Webinar: 
Women Empowering Women

Join Vicky Lyle, Past Chair of PWH, and Tina Murphy, GHX CEO, about the importance of women empowering and supporting other women. Hear about Tina's journey to the C-Suite and how she was empowered by the women around her both professionally and personally.  During this webinar we will discuss breaking down the perception of women competing, tips and tricks for supporting women and the importance of taking risks.

Speakers:

Vicky Lyle
PWH Past Chair
Vice President, Industry Associations
Owens & Minor

Vicky Lyle is the Vice President of Industry Associations at Owens & Minor, where she leads the Company’s involvement with industry and trade organizations worldwide. She currently serves on the executive board for Professional Women in Healthcare (PWH) as the Chair for the 2021 and 2022 term. She also serves on the board of Healthcare Supplier Diversity Alliance (HSDA) and serves on the Council of Supplier Diversity for Health Industry Distributors Association (HIDA). Vicky has been with Owens & Minor for 35 years, contributing business and technical expertise across all facets of the supply chain.

Prior to her current role, she served as Operating Vice President, Service Line Strategy, where she was responsible for the development of the inventory solutions platform along with service line operations, implementation and support.

In her time with the Company, she has led several strategic cross-functional projects, including business acquisitions, distribution center strategy, and the creation of Owens & Minor’s Third Party Logistics (3PL) service offering.

Vicky holds a B.A. in Business Administration from Averett University, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude.

Tina Vatanka Murphy
President & CEO
GHX

For more than two decades, Vatanka Murphy has guided GHX’s vision, mission, and strategic direction, supporting the company’s growth to become the industry’s largest cloud-based supply chain network. As president and chief executive officer (CEO), she is leading the charge in helping the healthcare ecosystem move faster, operate more intelligently, and achieve greater outcomes.

Vatanka Murphy joined GHX shortly after its inception in 2000, rising to increasingly prominent leadership roles based on her significant contributions to expanding the company’s business and defining the roadmap for a more efficient and equitable future for healthcare.

Prior to being named CEO in 2022, Vatanka Murphy held the position of GHX division president, Value Based Care, and was instrumental in leading the company’s award winning response to the global pandemic in 2020. She prioritized listening to customers to better understand changing market dynamics, which resulted in deeper customer partnerships and double-digit growth in 2021.

Vatanka Murphy previously served as senior vice president, GHX Global Product and Corporate Development, where she was responsible for architecting a global product function that led to strong customer retention and double-digit improvement in customer satisfaction scores. In her prior role as president of GHX Europe, her decisive leadership helped the company’s European arm significantly improve customer satisfaction while achieving double-digit growth.

Driven by the belief that innovation requires diversity and understanding biases helps build stronger teams, Vatanka Murphy implemented the GHX Diversity & Inclusivity Advisory Council. She has instituted multiple initiatives across GHX, including training more than 700 employees in allyship and nearly 200 managers in unconscious bias. Throughout her career, Vatanka Murphy has garnered industry recognition, most
recently named an “Influential Woman in STEM and Technology” by Authority Magazine, honored as one of Supply & Demand Chain Executive’s “2020 Women in Supply Chain,” and earning a Silver Stevie award for “Most Valuable Corporate Response: COVID-19.” Notably, GHX was ranked 18 in the Healthcare Software
category of the 2023 “Power 500 Technology Companies” award and 19 on the 2022 “Top 100 Healthcare Technology Companies” list by The Healthcare Technology Report.

Vatanka Murphy holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business from Indiana University.