Mike Edgett
U.S. Product Marketing Director, Medium Segment
Sage
Mike Edgett is an enterprise technology & process manufacturing expert with 20+ years leading business strategy for brands such as Infor, Arris, Quaker Oats and Bunge Foods. At Sage, Mike leads the US Product Marketing team focused on the medium segment. This group drives the go-to-market strategy for Sage’s solutions designed to meet the business needs and challenges across the manufacturing, distribution, and service industries. Mike earned an MBA in Marketing and Operations Management from the Simon School of Business at the University of Rochester and a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Houghton College.
Richard Sides
Ultra Consultants
Partner, Chief Operating Officer
Richard Sides has more than 20 years technology-related operational experience assisting manufacturing and distribution organizations by improving their business processes and supporting information systems.
Richard's experience includes operational responsibilities, management consulting, ERP system implementation, and serving in a variety of senior executive management roles. Richard's background includes significant experience in food/beverage, process and discrete manufacturing as well as logistics, distribution and supply chain management. Richard started his career with Kraft Foods and was part of the pioneering efforts to introduce integrated supervisory and process control systems to Kraft's production lines. He finished his career with Kraft by serving as the systems lead on the pilot implementation of Kraft's Marcam Prism ERP rollout.