Advanced Category Management Category Manager Imperatives
Advanced Category Management: Category Manager Imperatives
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Lynn Rideout
Lynn Rideout
Category Management Enablement

Lynn Rideout was leading Category Management Enablement at WNS Procurement. She works across clients and industries to build and strengthen strategic Procurement capabilities, and to empower Procurement professionals to maximize their business impact. She leads a team of category leaders, coaches, trainers and market intelligence experts that have a passion for procurement and love to share it with client organizations. Lynn has held leadership positions at various Procurement technology, Consulting, and Services firms throughout her career and is on a life-long mission to elevate the role of Procurement in every organization she touches. She has a Master’s degree in International Relations from the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and is a certified coach and instructor.

Chris Eyerman
Chris Eyerman
Digital Innovation

Chris Eyerman was leading Digital Innovation at WNS Procurement. Chris has over 30 years of technical and business experience, and over 20 years collaborating with clients to improve their procurement programs and change how they leverage procurement through category management, source-to-contract and procurement transformation programs. Before joining WNS Procurement, Chris held management roles at FreeMarkets, Ariba, and Exostar. He is a real-life rocket scientist and holds an MS degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT as well as an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University.