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Fred has responsibility for delivering industry initiatives that generate positive customer value outcomes. Fred brings more than 25 years of experience from his roles in industry and the supply chain software marketplace. Fred has deep domain expertise in the areas of collaboration, demand planning, S&OP, S&OE, control tower/predictive visibility, vendor managed inventory, and category management. Fred has a passion for network collaboration, and he was instrumental in driving collaborative trading community strategies, thought leadership, and launching collaboration, S&OP and analytics digital product offerings. Fred’s previous career experience also includes IBM Corporation, eight years’ with The Pillsbury Company (Now General Mills) where he served as a Value Chain Manager. Fred was responsible for starting the collaborative inventory program with Walmart for Pillsbury and executed other numerous value chain strategies. Fred received his undergraduate degree at Georgia State University and an MBA with distinction from the University of Arkansas, Sam M. Walton School of Business where he had a core focus in supply chain management. Fred was an advisory board member of the Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR) VICS and GS1 industry subcommittee and is a named contributor to several published industry guidelines including: “Linking CPFR and S&OP: A Roadmap to Integrated Business Planning” and the guideline: “The Ultimate Retail Supply Chain Machine, Connecting The Consumer to The Factory”. Fred is also published in The Journal of Business Forecasting, Supply Chain Management Review, CSCMP Quarterly and other thought leadership publications. Fred is a frequent speaker at industry venues such as Gartner, CSCMP, GMA, SCL Summit and the Institute of Business Forecasting. Fred is a published member in Food Logistics “Rock Stars of Supply Chain” for his work with FMI and customers in the food industry.

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Regenia Sanders is an executive with over 25 years of business transformation and consulting experience with Fortune 500 and Private Equity portfolio companies across multiple sectors, including Communications & High Tech, Retail and Utilities, but primarily focused in the Automotive and Industrial Manufacturing sector. Her area of specialty has been Supply Chain Management where she has delivered global programs to define end to end supply chain strategy spanning sourcing and procurement to planning, manufacturing and fulfillment operations. Regenia has also led several enterprise-wide business transformations enabled by technology solutions such as SAP and best in breed software across multiple business functions. She has worked across various levels of the organization with her clients from the shopfloor to the C-Suite, serving as a trusted advisor on topics ranging from cost reduction to operating model and led global teams. At EY Regenia has been the Business Consulting practice leader for the US Central Region in North America. Prior to this, she served as EY’s Supply Chain & Operations leader for the Americas. She was also instrumental in positioning EY’s Supply Chain Planning capability as a leader in analyst rankings. Regenia is currently the Managing Partner of EY Atlanta. Regenia is a strong communicator with a unique combination of business and IT experience with the innate ability to break down complex concepts to broader, non-technical audiences and build strong client relationships to innovate their supply chains and find efficiencies through process improvement while leveraging analytics and advanced technology. In addition, Regenia has contributed her thought leadership to several supply chain publications, executive panels, university lectures, and webcasts. She is actively involved in DEI efforts, serving as the executive sponsor for various diverse affinity groups at EY and actively involved in diversity recruiting. Externally she sits on the Board of Directors for the National Minority Supplier Development Council and the Alumni Board of Directors for her alma mater, and the Advisory Board for Advancing Women’s Excellence in Supply Chain Operations, Management and Education (AWESOME).