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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.