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SUSTAINABILTY JONATHAN LAVERENTZ , HEAD OF DIGITAL INNOVATION , TRADESHIFT , INC .
I ’ m responsible for all aspects of product marketing and strategic positioning at Tradeshift . I am passionate about uncovering ways our platform can empower strong , sustainable , and healthy relationships between buyers and suppliers . and redundant supply chain an organisation is more able to impose greater restrictions or even discontinue a business relationship with a supplier that may have a moral ambiguity to the way they manufacture or acquire goods or services .
“ In choosing to rely on a static supply chain , a buyer makes a deliberate choice to tether themselves to a supplier . In doing so , they must face ‘ guilt by association ’. Whether they choose to do business in an ethical or moral way is of little consequence . By continuing to do business with a supplier who acts irresponsibly , they are actually financing – and thereby supporting – the negative operational practices .”
COSTAS XYLOYIANNIS , CEO AND CO-FOUNDER HICX
As CEO and co-founder of HICX , the supplier experience management platform , my goal is to transform the way major companies think about supplier experience and data .
HICX is a fast-growing company , so it ’ s my responsibility to drive the vision and strategy , to ensure everything we do is scalable , and to build a great leadership team .
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