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THE SOURCE
FOR  PURCHASING

 

     

Workshop EIPM / MPI
17th October 2007
  

on the EIPM Campus Archamps France

 


From  8.30 to 17.30
 

Guest Speakers

 

 
 
 Alain Darribau Director, Marketing Operations of Bristol-Myers Squibb Europe Middle East & Africa
  Since 2006, he is Director, Marketing Operations of Bristol-Myers Squibb Europe Middle East & Africa after 4 years as Director, Strategic Sourcing for the same group.
He has led international positions on sourcing and supply chain in various industries and cutting-edge markets. Strong business qualifications with an impressive track record of 18 years of hands-on experience in strategic sourcing & supply chain, business unit development, mergers, six sigma and BtoB strategies.
He has spoken at numerous European venues, presenting a wide range of topics relating to sourcing and marketing.
Alain Darribau, 41 y.o. holds MSc in IT sciences and a MBA in Sourcing
Management.
 
 Joyce Dogniez, CMM, Director of Operations, EMEA MPI (Meeting Professionnals  International)
  Joyce joined  the  MPI European office in  August 2005 as Manager of Chapter Relations and Development. In July 2006, she was promoted to the position of  Director of  European  Operations and in  May 2007 her responsibilities were extended to include not only Europe but also the Middle East and Africa.
Joyce started  her  career in 1997 at Lease Plan Belgium in the key account department and  then moved to  Toyota  Motor  Europe,  where  she  was  a  Meeting  Planner  but  also  had responsibilities for  monitoring and developing the  Fleet  Sales  in Europe. After three and a half  successful years with Toyota Motor Europe, Joyce joined the European Private Equity and Venture 
Capital Association (EVCA) as a Conference Planner. While working at EVCA Joyce got involved with MPI.
She then briefly worked for AGS as an Association Planner and Liberty Incentives and Congresses, as their Sales and Marketing Director.
Joyce was nominated Planner of the Year by the Belgian Chapter in 2005 and became the President-Elect of the Chapter in the same year.
Joyce has a bachelor degree in Translator – Interpreter obtained in Brussels in 1996. She speaks Dutch, French, English, Spanish and German and has a basic knowledge of Italian. She passed her CMM in December 2003.
 
 Bernard Gracia, Director of EIPM
  In 1976, Bernard GRACIA collaborated in the launching of one of the first post-graduate programme in Purchasing in the world (M.A.I – Master Industrial Purchasing for the Bordeaux Business School).
As Director of this post-graduate programme, Bernard GRACIA developed M.A.I Diploma as a market standard in France.
As director of MAI  (Master programme in Industrial Purchasing) in Bordeaux in the 80’s, Bernard developed an important network of Purchasing  Managers  and positioned the MAI Diploma as market standard in France
In 1990, he gathered companies such as Aerospatiale, Alcatel, Bull, Nokia, Pechiney, Philips and Renault associated with the European
 
 
Union to found  the European Institute of Purchasing Management. (EIPM)
As director of EIPM, heaunched the first  MBA programme specialised in  Purchasing Management in  Europe on  December 1991 and the first  European Roundtable for Senior Executives in 1993.
Bernard GRACIA acts mainly in consulting strategy, training engineering for multinational companies such as DuPont, Alcan, Bayer, Volvo, …
He also gives courses and develops research activities for companies mainly on competences and excellence model.
 
 Birgit Roeterdink, CMM Director Global Travel Procurement NV Organon
 

After studying at the Dutch Scientific  Institute for  Tourism and Leisure, she worked with  various  company’s within the tourism industry . In 1985 she started working as a meeting planner for NV Organon, a pharmaceutical company. Combined meeting management with travel management and became Guest Relations & Travel Manager, responsible for the travel and  conference services, inhouse meeting rooms, exhibitions and tours around the company. Presently she is the Director Global Travel Procurement, responsible globally for strategic

 
 
procurement with regards to travel and meetings.
She is a member of MPI, served a in the Educational Committee in the Netherlands,has been president of the Dutch chapter and a member of the European Council, presently member of the Corporate Circle of Excellence. 
 
 Sebastien Tondeur, CEO, Corporate Division  MCI - HQ Office
  Education [ 2006-2009 ] MIT Boston, MA
Master – EO/MIT Entrepreneurial Masters Program
Formerly known as BOG (The Birhting of a Giant) from Entrepreneur’s Organization
[ 2001-2002 ] Northeastern University Boston, MA
MBA – Master in Business Administration
[ 1994-1996 ] Northeastern University Boston, MA
BSBA Finance and International Business
Professional experience [ 1998-Today ] MCI HQ-Geneva, Switzerland CEO, Corporate Division (most recent)   Responsibilities cover areas
such as business planning, financial management, client management and development, team . management and development, marketing, branding and communication  strategy.
Speaking and publications [ 2003-2007 ] Internationally Topics covered included: Measurement & ROI, M&A, Trends in Events, Experiential Marketing, the Procurement Function, Entrepreneurship
Speaking engagements at IMEX, EIBTM, MPI PEC-E, SITE, ESNEP, Universities, World of Events, and other key meetings industry events,
Publications in MIT, Expo Data, CIM, The MP, ICCA online and other key meetings industry publications (off and on line).
Professional memberships MPI (International Board of Director 2007/2008 / European Council President 2006/2007), SITE (Founder and Chair of Young Leader Program 05-07), ISES, YEO (Learning Chair)
     
     
 
 


For more information, please contact:
Natalia Savitcaia nsavitcaia@eipm.org 
 Tel. : +33 (0) 4 50 31 56 82