
Green Apples – Who They Are & Mission
Green Apples is an expert mentoring business that delivers world-class solutions to successfully transform procurement, supply chain, and leadership. With a hands-on approach and global experience, the team specializes in implementing sustainable procurement strategies and large-scale supply chain transformations.
Mission:
Green Apples’ mission is to empower companies through strategic mentoring and sustainable procurement and supply chain solutions that create meaningful impact for the Planet, People, and Profit.
The team brings decades of international expertise gained from working with leading global brands, including Subway, Sushi Daily, Kellogg’s, Kent, Heineken, Kit-Kat, Nespresso, and We Soda.
Ana Maria Velica
Ana-Maria Velica is an international leader and mentor with two decades of expertise in procurement, supply chain and talent management in FMCG companies.
Ana-Maria lives in London and her expertise spans 4 countries, 40+ international teams and several industries.
She’s got a global accreditation as Senior Practitioner Mentor and Coach by EMCC UK recognising the excellence of Mentoring and Coaching professional practice against research-based criteria.
Ana-Maria founded the Green Apples solutions based on a 3-step framework for ethical and sustainable transformation
Vlad Gradinariu
Vlad Gradinariu has over a decade experience in strategic procurement & supply chain for global brands in FMCG, hospitality, banking and manufacturing.
His expertise is in value engineering & cost optimisation, stakeholder management, influencing business decisions and implementing best practices.
Vlad is passionate about using data to maximising long-term productivity, performance and sustainability for organisations.