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DSSI Leadership Team
The immediate thing that strikes you about the employees of DSSI is their extensive procurement experience and expertise and this is especially true of our leadership team. This perspective allows us to understand exactly what the client wants to accomplish while being able to clearly articulate the implications of every decision. The result is a no surprises client experience leading to a lasting and mutually beneficial business relationship.
- Suja Katarya CEO
- Eugene Hugh CFO
- Michael McFerrin General Manager
- Amit Mendiratta Vice President, DSSI Technology
- Heidi Humphries Executive Director
- Debra Smith Controller
- Brian Savage Director
- Dua'Juor Autrey Nill Director
- Randy Oak Director
- Rimas Polteraitis Director
- Michael Oldani Director
Suja Katarya - CEO
Suja Katarya is the Co-Founder, Executive Chair, and CEO of Procure Analytics. Previously, Suja was Vice President for Strategic Programs at Consolidated Container Company (CCC), where she focused on acquisitions and integration of the acquired companies.
Prior to CCC, Suja worked as a Director at Unisource. Suja started her career with SunTrust Bank in their Mergers and Acquisitions group, and then moved on to SunTrust Equity Partners focusing on equity and mezzanine debt investments.
Suja has an MBA from Georgia Tech and an engineering degree from RV College in India. She resides with her husband and two children in Atlanta.
Eugene "Gene" Hugh - Chief Financial Officer
Eugene "Gene" Hugh joined Procure Analytics in March 2022. Prior to joining PA, Gene was the VP of Corporate Systems, Procurement, and Vendor Management at Intercontinental Exchange Inc. (ICE), one of the largest exchanges and clearing houses in the world and parent to the New York Stock Exchange. Gene also held senior roles in the Finance organization during his long tenure at ICE where he oversaw FP&A, strategy, and M&A. As a member of the Finance and Corporate team, he was integral in establishing the finance operations and successfully integrating over 20 acquisitions. Gene is a graduate of Emory University and holds a B.A. in Financial and International Economics. Prior to ICE, Gene held a variety of strategic positions at FactSet Research Systems and PNC Bank. He resides in Marietta with his wife and four children.
Heidi Humphries - Executive Director of Sales and Marketing
Heidi joined DSSI in 2016 and is responsible for helping to define and lead the growth strategy for both new and existing customers across all industries globally. In this role, Heidi leads a sales team that works to understand the needs of large manufacturers and supply chain trends in order to develop and communicate the value proposition of DSSI's Source-to-Pay and Tail Spend services. Heidi has held previous similar roles within DSSI including Global Sales Executive and Director of Global Sales and Marketing. Prior to joining DSSI, Heidi worked for xpedx (now Veritiv) in several roles including Outside Sales and Group Price Manager. In this last role, Heidi helped to develop and implement a new distributor pricing model in the U.S.
Amit Mendiratta - Vice President, DSSI Technology.
As VP of Technology, Amit leads the global development and execution of DSSI's IT strategy that supports company's objectives through the integration of process efficiencies and technological advancements. He oversees the company's enterprise-wide application portfolio, which includes the different modules that support the source to pay, order management, accounting and data analytics applications. He is focused on defining and meeting the growing transformation needs of our clients and internal stakeholders and improving collaboration in the supply chain and commercial business process areas. He has been recognized for optimizing existing programs and developing new strategies to maximize customer satisfaction and generating value for customers, evolving the tools, capabilities, and partnering with cross functional teams to drive technical product improvements. He has a history of helping large manufacturing companies establish long term vision for improving business processes & implementing procurement strategies that generated tangible cost savings by leveraging data and analytics to derive actionable insights. Prior to joining DSSI, Amit worked as a consultant for Ranal, where his software consulting engagements included high-visibility projects at Worldspan and Galileo (now owned by Travelport, a global provider of travel technology and information for travel agents). He also worked for Crompton Greaves India Ltd as a software engineer, where he was instrumental in transforming their GenRad equipment testing methodology.
Rimas Polteraitis - Business Unit Director
Rimas is responsible for managing DSSI's client purchasing services for several major clients where he focuses on assisting clients by improving their bottom-line results and driving operational efficiencies. This role includes managing DSSI performance, meeting our clients' planned goals and objectives with customer-specific strategies, and acting as the liaison with the customers' executive management. Rimas has a degree in Supply Chain Management from Michigan State University. He has been working at DSSI since 2000 where he has held various positions in Purchasing and Client Management. Early in his career at DSSI he worked onsite at General Motors as an electrical & industrial MRO buyer.
Dua'Juor Autrey-Nill – Business Unit Director
Dua'Juor Autrey-Nill is responsible for managing DSSI's client purchasing services for several major clients where she focuses on assisting clients by improving their bottom-line results and driving operational efficiencies. This role includes managing DSSI performance, meeting our clients’ planned goals and objectives with customer-specific strategies, and acting as the liaison with the customers' executive management. Dua'Juor began her career at DSSI in 2000 and has held many roles, including that of Senior Buyer for the Industrial and Electrical Commodity, Client Manager and Client Executive. Dua'Juor played an instrumental role in helping launch DSSI’s EU operations in 2014. Prior to DSSI, Dua'Juor worked for Daimler Chrysler, where she was a Purchasing Specialist, managing Tier 1 service spend in the Brake and Exhaust Systems category.
Randy Oak – Business Unit Director
Randy is responsible for managing DSSI's client purchasing services for several major clients where he focuses on assisting clients by improving their bottom-line results and driving operational efficiencies. This role includes managing DSSI performance, meeting our clients' planned goals and objectives with customer-specific strategies, and acting as the liaison with the customers' executive management. Randy holds a degree in Supply Chain Management from Michigan State and has been with DSSI for over 25 years. He has held various positions in Purchasing and Category Management and played an instrumental role in supporting the initial foundation of DSSI's Mexico business entity Sourcing Direct International, S.de R.L. de C.V
Brian Savage - Business Unit Director
Brian is responsible for managing DSSI’s client purchasing services for several major clients where he focuses on assisting clients by improving their bottom-line results and driving operational efficiencies. This role includes managing DSSI performance, meeting our clients' planned goals and objectives with customer-specific strategies, and acting as the liaison with the customers' executive management. Brian joined DSSI in 2003 and has held various positions in Purchasing and Client Management. Brian was named one of Supply & Demand Chain Executive's "Pros to Know" in 2015 for his work in supporting DSSI's EU operations.
General Manager
As DSSI's General Manager, Michael leads two critical teams. The first is focused on developing and implementing our strategic category management activities across DSSI's entire customer base, which includes ensuring our customers get market competitive pricing and overall supply chain reliability. The second is focused on the execution of DSSI's daily tactical purchasing operations in North America on behalf of its customers. Michael joined DSSI’s predecessor company in 1998 and has held many key positions such as Global Director of Category Management, Purchasing Director, and Director of Strategic Sourcing. Prior to that, Michael obtained his MBA from the University of Michigan and served in many roles at General Motors including Purchasing Supervisor, Lead buyer for Cutting Tools and Abrasives globally, Senior MRO Buyer and Material Scheduler at a plant level. All these prior roles allow Michael to bring the "plant floor" perspective to what DSSI does every day to ensure we're meeting both strategic and transactional imperatives.
Mike Oldani - Director of Category Management
As the Director of Category Management at DSSI, Mike manages a team that is responsible for defining DSSI's overall sourcing strategy across North America. This includes understanding the capabilities of a multitude of suppliers across many commodities, taking on regular cyclical bidding to ensure market competitive pricing and thoughtfully consolidating the preferred supply base to deliver a comprehensive indirect materials strategy to DSSIs customers. Mike joined the company in 1998 and has held several roles including Client Management, Director of Sourcing Strategy and Business Unit Director. Prior to DSSI, Mike worked for Environmental Research, where he held several professional buying roles including Subcontract Manager and Buyer for their largest division.
Debra Smith - Global Financial Controller
In her role as Global Controller, Debra oversees the daily operations of the financial, accounting, and human resource departments. Debra coordinates with the management team to ensure DSSI can meet its goals for business development, service delivery and continuous improvement by focusing Human Resource policies, company benefits, and the financial systems required for financial reporting and planning. Debra joined the company in 2022. Prior to DSSI, Debra held the role of Chief Financial Officer for 13 years at LPW & Companies, a privately owned company. In this role, she oversaw all areas of accounting, corporate finance, analytics, treasury, and budgeting.