Eric Greenstein
Boston

Eric Greenstein is the Managing Director of the United States for Big Fish. Previously he was the founder of Executive Directions, Inc. and the President of the company. Eric has over twenty years experience in industry and executive search. He has held engineering, sales management, and operations positions with several major companies. Recognizing the need for top quality professional, managerial, and executive talent, he founded Executive Directions, Inc. to specialize in mid- and senior-level executive search placements in the industrial and manufacturing sector. Eric also has conducted searches in biotechnology, venture capital start-ups, and advanced technology, and he has experience placing executives in virtually every functional specialty. Eric holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University. His corporate experiences include Sales Director and Marketing Manager for Analog Devices, Inc. and Engineer for Leeds & Northrup and Sanders Associates.

Nicolas Kourim
Paris

Nicolas Kourim started in Purchasing and progressed from Buyer to Purchasing Manager to Group Purchasing Director before moving into General Management as COO and CEO of several medium-size corporations. He is experienced in the electric, electronic and hi-tech industries and services. He also held several International Management positions in Germany, United States and France for Siemens. Nicolas has set up 3 international companies from scratch, one of which is involved in skills assessment and skills development. He is familiar with all aspects of Strategic Purchasing & Resource Management including Shared Services, Outsourcing, and Restructuring/Business Transformation. He has also been a Coach and Trainer for several years in Corporate and academic institutions.

Luc Mora
Paris

Luc Mora is a partner consultant and co-founder of Big Fish.
With a solid Information Technology background (Information Technology Applied to Business Management diploma . Paris IX Dauphine University) he begun his career as a technical consultant managing IT projects before embracing a sales activity first in the mainframe software before joining Digital Equipment corporation as a strategic account manager in France. He then joined an international team pioneering Eastern Europe and African market. He held many management positions before joining AXA group for a new carrier of Purchaser. His latest position in New-York was the corporate Software and Services responsibility and then Corporate Professional Services manager in Paris for the AXA group.

Alain Perrot
Paris

Alain Perrot is a food engineer graduated from ENSIA (National French School for Food Industries) and has a MBA from ESSEC. He has started his career in 1984 in the Mars Group (Unisabi) where he created the Industrial Engineer function in the Strasbourg plant. Then, he is successively appointed Shift Manager, Financial Planning Manager, Resourcing Manager and Business Planning Manager of Unisabi. In 1992, he is appointed Supply Chain Project Manager Mars Petcare Europe. From 1992 to 1994, he reconfigures the Supply Chain to bring it to «Class A» level, and pionneers the implementation of SAP R3 for the whole Supply Chain (Planning, Logistics, R&D, Manufacturing, Purchasing). In 1995, he joins Bestfoods France as Logistics & Planning Director, then takes charge of a plant to make it the most agile plant of Bestfoods Europe. In 1999, he joins Air Liquide Welding, to create the Supply Chain function, as Vice President Supply Chain & Purchasing.

Michel Philippart
Paris

Michel Philippart started as a development engineer. He joined Booz Allen after his MBA.  After 5 years he moved to Frito-Lay International in Strategic Planning then to Purchasing to develop the first international purchasing organization for PFI . In 2000, he returned to consulting as an Associate Principal with McKinsey’s Purchasing Practice. Recently, he has led Global Procurement for GSK Biologicals.  He is a fellow of the ceSCM at UCL teaches strategic procurement at various schools in Belgium, Brazil, France and the Maghreb. At Big Fish he oversees purchasing training for corporate teams that seek to improve their supplier management focusing on value creation rather than cost cutting. He co-authored “Collaborative Sourcing: Strategic value creation through collaborative supplier relationship management”, and “Projeto de desenvolvimento de embalagens industriais“. He continues to advance the science of Purchasing through various articles for specialized magazines and his collaboration with advanced Purchasing training institutes.

Sven Schoppelrey
München

Sven Schoppelrey is the general manager of the German branch of Big Fish. After finishing his studies at the Fachhochschule in Pforzheim and University of South Carolina in Columbia, he first started his professional life in New York with Ferrostaal as sales representative for industrial project before he discovered his passion for purchasing. In the next 20 years he went in purchasing through all positions, from buyer, senior buyer to commodity and purchasing manger in corporate departments and operational divisions and finally vice president purchasing with Siemens with a purchasing volume of 2 Billion€. Before he joint Big Fish, he was partner in a purchasing and supply chain consulting company. He developed his skills in Human Resources and Purchasing Training as result of a life long learning process.

Jean Louis Viargues
Paris

Jean-Louis Viargues was in Sales prior to joining a French top business school (HEC) to develop Corporate and Executive education and was Managing Director for several years. Later he joined UAP to run the HR pool of Managers before becoming VP of HR for the group. After the acquisition by AXA he was responsible for worldwide HR policy and AXA’s Corporate University. Since 2000 he set up 2 companies; one of which is dedicated to HR Development and Change Management. He is familiar with all aspects and methods in the area of Human Resources and Leadership. As a Teacher and Trainer for the last 25 years in several well-known general and specialized institutions (Management, Purchasing, etc.), he has authored several books about People Management and Change.