-- Jean-Jacques Beaussart, CPO, National City -- Farley Blackman, Vice President - Sustainable Cost Management, BP plc -- Ron Carcamo, CPO, Yahoo! -- Peter Connelly, CPO, Leggett & Platt -- Olivier Dumas, SVP & CPO, EADS Defense and Security -- Kirk Eberhart, Director of Purchasing, TMK-IPSCO -- Linda Fusinati, Sr. Category Manager, Chevron -- Geraint John, Editor-in-Chief, CPO Agenda -- General William "Gus" Pagonis, Retired US Army General, Business Leadership Author, Lecturer, and World Renowned Supply Chain Expert -- Mitch Plaat, CPO, Con-way -- Jim Polak, Director, Purchasing PPG Industries -- Scott Singer, Global Head of Procurement (CPO), Rio Tinto -- Ken Syme, CPO, Xerox -- Greg Tennyson, CPO, Salesforce.com -- Russell Toney, General Manager, Global Sourcing, General Electric Co, Energy ServicesA comprehensive look at the complete response base from the on site research will be reviewed on Thursday, December 11, 2008, at the "Voice of the CPO" webinar: research findings from the 2008 CPO Summit. To register for this free Webinar, please visit: https://e-meetings.verizonbusiness.com/emeet/rsvp/index.jsp?Conference_ID=1871674&pas scode=9776034 CONFERENCE NUMBER: 1871674 PASSCODE: 9776034 One participant had this to say about this year's conference: "This was my first time attending the CPO Summit. The speakers were very interesting and the content appropriate to our current business & financial environment. The perspectives that we heard were extremely diverse and unique. I was really pleased with the conference." - Tom Cichon, Assistant Vice President, Senior Director - Strategic Sourcing, Cigna. 2008 Aberdeen Achievement Awards During the proceedings, Aberdeen presented five industry achievement awards for excellence in global supply management. The winners were drawn from a research pool of thousands of enterprises who participated in Aberdeen's Global Supply Management research efforts over the past twelve months. The winners are:
(1) JC Penney -- Innovation in Technology Award Winner -- granted to the enterprise that has maximized leveraged technology solutions to solve pressing business issues to positively impact company performance. The acknowledgement for the award goes to Bruce Kilkowski, Vice President of Strategic Sourcing. (2) Verizon Service Corporation -- Process Excellence Award Winner -- granted to the enterprise that has demonstrated process ingenuity, agility, flexibility and scalability to address evolving business requirements. Jim Gowen, Executive Director of Supply Chain Services, came up to retrieve the award for his organization and had this to say about the recognition: "Transformation has been our organization's primary objective over the past three years -- with a focus on leveraging our economies of scale to reduce operating costs, driving speed to market to serve our customers more efficiently and effectively, and overall enabling Verizon to be more competitive to drive greater shareholder value. This award is a great honor in that it verifies we have been doing the right things and that our team is delivering best-in-class results. We are very proud of this recognition." (3) Air Transat -- Business Evolution Award Winner -- granted to the enterprise that has demonstrated the ability to manage the flow of information across internal and external functional practices to achieve demonstrable business growth. Jean Cloutier, Sr. Director of Procurement graciously accepted the award on behalf of his colleagues at Air Transat. (4) Con-way -- Executive Stewardship Award Winner -- granted to the enterprise that has overcome tremendous obstacles and achieved new performance heights as a result of direct involvement and leadership from exceptional executive management. Mitch Plaat, Vice President of Procurement accepted the award on behalf of Con-way. (5) Cisco -- Performance Excellence Award Winner -- granted to the enterprise that has harnessed the performance impacts of value chain activities and mastered methodologies for financial, operational, and customer-centric performance excellence. The acknowledgement for the award goes to Lesley Gath, Vice President of Procurement"Aberdeen is pleased to recognize the 2008 winners for their outstanding efforts and extraordinary results in achieving Best-in-Class performance," said Andrew Bartolini, Vice President, Global Supply Management research, Aberdeen. Global Supply Management Research Looks Ahead to 2009 Aberdeen's industry-leading Global Supply Management practice focuses its research on the strategies, processes, and technologies that enable sourcing, procurement, finance, and supply management organizations achieve best-in-class performance. Research coverage includes: strategic sourcing, contact lifecycle management, procurement, e-payables, commercial cards and complex category management (including contract labor, travel & entertainment, print, and real estate and facilities). To view Aberdeen's complimentary GSM research Library, please visit http://research.aberdeen.com/index.php/Global-Supply-Management/ Summit Sponsors Aberdeen acknowledges and appreciates the support of the 2008 CPO Summit sponsoring companies: American Express, Softtek, GT Nexus, ApexAnalytix, SAP, Genpact, Bank of Montreal, VISA Commercial, ICG Commerce, Infosys and Beeline. "Voice of the CPO" Webinar - December 11 A summary of the CPO Summit proceedings, which will include the key findings from the onsite research conducted at the conference, will be presented on Thursday, December 11, 2008. To register for this free Webinar, please visit: https://e-meetings.verizonbusiness.com/emeet/rsvp/index.jsp?Conference_ID=1871674&pas scode=9776034 CONFERENCE NUMBER: 1871674 PASSCODE: 9776034 About Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company Aberdeen Group is a leading provider of fact-based research and market intelligence that delivers demonstrable results. Having benchmarked more than 30,000 companies in the past two years, Aberdeen is uniquely positioned to educate users to action: driving market awareness, creating demand, enabling sales, and delivering meaningful return-on-investment analysis. As the trusted advisor to the global technology markets, corporations turn to Aberdeen for insights that drive decisions. For additional information, visit Aberdeen http://www.aberdeen.com or call (617) 723-7890, or to learn more about Harte-Hanks, call (800) 456-9748 or go to http://www.harte-hanks.com.
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