Sharon Patterson

President and CEO at Billion Dollar Roundtable INC

Sharon Patterson is President and CEO of Billion Dollar Roundtable, an organization whose member companies purchase more than $1 billion annually from minority- and women-owned companies. She also provides supplier diversity support to BP. Previously, she was director of supplier diversity for Kraft Foods where she developed and implemented policy and strategy, led teams and communicated with all levels of management. Among her awards, Patterson was honored as “Women Who Mean Business in Supplier Diversity” and as a “First Lady of Supplier Diversity,” and in 2010 she was recognized by Minority Business News uSA in its selection of “100 Influential People of Minority Economic Development.”