Simon Baxter  | Serving as an Associate Consultant, Simon contributes to client value through eKNOWtion’s projects and training initiatives using skills and experience gained over nearly 20 years as a practitioner in a range of roles for multi-national companies in the electro-mechanical and electronics industry. | | Before joining eKNOWtion, Simon worked at Solectron Scotland Ltd, most recently as part of Solectron’s Six Sigma Lean transformation team. As Lean Materials Leader, Simon focused on extending Lean initiatives within Solectron Scotland’s supply chain from the materials group through their customers supply chain, by leading/facilitating a large number of wide ranging improvement projects and kaizens. This has given Simon a very practical, 'hands-on' approach to change facilitation. Prior to this, Simon led the Supplier Quality Engineering team at Solectron Scotland, with technical and quality responsibilities for supplier selection/approval and ongoing management. Simon has also served in supplier development and quality roles with Tokheim, Schlumberger and Bridon. While at Bridon, Simon was responsible for consulting on quality systems implementation, leading and training quality system auditors and training in quality management. Simon holds a Bachelor of Engineering Degree from Bradford University, England and is also a certified Lean Black Belt. In addition, Simon holds qualifications in Quality Management, Quality Systems assessment and is a member of the Chartered Quality Institute. | To contact Simon Baxter, send an email to simon@eKNOWtion.com
Jon Gilbert  | Serving as an Associate Consultant for eKNOWtion, Jon is an expert in supply chain management, logistics, and planning, with over 19 years of experience in improving service, reducing cost, increasing efficiency, and integrating new technologies in diverse industries. | | Jon conducts research and provides consulting services in transportation and logistics, supply chain management, and operations. He also has substantial experience in transportation operations planning, optimization, and capacity analysis. Prior to joining eKNOWtion, Jon was Vice President, Logistics for NuCO2, a US-national carbon dioxide gas distributor where he was responsible for all supply chain planning, logistics, and centralized transportation management. At the time, NuCO2 operated a fleet of over 225 trucks serving 70,000 customers with over 17,000 deliveries a week. Previously, he was Director of Operations for electronics component manufacturer MF Electronics, a primary supplier to Cisco Systems and other prominent networking equipment OEMs and their contract manufacturers. Jon also managed supply chain planning at BOC Edwards Electronic Gases, a major supplier of electronics process gases, chemicals, and equipment to the semiconductor industry. Also at BOC, Jon led IT-related supply chain planning projects, and helped plan and assess major capital projects as part of the business planning group. He started his career in national account sales and marketing at Pyle Corporation, a diversified transportation and distribution services provider in the northeastern US. Jon earned a B.S. from the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University and an M.B.A. from the Stern School of Business at New York University. He is a member of CSCMP, and the Railway Industrial Clearance Association. | To contact Jon Gilbert, send an email to jon@InForuminc.com
Julian Morley  | Julian is a business strategy consultant, with experience in business transformation, complex organizational change and supply chain excellence within both the public sector and a number of industry sectors. He has the experience to apply good practice at both senior executive and practitioner levels within an organisation and provide focus on delivering results.
In addition to Julian’s public sector work which focused on key improvement areas such as collaboration, corporate procurement and business transformation, Julian has worked extensively in the private sector on supply chain strategy and implementing change programmes at BSkyB, Avon Cosmetics, Siemens, Alcatel, Nokia, GEC, BAE Systems and Inverness Medical saving over £40m of costs. He has also held senior positions at Hewlett Packard and Mars. | |
Julian has an MBA from the Ecole Europeene des Affaires (EAP) in Paris, is a Sainsbury Management Fellow and an engineering graduate of the University of Cambridge. Prior to joining eKNOWtion as an Associate Consultant, Julian’s twenty (20) years of experience includes:
- Setting up a regional hub to drive collaboration and innovation across 51 local authorities in the public sector in the South West.
- Leveraging the Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR®) model to shape supply chain strategy as a Principal consultant at Pittiglio Rabin Todd & McGrath (PRTM) where also he led programmes of supply chain change in blue chip businesses across Europe and gained specific expertise is sales and operations planning (S&OP) and advanced planning as well as experience of outsourcing in Asia.
- Turning around the accessories business for Hewlett Packard's commercial computer accessories business, increasing revenues by £100m in just 12 months.
- Running the S&OP process for Hewlett Packard’s $2b commercial desktop PC division for 2 years throughout 4 manufacturing sites in Singapore, Mexico, France and US.
| To contact Julian Morley, send an email to julian@eKNOWtion.com Anita Tadayon  | Anita is a leading business transformation consultant with specific expertise in diagnosing root-cause and designing and implementing solutions in supply chain management including: strategic sourcing, procurement, outsourcing, planning, product and process complexity reduction and Concept-to-Market innovation. With her people engagement skills Anita drives breakthrough change through senior management coaching, communication and organisation-wide skills transfer strategies – all delivered with a passion for results and delivery excellence. | |
Prior to joining eKNOWtion as an Associate Consultant, Anita’s twenty (20) years of experience across both private and public sectors includes:
- Leading the Business Transformation programme for the South West Regional Improvement and Efficiency Partnership (SW RIEP) supporting Local Authority Senior teams
- Driving transformation initiatives in leading CPG companies such as Avon Cosmetics focused in key areas of global procurement, Concept-to-Market complexity reduction, consumer focused design and supply chain cost reduction.
- While at Pittiglio Rabin Todd & McGrath (PRTM), Anita grasped the opportunity to deliver firm-wide projects such as the development and delivery of a new pan-European supply chain and an innovation benchmark review for over 30 consumer goods companies. Anita also held senior interim management roles in client organisations such as Interim Director of Supply Chain for life sciences company Aviron.
- Prior to consulting Anita was the Owner/Managing Director of a Chemical Trading start-up company sourcing speciality and commodity raw materials and intermediates from emerging markets. However, before starting her own company Anita held a number of senior procurement and operations roles at SmithKline Beecham, Zeneca Agrochemicals and ICI having been recruited into ICI’s fast track graduate scheme.
- Anita has an MBA (distinction) from London Business School and a BSc. in Chemistry (distinction) from King College London University.
| To contact Anita Tadayon, send an email to anita@eKNOWtion.com
Shirin Tomlinson  | Serving as an Associate Consultant, Shirin contributes to client value through eKNOWtion’s projects and training initiatives using her varied yet advanced procurement and supply chain expertise gained through her global experience across a wide variety of industry sectors. Shirin supports eKNOWtion’s procurement related projects utilising her experience in procurement strategy.
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- Before joining eKNOWtion, Shirin worked at FreeMarkets, the first and largest global internet business-to-business auction provider and sourcing specialist as the General Manager and Director, European Consumer Products Group and Retail
- Prior to this, Shirin was Manager at AT Kearney Ltd and a member of the Strategic Sourcing Core Team with a base in both NY, USA and London, UK.
- Shirin has also served in various capacities in Finance, Project Management, and Technical Consultant while employed by FMC Corporation (global diversified manufacturing company with focus in chemicals, machinery, defence, etc.) and Philips Medical Systems in the UK.
- Shirin holds an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelors of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Kent at Canterbury.
- In addition, Shirin is fluent in English, Farsi and strong in French.
| To contact Shirin Tomlinson, send an email to shirin@eknowtion.com
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