Renée Ure Chief Operating Officer Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Group

Renée Ure is Lenovo’s Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) Chief Operating Officer with responsibility for internal operations and efficiency, cost, expense, transformation, supply chain & procurement with a mission to become customer’s most trusted data center partner.

Renée Ure joined Lenovo in June 2017 as the VP of Global Supply Chain within the Infrastructure Solutions Group.  Renée has been instrumental in the transformation of the ISG business by driving new technologies such as blockchain and AI into daily operations, placing supply chain at the forefront of cloud customer relationships and instilling a talent focused on people first culture.  In her tenure as the leader, the Global Supply Chain organization has delivered a 26% efficiency to the bottom line and has improved customer experience to an all-time high of 96% on time delivery.

Prior to joining Lenovo, Renée retired from IBM in June 2017 with more than 25+ years of executive leadership experience.  She joined IBM in Poughkeepsie, New York and throughout her career has built her skills in multiple areas of operations, procurement, demand planning, sales operations, manufacturing, fulfillment, and finance. Renée was key to driving the integration of pre and post sales execution operations for IBM, while driving operational excellence from quote to cash for IBM.  She was the Vice President of Global Operations for Enterprise Services and led a global organization of over 7,500 employees, covering a quote to cash supply chain for software, hardware, services, and solutions, in over 50 different countries and over $80B in revenue.

Outside of Lenovo, Renée is an executive board member of:

• Supply Chain Leaders in Action (SCLA), an association of Distribution Business Management consisting of executive leaders seeking strategic ideas and thought leadership to improve supply chain and logistical operations.
• Project 44, a world leading Advanced Visibility Platform™ for shippers and logistics service providers.
• Gartner Executive Advisory Board (EAB) which is an exclusive group of influential global operations executives from the world’s leading companies.  The EAB develops, promotes and progresses the discipline of supply chain management to enable current and future supply chain leaders to have a greater impact on business and society.

Renée is also a business adviser to TYS.  Trust Your Supplier (TYS) is a start-up that provides one solution for supplier life cycle and risk management across the enterprise, allowing various business divisions to collaborate on risk mitigation, cost reduction, and preparation for ever-changing supply chain regulations.

Renée holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance from Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts. She is married, has two sons and lives in Moneta, Virginia with her husband & two dogs, Oakley (Golden Retriever) and Maddie (Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever).

Shrinder Tumber Supplier Due Diligence Manager Hitachi Rail

Shrinder Tumber is a Supplier Due Diligence Manager working for Hitachi Rail analysing and delivering the company’s exposure to risk across rolling stock, signalling, service and maintenance, digital technology and turnkey.

Collaborating with key global stakeholders from all areas of the business to create awareness, educate them on the risk, and implement effective management tools to reduce and remediate the uncertainty on projects & programmes.

An accomplished purchase to pay and supplier due diligence manager with a proven track record of delivering new procedures and implementing change to existing work streams. Enjoys working for large organisations in aligning standards and best practice to utilise full system functionality. Strong operational people manager - able to gain trust, respect and confidence quickly and effectively.

International experience developed in world-class global organisations across Procurement, Business Sales and Finance with a strong customer, service delivery focus.

Vitaliano Tobruk Director, Supply Chain Risk Industry Practice Lead Moody's Analytics

Vitaliano Tobruk is a Director of Moody’s Analytics with responsibility for Southern Europe & Africa region. 

He spent last 16 years supporting organizations to improve their risk assessment process. 

He is an expert in the area of supplier and risk management and he is a member of the global practice group focused on supply chain. 

He ensures that the market needs drive the product strategy roadmap.

Carolina Azar Senior Director - Product Strategy Moody's Analytics

Carolina Azar is a Senior Director at Moody’s Analytics, managing the Credit & Procurement book of business for Data Solutions. In this capacity, she is responsible for the product strategy and go-to-market activities around a portfolio of products to help Moody’s clients manage credit and supplier risk more effectively. Carolina has led and managed the Integrated Risk Assessment strategy, combining financial, trade credit, M&A, ownership, ESG, climate, cybersecurity, sentiment analysis, reputational and sustainability data for 430 million of corporations globally. In addition to defining the Master Data Management strategy, she is also responsible for the development of tools and capabilities needed to help credit and supplier risk managers identify, measure, and mitigate their risk exposure.

Carolina has dedicated her career to credit risk, research analysis and data management. She joined Moody’s in May 2011 as the Product Strategist for the Moody’s Investors Service (MIS) Sovereign and Sub-sovereign book of business. Few years after, she became the Research Strategist across all lines of business, including corporates, financial institutions, sovereign & sub-sovereign, public finance, and structured finance. Before joining Moody’s, Carolina spent nearly 20 years in various roles, at the Financial Standards Foundation, AIG and ING Barings in New York, and the Ministry of Finance and HLB International in Argentina.

Carolina holds a master’s degree in International Finance & Business from Columbia University, is a graduate of the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a Certified Public Accountant.

Miguel Vega Global Product Manager Jaggaer

As the JAGGAER Global Product Manager for the Network, Miguel Vega drives product strategy around the supplier network and the relationship with the technology partners for topics such as ESG (Diversity, sustainability, new regulations, more.) and Risk Management (Finance, compliance, cybersecurity, etc.). 

Miguel has over 8 years of experience in Operations and Product Management after working in companies such as HP Inc. (3D Printing & Digital Manufacturing), ThyssenKrupp (Elevators), UNYQ (Medical/O&P) and ALSA (Transportation). 

Miguel holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, a master’s degree in industrial facilities with a major in product design & development, and a master’s degree in business administration with a major in digital transformation.

Sai Nidamarty Co-Founder & CEO Trust Your Supplier

Sai Nidamarty is a seasoned global business leader in information technology with more than 20 years of IT consulting and business development expertise. Sai has played a key role in Trust Your Supplier's growth and development by providing vision and strategic direction.

James Ingram Managing Director, Head of Sales for Europe & Africa Moody's Analytics

James Ingram is Managing Director, Head of Sales for Europe & Africa at Moody’s Analytics, leading sales teams representing MA products and services and customer relationships across the region. 

James is a proven leader with over 20 years of experience across financial markets, building high-performing teams, developing go-to-market strategies to drive growth and partnering with customers to unlock opportunity through an integrated view of risk. 

Prior to his appointment as Regional Sales Leader this year, James was Managing Director, Head of Sales for Insurance & Asset Management, with a focus on building Moody’s presence and visibility across Europe & Africa and establishing strategic relationships with customers, partners and associations. He has played a key role in the integration of RMS’ catastrophe and climate risk business following its acquisition in 2021 and helped lead the launch of Moody’s ESG service for commercial underwriting. 

Since joining Moody’s Analytics in 2016, James has held a number of key sales leadership positions across a wide range of teams, notably leading the growth of Moody’s IFRS 17 business and Learning Solutions. Prior to joining Moody’s, James worked in capital markets for 14 years with domain specialism in structured finance and experience in both marketing and product management roles. James holds a BSc in Management Science & Spanish from The University of Southampton and a certificate in Leadership from Michigan Ross School of Business.