Elaine is a seasoned Product Manager with 20 years of multicultural and multifunctional experience, having worked across industries such as automotive, power-sports apparel, professional coffee machines, and ITC. She has contributed to both large multinational corporations and high-tech start-ups, leading strategic initiatives that span the full product lifecycle. Her expertise includes product and process design and implementation, quality management, complex new product launches, demand forecasting, product portfolio management, strategic planning, product marketing, and managing customer and supplier relationships.

She has lived and worked in Ireland, Germany, the USA, Italy, France, and Switzerland, bringing a global perspective to her work. Elaine holds a Bachelor of Technology in Production Management from the University of Limerick, Ireland, and an Executive MBA from HEC, University of Lausanne.

Ilona Piekoszewska is a senior sourcing and procurement leader with a proven track record of building resilient supply chains across healthcare, biotech, automotive, and food industries. As Global Head of Indirect Procurement at Givaudan, she partners with multi-category organizations to optimize purchasing strategies, cost economics, and network design, driving financial, operational, and sustainability objectives.

With a data-driven and technology-enabled approach, Ilona has successfully led teams to deliver double-digit gross margin improvements, implement advanced supply chain analytics, and develop lean, scalable operating models that enhance efficiency and capacity. Recognized for her strategic leadership and results-oriented mindset, she has received multiple industry awards, including the Takeda Shine Award and the CEO Award at Shire.

Lukas is the co-founder and Managing Director of Archlet, the Swiss-based strategic sourcing software company. After studying Supply Chain Management at the renowned ETH in Zürich, Lukas was intrigued by the challenges posed by large amounts of data for modern Procurement teams. He now works relentlessly to provide customers with a seamless solution that empowers every Procurement and Sourcing Professional to drive value for their organization.

Nico has been a procurement professional for over 20 years and has led category buying  for the packaging, contract manufacturing and IT spend area's. He has worked across Europe, Asia and North America, building and developing procurement teams and their skills. He has specialised in Digital Procurement Technology as he initiated and drove the Source to Pay Digital Transformation for Procter & Gamble globally from 2014 to 2020. 

This transformation has been a huge success as the spend under management increased from 70% to 95% while creating a lot of transparency and control. It also saved about 80% of the Business Process Outsourcing costs for managing Purchase Orders and Invoices as PO's became contract or catalog based and invoices first became electronic and then touchless.

With this experience, Nico decided to start a new business in Digital Procurement with the aim to advance digital procurement and help companies achieve more value from it. 

His digital expertise is very broad, across the entire spectrum of procurement: Spend Analytics, E-sourcing, Buyer Dashboards, Supplier Dashboards, Supply Chain messaging, Contract Management, Catalog Management, Supplier Onboarding, E-invoicing and Supply Chain Financing.