David Swadling

David Swadling, Director, Strategic Procurement
John Wiley & Sons
David is currently with John Wiley & Sons as Director, Strategic Procurement where he is charged with driving and implementing new procurement strategies. He joined Wiley from LG Electronics where as Regional Procurement Director, Middle East and Africa David was responsible for setting up an Indirect Procurement operation in support of a USD 4.0bn business. Before LG, David spent 8 years first with Agere Systems where he was responsible for reengineering processes and procedures, implementing a Cost Management Index for benchmarking supplier pricing and leading the implementation of a collaborative supply chain solution. In 2007 Agere merged with LSI and David led the merger of the two procurement functions, including the implementation of the P2P module of a corporate wide instance of SAP, subsequently expanding his role to lead the indirect procurement function.