AMP24 Booklet

February 27th & 28th | Charlotte, NC

Annual Meeting ProForum Inclusive Innovation

CVMSDC Pillars

Our 4 PILLARS

Through the work of CVMSDC.org, Minority Business Enterprises (MBEs) and Corporate Partners are brought together for the mutual benefit of advancing and innovating Supplier Development ideals in the marketplace, elevating minority business participation levels, and transforming the economic landscape from the status quo to foster economic development and wealth creation within the CVMSDC network.

For every $1 invested with CVMSDC suppliers, we realize a $1.72 impact on the economy. This GDP impact and trickle-down effect comes from Jobs, Goods & Services, Incomes, Infrastructure, and Taxes.

We accomplish this work through four pillars of work: Advocacy, Development, Connection and Certification.

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ADVOCACY

With over 13,000 MBEs & Corporate Members nationwide, we support business growth nationally and regionally.

CONNECTION

We create ongoing connection opportunities for MBEs & corporations.

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DEVELOPMENT

We offer comprehensive training programs to enhance business owner knowledge.

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CERTIFICATION

We are the #1 Certification Agency for MBEs nationwide setting the industry standard for verification.

AGENDA - DAY 1

10a - 11a Pre-Certification Briefing

Portal Building (Room 232)

12p - 1:30p CVMSDC Board Training (New Board Members Only)

Portal Building (Room 242)

1p - 2p Post-Certification Briefing (Invitation Only)

Portal Building (Room 232)

2p - 4p CVMSDC Board Meeting (Invitation Only)

Portal Building (Room 242)

2p - 5p Registration

AGENDA - DAY 2

7a - 12:30p Registration

UNC Charlotte Marriott Hotel & Conference Center

8a - 9:30a Breakfast “Inclusive Measurements”

UNC Charlotte Marriott Hotel & Conference Center

10a - 12p State of the Council

UNC Charlotte Marriott Hotel & Conference Center

12p - 2p Luncheon “Inclusive Innovation” Panel

UNC Charlotte Marriott Hotel & Conference Center

2024 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Jonathan Wilkins

Board Chair Presidio

Cathy Williams

First Vice Chair Ferguson Enterprises

CORPORATE RING CHAIRS

Ashley Campbell

Triad (NC)

Volvo

Ronald Harvey

MBEIC Chair GCS Consulting, LLC

Debra White

Immediate Past Chair Sonoco

James Johnson

Midlands-Lowcountry-PeeDee (MLP-SC)

Enterprise Leasing Company

TJ Lewis

Metrolina (NC)

Ally Bank

Andrea Horne

Piedmont (NC)

SAS

Jerry Knighton, Jr.

Upstate (SC)

Clemson University

Julie Rakes

Virginia

Capital One

2024 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

AT-LARGE

Newport News Shipbuilding

Wells Fargo

Greg Laskey

Toyota

Wendell Brown Truist

Lissa Miller

Michelle Clatterbuck

Katina Adams Sentara Healthcare

MBEIC CHAIR

Dallas Dance

Virginia (VA) DDANCE Group

Derrick Davis

Metrolina (NC) Informatic Concepts

Les Lambert

Bank of America

Alex Moore

Triad (NC) Stratagon

Stephanie Vera

BMW

Anton Gunn

MLP RING Chair 937 Strategy Group,LLC

Troy Roberts

Piedmont (NC) APC, Inc.

Carlo White

Upstate (SC) White Holdings Trucking, LLC

MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT & CEO

Welcome to AMP24,

This year the 2024 CVMSDC business theme is “Inclusivity,” and the theme of AMP24 is Inclusive Innovation. AMP24 combines our Annual Meeting, which reflects on the previous year, highlights our accomplishments, and updates the network regarding future plans – combined with ProForum, which is our annual Corporate Only session to share best practices and increase supplier development opportunities at every level.

After reading the book “One Word That Will Change Your Life,” our team is placing emphasis on one personal word and one collective business word for the year. In the coming months, all of our work efforts will holistically focus on inclusivity. We encourage you to think about one word that will sum up your intentions for 2024 and share it with us on our Facebook page. At the same time, we look forward to your intentional inclusive actions as you engage with each other, bring forth opportunities, and grow our work.

Thank you to Atrium Health for being our Title Sponsor and for elevating your intentionality with CVMSDC.org. Each of our Corporate Partners makes an impact with every dollar invested in CVMSDC.org. For every $1 that we all spend with MBEs, we return a $1.74 impact back to the economy – meaning we all can make an economic impact.

As always, thank you to all of our Volunteer Board Members, our Corporate and MBE sponsors, our volunteers, and the to the entire CVMSDC team including our extended contract team. Together we have a stronger reach.

It is my hope that you walk away from AMP24 with new ideas on growing your impact; through measurement, innovation, opportunity, and most importantly an INCLUSIVE Mindset.

A special thanks to our outgoing Board Members and WELCOME to our incoming board members. Thank you all for taking the time to attend this event and for making a difference with each contract opportunity.

In appreciation and partnership,

MESSAGE FROM THE OUTGOING BOARD CHAIR

WOW, where did the time go? As my term as Board Chair for CVMSDC comes to a close, I am filled with gratitude and appreciation for the incredible journey we have embarked on together over the past two years. It has been an honor and privilege to serve alongside such dedicated and talented individuals.

I want to take a moment to express my deepest thanks to each and every one of you. Your unwavering support, commitment, and collaborative spirit have been the driving force behind the successes we've achieved during my tenure. Together, we navigated challenges, celebrated triumphs, and worked towards advancing the mission and goals of CVMSDC.

The accomplishments we've realized as a team are a testament to the collective effort and passion that each of you brings to the table. Whether it was shaping strategic initiatives, fostering partnerships, or overcoming obstacles (many), your dedication has made a lasting impact on our organization.

I am proud of what we've accomplished together, and I have no doubt that CVMSDC is well-positioned for continued success in the future. It is with a sense of fulfillment and optimism that I pass the gavel to my successor, Jonathan Wilkins, knowing that the organization is in capable hands.

Thank you for your trust, collaboration, and the countless hours you've dedicated to advancing the mission of CVMSDC. It has been a privilege to serve as your Board Chair, and I look forward to witnessing the continued growth and prosperity of our organization under new leadership.

Yours in Diversity,

Debra White CVMSDC Board Chair SONOCO

Atrium Health

Executive Vice President, Chief Community & Social Impact Officer

Health. Dr. Coltman has executive oversight of the organization’s strategy to advance the well-being of communities that Advocate Health serves by improving healthcare access, addressing social drivers of health and advancing health equity. Her areas of responsibility include Community Health, Community Engagement & Corporate Responsibility, Government Affairs, Social Strategy & Impact, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Executive Communications and the Advocate National Center for Health Equity.

Dr. Coltman has over 20 years of experience in the healthcare industry, having devoted most of her career to leading health equity and diversity initiatives. She joined Atrium Health in 2016 as Chief Diversity Officer before taking on the role of senior vice president and Chief Community & Social Impact Officer in 2019. Before joining Atrium Health, Dr. Coltman held dual appointments as Chief Diversity Officer for Greenville Health System, now known as Prisma Health, and the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville. Her research interests

Fernando Little

Atrium Health

Vice President, Chief Diversity Officer

As Chief Diversity Officer for Atrium Health, Fernando Little leads enterprise-wide collaboration in operations and academic programs. He works to foster diversity, equity, inclusion, culturally competent care, inclusive purchasing and language access for all patients, teammates and communities. His work also includes developing, implementing and monitoring programs and processes to sustain an inclusive culture across the enterprise.

Fernando first joined Atrium Health in 2002 and then again in 2014. He has served in a number ofkey leadership roles including serving as interim Chief Diversity Officer and recently Senior Human Resources Strategic Business Partner. Fernando led teammate engagement action plans resulting in statistically significant improvements at both Atrium Health and Mission Health. To further equity in health and healthcare, he helped design and implement Atrium Health’s Demographic Data Wall –a health disparities dashboard used to identify and monitor gaps in care and outcomes.

Prior to his current role, Fernando served on the Enterprise Diversity and Inclusion Executive Committee at Family Dollar Stores. As a key contributor to the diversity strategy at Family Dollar, he was instrumental in developing the framework for Employee Resource Groups and helped establish diversity pillars for the organization.This work led to the creation of the organization’s first Office of Diversity and Inclusion.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Appalachian State University and a master’s in Organizational Leadership from Pfeiffer University.Fernando has also earned the Certification in Organizational Inclusion and

Diversity designation from Michigan State University.

Fernando was recognized as one of the Top 100 Diversity Officers in 2021 by US National Diversity Council and in 2022 Atrium Health was named the number one company for women and diverse managers by Diversity MBA. He was also recognized by Becker’s Hospital Review as a Top 40 Diversity & Inclusion Executive to Know. In the community, Fernando serves on the Board of Directors for the United Way of North Carolina, the McCrory YMCA, and the Board of Advisors for the Beaver College of Health Sciences at Appalachian State University.In the diversity, equity, and inclusion space he serves on the North Carolina Hospital Association’s Health Equity Committee and the Andrea Harris Task Force commissioned by Governor Roy Cooper to address heath, race, environmental, and social justice.Fernando serves on several national CDO roundtables and is often invited to speak, moderate, and facilitate important discussions related to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

He is married to Tiffany Little, EdD and is the proud dad of two teenage sons –Camren and Chandler. He enjoys attending his sons’ basketball games, mentoring youth and young professionals, vacationing at Disney World and hanging out at the Great Wolf Lodge with his family. They are also avid Carolina Panther fans!Fernando is also a trained pianist and serves as the Director of Music and Arts at St. Mark’s United Methodist Church.

Conrad Emmerich

Atrium Health

Senior Vice President, Supply Chain Management and Chief Procurement Officer, Advocate Health President and CEO, Advocate Health Supply Chain Alliance

Conrad S. Emmerich is the Chief Procurement Officer of the newly combined Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health into Advocate Health, headquartered in Charlotte, NC. Prior to this, he was Chief Procurement Officer and Senior Vice President for Supply Chain Management, Laboratory and Imaging Services for Atrium Health. In addition, Emmerich also serves as the President and CEO of Atrium Health Supply Chain Alliance (AHSCA), a group purchasing organization.

implementation of RTLS at Wake Forest Baptist Health for asset tracking, temperature monitoring, patient throughput, and other workflow efficiencies con¬tinues to lead the industry. He also oversaw the country’s first unmanned aircraft (drone) delivery of a Covid-19 vaccine in August, 2021. In addition, the Journal of Healthcare Contracting recognized him as a Top 10 to watch in 2022.

In these roles, Emmerich leads the Supply Chain functions support¬ing more than 1.400 teammates in 67 hospitals, managing over $10B in contracted spend across four southeastern and two midwestern states.

Emmerich has over 20 years of leadership in healthcare supply chain. Prior to joining Atrium Health in November of 2020, he was the Senior Vice President of Business Services at Wake Forest Baptist Health, where he led Supply Chain, Pharmacy, Laboratory, and Imaging Services, along with Clinical Engineering, Food and Nutritional Services, and other functions supporting daily operations of the health system. He spent ten years at Wake Forest Baptist Health with progressively increasing roles of responsibility. Conrad previously worked in the University of Florida supply chain, Advent Health supply chain, and with Evanston Northwestern Healthcare in the greater Chicago area.

Notably, Emmerich led the supply chain implementation of Oracle Cloud across the Atrium Health enter¬prise, the largest deployment of the ERP product at that time. He was recognized by Modern Healthcare as a top 25 Innovator in 2019. His

Conrad holds a bachelor’s degree in communication studies from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL, and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Florida. He is highly active in his com¬munity of Winston-Salem, NC, sitting on several local boards and supporting not-for-profit organiza¬tions. In his personal time, he finds great joy in spending time with his wife, Lisa and their four children.

Manwell Bynum

Atrium Health

VP Head of Business Acceleration

equitable, with a focus on bolstering local and national spending in Atrium Health communities with the highest needs. He has administrative oversight of enterprise business diversity strategy, sustainable sourcing and economic mobility efforts aligned to enterprise initiatives, including the Pearl Innovation District and the Atrium Health Center of Business Diversity and Entrepreneurship.

Manwell is a corporate veteran with over 20 years of engineering, operations, business development, government relations and leadership experience, working for blue chip companies such as Abbott Laboratories, Warner Lambert and Pfizer. As founder of Connectivity Concepts, LLC, Manwell served as the President and CEO of the Charlotte-based research and economic development firm for 10 years. As a business development consultant, he has been responsible for promoting research capacity and economic development for the Office of Industry and Government Partnerships, directly contributing to business partner recruiting and retention,

Engineering Early College, a member of N.C. Biotech Advisory Committee for Biotechnology in Greater Charlotte, the advisory board for the NC Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation in STEM Pathways and Research Alliance (NC-LSAMP), and a member of the Economic Inclusion Task Force in Washington, D.C. In 2011, he received the Spirit of Shaw University Award from the Johnston County Arts Council for his service to Humanity, and in 2015 he was honored by YBM Leadership Alliance for his contributions to the Charlotte community. In 2023, Manwell represented North Carolina A&T as a NC HBCU Living Legend honoree. Most recently, he was appointed to the NC Board of Science, Technology and Innovation by the Governor of NC.

Manwell holds a Bachelor of Science degree with honors from North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, N.C., where he was the recipient of the National Alumni Scholarship, and a member of Epsilon Pi Tau Honor Society. He completed the Harvard Business School Association of Charlotte Management Development Program, and the Dartmouth Tuck School of Business Minority Executive Development Program. He is an American Leadership Forum Fellow and a member of Alpha

Manwell and his wife Laura are the proud parents of two daughters. Cameron, age 22, a recent graduate of NC A&T State University and daughter Gabrielle,

Roy Hawkins

Atrium Health

Senior Vice President, President North Area, Greater Charlotte Market Administration

As a seasoned healthcare executive with a passion for driving innovation and improving patient outcomes, Roy has consistently demonstrated exceptional leadership in the ever-evolving healthcare landscape. With a proven track record of strategic vision, operational excellence, and a commitment to delivering high-quality care, Mr. Hawkins stands at the forefront of shaping the future of healthcare.

He also served as Senior Vice President and CEO of Jackson North Medical Center. Roy joined Jackson Health after serving as the Chief Operating Officer of HCA’s Johnston-Willis Hospital in Richmond, Virginia. He also has experience in various VA healthcare organizations having served as COO and deputy medical center director at James A. Haley VA in Tampa, Florida.

Roy currently serves as area president for Atrium Health’s Greater Charlotte Market North Area. Roy’s responsibility encompasses Atrium Health Cabarrus, Atrium Health Lake Norman, Atrium Health Stanly, Atrium Health University City, and the free-standing emergency departments in Huntersville, Harrisburg, Mountain Island, and Kannapolis. His collaborative spirit and ecosystem leadership bring people together to drive operating excellence.

In Roy’s distinguished career as a healthcare executive, he has remained steadfast in his unwavering commitment to advancing health equity. With a deep understanding of the profound impact that disparities in healthcare access and outcomes can have on individuals and communities, he has championed initiatives, policies, and strategies aimed at ensuring that every person, regardless of their background or circumstances, has the opportunity to attain the highest level of health. Roy’s dedication to promoting health equity not only exemplifies his leadership in the healthcare industry but also reflects a profound sense of social responsibility that drives positive change and inclusivity in healthcare delivery.

Previously, Mr. Hawkins served as Chief Executive Officer of Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, FL.

Roy is board certified in healthcare management as an American College of Healthcare Executive Fellow and is a Past President of the National Association of Health Services Executives. He earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Howard University and a Master of Health Administration degree from Florida International University.

that are economically viable and socially equitable. With a focus on the purchase of services and products for the healthcare system across multiple clinical and non-clinical categories, these efforts result in the advancement of diverse supplier purchasing power, increased opportunities, and elevated spend for minority-, veteran-, woman-owned, and LGBTQ-owned businesses, and align to system-wide goals and promote connectivity between Atrium Heath and its communities served.

A lifelong learner, Kaddra graduated from Gardner-Webb University with a Bachelor of Science in psychology and a Master of Business Administration, respectively. Further, she is a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt from Central Piedmont Community College, completed a certificate in Women’s Entrepreneurship from Cornell University, finished the Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion in the Workplace Certificate Program at the University of South Florida, accomplished advanced training in Project Management from the University of Miami, is a Certified Associate of Project Management

Kaddra’s professional interests includes her passion for research, small business mentoring, inclusive leadership, and social impact advocacy.

Kaddra was born and raised in Shelby, North Carolina. She is married to Darrius Hall and together they have a 1-year-old son, Darrius II who is affectionately known as Deuce. In her spare time, Kaddra enjoys reading, traveling, trying new recipes, DIY projects, interior designing, is an avid Hard Rock Café memorabilia collector and a “die hard” Duke Blue Devil.

Supplier Diversity Program Lead, Southeast Division

Jesse Tanas

Atrium Health

Program Manager - Supplier Diversity

Jesse Tanas is a dedicated advocate for diversity and inclusion within the realm of supply chain management. With a robust background in procurement and a passion for fostering equitable opportunities, Jesse serves as the Program Manager of Supplier Diversity at Advocate Health, a leading healthcare organization committed to enhancing the well-being of the communities it serves. Driven by the belief that diverse suppliers bring unique perspectives and value to the supply chain, Jesse has spearheaded initiatives aimed at increasing the representation of minority-owned, women-owned, veteran-owned, and LGBTQ+-owned businesses within Advocate Health's supplier network.

Jesse's journey in supply chain management began with a solid educational foundation, earning a dual Master’s degree in Business Administration and Healthcare Administration from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Jesse gained hands-on experience through various roles in procurement and vendor management across diverse industries, honing expertise in strategic sourcing, contract negotiations, and supplier relationship management.

Jesse has successfully developed and implemented supplier diversity programs that not only meet business objectives, but also contribute to the broader goal of fostering economic growth and empowerment within underrepresented communities. At Advocate Health, Jesse works closely with internal stakeholders, external partners, and diverse suppliers to create a robust ecosystem that fosters collaboration, innovation, and sustainability.

Jesse is actively involved in community outreach programs, mentorship initiatives, and industry associations dedicated to advancing diversity and inclusion in supply chain management. As the Program Manager of Supplier Diversity at Advocate Health, Jesse continues to pave the way for a more inclusive and resilient supply chain, where diversity is a priority and a driving force for success and prosperity for all stakeholders involved.