Prior Roles

• 25 years’ experience in Global Planning and S&OP having served in multiple leadership roles at:
  • Element Solutions/MacDermid Alpha
  • Cardinal Health,
  • Honeywell
  • Hasbro
• Lori’s background also includes several complex multi system conversions into a single forecasting software solution

Education

• MBA with a focus on Logistics, Planning and Supply Chain Management from Bryant University

Industry Involvement

• IBF Certified Professional

With over 20 years of experience in the demand planning and supply chain fields, James Bleyer has built and grown world-class teams with organizations such as Philips Consumer Lifestyles, Benjamin Moore Pain, and Tempur-Sealy. He has led turn-around initiatives in many organizations and implemented formal demand planning and supply chain teams in others. He is currently Director of Planning and Procurement at Kitchen Cabinet Distributors, James is a graduate of the State University of New York – Rockland.

Aaron is the Director of supply chain planning for the global plumbing group of Men where he leads the supply chain planning team of over 35 managers and associates. His team’s responsibilities span from Demand Management, Global Inventory and Capacity Planning, Master Scheduling, Materials Planning, and the end to end Global Sales & Operations Planning Process. He began his education at The Ohio State University and went on to get his MBA at Bellarmine University. Since then he has had a rich career as a demand manager and director designing and deploying demand planning processes, developing teams, and providing leadership.

Mr. Breault is the Managing Director of LifeWork Search, a Management Recruiting firm. Jason has worked with leading soft goods, hard goods, and food and beverage companies—ranging in size from $50 million to $20 billion—to identify top talent in areas like demand planning, supply planning, operations planning, production planning, and S&OP. He is a board member of the New England chapter of IBF. He has also spoken at several APICS and IBF events and appeared in several SupplyChainBrain.com videos on the subject of Talent Management. Jason spent more than five years at AMR Research in Boston (now Gartner), a leading research and advisory organization focusing on the supply chain best practices and applications being leveraged to help cut costs and increase revenues.

Prior Roles

• Escalade Sports: Director of Demand Planning
• Berry Plastics: Director of Demand Planning
• Tempura Sealy International: Director of Demand Planning & S&OP

Industry Involvement

• Frequent speaker and panelist for many executive forums and professional conferences
• Written numerous articles in publications including The Journal of Business Forecasting and APICS Magazine
• Author of the books Cultural Cycles and Predictive Analytics for Business Forecasting & Planning

Award

• IBF Excellence in Business Forecasting & Planning

Certification

• IBF Advanced Certified Professional Forecaster (ACPF)