ARKESTRO OPTIMAL '25

MAIN STAGE SPEAKERS

James Bracken

Chief Financial Officer
Zurich North America

Scott Chepow

Partner
The Gap Partnership 

James Cuff Optimal '25 Main Stage Speaker

James Cuff

Director, Indirect Sourcing
Crown Holdings Inc.

Kate Denissova

Senior Director, Procurement & P2P Advisory
The Hackett Group

Kevin Farjallah

Director
Plug and Play

Joshua Flowers

Senior Manager, SCM IT Category Management
Chevron

Claire Gauthier

Global Energy & Utilities Leader, EVP
Capgemini

Jeff Immelt

Venture Partner, NEA + Former Chairman & CEO
General Electric (GE)

Mark Kaczynski

CFO, Nissan Americas & SVP of Information Technology
for Nissan Americas

Nitin Krishnakumar

Head of Digital, Data & Strategy, Sourcing & Procurement
JLL

Magnus Lundgren

Chief Procurement Officer,
Solventum

Thomas Maher

Director Supply Chain
Executive Consortium
Arizona State + Former SVP of Dell

Catherine Morejon-Garcia

Sr. Supplier Relationship Manager, MRO and Logistics & Distribution
W. R. Grace

Michael Novello

VP, Global Supply Chain
Koch Engineered Solutions
(KES)

Michael Raphael

Chief Procurement Officer
JLL

Ron Sasaki

VP, Oil & Gas and Decarbonization
Darcy Partners

Matt Saunders

Director, Supply Chain
Next Decade

Michael Shin

CSCO
Trinity Rail Industries

Rob DeSantis

CEO & Co-Founder
Arkestro

Edmund Zagorin

CSO & Co-Founder
Arkestro

Ben Leiken

Chief Technology Officer
Arkestro

Greg Cruz

Chief Customer Officer
Arkestro

Stuart Gold

SVP Marketing
Arkestro

William 
Seagrave

SVP Product Solutions
Arkestro

Bob Van Leeuwen

VP, Product Management 
Arkestro