CSCO Summit 15th & 16th June 2010

Omar Khan is Chief Strategy Officer & SVP of Products and Services for Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile). Khan is responsible for developing Samsung Mobile’s business strategies for wireless handsets, infrastructure and business communications systems. Additionally, Khan has oversight of technology, content & services and products.

Prior to joining Samsung, Khan spent eight years at Motorola, where he most recently held the role of Vice President, Global Supply Chain for the Mobile Devices Business. In this role, he managed business operations in 36 countries.

Khan has been recognized by Crain’s Business Magazine as a “40 under 40”. This award recognizes 40 talented leaders under the age of 40 in various industries and professions including technology, financial services, politics, entertainment, etc.

Khan holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Khan completed his graduate work at the Sloan School of Management in the field of System Dynamics.

Jon Giacomin is executive vice president of Pharmaceutical Operations, a position he has held since July 2008. He is responsible for efficient and responsive warehouse operations at 24 distribution centers, cost-effective inventory management and inventory optimisation strategies, the national logistics center, pharmaceutical repackaging and operational excellence. Previously, Jon served as senior vice president of Inventory Management for the Healthcare Supply Chain Services segment, a position he held for two years. Jon joined Cardinal Health in the Pharmaceutical Repackaging business and served as its vice president and general manager before being promoted to regional vice president of Pharmaceutical Distribution for the Pacific North region.

Jon began his career in the Navy, where he spent five years in engineering roles. Afterwards, Jon worked for Griffith Micro Science and Sterigenics, holding a number of positions of increasing responsibility including project engineer and vice president of Operations. Jon holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame and a master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Chicago.

As Corporate Vice President of Motorola Mobile Devices supply chain organisation, Mike Fleming oversees several end-to-end value chain responsibilities, including procurement, new product introduction, manufacturing, customer fulfillment and overall supply chain business operations. Prior to being appointed to his current position, Fleming was Corporate Vice President of Mobile Devices supply chain business operations (SCBO). Responsibilities included supply chain demand and supply planning, customer and distribution operations and overall supply chain delivery, cost and inventory performance for the business.

Fleming, a 20-year veteran of Motorola, has held numerous leadership positions throughout his tenure at the company.  Mike has provided supply chain business operations leadership for two other significant businesses within Motorola, namely the Government & Public Safety (G&PS) business and the Networks and Enterprise (N&E) business.

Before his diverse experiences in supply chain business operations, Mike was vice president of electronic manufacturing services/original design manufacturer (EMS/ODM) operations, where he was directed to establish and lead the EMS and ODM operations for Motorola’s worldwide businesses. Responsibilities included defining and executing a new global operational model to more effectively manage all manufactured subassemblies and final products to Motorola and its customers.

Mike has worked in a variety of supply chain management roles focused on new product and manufacturing technologies, multi-plant management and regional supply chain operations – including transformation efforts that led to increased outsourcing and the consolidation of our Americas manufacturing footprint for the former G&PS business.

Active in the community with organisations such as the United Way, Mike has both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

As EVP and Chief Supply Chain Officer for LG Electronics, Didier has worldwide responsibility for Global Supply Chain Management for the Company. He is based in Seoul, Korea.

Prior to joining LG in 2008, Didier was VP of Americas Operations for HP’s Imaging and Printing Business. He was based in San Diego, USA. He also worked in Europe running the HP’s Consumer PC Business and in various managerial Financial and Operations roles. Prior to joining HP, Didier worked for Caterpillar.

Didier is a Board Member of EPC Global.

Didier Chenneveau is a native of France and citizen of Switzerland, and Alumni from EM-Lyon and INSEAD.

Angel Mendez is Senior Vice President of Customer Value Chain Management at Cisco. He leads a global organization responsible for accelerating innovation and value for Cisco customers and ensuring that they have an unrivalled, end-to-end experience. This includes responsibility for customer service and support operations, corporate quality and quality management, collaborative planning and new product introduction, sourcing and supplier management, manufacturing, order management, delivery, and product reuse and recycling.

Mendez brings more than 24 years of management experience to Cisco, along with proven expertise in developing and implementing comprehensive strategies to improve operations and supply chain performance. Prior to Cisco, he served as Senior Vice President of Global Operations for PalmOne Inc., where his operational excellence and transformation program fuelled the company’s turnaround and return to profitability.

A graduate of General Electric’s Manufacturing Management Program, Mendez served 11 years with GE in increasingly responsible manufacturing and supply-chain management assignments. At Allied Signal he led the aerospace sector’s international sourcing operation and later led supply-chain efforts at Aerospace Equipment Systems, then AlliedSignal’s largest business unit. While at Citigroup, he served as a division executive for global procurement, leading the consolidation of supply-chain management activities during the merger of Citicorp and Travelers Group. At Gateway Inc. he was responsible for global supply-chain management, facilitating operational improvements by upgrading the supply-chain organization, improving supplier quality, and implementing Six Sigma.

Mendez’s business background includes extensive international business experience in Canada, Europe, Latin America, and Asia. He was named by Business 2.0 Magazine to the “Business 2.0 Dream Team—All Star Executives any Company Would Kill For.” In 2005, Hispanic Business Magazine placed him on its list of the “20 Most Influential Hispanic Executives in Corporate America.” He was also recently named on MACSA’s list of the “100 Most Influential Latinos in Silicon Valley.”

Mendez serves on the board of directors of the Supply Chain Management Institute at the University of San Diego and the Lafayette College Board of Trustees. He is also a member of the board of directors at Springboard Forward, a Silicon Valley-based non-profit organization dedicated to deploying innovative coaching and career development programs for low wage earners. A native of Cuba, Mendez holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Lafayette College and a master’s degree in business administration from the Crummer School at Rollins College.

Kenneth Schmidt is the Vice President and CIO of Carlsberg, a position he has held since 2008. His areas of responsibility include implementing a one shared Business Operating Model across Europe, overseeing the current outsourcing setup with IBM and glocalising the IT Organisation.

Prior to his role at Carlsberg, Kenneth was the Senior Vice President and CIO of Danfoss in Denmark. Some of his areas of focus included IT operation within Danfoss Globally and establishing and running the Danfoss Policy deployment Framework.

He was appointed as CIO and Executive Vice-President ICT at DSM on the 1^st of January 2008. Before joining DSM he was CIO of Royal Numico from 2004. Prior to Numico Aloys has been in several roles within Unilever in IT (amongst other in the Nordics), Merger-activities and Logistics. He also worked for KPN from 1992 to 1999 in diverse roles and functions.

Aloys is a Dutch national and graduated at the Technical University Delft (Electrical Engineering), Nyenrode University (Business Economics) and Rochester University, NY (Executive MBA program, cum laude).

Aloys received the CIO of the Year Award in 2007, the ICT Executive of the Year Award in 2008 and is member of CIO Platform Nederland, member of Advisory Board CIOnet and member of the Research Board.

Nari Viswanathan is Vice President and Principal Analyst for the Aberdeen Group’s Supply Chain Management Practice. Nari is a well recognized industry expert with extensive experience across industry analysis, market research, product management/marketing, consulting, solution design/development and presales. Nari has gained industry recognition as a Pro to Know by Supply Demand Chain Executive Magazine for two years 2008 and 2010. Nari has also published extensively in trade publications like Supply Chain Management Review, Supply Chain Brain, Supply Demand Chain Executive, Internet Retailer as well as leading business publications including Industry Week, CIO, Business Week etc.

Nari Viswanathan heads up the Supply Chain Management practice and counsels enterprises on their supply chain planning strategies in areas such as Integrated Business Planning, Sales and Operations Planning, Demand Management, Inventory Management, Network Design, and customer/ supplier collaboration with specific emphasis on financial performance. Nari also covers the Software as a Service, B2B collaboration and process integration coverage areas. Nari manages the SCM research team, and possesses a very strong holistic understanding of areas like Transportation Management Systems, Warehouse Management Systems and Distributed Order Management.

Nari has published over 40 benchmark reports which have been downloaded by more than 50,000 supply chain executives and professionals. In addition Nari has published over 100 articles in aberdeen.com covering the blend of people, processes, and technologies needed to achieve organizational transformation.

Nari is a highly sought after presenter having lectured at leading events such as CSCMP, APICS, SCMWorld as well as conducted more than 50 webinars covering a wide range of topics. He is a trusted advisor to Chief Supply Chain Officers who rely on his research as well as advisory for taking technology purchasing and process improvement decisions. Solution providers rely on Nari’s unique in-depth understanding on solutions and how they map to customer requirements. Nari’s in-depth hands on background in product management and consulting makes him uniquely positioned to provide significant value to his advisory clients.

Nari’s current role at Aberdeen includes creating a research agenda for the SCM practice for a rolling period of 18 months, vetting and finalizing the research calendar, supporting advisory clients, developing benchmark reports, developing an enterprise advisory council and advising on vendor go to market strategies. A special focus for Nari is Industry Vertical research. Key vertical industries managed within the practice include Discrete (Automotive, Industrial Equipment, Aerospace and Defense), Process (Chemicals/Pharmaceuticals, Metals, Oil, Gas), Consumer Industries (Apparel, Footwear, Consumer Packaged Goods, Consumer Durables, Retail, Distribution), High-tech sector (Computer Equipment and Peripherals, Semiconductors).

Previous to joining Aberdeen Group, Nari was a senior product manager at i2 Technologies. The product that Nari was managing won the prestigious Automotive News PACE™ (Premier Automotive Suppliers’ Contributions to Excellence) Award for product innovation. Past experience includes a multi-year change management and IT enablement initiative at a large automotive manufacturer in Asia and process re-engineering of a large North American distribution network. Nari possess work experience that spans consulting engagements in 4 continents and 8 different countries that makes him a truly hands-on global and multi-cultural professional. Nari holds a masters degree in manufacturing systems engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Nari also holds a mechanical engineering degree from the world renowned Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

Paul is the Global Industrial Sector Executive for Business Analytics at IBM Software Group. He is responsible for driving market strategy, aligning solutions with target markets, and helping manufacturing users derive value from IBM Cognos applications.

With over 25 years experience helping manufacturers tackle business and technology issues, Paul’s understanding of Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP), supply chain performance, inventory management, production, and demand and fulfillment challenges enables him to assist IBM customers to realize the efficiencies and returns Performance Management solutions deliver. He has senior management experience with a number of application software vendors, and has held materials management positions in industry. His experience includes the areas of ERP, supply chain management, and labor management solutions. His roles include general manager, and senior sales, support, materials, marketing, and product management positions.

Prior to joining IBM, Paul was a Vice President at Kronos, Inc. where was responsible for Kronos’ $100 million manufacturing industry division. Paul also held the position of Vice President of Product Management at Pivotpoint, Inc. a start-up organization that launched one of the first client/server ERP product offerings for the midrange manufacturing market.

Paul is a frequent speaker on manufacturing industry topics. He holds a BA degree from The College of The Holy Cross in Worcester, MA.

Reuben Slone joined OfficeMax in November 2004 as executive vice president, supply chain. He is responsible for inventory management, supply chain operations, real estate, and store development. Slone was most recently vice president, global supply chain for Whirlpool Corporation where he led the transformation of Whirlpool’s supply chain over the past four years. Prior to joining Whirlpool, Slone held various executive positions with General Motors in global supply chain, ebusiness, product development, manufacturing, and information technology. Before joining General Motors, Slone led global strategy, distribution, and information technology for Federal-Mogul. Prior to joining Federal-Mogul, Slone spent almost ten years in management consulting with Ernst & Young and EDS/AT Kearny.

Slone received a B.S. in engineering from the University of Michigan in 1984 where he graduated cum laude. In 1985 he received a Graduate Fellowship in Mechanical Engineering.

Slone has been widely recognized for his achievements in supply chain. Harvard Business Review published two of his articles: Are You the Weakest Link in your Supply Chain? in September 2007; and Leading a Supply Chain Turnaround in October 2004. Harvard Business Publishing is publishing his book, The New Supply Chain Agenda, based on the former article in MAY 2010.

Mark Woodward is responsible for leading E2open’s overall operations, including the company’s growth strategy, solutions roadmaps, and customer success efforts.

Mark served as President and CEO of Serena Software. He joined Serena pre-IPO in 1998 as the Vice President of America’s Sales, was promoted to Vice President Worldwide Operations and within a year was promoted to President/CEO. In this leadership capacity, Mark grew the company from under $50 million to $300 million with a 40%+ operating margin and one of the highest revenue per employee ratio’s in the industry. In 2006, Mark took Serena private in a deal worth $1.3 billion, the largest pure software LBO ever done.

Prior to his seven year tenure at Serena, Mr. Woodward was the SVP of Sales and Marketing at Live Picture where he was recruited by John Scully and the CEO to build the business model and the sales and marketing team for this pre-IPO start-up. During his year with the company he created a multi-channel sales organization comprised of direct and indirect sales channels and grew annual revenues from $3mil to $14mil.

Prior to Live Picture, Mr. Woodward was the VP of Sales and Operations at McAfee Associates where he championed a multi-channel sales strategy which grew license revenues organically from $60 million to $310 million.

Mr. Woodward brings over 30 years of technology industry experience focused on sales/marketing and general management. He attended UCLA and serves as a member of the Board of Regents for Archbishop Mitty High School in San Jose, CA.

As Group VP of Supply Chain Research for Gartner Research, Kevin brings a unique blend of intellectual prowess, practical business experience, and energy to Gartner’s clients. Prior to this position he was the Chief Strategy Officer for AMR Research. During his nearly seven years with the firm, Kevin has worked with hundreds of companies on manufacturing, product lifecycle management (PLM), and supply chain strategy.

Kevin launched AMR Research’s PLM practice, and is a seminal author on PLM, having been included in over 100 articles defining the application’s footprint, business impact, and market dynamics. He has also contributed to the firm’s definition and coverage of demand-driven supply networks (DDSN), having authored several reports, including the AMR Research Supply Chain Top 25, defining the link to business operating metrics. He was named an AMR Research Fellow in 2002.

Prior to joining AMR Research, Kevin worked on supply chain projects in a variety of industries including telecommunications, semiconductors, and chemicals. As a vice president at Oracle Corporation, Kevin focused on supply chain and product data management strategy. He spent several years with Gemini Consulting, now part of Ernst & Young (GCE&Y), working with manufacturing companies on supply chain and product strategy. He worked with Mercer Consulting in London and Company Assistance Limited in Warsaw earlier in his career.

A graduate of Boston College, Oxford University, and Stanford Business School, Kevin frequently speaks at industry events and executive conferences, where he is noted for his dynamic and engaging style. He is a widely published author and has been quoted in numerous business publications including The Financial Times, Fortune, BusinessWeek and The Wall Street Journal.

John Sicard has spent over 15 years helping build a number of key functional areas at Kinaxis™. Having started as a key contributor to the architecture and develop of Kinaxis supply chain management solutions in early 1994, he soon went on to hold senior management roles in development, professional services, business consulting, and customer support.

His deep exposure to software technology coupled with his hands on application of it with large manufacturers, such as Honeywell, Jabil Circuit, Raytheon, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Research in Motion (RIM) and many others, has resulted in a unique practitioners perspective on how manufacturers have regained control over an increasing volatile supply chain.

John oversees the design & development of the Kinaxis on-demand service as well as those teams responsible for its deployment and support. In the Fall of 2009, John’s leadership role was further expanded to include the company’s corporate and product marketing functions, which enables the company to benefit from a fully integrated and coordinated process for establishing the RapidResponse™ vision and taking it to market.

Before Kinaxis, John held senior software architect positions in research and development at Enterprise Planning Systems, FastMAN Software Systems, Inc (also known as Promira before being purchased by Manugistics), and Monenco Agra.

John earned a Bachelor of Computer Science, from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, with a strong focus on software architecture and UI Design.

Arpad is the Vice President of IT Supply Chain Solutions at Celestica.  Arpad brings a unique blend of IT executive leadership and strategic business transformation and operations experience. He has spent the last 15 years helping high-tech companies to maximize value from IT investments and successfully deliver global transformation initiatives. He managed IT operations, implemented global enterprise solutions, developed IT and business strategies for emerging market growth and value added service operations. 

Prior to joining Celestica, Arpad worked for Global Beverage Manufacturer. As transformational leader, he helped the company to develop an effective IT operating model to reduce cost and increase responsiveness of the ‘global shared service organization’. He lead the ‘IT Value Assessment’ effort that helped to develop a cost baseline for all key IT applications and identified areas of support cost reduction, and applied SCM principles to increase the effectiveness of their global development and support operations.

At Sony-Ericsson, Arpad was the supply chain solution leader. He helped Sony Ericsson to develop a global commercial strategy to increase market share in high-growth markets and enable profitable growth. Arpad helped Sony Ericsson to develop tailored fulfillment models and differentiated service offerings to high-growth and mature markets to optimize cost-to-serve and improve profitability. He reduced fulfillment time in Indonesia from 20+ days to consistent 7 days and reduced channel inventory by 14 days.

At Motorola, he was the supply chain solution leader and business architect of the $35M Global Supply Chain Transformation initiative. He lead the global implementation of Collaborative Planning and Forecasting, Advanced Global Planning and Flexible Fulfillment Execution Solutions. He helped the process reengineering effort at Fort-worth Customer Fulfillment Center to enable rapid ramp-up of operations and to become the highest performing DC for the company within 12 months. Arpad lead the ‘Supply Chain Value Assessment’ effort that helped to develop operational baseline for the companies newly established Supply Chain Service operation.

John O’Connor is Director of Value Chain Solutions & Resiliency Management at Cisco Systems, Inc. The Value Chain Solutions team’s charter is to accelerate speed to market and profitable growth for Cisco by proactively identifying & enabling new value chains.

John also leads the Value Chain Resiliency team that drives the identification, categorization, mitigation and measurement of value chain risk. His responsibilities include Crisis management, Product Resiliency, Supply Chain Resiliency and Risk Analytics.

John has over 15 years of supply chain experience.  John started his career working in IBM, New York.  John was Director of Global Procurement & Business Transformation.  Following IBM, John moved to California, where he was Vice President of Manugistics’s Pricing & Revenue Optimization business unit, and then joined Vivecon Corp. as Vice President responsible for their Supply Chain Risk Management practice.

John serves as the Chairperson for the Supply Chain Risk Leadership Council and sits on Cisco’s Enterprise Risk Management Council. He speaks at industry conferences on supply chain risk management.  John received his JD, MBA and M.S. in Information Systems from Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ) and his B.A from Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI).

Daniel Cotti is the Global Trade Executive for J.P. Morgan Treasury Services. Responsible for the day-to-day management of J.P. Morgan’s global trade business and for setting and executing the global strategy for J.P. Morgan’s trade and supply chain offerings, Daniel Cotti is a highly credentialed global trade, international cash management and banking executive with more than thirty years of financial services experience.

Before joining J.P. Morgan, he headed the combined RBS/ABN AMRO global trade finance business following the merger between RBS and ABN AMRO Bank. He previously headed global products for ABN AMRO’s transaction banking unit, responsible for the bank’s worldwide trade and supply chain and global treasury and investment management businesses. Mr. Cotti began his career at Swiss Bank Corp. and served afterwards at Citibank in London and Switzerland in various product and relationship management roles.

Enrico Camerinelli is a Senior Analyst for Corporate Banking for Celent, based in Europe. His current research focuses are on Global Transaction Banking, Supply Chain Finance and Working Capital Management.

Prior to joining Celent, Enrico was an independent analyst and advisor to organizations such as the Supply Chain Council.

He has previously held the position of VP for Enterprise Applications at META Group- a research company.

He also covered the position of pre-sales marketing manager at J.D. Edwards and before that he worked in the industry as Supply Chain and Plant Manager.

Steve Keifer is the Vice President of Industry and Product Marketing for GXS.  Steve has responsibility for marketing and positioning the entire GXS product line ranging from EDI services for SMBs to B2B e-commerce outsourcing solutions for enterprises.

In addition, Steve leads the strategy and marketing for GXS’ vertical industry programs.  In the retail sector, Steve has spearheaded marketing efforts for GXS’ data synchronization services.  In the manufacturing sector, he has driven programs to target the fast growing Chinese market with B2B e-commerce solutions.   Most recently, Steve led the development of GXS financial services strategy, launching several solutions for supply chain finance and cash management.  Steve maintains a popular blog entitled EDInomics (http://blogs.gxs.com/keifers) in which he discusses news, trends and strategies for B2B e-Commerce.

Greg Johnsen is executive vice president and co-founder of GT Nexus. He has more than twenty years of sales, marketing and product management experience with Silicon Valley technology companies. He has spent the last ten years focused on supply chain and logistics, working with hundreds of leading companies to drive sustainable improvements in global sourcing, transportation management, inventory control and a range of international operations.

Prior to GT Nexus he was with Scopus Technology, an early leader in the customer relationship management software domain. He began his career at Ingres Corporation, a pioneer in relational database technology. Mr. Johnsen has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of California at Davis.

Peter is vice president and chief information officer (CIO) of Matson Navigation Company in Oakland, California. Matson’s transportation offerings span the globe from Shanghai to Savannah and encompass everything from providing a vital lifeline to the island economies of Hawaii, Guam and Micronesia to delivering a wide range of multi-modal services throughout North America. Founded in 1882, Matson is a wholly owned subsidiary of Honolulu-based Alexander & Baldwin, Inc. (NYSE: ALEX).

Weis has over 25 years of IT experience in the fields of transportation, logistics and supply chain management. As Matson’s CIO since 2003, Weis is responsible for driving the company’s IT strategy, ensuring that maximum value is achieved for both tactical and strategic IT investments.  He continues to lead Matson’s multi-year strategic IT investment cycle, which is aimed at refreshing Matson’s entire applications portfolio in order to enable business growth, reduce costs, and eliminate technology risks. Weis also provides IT services for Matson’s two subsidiaries, Matson Integrated Logistics and Matson Terminals.

From 2000 to 2003, Weis was vice president of products at GT Nexus, a provider of transportation management and supply chain software solutions targeting Fortune 500 global enterprises, ocean carriers, and service providers. His responsibilities included analyzing target markets, setting product development strategy, defining and designing new products, and working with the sales team and key accounts on strategic opportunities.

From 1985 to 2000, Weis worked for APL in a number of key IT positions, the last five of which were spent as vice president and chief information officer, APL Logistics. As CIO of APL Logistics, Weis had worldwide responsibility for the company’s IT organization supporting nearly 1,000 global users in 100 offices. He also led the building of its technology vision and strategy, including new products, alliance relationships, and revenue opportunities. Prior to this CIO role, Weis held a number of increasingly senior positions, including senior director, APL business information systems. This position involved worldwide support for all of APL’s applications and over 3,000 users, in a mainframe and client/server environment.

Prior to joining APL, Weis held technical positions with General Electric Consulting, Charles Schwab & Co., and Dow Chemical Corp.

Weis was a 2009 recipient of the Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leaders award. He is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley and holds an MBA with Honors from the Wharton School.

Douglas sits on the European Leadership Team of the Supply Chain Council and is Certified SCOR® Trainer and adjunct faculty at the International University of Monaco and France’s ESC Lille – School of Management.

As eKNOWtion’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Supply Chain Operations Excellence practice leader, Douglas has over twenty years of experience focused on the development, marketing and deployment of tailored supply chain solutions for companies across a wide variety of industry sectors.

Before joining eKNOWtion, Douglas was a Principal Consultant of management consultants Pittiglio Rabin Todd & McGrath (PRTM) and formerly served as the Vice President for the Integrated Material Services division of Avnet Inc.

Douglas is an MBA graduate from Pepperdine University’s School of Management and studied at Harvard University during his post-graduate years. Douglas is also a frequent lecturer and author of many Supply Chain articles. Through formalized business process reengineering techniques, Douglas drives Operations Excellence by utilising the Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) model as the baseline for many improvement activities ranging from the initial diagnostic, through re-engineering and change management, benchmarking and continuing education. His approach stems from the unique combination of experiences as a successful practitioner, consultant and educator of Supply Chain best practices.

Gerard O’Neill is the Head of Marketing, Global Commerce for BT Global Services. He is responsible for marketing BT Global Services to the manufacturing sector. 

A regular contributor to the sector press, Ged works with clients to improve the effectiveness of their business processes by increasing the efficiency with which they collaborate.  Prior to BT Ged spent sixteen years with Hewlett Packard EMEA in a variety of roles that included business unit management, acquisition integration and marketing.