Managing one global business in an ever-changing world is tough enough but managing three?! Now, that requires nearly superhuman leadership skills.  

Meet Sri Mudunuri, the co-founder of IT People Corporation, Chainyard, & Trust Your Supplier, who has been making a name for herself in the technology, staffing, and services industries. With 23 years of experience in the staffing and services industry and her desire to provide an end-to-end solution for her customers, Sri was moved to co-found Trust Your Supplier. Her motivation to become a leader stemmed from two female trailblazers, Indira Gandhi and Jayalalithaa, who played a significant role in shaping the future state of India. From a business perspective, Indra Nooyi, PepsiCo’s former CEO, and chairperson is Sri’s inspiration. 

Apart from being a co-founder, Sri also plays multiple roles in the organizations she leads. As a CFO, she manages financial activities and ensures the balance sheet lines up. As a President, she is responsible for board meetings, compliance with state and federal laws, and managing certifications from organizations such as WBENC and NMSDC.  In addition to all this, she also manages the staffing side of the business, Workforce Solutions, and keeps the recruitment team on their toes. 

The most significant obstacle Sri has faced in her career is proving herself to get the respect she (and all women) deserve. She noted that women must do more to get the same respect as men with the same title. But Sri’s persistence, ability to not take things personally, and work with trusted partners have helped her succeed. 

Sri’s advice to women who aspire to become leaders is simple: follow your dreams, be decisive, and don’t be afraid to make tough decisions. Sometimes conversations and decisions are tough, but we’re tougher.  

Let’s continue celebrating women’s history month by empowering and inspiring women to be anything and everything they want. 

In 2023, women are defying expectations and shattering glass ceilings 👏 every 👏 single 👏 day. And Michelle Armstrong is a prime example of this. Michelle, who hails from Ireland, has been named Chief Relationship Officer at Trust Your Supplier, a position that requires her to excel in building strong relationships with clients, colleagues, and partners. And excel she most certainly does.

When you meet Michelle, it’s easy to see why she was chosen for this role. Her kind and intuitive nature makes her an expert in understanding and connecting with others. Her ability to know the minute details of all her customers’ schedules is a testament to her excellent organizational skills and attention to detail. It’s no wonder she’s been so successful in building strong relationships with people from all walks of life.

At Trust Your Supplier, Michelle leverages her exemplary change management skillset to analyze issues, devise continuous process improvements, and incorporate business process initiatives to increase efficiency and streamline operations. She excels in building strong relationships with clients and third-party vendors and is highly skilled in translating their business needs into key features for our product development team.

But Michelle’s success is not just about her skills and experience. It’s also about her determination and resilience in the face of adversity. She grew up in a society that expected women to marry farmers and take care of the home. Yet, she refused to be held back by these expectations and chose to follow her own path, which has taken her all over the world.

Michelle’s appointment as Chief Relationship Officer is a win for all women striving to break normative boundaries and succeed in their chosen fields. Michelle is a role model for women everywhere, showing that it’s possible to have a successful career while also prioritizing family and personal relationships.

Despite her busy schedule, Michelle has been married to her husband for 30 years and has gracefully raised strong, independent, and humble children while traveling around the globe. She embodies the idea that balancing personal and professional life is possible while excelling in both.

In a world where women are still fighting for equality, Michelle’s success is a shining example of what’s possible. She proves that with determination, resilience, and a willingness to break through societal expectations, women can achieve anything they set their minds to. We can’t wait to see what she’ll accomplish next.

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We are thrilled to introduce our new Senior Vice President (SVP) of Global Marketing, Stephanie Werner, MBA, PCM®, CDMP, who has joined our team at Trust Your Supplier. Stephanie is a seasoned professional with extensive experience in marketing strategy and execution, brand management, demand generation, and product positioning.

Stephanie brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to our organization, having worked for nearly 20 years in various leadership roles in marketing and communications across multiple industries. She has a proven track record of driving growth, increasing market share, and building high-performance teams.

“I am beyond excited to join the incredible Trust Your Supplier team. I am eager to spearhead the development and implementation of our global marketing strategy. I get to support the growth of this amazing organization and launch new solutions to meet the evolving needs of our customers. I am truly grateful for this opportunity and can’t wait to work alongside such a fantastic team.” ~Stephanie Werner

Please join us in welcoming Stephanie to our team. We are so excited to have her on board and look forward to working with her to drive further growth and success for our organization.

“Rowing harder doesn’t help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction.” -Kenichi Ohmae 

Our Trust Your Supplier (TYS) platform doesn’t remain static. Data, market conditions, and new regulations are constantly in flux, which means the information our customers need invariably changes on a regular basis. 

With a distinct ability to anticipate and scan the global environment for signals of change, Shyam Adivi serves as our Director of Product Strategy and Solutions. As a strategic leader, Shyam engages with our customers and partners to determine the direction of TYS’s roadmap.  

Shyam’s strategy around features, timings, and offerings is often influenced by external occasions and regulations that affect procurement, supply chain, risk and compliance management, and digital transformation. 

With these insights, Shyam aligns our customers’ needs with a streamlined development process. The results are an agile, innovative platform that provides continuous value and business results for our customers and partners. 

We are excited to welcome Joseph Altieri to the Trust Your Supplier (TYS) team! Joe joins us as Sr. Director of Advisory Practice and is responsible for worldwide sales execution and advisory practice strategy.
 
Bringing more than a decade of experience in software sales and business development, Joseph’s focus is on building quality relationships while presenting solutions to solve complex problems. For the last ten years, Joseph has served in several roles at a logistics software company catering to the K-12 school district space. Hired as a Regional Sales representative and soon promoted to Director of Sales, he found passion in managing and training a team of Business Development representatives. After seven years in this role, Joseph moved from Upstate NY to Raleigh, NC where he took on the role of Sales Consultant for the same software company. 

“I love being in the business of sales when I can offer true solutions to real-life problems faced by businesses. It brings me great joy to build relationships and offer services that make a difference in a client’s organization. I look forward to bringing my skill set to TYS as we expand our reach across industries with a network and platform that truly solves a common pain point for large companies: managing a large supplier base and all the data that inherently comes with it”.
 
We are delighted that Joseph has joined our advisory team to ensure the success of our customers, increase our global reach and facilitate the growing interest in TYS. 

We are excited to welcome Nick Picone to the Trust Your Supplier team! Nick joins us as the Vice President of Advisory Practice and is responsible for worldwide sales execution and advisory practice strategy.  

Bringing more than a decade of experience in the business software industry. For the last six years, Nick has served as an independent management consultant and spend management strategy advisor to Fortune 500 companies, hedge funds, private equity, and institutional investors. Before that, he was the Director of Strategic Sales at Coupa Software as the company scaled to an IPO. View his full bio here.   

“My main priority is ensuring the success of our customers as we rapidly expand TYS’s footprint across the globe. Our supplier management platform defines disruptive innovation and will play a critical role in securing the future of the global supply chain. I look forward to working alongside our leadership team as we take TYS’s success to the next level.” 

Nick earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration with an emphasis in Finance and Entrepreneurship from Baldwin-Wallace University.  

We are delighted that Nick has joined our executive team to ensure the success of our customers, increase network adoption and establish new partnerships. 

“DevOps is not a goal, but a never-ending process of continual improvement.” ~Jez Humble 

As a SaaS company, we are continually rolling out new features to improve the experience and outcomes for our customers. Each time enhancements are made to the code of our blockchain platform, our goal is to make updates without sacrificing reliability or disrupting the customer experience. 

A smooth transition is accomplished with the help of our DevOps team – Sandeep Matharu and Joel Vemula. Together with the collaboration of our developers and IT operations teams, they have automated the deployment of new code, which is also scanned for security vulnerabilities. They are responsible for critical components of the infrastructure and are instrumental in combining code and managing & maintaining the TYS application and its components in development and production environments. 

Communication and knowledge sharing are fundamental to the successful deployment of the new code. As a team, they architect together and then divide & conquer daily operations or work on bugs in the code..  

Sandeep brings a passion for self-learning as he is presented with new challenges. In particular, he has enjoyed learning about blockchain technology since joining the TYS team. 

Joel enjoys the teamwork it takes to successfully troubleshoot bugs and errors, and gains satisfaction from using automation to make everyone’s job a little easier. 

Together they both agreed that their most significant learning opportunity so far has been deploying the TYS application to the China region. Their research taught them a lot about deploying the TYS application and its components, in a highly regulated AWS China region.    

Sandeep Matharu and Joel Vemula are a valued part of the Trust Your Supplier team. Their expertise and diligence give customers a flawless upgrade to new TYS tools and features. 

“A skilled Business Analyst draws out the needs that are not yet known.”  ~The Business Analyst Doctor 

Our Business Analyst (BA) team plays a key role in bridging the gap between our technology team and the business needs of our clients. Nipun Dogra and Dhirendra Singh are superstars when it comes to understanding our end user experience and the code that’s “behind the curtain” to seamlessly include new features or modules to Trust Your Supplier. 

As part of their roles, Nipun and Dhirendra are highly skilled communicators and facilitators and are meticulous in designing and testing the solutions. Each project begins with client meetings to review their needs, followed by a detailed analysis of user workflows and working with our UX designer to create the mockups of the screens. From there, our BAs write user stories and review all aspects of the design (front end and back end) with the technical team. Once in development, the BAs stay involved with clarifications and issue resolution and they also perform final testing of the feature after the QA team has completed their testing.   

Nipun describes his role as a “translator” between business clients and the technical development team. He enjoys solving the “puzzle” and looking for the resolution that will make life easier for the client. 

Dhirendra notes that a major part of his role is to be a liaison, keeping everyone in sync. He loves seeing the output of his work after the design has been launched. 

In terms of working together, they divide and conquer. Often working on the same project, they will work on different requirements that align to their strengths. Both enjoy brainstorming and providing suggestions or approaches for the user studies. They also constantly look for ways to improve the application for both our buyers and our suppliers on the platform.  

During the last year while working on projects for Trust Your Supplier, both Nipun and Dhirendra have felt challenged and excited about the potential to have a major impact on procurement, which is a new industry for both. As Dhirendra notes, “It’s really exciting to see the maturing of the tool and the project is going to keep getting better.”  Nipun echoes the sentiment and adds, “Working on this tool is like an upgrade to our knowledge. Every requirement I work on has given me so much knowledge over the last year.” 

Nipun and Dhirendra’s skills in observation, data gathering, and analysis make them a valued part of the Trust Your Supplier team. 

“It takes months to find a customer, seconds to lose one.” 

Vikram Muroor leads our highly skilled Support Team. This team assists and advocates for customers in their discovery, use, optimization, and troubleshooting of our platform. It’s not the stereotypical support role that Vikram plays, he also has a pivotal role in shaping the product design and enhancement as he is the face of Trust Your Supplier (TYS) to our end user communities. Vikram effectively understands the feedback from our customers and then communicates to our internal teams for fixes and improvements to our system. Vikram’s nickname at Trust Your Supplier is Mr. Dependable. It seems like we have clones of Vikram as he is available in all time zones.  

What’s Vikram’s favorite thing about working for TYS? “I enjoy collaborating with all our teams: Business Analysts, Product Team, Sales & Marketing, QAs, Development, and others. Everyone on the team is flexible, open to new ideas, and provides insightful feedback. There is never a dull moment and employees are viewed as the greatest asset of the company. We are encouraged to maximize our abilities and potential.” The family atmosphere at Trust Your Supplier is what drives Vikram to work every day. 

Vikram’s creativity in solving problems and ability to collaborate effectively makes him a valued member of the Trust Your Supplier team.  

Each month the Trust Your Supplier network highlights a trusted supplier that has a relationship with one or more of our buying organizations. This month, we would like to introduce you to Novitas.  

Novitas provides flexible, tailored, and cost-effective change assurance training solutions for all change projects and digital transformations, in any geography. With their training quality feedback always receiving a greater than 9 out of 10 rating, their customers appreciate Novitas’ understanding that “People experience change, not technology.” 

The pace of enterprise and digital transformation and change has quickened beyond what any of us could have predicted and shows no sign of slowing. How your people react and respond to these changes will determine project success. Partnering with Novitas and applying our services will deliver that success. 

Novitas will work closely with you to understand the nature of the change, the scale of the business impact, the capabilities and behaviors that will drive adoption success and develop a right-fit training strategy that will empower your workforce change literacy. 

We cater for one off change projects all the way up to global multi-site changes programs that incorporate several sub project deployments. We work across all geographies and languages. 

Want to learn more about Novitas or interested in their services? Reach out and connect: 

Website: www.novitas.ie 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/novitas-ltd/  

Email: [email protected]  

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