David J. Ward

David started his career at Siemens in materials and vendor management, he quickly moved on to develop supply chain and procurement skills and experience in multiple industry sectors notably pharmaceuticals and life sciences with companies like GlaxoSmithKline and Merck. He has managed Procurement and Supply chain teams with some of the World's largest companies and has also led business development teams through complex deals in challenging geographies.

David's career has taken him all over the world including 10 years living and working in Asia where he managed Procurement and Supply Chain teams from India to Japan to Australia. His work now continues internationally with consulting and strategic advisory work, interim management as well as coaching and training senior leaders in all aspects of Procurement, Supply Chain, B2B relationship management, Procurement Data Analytics and Supplier Cyber security.