Terry Kline holds responsibility for coordinating product development process reengineering activities, and the implementation of associated information systems across GM business sectors. In addition, Terry has been assigned to oversee information and technology requirements for GM’s expansion into Emerging Markets. His direct experience in vehicle development and extensive background in information systems implementation are integral to driving GM’s common global product development processes. Terry also interfaces with GM’s joint venture and alliance partners to align their capability with GM common systems and processes across Global Product Development. Terry served dual capacity as the Chief Information Officer for Asia Pacific from December 2004-December 2007. In this capacity, he was responsible for the deployment and operation of IT systems across the region. He was also a member of the Asia Pacific Strategy Board. Prior to that position, Terry was the Chief Information Officer for North America Product Development. Terry joined GM from New Venture Gear, Inc. where he served as Vice President and Chief Information Officer. Prior to that assignment, he worked at Navistar International as Director of Information Systems, Truck Engineering and Manufacturing. There, he was responsible for collapsing the Engineering, Manufacturing, Service Parts and Sales organizations to a single bill of material master. Terry has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Toledo in Computer Science and Engineering and an MBA from Indiana University.

Paul Bevilaqua has spent much of his career developing Vertical Take Off and Landing aircraft. He joined Lockheed Martin as Chief Aeronautical Scientist of the Skunk Works, and played a leading role in creating the Joint Striker Fighter Program. He invented the lift fan propulsion system that made it possible to build a stealthy, supersonic VSTOL aircraft, and led the engineering team that demonstrated the feasibility of building variants of this aircraft for the Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps. He streamlined the new product development process by applying the principles of Lean Manufacturing to engineering and design activities. Prior to joining Lockheed Martin, he was Manager of Advanced Programs at Rockwell International. He began his career as a USAF officer assigned to the Aerospace Research Laboratories at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He received an Air Force Scientific Achievement Award for his contributions to turbulence theory, AIAA and SAE Aircraft Design Awards, AIAA and AHS VSTOL Awards, and Lockheed Martin AeroStar and NOVA awards. His publications include articles in the Journals of the AIAA and the Royal Aeronautical Society.

Huw is the R&D Information Director for Unilever working within Home and Personal Care (HPC). He is a Chemist by training and has worked in mainstream Innovation for the first 15 years of his 21year career at Unilever. During this time Huw occupied a variety of roles in Research, Development and Supply Chain, across a number of product categories both home and abroad. In 2000 Huw was tasked with rolling out a Specification Management system across Unilever which has been successfully completed. To build on this success Huw has been tasked more recently with pulling together an Information Strategy and roadmap for R&D which is helping to drive new ways of working in R&D and leading Unilever into the world of PLM. Huw works at Unilever's flagship HPC R&D Laboratory located at Port Sunlight in the North West of England. he is married with two children (aged 9 and 11) and lives near Chester

Don is the Executive Director of Advanced Development for MEDRAD, Inc., a Pittsburgh-based manufacturer of innovative medical equipment and disposable products used in diagnostic imaging, including angiography, interventional cardiology, computed tomography, and magnetic resonance. He is responsible for managing and directing technology and product innovations and expanding the company’s intellectual property portfolio. Don sits on the MEDRAD Innovations Advisory Board and Corporate Services Advisory Board. Externally, he sits on the Board of Directors of the Business Marketing Association and serves as an Advisor to the Board of the Product Strategy Network, as well. Don holds a Master of Science and a Bachelor of Science from West Virginia University, both in Electrical Engineering. He was also a Swiger Doctoral Fellow at West Virginia University, during which he completed all of his PhD coursework. He and his wife also have the distinction of having been the first participants in ABC TV’s Wife Swap reality television series!

Kurt Kuhn currently manages an organization of engineers and software developers that implements Boeing's 5 year strategic Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) plan to support major production programs. While at The Boeing Company, he has performed strength, stability, fatigue, and damage tolerance analysis of metallic and composite structures via finite element methods and classical hand analysis techniques. Also, he has experience in delivering CAE software from concept to full implementation. Kurt holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Delaware (UD). While there, he studied the analysis, test, and manufacture of composite materials at UD's Center for Composite Materials (CCM).

James Jackson is Development Systems Manger for Timex Group USA, Inc., the nations’ leading watch manufacturer. James began work with Timex as a process engineer in the case manufacturing group in Little Rock, Arkansas, thirty-five years ago. James became manager of the CAD/CAM design group in the early nineties with responsibility for product process and tooling design for new watch case components. In 1999 he joined the new product development group at corporate headquarters in Middlebury, Connecticut. In this new role James was given responsibility for acquisition, development and implementation of all new product development systems as the company expanded and globalized their manufacturing and assembly operations. Web collaboration was critical to the success of this expansion. In 2006 the company initiated new strategic processes and PLM software for development and management of all Timex Watch and Fitness Measurement products. James has worked to develop new web enabled solutions to integrate global design documentation, engineering documentation, cost analysis, forecasting, MRP, shipping and sales data into a graphic user friendly PLM console. Success required integrating various industrial design and cad software platforms and various operating systems including Windows, Unix and Linux, and database platforms including Oracle DB, Visual FoxPro, MS SQL server and user deliverables in various Microsoft office applications. At the workshop James will participate in the panel discussion examining integration strategies across companies.

Mr. John Kolb is the Vice President of Engineering for Proliance International, Inc. He holds a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. At Proliance, he is responsible for all Product Design and Manufacturing Process Development that includes collaboration with global partners for worldwide integration of product/process initiatives. John is the recipient of the SAE International Arch T. Colwell Merit Award in Recognition of his Outstanding Contribution to SAE Literature that Advances the Technology of Self-Propelled Vehicles. His work here is developed around advancements in predictive fatigue analysis. Mr. Kolb has also won several awards from SAE International for Oral Presentations on Fatigue and Structural Stress Research Involving Vehicular Heat Exchange. As Vice President of Engineering at Proliance International, Inc. and in previous roles throughout his career, John has worked to integrate CAE and IT tools globally to drive flexible, efficient Manufacturing Processes. He has also presented extensively on Proliances' PLM strategy that focuses on high velocity product development and has resulted in impressive cost reduction and quality benefits. Mr. Kolb's PLM strategy offers a global solution for the future that is applicable to all industries.

Keith Zobott is Corporate Director, Engineering IT Enterprise Applications at Honeywell where he has been responsible for a strategic initiative entitled VELOCITY PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT. He will discuss how this approach has allowed Honeywell to use PLM as an enabler to dramatically reduce time to market at a cheaper cost, whilst incorporating lean concepts and initiatives. Although only one-and-a-half years into the project, Keith has already witnessed a 30% reduction in cycle time, with targets of 70-80% expected to be met during the next four years. Keith will additionally consider how looking at your own business and your specific product offerings can assist you in gaining the most out of your PLM architecture.

Steven Young spearheads Oracle’s Product Marketing efforts for Agile PLM. Steven combines an extensive product marketing and product management background with start-ups, turnarounds, and fast growth companies. He has expanded markets for “first-of-its kind” PLM technologies for Agile Software, MSC Software, ImpactXoft, Sherpa, and Formtek with customers that included Lockheed’s Joint Strike Fighter Program, Toyota, and Nike. Steven is a former Stanford Research Institute strategic consultant and had a stint as a semi-pro baseball player. He holds a J.D. / M.B.A and is APICS trained in supply chain management.

Mr. Joshi is responsible for technical pre-sales and implementations of enterprise software in the Product Performance Lifecycle Management and Business Intelligence domain. He is also responsible for building teams across the globe for providing services, managing global resources and projects, and providing product direction based on customer requests. Alhad is focused on providing CAE and Test data management, and Business Intelligence solutions that can be deployed very rapidly in any existing infrastructure. He has worked in the software solutions and systems integration development domain for over 16 years at Altair Engineering, Inc. In this role he was responsible for building solutions that capture best practices in the product development and CAE domain, whilst working extensively with leading PLM applications in the context of providing integrated process automation/guidance solutions. He is responsible for directing the development of commercial CAE and Process lifecycle management.

Richard Semmes, Director Core Industries, Enovia, Dassault Systemes. Robb Bush, Product Strategies, Suite Solution Management, SAPSAPSAP Labs. Hardeep Gulati, Vice President, PLM, PIM & Configurator Applications, Oracle. Bill Neuman, Director, Product Management, PTC

Dr. Michael Grieves splits his time between the business and academic worlds. He is the author of “Product Lifecycle Management: Driving the Next Generation of Lean Thinking” (McGraw-Hill, 2006).He founded and was Co-Director of the Product Lifecycle Management Development Consortium (PLM DC) at University of Michigan’s College of Engineering. He developed and teaches the Product Lifecycle Management Overview course, the first executive-level course on PLM at the university level. Dr Grieves lectures world-wide on PLM and will use his wealth of knowledge to help attendees to adopt progressive manufacturing processes which increase profit and eliminate waste by Integrating PLM and MES.

Mike Burkett is regarded as the leading expert in product lifecycle management (PLM), having co-authored the first industry publication that defined the market. As the vice president of AMR Research’s Industry Value Chain Strategies team, Mike draws on more than 15 years of experience introducing and supporting products from concept to end-of-life. Over the past eight years at AMR Research, Mike, a Six Sigma Master Blackbelt, has conducted a variety of research on software developments and business issues. He currently focuses on product management and innovation, and specializes in value chain issues that are specific to aerospace and defense companies. Prior to joining AMR Research, Mike worked as a senior manufacturing engineer at The Foxboro Co. Prior to Foxboro, Mike was a motion control applications engineer for EG&G. Mike is a member of the Product Development Management Association (PDMA) and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME). He has been quoted in numerous trade publications and in Fortune and The Wall Street Journal. Mike holds a BS in manufacturing engineering technology from Wentworth Institute of Technology and an MBA from Babson College.

Mr. Bellio joined Mercury Marine in 1999 and his current role is Director – Global Product Development, Processes, Systems and Support Services with responsibility for transforming and integrating the company’s people, partners, technology and processes through the creation of an integrated system for the company’s global product development process. Fred has extensive experience in all aspects of engineering and manufacturing systems, as well as, product development process development and project management. Prior to joining Mercury Marine Fred worked for 14 years in the aerospace industry working for Boeing and Bombardier Aerospace. Mr. Bellio graduated from Ryerson Polytechnical University with a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering and has a MBA in Technology Management from the University of Phoenix.

Dan is the Director for Material and Product Corporate Systems with global responsibility for the Corporate Standards System (CSS) and a Cross-Business Unit Material Technology Entrepreneur group focused on large spend pool savings opportunities. Dan is the primary contact for the Enovia/MatrixOne relationship with P&G. Previous to taking this role, Dan was in the Snacks & Beverage business unit as an R&D Director. He has experience in a wide range of products and project phases including upstream through current business product development, alternate channel products (bottlers, c-stores, schools), and led the development of the material specification Standard Operating Procedure for global P&G as part of a materials simplification task force.

Najib Abusalbi is Chief Architect of Operations & Production for Schlumberger Information Solutions. He joined the company in 1984 after three years in postdoctoral research in Physics and Chemistry, and has held multiple product development and management positions in several exploration and production domains – including information management director, operations manager, project director and program manager, as well as recruiting, training and career development manager, and innovation and research director. Najib holds a PhD. in Atomic Physics from Louisiana State University and is recognized as a Scientific Advisor in Schlumberger's Communities of Practice where he has been leading the Project Management community since 2005.

As Product and Planning IT Programme manager, Warren is responsible for developing and managing the strategic initiatives that impact the core process of product development, forecasting and supply planning. Timberland is in the process of implementing a materials database and integrated Bill of Materials for its Footwear division. This is a key strategic initiative that will have an impact on Timberland’s global operations. This initiative will be the foundation for subsequent efforts that will improve supply planning, financial reporting and enhanced Timberland’s ability to manage complexity. Prior to joining Timberland, Warren worked at the consulting firms of Ernst & Young and Capgemini in Supply Chain Management practices. As a consultant Warren assisted a broad range of companies with defining strategy and implementing Supply Chain solutions. Warren graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the Drew University and from Michigan State University with a Masters of Business Administration in Finance and Supply Chain.

Jeff Hojlo is a research analyst at AMR and is responsible for research and analysis on trends and developments in product innovation and the product lifecycle management (PLM) market. Jeff will be chairing the two day conference, drawing on over 15 years of professional experience to interact with the audience and raise some interesting perspectives on PLM. Jeff also works with business and technology executives on developing product and marketing plans, and strategic business initiatives. Jeff is a member of the Product Development Management Association (PDMA), and writes on topics such as global product development and launch, integrated product and process development, and the front end of innovation.

Joe Barkai is practice director for Manufacturing Insights' Product Life-Cycle Strategies research service. In this role he is responsible for research and analysis on the types of investments that introduce operational efficiencies to the domain while improving the responsiveness to customer requirements. Mr. Barkai examines discrete manufacturing, with a focus on complex, mission-critical capital equipment to identify business imperatives, best practices and emerging technologies.

Prior to co-founding SmartOrg in 2000, Don Creswell spent 12 years at SDG (Strategic Decisions Group) where he was Vice President and General Manager of SDG Decision Systems, a software and education arm; General Manager of the Decision Quality Association and director of that organization's Intelligent Decision Systems software organization; Director of practice development for the R&D management consulting practice and Director of The Smart Organization program. Prior to joining SDG, Don was a senior management consultant at SRI International, Vice President of Pan American World Airways, and Marketing Vice President of an RCA high tech division. In his private life he is a jazz pianist and spent some 30 years as a soccer referee, National Referee Assessor, serving for several years as National Director of Referee Assessment for the United States Soccer Federation. His wife, Terri, is a professional photographer and writer.

Bruce M. Belzowski, Associate Director and Assistant Research Scientist, received his B.A. and M.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Michigan, respectively. At UMTRI, he has authored research reports focusing on a variety of automotive topics including product development, manufacturer-supplier-dealer relations, globalization, information technology, knowledge management, and human resources. His current research topics include Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), powertrain strategies, and globalization of the automotive industry. He is director of UMTRI-AAD’s China Automotive Program and Powertrain Strategies Program. He is also a steering committee member of the GERPISA global automotive research group in France and a Joint Researcher at the Institute for Technology, Enterprise, and Competitiveness at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan.

Sue McCusker is a Global IT Development Manager working with the SAP Platform for The Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta. She has worked in a variety of SAP roles over the last 8 years, including Development and Project Manager roles for xRPM, CATS, FI and SD modules, Application Development for FI, HR, and BW modules, Technical Analyst roles working with offshore development groups, FI Functional Analyst, and currently working with SAP CRM modules. Sue has been with The Coca-Cola Company for 20 years working in IT with various Engineering, Bottler and Plant Operations, and Financial divisions. Sue has been a keynote speaker for North America Sapphire 2007 and with other speaking engagements for ASUG, PLM and Project Management.

As Vice President, Marketing and Strategy, Jeff leads Invention Machine’s corporate marketing programs, and overall market strategy. Jeff brings to Invention Machine more than 15 years of enterprise software marketing experience. Jeff joined Invention Machine from Endeca, a leader in the enterprise search market, where he held a variety of marketing and operational leadership positions, fueling explosive growth over his four and a half year tenure. Jeff was the Executive Director of Product Marketing at Ascential Software, playing a key role in the organic growth and strategic acquisitions that led Ascential to become a recognized leader in enterprise data integration, and ultimately a key acquisition in IBM’s information management strategy. Jeff has also held marketing and product management positions at Alphablox and Idiom Technologies, and was the original product manager at Business Objects. Jeff is a graduate of Tufts University with a BA in Computer Science.

Doug Tracy is an accomplished technology executive with over 25 years of management experience in the private and public sectors. He has worked in the aerospace/defense, manufacturing, high tech, life sciences, retail and transportation industries, holding both North American and global roles. Doug is currently the EVP for IT (North America) and Chief Technology Officer, Global IT. In this role, he is responsible for supporting the IT needs of 8,000 employees in Rolls-Royce North America, a $4B subsidiary of Rolls-Royce plc. In addition, he is responsible globally for defining the medium and long range IT strategies for Rolls-Royce plc, a $15B and 40,000 employee organization that develops power solutions and services. As CTO, Doug determines the technical architecture upon which the IT environment of the future will converge and authorizes new investments in information technology solutions.

Karen Marks is the Director of Operations for the Global Science and Innovation organization of ConvaTec Inc. In her role, Karen has responsibility for the Project Management department , the Product Development and Launch Process and Portfolio Management activities. Karen joined ConvaTec from Merck & Co., where she was the Director of Clinical Data Management Operations for the Americas. Prior to Merck, Karen spent 22 years within the AT&T Bell Laboratories family of companies where she held positions in Information Management, Manufacturing Operations and Labor Relations. She holds a bachelor's degree from Muhlenberg College in Human Resources Management, and is a Six Sigma Black Belt and PMI certified Project Manager.

Andreas Lindenthal is co-founder and President of Metafore. He is responsible for managing the company, formulating and executing long-term strategies, overall business development, including marketing and sales, and leading consulting engagement with key clients. Andreas has successfully worked with many small and large companies in the automotive, aerospace, consumer goods, high-tech/electronics, machinery equipment, and medical device industries to develop product lifecycle management (PLM) strategies and concepts that enable their growth strategies and drive innovation, increase productivity, shorten time-to-market, reduce costs, ensure compliance and improve product quality through the integration and resourceful utilization of appropriate PLM technologies and practices. Andreas is a former executive of UGS Corp., a leading provider of product lifecycle management software, where he was responsible for business development and customer support in Switzerland and the Western region of the United States.

Eamon O’Kelly is the Director of Global Customer Care for Schneider Electric’s Engineering Systems function. With 120,000 employees, 200 manufacturing locations and sales of $18B, Schneider Electric is a global leader in energy management and control. Eamon is part of the leadership team tasked with globalizing and standardizing the product development environment at Schneider Electric. Over the past three years a standard set of tools have been developed and deployed to over 5500 product development users across the world. This standard environment is made up of MCAD, ECAD, CASE and PLM tools, which enable the virtual development environment at Schneider Electric. Eamon and his team are responsible for the daily support of these users. His team is composed of four helpdesks located in China, India, North America, and Europe as well as a consulting/coaching organization distributed around the world. An Irish native, Eamon holds a Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering, and a Bachelors degree in Industrial Engineering and Information Systems, from the National University of Ireland, and currently resides in the US.

Giri has worked in prestigious IT & Design organizations for over 13 years and lead projects involving PLM implementation & customization, CAD customization, Engineering-Application development involving multitude of technologies. PLM implementation and Engineering software development experience is well supported by his strong experience in the manufacturing domain. He also has an extensive experience in initiating technology focused CoEs and growing these groups.

Carla is the IT Director responsible for Concept to Commercialization processes within Medtronic's Cardiac Rhythm Disease Management (CRDM) business unit. She is responsible for CRDM's PLM Program. Carla has been involved with PLM strategy and execution in partnership with functional business stakeholders for the past five years. As a medical device company, Medtronic faces rigorous requirements around validation of systems and data, in meeting FDA requirements as well as international standards. A major challenge for CRDM is to effectively manage this data, while at the same time strategically moving our PLM strategy forward. Carla's previous experience includes consulting and global program management across a variety of business processes.

Rak Bhalla is a senior marketing manager in the Business Productivity Business Unit at Adobe Systems Incorporated. He is responsible for developing marketing strategies and driving marketing programs for the company’s desktop and server solutions software in the manufacturing industry. Bhalla has more than 20 years of domestic and international experience in manufacturing, during which he has served in diverse roles, including marketing executive, CAD technician and consultant. He possesses an extensive knowledge of both the high-level and practical challenges manufacturing professionals face while working to increase competitive advantage and bring products to market. Prior to joining Adobe, Bhalla spent 12 years at Autodesk working in several senior-level positions, where he focused on growing the company’s presence in the manufacturing market. Earlier, he worked as a CAD/CAM senior applications analyst for ComputerVision/CTI, focused on technical demonstrations, consulting and training. Bhalla has a degree in Mechanical Engineering Technology from Dawson College in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Prior to joining Sopheon, Mr. Ducatelli served as Executive Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Magnum Technologies, a leader in the Business Service Management arena. While at Magnum he was responsible for all aspects of sales, product marketing and marketing communications. Prior to joining Magnum, Mr. Ducatelli also served as the Vice President of Sales of the Retail Business Unit of Lawson Software in St. Paul, MN, where he led a sales organization that increased license sales 150% in three years. Mr. Ducatelli has also held leadership positions at other leading high-tech companies, such as the Vice President of the General Retail Unit of Performance Retail Inc. in Austin, Texas, and Worldwide Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Computer Network Technology/Propelis Software Division in Plymouth, Minnesota. Mr. Ducatelli earned his Bachelor’s of Science degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the University of Massachusetts, and has an MBA from RPI in Hartford, Connecticut.

Valmeeka Nathan is Vice President and Head of Product Lifecycle and Engineering Solutions (PLES) at Infosys Technologies Ltd -US$4 billion IT services and consulting firm. His team focuses on delivering high value global engineering transformation solutions leveraging PLM that result in lean, agility and innovation benefits for clients. Val has about 24 years of experience in providing Engineering and PLM Solutions to the product engineering value-chain with regional and global clients. Prior to joining Infosys, he has led the South East Asia operations for a Japanese company specializing in engineering solutions, right from its inception.

Hardeep is vice president of product strategy for Oracle. In this role, he leads the product roadmap and business requirements that define Oracle's Agile Product Lifecycle Management, Oracle Product Hub, and Oracle Sales Configurator. Prior to joining Oracle, Mr. Gulati was vice president of product development at SpinCircuit Inc., a PLM electronics company founded by Cadence, HP, Flextronics, and Avnet. He also served as the founder and chief technology officer for eBizAutomation Inc., a company that was acquired by SpinCircuit. Early in his career, Mr. Gulati held senior consulting positions at Lucent Technologies and Dun & Bradstreet.

As Director of Core Industries, Richard Semmes has global responsibility for ENOVIA Solutions covering the Aerospace and Defense, Automotive, Industrial Equipment, and Shipbuilding industries. In this role, Mr. Semmes is responsible for defining and delivering best-in-class, industry-specific solutions that maximize out-of-the-box capability for the Core industries. Previous roles in Dassault Systemes include the global leader for ENOVIA strategy and Director of Lifecycle Applications development. Prior to joining Dassault Systemes in 2000, Mr. Semmes worked at Lockheed Martin Aeronautical Systems Company in Marietta, GA, for six years, and was responsible for the deployment of Product Data Management (PDM) solutions. He has also served as an Aerospace Engineer in the United States Air Force, Aeronautical Systems Division, supporting both the F22 and B2 Programs. Mr. Semmes holds an Aerospace and Ocean Engineering degree from Virginia Tech and has authored various publications in the field of aerospace propulsion systems and computational fluid dynamics.

Carl joined Schlumberger as a Project Manager in March of 2006 as part of a technology acquisition. Previous to joining he worked with Hyprotech, AEA, Aspen Technology, Esso and Rio Algom. Carl has held many product development and management positions in mining, oil & gas production, and refining domains; led information management programs; managed field operations. He is currently a Portfolio Architect for Schlumberger in Upstream oil & gas, with a focus on economic and risk modeling.

Bill Neuman, a Director of Product Management at PTC, has nearly twenty years of experience in engineering, manufacturing, and software development. In his current role, Mr. Neuman is responsible for architecture and technical direction, as well as enterprise integration strategy, for the Windchill product line. Prior to joining PTC, he was a key leader at auxilium inc., a privately held provider of web-based integration software that was acquired by PTC in 1999. auxilium was best known for its pioneering work in composite applications years before their popular acceptance. He has also served in several engineering and program management roles at Ford Motor Company, launching some of the world’s best-selling vehicle lines.

Konrad Schütte is a lead Program Manager with the International Process and IT Consolidation programs at Nokia Siemens Networks, in which his area of operations includes strategic consulting and implementation of projects to consolidate Value Chain Business Processes and to integrate the business locations of Siemens and Nokia. It is also part of his responsibility to redefine the strategic alignment of the Offer-To-Cash value chain process. In his position of Program Manager he is in charge of reporting professionally to the group executive management of operations. While Konrad is also a member of the steering board of reorganization of the customer processes, a member of the Operations Business Excellence administration circuit and a member of the Process and IT Consolidation Management Team, he still finds the time to initiate social projects. Prior to joining Nokia Siemens Networks he was lead program manager at the Siemens AG for Product Data Management, which was a worldwide cross-functional business program in the Communication Mobile Networks division. Konrad has over 20 years experience in development, planning and implementation in the entire Supply Chain Management and Product Lifecycle Management sector. During his 8 years working for the Siemens AG, Konrad held various leading positions in which he supervised international project teams with up to 250 members, while developing new management strategies and End-To-End processes. Throughout his career he took several additional leadership courses for executives at the MIT in Boston, Stanford University and the University of Shanghai.

Stephen has held various senior positions at Please Mum, a premier children’s wear retailer based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Currently, as the Vice President, Corporate Development at Please Mum, Stephen leads the Finance function, new corporate initiatives and local and international business opportunities. Please Mum is currently undergoing aggressive store expansions throughout Canada. The Company’s vertical set up allows them to design, source, distribute and retail their private label brands. Stephen has over 20 years of financial and executive management experience in the retail and hospitality industry. He has led teams in Finance and Treasury, Information Systems, Marketing, Supply Chain and Human Resources. Stephen holds a degree in management accounting with the Certified Management Accountants (CMA) and serves on the board of several organizations serving the non-profit and educational sectors. Through the CMA, he also works with business graduates in areas of Strategy, Leadership and Operations.