Guilhem Lavabre

Managing Director, European Institute of Purchasing Management

He started as the Purchasing Manager of a High Tech firm (smart cards and readers), before joining a European leading player in the Defence Industry (Land Systems), where he was in charge of all mechanical subassemblies and actively contributed to the creation of the modern Procurement function.
He then joined KPMG Peat Marwick, the leading management consultancy in France at the time in the field of Strategic Sourcing & Procurement. He worked for clients in various industries (Aerospace & Defence, Process industries, Public Transportation, Nuclear Energy (Military applications), Oil & Gas, Financial Services,…), before going back to operational management, as the Procurement Director for Alstom Transport at the Paris head office.

When then decided to move to the UK, he set up a management consultancy specializing in Procurement and Operations, working for large international corporations (Industrial Electrical Equipment, Oil & Gas, Technical Services, Banking, Contract Catering, Telecoms) as well as Public Sector clients (Health, Local Government).

He came back to France after 14 years in London, to become the CPO of Bureau Veritas, a global leader in Testing, Inspection & Certification.
Guilhem has joined EIPM from Argon Consulting, a firm specializing in Operations, where as a partner he was jointly in charge of the Procurement practice and the UK office.
As part of his Consulting experience, Guilhem has developed and delivered a number of training programmes for the Procurement teams of clients in Manufacturing as well as Process industries, and for clients in Service sectors, in both Commercial and Public Sector environments.

Title: Procurement in the VUCA age, 22.10.2019

Aleksandra Przegalińska, PhD

Special Guest

Doctor in the field of artificial intelligence philosophy at the Department of Philosophy of Culture of the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Warsaw, currently an assistant professor at the Center for Research on Organizations and Workplaces at the Kozminski University. He is currently conducting research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. A graduate of The New School for Social Research in New York, where she participated in research on identity in virtual reality, with particular emphasis on Second Life. He is interested in the development of new technologies, especially green and sustainable technologies, humanoid artificial intelligence, social robots and wearable technologies.