Benn Godfrey
Vice President - Raw material & Forming at Rolls Royce
An expert in procurement, operations, and supply chain, Benn has bought and managed everything that goes into an airplane engine even down to the nuts and bolts. He is currently VP procurement at Rolls Royce with responsibility for elemental hedging, alloy, castings, forgings, and revert recycling. His diverse experiences include breakthrough multibillion-dollar sourcing events and contracting, operating significant cost-out control towers, leading some of the biggest long-term supplier relationships in the aerospace supply chain as well as managing multiple acute crises, and improving large operational supply chains.
An advocate for value-based procurement with purpose, Benn co-chairs the sustainable procurement group defining the sustainability agenda for Rolls Royce and is also active in the wider aerospace supply chain has recently joined the International Aerospace Environmental Group to collaborate on industry standards.