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Karen Fedele

Karen Fedele
The Gillette Company

Karen FedeleKaren Fedele, C.P.M. is a category manager, Global Procurement for The Gillette Company headquartered in Boston, MA, responsible for strategic sourcing of indirect goods and services. She has over 20 years experience in procurement and materials management.

Prior to joining Gillette in 2002, she was the Director of Purchasing and Travel Services for Akamai Technologies, Inc., the leading provider of secure, outsourced e-business infrastructure services and software. Additionally she has held various positions for The Thomson Corporation, as Director of Global Contracts, responsible for negotiating and managing international hardware and software licensing agreements for use by all Thomson companies worldwide, as well as and Lotus Development Corporation and General Electric Corporation.

Karen received an MBA (Honors with Distinction) with a concentration in Computer Information Systems from Bentley College in Waltham, Massachusetts and holds a BS (Maxima Cum Laude) in Operations Management/Marketing Logistics from La Salle University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

She has held various positions on the boards of the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) and Purchasing Management Association of Boston (PMABoston), an affiliated organization of ISM, since 1993 including serving as PMABoston's President. She currently serves on ISM's Certification Committee.

Karen is a frequent presenter at ISM conferences at the national, regional and local levels.

2005 Conference
Avoiding the Pitfalls and Insuring Success of Your Outsourcing Efforts


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