Len is an award-winning Supply Chain/Procurement Executive with 40+ years of experience (25 years at the CSO/CPO level) at global pharmaceutical and consumer healthcare companies Johnson & Johnson, Estee Lauder, AmerisourceBergen (Cencora) and Roche. Len is a subject matter expert in engineering, manufacturing, sourcing and supply chain management. He is a pioneer and a transformational leader with a stellar record through building high performing teams in driving value and bottom-line impact. Len has deployed advanced strategic practices in inventory and cashflow management, digital transformation, advanced sourcing, supplier and customer relationship management, corporate social responsibility and organizational productivity.

During Len’s most recent assignment as Global Chief Procurement Officer at Johnson & Johnson, he was responsible for leading a generational transformation to a center led, enterprise-wide operating model. Len’s restructured Procurement Team managed over $40B of annual spend, deployed advanced supplier management practices supported by a digital technology infrastructure that improved P&L contribution productivity by 70% (J&J share price doubled during this tenure; 2016 through 2022). Additionally, the J&J social impact and diverse supplier spending more than doubled during Len’s tenure achieving over $5B by year end 2022. These accomplishments were recognized three years in a row (2020 to 2022) by Global Procurement Leaders as the winners of the top Global Procurement Team in Supplier Diversity practices.

Len is a thought leader at the vanguard of innovative, next-generation supply chain theory. He is the Founding Chair of the Center for Supply Chain Management at Rutgers University (Recently celebrating its’ 25th anniversary) and also serves as the Vice Chair of the Rutgers Business School Advisory Board. He is on the Saint Peter’s Health Systems Board of Trustees (New Brunswick, NJ). Len was recognized as the Global Chief Procurement Officer of the Year in 2021 and honored with the Global Procurement Leaders Lifetime Achievement Award and the Rutgers Business School Distinguished Alumni Award in 2022. He currently is an advisor to the World 50 Group and to companies seeking to transform their procurement and broader supply chain management processes for productivity, governance and digitization, particularly in consumer healthcare, medical device, pharmaceuticals, and adjacent industries.

Dustin Scarpa is a leading expert in energy-procurement strategies and solutions for Fortune 500 and other large energy buyers. Since founding Transparent Energy in 2009 with his fellow Rutgers graduate Paul Shagawat, Dustin has helped some of the biggest and most discerning commercial, industrial, and institutional buyers in the U.S. source billions of dollars in electricity, natural gas, and renewable energy to power their operations in more strategic, cost-effective, and sustainable ways.

Dustin has led 15 years of consecutive growth at Transparent Energy by building an expert team that excels at energy market intelligence and customer service; an automated procurement process that facilitates and streamlines energy sourcing from RFP development through final contracting; and a live auction platform that maximizes competition for the customer’s contract and reliably extracts the best available price from the market each and every time.

Reflecting on his company’s success, Dustin says, “Our consultative approach, backed by the industry’s tightest process and most effective technology, delivers invaluable benefits to our customers: a proven means to make strategic energy buys that reduces risk while advancing budgetary and sustainability goals.”

Dustin is a graduate of Rutgers University; a proud dad and dedicated husband; and an active member of several industry associations, including Urban Land Institute, Vistage, Forging Institute of America, & American Hospitality & Lodging Association.

You can follow Dustin on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/dustin-scarpa-0170b144/ and contact him via email at dscarpa@transparentedge.com

Paul Shagawat is a leading authority on energy-procurement strategies and solutions for Fortune 500 and other large energy buyers. Since founding Transparent Energy in 2009 with Dustin Scarpa, Paul has helped large commercial, industrial, and institutional buyers source billions of dollars in electricity, natural gas, and renewables to power their operations in more strategic and cost-effective ways.

He has helped his company grow for 15 consecutive years through his sales leadership, focus on talent acquisition and development, and strong problem-solving skills, along with his dedication to developing, applying, and continually improving technology and processes to optimize performance and results.

An expert in consultative sales, Paul prides himself on educating clients on energy markets and strategies that advance their business and environmental goals. Long a leader in renewable energy procurement, Transparent Energy recently helped an industrial client enter a multi-year virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) which will be responsible for creating a new 100 MW solar facility and, along with it, 200 new jobs.

Reflecting on his successful career, the company he has helped build, and the opportunity ahead, Paul offers, “I am blessed to do what I do. I love the energy space, which only gets more interesting and more strategic every year, and helping clients succeed in it. Today, as the advent of AI creates greater demand for energy and the urgent threat of climate change speeds the adoption of renewables, Transparent Energy is ideally positioned – and ready – to be the energy advisor of choice to the Fortune 500 and the company defining energy sourcing’s next wave of best practices.”