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Tara Ramsey is the Senior Director, Category Lead, IT Infrastructure and Application Development and Maintenance. Tara has global category leader responsibilities for $1.8 billion in IT Infrastructure and ADM spend, as well as responsibility for the EMEA and ASPAC IT Procurement teams. Tara began her career at Johnson & Johnson in 2002 at the Consumer Products Company, supporting Marketing and Sales Procurement. Tara relocated to Johnson & Johnson Vision Care Europe in 2005, creating the first Indirect Procurement organization which consolidated spend across the region, driving multi-million-dollar cost reduction projects. After 2 years overseas, Tara’s career led her to Jacksonville, FL where she was promoted to Commodity Manager, Packaging and Resins, and then to Group Manager for Direct Materials Sourcing and Supplier Engineering for Vision Care. While in Procurement, Tara led cross-sector and global teams focused on cost improvement, drove down raw material inventory numbers, and improved Customer Service levels to manufacturing areas. In 2011 Tara joined Vision Care Customer and Logistics Services (CLS), where she managed North American Distribution and Warehousing. Tara focused her team on being a key competitive advantage by serving our customers more efficiently and effectively, ensuring an overall quality experience while achieving year over year improvement in operational and financial metrics. In 2015, Tara and her family relocated to New Jersey to join the NA Regional Transportation Organization (CLS NA), as the Director of North America Transportation Sourcing. Tara was responsible for the sourcing and supplier selection for the NA transportation network, including the Consumer, Pharmaceutical, and Medical Device businesses for both domestic and international freight. In 2018 Tara then moved back to the Procurement pillar in Supply Chain and was the Head of Consumer Health Supply Chain Procurement, North America. Tara was responsible for the sourcing, supplier relationship management, and had full financial accountability for our NA Chemicals, Packaging, and External Manufacturing supplier network. Tara holds a BA in Political Science from Saint Peter’s University and her MBA from Liberty University. Tara is a passionate leader focused on people development, strong customer connections and experiences, and works for authentic and lasting relationships with her colleagues.

Sylvia Fouhy is Vice President Supply Chain Deliver and Digital Transformation for Global Medical Devices at Johnson & Johnson. In this role she is responsible for developing the last mile route to market strategy for J&J’s $27Bn Medical Devices business and for transforming the overall MD Supply Chain into an “always on” supply chain with end to end digital connectivity from suppliers right through to over 26,000 customers globally. Her responsibilities include understanding the evolution of the global Medical Devices market and ensuring that J&J has the footprint and digital infrastructure in place to meet next generation requirements of the rapidly evolving Medical Devices industry. Sylvia started her career with Johnson & Johnson as a Management Accountant in its Janssen Pharmaceutical business based in Cork, Ireland. Whilst continuing to be based in Cork, she progressed through a number of global Finance and Supply Chain positions of increasing responsibility within both its the Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices sectors. In 2014, Sylvia moved her family to Switzerland to lead the Johnson & Johnson $4Bn Consumer Supply Chain organization in EMEA, with overall responsibility to support the growth of that business. In 2017, she finally made the move to the US to lead the Supply Chain Deliver organization, supporting the J&J US business, before transitioning to her current strategy role. She lives with her husband and daughter in Princeton, New Jersey. A graduate in Business from the Cork Institute of Technology, Sylvia is a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.

Allison Schulz is the Senior Manager, NA Deliver Business Development, currently serving as the North America Distribution Program Lead for the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 Vaccine. In her role, Allison is responsible for leading the Supply Chain-Deliver workstream for strategic projects, including Acquisition and Divestiture activity across Medical Device, Pharmaceutical, Vision and Consumer sectors. She is accountable for integrating order to cash deliverables across customer service, contracts, distribution, quality, and transportation, in alignment with the broader supply chain and commercial teams. Allison’s J&J career spans four years with Deliver North America, driving complex analytics to support Global Surgery distribution and transportation, serving as Chief of Staff for the NA Deliver Leadership Team, and leading several successful Acquisitions & Divestiture initiatives for NA Deliver. Prior to working for Johnson & Johnson, Allison spent nearly 7 years at L’Oréal USA where she held roles in demand planning, affiliate customer service, global supply planning, and as manager of the manufacturing supply chain launch team. In her last role at L’Oréal, Allison was responsible for project management and production planning for Hair and Skincare, with a scope inclusive of site transfers, value analysis, artwork changes, new product launches, and reformulations across internal and external manufacturing sites. Allison holds a bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management from the Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland and a minor in commercial Spanish. With a passion for coaching early career development, Allison has served as a J&J University recruiting lead and maintains several ongoing mentorship relationships within her network.