RaptureWorld | The Supply Chain Marketing Agency
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Credentials
RaptureWorld is a digital marketing agency that specialises in delivering web-based marketing solutions for clients that predominantly target supply chain & manufacturing executives.
The founding partners of RaptureWorld have over 25 years of combined business-to-business event, conference, exhibition and web-based community experience within the supply chain, logistics and manufacturing industries. Between them they have built, bought and sold both online and "live" event businesses in recent years, as employees, shareholders and board directors of a variety of different media organisations across EMEA and North America. They have worked on behalf of some of the world's largest organisations, including Wyeth, Pfizer, Wal Mart, Vodafone, HP, BAE Systems, Accenture, DHL, Deloitte, Capgemini, Infor, Atos Origin, Oracle, RR Donnelley, Rockwell Automation, SAP, Microsoft, Kinaxis, RR Donnelley & Siemens to deliver customer-driven business information solutions focused around specific business development, marketing & training needs.
The wider RaptureWorld team consists of expert marketers, project managers, developers and analysts, as well as supply chain industry luminaries who act as an advisory board and speaker faculty across the organisation. Having learned through first-hand experience how the supply chain community does business, what the real challenges are and how collaboration and education can drive the industry forward, RaptureWorld is committed to designing, developing and delivering unrivalled marketing solutions tailored exclusively to your needs.
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Jonathan Bennett
Co-Founder & Director
Jonathan has been developing conferences, thought leadership and lead generation campaigns focussing on the supply chain sector for many years. Having co-founded The Awareness Group, a leading conference company specialising in strategic level supply chain events, his expertise in product development and business management drove the company’s growth exponentially over a 5 year period, leading to a trade-sale to a leading FTSE 500 media and events business. Prior to that Jonathan was EMEA Business Manager with VerticalNet, a Nasdaq listed provider of B2B trading platforms.
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Oliver Sloane
Co-Founder & Director
Oliver has many years of commercial b2b sales, marketing and management experience, having been a board member and shareholder for the last three years at the World Trade Group, a global conference and events company, with global P&L responsibility for commercial operations. Prior to that, within the same company, he spent 2 years as Managing Director of the Manufacturing & Supply Chain business unit, responsible for P&L for all divisional events. Previous roles included several key sales and marketing positions in both on and off-line media agencies.
Advisory Board
The RaptureWorld Advisory Board are all highly respected supply chain experts. Together they provide the depth of knowledge and expertise to assist our client services team with producing up-to-date, relevant and forward thinking content for our clients digital marketing campaigns.
Hau L Lee
Thorma Professor of Operations, Information and Technology
Director of the Global Supply Chain Management Forum
Director of the Strategies and Leadership in Supply Chains Executive Program
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Hau Lee’s research focuses on supply chain management, work that addresses how to get products or services to their destination by managing the flow of materials, information, and money. His research has resulted, among other things, in the building of computer models for industrial implementation, as well as in the development of strategies and operational concepts for practitioners....
Hau Lee’s research focuses on supply chain management, work that addresses how to get products or services to their destination by managing the flow of materials, information, and money. His research has resulted, among other things, in the building of computer models for industrial implementation, as well as in the development of strategies and operational concepts for practitioners.
Hau L. Lee is the Thoma Professor of Operations, Information, and Technology at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. His areas of specialization include supply chain management, information technology, global logistics system design, inventory planning, and manufacturing strategy. He is the founding and current Codirector of the Stanford Global Supply Chain Management Forum, an industry-academic consortium to advance the theory and practice of global supply chain management.
Professor Lee has published widely in journals such as Management Science, Operations Research, Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Supply Chain Management Review, IIE Transactions, and Interfaces, etc. He has served on the editorial boards of many international journals, such as Operations Research, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, IIE Transactions, Supply Chain Management Review, Sloan Management Review, and the Journal of Production and Operations Management. From 1997-2003, he was the Editor-in-Chief of Management Science.
Professor Lee received the Harold Lardner Prize for International Distinction in Operations Research, Canadian Operations Research Society, 2003. He was elected a Fellow of Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, INFORMS, 2001; Production and Operations Management Society, 2005; and INFORMS, 2005. In 2005, he was President-Elect of the Production and Operations Management Society. His article, “The Triple-A Supply Chain,” was the Second Place Winner of the McKinsey Award for the Best Paper in 2004 in the Harvard Business Review. In 2004, his coauthored paper in 1997, “Information Distortion in a Supply Chain: The Bullwhip Effect,” was voted as one of the 10 most influential papers in the history of Management Science.
Professor Lee has consulted extensively in the public and private sectors. He is a cofounder of several supply chain and price optimization software companies: NON-STOP Solutions, DemandTec, SignalDemand, and TrueDemand. He is on the board and advisory board of several logistics services and supply chain software companies. He has also given executive training workshops on supply chain management and global logistics in Asia, Europe, and America.
Professor Lee obtained his BSocSc degree in Economics and Statistics from the University of Hong Kong in 1974, his MSc degree in Operational Research from the London School of Economics in 1975, and his MS and PhD degrees in Operations Research from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1983.
Martin Christopher
Emeritus Professor of Marketing and Logistics
Cranfield School of Management
At Cranfield, Martin chairs the Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management, the largest activity of its type in Europe. The work of the centre covers all aspects of transportation and logistics...
At Cranfield, Martin chairs the Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management, the largest activity of its type in Europe. The work of the centre covers all aspects of transportation and logistics and offers both full-time and part-time Masters degree courses as well as extensive management development programmes. Research plays a key role in the work of the Centre and contributes to its international standing.
Alan Waller
Visiting Professor International Supply Chain Management, Cranfield School of Management. Vice President Supply Chain Innovation, Solving International
Alan G Waller is Vice-President for Supply Chain Innovation at the International Consultancy Solving Efeso. He is also Visiting Professor in International Supply Chain Management...
Alan G Waller is Vice-President for Supply Chain Innovation at the International Consultancy Solving Efeso. He is also Visiting Professor in International Supply Chain Management at Cranfield Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management at Cranfield School of Management, Immediate Past-President of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport and Chairman of the European Logistics Users Providers and Enablers Group (ELUPEG).
Christian Verstraete
Chief Technology Officer Worldwide Manufacturing & Distribution Industries
Hewlett-Packard
Christian Verstraete, CTO for HP's Manufacturing and Distributions Industries Worldwide, has been a member of HP's manufacturing team for more than 28 years. Verstraete is responsible for thought...
Christian Verstraete, CTO for HP's Manufacturing and Distributions Industries Worldwide, has been a member of HP's manufacturing team for more than 28 years. Verstraete is responsible for thought leadership and innovation – scanning industry and technology trends and assessing their mid/longer term effect on emerging MDI business opportunities and how to capitalize on these. He is the linkage to the CTO community both inside HP and with our customers and partners. He is one of the authors of "Connected Manufacturing, Thought-provoking essays from industry leaders" and of "Collaborative Sourcing, Strategic Value Creation through Collaborative Supplier Relationship Management".
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