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Conversations with the executives
and operators who’ve seen it all.

From CSCOs at Honeywell, Amazon, SpaceX and 3M to the operators rebuilding Saudi logistics. What AI actually changes, why humans drive transformation, and the financial literacy senior leaders quietly run on.

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Torsten Pilz — The brutal reality of supply chain leadership.
EP 06 · Apr 20 · 2026

The brutal reality of supply chain leadership.

Torsten Pilz
CEO Counterpoint Labs · Former CSCO Honeywell, Amazon, SpaceX, 3M

Why technical expertise is secondary to systemic leadership, and the emotional calm plus financial literacy great CSCOs actually run on.

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Sam Achampong — AI is raising procurement's intellectual entry point.
EP 05
Mar 30 · 2026

AI is raising procurement's intellectual entry point.

Technology won't replace procurement, but it will demand a smarter version of it. Sam on Saudi Vision 2030 and procurement as a strategic engine.

Sam Achampong
Regional Director, CIPS MENA
Mario El Khoury — The gap between vision and reality.
EP 04
Mar 16 · 2026

The gap between vision and reality.

Why most transformation programmes stall in the same place, and how operators bridge the strategy-to-execution gap in the Saudi logistics build-out.

Mario El Khoury
Logistics & Supply Chain Senior Executive · CEO Logistiya
Ahmed El Gabry — Chocolate to ketchup, humans drive change.
EP 03
Mar 02 · 2026

Chocolate to ketchup, humans drive change.

Across consumer brands and decades of category shifts, the constant is human leadership. Ahmed on culture as the load-bearing wall of transformation.

Ahmed El Gabry
Global supply chain & operations executive
Eduardo Pedreira — From reluctant to passionate supply chain leader.
EP 02
Feb 16 · 2026

From reluctant to passionate supply chain leader.

How a career path nobody chooses to start becomes the one most operators can't imagine leaving. Lessons from leading globally diverse teams.

Eduardo Pedreira
President, Surface Sciences & CPO · The Lubrizol Corporation
Alexander Gondris — Leading in the age of AI.
EP 01
Feb 02 · 2026

Leading in the age of AI.

Where AI augments the operator, where it threatens the operator, and what executives need to do this year, not next.

Alexander Gondris
COO North America, Give Back Beauty
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