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Boise, ID – Raymond West Intralogistics Solutions, a leading provider of end-to-endless warehouse and material handling solutions, is pleased to announce its participation as an exhibitor at the 2025 National Institute of Government Procurement (NIGP) Area 8 Regional Conference and Vendor Showcase. The event will take place May 19–21, 2025, at the Boise Centre, located at 850 W. Front St., Boise, Idaho.

The NIGP Area 8 Regional Conference, hosted for the first time in Boise by the Idaho Public Purchasing Association, brings together procurement professionals from Alaska, Hawaii, Alberta, Columbia, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. Attendees will have the opportunity to engage in educational sessions, network with industry leaders, and explore innovative solutions at the Vendor Showcase.

Raymond West Intralogistics Solutions will be on-site to offer insight into how its comprehensive solutions and services can help organizations streamline operations, improve efficiency, and optimize their supply chain. With more than 75 years of experience and a footprint spanning eight Western states, Raymond West is recognized for its commitment to innovation and customer success.

“We are excited to connect with procurement professionals at the NIGP Area 8 Regional Conference and share how Raymond West can help agencies and organizations ‘Store, Move, and Optimize’ their operations,” Juan Flores, VP of Sales at Raymond West and Toyota Lift Northwest said, “Our team is dedicated to delivering tailored intralogistics solutions that empower our clients to meet today’s challenges and prepare for tomorrow’s opportunities.”

Conference attendees are invited to visit the Raymond West exhibit to discover new ways to connect, collaborate, and grow in the public procurement space.

About Raymond West Intralogistics Solutions

At Raymond West, our aim is to deliver the utmost quality and to work for continuous improvement every day, in every aspect of our business. Serving the entire West Coast, Raymond West is your trusted partner in customized intralogistics solutions and exceptional support for all your business needs. We specialize in keeping your warehouse running efficiently, providing comprehensive services to help you Store, Move, and Optimize your operations for productivity and growth.

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Discussing How to Manage Market Risk While Pursuing Growth

Listen to the interview on the Business Innovators Radio Network: Interview with John Wright, CFA Chief Investment Officer of Stellar Assets Discussing Managing Market Risk

In a new episode of Influential Entrepreneurs, host Mike Saunders interviews John A. Wright, CFA, Chief Investment Officer of Stellar Assets, on the art and science of managing market risk while still pursuing growth in an investment portfolio.

Wright opens the discussion with a critical truth: “A 50% portfolio loss requires a 100% gain just to break even.” This simple but sobering math highlights why risk management is just as vital as growth when building long-term wealth. “Growing wealth is essential—but protecting it is equally important,” says Wright.

Wright explains that investors face two types of losses, neither of which they are equipped to handle, but both can be equally damaging: financial and emotional losses.

• Financial losses reduce future earning potential and compounds the difficulty of reaching financial goals.
• Emotional losses often drive stress and poor decision-making. For instance, during a market downturn, fear can cause investors to sell at the bottom, locking in actual financial losses instead of waiting for a recovery.

Humans, Wright notes, are naturally “allergic to loss.” This aversion can lead investors to extremes—either playing it too safe in low-yield assets or taking excessive risks chasing quick gains.

Striking the Right Balance Between Fear and Greed

Wright identifies two dominant forces that derail investors: fear and greed. Both can lead to avoidable mistakes:

• Greed can result in overexposure, especially in bull markets, leaving investors vulnerable to painful corrections.
• Fear can cause under-investing, which may fail to keep pace with inflation or meet long-term goals like retirement.

Wright emphasizes that the key to long-term success is balancing these emotional forces with disciplined strategy.

Practical Strategies for Managing Risk and Capturing Growth

Wright outlines several proven strategies that investors can use to manage risk without sacrificing performance:

1. Dollar-Cost Averaging (DCA): Consistently investing a fixed amount over time, regardless of market conditions, helps smooth out volatility and reduces the pressure to time the market.
2. Diversification: A well-diversified portfolio across asset classes provides flexibility. “You want to have something to sell when markets drop,” Wright advises, as part of a re-allocation strategy.
3. Options as Protection: Wright uses tools like put options to hedge downside risk. These instruments can lock in profits or offer a safety net during major downturns.
4. Stay Fully Invested: While market timing may feel safer, it often misses recoveries. “The best opportunities often arise when fear is at its peak,” Wright says. Staying invested ensures participation in market rebounds.

A Smarter Approach to Wealth Management

Wright’s investment philosophy centers on actively managed equity and options portfolios designed to seek higher returns while reducing downside risk.

“Crash-protect assets without sacrificing performance,” he says. “That’s the mission.”

Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/embed/xEumsCUSZAw

About John Wright

John holds an MBA from Stanford University (’95), but unlike many in finance, his experience isn’t rooted on Wall Street. Instead, he spent decades helping Fortune 500 companies solve high-stakes challenges—growing sales, improving margins, and driving stock performance.

His career spans consulting (McKinsey), tech (HP), energy (Exxon), retail (AutoZone), and industrials (GM). Today, he brings that strategic mindset to managing client portfolios through Stellar Assets.

On a personal note, John is the seventh of nine siblings raised in a tight-knit family with strong values. He served a two-year mission in the Netherlands and Belgium and now lives with his wife and three children. His deep-rooted belief in community and service continues to shape both his personal and professional life.

Learn more about John Wright and Stellar Assets at: www.stellar-assets.com

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• John Wright, CFA Chief Investment Officer of Stellar Assets, interviewed on The Influential Entrepreneurs Podcast, Discussing Investing in Individual

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In an era defined by rapid technological change and relentless disruption, true leadership lies not merely in adaptation, but in shaping the future with conviction and clarity. Loukas Tzitzis exemplifies this principle.

A distinguished technology executive and visionary entrepreneur, Loukas brings over three decades of global experience across industry leaders such as Amdocs, Gentrack, and Tech Mahindra. Loukas offers transformative insights that empower companies to lead rather than follow. His perspective is fast becoming essential for today’s forward-thinking executives.

We spoke to Loukas to discuss his vision for the future and the evolution of leadership for the AI-era.

The evolution of competitive strategy for the AI-era

Loukas Tzitzis brings a sharp lens to the strategic mistakes of the past and he believes that repeating mistakes is the cardinal sin in business: “I keep asking myself: Since the early 2000’s, how many times have we in the Tech Industry ignored the fundamentals to make investments of billions of dollars that, predictably, never came even close to meeting our ROI expectations? Then I think of today’s global macroeconomic environment, and I ask myself whether we can afford to operate in the old belief that we need 10-25% of our innovation investments to really be successful. After almost 30 years in the industry, I go back to these fundamental two questions to keep myself grounded whenever I get excited about the potential of technology.” Loukas Tzitzis is unequivocal when discussing artificial intelligence. While many executives still talk about AI in speculative or hypothetical terms, he speaks with urgency and clarity about its current impact and rapidly accelerating future.

“AI is a paradigm shift, the definition of economic disruption – but we seem to forget that this is an evolution of Machine Learning: from expert systems to supervised and unsupervised machine learning and we are now in the era of deep neural networks.

Finance and Transportation are prime examples of AI’s evolution and evolving impact. Many still underestimate the sheer scale of automation and machine learning already embedded in today’s financial systems, from high-frequency trading and fraud detection to intelligent customer service. In transportation, Waymo, Tesla, Zoox, NVIDIA, Pony.AI, and 23 other companies are already active in this space, and the city of Wuhan in China is a prime large-scale example that such a deployed driverless fleet can work. Multiple cities in the USA could be a part of the next adoption wave in the upcoming months and the news coming out of the US Visit delegation to the GCC region suggests that the region is about to join in this journey. This is not some futuristic outlook: this is right here, right now, and the key moment is to recognise when is the supply chain ready, when is the value chain sustainable and when is the ecosystem mature enough to influence the adoption curve.

Beyond the transformative potential we are already seeing in Fintech and Transportation, AI is already revolutionising cybersecurity, robotics, manufacturing diagnostics, precision medicine, patient care, and drug discovery at an astonishing pace. I am particularly intrigued by the emerging power of autonomous AI agents in financial services. We are now on the brink of seeing self-reliant ‘Robo-advisors’ driving algorithmic trading with minimal human oversight. These agents are enhancing predictive modelling for volatile asset classes like cryptocurrencies and are rapidly positioning themselves as pivotal enablers of financial decentralisation.

However, avoiding past mistakes means that we must be honest with ourselves about the fact that we are very early on in this journey. We also need to change the current unsustainable “build” path or face catastrophic business consequences!

We are in the Artificial Narrow Intelligence era (ANI), and I believe we are at least 3-5 years away before we get to AGI (General Intelligence) and ASI (Super Intelligence), concepts that will truly deliver some of the expectations that we have been hearing about in the last 2-3 years. Moreover, and based on the technical development paradigm to date of key companies such as OpenAI, the current costs of enabling only the foundational layer of AI are so exorbitant that I struggle to see how we can build an economically viable and globally inclusive value chain, from AI foundation to customers, and supply chain across both developed and developing nations.

I believe the right option for the AI future we all hope for is away from the current approach of generic LLM build. The only way towards a globally inclusive and financially sustainable future for the vast majority of countries and companies is through specialised, small language models (SLMs) with proprietary data lakes. This approach can generate sustainable competitive advantages by leveraging domain-specific data that create new “data & insights” to drive continuous, iterative and collaborative growth across the global business ecosystem and the entire AI-value pyramid.

All in all, AI has the potential to reshape how we live, work, and interact. The only variables are time, the right balance of incubation and regulation, and optimising investments to unlock benefits delivery globally.”

Choosing the winners in Business & Tech

Loukas believes technology’s true power lies in its ability to democratise opportunities and create inclusivity by enabling the constant emergence of new capable companies globally. Eager to learn how Loukas decides on the next technologies and companies to work with, we asked, “What is your framework for selecting the right technology and business at any point in time?”

“Innovation isn’t about chasing dreams that cannot be executed! It is about building for long-term relevance at the right time, in the right space and with the right people. We also forget that innovation is not only about technology: Business & market innovation is also a critical component of innovation overall!

The ZIRR era created a culture where business & technology fundamentals were ignored, leading to some decisions that I would call politely “questionable”! Luckily, that model of companies burning cash on any technology is collapsing, and while recent macroeconomic developments have severely impacted years of trending growth, I am happy to see that we are returning to considering the fundamentals! Innovation efforts must lead to companies developing sustainable, not just scalable, deliverables, which I call “innovation on the money”.

“Innovation on the money” is about understanding what can influence the adoption curve and the right time to “enter the fray” so that a given company can achieve optimal ROI on its innovation efforts! The important thing is to develop an assessment framework that combines business and technological criteria and then apply that in a manner that makes sense for the specific company in question. I have come to appreciate that the criteria that can meaningfully “shift the needle” in the adoption curve are consistent, but what changes are the desired target outcomes, depending on the geography and type of company: for example, there are different considerations for a corporate relative to a startup and geographical considerations also play a part.

All in all, it is essential not to be too early or too late to enter a market and to constantly adjust monetisation and capital-raising pathways relative to the macro- and micro-environment in which a company is operating: peer-to-peer services, usage-based pricing, subscription layers, loyalty economies, defi-based funding and adjacent value-adding functions like commerce or logistics all play a crucial part now, but that was certainly not the case back in 2015.

Take for example Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) and Cybersecurity! The TRITON attack happened in 2017, and I recall giving an interview about IioT and Cybersecurity in CPS in the Middle East in 2019. Yet, I think it is only now that we can genuinely say that we have reached the necessary “critical mass” in the whole ecosystem for the importance of CTEM in CPS to come front and centre!

Most professionals know that the real moat isn’t tech by itself, but winners of our era will be companies that will leverage tech to enable not just loyalty but the creation of communities! Features can be cloned. Markets can be disrupted. But a community of deeply engaged customers who are involved deep enough to be practically vested in your success? That’s incredibly hard to replicate.”

Envisioning the future

Loukas Tzitzis believes that future success will come to those that excel at managing the intersection of technological innovation, human connections and branding.

He explains: “As business leaders, we have a dual obligation: to deliver tangible benefits through business-centric innovation and contribute towards a better, more inclusive global future by developing the next generation of leaders and tech so people everywhere can share both the benefits and successes of technologically powered progress.

We live in a time where meaningful contributions towards delivering these objectives can come from anywhere and even smaller countries have made a huge difference! Countries as diverse as the United States, China, India, Estonia, Israel have been global powerhouses in software for a long time. The GCC region has also become a critical part of the global AI value chain and has, in fact, already been exporting its AI capabilities to other countries. But we have gone beyond that!

The accelerated pace of technology democratisation, digitalisation and investments by all in STEM education have enabled the emergence of countries and companies that can sustainably make a difference on a global scale! Take for example Greece. As recently as 5-10 years ago, no one would have considered any Greek tech startup or SMB as a serious contender for international business.

However, I was pleasantly surprised to hear recently the legendary marketeer Peter Economides talk about Greece and its potential to become the West Coast of Europe! I have also found in Greece a flourishing innovation ecosystem and companies like Office Line S.A, a Cloud Solutions Provider and Digital Transformation company that is a long-standing partner of Microsoft. They are a company with a strong legacy of technology excellence, experienced teams of subject matter experts, and a portfolio that helps companies address their needs today while preparing them for the AI-powered era. What surprised me is that I did not know them, even though they have nearly 30 years of steady growth in a very challenging market and experience in delivering complex B2G and B2B transformation projects in Greece. They are ready to take on companies outside Greece, and Greece’s currently booming economic & business environment would certainly play in their favour internationally. The only challenge I see for them, similar to what I mentioned at a conference in Estonia about the challenges of Estonian companies, is that they need to share their compelling story and value-add outside of their captive market .

The world has become a globally interconnected marketplace and there has never been a better time to make a difference through the power of technology!”

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There’s more to success in the medical device sector than simply balancing the books. Financial leadership here requires vision, flexibility, and a keen grasp of innovation waves. John Bostjancic, an experienced financial leader, has always known that true efficiency is not about reducing expenses,but about making every dollar count.

With a medtech background in his career, John Bostjancic has always shown that careful financial planning can power operational success and long-term growth. His management is a study in how finance can be a source of stability and innovation trigger for the medical device sector.

Establishing a Financial Foundation for Innovation

Medical devices change rapidly—technology, regulation, and customer expectations never stop moving. In this active environment, planning financially can’t be inflexible. John Bostjancic stresses developing flexible but disciplined structures that can foster innovation without jeopardizing overextension financially.

He’s worked all along to match R&D timelines with financial models, so that all innovation efforts are supported by appropriate resources at appropriate times. With this forward-thinking strategy, firms can invest aggressively in emerging technologies while staying healthily financially poised.

Cost Optimization Without Compromising Quality

In the medical devices sector, pressure on costs exists—regulatory compliance, clinical trials, and supply chain logistics all have expensive price tags associated with them. But cost optimization isn’t relentlessly cutting costs, says John Bostjancic. It’s a smarter use of capital.

With his leadership at the helm, finance teams are empowered to dive into the weeds of operations. From finding inefficiencies in procurement to negotiating with suppliers to reopen contracts, or driving turns in inventory, his vision is on long-term sustainability over short-term success.

This is how quality and innovation never sit on the backburner even as companies trim overhead and push margins.

Fostering Cross-Functional Collaboration

Financial effectiveness does not happen in a vacuum. One of John Bostjancic’s governing principles is that finance must be coupled with the other departments. In the medical device industry, this will mean close alignment of finance, engineering, compliance, and sales.

He is renowned for breaking down silos and driving transparency across organizations. By combining financial insight with product creation and go-to-market strategy, he ensures that every decision runs in balance between impact and viability. This collaboration ethos translates into better-informed investment and overall larger results.

Technology as a Financial Enabler

New prospects for financial improvement have been brought about by the shift to digital healthcare. John Bostjancic has been a fervent supporter of the use of technology to improve operations monitoring, financial reporting, and forecasting.

He has worked on projects that turn financial data into easy to understand insights, like real time dashboards and automated reports. This kind of visibility helps businesses stay flexible and react quickly, which really matters in the medical device industry where things can change fast.

Navigating Market Challenges with Strategic Foresight

Inflation, supply chain interruption, or regulatory modification is always the problem, whether it’s the one. There is always something broken in the medical device industry. John Bostjancic’s approach is one of planning ahead. He is a believer in scenario planning and financial planning, not responding when crises occur but anticipating them.

He urges companies to stress their budgets, have robust cash buffers, and develop flexible financial strategies that can absorb shocks from the outside world. This approach has enabled companies to remain focused even during troubled times.

Gauging Success Beyond the Bottom Line

Financial efficiency, to John Bostjancic, is not merely about margins; it is about creating value. To him, real success in the medical devices sector means delivering outcomes such as better patient care, quicker time-to-market, and better partnership.

He typically discusses how financial objectives need to be aligned with the company’s overall mission. When finance works for innovation, patient care, and long-term viability, efficiency is a strategic strength, rather than a metric.

Final Thoughts

In a business as multifaceted and dynamic as medtech, financial leadership must be both accurate and foresighted. John Bostjancic’s vision for maximizing financial effectiveness combines old-school discipline with new-age innovation. His efforts continue to influence the way finance operates not only to control risk but actively fuel growth in the medical device industry.

Through smarter investments, cross-functional alignment, and data-driven decision-making, John Bostjancic has redefined what it means to be financially effective in healthcare technology. His approaches provide a roadmap for organizations looking for profitability and purpose in one of the world’s most critical industries.

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