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Opening of the Supply Chain Executive Forum
Eelco Dijkstra, Managing Director, Europhia Consulting

Structural inventory and distribution optimization within your Supply Chain
Jan van Doremalen, Senior Partner, CQM

Freight Invoice Auditing and Payment Service
Adrian Samuel, Regional Sales Manager, PowerTrack

Closing of Supply Chain Executive Forum
Eelco Dijkstra, Managing Director, Europhia Consulting

Philippe Guillaume, Executive Partner IBM Global Business Services Automotive, Benelux

Philippe has several degrees and diplomas in engineering, operations management and business management from Belgian Universities. Started with IBM in 1983 as Systems Engineer. Left IBM to develop career with several automotive related companies. Joined IBM again in 1997 as Head of the Industrial Sector Belgium. From 2004 headed the IBM Benelux Automotive Consulting business unit. Chairman since 2006 of FEBIAC, the Belgian Automotive Supplier Federation.

Alex van Breedam, Managing Director and CEO of TRI-VIZOR NV, The World’s First Cross Supply Chain Orchestrator

Alex was the founding father and former Managing Director of the Flanders Institute for Logistics (VIL). As a former partner and practice leader SCM at KPMG Consultings, Alex gained exceptional experience in the setup of supply chain strategies and the conception and implementation of decision support systems. Subsequently, as an independent advisor, he was hired by major companies to supervise and to provide expert guidance for their Supply Chain strategy and logistic optimization projects, most often at the board room level. Alex is also the inventor of the Extended Gateway® concept. This is a new and powerful concept for regions with natural advantages for European distribution. He holds a doctoral degree in Applied Economic Sciences from the University of Antwerp and has given lectures at KULeuven, University of Antwerp and LUC in addition to his several publications in leading journals.

Anja Grupping, Head of Trade Finance Belgium/Luxembourg, Deutsche Bank

Anja studied Applied Economics at the University of Antwerp. Through different roles with KBC and Deutsche Bank, she has almost twenty years of managerial experience in Trade Finance. After assignments in Relationship Management for Mid Caps and International Subsidiaries, she is now the Director in charge within Deutsche Bank’s Global Transaction Banking division, managing the platform's Trade Finance business in Belgium and Luxembourg. Working closely with high-profile clients of the firm, as well as with internal business partners, Anja is leading the firm's efforts for promoting Deutsche Bank's Suply Chain Solutions in the region.

Jan van Doremalen, Senior Partner, CQM

Jan has a degree in mathematics from the Eindhoven University of Technology and started his career with research and teaching in mathematics. In 1986 he started working for CQM, at that time still a staff-department at Philips Electronics Company, working on application of operations research and econometrical models in decision making on forecasting, inventory management and supply chain planning. In 1993 a management buy-out made CQM into an independent consulting company. The company works for clients in the entire supply chain in strategic and tactical projects in which analytical and mathematical model are used to support decision making.

Adrian Samuel, Regional Sales Manager, PowerTrack

A graduate from Edinburgh University with a degree in Modern Languages and History, Adrian has extensive Sales, Marketing and Customer Service management experience, predominately in the transport and services sectors. During his 9 year career at FedEx, he managed Customer Services for Southern Europe, before branching into electronic services. He joined US Bank to expand PowerTrack’s presence in Europe and promote the benefits to Freight buyers and sellers of its automated invoice audit, processing and payment solutions.

Eelco Dijstra, Managing Director of Europhia Consulting and SCExecutive.com

Eelco has been involved in logistics for more than 15 years. Over the last 7 years, he has accumulated specific B2C distribution related expertise by working in the high-tech sector. His work and acquired expertise in this specific area of parcel/express distribution for companies such as Apple Computers within an e-Commerce environment has become a personal interest area. In early 2009, he developed SCExecutive.com. This global knowledge platform is a business development tool that enables logistics and supply chain professionals to network, share and learn from one another. It facilitates learning through latest updates on industry news, events, reports and career opportunities from all over the world.