Experienced Finance professional with an emphasis on Procurement best practices. Chris has mastered several areas of finance including equity and commodity market trading, insurance, banking, and capital financing. Through a decade long career across multiple industries one skill set remained constant, effective use of persuasive language and negotiation.As Gartner research suggests, technical knowledge is not enough to drive high performing teams. During a two year stint in Australia, Chris worked with C-suite executives from the ASX200 companies to enhance technical rigor of process and better engage stakeholders to align to business objectives across the Finance, Audit, Risk, and Procurement functions.Now based out of California, Chris is focused on supporting Procurement professionals in Gartner's membership pool. Procurement has the opportunity to be one of the most strategic functions in the business, however challenges in stakeholder perception, alignment with business objectives, and slow adoption to digitization have often pigeon-holed Procurement as a support function. Chris leverages research and insights from Gartner to help executives derive strategy, streamline processes with management, and train key competencies to front-line staff.Specialties: category management, supplier relationship management, Procurement talent, strategic sourcing, Finance talent, Risk, Audit, Shared Services, Strategy, equipment lease financing, banking, checking accounts, savings accounts, loans, lines of credit, home equity lines of credit, online banking, budgeting, building wealth, acquiring appreciating assets, solar, sustainability, investing, sales, commodities, real estate, budgeting, community relations, computer skills, contract management, customer relations, sales