I AM CO-FOUNDER AND CEO OF HICX , THE SUPPLIER EXPERIENCE MANAGEMENT PLATFORM

COSTAS XYLOYIANNIS :

I AM CO-FOUNDER AND CEO OF HICX , THE SUPPLIER EXPERIENCE MANAGEMENT PLATFORM

» My name is Costas Xyloyiannis , and I am co-founder and CEO of HICX , the Supplier Experience Management platform . HICX is a growing company , and my responsibility is to drive the vision and strategy , whilst building a top-notch leadership team . A large part of my role is also to make sure that whatever we ’ re doing as a company is scalable .

» I ended up in procurement a little by chance . While still studying for my computer science degree , my co-founder Hassan and I had the opportunity to work on a project for Novartis . To cut a long story short , the Novartis CEO was very forwardthinking . He had just signed up to the UN Global Compact at the time , and asked the CPO to ensure that their suppliers , some 150,000 of them , were compliant . Naturally , the CPO wondered who all these suppliers were ! He needed our help in automating their supplier data , and thanks to this brief , our first ever data platform for a business , ‘ The Global Supplier Database ’, was born .