Iouri Sverdlov (Past Speaker)

Iouri joined CSL Behring’s Global CAPEX Sourcing team in Bern, Switzerland in June 2018 as a Global Category Lead, and currently supports a number of categories, such as Automation, Fill&Finish, Visual Inspection, Packaging and Track&Trace. Prior to CSL Behring, Iouri held a role of Global Category Manager for indirect categories with focus on IT and Professional Services in two largest brewers, SABMiller and Anheuser-Busch InBev, and before that his procurement career took form in Rio Tinto, a multinational miner, where here he started as a team lead, based in Montreal, Canada, supporting IT procurement and then business process outsourcing and process transformation projects. Prior to his ongoing journey through the worlds of procurement, outsourcing and business process optimization, over the period of 10+ years Iouri pursued his career in the world of IT in Toronto and Ottawa, Canada, in the roles of a software developer, project manager and satellite network engineer. He has a Master’s degree in Computer Engineering and an MBA.