Chris Adderton is a dynamic senior management executive with a proven track record in strategic leadership, operational excellence, and business development across diverse industries. His core strengths include leveraging a unique blend of strategic vision, analytical acumen, and hands-on leadership to drive growth, improve performance, and enhance stakeholder value across organizations. Chris excels at cultivating high-performance teams and forging lasting business partnerships.

As a recognized supply chain and business transformation expert, Chris specializes in strategic growth initiatives, organizational development, and technology implementation. He brings deep industry insight to engagements across consumer-packaged goods, technology, and professional services sectors.

Doug Baker is the vice president of industry relations at FMI, The Food Industry Association, a leading trade group for the grocery sector. He assists FMI's member communities in growing and thriving in various domains, such as private brands, technology, supply chain, and asset protection. He leads the Asset Protection Council, which strives to reduce merchandise loss and establish safe and healthy stores and workplaces, as well as the Technology Leadership Council, Supply Chain Council, Private Brands Council, and cross-industry efforts focused on transparency and data accuracy. Doug has more than 35 years of experience in food retail, working with Fry's Food Stores, Kraft/Nabisco, and Federated Foods in roles related to retail operations, consumer packaged goods, and private brand creation and marketing.

Randy Boydston is Executive Director of Distribution & Logistics for Associated Wholesale Grocers (AWG), the nation's largest cooperative food wholesaler serving independently owned retailers across the United States. Over the past 10 years with AWG, he has led teams supporting operations across the company's distribution center network and has actively been involved in deploying warehouse automation. Randy brings more than 25 years of leadership experience in grocery distribution, logistics, and supply chain, including 15 years with Affiliated Foods Midwest.

Jonathan Braley is the Director of the Food and Ag-ISAC. The ISAC provides threat intelligence, analysis, and effective security practices to help food and agriculture companies detect attacks, respond to incidents, and better protect themselves. Jonathan and his team produce curated threat analyses for the sector and represent the organization to policymakers and industry stakeholders. In addition to this, he also serves as the Director of Threat Intelligence for the Information Technology-Information Sharing and Analysis Center (IT-ISAC), where he acts as the technical and analytic lead for a team supporting the world's leading technology companies.

Mike Brown is a seasoned supply chain and operations leader with deep expertise across the Kroger network, with 30 years of experience in grocery distribution, manufacturing, and transportation. His career includes 8 years with Kroger and 20 years serving as a third-party provider within the Kroger distribution network. As Senior Director of Distribution, he provides strategic and operational leadership for 9 distribution centers across the South region, overseeing approximately 6,100 direct and indirect associates. Outside of his professional career, Mike has been married for 30 years and is the proud father of three children and grandfather of four.

Laura Cyrus, senior director of industry training and outreach with Truckers Against Trafficking (TAT), has been with the organization since 2013, beginning as an intern while completing her master’s degree at the Korbel School within the University of Denver. There, she studied international human rights, completing dual specializations in forced labor and human trafficking and international administration and law.

In her current role as a senior director, Laura helps to oversee TAT’s flagship program and the staff that advance training for several sectors of the transportation industry as well as outreach efforts which include the Freedom Drivers Project mobile exhibit, the TAT Ambassador Program, and TAT’s Man-to-Man anti-demand campaign. Laura enjoys being involved in both the macro and micro aspects of running an international non-profit organization. She travels nationally to speak on behalf of TAT, enabling her to build relationships with relevant industry stakeholders and activate new partners.

Whether speaking with supply chain leaders, sustainability and CSR directors, trucking company executives, or the everyday heroes of the road (aka American truck drivers), Laura enjoys sharing her passion on the topic of anti-trafficking efforts and encouraging everyone to find the most effective way they can be a change-maker in this work.

Kathy Fulton is the Executive Director of the American Logistics Aid Network (ALAN), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that delivers logistics information, services, and expertise to enable responsible disaster relief. ALAN serves as a critical bridge between private sector logistics organizations, public sector agencies, and humanitarian responders, matching supply chain capabilities with disaster needs.

Kathy is a nationally recognized expert in humanitarian logistics and private-public supply chain coordination. She has led ALAN’s response to dozens of major disasters, developing best practices for how commercial logistics providers can rapidly and efficiently support disaster relief operations without disrupting their core business functions. 

Brad Gething became a member of the Woodpack Global staff in July 2013 and serves as Vice President of Science and Technology. Brad’s role includes participation in various standards bodies, direction and promotion of research and development, and support on other technical issues related to the wood packaging industry. He also serves as a point of contact for the Pallet Design System^® support and education. Before becoming a member of the Woodpack Global team, Brad worked at Penn State University as a post-doctoral scholar, researching issues related to wood packaging and treatment. Brad earned a MS and PhD degree in Materials from Penn State University, and a BS degree in chemical engineering from Bucknell University.

Gary Kinneer is Director of Supply Chain at Weis Markets, Inc. Gary works collaboratively with the Weis Market’s distribution and transportation teams as well as wholesale, dedicated and third-party carriers, and various associated industry and CPG partners focusing on improving supply chain efficiencies, increasing associated revenue, and mitigating associated costs. Gary has extensive supermarket industry experience, prior to his current role Gary held various leadership positions in Store Operations.  Gary received a BS in Business Management from Pennsylvania State University in State College, PA.  He currently resides in Camp Hill, PA with his wife Katrina, they have one daughter.

Petr Lizner is the Director of Strategy & Growth at Rohlik Group, one of Europe’s leading online grocery platforms. Over his tenure, he has held multiple roles spanning new market expansion, FP&A, fundraising, M&A, and the development of new revenue streams.

During his four years at the company, Petr has played a key part in driving strategic growth. In his various roles he has supported Rohlik’s scale-up from approximately $300 million in revenue to over $1.7 billion. The business ranks among the fastest-growing online grocers in Europe, delivering annual growth exceeding 30% year-on-year in it’s current scale.

Prior to joining Rohlik Group, Petr held strategy and finance roles at PwC’s consulting practice and PepsiCo.

Tommy McCartin is a principal economist and head of the metals team within the S&P Global Market Intelligence Pricing and Purchasing Service. He produces the team’s steel sector analysis and forecasts for the Americas. Tommy joined the Pricing and Purchasing team in 2018, previously covering the electronics, building materials, machinery and energy sectors. He received his bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Maryland and his master’s in international economics from American University. Before joining S&P Global (then IHS Markit), he worked as a regional economist at Moody’s Analytics. 

Patrick McManus is an experienced customer service and supply chain operations leader with a demonstrated history of making an impact in a complex business environment. He currently serves as the Senior Director of Customer Service and Order Management at The Cola-Cola Company.

Kevin is the Vice President of Supply Chain at Red Gold the largest family owned canned tomato manufacturer in America. Red Gold is all about forging strong partnerships with family farms across Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio to create the world's best tomato -based products! Red Gold’s delicious creations reach tables in the U.S. and 16 other countries, serving customers through retail, foodservice, private brand, and club channels. With more than 34 years of experience in the food industry, Kevin has driven supply chain success for iconic brands such as Girl Scout Cookies, Entenmann’s, and Thomas’ English Muffins. He also recently completed his term as chairman of the Railroad - Shipper Transportation Advisory Council for the Surface Transportation Board. Kevin holds an MBA from Purdue’s Daniels School of Business and is currently pursuing his Doctorate at Purdue Polytechnic, focusing his research on Supply Chain Resilience through the lens of Complex Adaptive Systems.

Gerard Nixon is Senior Vice President of Supply Chain at KeHE, where he leads all direct and indirect procurement functions. With more than 20 years of leadership experience across supply chain, distribution, sales, and marketing, he has championed initiatives that improve operational efficiency, advance forecasting and analytics capabilities, and drive business transformation. His background spans leadership roles with US Foods, Target, and AT&T, as well as service in the U.S. Army, giving him a unique perspective on how emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, are reshaping the future of supply chain management.

Gerard holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the United States Military Academy at West Point and an MBA in Finance from Southern Methodist University.

Tracey Noffke joined Kimberly-Clark in 1993 and has over 25 years of growing up in the CPG industry. Tracey is the Senior Director of Customer Logistics. In her current role, she leads the U.S. and Canada Consumer and B2B Customer Logistics Strategies and Service organization and is responsible for customer facing supply chain operations and strategic initiatives. Tracey has a Bachelor of Science in Business Management from the University of Platteville and holds a Master of Arts in Communication from the University of Stevens Point, Wisconsin.

Tim Regnier has led retail/operations tech startups and has been innovating for 15 years. He founded Smart Access to help Distribution Centers Execute Standards at the highest level and scale. Distribution leaders trust him for his perspective on the future of work and industry, including how to unlock labor supply, activate worker productivity, and provide decent work for all.

As director at KSi, Sebastian brings over a decade of experience developing and implementing customized supply chain technology solutions and practices that support our client’s business strategies. He advises KSi's clients by identifying and implementing the most profit efficient solutions that will maximize output and minimize cost by the identification and modernization of their supply chain practices.

Sebastian leads a team of analysts and designers to devise and design the highest quality data driven process analysis strategies and solutions available in the industry today. These customized solutions provide KSi's clients with the specific solutions, be it conventional, hybrid or fully automated, that is right for them.

After graduating from Kansas State University with a bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Molly spent 14 years working at Yellow Freight as a field engineer and an Operations Planning Manager. In 2014, she joined Associated Wholesale Grocers as an Industrial Engineer focusing on transportation functions.