Supply Chain Interview The Supply Chain Paradigm/Shift Vincent Matozzo, CEO & Managing Partner, Paradigm Venture Group LLC
Shawn Kenavan, Managing Director, SPK Consulting LLC
This is a very different and exciting Value Analysis Leadership Interview that we conducted with Vince Matozzo and Shaun Kenavan who are the principles of the Paradigm Venture Group. Vin and Shaun have been knee deep in working with healthcare organizations to help solve many of their challenges and disruptions but also aiding them in their strategic visions for the future. They are helping organizations to shape a whole new future based on technology with smart tech like artificial intelligence, machine learning, and so much more. Let’s learn more from Vin and Shaun. HVAUM: Tell us a little bit about your history in the supply chain and value analysis worlds. VM: My background was first as a buyer in procurement, in positions in and out of healthcare. I was trained in Lean/Six Sigma through GE and attained a master black belt status. All along I was always really curious about applying that to my role in procurement and in
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supply chain. Supply chain turned into an accidental career from my original path of forensic science. Those skills have come in handy in my roles as a Chief Contracting Officer, as a Director of Strategic Sourcing, and as an Executive Director in supply chain. I not only worked in the sourcing and contracting side but also in transforming multiple supply chain value analysis groups. I focused on creating interoperability from the receiving dock to the C-suite table, whether it be developing metrics, giving those tap times, and then evolving with the technology to further the supply chain to C-Suite collaborations. I am a huge proponent of applying technology tools to the supply chain like Microsoft Excel and Minitab all the way through Crystal Reports with the goal of taking workflow, project management, and collaboration software and programming these to new levels of interoperability in areas within healthcare that have taken a very long time to evolve. For me, it was being passionate about the way we automated work getting done, whether it was an expiring contract report or a back-order report, connecting that across those
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