Ian Bremmer is a political scientist who helps business leaders, policy makers, and the general public make sense of the world around them. He is president and founder of Eurasia Group, the world’s leading political risk research and consulting firm, and GZERO Media, a company dedicated to providing intelligent and engaging coverage of international affairs. Ian is an independent voice on critical issues around the globe, offering clearheaded insights through speeches, written commentary, and even satirical puppets (really!).

He is the host of GZERO World with Ian Bremmer, which airs weekly on US national public television. Ian is also a frequent guest on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, the BBC, Bloomberg, and many others globally.
 
A prolific writer, Ian is the author of 10 books, including the New York Times bestseller “Us vs Them: The Failure of Globalism” which examines the rise of populism across the world. He also serves as the foreign affairs columnist and editor-at-large for Time magazine. He currently teaches at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and previously was a professor at New York University.

Stacey Erickson is the senior director of business transformation at Stryker, a leading medical technology company that specializes in innovative products and services for orthopaedics, general surgery, neurotechnology, and spine. Her background spans marketing, information systems, and operations and supplier management.  Most recently, she has been the source to pay leader for Stryker’s SAP deployment and business transformation initiative.
 
Stacey is passionate about travel, and she has held two international assignments during her career. Most recently, she worked in Amsterdam as Stryker established a headquarters in Europe.  Stacey graduated with a business administration degree in management information systems from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo.  She resides in northern California with her husband and four sons, and they enjoy a plethora of sporting events, skiing, and outdoor activities.

Ryan is a principal in Deloitte Consulting’s supply management and digital procurement practice. He has over 18 years of experience helping companies deliver bottom-line cost savings and mitigate risk through technology-enabled procurement transformations.

Ryan has advised Fortune 500 companies across industries, with a focus on consumer business and retail clients. He specializes in source-to-pay operating model design, process improvement, and enabling technology implementation. Ryan also leads Deloitte’s Global CPO Survey as well as their third-party management practice.

Sondra Scott is president of Verisk Maplecroft, a leading provider of country and political risk analytics and advisory services. She is responsible for leading the company’s globalization and growth effort.  

Before joining Verisk Maplecroft in 2015, Ms. Scott filled a number of roles at Wood Mackenzie over a 13-year period. Her most recent position was head of the Industry and Macro Trends service, which focuses on global industry trends and scenarios, macroeconomics, and country and geopolitical risk. Previously, Ms. Scott led Wood Mackenzie’s energy consultancy practice.

Ms. Scott has more than 25 years of experience working in the content and analytics sector in the energy and risk discipline. She has led multisized global research and consultancy teams and is an experienced strategist with a passion for innovative product development. She has worked in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Latin America, globalizing businesses and developing local practices.  

She received a master of science degree from the University of Pennsylvania, a Diplôme d’Ingénieur from the Institut Français du Pétrole, and a bachelor of arts degree from Wesleyan University.

Lucille Trickett is the senior director of global solutions for the office of legal affairs and administration at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. In this position, Lucille is responsible for all aspects of technology architecture, solution design and configuration, business process management (BPM), and solution delivery for global procurement, corporate programs, legal, and global real estate.  

Over her 33 year career with Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Lucille has held a vast array of senior leadership positions in global procurement, services, business operations, and finance.  Throughout her career, she has also put significant effort into talent development and mentorship.  She currently holds the vice chair position on the global women’s network for the office of legal affairs and administration.   

Lucille was educated at the University of Toronto and holds a bachelor of science degree in statistics and economics. She lives with her husband in Toronto, Canada.

Chris Haydon leads SAP Procurement Solutions Area, focusing on customer success while defining end-to-end spend management solutions that drive differential business outcomes. For the past decade Chris has been a crucial part of SAP Ariba’s leadership, serving since 2017 as senior vice president of customer value and, prior to that, of solutions management. He has also been SAP Ariba’s chief strategy officer.

In his current role, Chris is responsible for aligning procurement solutions across all functions at SAP to ensure successful outcomes for our customers. A tireless customer champion and passionate executive with over 20 years of experience in business network operations, product management, procurement, customer management, and strategy, Chris brings a wealth of expertise and thought leadership to the marketplace. He leads SAP’s procurement product strategy, portfolio, and product roadmap in close coordination with the Product Engineering team and works with the Commercial team to identify target markets and changing business requirements.

Chris holds a Bachelor of Business degree in Information Management from the Queensland University of Technology.

Arun is the general manager of SAP Fieldglass and has been with the company for eight years.

Arun has more than 20 years of experience helping global corporations design and deploy enterprise software solutions. Prior to joining SAP Fieldglass, Arun held positions in general management, development, marketing and product management while working at ClickCommerce, Elance, and Oracle.

He holds a master's degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of Science and a bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Madras, India.

Padmini Ranganathan is global vice president of risk and sustainability products and innovation in procurement and supply chain.  In this role, she is responsible for product strategy and engineering. She leads a team of experts focused on delivering data-driven microservices that enable risk-conscious business decisions, sustainable procurement, and ethical supply chains.

Prior to SAP Ariba, Padmini led the team that provided analytics for industries marketing at SAP which brought to market the first applications and content to drive business value and adoption of SAP analytics technologies. Before joining SAP, Padmini led travel and expense and category procurement products at SAP Ariba, and part of the team that transitioned the first SAP Ariba products into cloud.  

Previously, Padmini worked at Oracle, where she was part of the procurement product management team that delivered the first web-based, self-service applications for procurement. She also served as a technical consultant in the areas of order management, inventory and distribution, procurement, and manufacturing.

Padmini is a passionate advocate for bringing technology that simplifies and enriches the daily work and decision-making of business users. As the SAP sustainability council lead for procurement-with-purpose initiatives, she is dedicated to helping businesses balance their costs with conscience and driving economic value while making a sustainable impact on the larger world.

Padmini has a post-graduate diploma in computer science from UC Berkeley, California, and a bachelor’s degree in commerce with a major in cost and management accounting from Bangalore University, India.

Molly Spatara is the global vice president of brand experience for SAP Ariba and SAP Fieldglass. She has extensive B2B and B2C marketing and product development experience across multiple industries. In addition, she has a proven track record of designing and accelerating digital-first, data-driven capabilities that yield robust business outcomes. Previously, Molly transformed global marketing and communications for SAP Fieldglass; helped build and scale Accenture Digital; created Accenture’s digital marketing capability across global market units; and led marketing for Accenture Analytics.

Molly inspires her teams and others to develop creative, omni-channel programs that drive measurable awareness, engagement, and preference across audiences, underpinned by compelling thought leadership. A strategist and business operator at heart, Molly has a passion for incubating and scaling new capabilities; developing her teams; leading large-scale change; forging consensus across stakeholders with oftentimes competing priorities; and simplifying complexity. She is curious and believes challenges often represent untapped opportunities.

Michael Weingartner joined SAP Concur in August 2017 as senior vice president of development and was named chief technology officer in April 2018. In February 2020, Mr. Weingartner was named president of people and spend management engineering at SAP, where he oversees the respective product and engineering teams across SAP Ariba, SAP Concur, SAP SuccessFactors, SAP S/4HANA Sourcing and Procurement, and SAP Fieldglass. His vision is to align SAP cloud offerings and bring the Intelligent Enterprise to fruition for our customers.

With more than 30 years of experience in the technology industry, Mr. Weingartner has led major enterprise software platform deliveries and driven architecture for complex products with some of the largest vendors in the industry. Prior to joining SAP Concur, he held senior leadership positions at companies such as Oracle, Siebel, and HP.

Ian Bremmer is a political scientist who helps business leaders, policy makers, and the general public make sense of the world around them. He is president and founder of Eurasia Group, the world’s leading political risk research and consulting firm, and GZERO Media, a company dedicated to providing intelligent and engaging coverage of international affairs. Ian is an independent voice on critical issues around the globe, offering clearheaded insights through speeches, written commentary, and even satirical puppets (really!).

He is the host of GZERO World with Ian Bremmer, which airs weekly on US national public television. Ian is also a frequent guest on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, the BBC, Bloomberg, and many others globally.
 
A prolific writer, Ian is the author of 10 books, including the New York Times bestseller “Us vs Them: The Failure of Globalism” which examines the rise of populism across the world. He also serves as the foreign affairs columnist and editor-at-large for Time magazine. He currently teaches at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and previously was a professor at New York University.

Stacey Erickson is the senior director of business transformation at Stryker, a leading medical technology company that specializes in innovative products and services for orthopaedics, general surgery, neurotechnology, and spine. Her background spans marketing, information systems, and operations and supplier management.  Most recently, she has been the source to pay leader for Stryker’s SAP deployment and business transformation initiative.
 
Stacey is passionate about travel, and she has held two international assignments during her career. Most recently, she worked in Amsterdam as Stryker established a headquarters in Europe.  Stacey graduated with a business administration degree in management information systems from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo.  She resides in northern California with her husband and four sons, and they enjoy a plethora of sporting events, skiing, and outdoor activities.

Ryan is a principal in Deloitte Consulting’s supply management and digital procurement practice. He has over 18 years of experience helping companies deliver bottom-line cost savings and mitigate risk through technology-enabled procurement transformations.

Ryan has advised Fortune 500 companies across industries, with a focus on consumer business and retail clients. He specializes in source-to-pay operating model design, process improvement, and enabling technology implementation. Ryan also leads Deloitte’s Global CPO Survey as well as their third-party management practice.

Sondra Scott is president of Verisk Maplecroft, a leading provider of country and political risk analytics and advisory services. She is responsible for leading the company’s globalization and growth effort.  

Before joining Verisk Maplecroft in 2015, Ms. Scott filled a number of roles at Wood Mackenzie over a 13-year period. Her most recent position was head of the Industry and Macro Trends service, which focuses on global industry trends and scenarios, macroeconomics, and country and geopolitical risk. Previously, Ms. Scott led Wood Mackenzie’s energy consultancy practice.

Ms. Scott has more than 25 years of experience working in the content and analytics sector in the energy and risk discipline. She has led multisized global research and consultancy teams and is an experienced strategist with a passion for innovative product development. She has worked in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Latin America, globalizing businesses and developing local practices.  

She received a master of science degree from the University of Pennsylvania, a Diplôme d’Ingénieur from the Institut Français du Pétrole, and a bachelor of arts degree from Wesleyan University.

Lucille Trickett is the senior director of global solutions for the office of legal affairs and administration at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. In this position, Lucille is responsible for all aspects of technology architecture, solution design and configuration, business process management (BPM), and solution delivery for global procurement, corporate programs, legal, and global real estate.  

Over her 33 year career with Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Lucille has held a vast array of senior leadership positions in global procurement, services, business operations, and finance.  Throughout her career, she has also put significant effort into talent development and mentorship.  She currently holds the vice chair position on the global women’s network for the office of legal affairs and administration.   

Lucille was educated at the University of Toronto and holds a bachelor of science degree in statistics and economics. She lives with her husband in Toronto, Canada.

Chris Haydon leads SAP Procurement Solutions Area, focusing on customer success while defining end-to-end spend management solutions that drive differential business outcomes. For the past decade Chris has been a crucial part of SAP Ariba’s leadership, serving since 2017 as senior vice president of customer value and, prior to that, of solutions management. He has also been SAP Ariba’s chief strategy officer.

In his current role, Chris is responsible for aligning procurement solutions across all functions at SAP to ensure successful outcomes for our customers. A tireless customer champion and passionate executive with over 20 years of experience in business network operations, product management, procurement, customer management, and strategy, Chris brings a wealth of expertise and thought leadership to the marketplace. He leads SAP’s procurement product strategy, portfolio, and product roadmap in close coordination with the Product Engineering team and works with the Commercial team to identify target markets and changing business requirements.

Chris holds a Bachelor of Business degree in Information Management from the Queensland University of Technology.

Arun is the general manager of SAP Fieldglass and has been with the company for eight years.

Arun has more than 20 years of experience helping global corporations design and deploy enterprise software solutions. Prior to joining SAP Fieldglass, Arun held positions in general management, development, marketing and product management while working at ClickCommerce, Elance, and Oracle.

He holds a master's degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of Science and a bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Madras, India.

Padmini Ranganathan is global vice president of risk and sustainability products and innovation in procurement and supply chain.  In this role, she is responsible for product strategy and engineering. She leads a team of experts focused on delivering data-driven microservices that enable risk-conscious business decisions, sustainable procurement, and ethical supply chains.

Prior to SAP Ariba, Padmini led the team that provided analytics for industries marketing at SAP which brought to market the first applications and content to drive business value and adoption of SAP analytics technologies. Before joining SAP, Padmini led travel and expense and category procurement products at SAP Ariba, and part of the team that transitioned the first SAP Ariba products into cloud.  

Previously, Padmini worked at Oracle, where she was part of the procurement product management team that delivered the first web-based, self-service applications for procurement. She also served as a technical consultant in the areas of order management, inventory and distribution, procurement, and manufacturing.

Padmini is a passionate advocate for bringing technology that simplifies and enriches the daily work and decision-making of business users. As the SAP sustainability council lead for procurement-with-purpose initiatives, she is dedicated to helping businesses balance their costs with conscience and driving economic value while making a sustainable impact on the larger world.

Padmini has a post-graduate diploma in computer science from UC Berkeley, California, and a bachelor’s degree in commerce with a major in cost and management accounting from Bangalore University, India.

Molly Spatara is the global vice president of brand experience for SAP Ariba and SAP Fieldglass. She has extensive B2B and B2C marketing and product development experience across multiple industries. In addition, she has a proven track record of designing and accelerating digital-first, data-driven capabilities that yield robust business outcomes. Previously, Molly transformed global marketing and communications for SAP Fieldglass; helped build and scale Accenture Digital; created Accenture’s digital marketing capability across global market units; and led marketing for Accenture Analytics.

Molly inspires her teams and others to develop creative, omni-channel programs that drive measurable awareness, engagement, and preference across audiences, underpinned by compelling thought leadership. A strategist and business operator at heart, Molly has a passion for incubating and scaling new capabilities; developing her teams; leading large-scale change; forging consensus across stakeholders with oftentimes competing priorities; and simplifying complexity. She is curious and believes challenges often represent untapped opportunities.

Michael Weingartner joined SAP Concur in August 2017 as senior vice president of development and was named chief technology officer in April 2018. In February 2020, Mr. Weingartner was named president of people and spend management engineering at SAP, where he oversees the respective product and engineering teams across SAP Ariba, SAP Concur, SAP SuccessFactors, SAP S/4HANA Sourcing and Procurement, and SAP Fieldglass. His vision is to align SAP cloud offerings and bring the Intelligent Enterprise to fruition for our customers.

With more than 30 years of experience in the technology industry, Mr. Weingartner has led major enterprise software platform deliveries and driven architecture for complex products with some of the largest vendors in the industry. Prior to joining SAP Concur, he held senior leadership positions at companies such as Oracle, Siebel, and HP.