General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Government
• Secretary of State for Ronald Reagan
• Commander in Chief, U.S. European Command for President Gerald Ford
• Senior Military Advisor to Dr. Henry Kissinger
• White House Chief of Staff for President Nixon
• 4 Star General in Japan, Korea, Europe, & Vietnam

Private
• Former CEO of United Technologies Corp.
• Senior Advisor to United Technologies Corp.
• Board of Directors for America Online
• Board of Directors for MGM Grand
• Board of Directors for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc.

General Alexander Haig needs no introduction, as he is among the most decorated military and civilian figures of our time. In addition to his military accomplishments, General Haig has held a number of key positions in political and business leadership, and presently serves as Chairman of Worldwide Associates, Inc., and is a senior advisor to United Technologies Corporation. He also serves on the Board of Directors of America Online, Inc., Interneuron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., MGM Grand, Inc., the National Foundation for Advanced Cardiac Surgery, Preferred Employers Holdings, Inc., as well as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. and United Technologies Corp.

General Haig is perhaps best known as U.S. Secretary of State under President Ronald Reagan, appointed by the President-elect and confirmed by the U.S. Senate. However, many are familiar with General Haig’s reputation as a paragon of statesmanship, with the mental and tactical genius befitting a 4-star general, and the consummate diplomacy of a master negotiator at the highest levels of the public and private sectors. Click here for the rest of General Haig's bio.

Vinton Gray Cerf, www.mci.com

Senior Vice President for Data Architecture, Engineering Division
MCI WorldCom Communications

Co-developer of the computer networking protocol, TCP/IP, widely used for communications between diverse data networks, known collectively as the Internet.

President (1992-95), Internet Society
Former Vice President, Corporation for National Research Initiatives
Former Vice President of Engineering, MCI Digital Information Services Company
Former Program Manager & Principal Scientist, U.S. Defense Advanced Research Project Agency

Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science, UCLA
B.S. in Math, Computer Science, Stanford University
Former Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering/Computer Science, Stanford University

Internet and intranet technologies are creating new business opportunities daily, around the world. World Business Review is an excellent forum to learn more about how these new communications media can be used to your advantage.

Matthew J. Flanigan, www.tiaonline.org

Former President, Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA)
TIA is a full service national trade organization, representing 650 U.S. manufacturers and suppliers of communications and information technology products.

Oversees the activities of TIA, which include the development of industry standards for telecommunications products; sponsorship of educational and informational programs, including the annual premier communications trade show, SUPERCOMM; and the formulation of key policy positions pertinent to domestic and international regulatory issues.

Former President and Chief Executive Officer for Cognitronics Corporation, a publicly owned voice processing equipment manufacturer

Member of the FCC-established Network Reliability and
Interoperability Council (NRIC)
Member, NumereX Corporation Board of Directors
Director, Electronic Industries Foundation

Grant Seiffert

TIA President

TIA President Grant Seiffert joined TIA in 1996 as director of government relations. His main priority was the representation of the equipment industry's interests, particularly regarding competitive issues during implementation of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). He was promoted to vice president in 1998, directing domestic and global policy to help the association's supplier members gain marketing opportunities around the world. He was promoted to Executive Vice President in 2005 with responsibilities encompassing policy, including interaction with the U.S. Congress, the FCC and the Administration, as well as with international regulatory bodies and government leaders, and fulfilling the senior management role for association membership and TIA tradeshows, including GLOBALCOMMTM. In September, 2006, he was named President Elect to succeed outgoing TIA President Matt Flanigan and became President of TIA in January, 2007. Prior to joining TIA, Seiffert served five years with Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.), former chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee. He holds a Batchelor's degree in Political Science from Radford University.

Information Technology Association of America (ITAA)

Harris N. Miller
Former President, Information Technology Association of America (ITAA)

ITAA is the information technology industries leading trade association. President, World Information Technology and Services Alliance, an association of associations representing 25 high tech trade groups around the world. Directed ground-breaking study, "Help Wanted: The IT Workforce at the Dawn of a New Century" Member, 1998 World Congress on Information Technology Board of Directors Member, Olsten Center Board of Directors Former head of Harris Miller & Associates, a government relations firm representing clients in high tech, banking, and agriculture Bachelor's degree, University Pittsburgh Master's degree, Yale University

Wayne M. Adams

Chair, The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), www.snia.org

Founded in 1997, the Storage Networking Industry Association is dedicated to ensuring that storage networks and data management become complete and trusted solutions for the IT community. We are a worldwide organization, with over 300 member companies in the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, China, India, Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand. The SNIA is focused on technology standards, best practices to deploy solutions, education and certification. The SNIA maintains two technology centers, one in Colorado Springs, CO, USA and one in Beijing China. The SNIA community is represented by storage vendors, solution vendors, storage channel companies, endusers of storage, IT professionals, and IT consultants.

Wayne M. Adams is a Senior Technologist within the Office of the CTO at EMC Corporation. Wayne has 25 years of experience in the IT industry with management roles at EMC, Digital Equipment Corporation, and Eastman Kodak.

Wayne holds a Bachelor of Science degree with a dual major in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Pittsburgh. Wayne is a board member of the Distributed Management Task Force, and coordinates EMC's industry association technology contribution efforts spanning ISO, ANSI, IETF, and several others industry recognized bodies.

Bruce Aitken / beaitken@aol.com Homeland Security Industries Association Washington, DC 20001 Telephone: (202) 331-3096 Fascimile: (202) 331-8191 www.hsianet.org

Bruce Aitken is the founder and President of the Homeland Security Industries Association and a Co-Chair of the Aitken Irvin Berlin & Vrooman, LLP law firm. Mr. Aitken has twenty-five years experience in trade association management and counseling, particularly in the transportation and hi-tech areas. He is the only American to have been appointed to all the major international Dispute Resolution Panels, including: the U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement (by President Bush, in 1991); the NAFTA (by President Clinton, in 1994); the WTO (by President Clinton, in 1996); and the World Intellectual Property Organization (by invitation, in 1997). The details of his background are set forth below.

Born: Abington, Pennsylvania, 1947.

Eugene Arthurs, PhD (www.spie.org)

SPIE-The International Society For Optical Engineering

Eugene Arthurs is currently Executive Director of SPIE -- The International Society for Optical Engineering, a not for profit organization with an international membership of 16,000. SPIE is the leading organization serving the optics and photonics community.

Prior to joining SPIE, Arthurs spent 25 years in industry in the US. Arthurs led development in industry and government sponsored projects with universities in the UK (Queens University, Belfast, University of Glasgow), and in the US (Stanford University, University of Bridgeport, Yale University). His career also involved joint projects with government laboratories such as Sandia, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and NIST, and contract work for corporations such as Dupont, IBM, and ITW.

Arthurs serves on the Advisory Board of the Photochemical Research Center at Bowling Green State University. He is also an elected member of the Board of Directors of the Council for Optical Radiation Measurements.

Roger Ballentine

Roger Ballentine is the President of Green Strategies Inc., where he advises and represents businesses, associations, government agencies and non-profit entities on domestic and international public policy issues and business strategies, focusing on energy, conservation and environmental matters. Roger is also a Senior Fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute in Washington D.C. where he works to develop cutting edge, third way approaches to public policy challenges in the areas of energy and the environment. He also served as Senior Advisor to the Kerry-Edwards Campaign on energy and environmental matters.

Roger previously was a senior member of the White House staff, serving President Bill Clinton as Chairman of the White House Climate Change Task Force and Deputy Assistant to the President for Environmental Initiatives. Prior to being named Deputy Assistant to the President, Mr. Ballentine was Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs, where he focused on energy and environment issues.
Prior to serving in the White House, Roger was a partner at the Washington law firm of Patton, Boggs L.L.P. and Adjunct Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center. He has also served as Special Counsel to the Democratic Leadership in the House of Representatives. Mr. Ballentine has published a number of articles and opinion pieces in nationally-recognized publications and has been a frequent television and radio commentator on various matters of public interest.

Mr. Ballentine is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of the University of Connecticut and a Cum Laude graduate of the Harvard Law School. He is a member of the Connecticut, District of Columbia, and the United States Supreme Court bars. He serves on the Keystone Energy Board and the Boards of the American Council on Renewable Energy, the American Bird Conservancy, the Biomass Energy Resource Center and the Solar Electric Light Fund.

He and his wife, journalist Jennifer Loven, reside in Chevy Chase, Maryland

Robert A. Bibb, P.E.

Bob Bibb has worked in the engineering industry for 35 years principally on the design of power plants and industrial facilities. He was the founder and for 20 years the CEO of Bibb and Associates which grew to be a premier designer of projects cumulatively worth billions of dollars. Two years ago, Bob founded a new company, B&A Engineers, which also designs energy facilities for utilities and industry.

Over the course of his career, Bob Bibb has developed particular expertise in the application of emerging technologies for combustion of alternative fuels used in power production. In today’s energy conscious world and escalating prices for fossil fuels, alternative or renewable "green" fuels provide an option for many industries. Bob’s past clients have included utilities and Fortune 50 industrial companies.

Bob Bibb earned a Bachelor of Sciences degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Kansas. He has also been active in various engineering, energy and civic organizations.

Thomas J. Brondolo

Mr. Thomas Brondolo is currently President of Brondolo Associates, LLC based in New York City. Brondolo Associates was formed in late
2005 in response to the growing need for expert technical assistance in the area of emergency management, consequence management and forensics. Brondolo Associates provides comprehensive consulting and technical services designed to enhance the emergency management programs of public and private sector organizations. Brondolo Associates, through its trade name “Evidence Systems” also provides consulting, systems and software to support the growing market for evidence management solutions.

Mr. Brondolo retired from public service in 2005 to form his own company. Prior to that he served at the NYC Office of Chief Medical Examiner since1989, serving as Deputy Commissioner. In this position he was responsible for all administrative and operations functions of this 500+ person agency. He managed a 60 million dollar expense budget and 350 million dollars of capital construction including a new state-of-the art Forensic Biology Building and two medical examiner facilities. In his operations capacity he was responsible for the administrative management of five medical examiner offices that include multiple 24/7 operations.

Mr. Brondolo also designed the agency case tracking system and implemented numerous other technology systems for the agency. As senior executive of the agency’s management team, he has worked four mass fatality incidents including the attack on the World Trade Center. Mr. Brondolo was also a manager for the agency Special Operations/WMD Team. Mr. Brondolo served on an expert assessment team for the government of Thailand and the World Health Organization to assess victim identification operations in Thailand related to the SE Asia tsunami disaster. Mr. Brondolo also served on assessment teams for the July 7th London bombings and the response to hurricane Katrina. Mr. Brondolo has written several papers and articles on managing mass fatality incidents and served as invited speaker at over ten major conferences.

Outsourcing Solutions is an established human resource strategy firm committed to finding new approaches to effective management of employees and personnel issues. We utilize innovative ideas as well as time-proven methods to assist your company in achieving its vision. We have our own vision to help you demonstrate your own commitment to humanistic management and productivity.

Anne Caldwell founded Outsourcing Solutions in 1993 to implement her own vision of ethical and effective human resource management. Outsourcing Solutions specializes in small businesses, and also works with rapidly growing companies that require policies and procedures, and coaching on effective management of employees, and has built HR departments from scratch for many companies.

Anne has a Masters in Organizational Management from the University of Phoenix, and is certified by The Society of Human Resource Managers as a Senior Professional in HR. Anne teaches Human Resources, Communication and Transformational Leadership on both a graduate and undergraduate level at the University of Phoenix as well as for the Maricopa County Community College District, and teaches classes on: "HR Basics for Small Businesses™," "Performance: Designing and Communicating Expectations," and "Team Building and Facilitating Organizational Communication."

She writes for a variety of publications, including an Ask the Experts column in the Arizona Republic. Her new book, "Communicating with Your Employees" is being published by Creative Alternatives and will be available in fall 2006.

Anne’s expertise is in creating organizations, taking a group of people with differing skills and various levels of management experience to create a group which functions productively and within legal bounds. Outsourcing Solutions develops systems for all the work processes to make the organization run like a well-oiled, humming machine. Anne is multiply degreed at a Masters' level in Organizational Management and Human Resources, and currently facilitates programs in Transformational Leadership for the University of Phoenix. Anne says, "I coach CEO's in creating the kind of culture where people want to work and can be successful, so that the business can be successful. I train employees and managers on about 40 different topics and development management teams in a way to most effectively serve the organization."

Paula Caligiuri, Ph.D.
Director, Center for HR Strategy
Rutgers University

Paula Caligiuri is on the faculty in the Human Resource Management Department in the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University, where she is the Director of the Center for Human Resource Strategy (CHRS) and the Co-Director of the European Executive Master in HR Leadership. Professor Caligiuri has lectured in numerous universities in the United States, Asia, and Europe. In Europe, Professor Caligiuri has been an invited lecturer in INSEAD (France and Singapore), Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain), Università degli Studi di Roma (Italy), Université de Paris Gestion Sorbonne (France), and Università Bocconi (Italy). In Asia, Professor Caligiuri taught at the Singapore Institute of Management in the Master of HR Management program.

Professor Caligiuri researches, publishes, and consults in three primary areas: strategic human resource management in multinational organizations, global leadership development, and global assignee management. Professor Caligiuri was one of the founding members of the Global Mobility Forum, a worldwide organization dedicated to global HR research. She has also served as a Senior Research Advisor for The Conference Board’s research on global leadership development and Catalyst’s research on women as global leaders.

Professor Caligiuri’s academic publications include several articles in the International Journal of Human Resource Management, Journal of World Business, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, and International Journal of Intercultural Relations. Her books, Global Dimensions of HRM: Managing the Global Workforce, (with A. Bird and M. Mendenhall, Blackwell Publishing) and Promoting Work-Life Balance for a Competitive Advantage, (with S. Poelmans and A. Bartol, Cambridge Publishers) are forthcoming. Consonant with her interest in action-oriented research, she has also published on the topic of psychometric statistics in the Handbook of Statistics and Statistics and Probability. Professor Caligiuri is on numerous editorial boards for academic management journals and is an Associate Editor for Human Resource Management Journal.

Professor Caligiuri is also the President of Caligiuri and Associates, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in selection, performance assessment, and development of global leaders. Her clients include several diverse U.S.-based and European-based global organizations.

Brad Cleveland, www.incoming.com

President of Annapolis, Maryland-based Incoming Calls Management Institute, is one of the most sought-after consultants, speakers and authors in the call center industry. He has presented call center management seminars throughout North America, Europe, South Africa and the Pacific Rim, and is a popular keynote speaker at industry conferences.

Brad's articles have appeared in a variety of journals and magazines, and he is a regular columnist for and publisher of Service Level Newsletter. He is co-author of the critically-acclaimed book, Call Center Management on Fast Forward: Succeeding in Today's Dynamic Inbound Environment, which is in use by colleges, universities and corporate training programs in over 15 countries.

Brad has advised organizations throughout the world, ranging from small startups to national governments and multinational corporations. He also serves as an advisor to the newly formed Call Center Industry Advisory Council (CIAC), which is developing educational standards for the industry. Recently, Brad and ICMI founder Gordon MacPherson (now retired) were nominated for the prestigious Computerworld Smithsonian 21st Century Pioneer Award for their path-breaking work in call center management.

Dr. Gerald W. Cockrell

Professor, School of Technology, Indiana State University

Developed new graduate-level curriculum in Microcomputer-Based Systems Integration
Past Vice President and Executive Board member of ISA (International Society for Measurement and Control)
Former Electrical Engineer with Rockwell International-Collins Avionics Division

"I have been using the World Business Review programs in my technology and management classes at Indiana State University for almost a year. The students find topics covered in the series to be both thought provoking and interesting."

Jerome J. Congleton, Ph.D., PE, CPE, Professor
Co-Director, NSF I/UCRC in Ergonomics
Ergonomics Center
Occupational & Environmental Health Department
3000 Briarcrest Suite 300, 1266 TAMU
Bryan, TX 77802
Phone: (979) 845-5574 Fax: (979) 458-4264
Email: ergo@tamu.edu

Dr. Jerry Congleton, a professional engineer, a certified professional ergonomists, the inventor of the Neutral Posture chair for surgeons, is a professor in the Environmental & Occupational Health Department of the School of Rural Public Health of Texas A&M University Health Science Center and Co-Director of the National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center in Ergonomics. Dr. Congleton also serves as Strength & Conditioning Performance Coach for the Athletic Department at Texas A&M University. His educational background includes a BS in Industrial Engineering from the University of Evansville in Indiana, an MS in Management from the University of Arkansas and a Ph.D. from Texas Tech with research emphasis on Ergonomics/Human factors (the design of the workplace to fit the worker). Dr. Congleton previously worked at ALCOA for eight years as an Industrial Engineer and Safety Manager solving posture and material handling problems. Prior to that Dr. Congleton served as a fighter pilot in the United States Air Force for seven years. He is a Vietnam Veteran with 213 combat missions for which he received the Distinguished Flying Cross and 16 Oak Leaf Clusters to the Air Medal while flying the F-4 Phantom. Dr. Congleton serves as a consultant in research and development for Neutral Posture Ergonomics Inc., Bryan, Texas. In addition to his teaching responsibilities, he works with industry in professional development and ergonomic evaluation and research (with over 8 million dollars of support to date). Dr. Congleton is past Co-director of the Ergonomics and Work Measurement Division of the Institute of Industrial Engineers and is a past member of the board of directors of the International Industrial Ergonomics and Safety Foundation. The prevention and control of injuries/illness is his primary goal. His main research interests are in the areas of seated research, office ergonomics, lean manufacturing, workplace design, prevention and control of back injuries, worker physiology, performance measurement and enhancement, and ergonomics. Dr. Congleton holds 5 patents and has 31 refereed journal publications. He has graduated and chaired 19 Ph.D.’s and 50 Masters.

Rhett B. Dawson

President and CEO / Information Technology Industry Council (ITI)

ITI is the voice of the high tech industry, promoting policies that advance the global competitiveness of leading U.S. information technology (IT) companies. Rhett Dawson has been ITI's president and chief executive officer since 1993.

Dawson has wide-ranging experience in government–at the White House, in Congress, at the Pentagon and with two Presidential Commissions. In addition to ITI, Dawson’s private sector background includes senior corporate management and the practice of law. Dawson's insights on information technology issues, in particular the role of IT in society, the economy, and homeland and global security, have appeared in major publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and National Journal. Dawson has also appeared on major television networks, including CNN, CBS, and CNBC.

Immediately prior to being selected as president of ITI, Dawson was Senior Vice President of Law and Public Policy for the Potomac Electric Power Company (PEPCO). At PEPCO, he was responsible for law and regulatory matters as well as governmental, community and public affairs.

For the last two years of the Reagan Administration, Dawson served as Assistant to the President for Operations. At the White House, he managed the staff and decision-making process for President Reagan and was responsible for the three large White House operating and support units–the White House Office, the Office of Administration, and the White House Military Office.

Prior to the White House, Dawson was a partner in the McNair Law Firm. He took a leave of absence from the firm in 1986 to direct the President's Special Review Board (the Tower Board), which investigated the Iran-Contra matter. The Board's report to the President received national acclaim.

Dawson previously directed the year-long President's Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management under its chairman, David Packard. President Reagan implemented the Commission's recommendations for the Pentagon shortly after they were made.

Dawson has also been a partner at Dickstein, Shapiro and Morin. Earlier in his career, he worked for committees of the U.S. Congress. He was Staff Director and Chief Counsel for the Senate Committee on Armed Services, Minority Counsel for the Senate Committee to Study Governmental Operations relating to intelligence activities (the Church Committee) and Minority Counsel for the Joint Committee on Defense Production.

Dawson received his undergraduate degree from Illinois Wesleyan University and his law degree from Washington University in St. Louis. He is married to Mimi Weyforth Dawson and has two children, Elizabeth and Andrew.

Jim Eckenrode
Managing Director, Banking & Payments
TowerGroup

Jim Eckenrode is the managing director of Banking and Payments at TowerGroup, with responsibility for all banking industry research practices. Jim's areas of expertise, developed over 19 years in consumer banking and consulting, include technology strategic planning, bank delivery channels; customer relationship management; and core deposit and lending systems.

According to Jim, "Today's increasingly global economy and culture are forcing FSIs around the world to adapt more and more to a common way of doing business. Markets are opening up, consumers are demanding more on a 24X7 basis, corporations are increasingly operating in multiple locations around the globe - all resulting in governmental actions that are forcing convergence and consolidation in this industry. The tricky part comes in making the sum of the parts truly a whole - with a single view of its customer base, offering a consistent level of service and a broad array of products across all channels that a client may choose to use."

Before assuming his current role, Jim had been a senior member of TowerGroup's Consulting Services group. In that capacity, he has advised a significant number of financial institutions and vendors, focusing on product and market strategies and competitive analyses.

Prior to joining TowerGroup, Jim led strategy and operations consulting engagements for
Global 500 financial institutions for the Financial Institutions Group at management consultancy A.T. Kearney, Inc. and held management positions in retail banking at BankBoston and Cambridge Savings Bank.

Jim is quoted frequently by publications such as The Wall Street Journal, American Banker, Bank Systems & Technology, The Banker, and Bank Technology News. In addition to being a featured speaker at dozens of industry conferences, he has also appeared on CNBC and National Public Radio.

Steven A. Epner, CSP
Sepner@bswllc.com
Contact Steve directly at 314.983.1214

Steve is founder and president of the Brown Smith Wallace Consulting, Group. During his 35+ year career, he has built a reputation for assisting clients with the integration of strategic business planning, information systems and tactical requirements. He has also become a highly regarded industry expert.

Steve helps his clients develop, implement and fine-tune plans that will enable them to achieve their stated objectives and position their businesses for strategic life cycles. His expertise includes:
• Technically qualified business systems consultant who can
deal with executives and managers at all levels within the
organization.
• Strategic business planning specialist serving the needs of
domestic and international clients.
• Marketing and business acquisition professional who provides extensive data management support services to public and private clients.
• Expertise in systems planning, design, development, implementation, maintenance and training.

Steve is a computer science graduate of Purdue University. He pioneered in early on- line systems and database environments and selected and implemented one of the first voice recognition systems in the United States. In addition, Steve has published more than 800 articles in major business and trade publications. He has been quoted in the national business press, including the Wall Street Journal, and has authored or contributed to numerous books:
• The Millennium Strategies Workbook (author)
• Distribution Executive’s Answer Book (author)
• Electronic Commerce for Distribution Channels (author)
• The Secret of Successful Boards (contributor)
• The Secrets of Successful Fundraising (contributor)

He is the founder and past president of the Independent Computer Consultants Association, a founding member of the EDI Coalitio n of Associations, and a member and past president of the National Speakers Association (NSA) – Gateway Chapter. In 2000, the NSA awarded Steve the Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation.

Nelson E. Fabian, www.neha.org

Nelson E. Fabian serves as the Executive Director and CEO of the 67 year old National Environmental Health Association. Following a nationwide search, he was appointed to this position in 1983 by the association's board of directors. He is the longest tenured executive director that NEHA has ever had.

Nelson has his B.S. degree in (Systems) Engineering from Oakland University and his M.S. in Management Engineering from Wayne State University. He also has additional coursework in philosophy/religious studies from the University of Windsor in Windsor Ontario, Canada.

Nelson currently sits on four boards of directors including - the National Partnership for Environmental Technology Education, Colorado Society of Association Executives, the National Environmental Health Association, the NEHA Training LLC, and the Rocky Mountain Leadership Institute for Health and the Environment - of which he is Chairman. He also serves on the University of Denver, Daniels College of Business Institute for Executive and Professional Development Advisory Board. He has served on numerous boards and committees and was previously the president of the National Health and Energy Alliance.

Nelson has also held elective office serving as Mayor Pro Temps for the city of Berkeley, Michigan.

In addition to his various board duties and association responsibilities, Nelson serves on an array of different committees, task forces and initiatives. He has been extensively involved in a number of programs undertaken by the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention - including an initiative to revitalize the nation's program of environmental health services. He is currently assisting the CDC in its effort to find a new director for its National Center for Environmental Health.

He authors a regular column in the Journal of Environmental Health and he is a contributing columnist for Association Management - the official journal for the American Society of Association Executives. He has given many keynote presentations, contributed articles to various publications, lead panel and focus group discussions, lectured at various colleges and universities across the country and been involved in the design and launch of a new international company (NEHA Training LLC) that targets the subject of food safety education and training.

Nelson has lead the National Environmental Health Association over a time when the association has significantly increased its staff, budget and product/service line. Prior to joining NEHA, Nelson was the Manager for the Department of Environmental Standards and Regulations for the Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association, the Director for Environmental Health at the Comprehensive Health Planning Council of Southeast Michigan, and a Project Coordinator at the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments.

Nelson currently resides in the Denver Colorado area - which is where NEHA is nationally headquartered.

Daniel (Baer) Feinberg

Principal and Founder, Fein-Line Associates, Inc.
Founding Partner, Quantum Performance Group, LLC

Dan Feinberg is President and CEO of Fein-Line Associates, Inc., a consulting firm focused on the electronic interconnect (printed wiring board) and assembly industries and a founding Partner in the Quantum Performance Group, LLC, a market research firm. Dan was formerly president of Morton Electronic Materials (MEM or Dynachem), a $220 million division of Morton International, Inc., and a group vice president of the parent company Morton International until its acquisition by Rohm and Haas in 1999. His experience makes him uniquely suited to assist electronic industry companies in today’s global, highly competitive environment.

Through a focused, global restructuring acquisition and divestiture plan, Dan led a turn around that returned MEM to significant profitably. Under Dan's market leadership, MEM built a powerful presence in its global market with an impressive technology portfolio. He championed the MEM embedded passive materials research effort and created an environment that fostered innovation, leading to the introduction of a number of hi tech, advanced materials.

Dan’s engineering, sales, marketing, M&A and general management background, and his experience in Asia and Europe, was demonstrated in his ability to restructure and "turn around" a business. Often described as a "Street Fighter," Dan is at home in a battle to gain market share and lead a team in accomplishing difficult tasks.

During Dan’s career, he has served in various management positions including engineering director at a large PWB fabricator to various marketing and sales management positions, including V.P., Sales and Marketing, Executive V.P. and President of Morton Electronic Materials (Dynachem).

Dan has authored numerous articles, presented papers at various industry events including the world conference in Tokyo and was keynote speaker at the 1999 and 2003 PCMI conferences and the 1998 NEMI spring meeting. He has present technical papers at various AES seminars as well as the spring EIPC conference in Niece in 1990. He has organized and hosted various seminars including a NAFTA trade seminar and trade mission, a seminar on exporting to Asia and a highly attended tutorial on unfair trade practices and dumping. He recently spoke on free trade at the 2004 Technology Marketing Research Council annual meeting. Dan writes a monthly column for CircuiTree magazine, is on the Board Authority advisory board and has been its contributing editor, he has also had articles published in P.C. Fab and Future Circuits.

Dan is a key figure and well known in the PWB industry. He has been a member of IPC since 1968, has received its prestigious Chairman’s award and was presented with the IPC’s special achievement award in 1994 and its Public Policy Champion award in June 2000. He was the founding chair of the IPC supplier’s council and championed the founding of IPC Expo. He presently chairs the IPC Government Relations Committee and sits on the board of directors of the California Circuits Association, and LaserVia Corp. He has been active in charitable organizations in Orange County including chair of the United Way leadership effort and underwriting chair for the Orange County ACS Cattle Barron’s Ball. He also teaches computer use to seniors as a volunteer. His hobbies include power boating and building extreme computers.

John P. Gardner, Jr.
Co-Author and Speaker
Chicken Soup for the Entrepreneurial Soul
204 Country Club Road
Darlington, S.C. 29532
E-Mail: jgardner@entrepreneurialsoul.com
Ph: 843-260-0488
Fax: 843-393-8867

Bachelor of Arts • Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC • Graduated with Honors

Juris Doctor • University of South Carolina School of Law

23 years of his professional life practicing law as a third generation attorney
Former owner and managing partner of 6 Law Firms

Eight years as a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives

Four years as a Commissioner for the South Carolina Department of Highways and Public Transportation

Coauthor of Living at the Summit and Chicken Soup for the Entrepreneur's Soul - to be released September 2006

For five years, Writer and Host of syndicated column and weekly television segment entitled Designing a Life that Works

Bob Gill, www.pdma.org
President, Product Development & Management Association (PDMA)

Bob Gill is President of the Product Development & Management Association (PDMA), the premier international professional association focused on providing thought leadership to Innovation, product development and management. Mr. Gill has served on PDMA’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee since 2000. He also served on the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Board of Education in 1998/99. With over 30 years of industry experience and an executive perspective to the field of new product innovation and product development, Bob has successfully led many corporate initiatives improving top line growth and profitability through improvements in product planning, new product development, and product management functions.

Bob is also Managing Partner at InterMatrixPDP Inc. (www.intermatrixpdp.com), a management-consulting firm where he built a successful new product practice with offices in Boston and the UK serving a global client base. Prior to joining InterMatrixPDP in 1996, Bob was Director of Product Planning and Strategy and Corporate Process Owner for New Product Development at Polaroid Corporation. He provided corporate leadership for improving new product performance across strategic business units and developed a portfolio management process to optimize R&D resources and strategic balance.

Mr. Gill is a regular contributor to national and international forums, speaking on a wide range of new-product development issues. He co-authored the chapter on ew product strategy in the PDMA Handbook, published in 1996. Bob has a BS in Engineering from Northeastern University and an MBA from Suffolk University.

About PDMA Founded in 1976, PDMA (www.pdma.org) is a volunteer-driven, not-for-profit organization, comprised of corporate practitioners of new product development, academics, and service providers. PDMA’s mission is to provide knowledge and community to product professionals and their organizations to achieve the highest level of success. A basic tenet of the Association is that enhanced product innovation represents a desirable and necessary economic goal for firms that wish to achieve and retain a profitable competitive advantage in the long term. PDMA actively supports several knowledge-generating activities including a yearly research competition and an annual international conference. The Association disseminates research findings through its academic journal the Journal of Product Innovation Management, published six times per year. Additional information on new product development is disseminated to members through Visions magazine, published quarterly. The Association has also published The PDMA Handbook of New Product Development (John Wiley & Sons, 1996), covering developments and insights in new product development from a managerial point of view and The PDMA ToolBook for New Product Development (March 2002), the first manual of proven, ready-to-use tools for product development

Susan R. Ginsberg, GMS
Vice President, Global Services and Business Development

Susan Ginsberg is the Vice President of Global Services and Business Development for Ricklin-Echikson Associates, Inc., (REA), a global provider of career and partner assistance services to corporations and individuals since 1981. With over 25 years experience in global HR management, international business development, and strategic planning, Susan has successfully designed partner assistance programs and services to address the specific transition needs of expatriates and repatriates. To ensure local expertise and support for clients worldwide, she has recruited and trained REA's international team, consisting of talented HR professionals located throughout the world, and carefully selected global partnerships and affiliations.

REA has supported over 100,000 individuals and families "on the move" and continues to help clients develop the skills, strategies and confidence they need to successfully navigate transitions in the 21st century. Susan effectively leads the company’s global business development initiatives and encourages the virtual team throughout the world to excel in their service delivery. She consistently tracks relocation trends and seeks innovative ways to ensure that REA’s international services address the ever-changing needs of expatriating and repatriating families around the globe. During the past 5 years, REA has earned a reputation for quality service and has experienced unprecedented growth, in both domestic and international markets as well.

Susan has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and French from the University of Pennsylvania. She is a member of the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM), Employee Relocation Council (ERC), and recently obtained her Global Mobility Specialist (GMS) certificate. Susan has spoken at numerous global mobility conferences and is on the Editorial Advisory Committee for Mobility magazine. She has lived and worked abroad in Paris, France, and currently resides in New York with her husband and two sons.

Jordan E. Goodman

Jordan E. Goodman is known as "America's Money Answers Man" because he answers the public's questions about personal finance on radio and TV shows, in print, online at his website www.moneyanswers.com and in seminars all over the country. He is author of 10 best-selling books on personal finance and investing topics, including Everyone's Money Book and the Everyone's Money Book Series of 6 books on Financial Planning; Stocks, Bonds and Mutual Funds; Retirement Planning; Credit; College Financing and Real Estate. He is also author of the Dictionary of Finance and Investment Terms and Barron's Finance and Investment Handbook, published by Barron's.

He also wrote Reading Between the Lies: How To Detect Fraud and Avoid Becoming a Victim of Wall Street's Next Scandal, published by Dearborn Trade. He has been the weekly "Road to Riches" contributor on personal finance topics on Public Radio's Marketplace program.

He was on the editorial staff as Wall Street Correspondent at MONEY Magazine for 18 years and was the weekly financial analyst on NBC News at Sunrise for 9 years. Mr. Goodman is a frequent lecturer on personal finance topics around the country,speaking to trade associations, employee groups, students, investor groups and others.

Don Graham

Don Graham is the founder, technical and lighting advisor for Stratus Designs, LLC. With an extensive background managing a photography business, he utilizes his expertise in color, esthetics and light therapy to promote unique, calming and stress reducing lighting products. During the 2 years Stratus Designs has been in business, Don has, together with wife and business owner Lindsey Graham, successfully introduced their fluorescent lighting product to a multitude of medical, dental, life care and educational facilities.

Brandon Hall, Ph.D

Brandon Hall, Ph.D., is a leading independent expert in e-learning, helping organizations make the right decisions about technology through his writing, advising, and presenting. With more than 20 years as a training professional, Dr. Hall is the CEO of Brandon Hall Research and author of the groundbreaking "Web-Based Training Cookbook."
Since 1992, Brandon Hall Research has been providing independent expert advice in the form of published reports and phone consultations on the tools of e-learning: LMS, LCMS, authoring tools, content providers, and other tools that help organizations develop successful e-learning solutions. Dr. Hall participates regularly as a featured speaker in conferences such as ASTD and Online Learning. He earned his doctorate in educational psychology and has served on the faculty of San Francisco State University's Multimedia Studies Program.
Dr. Hall's clients have included Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, GE, Motorola, Kraft/General Foods, Hewlett-Packard, Goldman Sachs, Westinghouse, and the U.S. Army, among others. He has been the editor of Technology for Learning newsletter, a columnist for Online Learning, and a contributing editor to the American Society for Training and Development's (ASTD) Training and Development Magazine. As an internationally recognized researcher and speaker on e-learning, he has been interviewed by Forbes, Fortune, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Forbes ASAP, InfoWorld, Training, and HR Executive, among others.
In addition, Dr. Hall chairs the annual Excellence in Learning Awards, now in its eleventh year and the first recognition program dedicated entirely to the e-learning industry.

Dr. Jan Hamrin
CRS Executive Director

Jan has over thirty years of experience in electric industry policy. She is an international expert on renewable energy policy and has a long and distinguished record of advising on the development and implementation of renewable policies in the US and abroad. She is currently the Executive Director of CRS. Dr. Hamrin and the CRS Staff have developed a large body of information around renewable certificates and certificates markets (much of this can be found on the CRS website at www.resource-solutions.org. Dr. Hamrin authored one of the first white papers identifying the benefits and needs of a renewable certificates market. Following this work, CRS hosted a national stakeholder process to build support for the creation of a national certificate tracking network, known as the North American Association of Issuing Bodies (NAAIB). Dr. Hamrin authored a framework document that outlines the need for certificate tracking systems and has developed the first Basic Commitment for the NAAIB. In addition, she has been working with the Mexican and Canadian Governments to solicit their involvement in a North American tracking system.

Dr. Hamrin is the author and coauthor of numerous reports on cutting edge energy issues, including the recent, Regulator’s Handbook on Tradable Renewable Certificates. She also serves as advisor to the California Energy Commission on the use and accounting of TRECs for RPS compliance.

Dr. Hamrin worked with the Western Governor’s Association (WGA) in the development of the WGA Resolution in support of a western renewable energy generation information system (WREGIS) and has acted as one of the lead technical advisors in the development and implementation of WREGIS. Dr. Hamrin is very knowledgeable about certificate tracking systems in other countries, and is serving as the sole US representative for an international coalition of certificate tracking bodies known as TRECKIN.

Jan Hamrin is ideally suited to perform this work for the IEA due to her extensive experience with various market mechanisms, and her knowledge of what works in the marketplace. For the past 5 years, Jan has provided expert assistance to the Packard and Energy Foundation’s China Sustainable Energy Program for which Jan assesses renewable energy options and assists with the design and implementation of renewable energy policies throughout China.

She is an expert on restructuring and the integration of public interest goals. She has testified before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and state regulatory commissions in dozens of public policy cases and played a key role in the implementation of the federal Public Utilities Regulatory Policies Act. Dr. Hamrin founded and served for nine years as Executive Director of the Independent Energy Producers’ Association in California and founded the National Independent Energy Producer’s Association that provided her substantial insights into the financing needs and issues surrounding renewable energy development. She also founded and directed research for the National Council on Competition in the Electricity Sector (a joint project of National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners and National Council of State Legislatures). She served on the G-8 Renewable Energy Advisory Committee which evaluated renewable energy policies and programs for policy recommendations by the G-8.

Rory A. Holmes rholmes@inda.org

President
INDA, Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry
1200 Crescent Green, Suite 100Cary, NC 27511

Rory A. Holmes is President of INDA, the Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry. INDA has represented the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry since 1968. The members represent the entire value chain of the industry, including Raw Materials, Equipment, Fabric Manufacturers, Converters and End Users. INDA’s main activities concentrate on Conferences, Expositions, Training Courses, Industry Statistics and Government Outreach.

Mr. Holmes served as the Associate Director, Technology Transfer, of the Nonwovens Cooperative Research Center of the College of Textiles at North Carolina State University before joining INDA.

Mr. Holmes pursued a 25-year career with Johnson & Johnson, where he had a series of increasing responsibilities in Operations, Research and Sales & Marketing. Mr. Holmes received the Hoffmann Award for Research & Development and the Johnson Medal for development and commercialization of the Johnson & Johnson line of Operating Room Gown & Drape fabrics. Mr. Holmes is the inventor of record for 6 patents.

Mr. Holmes left J&J in 1995 to lead the Sales & Marketing efforts for Chicopee as a division of the Polymer Group Inc. At Chicopee/PGI, Mr. Holmes had direct responsibility for the Medical, Industrial and APEXâ businesses.

Fred Johnson

Fred Johnson has been the president and chief executive officer of the Credit Union Executives Society (CUES®) since 1989. CUES is an individual membership organization for credit union CEOs, senior management, and directors with 4,000 primary members and 3,000 Directors Educational Forum, a budget of approximately $13 million, and a staff of 48 professionals offering a full range of services, programs, publications, institutes, conferences and seminars.

He has served on the Filene Research Institute Research Council since 1991. He is also a member of the ASAE Awards Dinner Steering Committee. He also served on the Fund Committee of the Board of Trustees at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

He is an undergraduate with a B.S. degree in Engineering from West Point and the recipient of an MBA degree from Tulane University in New Orleans.

He served his country as an Army Infantry Officer and enlisted man for over 24 years to include command of a Ranger Company in combat.

Mark Johnson
President and CEO, RFID Tribe www.rfidtribe.com

Mark Johnson, RFID Tribe President and CEO, has served in leadership roles as
CFO and COO for software, information technology, consumer
electronics, telecommunications, manufacturing and supply chain businesses at Texas
Instruments, Alcatel and Exel. Mark advises companies in the
technology space and frequently speaks at conferences focused on
RFID and sensor technology.

Mark holds a Masters of Business Administration from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas and holds a Bachelors in Finance from the University of Texas at Austin. Mark resides in Plano, Texas. He volunteers his time on boards with commercial, civic and professional organizations including RFID Tribe, North Texas Tech Allies, The RFID Technology Association, The International RFID Technology Center, and Stonewood Glen HOA Inc.

Howard A. Kanter, Ed.D., CPA

Dr. Howard A. Kanter, CPA/CITP is an Associate Professor of Accountancy and Management Information Systems in the School of Accountancy & Management Information Systems and the Kellstadt Graduate School of Business, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

In addition to his academic responsibilities Dr. Kanter actively consults on various issues related to the utilization of information technology in business and government, including the audit of computer-based accounting information systems. These organizations range from a large Christian ministry to an international CPA firm. He is also president of Kanter & Associates, P.C. which provides accounting and tax services.

Prior to joining academia Dr. Kanter held the following professional positions:

• Independent practice in accounting and auditing.
• Partner in an accounting and auditing practice.
• Controller and CFO of a national food processing company.
• Consulting Manager for an international CPA firm.
• Vice President and Director of Management Information Services for a global manufacturer of industrial valves.
• Director of Data Processing for a plumbing supplies manufacturer.
• IT consultant international accounting and consulting firm.
• Project Manager and Manager of Computer Operations international diversified chemical manufacturer.
• Software development architect during active military service.

Dr. Kanter earned his doctorate (Ed.D.) from the Graduate School of Business, Northern Illinois

University, majoring in accounting, information systems and business education. He completed master’s level studies at Northwestern University and Temple University receiving an M.S. in Accountancy from Roosevelt University. As an undergraduate, he studied in the systems engineering department at the University of Arizona, and received a B.S. in Industrial Management from Roosevelt University.

He has published in a variety of academic, practitioner and on-line journals. His latest publications address the following critical business issues:

• Integrating Business Ethics into the Accounting Curriculum.
• Comparing Alternative Approaches to Web-enabling Mission Critical Legacy Systems.
• Auditing Information Systems in a Paperless Environment.

In addition to academic degrees, Dr. Kanter has earned a variety of professional certifications:

• Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
• Registered public accountant, the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation, State of Illinois. (RPA)
• Certified Information Technology Professional (CITP.) An information technology professional, who is a CPA, and has received this credential from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA).
• Certificate in Data Processing (CDP.)
• Certified Information System Auditor (CISA,)
• Certified Computer Programmer (CCP.)
• Certified Systems Professional (CSP.).

He is an active professional, serving as a member of the Illinois CPA Society’s Ethics Committee. He maintains an ethics case series located on the ICPAS Web page under innovation in accounting education. Given the current changes in the regulation of public accountants, Dr. Kanter is working with the Illinois CPA Society and the Illinois Department of Professional Regulation to develop training programs in professional ethics for registered CPAs.

Dr. Kanter was chosen to be a Visiting Professor at the ESCEM (ECOLE SUPERIEURE DE COMMERCE ET DE MANAGEMENT), in Tours, France. "The college is a member of the Management Section of the Conférence des Grandes Ecoles Business Engineering Schools, of the EFMD (European Foundation for Management Development) and of the AACSB (International Management Association), and runs on a budget of more than 101 million francs, which enables it to place at the disposal of its students all of the resources necessary to succeed and to remain permanently at the leading edge of pedagogical innovation."

Sparked by the critical issues posed by the Y2K remediation problem, Dr. Kanter established the Laboratory for Software Metrics. Its purpose is to provide research which pertains mainly to software measurement and the problems associated with web-enabling enterprise-wide legacy systems. The laboratory has produced reports for major software companies including:

• An Empirical Analysis of Alternative Software Strategies for Migrating Mission Critical Legacy Applications to the World Wide Web, Micro Focus, Ltd.
• Measuring Quality in Mainframe Software Maintenance: An Empirical Study of Microcomputer Versus Mainframe Based Tools, Micro Focus, Ltd.
• Increasing Mainframe Software Maintenance Efficiency and Effectiveness: An Empirical Study of Microcomputer versus Mainframe Based Tools, Micro Focus, Ltd.

This research was presented at the International Conference on Software Maintenance sponsored by the Computer Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) at the University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K.

• A Report on Web Focus Scalability, Information Builders, Inc.
• Reuse versus Rewrite: An Empirical Study of Alternative Software Development Methods for Web-enabling Mission-Critical COBOL/CICS Legacy Applications, Fujitsu Software Corporation.

Eric Karofsky

Eric Karofsky brings deep experience in product marketing and brand management to his strategic consulting role at Molecular, Inc. In this position, he works with leading companies to define customer centric online experiences which drive customer adoption, foster brand, and create new lines of revenue.

Previous to Molecular Eric was at AMR Research, where he wrote and consulted for hundreds of companies on topics such as process improvement and new product development. Prior to AMR, Eric held several strategic marketing roles at companies such as @stake and Sapient. In addition, he owned a successful business and won several design awards.
Eric is a requested speaker at industry events, and is frequently quoted in trade magazines and top tier press including CNBC, Business Week, The Wall St. Journal and the Financial Times.

Eric received a B.S. in Business from Skidmore College and an M.B.A. from the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College, graduating magna cum laude.

Dr. Averill M. Law

Dr. Averill M. Law, President of Averill M. Law & Associates, is one of the world’s foremost experts on simulation modeling. He has been a simulation consultant to numerous organizations including Accenture, Boeing, Defense Modeling and Simulation Office, Kimberly-Clark, M&M/Mars, Navy Modeling and Simulation Office, Oak Ridge National Lab, 3M, Xerox, as well as the U.S. Air Force, Army, and Post Office. 

Dr. Law has presented more than 400 simulation short courses in 17 countries. He has written or coauthored numerous papers and books on simulation, operations research, statistics, manufacturing, and communications networks, including the definitive book Simulation Modeling and Analysis that has more than 100,000 copies in print. He developed the ExpertFit distribution-fitting software, and he also developed several videotapes on simulation modeling. He wrote a regular column on simulation for Industrial Engineering magazine.

Dr. Law has been a tenured faculty member at the University of Wisconsin and the University of Arizona. He has a Ph.D. in industrial engineering and operations research from the University of California at Berkeley.

William Lempesis

William Lempesis is currently Executive Director of the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA), a Milpitas, CA based international trade and standards setting association representing manufacturers of video related products. VESA standards can be found in more than 500 million displays shipped worldwide.
Before assuming leadership of VESA in 1998, Mr. Lempesis was Executive Director of the Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (PCMCIA) from 1994-1998.

Prior to PCMCIA, Mr. Lempesis was an independent consultant specializing in the personal computer marketplace. His clients included many of the best known computer manufacturers. He was frequently contacted by national print media as an expert on the personal computer industry. His analysis appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, Business Week, Time, USA Today, New York Times and many other trade and business publications around the world.

Peter Lovie

Peter Lovie’s career in the offshore business, domestically and internationally, has been a progression of engineering, sales and marketing and general management responsibilities in the drilling, construction, subsea and floating production sectors, all based in Houston. He has become known in the US offshore community through his advocacy of shuttle tankers and FPSOs, while serving as his company’s spokesman, in daily business, through his contributions in industry organizations and at US and international conferences. He is quoted in industry publications: Upstream (11 times), as well as Offshore, Offshore Engineer, ABS Surveyor and Oil & Gas Investor, and has appeared in Energy News Live and Energy Week. His "Over the Horizon" guest editorial in Offshore in January 2005 looked ahead at the upcoming shuttle tanker v. pipeline competition in the ultra deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico in "2005 A Year of Challenges for GOM Deepwater Transportation Infrastructure".

Peter graduated with a BSc in Civil Engineering from the University of Glasgow in Scotland, with its engineering tradition of James Watt and Lord Kelvin, then earned a Master’s degree in Applied Mechanics at the University of Virginia as a Fulbright Scholar. That experience led to building a career in the United States and provided disciplines on discerning what can be scientifically and technically possible — instincts fine tuned later in understanding what was doable in the marketplace in the world’s oil capital.

His professional career began in Houston, Texas with Cameron Iron Works, then a stint with The Offshore Company (now Transocean). He founded and took full P&L responsibility for Engineering Technology Analysts, Inc., a consulting and design firm serving public utilities and the energy industry. It became best known for its new generation of jackup designs that entered service in the North Sea. Southeast Asia and the Gulf of Mexico, including the largest ever built at that time, pioneering innovations such as cast steel nodes that later became commonplace. In 1976 Lovie and Company was formed to work for foreign and US shipyards, marketing and negotiating numerous big ticket MODU construction contracts, successfully doing so on a "no cure no pay" basis. He adapted to the energy depression of the mid 1980s by performing troubleshooting engineering and marketing assignments for domestic and international clients and served as expert witness in major rig loss cases.

James L. Marsden, Ph.D.

Dr. James Marsden has been a leading scientist in the field of food safety for the past 30 years. Currently he serves as a Regent’s Distinguished  Professor at Kansas State University located in Manhattan, Kansas. His academic research involves the search for solutions to a variety of food related public health problems, including the development of food pasteurization systems and technologies for the prevention of foodborne disease and agricultural bioterrorism.

Prior to joining Kansas State University in 1994, Dr. Marsden served as President of the American Meat Institute Foundation, located in Washington, D.C. He has also served as an advisor to the United States  Department of Agriculture and is on the board of several corporations. He Has published numerous articles and lectured widely on the subject of food safety. Dr. Marsden is a recipient of the prestigious Harry Rudnick  Educator Award and has achieved an international reputation as a food  scientist, educator and public health advocate.

W. Tim McGlothlin, MS, CPE  mcglothlin@TheErgonomicsCenter.com

Executive Director, The Ergonomics Center of North Carolina
3701 Neil Street / Raleigh, N.C. 27607 / 919-515-8135

W. Tim McGlothlin currently serves as the Executive Director for The Ergonomics Center of North Carolina. Reporting to North Carolina State University, the center provides occupational ergonomics consulting, training programs and cost-effective ergonomic solutions to corporate clients throughout the country.

Mr. McGlothlin holds a BS degree in industrial engineering from Virginia Tech and a masters degree in industrial engineering from the University of Tennessee. He is also certified by the Board of Certification in Professional Ergonomics (CPE).

Prior to his current assignment, Mr. McGlothlin has worked for two Malcolm Baldrige Quality Award-winning companies. First, he spent nine years at Motorola, Inc. where he served in various technical and manufacturing leadership positions within the Communications Group. Mr. McGlothlin served on the team awarded the CEO Quality Award for its work in introducing the first American-made pager into the Japanese market. Then he worked fourteen years with Eastman Chemical Company where he served as Principal Ergonomist. There he coordinated corporate ergonomic activities and was responsible for developing and implementing the company's ergonomics process.

Mr. McGlothlin has served as an instructor on ergonomics for the occupational safety and health technology program at East Tennessee State University. As a private consultant, he has consulted throughout the United States and Canada. He is a frequent speaker at the regional and national level on successful ergonomic process implementation. Mr. McGlothlin is also a published author and is quoted in numerous professional journals on this topic.

Professional affiliations include membership in the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society and the Institute of Industrial Engineers. He has served as the Conference Co-Chair for the Institute of Industrial Engineers’ annual Applied Ergonomics Conference for the past three years

Dr. Lev Nelik

Dr. Nelik, P.E., APICS has over twenty five years of engineering, manufacturing and field experience in the pump industry. He is a President of Pumping Machinery, an alliance partner of Pumping Solutions Inc. His prior experiences include Liquiflo Equipment Company as President, Roper Pump as Vice President of Engineering, Ingersoll-Rand, and Goulds Pumps, Engineering and Technology.

Dr. Nelik is an Advisory Committee Member for the Texas A&M International Pump Users Symposium and a former Associate Technical Editor of the Journal of Fluids Engineering. He is a Full Member of the ASME, and a Certified APICS member. He is a graduate of Lehigh University with Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and a Masters in Manufacturing Systems. Dr. Nelik is a Registered Professional Engineer, and has published over fifty documents on pumps and related equipment worldwide, including a "Pumps" section for the Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology (John Wiley), a section for the Handbook of Fluids Dynamics (CRC Press), and a book "Centrifugal and Rotary Pumps: Fundamentals with Applications", by the CRC Press.

Daniel Joseph O’Meara Jr.
Founder and President, O’Meara Consulting, Inc
Director, Institute for Reservoir Characterization, University of Oklahoma

Dr. Dan O’Meara’s 26 years of experience in the Oil and Gas Industry are broadly based, encompassing reservoir engineering, software development, academia, management, and consulting. He has worked with major oil companies, national companies, and independents on evaluating some of the largest oil and gas fields in the world. He is internationally recognized as an expert in reservoir characterization and reserves estimation. In the spring of 2006, PennWell will be publishing his book entitled "Oil and Gas Reserves Estimation with 3D Modeling". He has been a Distinguished Lecturer of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and has been Consultant of the Year for Landmark Graphics, a division of Halliburton. He is the Director of the Institute for Reservoir Characterization at the University of Oklahoma.

Dr. O’Meara’s software products, StrataSim and Geo2Flow, have been developed by O’Meara Consulting and marketed worldwide through Halliburton, Roxar, and Earth Decision. They are respected as leading-edge, interdisciplinary tools that "raise the bar" technically in the arena of reserves estimation. In addition to their technical strengths, these tools stimulate interdisciplinary cooperation amongst geologists, geophysicists, petrophysicists, and engineers. Thus, Dan’s expertise spans these important disciplines for evaluating reserves, the "crown jewels" of oil companies. He is highly praised as a communicator who can bring all of this expertise into layman’s terms.

Dan received his Ph.D (1979) from Princeton University, specializing in the area of Fluid Mechanics. He also has an M.A. from Princeton and a B.S. from the University of Rochester in Chemical Engineering. Early in his career, he was with both Shell and BP. To date, he has been awarded five patents for inventions involving measurement of the flow characteristics of reservoir rocks and the assessment of oil and gas reserves.

Tom Pankratz

Tom Pankratz is a desalination consultant and editor of “Water Desalination Report”, a weekly publication covering the desalination market. He is a former vice president of CH2M Hill and has written several books including “desalination.com”, “Dictionary of Environmental Engineering”, and the “Screening Equipment Handbook”.

He is experienced in both thermal and membrane desalination technologies and has been involved in the development of some of the world’s largest and most technically and environmentally advanced seawater desalination projects. He currently serves on the International Desalination Association's board of directors, the Middle East Desalination Research Center's research advisory council, the American Water Works Association Desalting Committee, and was appointed as a member of the National Academy of Science's committee to review the Bureau of Reclamation's Desalination and Water Purification Roadmap.

Bruce J. Parker, Esq. is President and CEO of the Environmental Industry Associations (EIA), a Washington, DC based trade association representing all components of the commercial (private) waste services industry (solid, hazardous, and biomedical waste, recycling and equipment manufacturing and distribution).

Before assuming leadership of EIA in January 1996, Parker was General Counsel from 1981-1996, and he also held the position of Executive Vice President for Congressional Relations and External Affairs from 1993-1996. He was responsible for federal and state litigation, and participated in several landmark US Supreme Court cases affecting the waste services industry. Parker also has testified before the US Congress and state legislatures on issues related to waste management.

Prior to EIA, Parker practiced law with a large Washington, DC law firm specializing in environmental and antitrust law, and he was an attorney in the Federal Trade Commission's Office of General Counsel in the early 1970s.

He is a 1965 graduate of the University of California (Berkeley) with a BA in English Literature, and he received his J.D. in 1968 from the University of Tulsa School of Law where he was Editor-in-Chief of Law Review.

Bruce is married to Elizabeth and the father of two daughters, Ashley (22) and Justine (17). The Parkers reside in Bethesda, Maryland.

Dr. Pregmon is currently the Vice President of the Quality Assurance Institute headquartered in Orlando, Florida. He has been involved in a number of different business functions over the past 45 years. He has worked in various capacities for both large and small companies such as McCormick and Company of Hunt Valley, MD, Denny’s Restaurants of LaMirada, CA, Burger King Corp. of Miami, FL and Citrus Central of Orlando, FL. He has also been a consultant with Herbert W. Davis and Company of Englewood Cliffs, NJ where he completed some 75 assignments in such areas as customer/user satisfaction, business planning and systems modeling.

For Citrus Central he was responsible for designing and installing a logistics management information system. Following that, he was a project manager for converting the company’s information system from an NCR to an IBM system. This involved reengineering all systems and designing and implementing an improved order entry, production planning, inventory control, billing and customer services subsystems. Following that undertaking, the company asked him to run a subsidiary company in Leesburg, FL

Over the years, Dr. Pregmon has been an author, consultant, senior corporate executive, and adjunct professor in the Graduate School of Business of Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale. He is currently an Adjunct Professor for St Petersburg College in Clearwater, Florida

Just previous to joining the Quality Assurance Institute, he organized and installed a Total Quality Management program for his company as the Vice President of Operations. Mike’s experiences focused on the user's side of Information Systems. His experience involves defining and validating system requirements, building and maintaining the system, and acceptance testing systems before use.

Dr. Pregmon completed his undergraduate studies at the Pennsylvania State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration. He also holds an MBA degree from New York Institute of Technology, and his Ph.D. from Madison University.

Currently, he is QAI’s chief operating officer, a member of the Software Testing Advisory Board for the University of Washington and is a former member of the Reader Review Board for Software Development Magazine.

He is a recipient of Rotary International’s Paul Harris Fellowship Award, and is an active member of the Dr. Phillips Rotary Club in Orlando, Florida.

Michael A. Regan

CEO & Chairman of the Board
And Tranzact Technologies, Inc

Mr. Regan co-founded Tranzact Systems, Ltd. in 1984. Prior to the sale of its freight payment group to Schneider National in March 2000, Tranzact was among the largest privately held logistics information companies in the country. Subsequent to the sale of the Freight Payment Group, Mr. Regan remained the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Tranzact Technologies, Inc.

Tranzact Technologies provides logistics decision support technology and expertise that enables companies to generate significant savings through sound logistics solutions. This technology is available on a stand-alone basis or through an Internet platform to shippers located throughout North America, including several clients in the Fortune 100. Tranzact has negotiated in excess of $5 Billion in transportation contracts on behalf of its clients. Tranzact’s Freedom Logistics network provides a comprehensive solution for small to mid-size shippers (shippers with annual freight expenditures less than $10 million). The services included under the Freedom umbrella include access to a cost-saving LTL, Freedom tariff, world class rating and routing technology, complete freight audit, payment and reporting capabilities and decision support software that enables cost reduction strategies in the supply chain area.

Mr. Regan is extremely active and well known within the logistics industry. He serves as Chairman of the American Society of Transportation & Logistics and on the Boards of numerous industry groups such as the National Industrial Transportation League, where he is the Chairman of the Education Committee and the National Association of Small Shippers, where he is the Chairman of the Advocacy Committee. He is also very active in several key industry organizations, such as Council of Logistics Management and Transportation Consumer Protection Council.

Mr. Regan is very active within other professional organizations as well. He is a member of the Young President’s Organization and is a past Chairman of the Chicago Chapter. He serves on the East Central Region Board of Directors and has served on the International Board of Directors.

He also serves on the Boards of several ministry based organizations such as the The Pinnacle Forum of America, The Center for Faith Walk Leadership, The Jesus CEO Foundation and The YPO Fellowship Forum.

Additionally, Mr. Regan has been a long-standing member of the American Institute of CPA’s, and the Illinois Society of CPA’s. He is a member of the Executive’s Club of Chicago and the Institute of Supply Chain Management. He has also been a member of the American Management Association.

In 1995, Mr. Regan was inducted into the Chicago Area Entrepreneurial Hall of Fame and has also been recognized as a Finalist in Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of The Year Contest. In 2002, Mr. Regan was named Delta Nu Alpha’s Transportation Professional of the Year. In 2003, he was named as one of the 100 Irish American Executives in Irish America Magazine’s "Business 100."

Mr. Regan has been a featured columnist in industry periodicals, has published several articles and has spoken throughout the country. He actively represents Tranzact within the industry and keeps abreast of key developments in the areas of logistics, distribution and supply chain management.
Prior to starting Tranzact, Mr. Regan worked for the Bank of America, PriceWaterhouse, and the Union Pacific Corporation. Mr. Regan is a CPA and has a BSBA from the University of Illinois.
Mr. Regan has been married to Jean for 25 years. They are the proud parents of four children, Dana (21), Kelley (19), Patrick (16) and Joseph (11). They live in Hinsdale, Illinois.

Dr. Narendra K. Rustagi

Dr. Narendra K. Rustagi is Chair of the Department of Information Systems and Decision Sciences in the School of Business, Howard University. He is also a tenured Professor and has been teaching in the Department since 1987. Dr. Rustagi has been very active in several departmental and school-wide committees. Prior to becoming the Chair of the Department, he was a co-chair of the university-wide Task Force to suggest policies for distance learning. At the School of Business level he chaired committees to develop curricula for MBA concentrations in E-Commerce and Supply Chain Management. He has authored co-authored several grants, including a grant to start online programs at Howard. Dr. Rustagi was a member of the team to review programs of the then newly established Prince Abubakar Audu University in Nigeria (since renamed Kogi State University) and propose changes to bring their curriculum to international standards. He is also working with the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, Government of Nigeria, in helping them develop training programs for their employees. He was also a consultant to the University of Mauritius to help them develop their online program.

Dr. Rustagi earned bachelor’s master’s degrees from the University of Delhi in 1972 and 1976, respectively, as well as master’s degree in applied statistics and a Ph.D. from the Ohio State University in 1980 and 1986, respectively.
Dr. Rustagi is very active in professional organizations. He has been an active participant in the International Academy of Business Disciplines and the American Society for Competitiveness. Dr. Rustagi has moreover been the co-founder and President of the International Digital Business Academy since 2005, and was a member of the Advisor Board of the Center for Internet Technology in Education during 2000-2003, as well as a member of the Executive Committee of the International Academy of Business and Economics in 2003. Dr. Rustagi was a guest editor of the International Journal of Commerce and Management’s Special Issue on South Asia in 1998, has been serving as the book review editor for Advances in Competitiveness Research since 1995, and is serving as the Business Program Coordinator for the American Society for Competitiveness since 2003.

Josef Schuster

Josef Schuster is the founder of IPOX Schuster LLC, an innovative financial services company specializing in financial products design related to Initial Public Offerings (IPOs). Our philosophy is to classify IPOs as separate equity sector because IPOs share unique long-run empirical dynamics. At the same time, our mission is to bring the concept of "Average IPO Investing" or "IPO Indexation" to the marketplace. Before setting up IPOX Schuster LLC, he spent seven years specializing in IPO research at the London School of Economics (LSE), where he received his Masters and Doctorate. During that time he was also a member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), focusing on equity index arbitrage on the floor of the exchange. He holds Series 3 and 7 licenses and is also a board member of the European Financial Management Association (EFMA).

Intelligent Transportation Society of America
1100 17th Street NW Suite 1200
Washington, DC 20036
phone 202 785 9057 email nschuster@itsa.org

Neil D. Schuster
President and CEO

Neil Schuster is President and CEO of ITS America, the Intelligent Transportation Society of America. He was appointed to his position in October 2001.

Schuster joined ITS America after 16 years as Executive Director of the International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association, the association of the worldwide toll industry. He was with IBTTA from 1985 to 2001. IBTTA has members in more than 21 countries, and provides an international forum for toll officials to explore solutions to industry problems.

At IBTTA, he launched the association’s first advocacy program and a technology program to help toll officials implement electronic toll collec-tion systems and work toward industry-wide performance specifications. He served on the ITS America Board of Directors when the organization was first formed.

Prior to joining IBTTA, Schuster served with the Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association, from 1982 to 1985. He was also with the American Waterways Operators, from 1975 to 1982.

Schuster received his B.A. in Economics from Brooklyn College in 1973, and an MBA from the University of Colorado in 1975, where he majored in Trans-por-ta-tion Management.

Bryan P. Shaffer
Founder & President, IRETOTM (International Real Estate Trade Organization);
President & CEO, SLS Investments, Inc.;

For 20 years Bryan Shaffer has been involved in every aspect of commercial real estate. Bryan has bought, sold and leased over $3 Billion of properties worldwide.

Bryan started IRETOTM with a simple goal of connecting people, capital, markets and information around the globe. IRETOTM, a non-profit real estate investment trade association that now reaches over 50,000 professionals worldwide. He is also the executive publisher of the “The IRETOTM Report”.

He writes and lectures about international investment strategies and is an active real estate investor. Last year Bryan appeared at over 15 international conferences and spoke on investment capital and strategies. He is currently serves as president of SLS Investments, a global real estate investment firm that acquires assets, provides international real estate investment advice and investment banking with partners around the globe. Prior to starting SLS Investments, he was with Mitsui Real Estate Sales USA, a subsidiary of Japan’s largest real estate company, where he sold over 75 properties, valued at over $1 Billion. He has also successfully lead Mitsui’s international brokerage transactions. In the past, he has owned his own advisory company and worked for several leading owners in the commercial real estate industry. He has been involved in the operation, brokerage and leasing of major commercial assets around the U.S., Guam, Japan, and Europe.

In addition to his role of president of IRETO, he is also an active member of ULI, NAREIT, ICSC, FIABCI and Jewish Federation Real Estate Committee. He was also Hope Committee Chairman for the American Cancer Institute. He graduated from the University of Arizona and is a California Superior Courtapproved Receiver and Administrator, and a licensed California Real Estate Broker.

Ken Shelton

In 1984, Ken Shelton founded Executive Excellence, a training and publishing firm featuring the best in values-based personal and team development, ethical management, and principle-centered leadership. Ken is the author of Beyond Counterfeit Leadership (1997), Real Success (1999), and One-on-One with Stephen R. Covey (2001). He served as writereditor for Stephen R. Covey’s Seven Habits of Highly Effective People and Principle-Centered Leadership, Walk the Talk with Eric Harvey, Managing People Is Like Herding Cats and Old Dogs, New Tricks with Warren Bennis, and Catch People Doing Something Right with Ken Blanchard.

Since 1984, Ken has served as editor and publisher of Executive Excellence magazine, the world’s leading executive advisory newsletter, Personal Excellence, the magazine of personal and professional development, and Sales and Marketing Excellence. He has written more than 1,000 articles, interviews, commentaries, and reviews for a variety of business publications; he has also edited and published over 40 books on business ethics, management, and leadership as chairman and Editor in Chief of Executive Excellence Publishing. For 10 years, he also provided services as a literary agent.

As a speaker and trainer, Ken travels the world. He has been a featured speaker in the United States at business and leadership conferences in New York, Florida, California, Ohio, and Georgia and outside the states at CEO and Editor in Chief Management conferences in Beijing and Shanghai, China; Madrid, Spain; Mexico City, Mexico; Belfast, Northern Ireland; Tokyo, Japan; Seoul, Korea; Singapore; Hong Kong; Frankfurt, Germany; Sidney, Melbourn, and Perth, Australia; Istanbul, Turkey; Dublin, Ireland; Sterling and Aberdeen, Scotland; Dubai, United Arab Emirates; and Buenos Aires, Argentina. Ken has been interviewed by a number of business print media, including Inc., Harvard Business Review, Business Week, Fortune, Forbes, New York Times,Wall Street Journal,Working Women, Success, and Bottom Line. He has also been featured on dozens of radio and television programs worldwide.

Ken has a Master’s degree in Organizational Communications from San Diego State University. While living in San Diego, California, he worked four years in marketing and management for General Dynamics aerospace (1975 to 1979). He also worked four years as assistant director of University Relations for Brigham Young University (1979 to 1983). Ken and his wife Pam are the parents of three sons and live in Provo, Utah.

Dale Vermillion
President and CEO, Vermillion Consulting, Inc.

Dale Vermillion is a prominent international speaker, consultant and expert to the mortgage industry. Dale began his career in 1983 as a loan officer and, by age 30, was an Executive Director responsible for managing a major national mortgage company and over 1,000 employees.

In his 23 years of experience, Dale has consulted to Presidents, CEO’s and Management Executives for many of the largest and most successful mortgage companies in the industry. His consulting spans both the conforming and non-conforming sectors, including both retail and wholesale lenders.

Although Dale’s primary focus is sales, management, and leadership, he also consults on business, industry trends, marketing, management and motivation. What makes Dale a unique speaker and consultant is his dual focus on both professional and personal success. Dale has trained over 200,000 individuals, primarily mortgage professionals, and 110 mortgage companies over the past 12 years. In addition to his speaking in the mortgage industry and business world, Dale has been a frequent speaker both here and abroad for faith-based organizations and events.

Dale is a member of the Mortgage Brokers Association (MBA), National Association pf Mortgage Brokers (NAMB), Canadian Institute of Mortgage Brokers and Lenders (CIMBL) and National Home Equity Mortgage Association (NHEMA), where he has served for five years on the Board of Directors and Education Committee. He has also been a keynote speaker and industry expert at dozens of regional, national and international association conferences. In addition, Dale has been published many times, having articles appear in major trade magazines.

Dale and his wife have been married 14 years and are raising four children in the Midwest. He and his family are passionately involved in humanitarian and missions work in India, dedicating much of their time and resources to helping orphanages in rural India, traveling there annually with his sons to work with children and assist in providing food, shelter and hope to the world’s poor. Dale recently founded "Mortgage Professionals Providing Hope", a mortgage industry based coalition dedicated to raising funds and providing support to the poor of India.

Gailen Vick

Gailen Vick has over 25 years of experience in engineering development and marketing of high technology products. His experience as a speaker at several trade conferences and his years of working arm and arm with many of today's Executive Management has made Gailen a resource to those colleagues.

Prior to founding Reverse Logistics Trends Gailen had served on the executive staff of several third party service providers. With a strong background in computer and telecommunications related technologies.

He entered the Service Industry on January 1996 after the Disk Drive Industry became driven by the consumer market. The Service sector was just evolving into a formal industry at that time. His first position was as a sales director at Sequel (acquired by Solectron), and then he was recruited at PCS as their VP of Sales & Marketing. Later Gailen was recruited by Magnetic Data Technologies, LLC where he led the business development of all global customers as VP of Strategic Accounts. Most recently he was the focal point that worked jointly with UPS to supplement their repair services and was part of the management team that positioned MDT for sell to Solectron Global Services. While in the service industry he has secured contracts with Toshiba, Iomega, Sun Microsystems, Hitachi, Panasonic, Apple, Mitsubishi, Imation, Gateway, 3Com, Compal, UPS, Kinpo, Bizcom and many others.

Bruce Weinstein, Ph.D

Bruce Weinstein, Ph.D., is the professional ethicist known as The Ethics Guy. He appears weekly on CNN for "Ask the Ethics Guy," a question-and-answer segment modeled after his Knight Ridder/Tribune syndicated column of the same name. His interactive talks to businesses, schools, and non-profit organizations across the country show how living an ethical life makes us happier, healthier, and more prosperous.

Dr. Weinstein is the author or editor of five previous books and the author of over 20 articles on ethics. His next book, Life Principles: Feeling Good by Doing Good, will be published in hardcover by Emmis Books in May 2005. Dr. Weinstein’s writings have appeared in, or he has been featured in, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the New York Observer, Time, Investor’s Business Daily, the Journal of the American Medical Association, the New England Journal of Medicine, Family Circle, Woman’s World, Men’s Fitness,and American Way, the magazine of American Airlines.
In addition to his CNN duties, Dr. Weinstein has appeared as an ethics analyst on ABC TV’s "Good Morning America," NBC TV’s "Early Today," the Fox News Channel’s "O’Reilly Factor," MSNBC "Live," CNBC’s "Capital Report," Bloomberg Television’s "Personal Finance," Fox TV’s "Good Day New York," and other programs.

He received a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Swarthmore College, a doctorate in philosophy and bioethics from Georgetown University, and a certificate in film production from New York University.
Dr. Weinstein is also an independent filmmaker and is producing a documentary about an ex-mobster who is devoting the remainder of his life to discouraging young people from becoming criminals. Dr. Weinstein was invited to participate in the Sundance Institute’s Independent Producers Conference on behalf of this work-in-progress.

Dr. Weinstein is a W.K. Kellogg National Fellow and lives in New York. To contact him, please visit www.TheEthicsGuy.com or write to Bruce@TheEthicsGuy.com.

Kurt E. Yeager

Kurt E. Yeager is President and Chief Executive Officer of EPRI, Palo Alto, California. Mr. Yeager assumed this position in August 1996 after serving as EPRI’s Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. EPRI is the national collaborative research and development organization for electric power. It has evolved from a non-profit electric power research institute to a family of companies encompassing collaborative and proprietary R&D as well as technical solution applications in the U.S. and over 40 other countries.

Mr. Yeager joined EPRI in 1974, progressing through a series of technical management and executive positions from department director to division vice president. In 1990 he became Senior Vice President for Technical Operations, responsible for the integrated management of EPRI’s five technical divisions. In 1994 he was appointed Senior Vice President for Strategic Development. In this position he was responsible for corporate strategic planning, core research and environmental issue assessment, client services, regulatory affairs, and government relations.

Previously, Mr. Yeager was the director of Energy R&D Planning for the EPA Office of Research. Prior to that he was with the MITRE Corporation as associate head of the Environmental Systems Department, and he was a distinguished graduate of the Air Force Nuclear Research Officer’s Program while serving seven years on active duty.

Mr. Yeager is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and its Industry Advisory Board, a Trustee of the Committee for Economic Development, and he serves on the Boards of the U.S. Energy Association and the National Coalition for Advanced Manufacturing (NACFAM). He has served on the Executive Board of the National Coal Council as well as several National Academy of Engineering Committees and the Energy Research Advisory Board to the Secretary of Energy. He has authored over 200 technical publications on energy and environmental topics.
Mr. Yeager received a Bachelor's degree from Kenyon College and completed post-graduate studies in chemistry and physics at Ohio State and the University of California, Davis. He has also completed post-graduate management programs at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces and the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Finance.

Michael Klearman

Michael Klearman joined our Chicago office of PEAK6 Investments, LP, in September 2000 and has served as our Risk Management Expert specializing in trading equity options for financial companies. Prior to employment with PEAK6, Mr. Klearman was an Associate with High Ridge Partners where he consulted troubled business by reviewing their capital structures, arranging for refinancing, performing liquidations, and overseeing corporate reorganizations. For six years, Mr. Klearman was CEO of Healthunits, Inc., a company he co-founded, that rented medical equipment. Mr. Klearman holds a B.S. in Actuarial Science from the University of Illinois - Urbana/Champaign and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Michigan.

Stephen Brock

As the founder of GoPublicToday.com, Stephen Brock offers his clients a rare mix of unparalleled expertise, proven leadership and insightful innovation. Launching the company in 2000, Brock has created an SEC-registered investment advisory firm that specializes in direct public offering programs. Through GoPublicToday.com, Brock offers a full spectrum of financial advisory services to a client base that includes emerging companies, as well as established entities.

In addition to GoPublicToday.com, Brock is also the founder of Public Company Management Services and M&A Capital Advisers, LLC. These companies are devoted to the small-cap market. Public Company Management Services offers small public companies access to a broad range of professional services, such as financial consultants, attorneys, certified public accountants and boutique investment bankers. M&A Capital Advisers, LLC is a development stage broker dealer that specializes in mergers and acquisitions, as well as private placements.

Additionally, his company PubCo White Papers, Inc., offers extensive research to help educate small business constituents - such as investors and issues and market participants - about a wide range of topics, including regulatory, strategic planning and financing issues that impact the micro cap market.

Brock also operates several websites, including www.privatetopublic.com, www.pcms-team.com, www.gopublictoday.com, www.pubcowhitepapers.com, and www.gopinksheets.com, all of which cater to the small-cap markets. Most notably, Brock recently formed www.foreigncompanylisting.com, which offers a service for foreign companies seeking to obtain dual listings on a United States exchange. It is the first company of its kind in the marketplace.

Alfred P. Hahn

President, Hahn & Company Service Industry consultant with over 30 years experience in high technology, working with the world's leading computer, software, medical equipment, office equipment, and electronics companies Web columnist for Service and Support World writing on marketing services
Co-author, Best Practices of World Class Service Marketing Organizations Former editor, Journal of the Association for Services Management International Past president and chairman, Association for Services Management International (AFSMI)
Former Board Member, American Electronics Association

John D. Illgen, Vice President and Director, Simulation Technologies 1988 to present

Mr. Illgen is Director of Simulation Technologies for Northrop Grumman Tactical Systems Division and is recognized internationally for his pioneering work in Department of Defense (DoD) information systems, modeling, and simulation development and applications.

Mr. Illgen has chaired and served on numerous panels and committees that focus on the application of M&S, telecommunications, information systems, command and control, weapon systems, C4ISR, electronic defense, and military training systems. He has published and presented scores of papers in the information systems, telecommunications, command and control, C4I, including sensor to shooter simulation arenas. He has received numerous commendations, medals, and awards for his technical, management, and policy contributions to DoD over the past 37 years with emphasis on C4ISR systems.

Mr. Illgen’s business area is currently leading the implementation of a Northrop Grumman strategic initiative to upgrade Northrop Grumman’s command and control and simulation environment using Java, JINI, XML, XSLT, JXTA, object oriented methods, and advanced 3D graphics and animation. He has been a pioneer in the areas of system evaluations using simulation to assess, design, augment testing, support systems engineering, analysis, system employment, operations, and production decisions as these impact the DoD’s system acquisition process.

Mr. Illgen is directly involved in and known for using unique skills using simulation for military transformation. His experience includes:

• Assignments to South Korea, focusing on joint and combined operations, readiness, and training using simulation for advanced information and collaborative environment processes:
• Addressed C4ISR survivability against nuclear attack
• Reviewed the Joint Force and Combined Forces Information Systems Collaborative Environment being used by CJ3 from planning to operations and recommended additional support the Army could provide U.S. forces in Korea to enhance operations
• Met with Korean Institute of Defense Analysis (KIDA) to discuss combined and joint training simulation enhancements
• Crossed DMZ border to North Korea and observed preparedness
• Addressed armistice issues and impact on U.S. Forces in Korea
• Conducted evaluations at U.S. Air Force Operations Center at Osan, Air Analysis Section, Korea Battle Simulation Center, CFC Command Center, Threat Warning Center, CP TANGO, and Knowledge Base offices
• Assisted the Commanding General AMC in defining the technical planning for establishing the newly formed RDE Command, focusing on the use of simulation across all Army programs and commands.
• Evaluated the Army’s war fighting simulation and recommended an interim solution to incorporate "Contemporary Operations Environment" into the training process until the war fighter’s simulation can be fielded.
• Advised the U.S. Navy on use of IT and simulation for the Extended Sensor Grid.
• Provided plans for establishing a U.S. Navy (SPAWAR) collaborative simulation environment to address Network Centric Warfare. Directed program to integrate NAVAIR Patuxent River hardware simulations with software simulations using commercial based technologies for a prototype demonstration
• Reviewed Army RDE Command process for U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force applications.
• Causing use of commercial technology migration to all three military services to faster, less expensive, more cutting edge technology for acquisition and training applications.
• Provided detailed recommendations for joint simulations in terms of restructuring for new threat and introducing Missions and Means Framework (MMF), invented by Dr. Paul Deitz, to properly conduct M&S composability.
• Provided plan to use simulation to attract and capture Internet/Web terrorists.

Mr. Illgen is currently providing planning, implementation, and advisory assistance to the Commanding General and his staff at Army Materiel Command Headquarters, where he is focusing on the application of M&S to the system acquisition process for transformation. This assignment incorporates a process defined by DoD, a Simulation Based Acquisition (SBA), which is a major part of acquisition reform to build systems faster and more cost effectively, essentially recognizing and minimizing risk early on in the development cycle. He also provides advisory assistance to U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force senior leadership on similar simulation topics.

Mr. Illgen is also reviewing and suggesting new processes to improve an embedded collaborative training for our war fighters based on solid DoD initiatives. His activities incorporate the use of Internet/Web service technologies to provide advanced distributed simulation, taking advantage of DoD and commercial architecture standards.

Mr. Illgen was appointed to the Red Team by the Joint Forces Command (JFCOM) to assess "analysis of alternatives" for Joint National Training Capability. In addition, he was recently appointed by the Special Operations Command (SOCOM) to their Technology Advisory Council. He is also supporting special analysis to bridge missions and scenarios to system modernization requiring close interaction with Operations Centers in Qatar and Seoul.

Mr. Illgen's career includes technical contributions, project management, program, executive, and corporate management experience with Computer Sciences Corporation, General Electric’s Space Division Center for Advanced Studies, General Research Corporation (now AT&T Business Solutions), Kaman Sciences Corporation, California Microwave, Inc. (CMI), and Illgen Simulation Technologies, Inc., which he founded in March 1988 with the assistance of Dr. William Perry (former Secretary of Defense) and Dr. Paul Kaminski (former Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology).

He presently serves as Associate Editor for the Society of Computer Simulation’s (SCS) monthly journal, "Simulation"; and is on the Board of Directors of NDIA (National Defense Industrial Association). He is past Chairman of the Santa Barbara Council of the American Electronics Association (AEA).

In his academic affiliations, Mr. Illgen serves on the Dean’s Cabinet at the University of California, Santa Barbara’s College of Engineering and Computer Science. Mr. Illgen is also a member of Stanford University’s Affiliates Program and is a participant at the Center for International Security and Cooperation.

Mr. Illgen appears on World Business Review as Information Systems and Simulation Industry Expert with General Alexander Haig on selected shows each year.

Mr. Illgen was a lecturer at the Engineering Economic Systems and Operations Research Colloquium Series, televised throughout the Silicon Valley on Stanford University’s Educational Channel on January 19, 1999. Numerous radio and television stations have interviewed Mr. Illgen, and he has lectured throughout the world addressing the subject of simulation technologies using Internet and Web-based applications. He is frequently asked to keynote major meetings, symposia and closed meetings pertaining to defense and commercial technology issues.

Graduated from the Stanford University/American Electronics Association Executive Institute for Management of High Technology Companies, 1986

Electromagnetic Propagation Summer Courses, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1968

Advanced Statistical Communications Theory and Information Processing, 1969

Awards and Memberships:

• Currently serves on the Board of Directors of the NDIA.
• Currently Senior Member of the IEEE and former (1981-2001) National Technical Committee Chairman for Communications and Navigation in the Oceanic Engineering Society.
• Previous Technical Program Chairperson for the Society for Computer Simulation’s (SCS) Summer Conference in Washington, DC, July 1997. Former member of the SCS Board of Directors (1996 through 1998).
• In April 1997, Mr. Illgen chaired the Advanced Distributed Simulation track at the Aerospace SPIE/IEEE Conference in Orlando, FL.
• Charter Member of the International Test and Evaluation Association;
• Served on the Board of Directors and was President for the Santa Barbara Chapter of the Association of Old Crows (International Electronic Warfare Professional Society).
• Past President (1985) of the International Navigation Position Location Professional Society (ILA, International Loran Association).
• Has been the keynote speaker, chaired numerous technical panels, committees, and symposia for a variety of communications, navigation, Air Traffic Control, and Computer Generated Forces Committees for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Deputy Secretary of the Army, U.S. Navy, and USAF.
• Guest editor of the March 1990 issue of "Simulation," the official publication of the Society for Computer Simulation and was recently named Associate Editor for Test and Evaluation.
• Received the Paul Harris Fellow for "Leadership" from Rotary International and was named "Entrepreneur of the Year" (in both 1996 and 1997) by Ernst and Young.
• Elected to the Dean’s Cabinet for three years at the University of California, Santa Barbara, College and Engineering and Computer Sciences.
• Led Illgen Simulation Technologies, Inc. (now Northrop Grumman Simulation Technologies Corp.) to be recipient of the Fast 50 award in 1998 for Northern Los Angeles and the Central Cost of California.