Steve Lewin

KEY ATTRIBUTES • Excellent people manager and team builder – ten years, Global reach, International based team • Technical understanding – Twenty four years, circa one hundred plus major customers. • Ability to interface at all levels – Fifteen years of Exec and direct customer engagement • Experienced international business traveller – Twenty three years, twenty countries, four continents • Ethical firm negotiator – 30+ years, Hundred + contracts, fifty plus suppliers • Strong sense of strategic direction – Fifteen years managing a multi-national strategic supply base • Specialist knowledge - Mass Storage and Silicon SOC and peripheral technology KEY ACHIEVEMENTS • PPV savings to meet agreed business objectives – Circa 700 product lines, savings of 3-6% PA • SRM techniques / supplier development – Fifteen years, Fifty + suppliers • Global staff management and development – Ten years, up to seven international staff • Global stakeholder management– Ten years, seventy projects, multi Billion $ revenue • Optimised P2P supplier cash cycle – Five years, across fifty suppliers. • Buffer and VMI programmes- Twenty major projects. • Contracts / settlement agreements – Twenty four years, one hundred + contracts • Optimise / consolidate to increase leverage– Eighteen years - five major acquisition integrations • Freight contracts – Twelve major global products covering four major suppliers • Reduce inventory holding via 3PL providers – Seven years, 18 major projects. • Supply constraint mitgation - 1993-95 DRAM, 1999-2001 Flash. 2011-2012 Mass storage, 2013 DRAM, 2016 -2018 DRAM and Flash • Consolidation of supply base – Two years, covering seventy + projects. • Supplier measurement and score card process – Twenty one years, circa fifty suppliers • SBR process with key suppliers – Twenty one years, circa fifty suppliers • Management of a multi-tiered PSL of circa fifty strategic suppliers.

PACE WAS ACQUIRED BY ARRIS IN JAN 2016 - MY EMPLOYMENT CONTINUED WITH ARRIS RESULTING IN A SUCCESSFUL 25 YEAR TENURE SPENT WITH ONE COMPANY. Responsibilities: • Managed $2B of direct material strategic procurement spend across sixty key suppliers • Worldwide stakeholder management inc USA, India, France, LATAM, Hong Kong and UK • Managed six highly motivated and capable category managers in USA, France and UK • Delivered annual cost saving / cost avoidance in line with business operations objectives. • Measured KPI’s including COGs’, PPV, supplier reduction, L/T and geo-political risks

I was responsible for management of a global team covering $1.1B of spend on Mass Storage, Memory and Strategic Silicon. Worked on many major ‘blue chip’ product introductions including the first Sky + PVR units for the UK and the first HD PVR launches in USA, Brazil, S.Africa, Malaysia, Australia, India and Dubai. Key achievements at Pace PLC included • Cost reduction achievements in line with business objectives 2002-2010 and 2012 - 2015) • Member of Business Operations Senior Management Team (2009-2016). • Introduced a global demand web based self-serve forecasting tool for suppliers (2012) • Managed the impact of and recovery from the Thailand flooding crisis Oct 2011 to July 2012 • Defined and drafted a corporate purchasing strategy document (2008) • Developed a strategic budgetary forward pricing system (six quarters of forecast) (2007) • Managed the new product purchasing team. (1997- 2002) • Drafted the Corporate Purchasing Agreement and SLA. (1999) • Implemented quote database with 9,000 quotations entered (1996) • Initiated migration of vendors from a UK distribution to direct corporate account status (1993)

• Management of divisional procurement activity for secure computing platforms • Procurement for network infrastructure systems for Commercial, and Military applications. • Management of a small procurement team • Categories covered, EMC systems, motherboards, peripherals, SLA's, upgrades, refits and spares.

• Senior Procurement officer for MOD contracts • Projects covered ECM pods, core memory, Weapons communications, advanced displays • Project driven procurement activity with full compliance to MIL 883 and BS / CECC 9000 and QML. • Regular interface with key stakeholders at project and milestone cost reviews.

• Managed a small Purchasing team in a private SME specialising in process control instrumentation and home security.