Robert Pignataro

Executive Vice President
FreeFlow

Robert Pignataro joined FreeFlow in 2012 as Executive Vice President of Sales, responsible for business development and account acquisition worldwide, broadening the company’s portfolio of OEM-branded online auction platforms as well as FreeFlowAuctions.com, the company’s flagship platform for new and smaller sellers.
In his 20-year career Pignataro has generated new revenue across various distribution channels in consumer electronics, wireless, and imaging industries. Most recently at Kodak, he was responsible for identifying new retail growth initiatives for their largest customer globally, with over 7,400 stores. At Nokia, as Director of Sales for North America, he expanded retail and online distribution for smartphones, tablets and mobile accessories. Pignataro has successfully built and led sales teams, and channel strategy, to deliver in excess of $100M in annual sales revenue for both companies.

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Day 2

Wednesday, September 9th, 2015

15:30 The Value Of a Global Remarketing Process: Aligning Your Organization

Robert Pignataro, Executive Vice President, Sales, FreeFlow

As a Supply Chain professional, you know the benefit to a standardized global process for remarketing excess inventory. But how do you convince internal decision makers across your geographic regions in Supply Chain, Sales, Finance, Operations and Senior Leadership to implement a common solution?

In addition to the benefit of sharing best practices, Pricing and Channel Integrity are critical to protecting both your brand and your current distribution channels in all stages of the product lifecycle. FreeFlow, a leader in global marketplace Technologies and Services for the world’s leading Consumer Electronics and Wireless brands, will share ideas and tactics that will help you address the concerns - and benefits - to each area of your organization, and provide you with the necessary tools to lead a global asset recovery strategy.

17:00 Roundtable Discussions

Talking with your peers about how to confront shared business challenges is the most valuable part of this event. Consumer Returns 2014 has set aside seven hours across three days so OEMs, retailers and solutions providers can discuss current issues of importance. This is your opportunity to discuss ways to improve out-of-box experience, post-sales support and methods for maximizing recovery rate.

1. How Do You Determine Appropriate Pricing For The Secondary Market? - Facilitated by Combiz Shams, Senior Warehouse Manager, Refurbishment, Belkin & Layth Hussain, Director, Operations, Americas, Belkin
2. Tackling The Dearth Of Information Systems For Reverse Logistics - Facilitated by Ric Spicer, Manager, Operations-E-Commerce, Reverse Logistics, Sears Holding Corporation
3. Establishing Full Cost Visibility Around The Reverse Supply Chain - Facilitated by Timothy Quinn, Manager of Logistics, Budget and Analysis, BJ's Wholesale Club
4. Wireless Returns: Addressing Third Party Software Conflicts - Facilitated by Lee Gibson, Director, Reverse Logistics, Huawei Device USA
5. More SKUs, More Problems? - Facilitated by Michael Ketzenberg, Associate Professor of Information and Operations Management, Mays Business School, Texas A&M University
6. Returns Issues Around White Goods - Facilitated by Michael Fahey, Vice President, Operations, Haier America
7. Returns Issues Around Small Appliances - Facilitated by Kathy Murphy, Senior Sales Operations Manager, Jarden Consumer Solutions
8. The Value Of A Global Remarketing Process: Aligning Your Organization - Facilitiated by Robert Pignataro, Executive Vice President, Sales, FreeFlow
9. Online Consumer Education - Facilitated by Rubina Farooq, Director, Customer Operations, LG Electronics