Bringing over 20 years of blended professional experience, Cheryl D’Cruz-Young spent the first half of her career in global supply chain management working and living in London and Paris before moving to New York. Her natural bias towards collaboration meant that she was regularly seconded to recruit, build and develop globally diverse teams; leading the definition through to execution of value enhancing local, national and global procurement & supply chain strategies across all spend management categories for the enterprises at which she worked.

Previously she established and led the procurement & supply chain practice for a boutique, diversity focused firm, where for over ten years she successfully placed global and national functional executives in C-Suite roles.

Delivering results for clients

• Working within the Supply Chain & Operations Centre of Expertise, Cheryl D’Cruz-Young partners with clients across markets to understand their ESG technical and leadership gaps and leverage the global platform at KF to devise custom-made solutions.
• She is a founding partner of Global Industrial Market Purpose Through People – where her focus is to provide ESG solutions to assist her clients accelerate towards their goals.
• Prior to her current role, she worked in close collaboration with procurement and operations leaders to digitize their end-to-end value chains.

Academic and Professional background
Mrs. D’Cruz-Young holds a Master of Arts in Financial Economics from The University of Dundee, Scotland. She is a member of the Institute of Supply Management and an active member of several international professional organizations supporting procurement & supply chain and data science.

Andrew Lowe is a Senior Client Partner at Korn Ferry, and Sustainability & Corporate Affairs lead for EMEA. He partners with clients – Corporate, Financial Services, Investor, NGO – across the talent spectrum; strategic acquisition, leadership development, organizational strategy, culture transformation, and assessment/succession planning.

Andrew has particular expertise in Sustainable Finance, ESG, Chief Sustainability Officers (CSO’s), and leadership in Corporate Affairs & Communications and Investor Relations. He has successfully worked with global, European and UK clients across all industry sectors, with recent experience in Energy, Healthcare, FMCG, Financial Services, Manufacturing and Technology.

Prior to joining the firm Andrew worked for a leading European search & selection boutique, where he specialized in financial services.

This followed a six year career in the British Army as an officer in the Corps of Royal Engineers, having commissioned from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.

Andrew has a bachelor of sciences degree in Geology from Queen’s University Belfast.

He is also certified in via EDGE Learning Agility and is a PRINCE 2 Project Management Practitioner.

Max Ioffe is the Director of Global Intelligent Automation for WESCO Distribution. He started WESCO Intelligent Automation program in early 2019 and has been driving it ever since. Max and his team provide overall governance for the program and own all aspects of intelligent automation including idea generation, automation implementation and production support, as well as employee education and citizen developer programs.

Prior to this role, Max led WESCO Inventory Center of Excellence that owned procurement and inventory analytics and supply chain optimization functions. In this role Max and his team designed and implemented WESCO purchasing system, improved and streamlined WESCO replenishment algorithms, standardized purchasing and inventory reports across the organization, and provided advanced analytics and data mining for the procurement and inventory management organizations.