Erik Walerius
Chief Supply Chain Officer
UW Medicine

Erik J. Walerius is the Chief Supply Chain Officer of UW Medicine. He has served in various management and leadership roles within UW Medicine since August 2007. UW Medicine includes the UW School of Medicine, three hospitals (Harborview Medical Center, Valley Medical Center and UW Medical Center Montlake/Northwest), a network of primary care clinics (UW Medicine Primary Care Clinics), a large physician practice plan (UW Physicians) and a fixed wing and helicopter air ambulance service (Airlift Northwest). UW Medicine is recognized as a Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) “Best 50” for Healthcare Providers across North America for Supply Chain Excellence and is the recipient of the Practice Green Health “Top 25” Award for Hospitals across the United States for best practices in Environmentally Preferable Purchasing.

Erik graduated from the University of Washington in 2004 in Economics and received his Masters of Health Administration from the University of Washington School of Public Health in 2006. Beginning in 2007 he served as the Director of Clinical Services Development for Northwest Hospital & Medical Center focused on physician practice plans and community health and simulation training. In 2010 he was promoted to Director of Clinical Support Services and provided operational, strategic, and financial oversight for 8 departments, totaling 150 employees and $45 Million in annual spend. In 2014 Erik was promoted to his current leadership position and provides operational, strategic, and financial oversight of the supply chain for UW Medicine with 4 direct reports and 215+ employees, an annual operational budget of $26 Million, and oversight of over $1.3 Billion in annual supply chain related spend.

Erik is active in a number of local and national groups including having served as chair of the North Seattle College Workforce & Education Board in addition to serving on the Vizient Supply Chain Strategy Council, Workday Healthcare and Supply Chain Customer Boards, and GHX Advisory Board. In 2016 he was the recipient of the Bellwether League Future Famers award for innovation and inspiring performance in healthcare supply chain operations and most recently featured in Beckers Hospital Review of 52 hospital and health system supply chain leaders to know in 2024.

Ashleigh E. Gross
Executive Director, Supply Chain
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

Ashleigh E. Gross is the Executive Director of Supply Chain at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center. Ashleigh joined Roswell Park in 2018 and led the transformation of Roswell Park’s supply chain operations and procurement systems to a more robust, end-to-end solution in 2021. She actively participates in national committees that provide input to the future design of supply chain technology.

Prior to Roswell, Ashleigh served in a leadership capacity with another healthcare organization where she implemented an ERP solution with improved data standards. Her understanding of Best Practices in supply chain and technology positions Roswell Park to achieve new heights. Ashleigh graduated from North Carolina State University in 2010 with a Masters of Business Administration. 

Keith Lohkamp
Vice President, Product Management, Supply Chain Management for Healthcare
Workday

Keith Lohkamp is vice president, product management for Supply Chain Management for Healthcare at Workday, In his role, he is responsible for the strategy for Workday Supply Chain Management, focusing on ensuring Workday has the leading healthcare supply chain management solution in the market.

Previously, he was senior director, industry strategy at Workday, joining the company in 2015 to lead the product direction and strategy for the healthcare industry.

Keith has more than 25 years of healthcare software product management experience, including strategy and product management roles at Workday, Infor, Lawson, Neoforma, and PeopleSoft. As an advocate for change and improvement within healthcare, Keith has served on the board of Strategic Marketplace Initiative and the leadership team for GS1 Healthcare United States.

Keith holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of California Berkeley and a bachelor’s degree in international relations from Stanford University.

Esther Monks
Principal Sales Advisor
Workday

As an Industry Advisor with Workday, Esther supports Healthcare organisations across the Asia Pacific and Japan region to maximise value from their investment in back office digital transformation, by bringing global trends and examples, to a local lens. 

Throughout her diverse career in roles spanning Finance, Strategy and Transformation, Esther has always remained passionate about leveraging technology to elevate employees potential, streamline workflows, so organisations can concentrate on delivering and maxing outcomes for the communities they serve

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Rebecca McBeth
HiNZ News Editor

Rebecca McBeth joined the HiNZ team as editor of eHealthNews.nz in January 2018. Rebecca was previously news editor at Digital Health Intelligence in London and prior to that, was the senior health reporter at The Christchurch Press, where she won a NZ Canon Media Award and a NZ Reporting Diversity award. Based in Auckland, she is committed to communicating news, experience and knowledge throughout New Zealand’s data and digital health sector.