About Brent Perekoppi
Consultant
Brent Perekoppi is a successful Procurement Executive with 25 years of experience managing and leading teams, organizations and change across multiple industries including Food, Energy and Retail. Brent approaches opportunities with a strategic and holistic viewpoint that combines his expertise in sourcing, marketing, supply chain, and organizational dynamics to develop commercially executable insight and solutions.
Brent spent >10 years leading Direct spend procurement activities in the Energy and Food space, including supporting Raw Materials for Food Manufacturing, regulated power and gas utility businesses, residential HVAC and energy efficiency services, power plants, and upstream gas production.
Brent has been a speaker at the Institute of Supply Management and ProcureCon, has been featured in Inside Supply Management Magazine, and is collaborating on an academic article related to Incentive-systems theory.
Brent offers a unique combination of competitive and regulated energy knowledge from a commercial and regulated process perspective. He is adapt at understanding, structuring, and mitigating risk, and positioning and enabling maximum returns for that risk through the regulated process.
Brent’s Supply Chain expertise includes best practices related to strategic sourcing, partnering with suppliers for innovation, strategies for maximizing the use of your RFX and e-procurement processes, and managing tax and currency impacts on enterprise level procurement activities. Brent has structured procurement organizations, established procurement operations groups, and led organizational change to encourage and embrace organizational best practices related to procurement and supply chain.
Brent’s commodity experience is broad and includes: Business Process Outsourcing (BPO); Fleet; Maintenance, Repair, and Operating Supplies (MROS); Engineering Services; Oil, Gas and Power Plant Maintenance and Turnarounds; HVAC and Water Heating Equipment; Financial Services; Construction Services; and retail goods including Food, Apparel and Textiles, Major Appliances, Toys, and Household Goods.
Brent has a MBA from the Rotman School of Management, at the University of Toronto and a BA from the University of King’s College.