10 Lincoln Financial procurement leaders
Camille Waller, VP, Finance Transformation and Procurement Mgt at Lincoln Financial, opens this list of Lincoln Financial procurement leaders, who also include AVPs of strategic sourcing and vendor management and directors of category and vendor management. A reader can learn how procurement leaders work at Lincoln Financial from people who have held the role.
Professionals to explore
Camille Waller, MBA, PMP
LinkedInExperience: VP, Finance Transformation and Procurement Mgt · Lincoln Financial
Camille Waller has been VP, Finance Transformation and Procurement Mgt at Lincoln Financial since September 2024, based in the Philadelphia area, and the profile headline reads Head of Procurement at Lincoln Financial. Camille Waller has also held the title AVP Finance Transformation at Lincoln since July 2022, and was Director Accounts Receivable Strategy, Reporting and Analytics at Iron Mountain from 2016 to 2019.
David (Dave) Keely
LinkedInExperience: AVP, Procurement Strategic Sourcing, IT · Lincoln Financial
David (Dave) Keely has been AVP, Procurement Strategic Sourcing, IT at Lincoln Financial since May 2025, based in the Philadelphia area. David (Dave) Keely was Director of Strategic Sourcing, IT at Cotiviti from 2022 to 2025, Category Strategy Lead, Global Procurement at Pfizer from 2016 to 2021 and Sourcing Manager, Global Procurement at Shire from 2012 to 2016.
Elizabeth Walsh
LinkedInExperience: AVP, Vendor Services · Lincoln Financial
Elizabeth Walsh has been AVP, Vendor Services at Lincoln Financial since July 2022, based in West Hartford, Connecticut. Elizabeth Walsh was Director, Vendor Management at Lincoln from 2019 to 2022, Sr. Vendor Consultant at Lincoln from 2014 to 2019 and held the title Director at Lincoln from 2011 to 2014, so the whole listing sits at Lincoln Financial.
Jennifer Sheriff
LinkedInExperience: AVP, Procurement Technology & Operations · Lincoln Financial
Jennifer Sheriff is a former AVP, Procurement Technology & Operations at Lincoln Financial, a role held from December 2013 to April 2024, and has been Senior Associate Director, Procurement Operations at Princeton University since September 2024, based in Philadelphia. Jennifer Sheriff was Director External Procurement Systems at GSK from 2012 to 2013 and P2P Systems & Operations Manager at GSK from 2008 to 2012.
John Hendrick
LinkedInExperience: AVP, Procurement Strategy, Programs, and Performance · Lincoln Financial
John Hendrick has been AVP, Procurement Strategy, Programs, and Performance at Lincoln Financial since November 2013, based in the Philadelphia area. John Hendrick was Director, Procurement Strategy & Execution at GSK from 2009 to 2013 and Sr. Manager, Vendor Audit at GSK from 2008 to 2009, and the profile headline lists procurement strategy, vendor management and metrics and performance measures.
Kimberly Merriman, PMP, CSM, CRVPM III
LinkedInExperience: Assistant Vice President, IT Vendor Management · Lincoln Financial
Kimberly Merriman has been Assistant Vice President, IT Vendor Management at Lincoln Financial since March 2014, based in the Fort Wayne area, and the profile describes work on supplier selection teams and service level agreements. Kimberly Merriman was Director, Head of Retirement Plan Services Business PMO at Lincoln from 2012 to 2014 and Director, RPS Operations Support Services at Lincoln in 2012.
Kush Pathak
LinkedInExperience: VP, Business Transformation and Strategic Vendor Management · Lincoln Financial
Kush Pathak has been VP, Business Transformation and Strategic Vendor Management at Lincoln Financial since September 2023, based in Portland, Oregon. Kush Pathak was HR tech Strategy and Transformation leader at Capital One from 2022 to 2023, AVP, Business Transformation Office at The Standard from 2016 to 2022 and Director-Business Transformation Consulting at Nationwide from 2012 to 2016.
Michele Knierim
LinkedInExperience: Director, Business Vendor Strategy & Management · Lincoln Financial
Michele Knierim has been Director, Business Vendor Strategy & Management at Lincoln Financial since April 2025, and the profile headline describes the scope as claims and operations vendor strategy and management. Michele Knierim has also held the title Sr. Consultant, Organization Strategy at Lincoln since 2021, and was Manager, Clinical Operations at Lincoln from 2018 to 2021.
Renee Fleeman
LinkedInExperience: Director, Vendor Management · Lincoln Financial
Renee Fleeman has been Director, Vendor Management at Lincoln Financial since October 2022, based in Jamestown, North Carolina, and the profile describes developing vendor management solutions for the Life business, including negotiating contracts and maintaining vendor relationships. Renee Fleeman was a Consultant, Business Transformation at Lincoln from 2013 to 2016.
Shamar Kynard, MBA
LinkedInExperience: Director Category Management IT · Lincoln Financial
Shamar Kynard has been Director Category Management IT at Lincoln Financial since July 2026, based in Suffield, Connecticut, and was Senior Manager Strategic Sourcing at Lincoln from 2025 to 2026. Shamar Kynard was Senior Sourcing Manager at Voya Financial from 2019 to 2024, Strategic Sourcing Specialist at Voya from 2018 to 2019 and Strategic Sourcing Consultant at Eversource Energy from 2015 to 2018.
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Match the person's scope, whether procurement leadership, IT or corporate sourcing, procurement strategy and performance, or vendor management for one business, to the question you have. Check when each person's role started, and whether it has ended, to judge how recent their view of the work is.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01What did you change first when you took on your current procurement or vendor management role, and why?
- 02How do you decide which vendor relationships need the closest oversight each year?
- 03What has your own work taught you about measuring the results of a sourcing program?
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