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Conference Speakers

Bruce Stuart – ChannelCorp

Bruce R. Stuart, CMC is the President of ChannelCorp Management Consultants Inc.

Established in 1989, ChannelCorp is a global management consulting firm that specializes in increasing the productivity of vendors' channels, and the value of the businesses of IT vendors' channel partners. The clients of ChannelCorp sell in excess of $300 Billion worth of computer and telecommunications hardware, software, peripherals and services annually.

Mr. Stuart is a Certified Management Consultant (CMC) with experience in the computer markets of over forty countries. He has authored in excess of 300 published articles and written ten books on the topics of channel partner profitability, channel development, channel management, and strategic partnerships and alliances. He has completed Management Consulting and Executive Education assignments throughout the world. He is acknowledged as an international expert in the areas of channel strategy optimization and channel partner profitability improvement in the global IT industry.

Bruce Stuart is a much sought after consultant and speaker at vendor kickoffs and reseller conferences.

 

Bruce Stuart
President

ChannelCorp Management Consultants

Invest to Grow

Fire tests, Iceburgs, and Ecosystems


Didier Chenneveau – Hewlett-Packard

As VP and General Manager of Operations for HP’s Imaging and Printing Business, Didier has responsibility for Americas manufacturing, product completion operations, distribution, reverse supply chain, order management and all associated supply chain processes and developments. He is based in San Diego., CA.

Didier Chenneveau joined HP in 1989 as Finance & Treasury manager at HP's European headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. He moved to Santa Clara, California in 1994 and was named Controller in 1996 and then subsequently Worldwide IT Manager for HP’s Home Product Division in Cupertino. In 1998 Chenneveau was promoted to General Manager of Home PC's European Operation and returned to France. He returned to the US in 2001 as VP of Consumer Operations before moving to his current role.

A native of France, Chenneveau worked for Caterpillar prior to joining HP.



 

Didier Chenneveau VP, Operations, Imaging and Printing Americas

Hewlett-Packard

Using RFID Today and Tomorrow


Julie Thomas – ValueVision Associates

Julie has been in sales and sales management for over 19 years. Prior to joining ValueVision Associates, she was a long time client and utilized both ValueSelling and Victory! throughout her career. She has extensive experience applying, coaching, and reinforcing the ValueSelling Framework, Victory! and its application by sales executives and managers.

A noted public speaker, author, and consultant, Julie is also a member of The Strategic Account Management Association (SAMA) and eWomenNetwork.com. Julie holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Colorado, Boulder and lives in Rancho Santa Fe, CA.

 

Julie Thomas

President and CEO

ValueVision Associates

Creating the Need for Your Solution


David Schwartz – Jacquard Associates Inc.

David Schwartz is a leader in the effective application of proven, fundamental business performance improvement strategies.

David is the architect of the Four Success Threads™ approach to business improvement, which leads clients to focus on and develop the four primary threads of a strong business fabric: Customer Focus, Financial Discipline, Operational Speed, and Leadership Practice. Before establishing Jacquard Associates, David was president of an international division of General Instrument Corporation (now Motorola).

David is a popular speaker for business and industry organizations, and serves as a board member for several not-for-profit organizations, including the Lawndale Charter School and the Make-A-Wish Foundation, as well as various privately held corporations.





 


David Schwartz, Principal

Jacquard Associates Inc.

Focus on the Customer and Grow Your Sales

Panel Moderators

   

Standards That Will Impact
Your Business

Clive has been in the AIDC industry for 23 years, first as VP of R&D at Weber Marking Systems (1982-84) and then in various consultant and executive positions at Zebra Technologies since 1984, including VP of Corporate Development, VP of Marketing, VP of Market Development and then VP of Technology Development & Director of Patent Affairs.

Clive is a Charter Member of AIDC 100 industry honorary society and winner of the 1999 AIM Richard E. Dilling Award for lifetime contribution to the AIDC industry.

Panelists:

Sprague Ackley,
Intermec Technologies


Michael Guillory,
Philips Industrial Products


Craig Harmon,
QED Systems


Todd Humes,
Impinj


Rick Schuessler,
Symbol Technologies




 

Clive Hohberger
VP, Technology Development
Zebra Technologies

Compliance Underway –
What Comes Next?

Mark Roberti is the founder and editor of RFID Journal , a leading source of intelligent news and analysis about RFID and its many business applications. He has reported on business and technology since 1985. His work has appeared in Business 2.0, Fortune, The Asian Wall Street Journal, International Herald Tribune, The New York Times and many other publications.

Prior to launching RFID Journal he was senior writer at the Industry Standard. He has also served as managing editor of InformationWeek.

Panelists:

Lynn Butler,
Northrop Grumman


Dan Kimball,
SRA International


Brian Millsap,
Hampton Products


Daryl Remily,
The Boeing Company




 

Mark Roberti
Editor
RFID Journal

Analysts' Insight – Connecting Market Trends to Your Business Plan

 

Maurno's 20-year career in business and technology journalism includes stints at Raytheon, Genetics Institute, Factory Mutual, Lilly Software, and as a freelance writer for such publications as Inbound Logistics, RFID Operations and Manufacturing Business Technology.

Panelists:

Jeff Kessler ,
Lehman Brothers


Karthik Nagarajan,
Frost & Sullivan

Reik Read,
R.W. Baird & Co.




 

Dann Anthony Maurno
Senior Executive Editor
The Manufacturer



RFID and Privacy – The REAL Story

Dr. Stapleton-Gray served six years as an intelligence analyst and planning officer with the Central Intelligence Agency and Intelligence Community Management Staff, and in a variety of positions in academia, an industry trade association, and with several information security start-ups.

He currently supports several companies in areas including homeland and computer network security, and is an advisor to Cataphora, an electronic document discovery technology company.

Panelists:

Howard Beales,
CAP Analysis


Lee Tien,
Electronic Frontier Foundation


 

Ross Stapleton-Gray
President and Principal Analyst
Stapleton-Gray and Associates

RFID Interactive Case Studies

   
Dr. King is the current leader for global electronics strategies for Michelin. His activities heavily involve external electronics supplier relations as well as product development program support around the world.

Dr King has over 20 patents in the fields of Auto identification, RFID, Imaging, Lasers and Printing. He is a member of AIDC 100, AIM Global's REG and the Michelin representative to EPC.

 
 

Dr. Patrick F. King
Global Strategist
Michelin Americas

David has been on-staff with McCarran International Airport since 1993. He currently is the Manager of Airline Systems, which encompasses Common Use Airline Systems, Flight Information Display Systems, Common Use Self Service Kiosks, Traveler Information Prescreening Series, as well as all Help Desk and equipment maintenance functions.

David and McCarran are now heading up the Radio Frequency ID (RFID) project for McCarran's new in line baggage screening facilities.

 

David Bourgon
Airline Systems Manager
McCarran Airport

Rick is Director of Operations for NYK Logistics' largest customer, Target. He also leads NYK's RFID Task Force, which recently completed two successful RFID account implementations.

Prior to joining NYK in 2004, Rick was the RFID Implementation Project Leader for Mattel Inc and directed their participation in both the Wal*mart and Target pilots.
 

Rick Crawford
Director of Operations
NYK Logistics

Dave has been in Information Technologies for more than 20 years and in manufacturing for 10+ years. He joined Nancy's Specialty Foods in 1995 where he was tasked with upgrading highly customized ERP software back to standard “Vanilla” software.

Currently the IT manager at Nancy's, he manages all business process and system improvement initiatives.

 
 

Dave Siegfried
IS Manager
Nancy Foods

Yoshi is responsible for all of the transportation and logistics issues for Mitsui USA's branches offices and its subsidiary companies located in the West Coast and Gulf regions. He is also responsible for searching, testing and implementing new technologies to improve efficiencies of the flow of the goods, effectively enhance control over its supply chains and build a secure and safe trade operation.

His personal expertise as well as his logistics background is in BPM (Business Process Management) and BPE (Business Process Engineering). His interest for using RF technology is from the perspective to automate processes and gain accuracies within the flow of information.



 

Yoshi Kotsuka
Director, Transportation & Logistics
Mitsui USA

Gene has worked as a scientist at West Pharmaceutical since 1984 in various laboratory functions. For the past seven years, Polini has been a technical support representative helping clients apply West technologies to their products.

Polini earned a Bachelors of Science in Biology from Villanova University and a Masters of Science in Health Care Administration from St. Joseph's University.

 



 

Eugene Polini
Technical Customer Service
West Pharmaceutical

Dan Kimball is a Principal Consultant with SRA International and works as the Lead Technical Advisor to the DOD Logistics AIT Office. His primary responsibilities encompass representing DOD on the full scope of national and international standards committees dealing with all forms of AIDC from bar code symbologies to RFID and RTLS air interfaces.

He currently serves as Chairman INCITS T6 and Secretary to ISO/IEC SC31 WG5. Prior to working for DOD he preformed similar work in support of the Navy AIT Office in Mechanicsburg, PA.

 

Dan Kimball
Principal
SRA International


Brian is responsible for envisioning and executing his company's RFID technology and business-deployment strategy. Under his direction, Hampton Products voluntarily joined Wal-Mart's RFID compliance mandate.

Millsap joined Hampton Products in 1999 as IT Manager. During his 18-year career, Millsap has championed the use of information technology to bring efficiency to a variety of business enterprises.

 

Brian Millsap
VP and CIO
Hampton Products International



Daryl is currently Deputy Program Manager for the Boeing Commercial Airplane Radio Frequency Identification Program. His 25 years of professional experience includes commercial and military aerospace programs.

Remily is on staff for the Reliability, Maintainability, and Testability Engineering department. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree and is a member of the Society of Reliability Engineers and the Society of Logistics Engineers.

 
 

Daryl Remily
Deputy Program Manager
The Boeing Company

     
     
     

 

 
 
   
   
 
 

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