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The Power of Partnership: Advancing Your Firm Through Strategic Alliances

 

November 21, 2013
11:15 AM - 1:30 PM
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The Phoenix
812 Race Street
Cincinnati, OH 45202
http://www.thephx.com/directions/
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Thanks for your interest in our program, but this event is sold out.  Please email Jennifer Sebranek at [email protected] to be placed on the waiting list.

Join Greater Cincinnati SMPS to hear from this distinguished panel as they discuss their organizations’ business case for doing business with diverse/small firms (MBE/WBE/8a/SDVOB).

Attendees will walk away from this event having a clear understanding why these companies encourage strategic alliances/teaming from suppliers. Panelists will share why forming strategic alliances with diverse businesses is an effective strategy to win work. Examples of how strategic alliances and teaming have added value to the supply chain will be discussed.

Panel:

Pamela Coleman Brailsford
Senior Director of Supplier Diversity & Sustainability
Cintas Corporation
Bio

 

 Dwain Carver
Associate Director, Corporate Supplier Diversity
Procter & Gamble
Bio

 

 Tom Guerin
Associate Vice President & Director of Purchasing & Material Management Services
University of Cincinnati
Bio

 

David Hess
Assistant Director, Office of Contracting Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center
Department of Energy
Bio

 

John Munson
Manager, Supplier Diversity – Purchasing
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America
Bio

 

 Moderated by:

Carl Satterwhite
President
RCF Group
Bio

 

 

Agenda:

11:15 – 11:30 – Registration
11:30 – 11:50 – Announcements & Lunch
11:50 – 1:00 – Program
1:00 – 1:30 – Networking

 

Program Sponsors:

Please note the new location for this event - The Phoenix in downtown Cincinnati. Directions are attached. There is a city owned garage, The Garfield Place Garage, located on Ninth Street between Vine and Race Streets directly next to the Phoenix.

 For any questions on this program, please contact Jennifer Sebranek @ [email protected] or 513.241.8700.

Additional Program Sponsorships are available. Contact: Nikki Kelley @ [email protected].

Tickets

$40.00 Greater Cincinnati SMPS Member

$65.00 Non Member

$55.00 Partnering Organizations (ACI, ABC, NAWIC, SDA, ASPE)

$40.00 Current Members of Another SMPS Chapter

$75.00 Walk-in

$40.00 Certified MBE/WBE/8a/SDVOB