Board meetings will be held on the Second Thursday of each month (subject
to change) starting at 6:30pm at:
Benny's Café
5354 S. 27th Street.
Milwaukee, WI
(414) 431-0004
Monthly business meetings are
held on the 4th Thursday of the month unless there is a conflict with an official
holiday or other reason.
May 2009 Dinner
Topic: Sustainability and Johnson Diversey
Antonio Galvao and Ron Ellifson
will talk about the importance of sustainability at JohnsonDiversey and how
Value Chain is integrated into that. He will discuss how recent actions on the
transportation and logistics areas are already making a positive impact. Antonio
will also present both the environmental and financial benefit to pursuing sustainable
business practices, specifically in the supply chain, highlighting the company's
state-of-the-art distribution center in Sturtevant, WI.
Presenters:
Antonio Galvao and Ron Ellifson
Antonio Galvao
Antonio Galvao is the Vice President of Value Chain - Europe, Middle East and
Africa for JohnsonDiversey Inc., a leading global provider of commercial cleaning
and hygiene solutions, serving customers in the lodging, food service, retail,
health care and food and beverage sectors.
Antonio has more than 18 years of experience encompassing planning, logistics,
sourcing, engineering, product portfolio management and marketing operations.
Before moving to his current role, Antonio was focusing on improving service
performance to best in class standards around the world, optimizing cost structures
and leading the development of a Global Sales and Operations Planning process.
Antonio has presented in multiple seminars and Supply Chain conferences including
mostly recently the MIT-Crossroads 2008 (MIT-Cambridge, MA), CSCMP 2008 (Denver,
CO), Supply Chain and Logistics Forum 2007 (WTG, Jacksonville, FL). He is also
the author of the "Working Green" department for the APICS magazine since June
2008.
Ron Ellifson
Mr. Ellifson has over 30 years of Supply Chain experience. He has served as
a Logistics Consultant to JohnsonDiversey since April, 2005 with his current
role focusing on North American Warehousing. He was instrumental in the 3rd
Party (Uti Logistics) start-up, the design/development/move to the new LEED
Certified Warehouse (Big Box), and the consolidation of many warehouse operations.
Prior to joining JD, Mr. Ellifson was with SC Johnson for 28 years and had numerous
roles in Planning, Finance, Human Resources, Transportation, Warehousing, Project
Management, and the assistant to the Senior Vice President of Global Manufacturing.
September 2009
Dinner Topic: Deploying Windows 7
Presenter:
Chuck (Charles) Nailen - Technical Trainer
Chuck
has been working in the Information Technology field for almost 20 years.
His initial foray into the field was in a Help Desk environment where he spent
five years doing a combination of Customer and internal technical support in
the telecommunications arena.
He then changed his focus to the role of COBOL Programmer working
on Customer billing software where he spent four years.
Deciding that people were more interesting than code, Chuck made the change
to a training/instruction role. In total he has now spent eleven years
as a college Instructor and Trainer in both IT topics and Mathematics.
Chuck has taught at various colleges throughout Southeastern Wisconsin and spent
two years as a Trainer at a Microsoft IT academy before joining Binary Research
as a Ghost Trainer and technical resource in July of 2007.
2009Meeting Calendar
Month
Board Meeting
General Meeting
January
1/08/09
1/22/09
February
2/12/09
2/26/09
March
3/12/09
3/26/09
April
4/9/09
4/23/09
May
5/1/09
N/A
June
N/A
N/A
July
N/A
N/A
August
8/13/09
N/A
September
9/10/09
9/24/09
October
10/08/09
10/22/09
November
11/05/09
11/12/09
December
12/10/09
N/A
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Antonio Galvao is the Vice President of Value Chain - Europe, Middle East and Africa for JohnsonDiversey Inc., a leading global provider of commercial cleaning and hygiene solutions, serving customers in the lodging, food service, retail, health care and food and beverage sectors.
Antonio has more than 18 years of experience encompassing planning, logistics, sourcing, engineering, product portfolio management and marketing operations. Before moving to his current role, Antonio was focusing on improving service performance to best in class standards around the world, optimizing cost structures and leading the development of a Global Sales and Operations Planning process.
Antonio has presented in multiple seminars and Supply Chain conferences including mostly recently the MIT-Crossroads 2008 (MIT-Cambridge, MA), CSCMP 2008 (Denver, CO), Supply Chain and Logistics Forum 2007 (WTG, Jacksonville, FL). He is also the author of the "Working Green" department for the APICS magazine since June 2008.
Mr. Ellifson has over 30 years of Supply Chain experience. He has served as a Logistics Consultant to JohnsonDiversey since April, 2005 with his current role focusing on North American Warehousing. He was instrumental in the 3rd Party (Uti Logistics) start-up, the design/development/move to the new LEED Certified Warehouse (Big Box), and the consolidation of many warehouse operations. Prior to joining JD, Mr. Ellifson was with SC Johnson for 28 years and had numerous roles in Planning, Finance, Human Resources, Transportation, Warehousing, Project Management, and the assistant to the Senior Vice President of Global Manufacturing.
Chuck
has been working in the Information Technology field for almost 20 years.
His initial foray into the field was in a Help Desk environment where he spent
five years doing a combination of Customer and internal technical support in
the telecommunications arena.He then changed his focus to the role of COBOL Programmer working
on Customer billing software where he spent four years.
Deciding that people were more interesting than code, Chuck made the change to a training/instruction role. In total he has now spent eleven years as a college Instructor and Trainer in both IT topics and Mathematics. Chuck has taught at various colleges throughout Southeastern Wisconsin and spent two years as a Trainer at a Microsoft IT academy before joining Binary Research as a Ghost Trainer and technical resource in July of 2007.