Steve Statler is a writer, public speaker, and consultant working in the beacon ecosystem. 

He is also the SVP of Consulting, Business Development and Marketing at Wiliot, a semiconductor manufacturer developing a Bluetooth chip that powers itself by harvesting radio frequency energy that is being embedded into consumer-packaged goods and packaging. He trains and advises companies deploying Bluetooth beacon technology and is a thought leader in the "beacosystem" community.

Previously he was the Senior Director for Strategy and Solutions Management at Qualcomm's Retail Solutions Division, helping to incubate Gimbal, one of the leading Bluetooth beacons in the market.

In this episode, Stephen talks about the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything as it relates to how the Internet of Things (IoT) can revolutionize Supply Chain Management.

042 - Stephen Statler

Marc de Wit is a Director at Circle Economy, an impact organisation that guides businesses, cities, and nations towards adoption of a circular system. Marc is a recognized thought-leader on implementation of the circular economy. In 2018 he initiated the Circularity Gap Report: an annual yardstick for the circular state of the global economy. He brings nearly 15 years of strategy and implementation experience in advising companies and governments in developing circular strategies and implementing circular solutions.

In this episode, Marc de Wit talks about the circular economy and the journey Circle Economy takes to double circularity in global supply chains in the next decade.

043 - Marc de Wit - The Circular Economy

Marc de Wit is a Director at Circle Economy, an impact organisation that guides businesses, cities, and nations towards adoption of a circular system. Marc is a recognized thought-leader on implementation of the circular economy. In 2018 he initiated the Circularity Gap Report: an annual yardstick for the circular state of the global economy¬. He brings nearly 15 years of strategy and implementation experience in advising companies and governments in developing circular strategies and implementing circular solutions.

Kyle Ritchie is the sustainable design lead at CannonDesign, a multi-disciplinary firm that creates better built environments. He is an adjunct professor at Boston Architectural College, and founder of the Circular Economy Studio, and he partnered with Eric Corey Freed to write “Circular Economy for Dummies”.

Lisa Morales-Hellebo, a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, is currently co-founder of The Worldwide Supply Chain Federation, an organization that is changing how supply chain professionals learn about, collaborate, and adopt supply chain innovation around the world. She is also co-founder and general partner of REFASHIOND Ventures — an NYC-based, early-stage supply chain technology venture fund that invests in start-ups refashioning global supply chains. Lisa has been featured in numerous publications and media outlets and is profiled in the bestselling book; Disrupters: Success Strategies from Women Who Break the Mold. A distinguished speaker Lisa has keynoted numerous events and participates in panels covering technology, supply chain, logistics, venture capital, fashion tech, women in tech, diversity, and more.

On episode 44 of Supply Chain Next, Marc de Wit, Kyle Ritchie, and Lisa Morales-Hellebo have a round table discussion for International Supply Chain Day (Jun 4)

044 - Marc De Wit, Kyle Ritchie, Lisa Morales-Hellebo - International Supply Chain Day Round Table

Ryan Hunt is a physicist and bioengineer with degrees from the University of Georgia. Ryan has a passion for circular technologies including algae, photosynthesis, bioconversion and biopolymer manufacturing. Ryan co-founded ALGIX that creates sustainable technologies for environmental restoration and biomaterials under the BLOOM brand. His team collaborates with government and corporate partners for cleaning freshwater ecosystems and transforming municipal, industrial and agricultural waste products into renewable plant biomass and bioproducts.
•	On episode 45 of Supply Chain Next, Ryan W. Hunt talks with host Richard Donaldson about:
•	The background of Bloom and Algae X
•	The high-level process of replacing oil/petroleum with algae biomass
•	His background and education at University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia
•	The interest held in quantum mechanics, nano technology, physics, and electromagnetics
•	Working as an undergrad in bio and ag engineering
•	Being inspired by his home aquariums to investigate algae based fuels
•	The challenge of scaling algae-based fuels while making it price competitive
•	Polymer replacement in apparel and its durability
•	Setting up manufacturing centers in Asia
•	Inspiration from Elon Musk’s forward thinking
•	Work in India currently mixing bio-oil with crude
•	How Bloom is injecting material into the supply chain while sequestering Co2 from the atmosphere
•	Seaweed and soybeans used in early research in 2009
•	Interest from packaging companies in large-scale production
•	Jumping in feet-first in 2014 with a $12 million dollar raise and a factory
•	Importance of ESG reporting and measurements to companies in investment
•	Entry into 3D printing using algae-based filament

045 - Ryan W Hunt - Algae and Renewable Materials in the Circle Economy

Tiffanie Stanard is known for following all her passions – an anomaly in many sorts because she is a techie, a creative, media personality/producer & an award-winning entrepreneur.

Tiffanie has been named a U.S. Delegate for the Global Entrepreneurship Congress, One of the 15 Women Changing the Face of Technology by Philadelphia Business Journal, Innovator of the Year, One of the Top 100 Women Visionary Leaders to Watch by Innov8tiv Magazine, among many more honors (see below). Stanard founded Prestige Concepts (PC) over ten years ago – formerly an award-winning brand enhancement agency. We focused on bridging the gap between clients and customers with technology solutions. Expertise: Branding, Marketing, Business Development, Vendor Management/Partnerships, Technology.

Stanard is the Founder/CEO of Stimulus, a relationship intelligence SaaS platform that uses data and analytics to help companies (of all sizes and industries) make better purchasing decisions. Our team is backed by amazing investors including Google for Startups, Darco Capital, Juno Capital, the City of Philadelphia and more – with growing support from our partners including Microsoft.

During years’ of working with non-profit organizations, Stanard created ConTechs, Connect + Tech = Community program, teaching technology and business skills to urban communities through a specialized curriculum. To date, ConTechs has provided over 5,000 hours of training partnering with local and national partners.

In addition to serving on boards and committees, Tiffanie has moderated and participated in numerous events from Keynote Speaker to Brand Ambassador, discussing entrepreneurship, branding, diversity, technology, community outreach and more. Because of years’ of working in the entertainment industry, Stanard was hired to work with Radio One, Philadelphia as a host and radio show producer for Philly Speaks. The radio show is an informative outlet for Philadelphia residents to discuss important topics.

Stanard became a Brand Ambassador/Keynote Speaker for Microsoft’s STEM program, a national event organized in over 10 cities. Stanard’s keynote speech, “Find Your Voice with Technology” explores five steps for all ages to become builders of innovation.

In episode 046, Tiffanie talks with Richard about:
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- How Tiffanie fell into supply chain

- Her love of relationship management that developed

- The development of Tiffanie’s entrepreneurial bent through her high school business program

- Career path shift from payroll to vendor management

- Tiffanie’s decision to create a business versus building her own company and brand

- Mixing her love of radio and advertisement and experience as producer and host at Philly Speaks on 100.3FM

- The importance of business and leadership influencing in today’s marketplace

- Stimulus Inc.’s start, and identifying the intersection of vendor, buyer, and data insights to create relationship building tools, and a proprietary score, that help companies make the best sourcing and purchasing decisions

- Global vendor management and supplier diversity over the long term to increase supply chain resiliency

- Migration of B2B commerce from in-person to e-commerce platforms and using data points to map the consumer experience in that space

- Pitfalls of creating a vendor relationship with an unverified company and Tiffanie’s vision of Stimulus as a type of due diligence platform to ensure that a material source is a best fit

- How Stimulus fits into the Circular Economy while aiding the capital sustainability of organizations

- Tiffanie’s Post-COVID actives and focus on conferences to build the Stimulus brand and her mission to make Supply Chain au courant as an industry

- Stimulus Inc.’s successful seed round raising $2.5MM and a positive outlook for 2023

046 - Tiffanie Stanard - Data-driven Supply Chain Relationship Management

CHARLIE PESTI is the world’s best PUBLICIST of Shipping, Supply Chain, and Logistics Technologies. Focused on the supply chain and logistics sectors, he and his shop pride themselves on being the only premier, full-service PR, and Marketing agency in the space. They are a global team of passionate and specialized professionals helping clients with Brand Recognition, Media and Public Relations, Content Marketing, Social Media, Web Traffic, and Lead Generation.

Charlie Pesti - CMO (Chief Make-It-Happen Officer) at CHARLIE PESTI

https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlie-pesti-6088718/
https://www.pesti.io/

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Priyanka Ann Saini - Managing Director at CHARLIE PESTI
https://www.linkedin.com/in/priyankaannsaini/

A marketing, content and PR aficionado, Priyanka has worn many hats since the beginning of her 15-year career. Her foray into the professional space began with her love for writing. She has authored children’s books and penned a motivational biography series to encourage reading among young adults under Shree Publications. She has worked with publishing giants like The Hindu on a limited-edition luxury bridal magazine that enabled her to connect with Richard Branson’s PR team as well as that of the Burj-Al-Arab. She has worked with the National Institute of Information Technology (NIIT) to develop Teacher Learning Programs (TLPs) in the humanities domain and was on the Editorial Board of the prestigious Defense Services Staff College (DSSC), Wellington, India. Additionally, she briefly worked with The Princeton Review as a Mentor and Counsellor to prospective MBA and Ph.D. students, helping them to understand their strengths, realize their goals and get into their dream universities, many of which were Ivy League Colleges.


In this episode, Charlie and Priyanka talk with Richard about:

•	Marketing and advertising in the Supply Chain sphere
•	Charlie’s work with a German logistics technology company, and his work setting up business in Europe
•	Priyanka’s transition from Journalism to Communications at Charlie Pesti
•	The risks of entrepreneurship and strategies to foster innovation
•	Logistics/SCM industry reluctance to change and the desire to bring change to the space for the better of the industry
•	Charlie Pesti being at the forefront and a proxy for everything that's going on and technology adoption in supply chain
•	Technology Supply Chain being all the rage with the new wave of professionals coming into the industry
•	The importance of solving problems by giving clients confidence backed by knowledge, experience, and research
•	Charlie’s approach to marketing B2B vs B2C
•	Supply Chain tech production positioning strategies
•	Translating those position strategies into content strategies
•	Why SCM and Logistics companies need to focus on collaboration, operations, integrations, to make things work with regards to marketing their product or service in 2022 and beyond
•	What Charlie and Priyanka see as the current and incoming industry megatrends
•	One of the positives coming out of the COVID pandemic is that Supply Chain has hit the mainstream media and the headlines
•	How this has made Supply Chain sexy for the new generation of potential professionals

047 – Charlie Pesti – Supply Chain & Logistics Marketing & PR

Fostering a lifelong commitment to growth and excellence in his personal and professional endeavors, at fifteen years old Jason Azevedo began his first manufacturing company with $600. As a nationally-ranked wrestler during the start of his entrepreneurial journey, Jason used his spare time to study business and hand-built most of the early robotic manufacturing machinery used by his business. Resourceful, capable and self-taught, to this day Jason still uses these early skills to help his employees build, maintain, and repair virtually any piece of equipment used in production. 

Even while rapidly scaling his companies, Jason never lost sight of the things that were important to himself, his family, the people he employs and the world at large. At nineteen he’d founded one of the first large Breast Cancer charities, “Goals for a Cure,” a nationwide, top ten ranked non-profit soccer tournament that attracts teams from countries across the globe. Throughout his career, Jason has worked on the boards of several prominent causes including a nationally-recognized non-profit group focused on upward growth with cash reserves in the millions, and helped successfully pull one of the top five Christmas events in the country out of bankruptcy. 

Jason has lead over 2000 employees and runs multiple companies offering clients a wide range of industrial manufacturing services including metalworks, plastics, electronics, and packaging options. Winner of multiple international product awards and no stranger to philanthropy, Jason works closely with chemical companies in developing safer, more environmentally-friendly industrial processes.

With 200+ million in career revenue, Jason and his teams have moved or rearranged the majority of his production facilities from China to the USA in a profitable manner, and he is working to acquire and build additional manufacturing companies throughout the United States. Having founded and scaled dozens of large companies, Jason is committed to transferring 100% of the ownership of these new acquisitions to the employees of those businesses in due time.


Jason Azevedo, CSO at MRCA
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-azevedo-6ab41426/
https://www.instagram.com/jasonazevedomrca/


MRCA
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https://www.linkedin.com/company/mrca1/
https://mrca.net/

MRCA is a venture capital firm who's aim is to revitalize American companies through increased employee wellness, enhancements in process, machinery, energy, and communication.


In this episode of Supply Chain Next Podcast, Host Richard Donaldson speaks with venture capitalist, entrepreneur, and business leadership veteran Jason Azevedo about:
•	Jason’s origin story in the world of manufacturing 
•	How manufacturing moved away from the US
•	When manufacturing started getting distributed out to lower wage economies, that’s when the world turned into a global economy
•	How circularity has an impact on the speed at which manufacturing starts to happen
•	How to make manufacturing more collaborative
•	What’s he believes is going to happen to manufacturing
•	Amazon now being seen as a supply chain company
•	Whether the pace of change changes the SCM equation or if the rate of change in manufacturing changes it

048 – Jason Azevedo – Made In America

Jason is co-founder and CEO of Shipium where he guides the company’s vision towards becoming the world’s best supply chain technology platform for ecommerce and retail. Prior to founding Shipium, he spent 19 years at Amazon as VP of Retail Systems and VP of Forecasting & Supply Chain. While there, he owned the global software and operations group that powered Prime, Subscribe & Save and Pricing. He is a University of Washington grad, and an engineer at heart who loves solving complex scaling problems.

Shipium makes fast and cheap shipping possible by coordinating previously disconnected steps of the supply chain through an API-first platform deeply integrated into existing systems.

Jason Murray, CEO & Co-Founder, Shipium • 19-year ex-Amazon VP
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-shipium/
https://www.shipium.com/

In episode 49, Jason Murray talks to Richard about:

0:02 : Meet Jason Murray. 
3:55 : How did Jeff Bezos go from bookselling to ecommerce?
9:09 : What was the key to success in digitization of the supply chain?
14:13 : What are the lessons that supply chain will be taught on the next 10 or 20 years?
20:46 : The importance of data in the ecommerce experience.
26:11 : How the world saw Amazon transfer from books to ecommerce underneath the covers.
32:18 : The psychology of Prime members and pricing.
39:44 : The three steps of the manufacturing sales process.
46:48 : What do you see disruptively in the next five to seven years that may or may not be a part of this disruption?
53:52 : What’s coming up for Shipium in the next year?

049 - Jason Murray - eCommerce & the Digital Supply Chain

In this insightful episode of "Supply Chain Next," host Richard Donaldson engages with Mike Robinson, a visionary in the retail and logistics sector.

Mike shares his diverse career trajectory, starting from his early days at Johnson & Johnson in Pennsylvania, moving through significant roles at Price Waterhouse, and finally delving into the world of supply chain and logistics.

The episode delves into Mike's unique experiences, including his pivotal role in digital transformation at Macy's, where he led a tenfold revenue growth and established Macys.com as a leading digital retailer. His journey also includes impactful stints at Gap and his current influential position at The Eighth Notch (T8N), focusing on sustainable logistics solutions.

Throughout the conversation, Mike emphasizes the importance of AI in retail, discussing how it enhances customer experiences and drives efficiency. The discussion also covers his approach to leadership, treating technologists with empathy to unlock innovation.

As the episode progresses, Mike and Richard explore the challenges and opportunities in implementing technology across various industries, particularly focusing on AI's role in optimizing delivery schedules and the potential of circular economy practices in supply chain management.

The episode concludes with Mike's insights on entrepreneurship, the value of experience in the startup ecosystem, and his vision for the future of retail and supply chain management.

https://t8notch.com/

Mike Robinson - Industry Vertical Advisor, Retail and Consumer Goods; Head of Retail Operations, The Eighth Notch
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-robinson/

065 - Mike Robinson - Navigating the Future of Retail with AI and Green Initiatives

Since the 1980s Bill Marrin has been one of supply chain’s most important thinkers. He has worked for innovative start ups as well as Eastman Kodak, and has worked closely with companies like Apple and Adobe to help improve product delivery as the print and publishing industry adopted networked services in the 1990s. As Bill says, “We were doing cloud before cloud computing was cool.”

In 2007, Bill joined World 50, an invitation-only peer organization that provides a forum for C-level executives at the world’s top companies to exchange ideas in pursuit of growth. The supply chain subgroup, Supply Chain 50, was started by Bill.

Connect with Bill on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bill-marrin/

⏲️Time Stamped Show Notes:
00:00 – Richard's introduction to today's show and Supply Chain Next
02:00 – Bill's background as a supply chain professional  
05:30 – The economic similarities between the 1980's and today 
07:00 – What Bill learned from the dot-com crash
10:00 – Why supply chain wasn't integrated within the leadership of organizations until recently
13:00 – How the Supply50 group has evolved over the years 
15:00 – What makes supply chain special to Bill
18:30 – How supply chain priorities have shifted toward innovation over the years
21:00 – Why the roles of supply chain professionals have expanded over time 
24:30 – How Bill defines the digitization of supply chain
29:30 – The biggest factor stopping businesses from adopting digital supply chain practices
33:00 – Why supply chain functions are very similar across industries 
36:00 – The security and data challenges large organizations face today
39:00 – How businesses should think about data science within the supply chain context
43:00 – Why companies struggle with the intake of accurate asset data
47:30 – Where Bill sees a massive opportunity in the supply chain of retail
50:00 – Why Bill thinks fast moving businesses will continue to win long-term
55:00 – The reason legacy workforces are holding supply chain organizations back
58:00 – How leaders can build succesful teams in 2019 and beyond

001 - Bill Marrin

Geoffrey Parker is a scholar whose work focuses on distributed innovation, energy markets, and the economics of information. He co-developed the theory of two-sided markets with Marshall Van Alstyne.

His current research includes studies of platform business strategy, data governance, and technical/economic systems to integrate distributed energy resources.

Parker is Professor of Engineering and Director, Master of Engineering Management, (MEM) Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College, the first national research university to graduate a class of engineers with more women than men. He has set the Thayer School of Engineering apart with the introduction of Data Analytics and Platform Design classes, emphasizing the business aspects of engineering and giving engineers the background they need to be business innovators and entrepreneurs. Parker is part of a unique culture that is breaking gender barriers.

Parker is also a Faculty Fellow at MIT and the MIT Center for Digital Business. Parker is co-author of the book Platform Revolution, which was included among the 16 must-read business books for 2016 by Forbes.

004 - Geoffrey Parker

Supply Chain Next is a podcast series focused on the digitization of the enterprise supply chain. This show, hosted by Richard Donaldson, investigates the next steps for supply chain, both for the supply chain organization within enterprises and the supply chain professional. 

We dive into the tectonic shifts happening today for supply chain organizations, as they begin to embrace technology to optimize, create efficiencies, drive lower costs, and improve margins. We aim to understand what these changes really mean, not only for the organizations and leaders with in them, but also what does takes to be relevant in supply chain over the next 10 years.

We are sitting upon one of the biggest economic tsunamis to come online since the internet itself. How will supply chain organizations use this opportunity to dramatically change the landscape? Supply Chain Next is here to better understand just that.