Jill Button

President & CEO

Jill is a seasoned Procurement Executive with twenty eight plus years of global business and leadership experience with medium and large growth oriented enterprises.

She has hands on knowledge of all aspects of procurement leadership, change management, strategic sourcing, and supply chain and operations management spanning both direct and indirect procurement categories. This experience is complemented by deep subject matter expertise in IT, Professional & Consulting Services, Outsourcing and Offshoring.

Jill’s greatest strength is the ability to work effectively with leadership teams and create ownership across all organizational departments. This has earned her a reputation as a high performing leader with the skills necessary to deliver measurable and sustainable change.

Chris Ball

Senior Consultant – Project Management Lead

Chris Ball is a project management consultant with over 20 years of execution experience on complex business and IT projects for medium to large organizations across many industries. Areas of expertise include: Project Portfolio/Strategy Management, PMO, Business Transformations, ERP System Implementation, Project Governance and C-Level Reporting, Vendor Relations Management, Acquisition Integration and Day 1 Readiness. Chris holds his PMP designation from the Project Management Institute and is a graduate of Laurier’s MBA program and the University of Waterloo’s Engineering program (BASc., P.Eng.).

Susan Mercer-Tumilty

Consultant

Susan is a seasoned sourcing and procurement expert with almost 15 years of Procurement and Strategic Sourcing experience. Susan has hands on experience successfully managing numerous sourcing events from end-to-end across many categories including Travel & Entertainment, IT Hardware & Software, Office Supplies and Call Centres. Additionally, she was an integral member of a team that created and then launched a strategic sourcing Centre of Excellence. Susan also has experience with contract negotiations, communications, process improvements, learning & development, sourcing intelligence and systems (i.e. SharePoint). Her strong customer focus, communication skills and ability to adapt quickly enables her to make lasting relationships among her peers and clients.

Sylvia Kunde

Consultant

Sylvia is an international procurement executive who has enjoyed practicing global sourcing in Toronto, New York and Berlin over the past 20 years. She earned a successful record of contributing to growth, driving profitability and transformational change activities in manufacturing, telecommunications, real estate and banking sectors. Sylvia has focussed on IT procurement, performance and contract management as well as asset tracking and complex implementation activities during her lead roles opposite Tier 1 hardware and software vendors. Sylvia holds an MBA in International Business from York University and has a keen interest in effective client relationships and risk mitigation strategies.

Mark Lobo

Graphic / Web / Technical Design & Development

Mark has been working with digital and online media and technology since the late ’80s (ouch, that’s a long time). Able to take a project from the Creative stage right through to deployment. He enjoys solving problems by creating or making use of the appropriate solution.

Christine Hinds

Consultant | ON ASSIGNMENT

Christine Hinds is a strategic sourcing and procurement professional with over 15 years’ experience crossing Security Products, Telecom, Media and Healthcare. She started her career in inventory management for a national distribution company. While her niche is IT Hardware, Software and Professional & Consulting Services she has vast experience and knowledge in transformation, vendor management, outsourcing and offshoring. Christine is a skilled negotiator spanning a wide range of various contract types. Her interpersonal skills have enabled her to gain the trust and respect of her clients.