Kick Off Keynote Address – A Conversation with Tom Derry, CEO of ISM and Miguel Gonzalez, Chief Procurement Officer, DuPont

Tom Derry

CEO, ISM

Speaker bio

Tom Derry is Chief Executive Officer of the Institute for Supply Management^® (ISM^®), with more than 30 years of experience in leadership and general management roles for public and private companies, and in the not-for profit sector. He has executed turn-arounds at the corporate and business-unit level through a variety of means, including acquisitions, divestitures, restructuring, and business process re-engineering.

As CEO of the Institute for Supply Management, Tom has a unique vantage point to observe major macroeconomic trends and the development of global supply chains through his daily contact with Fortune 500 chief procurement officers and chief supply chain officers, with government agencies and NGOs in the United States and abroad, and with leading academics. Tom has been interviewed on CNBC, Bloomberg Television, quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and dozens of other business publications. Tom has represented ISM in meetings with the White House Council of Economic Advisers, the National Security Council, the Federal Reserve System Board of Governors, and the U.S. Small Business Administration.

At ISM, Tom has overseen an increase in revenues, a reduction in costs, the introduction of new revenue streams, and the launch of new product lines. As Chief Operating Officer of the Association for Financial Professionals, Tom oversaw strategy development and execution. Tom completed two cross-border acquisitions, which became for-profit subsidiaries of AFP. He oversaw all AFP staff in London, UK and Bethesda, MD.

As General Manager of the Business Intelligence unit of LexisNexis, team led a 40-person acquisition integration team, which completed the integration ahead of plan and under budget. He also executed the strategic divestiture of another LexisNexis unit, and implemented new technologies, including web-crawling bots, to re-engineer data collection and quality processes for LexisNexis’ business data unit.

Tom is a 1986 graduate of Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service (B.S., Foreign Service).

Kick Off Keynote Address – A Conversation with Tom Derry, CEO of ISM and Miguel Gonzalez, Chief Procurement Officer, DuPont

Miguel Gonzalez

Chief Procurement Officer, DuPont

Speaker bio

Originally from Spain, Miguel started his career in supply chain with General Electric Plastics. He later worked for Nalco (Ecolab), Kraft Foods, and since 2015 for DuPont, where he is now Chief Procurement Officer.​

Miguel has lived in Spain, the Netherlands, and the U.S. with his wife and two sons. He has a degree in business administration, a master degree from Universidad Camilo Jose Cela, and an MBA from ESERP Business School. He is also a NACD certified director. ​

• Member of the Board of Directors for the Institute for Supply Management​
• Chair of the Institute for Supply Management Talent Management Committee
• Vice President and member of the Board of Directors for the Spain-US Chamber of Commerce​
• Member of the Howard University Supply Chain Advisory Board​

He enjoys coaching, mentoring and speaking at universities and events. In his free time, Miguel likes to spend time with his family, travel and get to know other cultures. He is also a collector of antique books.

How Big Things Get Done

Dan Gardner

Risk Management, Forecasting, and Big Projects | Award-Winning Journalist | Bestselling Author

Speaker bio

Can we improve our ability to forecast the future and manage risks to do better in business and life? Award-winning journalist and bestselling author Dan Gardner tackles these questions and more in his eye-opening and mind-expanding talks. Based on his bestselling books about psychology and decision making, Gardner’s talks draw on the latest research and his long experience in journalism and politics to challenge assumptions and find creative solutions.

A former journalist and national affairs commentator, Gardner’s work has won or been nominated for every major award in Canadian newspaper journalism, including the National Newspaper Award, the Michener Award, and the Canadian Association of Journalists Award.

Gardner is also the New York Times bestselling author of four books — Risk: The Science and Politics of Fear; Future Babble; Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction, which was named one of the best books of 2015 by The Economist, Bloomberg, and Amazon; and, his most recent, How Big Things Get Done, co-written with Oxford University Professor Bent Flyvbjerg. His books have been published in 25 countries and 20 languages.

An honourary senior fellow at the University of Ottawa’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, Gardner has spoken and consulted with organizations worldwide, including Google, Goldman Sachs, Siemens, Zurich Insurance, Khosla Ventures, and a variety of hedge funds and governments.

The Inner Game of Breakthrough Performance

Hitendra Wadhwa

Professor, Columbia Business School

Speaker bio

Hitendra Wadhwa is professor of practice at Columbia Business School and founder of the Mentora Institute. He teaches Columbia's most popular MBA leadership class on Personal Leadership & Success. He also teaches MBA and executive education programs on driving strategic impact and leading from the inside out, and has received the Executive-MBA Commitment to Excellence Award, the Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence, the Lear Award for Service to Students, and the Columbia Marketing Association Award for the Most Dynamic and Engaging Professor.

Hitendra’s mission is to codify and teach scientific principles of success in life and leadership. With a Ph.D. in management science from MIT and a lifelong study of the world’s mystic traditions, Hitendra brings a mathematician’s rigor and a truth-seeker’s spirit to some of today’s most vexing questions about authenticity, success, leadership, human potential, and more. His widely acclaimed research and teaching on leadership have been covered by Inc., Forbes, Fortune, CNN, Psychology Today, BBC World Service, Financial Times, and Wall Street Journal. His weekly webcast, Intersections, features acclaimed thought leaders and practitioners in the craft of leadership.

Hitendra’s Mentora Institute is at the forefront of creating a new model of leadership for the 21st century where executives achieve ever-growing Outer Impact through ever-deepening Inner Mastery. Through its digital learning platform, Mentora has created a pocket “flight simulator” for leadership that helps learners gain mastery in a wide range of leadership skills through MicroPracticeTM. His clients include Accenture, SAP, Pfizer, Tata Group, Ericsson, GE, Kraft Heinz, Siemens, a Big-4 Accounting Firm and Morgan Stanley.

In the past, Hitendra was an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company and the CEO/founder of a Silicon Valley start-up, Paramark, which was twice recognized as a Top-100 Internet technology company by Technologic Partners/Venture Wire.

Education: BA (Honors in Mathematics), St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, 1988; MBA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992; PhD, 1996

To learn more about Hitendra, visit his website.