With over 25 years of executive experience in sourcing and vendor management, I am the President of C. Ellis Consulting Group LLC, a certified Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise, Minority Business Enterprise, and Women Business Enterprise. I provide strategic business and supplier management consulting to clients across various industries, such as Healthcare, Financial Services, High Tech, Transit, Aerospace and Education. My global experience spans disciplines such as IT, Business and Clinical software, Outsourced/Professional Services, and Market Data. My mission is to help clients optimize their vendor strategy and governance, leverage supplier diversity, and achieve operational excellence and cost savings.Prior to establishing my company, I built and lead high-performing teams that delivered value, improved vendor service and performance, and innovation to my internal clients. This was accomplished by building internal relationships with key stakeholders to understand their business requirements and by partnering and coordinating with corporate counsel, corporate procurement, Risk Management and Finance. I also established Quarterly and Annual Executive business reviews with key suppliers to foster a collaborative relationship that treated Suppliers as an extension of the organization who shared in achieving company goals and objectives. Some of my core competencies include vendor risk, supplier relationship management, financial management, category management, contract management, negotiations, asset management, and strategic sourcing.Some of my professional highlights include delivering over $500M in Opex savings, leading RFPs for services valued over $700M, co-authoring a vendor management curriculum certified by the Program Management Institute, implementing a SAM program supporting 12k Contact Center agents and over $7.2M in cost avoidance, Developing quarterly vendor risk profiles for Top 20 IT vendors to assess and mitigate financial, operational and compliance risk using a combination of financial, legal, performance, and ownership metrics which were identified as "Best-in-Class” by KPMG North America.