Bennett Gutmann

Founder and Managing Director

Bennett Gutmann spent 20 years in the manufacturing industry specializing in operations. He has worked for notable companies such as Celestica, Flextronics, and Solectron. Bennett worked for Mckinsey and Company as a consultant before starting Attigo Inc. Bennett’s expertise is in supplier negotiations, outsource manufacturing, procurement, supply chain management and operational management. Industry he specializes in are medical device industry, aerospace, pharma and industrial equipment. He has a successful track record of helping clients find solutions for increasing revenue, growing profits, and driving continuous improvement initiatives. He is a dedicated, caring leader skilled at enabling organizational change and developing leaders capable of leading the change effort on their own. When not working, Bennett likes to spend time with his wife and two kids.

JoAnna Le

Partner

JoAnna spent over 17 years in Corporate Banking with various large Banks such as Bank of the West, Union Bank, and BBVA. She helped large corporate clients achieve their goals through lending and banking needs. She also spent two years as an Investment banker at KeyBanc Capital Markets. Prior to joining Attigo, she helped launched two start ups in the health and beauty sector as well as food and beverage industry assisting them with their marketing and finance strategies. She currently helps Clients with their needs relating to finance including serving as interim CFO as well as anything relating to debt or capital raising.

 

Scott Rowland

Partner

Scott has shaped some of the Procurement function’s most forward-thinking efforts, highlighted by development of supplier transfer/ consolidation solutions. With advisory roles across strategic sourcing, at-scale supplier engagement (negotiations & workshops), and value engineering and procurement operating mode. Scott brings a breadth of procurement experience.
Scott spent 10+ years in operations advisory at McKinsey & Company, including multiple leadership roles within client service and McKinsey’s procurement practice
He has led multi-national client procurement programs addressing $5B+ in combined annual vendor spend, achieving 10-13% spend reduction on average and has led operating model changes for 5 Fortune 500 procurement organizations. He has led core development of McKinsey’s thinking and client implementation of at-scale supplier consolidation and supplier transfer practices
He has coached client negotiations teams on 150+ supplier negotiations across medical device, pharma, aerospace, defense, industrials & consumer packaged goods. Scott is a proud Georgia Tech Yellow Jacket and calls Chicago home.