10 Elanco procurement leaders
Diogo Chaves, Chief Procurement Officer at Elanco, opens this list of Elanco procurement leaders, who also include senior directors of manufacturing, indirect, R&D and operations excellence procurement and directors of API, marketing, G&A and logistics procurement. A reader can learn how procurement leaders work at Elanco from people who have held the role.
Professionals to explore
Anne Williams
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, R&D & External Manufacturing Procurement · Elanco
Anne Williams has been Senior Director, R&D & External Manufacturing Procurement at Elanco since August 2026, based in Carmel, Indiana, and also lists roles at Elanco as M&Q Senior Strategy Advisor since 2024 and Global Sourcing Director, Capital, Engineering and MRO since 2020. Anne Williams was Supply Chain Manager at Ophir-Energy from 2016 to 2019.
Bernie Wang
LinkedInExperience: Director – Global API Procurement · Elanco
Bernie Wang has been Director – Global API Procurement at Elanco since April 2021, based in Carmel, Indiana. Bernie Wang was Global Category Sourcing Leader – APIs at Elanco from 2015 to 2022, a global sourcing consultant for Elanco External Manufacturing from 2012 to 2014 and a global sourcing consultant in manufacturing procurement at Eli Lilly and Company from 2007 to 2012.
Diogo Chaves
LinkedInExperience: Chief Procurement Officer · Elanco
Diogo Chaves has been Chief Procurement Officer at Elanco since May 2023, based in Wicklow, Ireland. Diogo Chaves was Sr. Director Procurement R&D and External Manufacturing at Elanco from 2019 to 2023, Director Global External Manufacturing at Elanco from 2018 to 2019 and Global Sourcing Category Lead Wipes & Fem Care at Johnson & Johnson from 2007 to 2016.
Dirk Riedel
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director Procurement Operations Excellence · Elanco
Dirk Riedel has been Senior Director Procurement Operations Excellence at Elanco since December 2020, based in Leverkusen, Germany. Dirk Riedel was Head of Procurement Business Partner Directs at Elanco in 2020, Director Procurement Animal Health at Bayer from 2019 to 2020 and from 2016 to 2018, and Interim Head of Procurement Australia New Zealand at Bayer in 2018.
Jennifer Black
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, Global Indirect Procurement · Elanco
Jennifer Black has been Senior Director, Global Indirect Procurement at Elanco since June 2020, based in the Greensboro area, and describes overseeing a team that manages sourcing and supplier relationships for non-manufacturing spend. Jennifer Black was Director, Global IT Procurement at Elanco from 2018 to 2020 and Associate Director, Indirect Procurement at Novartis from 2013 to 2015.
John Gate
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director (Global) Procurement: Internal Manufacturing, Site Capex & Services, Logistics, R&D · Elanco
John Gate has been Senior Director (Global) Procurement: Internal Manufacturing, Site Capex & Services, Logistics, R&D at Elanco since May 2023, based in the United Kingdom. John Gate was Senior Director (Global), Procurement, Internal Manufacturing and Logistics at Elanco from 2022 to 2023, Director, Global R&D Procurement at Elanco from 2020 to 2022 and Global R&D Procurement Lead at Elanco from 2015 to 2020.
Marco Quercioli
LinkedInExperience: Director Global Logistics Procurement · Elanco
Marco Quercioli has been Director Global Logistics Procurement at Elanco since April 2020, based in Florence, Italy. Marco Quercioli was Logistic Procurement Consultant, Global Logistics at Elanco from 2016 to 2020, Elanco Sourcing Consultant at Eli Lilly and Company from 2015 to 2016 and Sourcing Sr. Associate at Eli Lilly and Company from 2010 to 2015.
Maria (Maribel) Asensio
LinkedInExperience: Director, Global Marketing and Sales Procurement · Elanco
Maria (Maribel) Asensio has been Director, Global Marketing and Sales Procurement at Elanco since July 2022, based in the Wichita, Kansas area. Maria Asensio was Global Category Manager - Marketing and Sales Procurement at Elanco from 2020 to 2022 and Global Marketing Category Manager- Procurement at Laureate International Universities from 2018 to 2020.
Tim Conroy
LinkedInExperience: Director, Global G&A Procurement · Elanco
Tim Conroy has been Director, Global G&A Procurement at Elanco since April 2024, based in Mooresville, Indiana. Tim Conroy was Consultant - Global IT Procurement at Elanco from 2022 to 2024, Indirect Commodity Manager at Allison Transmission from 2019 to 2022 and Sourcing Specialist at Rolls-Royce from 2017 to 2019.
Todd Johnsen
LinkedInExperience: Director Global Procurement R&D · Elanco
Todd Johnsen has been Director Global Procurement R&D at Elanco since August 2020, based in the Chicago area. Todd Johnsen was Global Category Leader at Envista Holdings from 2019 to 2020, Director of Procurement - Indirect at Danaher from 2016 to 2019 and Commodity Team Manager at Danaher from 2014 to 2016.
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Questions to take into the conversation
- 01What did you change first when you took on your procurement role, and why?
- 02How do you decide which work your own team should lead and which to leave to the teams closest to the business?
- 03What has your own procurement work taught you that someone new to a leadership role should know?
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