Global Procurement Manager · MBA · AI Founder
The operator PE-backed manufacturers call when they've closed a deal and need to build procurement infrastructure that LPs can actually audit. $300M in global spend managed. Full cost waterfall models built from scratch. AI agents running on Snowflake + Claude that make vendor lifecycle management automated, auditable, and human-in-the-loop.
Current Focus
Domestic manufacturing is back — but the procurement infrastructure to support it isn't. Non-lithium battery startups, reshoring plays, and PE-backed industrials need vendor lifecycle systems that scale with them, survive LP diligence, and don't require a team of twenty to run. That's the problem I solve.
From supplier onboarding to contract terms, SLA tracking, breach detection, and renewal triggers — built auditable from day one. Every action logged, every approval human-reviewed.
Full BOM → material → labor → overhead → CM margin → landed cost. Built to survive PE diligence and update in real time as raw material prices, energy costs, and DRAM inputs move.
AI agents on Snowflake + Claude that monitor supplier performance, flag anomalies, draft contract actions, and queue everything for human approval before it moves. Zero new software cost.
Writing
Manufacturing hit a four-year expansion high in July while DRAM prices escalated 13–18% QoQ. If you're sourcing BMS components for a battery program, that combination isn't coincidental.
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If you're standing up a vendor function from scratch, preparing for an LP review, or trying to make a two-person procurement team punch like a twenty-person one — let's talk.
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