Brian Peters

Director, Procurement
Gilead Sciences

Brian Peters is passionately curious about the science, systems and practices involved in efficiently spending other people’s money. Brian’s 20 year career spans manufacturing, government, telecom, the Olympic Games, startups, and biopharma. Currently, Brian leads Gilead’s EMEA and APAC procurement teams, and the company’s global procurement center of excellence – a team responsible for functional excellence and capability improvement.

Brian holds an MBA from Queen’s University, a Bachelor of Commerce from University of Saskatchewan, and is an advisory board member of BIO’s Business Solutions Group. Brian resides in the San Francisco Bay Area. As a native of Saskatchewan, Canada, Brian and his family now take every opportunity to explore the warm outdoors of California.

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Day 2: July 22, 2020 Theme: Strategic Actions: Transforming Your Organization To Save

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2020

1:30 PM Panel: When Doing The Right Thing Can Actually Benefit Your Supply Chain

Overall, sourcing leads to other positive implications to a business. There’s cross functional goals and collaborate efforts needed for success. Decisions and actions made by an organization are impacting society and the environment. Our Panel will discuss how they’re adopting principles into their procurement and supply chain to:

• Ensuring long term success and growth

• Meeting expectations of stakeholders

• Complying with laws/regulations

• Conflict Minerals, greenhouse gas, product integrity, (What’s the balance?)

• Creating a stronger supply chain