Speakers

Tamra Pawloski is a dynamic and innovative leader with more than 20 years of progressive experience spanning asset management, purchasing and procurement, strategic sourcing and contracting within the corporate and professional services industries. She has proven success in negotiating, uncovering and capturing efficiencies, driving process improvement and reducing costs and risks while increasing quality.

She has been recognized for consistently training, mentoring and cultivating individuals and globally distributed teams of Commodity Managers, Analysts and others to achieve peak performance and productivity. Capable of leveraging changes in the global marketplace and creative problem solving to adapt, she can harness and standardize new cost efficiencies, savings and best practices.

Tamra is valued as a program manager with a mastery of the metrics, KPIs and drivers essential to finding and capturing efficiencies and savings across direct/indirect spend and vendor base throughout the global enterprise. She aims to build productive, collaborative, long-term relationships with internal stakeholders, suppliers and vendors to better translate annual project plans and forecasts into specific needs and requirements.

With over 30 years of global experience in procurement, finance, and supply chain, Marc brings a unique ability to connect responsible sourcing with commercial performance, driving margin improvement, cost optimization, and climate-conscious procurement practices across the food and beverage industry.

As the Chief Procurement Officer for Kerry North America, Marc is currently leading Kerry’s efforts to mitigate the financial impact of evolving U.S. trade relations and tariffs, including the implementation of alternative sourcing strategies and supplier negotiations to reduce costs for both customers and the business. Prior to joining Kerry, he served as Chief Procurement Officer at Danone North America and held senior procurement and finance roles across Europe and Asia. He began his career as an accountant and has since become a champion of supplier collaboration and breakthrough innovation. Marc is a compelling speaker on the financial levers that enable sustainable growth, covering topics such as climate-aligned sourcing, circular economy, and the evolving role of procurement in food system resilience.

Marc holds master’s degrees in Biochemistry, Business Economics, and Business Administration. Originally from Belgium, he has lived and worked across Europe, Asia, and the United States.

A strong advocate for procurement’s evolution beyond traditional savings, Fernando is passionate about building high-performing teams, leveraging data and technology, and creating strategic partnerships that improve efficiency, resilience, and long-term business performance.

Teresa is the Global Vice President of Procurement at BioAgilytix, a leading Contract Research Organization specializing in complex bioanalytical services. With more than two decades of experience driving enterprise-level sourcing strategies, supplier innovation, and global operational excellence, she is recognized for transforming procurement into a high value, data driven business partner.

In her role, Teresa leads global category management, strategic sourcing, contracting, and supplier governance across BioAgilytix’s expanding international footprint. She leads initiatives that optimize cost structures, strengthen risk management, and accelerate scientific delivery for large scale pharmaceutical and biotech clients. Her leadership is marked by a commitment to strategic alignment, cross functional collaboration, and commercial rigor, ensuring procurement directly supports BioAgilytix’s mission of advancing high quality bioanalytical science.

Teresa brings a unique blend of scientific and business expertise, holding a PhD in Chemistry and an MBA, enabling her to bridge technical complexity with commercial strategy. She has built global procurement organizations, negotiated multimillion-dollar contracts, and implemented scalable processes that support rapid growth, operational resilience, and regulatory compliance.

Known for her authentic leadership, global perspective, and ability to elevate procurement maturity, Teresa continues to shape BioAgilytix’s supplier ecosystem to meet the evolving needs of advanced therapeutics, biologics, and regulated laboratory operations.

Birchard Brooks Allen III serves as the Chief Procurement Officer for the U.S. House of Representatives. In this role, Mr. Allen leads the CAO’s team of procurement professionals, directing all strategic and operational efforts in acquisitions, purchasing, and contracting.

Mr. Allen joined the CAO in 2022, after decades of experience in procurement as a business analyst.

Mr. Allen has worked in both the public and private sectors, including Verizon, the DC Government, and the Library of Congress. At the Library, he improved communications to the House through the Congressional Research Service website redesign for the 111th Congress. Mr. Allen holds a B.A. from the American University and a J.D. from Catholic University Columbus School of Law.

Amanda Goldberg is Senior Director, Procurement Governance & Systems at Greystar, where she leads the enterprise transformation of the company’s Source-to-Settle ecosystem — spanning upstream sourcing and contracting through downstream procure-to-pay operations. With 28 years in real estate, the majority in multifamily, Amanda has spent 14 of those years at Greystar, where she began her career building the company’s supplier onboarding and compliance function from the ground up. Over the years, she has continued to evolve Greystar’s supplier compliance program and P2P operations, and established the company’s Diverse Supplier Program.

Amanda’s approach to procurement governance blends rigorous process discipline with a customer-service mindset, helping shift her organization’s reputation from “policing” to true business partnership.

She holds a degree in Accounting/Business Management from the University of Dallas, where she began her studies in Pre-Med before finding her path in business. A lifelong Texan, Amanda lives in the Dallas area. Outside of work, she’s the mother of seven, grandmother of one (with another on the way), and spends her free time traveling, gardening, reading, and on the water whenever possible.

Tom Harkness is the Senior Director of Procurement and Supply Chain at Electra, where he was brought on to build the company’s strategic procurement and supply chain function. With over 20 years of global procurement leadership at organizations including Jacobs Engineering, Orica, and Ford Motor Company, Tom has driven strategic sourcing, capital projects, and supply chain transformation across North America, Australia, and Asia-Pacific. He holds a Bachelor of Business in Logistics and Supply Chain Management from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.

Senior global strategic sourcing and procurement Leader with over 25 years of experience in diverse industries shaping structures that strengthen performance. Lead multiple organization transformations, Built capable teams, simplify decision paths, and remove operational friction so organizations can move with clarity and confidence. Generate enterprise outcomes through disciplined planning, sound strategies cross-functional alignment, and consistent execution. Known for establishing trust, steady follow-through, and sound decision-making in fast-moving environments. Strengthen readiness for operational risks by reinforcing governance across large, distributed teams. Maintain direct, practical communication to ensure alignment with business needs.