaterina Serban has more than 16 years’ experience in Information Technology (IT) and global operation with focus on B2B and B2C businesses, data protection, cybersecurity and digital transformation and building ecosystems. She is a global leader with solid data and IT governance and business experience, having worked in the USA, Mexico, China, India, Malaysia, Turkey, UK, Germany, and Russia. She has extensive experience in strategic transformation towards modern digital, compliance and IoT organization, building privacy and cybersecurity governance, risk management and operational resilience frameworks. Serban is an expert speaker on cybersecurity, privacy, digital transformation, and women in technology industry and she is an International Partner (Germany) in the Grand Assembly of the World Business Angels Investment Forum (WBAF).


Speakers from ALSC Digital Strategies Europe 2023


Michael Ströbel

Michael Ströbel

Vice-President of Process Management, Digitalisation in Production

BMW Group


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Since summer 2023, Michael Ströbel is vice-president for process management and digitalisation in the production division of the BMW Group. He oversees digital and IT support across production and logistics, including responsibility for the development and global rollout of a new SAP S/4 Hana logistics template and a new digital shopfloor initiative for all manufacturing sites. He returned to BMW’s headquarters in Munich after five years heading up BMW Group IT in the Americas Region, based in Plant Spartanburg, South Carolina. In his 20 years at the BMW Group, Michael Ströbel also headed the in-house production and purchasing function for reinforced carbon fibre plastics, was responsible globally for painted body logistics planning, and served as the IT Manager for the UK manufacturing operations. Prior to joining BMW, Michael was an IT consultant for Accenture in Germany and a staff member at the IBM Research Zurich Labs in Switzerland. He graduated from the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland with a Ph.D. in Information Management.

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Birgit Fuchs

Vice President Supply Chain Automotive

Infineon


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In her current role as Vice President Supply Chain Automotive, Birgit leads on the supply chain and production, life cycle management, customer service and transfer and conversion management. She started her career as an international graduate within Siemens & Infineon in Corporate Purchasing, before moving onto positions in procurement, logistics and supply chain. Birgit has a strong focus on operational excellence, process and project management with a key focus on the digitalization of supply chain and manufacturing. As well as her broad leadership experience in supply chain integration, she has an acute focus on people management, communication and organizational transformation.

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Alexandre Lerma

Manager of Logistics, Customer Driven Supply Chain

SEAT


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Alexandre Lerma Martin is an industrial engineer, master in production management and master in business administration from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. He completed his last university course and his thesis in the Technische Universität München. He has developed his professional career mainly at SEAT S.A where he has worked for 13 years. He started as a logistics innovation project manager, production and logistic planning manager, fast lane process manager for production, supply chain customer order process manager for sales. He is also the co-author of several data science papers. He currently holds the position of Customer Driven Supply Chain manager, as the responsible for the supply chain digitalization and the design of the customer order process for new models.

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Dr Gisela Linge

Vice President Global Logistics

Autoliv


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Dr Gisela Linge is currently leading the transformation to a more digital and resilient supply chain at Autoliv, a world leading tier-1 supplier in automotive safety systems. She is responsible for driving digitalisation, aligning standards and logistics processes globally as well as driving the Scope 2 and 3 emission reduction activities and targets across the entire supply chain. Prior to joining Autoliv in 2023, she gained extensive experience during 15 years in top international companies such as McKinsey, Deloitte, Webasto and BMW. Dr Linge has led large cross-functional projects and has a passion for strategies and transformations, and as an experienced automotive SCM leader, she continues to combine strategic expertise with operational excellence to drive digital transformations.

Dr Birgit Boss

Dr Birgit Boss

Senior Expert Digital Twins and Standardization, Bosch, and Board Member of the Industrial Digital Twin Association (IDTA)

Bosch


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Dr. Birgit Boss is a driving force in many committee and standardization activities around Platform Industry 4.0, digital twins and Industrial IoT. She is a Board Member of the Industrial Digital Twin Association (IDTA) and chairs the Working Group on "Open Technology". Since open source is getting more and more important, she is also a member of the Project Management Committee of the Eclipse Digital Twin Top Level Project. Additionally, Dr Boss was the Product Owner and is currently the Working Group Lead in Catena-X, the first collaborative, open data ecosystem for the automotive industry - for the topic of semantics, digital twins and data modelling. Her areas of expertise include Digital Twins and Industry 4.0/Smart Manufacturing, Software Architecture, Software Product Line Development, Software Ecosystems, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Connected Industry, Continuous Refactoring, Process Development, Standardization, Open Source and AUTOSAR.



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Pieterjan Landuyt

Head of Supply Chain Management and Procurement Digital

Volvo Cars


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Since September 2022 Pieterjan Landuyt is product area lead for across Volvo Cars’ global supply chain management and procurement, including the sourcing and implementation of procurement digital tools, order management and planning, inbound, vehicle logistics customs, service parts, ERP, data and analytics. He also the line manager for a team of directors for digital sales and operations planning (S&OP) and leads development and operations organisation, including budget and roadmap owner for digital deliverables in supply chain and procurement. Landuyt has been with Volvo Cars since 2014 in a variety of logistics and IT roles, including leading business IT projects across vehicle logistics, as senior product manager for car distribution and customers and as product manager for global supply chain logistics digitalisation across in-plant logistics, inbound, customers, customers, outbound and service parts. He has previously worked in production planning in aerospace and steel wiring manufacturers.

Lars Bäumann

Lars Bäumann

Ambassador China

International Data Spaces Association


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Lars Bäumann is an industry veteran with more than 40 years’ experience in the automotive industry in Germany, Mexico and the Slovak Republic, mostly in leading roles for the Volkswagen Group in production, logistics and IT. This included the IT responsibility for production, logistics and plants worldwide. Since the end of 2021 Lars Bäumann is located in Shanghai, where he is ambassador for the International Dataspaces Association (IDSA) – a users association dedicated to gaining value from data – and the chapter chairperson of BVL, the German Logistics Association (Bundesvereinigung für Logistik). Recently, he has also become closely involved in activities for China for Catena-X, the shared data ecosystem initiative for the automotive industry.

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Simon Dudley

Director of Transformation

JLR


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Simon Dudley is today responsible for implementing business excellence across JLR in achieving its wider Reimagine strategy. He joined JLR in 2013 in the powertrain operations team where he led the implementation of a digital system for the new engine plant and managed various transformation projects and quality performance. These roles gave him a broad insight into how the JLR business works and where the focus needs to be to implement business excellence. Simon Dudley began his career as a mechanical engineer at BAE Systems in the UK, where he held a number of positions over 25 years in the military aircraft business, including as a structural and dynamic test control systems engineer leading the fatigue test programme on Eurofighter Typhoon before taking up various project and programme management positions. Having completed an apprenticeship, he graduated with a 1st class BEng (Hons) in mechanical engineering and later went on to achieve a distinction in a global MBA from Manchester Business School in 2015. Simon enjoys working on business issues that require strong cross functional teams to solve complex problems and help his team in the development of Business Excellence for JLR. He lives in Warwick, is married with two children and outside of work pursues his passion of 38 years as a canoeist and is the Group Scout Leader for the local Scout Group.

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Diego Mallada

CIO for Digitalisation

Gestamp


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Diego Mallada combines his role as Digital Tech Director at Gestamp with teaching at several universities and business schools on Big Data, IoT, Business Intelligence, Software, Artificial Intelligence, and Entrepreneurship. Likewise, he is the Head of Technology of the IndesIA Consortium in which Gestamp is a Founding Partner. The multidisciplinary technical team he leads at Gestamp develops the software products and platforms related to the Company’s Strategy in the field of Industry 4.0, Data and AI and used by the group’s plants worldwide.

Dr Christian Schmidt

Dr Christian Schmidt

CTO

Siemens Digital Logistics


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Dr. Christian Schmidt is CTO of Siemens Digital Logistics, a subsidiary of the Digital Manufacturing segment in Siemens Digital Industries. In this role he drives the development of the SaaS based solutions in the field of Supply Chain Design, Planning, Optimization and Collaboration offered by Siemens. Those solutions help customers in various industries progressing on their digital journey to become more efficient, agile and sustainable. Within a highly motivated team, innovative data driven products are created, based on Digital Twin and AI approaches, using cloud technology. Christian is enthusiastic about applying prescriptive analytics in Supply Chains and Digital Manufacturing, but also Sustainability, Cloudification and AI are fields of expertise.

Gabriel Werner

Gabriel Werner

Vice-President of Manufacturing

Blue Yonder


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Gabriel Werner is Vice President Manufacturing for the DACH region at Blue Yonder. In this position he is responsible for the growth of Blue Yonder in the region. Gabriel Werner is an expert in supply chain management, automation and artificial intelligence in the supply chain. With his team, he covers the entire value chain in supply chain management, from planning to control. Gabriel Werner and his team help customers from industrial manufacturing and logistics to digitize their supply chains. Prior to his currently role, he held the position as vice president of Solutions Advisory for Blue Yonder in the EMEA region. In this role, he had the responsibility for overseeing the Solutions Advisory team, supporting the 3PL, manufacturing, retail, and wholesale industries. He joined Blue Yonder in April 2011 as a senior solutions advisor helping companies improve their supply chain performance through the use of technology. He progressed through various roles and was promoted to vice president in 2018. Prior to joining Blue Yonder, he was a senior business consultant for Infor.

Julian Schulcz

Julian Schulcz

Chief Operating Officer

4Flow


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Julian Schulcz is Chief Operating Officer at 4flow and is responsible for 4flow management worldwide. He has been with the company since 2004, starting at 4flow consulting, where he gained several years of consulting expertise. In 2010, he began to build up 4flow’s 4PL business and, with his team at 4flow management, has created a global business that sets new standards in the 4PL industry. Under Julian’s leadership, 4flow management has achieved an average growth rate of approximately 25% per year.

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Mike Ueland

Chief Revenue Officer

Cognosos


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For the past 25 years, Mike has been helping companies navigate through their digital transformation journeys. With a focus on wireless technologies, Mike has had a front row seat to the IoT revolution, having been part of the digital transformation journey for companies like UPS, The United States Postal Service, Progressive Insurance, Lyft and the City of New York.
Mike is currently the Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) at Cognosos, Inc. where he leads the sales, marketing, and customer success teams. Cognosos has developed a solution for OEMs & LSPs to better manage vehicles from point of production to point of transportation. Cognosos illuminates the ‘black hole’ in your yard to improve performance against your operational KPIs. It is done in a way that leverages machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) to provide a highly accurate solution that leverages an ultra-lightweight, highly-accurate solution that delivers value on day one. Prior to joining Cognosos, Mike was the President of IoT Products and Services for Digi International. He is a graduate of Kenyon College with a Bachelor of Arts and holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in marketing and finance from the University of Chicago.

Ronald Kleijwegt

Ronald Kleijwegt

CEO

Vinturas


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Ronald Kleijwegt has served as Vinturas’ CEO since May 2021. Previously Ronald served as GVP Sales and MD for EMEA at Blume Global, a Silicon Valey based IT Solution company. Before that he had several senior executive positions at Jusda SCM (a division of Hon Hai/Foxconn corporation), Hewlett Packard, Hon Hai-Foxconn and Compaq Computer Corporation.
Ronald relocated to the USA 1996-1999. Besides EMEA and USA, he also has extensive working experience in Latin America and Asia, including China. Ronald graduated in Logistics Management at HES/NEA in The Netherlands, while he also concluded additional business education at Harvard Business School, a.o.

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Thilo Seliger

Director of Engineering Europe

Airspace


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Thilo is the Director of Engineering Europe for Airspace, leading an international team distributed over several countries. In total he has 10+ years of experience in time critical logistics working in roles as Business Analyst, Software Engineer, Product Owner and Head of Software Development. Besides that, he also worked in the fintech sector for companies as Paypal. Throughout his career he was always spearheading agile and digital transformation. He is very passionate about leadership and building high performance and quality focused teams that develop solutions with real impact.