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Engineering and the Art of the Big Purchase
Ken Gottesman
When you spend billions on technology, supplies and services, it’s good to have a system. Fortunately, Ken Gottesman, vice president of procurement services at Time Warner Inc., knows systems.
Gottesman graduated from UW-Madison with a BS (1984) and an MS (1987) in industrial engineering. He and his hand-picked team help Time Warner leverage its purchasing power in the marketplace and serve as internal consultants to the media giant and its companies including Warner Bros., Turner Broadcasting (CNN, TBS, TNT) HBO and Time Inc., which produces magazines such as Time, Fortune, Sports Illustrated and People. Time Warner also has a fast-growing online games division. (more…)