Chris Silva Email Address

Vice President, Procurement and Strategic Sourcing

Akebia Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company and global leader in developing therapies using hypoxia inducible factor (HIF) to treat serious disease.

As a Supply Management professional, value creation comes in many forms, whether developing category strategies to maximize spend profiles, improving supplier performance through sourcing, contracting, and oversight, mitigating supply risks to ensure continuity, or optimizing income and assets with forecast planning techniques. Success has embodied the savings of millions of dollars, creation of supply chains, new product introductions, and leadership in organization development. Strategy | Leadership | Category Management | Sourcing | Negotiation | Contracting | Supplier Relationship Development | Materials Management | Risk Mitigation | Inventory | Warehousing | Procurement | Supply Chain | Sales & Operations Planning | Forecasting | Process Improvement | ERP | Project Management | Operations | Biotechnology | Pharmaceutical | High Technology contact: clsilva1@yahoo.com