Join the CHICAGOLAND PRICING PROFESSIONALS NETWORK for conversation
and refreshments! This is a great opportunity to help you learn from
PRICING EXPERTS AND YOUR PEERS ABOUT THE LATEST IN PRICING AND HOW
THINGS ARE DONE IN OTHER ORGANIZATIONS. Here’s what you can expect:
* 60 minute talk from Manuel Fuentes, Director of Marketing and
Business Analytics at Labelmaster
*
30 minute talk from Tim J. Smith, Founder and CEO at Wiglaf Pricing
*
90 minutes of networking and refreshments with Chicagoland Pricing
Professionals
You will meet pricing professionals, pricing recruiters, pricing
consultants, and pricing software providers, as well as peers in
sales, marketing, finance, and more.
All are welcome!
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FEATURED SPEAKERS
MANUEL FUENTES
Director of Marketing and Business Analytics, Labelmaster
Manuel is a multilingual pricing & analytics leader with over 15 years
experience in the airline, manufacturing, automotive, food
distribution and management consulting industries with broad-based
expertise in providing deep insights, developing new business
opportunities and increasing margins.
Manuel held various impactful roles in pricing and revenue management
at Lufthansa German Airlines, Nippon Cargo Airlines and US Foods.
At Labelmaster, Manuel builds the company's pricing strategy, customer
pricing propositions, systems and 'what if' models and needed price
adjustments, partners with Sales, Marketing, Product Management and
Finance, executes customer data analysis and profiles, and oversees
the upload of prices into system.
In addition to his pricing responsibilities, Manuel has developed an
analytics roadmap where he has introduced and is leveraging Power BI
across the organization, and he is getting his feet wet with
predictive analytics and data science projects. Manuel also provides
thought leadership for marketing campaign targeting, builds response
models, and leads data governance and quality initiatives.
Manuel is a frequent speaker at BI events.
Manuel developed a customer segmentation model and is currently
rolling out the Company’s new customer discount program.
TIM J. SMITH
Founder and CEO, Wiglaf Pricing
Adjunct Professor of Marketing, DePaul University
At Wiglaf Pricing, Dr. Smith is helping executives manage price better
through consulting, workshops, books, and other media. He provides
productized and actionable consulting services for firms of many sizes
and across many industries. He has been a keynote speaker and workshop
leader on a variety of pricing topics to professional audiences across
the globe. Along with his work at Wiglaf and teaching at DePaul, he is
the author of Pricing Done Right (Wiley 2016) and Pricing Strategy
(Cengage 2012) and editor of the Wiglaf Journal.
Smith began his career as a research scientist in quantum mechanics
before his interest in transferring technological advances to societal
implementations led to pursuits in business strategy. His focus on
pricing is a natural culmination of his deep love of mathematics and
his orientation toward capturing profitable customers.
As well as serving as the Academic Advisor to the Professional Pricing
Society’s Certified Pricing Professional program, Dr. Smith is a
member of the American Marketing Association, Business Marketing
Association, and American Physical Society. He holds a BS in Physics
and Chemistry from Southern Methodist University, a BA in Mathematics
from Southern Methodist University, a PhD in Physical Chemistry from
the University of Chicago, and an MBA with high honors in Strategy and
Marketing from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
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SPONSORS
Wiglaf Pricing is a boutique consultancy for your organization's
pricing strategy. Executives seek out Wiglaf Pricing to make core
pricing decisions in the face of uncertainty. We deliver results that
matter. Wiglaf Pricing is Helping Executives Manage Price Better.™
The Professional Pricing Society’s mission is to nurture a growing
community of pricing professionals committed to disseminating pricing
expertise throughout the business world. We do this by providing a
multi-platform forum through which exceptionally talented and creative
experts can exchange cutting edge pricing strategies, tactics and
technology. In short, we connect great ideas with great people.
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