Discussing the Challenges Women of Color Face Working in STEM with Johnson & Johnson

Jenelle P. Sweet is Director, Consumer Account Management for Janssen Supply Chain (JSC). She is accountable to manage the overall relationship between JSC and the Consumer and Consumer Medical Device Sectors within Johnson & Johnson, accountable for the interactions between sectors regarding all aspects of product-supply from the JSC network. Previously, she was a Director, Value Stream Management, responsible for building life cycle strategies to optimize the supply chain performance through end-to-end product ownership for a portfolio of Neuroscience, Pain and Infectious Disease Products. Jenelle has also served as the Decision Support Lead for the JSC Leadership Team, providing support to the Vice President, Janssen Supply Chain. Jenelle is in her 14th year with J&J with cross functional experiences in both Medical Device and Pharma, in the US, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. Notably, leading operations for two business units in Solids and Parenteral Pharmaceutical Production and has startup, shutdown, and innovative technology experience. Jenelle holds a Masters of Business Administration and a Bachelors of Business Administration from Florida A&M University, is APICS CPIM, Six Sigma Green Belt, and Design Excellence Black Belt Certified.

Vicky is currently a Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives at Janssen Supply Chain in Johnson & Johnson. She has 25+ years of supply chain experience in the chemical, consumer and pharmaceutical industries and is recognized for program, process and organizational leadership specializing in driving high performing cross-functional teams to deliver business results. Vicky develops future leaders through mentoring and her participation in J&J Hispanic Organization for Leadership & Achievement. She shares her passion of STEM through her contributions to J&J’s WiSTEM2D youth outreach programs. She is a Lifetime Member of the Society of Women Engineers. Vicky has an Exec Master’s from UPenn SEAS/Wharton and a BS in Elec Eng/BA Managerial Studies from Rice University. Vicky earned a Black Belt in Design Excellence and is an alumnus of Smith College Women’s Executive Leadership Program.

Nima Subramanian is currently the General Manager of Janssen Biotech, Malvern manufacturing site where she has the responsibility for providing leadership and strategic direction to the site operations. In her role, she ensures that the site develops and executes plans in alignment with the network and commercial strategies, and continues to strengthen its culture of competitiveness, safety, quality, compliance and customer service. Nima previously served as the Senior Director of Partnerships & External Supply (PES) for the Pharmaceuticals Manufacturing network within MTO. In this role, Nima led a global small molecule fill finish organization with production activities across 40 external sites. Nima joined Johnson & Johnson in 2008 and has diverse supply chain experience across many of our J&J’s businesses. As Director ESI Reliability, Nima developed and deployed global reliability improvement programs for ESI. Prior to joining Janssen, she held operations and supply chain strategy roles in J&J’s medical device segment. Prior to joining Johnson and Johnson, Nima was a program manager at Boeing Corporation, and held manufacturing and process engineering roles at Nokia.Nima has a Master of Business Administration and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She also holds an M.S. in Industrial Engineering from The Ohio State University, and a Bachelor of Engineering from Anna University in Chennai, India.

Shalot Palmer is the Head of Consumer Health Quality Strategic Initiatives. She leads a team responsible for the strategic quality initiatives delivering value for the Consumer Health transformation. She has over 20 years of cross functional industry experience in Quality and Supply Chain across multiple sectors of J&J Medical Device & Consumer as well as international experience while living overseas in Switzerland.