Dawn Tiura
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Dawn Tiura, CEO and President of SIG, SIG University and Future of Sourcing Digital Publication, has over 26 years leadership experience, with the past 22 years focused on the sourcing and outsourcing industry. In 2007, Dawn joined SIG as CEO, but has been active in SIG as a speaker and trusted advisor since 1999, bringing the latest developments in sourcing and outsourcing to SIG members. Prior to joining SIG, Dawn held leadership positions as CEO of Denali Group and before that as a partner in a CPA firm. Dawn is actively involved on a number of boards promoting civic, health and children's issues in the Jacksonville, Florida area. Dawn is a licensed CPA and has a BA from the University of Michigan and an MS in taxation from Golden Gate University. Dawn brings to SIG a culture of brainstorming and internal innovation.
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We are so excited to have opened the nominations for the second annual Future of Sourcing Awards. We launched the program to much aplomb after many years of member requests and a considerable amount of research. Our goal was to create a unique program that would be disruptive to the industry.
We felt that it was important to recognize everything impacting the industry—from emerging...
Dawn Tiura: Folks, I'd like to introduce to one of our team finalists, and this is in the digitization finalists IQ project, and I'm going to be speaking today to Gavin Hough with IBM and this is called pricing IQ. Can you tell us a little bit about the project Gavin?
Gavin Hough: Yeah, hey Dawn! Pricing IQ—a great, great project. It started out in the early iterations to where we were trying to ease up some time that the buyers were utilizing...
Dawn Tiura: Well folks I'm excited to introduce you to the next team and that's GEP Procurement Transfer Nation with a CPG client. They are an outsourcing finalist in the Future of Sourcing Awards and I'm real excited to welcome you guys to the podcast.
Rafiq Merchant: Thank you so much. Thank you so much for having us.
Connor Hill: Yes. Thank you, Dawn.
Dawn Tiura: It's an honor. I read...
Dawn Tiura: Well folks I'm excited to introduce you to the next team and that's GEP Procurement Transfer Nation with a CPG client. They are an outsourcing finalist in the Future of Sourcing Awards and I'm real excited to welcome you guys to the podcast.
Rafiq Merchant: Thank you so much. Thank you so much for having us.
Connor Hill: Yes. Thank you, Dawn.
Dawn Tiura: It's an honor. I read...
Dawn Tiura: Folks, with me today is Morgan Schultz, and she is representing the team from FedEx that is in the finalist category for third party management, and their project was called "Intelligent Dashboard Project". So welcome to the show, Morgan, I'm glad to have you.
Morgan: Thank you, Dawn.
Dawn Tiura: So, can you tell me, why was this project launched, what was the problem you were trying to solve?
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Dawn Tiura: Folks, I'm excited for this next podcast. It's with Colleen. And Colleen Tiner is with Beeline. Beeline is a finalist in our Talent category with the Beeline Self-Sourcing Project. Welcome to the podcast.
Colleen Tiner: Thank you, Dawn.
Dawn Tiura: We're excited to have you. So when you first went...
Dawn Tiura: Folks, I'm excited to introduce you to Conor Quarry. Conor is nominated as a Rising Star and he's from IBM, and Conor, I want to welcome you to the podcast.
Conor Quarry: Well, I'm happy to be here.
Dawn Tiura: You have just the most amazing recommendation that was sent in which is why you are a finalist in the Rising Star nomination category. Can you tell me a little bit about your inspiration? What...
Dawn Tiura: Hi everybody. I'm gonna introduce you to Debbie Manos-McHenry. You probably all know of her, she is from Huntington Bank. Debbie has been nominated as a Sourcing Star. It's not a surprise to anyone that Debbie made this list. Her nomination is full of all the wonderful things that she does. So I wanna welcome you to the show, Debbie.
Debbie Manos-Mc: Thank you. Good afternoon.
Dawn Tiura: Well, tell me a little...
Dawn Tiura: Now, today with me is Deepak Bansal. He is nominated as a Sourcing Star, but if you just hear his title, and some of the things he did, you're gonna have no doubt that he is a star. Deepak is the head of IT Sourcing and Vendor Management for Envision Healthcare. Envision Healthcare, EVHC, is undergoing a divestiture of 20% of its business, and Deepak has led the effort in disentangling over 200 IT contracts between two entities while maintaining costs consistency. So...
Dawn Tiura: Hello, everybody. This is Dawn Tiura from Sourcing Industry Group. Now, today I have the pleasure of talking to Greg Tennyson who has been nominated as a Sourcing Star, and I'm sure nobody is surprised. I don't think there's anyone in sourcing or procurement that hasn't heard of him. But even more so, I don't think there's a procurement leader out there that does not have the utmost respect for Greg. He's been in the industry for about 25 years and...