Company President and Chief Consultant Omid Ghamami has nearly 15 years experience in purchasing course training, most of it at the Fortune 500 level. He has taught hundreds of courses all over the world, giving clients the tools to improve their operations, their processes, and their results. He is known for his motivational speaking style, which leaves attendees inspired to drive positive change in their organizations.

Omid is the author of Purchasing Advantage - Running a World Class Purchasing Organization, a timeless reference guide for purchasing and sales personnel, both novice and seasoned. He is also a member of the Institute for Supply Management™ (ISM), and is a contributing author to eSide Supply Management, a bimonthly digital publication delivered to ISM members.

Omid holds an MBA from the University of California. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Business at Folsom Lake College, where he has been chartered by the college to develop a Purchasing Certificate program that will increase the bench strength and knowledge base of future purchasing professionals.

He has more than ten years Fortune 50 senior purchasing management experience, managing annual expenditure levels of one billion dollars, negotiating hundreds of complex multi-million dollar contracts, managing mission critical supplier success with business reviews and scorecards, spearheading multi-million dollar offshore software and hardware development initiatives, managing large scale ERP system integrations, driving global purchasing risk assessment and controls programs, developing and maintaining global purchasing polices and procedures, managing purchasing integration of mergers and acquisitions, and implementing many cutting edge electronic purchasing tool sets across the corporation.