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Dr. Arnold Maltz
Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management
Arizona State University

Arnold Maltz teaches supply chain management and logistics to both undergraduates and graduate students at the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. Professor Maltz spent twelve years in industry before obtaining his Ph.D. in Marketing/Logistics at the Ohio State University. For the past several years Dr. Maltz has been investigating issues around the use of suppliers in low cost countries, and he has done field work in Estonia and Mexico as well as interviewing buyers involved in global sourcing on a worldwide basis. Dr. Maltz has also presented to audiences in Denmark, Israel, Mexico, Argentina, and Peru and is currently studying perceptions of low cost geographies by sourcing managers.

Beth Enslow
SVP of Enterprise Research and Supply Chain Practice Leader Aberdeen Group

Beth Enslow is Senior Vice President, Enterprise Research, for the Aberdeen Group (www.aberdeen.com), a leading provider of fact-based research and advice for business and technology executives. Enslow directs Aberdeen’s supply chain, global trade, and supply chain finance practices. Enslow is also a lecturer on supply chain technology and supply chain finance at York University’s Center for Supply Chain & Logistics Management in Toronto.

Mr. He is a Senior Manager in Accenture’s Global Supply Chain Management service line. Mr. He specializes in supply chain assessment and optimization, supply chain strategic planning, operation efficiency improvement, shared services and organizational redesign. He currently has a focus on low cost country sourcing, procurement transformation, and negotiation training and preparation. Mr. He has extensive experience in the Telecommunications, Automotive, Utilities, Nature Resources, Heavy Manufacturing, Financial Services, Media & High Tech, E-Commerce, Consumer Packaging Goods, and Pharmaceutical industries.

Before joining Accenture, Mr. He held a number of managerial and consulting positions in major US corporations and consulting firms in supply chain, especially sourcing and procurement, area. In those roles, Mr. He led procurement organization transformation efforts to build world class global sourcing and procurement organizations that handle annual spend of multi-billion dollars, facilitated business leader supply chain/procurement forums which pioneered best practices and policies across different, especially decentralized, operating structures, implemented e-sourcing tools, led global sourcing engagements and achieved significant savings in many different categories, improved operation efficiencies and asset utilizations, and cut down contracting cycle time dramatically.

Mr. He earned his MBA degree with Honors from the University of Chicago and holds a B.S. degree in Physics from Fudan University in Shanghai, China. He is proficient in English, Mandarin, Shanghainese, and Cantonese. Mr. He is based out of the Reston, VA (Washington DC) office.

Brent Edmisten
Director Strategic Sourcing & Mfg. Strategy
Cessna Aircraft Company

Brent E. Edmisten is a Business Process Improvement and Supply Chain Management professional with 16 years of industry leadership experience in Program Management, New Product Development, Purchasing, Materials, Strategic Sourcing, Manufacturing Strategy, and Supply Chain Management. He led the on-site assessment and final selection process in which Cessna Aircraft was awarded the 2003 Purchasing Medal of Excellence in Supply Chain Management. Brent leads all of the Strategic Sourcing processes for all Direct Material Commodities and the Manufacturing Strategy for Cessna Aircraft Company. He also owns the ISC Strategic Planning and Globalization for the Integrated Supply Chain Strategy at Cessna Aircraft Company. Brent is a graduate of Friends University with an Executive MBA. He and his wife Debbie live in Wichita, Kansas and have one daughter and one son.

Senior Vice President of Trade Distribution Services (TDS) – GE Commercial Financial Services. Trade Distribution Services is a global business focused on optimising working capital in global supply chains. TDS will own the inventory within a supply chain, taking cost out of the supply chain, by freeing up working capital and reducing operating expenses.

Bob has recently joined GE, having spent the last 8 years with INSIGHT a leading supply chain design software and services firm, where Bob most recently was the Chief Operating Officer. Bob has been recognized by DC Velocity magazine wining Rainmaker 2004 recognition and as a 2004 Providers Pro to Know by Supply & Demand Chain magazine. Bob has been an often-quoted speaker on supply chain issues, including global sourcing and global supply chain design.

Mr. Belshaw is a graduate of Lehigh University. He received his BS Industrial Engineering Degree in 1982 and has taken additional coursework at the University of Pennsylvania.

Bob Scharf is president of Sergeant’s Pet Care Products, Inc., a leading manufacturer and marketer of pet supplies, including flea and tick remedies, health and well-being products, natural and formulated treats, rawhide chews, toys and accessories. Sergeant’s has been actively sourcing products from various countries for over 30 years.

He has held various executive positions in transportation, manufacturing, purchasing and general management in a number of companies and industries. Mr. Scharf has an economics degree from University of Nebraska at Lincoln.

Mr. Sollitto is a Supply Chain Solutions Manager for Arrow Electronics, one of the world’s largest global distributors of electronic components.

He has considerable experience designing and implementing state of the art service models delivering international supply chain solutions.

Mr. Sollitto is an Instructor for the University of California, and has been a featured speaker for organizations such as the American Electronics Association and the Electronics Supply Chain Association.

Mr. Sollitto holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Stevens Institute of Technology and a Master’s Degree from California State University.

Christian Verstraete
Senior Director Solutions & Technology Integration Worldwide Manufacturing & Distribution Industries
Hewlett-Packard

Christian Verstraete, worldwide Senior Director for HP’s Manufacturing and Distributions Industries Worldwide Solutions & Technology Integration Group, has been a member of HP’s manufacturing team for more than 26 years. Verstraete is responsible for identifying and developing HP’s differentiated portfolio of horizontal and vertical solutions for the manufacturing industries. His group is tasked with creating field-ready solutions that meet the specific needs of customers, geographies and HP’s Technology Solutions Group (TSG) business units.

Prior to his current position, Verstraete led HP’s global High-Tech Industry Group and its manufacturing industries Supply Chain go-to-market strategy where he was responsible for growing the company’s $300 million consulting and system integration business.

As vice president, Manufacturing Industry Practice, he headed HP’s manufacturing practice within the Consulting and Integration business unit from 2002 to 2004 The 1200 consultants he led created and delivered solutions in the areas of supply chain, procurement and sourcing, product lifecycle collaboration, demand chain and collaborative business integration. The team also developed specific offerings for customers in the automotive, high-tech, pharmaceutical, and energy sectors.

Prior to that, Verstraete served as the Global Lead in the Extended Manufacturing Practice and the Supply Chain Infrastructure and EAI. From his first HP job as a systems engineer through project, regional, district and global management, Verstraete has concentrated on developing, marketing and advancing infrastructure services.

Frequently published in periodicals, Verstraete has been a featured speaker at several global supply chain events. Verstraete’s latest book, Collaborative Sourcing, Strategic Value Creation through Collaborative Supplier Relationship Management, is currently available at www.i6doc.com.

Verstraete holds a mechanical engineering degree from the Universite catholique de Louvain in Belgium and a degree in industrial management from Katholieke Universiteit van Leuven, also in Belgium. He is based in Brussels, Belgium.

David Morgenstern is a managing director in Ariba's Sourcing group, and leads Ariba's low cost country sourcing practice. He is currently based in Canada, after having spent a decade living in Asia, primarily Beijing and Singapore, where he ran a China market entry consulting business, and then held subsequently held senior commercial roles with FreeMarkets and Ariba throughout Asia.

Deborah Winkleblack
Executive Director International Logistics & Compliance Claire’s Accessories

Ms. Winkleblack, Executive Director - Int'l Logistics and Compliance for Claire's Accessories in Hoffman Estates, Ill., is responsible for International and Domestic Logistics and Transportation (Import, Export, Domestic, and Information Systems), Customs Compliance, Duty Drawback, Freight Bill Payment, and Merchandise Payables.

Ms. Winkleblack has been with Claire's since 1993. Prior to Claire's, she was with Montgomery Ward in a variety of domestic and international positions. She also is an adjunct facility member at several local colleges, teaching courses in Ocean Freight and Principles of Importing and Exporting.

She holds a M.B.A., along with a B.S. in Psychology and a certificate in Transportation.

Claire's Stores, Inc., is a leading international specialty retailer offering value-priced costume jewelry and accessories to fashion-aware tweens, teens and young adults through its two store concepts: Claire's and Icing by Claire's. While the latter operates only in North America, Claire's operates internationally. As of April 30, 2005, Claire's Stores, Inc. operated approximately 2,850 stores in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Switzerland, Austria and Germany. Claire's Stores, Inc. operates through its subsidiary, Claire's Nippon, Co., Ltd., 161 stores in Japan as a 50:50 joint venture with AEON, Co., Ltd. (aka JUSCO, Co. Ltd.), a $32 billion specialty retailer headquartered in Japan. The Company also licenses 65 stores in the Middle East and Turkey under a licensing and merchandising agreement with Al Shaya Co., Ltd. and five stores in South Africa under similar agreements with The House of Busby Limited.

Derek Leathers
Sr. Executive Vice President Werner Enterprises & President
Werner Global Logistics

Derek Leathers, Sr. Executive Vice President, Werner Enterprises and President of Werner Global Logistics, and an expert on brokerage, freight management, Intermodal, and third party logistics solutions.

He recently helped guide his company’s expansion into Asia. Derek has worked in the international logistics industry for over 15 years and was an integral part of many facets of the transportation portions of the NAFTA implementation process throughout the past two decades.

Mr. Leathers has served as an advisor to the past two US ambassadors to Mexico as well as serving on the American Trucking Association's Cross-Border Advisory Committee for North America. Mr. Leathers was one of the first foreign members of Mexico's trucking association (CANACAR) and has successfully led the launch of multiple new logistics products in low-cost countries.

Marc Castagnet, Chairman of SgT Group, holds MBA degrees from both France and USA. After a career in banking in New York and starting his business in China in 1989, he started SgT in 1993.

SgT has been a pioneer into offering outsourcing supply chain services in the garment industry and first introducedvalue added services at logistic platform 6 years ago. Currently, SgT has 21 offices in 14 countries (SE Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and USA).

Marc is also a shareholder of Wethica, a social compliance company and holds several official positions at different trade and business organizations.

Manuel Amaya
Senior Mgr Purchased Finished Good OPNA (Office Products NA)
Avery Dennison

Manuel has an Industrial Engineering degree from University of Illinois and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon

He joined Avery Dennison in 1988 after having worked for Ford Motor Co, Pepsi Cola and FMC Corporation in Chicago.

AD is a global leader in pressure-sensitive labeling materials, office products and retail tag, ticketing and branding systems.

Manuel works for the Office Products Group of Avery Dennison which has worldwide revenues in excess of $1billion distributed across six major businesses.

He is currently responsible for the consolidated Purchased Finished Goods team in Office Products North America. This responsibility entails the sourcing, production planning/scheduling and distribution of all products that are not internally manufactured by Avery Dennison.

During his 18 years at Avery Manuel has had roles in Finance, Manufacturing, Logistics and Operations in one or more of our six different businesses. I am currently a member of the Leadership team in all of these businesses.

Mr. Mitchell is a member of The Hackett Group's Client Service Delivery Team, responsible for advancing the procurement and supply chain practice and tools which propel companies toward world-class performance in supply chain management.

He has 17 years of industry and consulting experience in procurement, supply chain, manufacturing and information technology. Most recently, he was vice president of supply management research at AMR Research, where he provided executives with objective business counsel.

As an industry expert in supply management technologies, Mr. Mitchell has been recognized as one of the practitioner “Pros to Know” by Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine. He is frequently quoted by the business press and regularly speaks at industry events. Previously, Mr. Mitchell was a manager at Arthur D. Little, where he led numerous supply chain and procurement transformations at Fortune 500 companies. Other industry positions include manufacturing project manager at The Timberland Company, materials manager at Krupp Companies and engineer at EG&G Torque Systems.

He holds a degree in engineering management from Southern Methodist University and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

RICHARD ( Rick) LEE, is currently Director, Systems Group Procurement and IBM’s Integrated Supply Chain Senior Location Executive - IBM Austin, TX.

During Rick’s 26 years with IBM, he has held Executive and Management positions over a broad range of missions, including: Executive Leadership for each of IBM’s Software, Services and Hardware Procurement functions.

His expertise covers direct and indirect procurement, licensing, acquisitions and divestitures. Rick has shared his supply chain expertise and services in forums including the Austin Capital City Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Procurement Managers (NAPM) Austin Chapter, and the TCU Neeley School of Business.

Rick resides in Cedar Park, Texas.

Scott Searls, Senior Vice President, Procurement and Logistics, is responsible for all aspects of Alltel’s supply. His 20-year career encompasses tours in sales & marketing, basic research, operations and supply. Scott has lived and worked over seas on two occasions and has extensive international business experience having traveled to over 40 countries. He is the co-creator of Lucent Technologies Award winning Supplier Management Program, the creator of the “Chessboard” approach to global sourcing and has several publications in the areas of source selection and evaluation criteria.

Highly regarded, a dynamic leader with the vision, expertise, and proven record to influence bottom-line performance of global materials and supply-chain operations of billion-dollar corporations. Excel in change management, relationship building, and process improvements to build profits of multi-site and multi-culture operations. Shahriar has a track record of succssefully outsourcing Fortune 500 companies' manufacturing assemblies to low cost regions. He has over 25 years experience in different industries such as defense, automotive, semiconductor and one of the world's largest subcontract manufacturing with foot prints in low cost regions.

Steven Robinson has an extensive background in international transportation with over thirty years managing and consulting in Asia, Europe, The Middle East, Latin America and the US. He has spent over 15 years living and working in overseas markets and has direct experience with the supply chain infrastructure in both mature and emerging markets.

In addition to his services at Gap Inc., Mr. Robinson has held executive positions with Covenant Transport b.v., American President Lines, APL Logistics, Robinson Stark Associates, Natomas Company and Freight Conference Services

Tanvir Arfi is an operations and supply chain change expert with over fifteen years of progressive experience in engineering, supply chain and operations management. Tanvir is currently the Vice President and Chief Supply Chain Officer for SPX Corporation where he has responsibility for global supply management, logistics/distribution management and strategic materials management for almost $2.5 billion global spend. Prior to joining SPX Corporation, Tanvir had senior leadership roles at Cessna Aircraft and Textron’s supply chain and was an adjunct faculty of mechanical engineering at Wichita State University.

Tanvir is a licensed private pilot and lives with his wife and two children in the Charlotte area.

Director and General Manager
Yantian International Container Terminals Ltd
A member of Hutchison Port Holdings Group

Captain Wilmer Aguilar has a broad knowledge with hands-on experience in the transportation industry. He started his career in 1987 transiting the Mississippi River while attending Louisiana State University in USA .

He holds a Bsc. in Marine Transportation with a specialization in Business Management from Massachusetts Maritime Academy , MA , USA ; and a Msc. in Marine Policy with a specialization in Port Management and International Shipping from the University of Wales , Cardiff , UK . Prior to gaining his qualification as Master Mariner , he had held several working positions with different companies such as Sea-Land Service Inc., the Panama Canal Authority, CONOCO Marine Inc., Taipan Shipping, and Commodore Cruise Line.

Capt. Aguilar joined the Hutchison Port Holding Group in 2000 at the company head quarters in Hong Kong where he has gained management experience in Terminal Operations, Business Development, Commercial Development; and currently he holds the position of Port Marketing and Solutions Manager for Yantian International Container Terminals in Shenzhen, China.

Chocko Valliappa founded Vee Technologies in 2000. Vee Technologies has emerged as one of India’s primer outsourcing companies- Made it to the Cyber Media’s ‘Global services 100’ list of top outsourcing companies. Vee handles end to end IT services. An ISO certified company with a zest for six sigma levels quality Vee Today handling $9 billion worth transactions.

Chocko is the C.E.O and manages responsibility of Vee’s multiple processing centers, managing clients and future growth strategies. He is possessed with a vision to take Vee to be a global market leader with a reputation for quality, client focus. Vee Technologies has been selected as among the ‘Top 5 emerging global services companies’ by a study done by CMP and Neo IT.

Before Vee Technologies Chocko co founded VSTP in 1996 India’s first software incubation center. VSTP offered total infrastructure solutions and incubated companies like Oracle, CISCO, ANZ bank, Andiamo etc. in India.

In 1995 Chocko founded the Sonaversity (a joint initiative with the NBCC Canada.) the e-learning center of Sona College, owned and run by his family. Sonaversity develops e-learning content for 5000 students in its own college campus and for 1000s of students outside.

Chocko is has intense passion for technology. He set up a factory which has 160 employees on roller skates. Today he has the world record holder in typing training, coaching @ Vee.

Chocko’s leadership skills were noticed early in his college days- he was elected twice as a chairman of his College. He is a Radio Jockey (retired), and he loves photography ‘his 3rd eye’.

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