Webinar: Navigating Uncertainty: Proactive Supplier Risk Management in Volatile Times by BizClik Media

Navigating Uncertainty: Proactive Supplier Risk Management in Volatile Times

About

In today’s rapidly evolving economic environment, procurement and supply chain professionals face a unique set of challenges as they manage supplier risk in the face of geopolitical instability, inflationary pressures, supply chain disruptions, and shifting trade policies. Proactive risk management is now a priority for organizations seeking to safeguard their operations and remain competitive in this unstable landscape.

This webinar, ‘Navigating Uncertainty: Proactive Supplier Risk Management in Volatile Times’, provides procurement professionals with practical tools, cutting-edge insights, and actionable strategies to address supplier risk. Incorporating expert analysis from industry leaders, the session will include data-driven insights from RapidRatings, including tariff stress test data, and the latest risk analyses from James Gellert, Executive Chair of RapidRatings, as well as supply chain trends presented by Tom Derry, CEO of Institute for Supply Management (ISM).

When

Wednesday, March 19, 2025 · 2:30 p.m. London (GMT +0:00)

Presenters

Thomas W. Derry

Chief Executive Officer at Institute for Supply Management®

Tom Derry is Chief Executive Officer of the Institute for Supply Management® (ISM®), with more than 30 years of experience in leadership and general management roles for public and private companies, and in the not-for profit sector. He has executed turn-arounds at the corporate and business-unit level through a variety of means, including acquisitions, divestitures, restructuring, and business process re-
engineering.

As CEO of the Institute for Supply Management, Tom has a unique vantage point to observe major macroeconomic trends and the development of global supply chains through his daily contact with Fortune 500 chief procurement officers and chief supply chain officers, with government agencies and NGOs in the United States and abroad, and with leading academics. Tom has been interviewed on CNBC, Bloomberg Television, quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and dozens of other business publications. Tom has represented ISM in meetings with the White House Council of Economic Advisers, the National Security Council, the Federal Reserve System Board of Governors, and the U.S. Small Business Administration.
At ISM, Tom has overseen an increase in revenues, a reduction in costs, the introduction of new revenue streams, and the launch of new product lines. As Chief Operating Officer of the Association for Financial Professionals, Tom oversaw strategy development and execution. Tom completed two cross-border acquisitions, which became for-profit subsidiaries of AFP. He oversaw all AFP staff in London, UK and Bethesda, MD.
As General Manager of the Business Intelligence unit of LexisNexis, team led a 40-person acquisition integration team, which completed the integration ahead of plan and under budget. He also executed the strategic divestiture of another LexisNexis unit, and implemented new technologies, including web-crawling bots, to re-engineer data collection and quality processes for LexisNexis’ business data unit.
Tom is a 1986 graduate of Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service (B.S., Foreign Service).

James H. Gellert

Executive Chairman of RapidRatings,

James H. Gellert is the Executive Chairman of RapidRatings, a financial health data and analytics company based in New York City.

He is a recognized international authority on corporate counterparty risk management, supply chain risk, the health of public and private businesses, and US rating regulation.

Mr. Gellert began his career in the credit world, working in Debt Capital Markets at multiple global banks, most prominently running business for Deutsche Bank, bringing non-US corporates, financial institutions, and sovereign entities into the US public and private debt capital markets, as well as for issuance of global bonds. Since entering the technology world, he has run four private companies – three in data, risk, and media, and one, an investment banking boutique focused on raising capital and M&A in the financial information services industry. He sold three of these companies and acquired RapidRatings to focus entirely on financial risk for credit and supply chain risk professionals.

RapidRatings has received awards and accolades for risk management in credit and supply chain, and Mr. Gellert has been awarded the “Pros to Know” title in the supply chain industry. He is a regular guest on broadcast news outlets, including CNBC, Bloomberg TV, and Yahoo! Finance; and quoted in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Forbes, Fortune, MarketWatch, and industry trade publications. His views have consistently been sought by federal regulators and the United States Congress, and he is a frequently invited panelist and speaker at the US Securities and Exchange Commission and other regulators.

Outside of RapidRatings time, he currently serves as the President of the National Board of Young Audiences/Arts for Learning Inc, the nation’s leading source of arts-in-education services, and advises a number of companies and entrepreneurial management teams.

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