Aron Khoury
Director
Mr. Khoury is the Director of Small Business Programs & Supplier Diversity for Medtronic, responsible for developing and executing long-term supplier diversity strategy for the company. In his role, he takes a hands-on approach when working with sourcing and business leaders to ensure Medtronic benefits from a small and diverse-owned supply base. Additionally, Aron manages the Federal Small Business Subcontracting Program for the Enterprise. Before joining Medtronic is 2012, Aron held a supplier diversity role within the higher-education sector. Based in Minneapolis, Aron leads the Healthcare Industry Group of the National Minority Supplier Development Council, serves on the Healthcare Advisory Board of the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council. Formally, he chaired the Certification Committee of the NCMSDC and served on the board of the Minnesota American Indian Chamber of Commerce. Aron earned a bachelors degree from the University of St. Thomas and a Masters from the Hubert H Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. He currently resides in Minneapolis, MN with his wife and two young kids.Jennifer Dodge
Jennifer Dodge is the Supplier Diversity Manager for Coloplast. She is responsible for developing and implementing a Supplier Diversity program for North America, as well as managing the Federal Small Business Subcontracting Program. Prior to joining Coloplast in 2020, Jennifer held Small Business/Supplier Diversity Manager positions with other Medical Device and Defense Contractors. Jennifer earned her Masters Degree in Business Administration from Metropolitan State University.
Benjamin Blanc
Benjamin Blanc has been a Government Contract Specialist for the Wisconsin Procurement Institute (WPI) – Wisconsin’s Apex Accelerator since 2014.Prior to working with WPI Ben worked at a number of Federal government contractors including GE Capital, GE Healthcare, Oshkosh Defense as well as a Native American PTAC.
Ben’s experience supports a broad and diverse knowledge and expertise supporting Defense, Federal, State and Local government procurement processes, strategy, compliance, regulations, and policies.
He holds the NCMA Certified Federal Contract Manager (NCMA) and is the current NCMA Wisconsin Chapter President. Ben is passionate about coaching soccer and rugby, fishing, boardgames and regularly presents current events and history subject matter at his local church.