John Schneider is a senior manager in the Global Supplier Management organization for Edwards Lifesciences and leads the commercial supply chain strategy for the packaging, advanced catheters and extrusion categories. He has over 25 years of increasing responsibility and complexity in the fields of sourcing, procurement and supply chain. His expansive global experience includes the medtech, semiconductor and aerospace industries. Schneider received his B.A.in Business Administration from Cal State Fullerton and his MBA from the University of Redlands He is also is APICS CPIM certified. Among his extensive endeavors, Schneider is deeply involved in various med tech and packaging conferences and leads the annual Edwards’ Supplier Partner Awards Forum.