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Conversations with the executives
and operators who’ve seen it all.

From CSCOs at Honeywell, Amazon, SpaceX and 3M to the operators rebuilding Saudi logistics. What AI actually changes, why humans drive transformation, and the financial literacy senior leaders quietly run on.

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Haidé Villuendas — The realities of global moves, and the power of lateral shifts.

EP 07 · Jun 03 · 2026

The realities of global moves, and the power of lateral shifts.

Haidé Villuendas

Global Supply Chain Executive · PepsiCo, Danone, Kimberly-Clark

Past the glamorous LinkedIn facade of international relocations: the real demands of structural change, cultural nuance, and leading when nobody is watching.

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Torsten Pilz — The brutal reality of supply chain leadership.

The brutal reality of supply chain leadership.

Why technical expertise is secondary to systemic leadership, and the emotional calm plus financial literacy great CSCOs actually run on.

CEO Counterpoint Labs · Former CSCO Honeywell, Amazon, SpaceX, 3M

Sam Achampong — AI is raising procurement's intellectual entry point.

AI is raising procurement's intellectual entry point.

Technology won't replace procurement, but it will demand a smarter version of it. Sam on Saudi Vision 2030 and procurement as a strategic engine.

Regional Director, CIPS MENA

Mario El Khoury — The gap between vision and reality.

The gap between vision and reality.

Why most transformation programmes stall in the same place, and how operators bridge the strategy-to-execution gap in the Saudi logistics build-out.

Mario El Khoury

Logistics & Supply Chain Senior Executive · CEO Logistiya

Ahmed El Gabry — Chocolate to ketchup, humans drive change.

Chocolate to ketchup, humans drive change.

Across consumer brands and decades of category shifts, the constant is human leadership. Ahmed on culture as the load-bearing wall of transformation.

Global supply chain & operations executive

Eduardo Pedreira — From reluctant to passionate supply chain leader.

From reluctant to passionate supply chain leader.

How a career path nobody chooses to start becomes the one most operators can't imagine leaving. Lessons from leading globally diverse teams.

Eduardo Pedreira

President, Surface Sciences & CPO · The Lubrizol Corporation

Alexander Gondris — Leading in the age of AI.

Leading in the age of AI.

Where AI augments the operator, where it threatens the operator, and what executives need to do this year, not next.

Alexander Gondris

COO North America, Give Back Beauty