Reflections on The CPO Rising 2017 Summit (Part 1): CPOs Rise and Shine
Now that we have a little bit of distance from our annual CPO Rising Summit, held in Boston in early November, I've asked select members of the Ardent team to pause and…
Meet the Winners – CPO Honors 2017: Walter Charles
During our annual CPO Rising 2017 Summit, we hosted our first ever CPO Honors Gala Dinner. During the Gala Dinner, four distinct CPOs and/or procurement teams received CPO Honors awards for…
Meet the Winners – CPO Honors 2017: CA Technologies
During our annual CPO Rising 2017 Summit, we hosted our first ever CPO Honors Gala Dinner. During the Gala Dinner, four distinct CPOs and/or procurement teams received CPO Honors awards…
Meet the Winners – CPO Honors 2017: Boston Scientific
During our annual CPO Rising 2017 Summit, we hosted our first ever CPO Honors Gala Dinner. During the Gala Dinner, four distinct CPOs and/or procurement teams received CPO Honors awards…
Top Procurement Leaders Honored at the Annual CPO Rising Summit
Top Procurement Leaders Honored at the Annual CPO Rising Summit Ardent Partners Inducts Two Chief Procurement Officers into Hall of Fame and Presents Four Other “CPO Honors” Awards BOSTON, November…
The Making of a Chief Procurement Officer
Publisher's Note: We at Ardent Partners are still pretty jazzed from our second annual CPO Rising procurement executive summit, which we wrapped up less than 24 hours ago. It was an engaging,…
Meet the Speakers of CPO Rising 2017! Introducing Walter Charles of Biogen
Walter Charles III is the Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) at Biogen. As the article below highlights, he is also a highly-successful innovator who has consistently over-delivered in every procurement role that…
The Top Ten Reasons to Attend the CPO Rising 2017 Summit
There is now one month until The CPO Rising 2017 Summit, Ardent Partners' annual procurement symposium. Have you registered yet? There are only a few days left to take advantage…
Meet the Speakers of CPO Rising 2017! Introducing Chris Shanahan of BD – Part I
I’ve known Chris Shanahan, Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) at BD for nearly a decade, and I am beyond thrilled to welcome him to Boston in November as one of our keynote speakers…
Meet the Speakers of CPO Rising 2017! Welcoming Back Bill McNally of NASA
Last year, we were fortunate to have Bill McNally, deputy chief acquisition officer at NASA, who directs procurement across the entire space agency, join Ardent Partners' inaugural CPO Rising Procurement Executive…