Growth + Profitability Summit

DeAnn Hammer, CPP is the Global Pricing Operations Director for the Safety and Industrial Business Group at 3M. During her 28 years of professional experience, she has held numerous positions in marketing, product development, strategic and operational pricing.  Her career has spanned the industrial market space as well as the healthcare manufacturing industry.  An accidental pricer, she strives to motivate and build resilient teams in the face of rapid transformation.

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Rick is an innovative business professional with over 30 years of experience managing a diverse array of functions and people.  He is the founder and managing partner of Continuum Commercial Excellence, a consulting company that goes beyond pure pricing and helps business optimize their end to end Commercial Process.  Previously, he has worked in numerous industries including: Telecom, Life Sciences, and Content Publishing.  As a recovering Engineer, Rick brings his skills in analysis, optimization, and process design to bear on the topics of pricing and profitability delivering short and long term results.

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Bruno Slosse has served as the President and CEO for Vendavo since 2015, where he has led a comprehensive transformation of the company from a 1st generation B2B price management solution provider, into the leading SaaS provider of Price Optimization & Management and CPQ (Configure, Price, Quote) solutions.

Bruno came to Vendavo with more than 20 years of sales and senior leadership experience in enterprise software at companies like Cerner Corporation and Ascend Learning. Having spent over 10 years as General Manager of Cerner Europe, Bruno has worked with global clients and led organizations in both the US and Europe.

He is fluent in Dutch, French, German and English. Bruno graduated with Honors with a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the University Ghent, Belgium.

Tiffany Boyd brings more than 15 years of project management and initiative leadership experience to the Vendavo management team.

In her role as Chief of Staff, she serves as an honest broker and fact teller when the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) needs a wide-ranging view without departmental considerations, and as a confidant without an organizational pre-determined agenda.  She acts as a delegate attendee for the CFO and SLT, providing communications on behalf of CFO and the SLT including emails, proposal, status,  and plans for major initiatives from SLT Sponsors. She is a sounding board to SLT for new ideas and initiatives as well as facilitator for CFO, SLT, or team members.

Tiffany has a strong track record of success in program and project leadership before Vendavo at Ascend Learning, eCollege, eTrade, and the Mercury Companies.  Tiffany earned a B.S. in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics from Winston-Salem State University, and holds a Project Management certification from Colorado State University.

Mitch is the Profit Evangelist at Vendavo, with 25+ years of experience in the technical, operational, marketing, and commercial arenas of the chemical industry. Prior to Vendavo, Mitch was with BASF and Orica in product marketing and business management, driving operational optimization, pricing excellence, and margin improvement, as well as personal engagement in high value sales negotiations. Mitch also has deep experience with raw materials supplier portfolio management having negotiated large scale and long-term agreements with leading suppliers.

Jason Covitz has served as Vice President, Strategic Finance, Pricing, and Analytics at CoverMyMeds since 2021. He is focused on high impact profit growth on $2B+ business with step change in Strategy, Business Insights, and flawless execution.

Scott Sinning is a Certified Pricing Professional and former VP of Pricing Strategy at Graybar Electric, a $8B wholesale distributor of electrical and data networking products.  He has experience leading pricing and commercial excellence initiatives including strategic planning, pricing software implementation, and aligning people to create positive change. His current work is focused on helping distributors and their leaders find the best ways to tackle pricing challenges and opportunities.

Alex Hoff has been with Vendavo since 2008 and has served in roles across pre-sales, professional services, marketing, and product management. In his current role as head of product management, Alex manages a talented team that brings innovative software solutions to market that enable B2B corporations to operationalize their commercial excellence strategies. Since 2018, Alex has led the transformation of Vendavo’s product portfolio from a first-generation on-premises software platform, to a portfolio of integrated cloud-native SaaS products.

Prior to working for Vendavo, Alex worked in various marketing and pricing roles for Fortune 500 companies in business services, retail/consumer goods, and freight transportation.

Alex earned his MBA with a Concentration in Marketing from the MJ Neeley School of Business at TCU where he also holds a B.S. in Psychology.  Alex was also among the early participants in the Certified Pricing Professional program from the Professional Pricing Society in 2008.