E&I Cooperative Services is seeking to fill four open positions on its Board of Directors. Below are the nominees for the 2024 E&I Board of Directors election selected by this year’s Nominating Committee.
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Roxanne Venegas serves as the Purchasing Manager for Joliet Junior College (JJC), the nation’s first public community college. She leads an extraordinary team responsible for oversight and compliance in procurement for more than $70 million in spend each year.
Roxanne has held various titles in purchasing at Joliet Junior College since 2008. Over the past 16 years, she has continuously strived to further efficiencies in procurement at JJC. Her efforts include an ERP integration to provide a more robust, cloud-based procurement solution in 2015; implementation of an electronic bid submission system in 2018; hands-on assistance with the deployment of a new ERP system; and the development of an interactive procurement guide to ensure understanding of procurement policies and procedures across campus.
Roxanne has an associate in arts degree from Joliet Junior College and a Bachelor of Business Administration degree, with a major in finance and a minor in economics, from the University of St. Francis. She is also a past member of the ESM Solutions Advisory Board, dedicating her time to advocate for higher education institutions throughout her term.
Chief Procurement Officer, Radford University
Kim joined Radford University as Executive Director of Strategic Sourcing in 2019 where she is Chief Procurement Officer for the University. Her team is consistently seeking out strategic opportunities to enhance the way Radford University does business by streamlining processes and implementing cost saving strategies.
Prior to joining Radford, she was at Virginia Tech as the Assistant Director and Contracts Manager, a position she held for 10 years. In this position she provided oversight of existing campus contracts and negotiated substantial term contracts for university use.
In December 1999, she started her career in Higher Education via an opportunity at the University of Indianapolis, a mid-size, private higher-education environment. Starting as an Administrative Assistant to the Vice President, she learned the nuances of higher education and obtained her degree as an adult learner. Upon graduation, she was promoted to the position of Director of Procurement and established a Procurement Department where none existed.
Vice President of Procurement Services, Columbia University
Ron Moraski is the Vice President of Procurement Services at Columbia University in the City of New York. Ron is responsible for the procure-to-pay process, which includes Procurement, Vendor Management, Accounts Payable and Travel.
Prior to joining Columbia, Ron directed the Procurement Services team at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. During that time, he transformed the team from transactional purchasing to strategic procurement by implementing an eProcurement suite, a digital mailroom for paper invoices, e-invoicing, and various other tools and campus wide systems.
Ron has been in higher education since 2012 and prior to that has over 20 years of Supply Chain Management experience with 3 major retailers.
Ron has a bachelor’s degree in business management studies from Boston University.
