2005 CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

At iSuppli, Joe directs research and consulting on the design, manufacture, and consumption of electronics in two of the world's fastest growing markets: China and India. His emphasis on business performance has enabled a number of iSuppli clients to expand their market positions, lower their material costs, and more effectively manage their Asia-based resources.

Before joining iSuppli, Joe was based in Hong Kong where he served as the vice president of strategic marketing for Avnet Asia. There, he launched a successful pan-Asia business unit, which exceeded $100 million in annual revenues during its second year of operation.

In his current role, Bassett leads Solectron's Environmental Compliance team, overseeing the development and implementation of the company's RoHS/WEEE deployment strategy and rollout. He is responsible for managing a cross-functional organization that includes sales, marketing, design, engineering, environmental affairs, materials, operations and repair services efforts in support of Solectron's Environmental Compliance group.

Before joining Solectron, Bassett served in several senior managerial positions with IBM Corporation's offices in Austin, Texas, and Poughkeepsie, N.Y. While in Austin, Bassett re-engineered many of the company's NPI process, which resulted in improved design for manufacturability and time to market for several IBM PC product lines. He also supported the introduction of several ThinkPad product family lines and high-end commercial desktop/work station products. Bassett worked at IBM's Poughkeepsie office for 16 years, holding management positions in manufacturing and engineering in support of manufacturing technology used in IBM's high-end mainframe product lines.

Until August 2005 Bisgrove managed the Office of Program Management in the ISTG Supply Network CAM and was responsible for planning and delivering critical supply demand programs. He has worked for Intel for 19 years and prior to joining ISTG in 2001, he held roles in Fab Capital Equipment Development (FCED) and Components Automation Systems (CAS).

During his career, Karl has held supply chain leadership roles at leading companies across a variety of high technology arenas: Karl was the Director of Collaborative Planning at Converge (high technology supply chain management consortium). Before Converge, Karl spent nine years in the semiconductor industry, most recently as the Director of Supply Chain & Data Systems for LSI Logic. Karl holds a master's degree in business administration from Colorado State University.

In 1991, Mr. Carroll was named senior planner, responsible for worldwide supply and demand of the IBM S/390 mainframe computer. Followed by the position of site inventory manager, where he received the IBM Corporate Technical Achievement Award for his efforts in re-engineering the worldwide S/390 manufacturing process. In 1993, Mr. Carroll was assigned the responsibility of establishing a worldwide supply chain logistics division for the recently announced Thinkpad laptop brand within the IBM PC Company. Shortly after, Mr. Carroll moved to Raleigh, where he assumed responsibility for all of North America's Thinkpad operations, which included several functional level management assignments, ranging from materials operations to plant operations, along with providing functional guidance to the IBM's Guadalajara, Mexico manufacturing facility. At the end of 1998, Mr. Carroll was named director of global sales operations for the IBM Personal Systems Group (PSG), responsible for establishing global account management, as well as the starting-up a logistics model to support a direct relationship with IBM clients. In January 2002, Mr. Carroll was named Vice President of the newly established Integrated Supply Chain division with supply chain responsibility for all of IBM's for PSG and IBM xSeries eServer products, reporting to Bob Moffat, Senior Vice President, Integrated Supply Chain. Most recently, Mr. Carroll was responsible for managing more than 2,500 employees and contractors in the supply chain divestiture of IBM's PSG to Lenovo. The final changeover on April 29 was the most complex in IBM's history, shifting more than 11,000 employees in 66 countries to Lenovo.

Mr. Carroll graduated with a BA from SUNY Oswego with a degree in Information Science and a minor in Economics.

During his eight year tenure at CSCC, Russ has served the firm as an auditor, account manager, client development manager and the director of client services. He has also been an integral member of the CSCC and STR strategic management committee since helping implement the CSCC merger with STR Corp. in 1999. Prior to joining CSCC, Russ worked for several large and small firms in general management, finance, marketing and sales.

After one year as a buyer for the Sperry Univac Corporation, Mark joined the O'Donnell Associates North Corporation in late 1979 where he has been ever since. In 1991 Mark completed his purchase of O'Donnell North, becoming President of the company at the same time. During his tenure, sales for the company have grown by 20% annually. O'Donnell Associates North, Inc. is a manufacturer's representative firm based in Silicon Valley focusing on electro-mechanical and passive interconnect product lines. The company employs 13 people today and is one of the larger rep companies in Silicon Valley.

Mark is active in the National ERA (Electronic Representatives Association) supporting many venues. He serves on the National Board of Directors for ERA and has been a co-chair of the annual ERA National Conference for the past three years. Mark is active in the local chapter of ERA and is also an active member on the Board of Directors of EDS (Electronic Distribution Show).

Chris comes to iSuppli with over 14 years of experience in technology and consumer marketing. Most recently he was the Manager of Market Research for Cypress Semiconductor. He held key positions with GTE Wireless and Kyocera, where he founded a market research group and established a successful consumer products business. Chris has also worked as an independent consultant specializing in market analysis.

Chris has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and an MBA from Duke University.

Mark also worked for American Microsystems Inc., now known as AMIS. His experience there included engineering-related work ranging from mask design, R & D process development, to a stint as a product engineer in the silicon foundry group.

Mark holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Marketing from San Jose State University.

These Principles are a blend of IBM's internal policies, internationally recognized standards, and industry best practices. Under Mr. Gabriel's leadership, the program has rapidly been deployed to its suppliers. In addition, he has played a lead role in the dialog with clients, nongovernmental organizations, and industry leaders regarding IBM's efforts in this area, including representing IBM in the creation of the Electronics Industry initiative to create a standard Code of Conduct. Prior to this appointment, Mr. Gabriel managed the Global Procurement Communications group, which included stakeholder engagement on matters involving procurement and environmental affairs.

For six years, Mr. Gabriel managed one of IBM's Commodity Councils, responsible for the global sourcing of all mechanical elements (sheet metal, mechanical assemblies, plastics, and decorative coatings). He was involved in the development of the industry's first desktop personal computer using 100% recycled engineering-grade plastics for all its main structural elements. In addition, he helped to implement the application of environmentally friendly decorative powder paint coatings across IBM's hardware lines.
Mr. Gabriel holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Union College (Schenectady, NY), and a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Drexel University (Philadelphia, PA).

Bonnie has particular expertise in sustainability and stakeholder outreach including providing strategic management for communication activities including negotiation, supplier relationship management, organizational development training and change management. Ms Nixon is published in "Navigating Rough Waters - Ethical Issues in the Water Industry."

Before founding Technology Forecasters, Inc., in 1987, Ms. Gordon was a senior analyst at Gnostic Concepts, Inc., an electronics industry market research firm. Ms. Gordon is a Certified Management Consultant by the Institute of Management Consultants, and was Chair of the IMC's Northern California chapter. A prolific author, Ms. Gordon has written nearly 200 articles for trade and business journals. Ms. Gordon is also quoted in more than 50 journals and newspapers, is a popular guest lecturer at universities, and is regularly interviewed on radio and television regarding outsourcing and profitable, environmental business practices. She is a Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society graduate from San Jose State University.

Professor Lee has consulted extensively for companies such as Hewlett-Packard Company, SUN Microsystems, Apple Computer, IBM, General Motors, Xilinx Corp., Accenture, Eli Lilly and Company, McKesson, Motorola, and LG Electronics. He is on the board and advisory board of several supply chain software, semiconductor, and apparel manufacturing companies.

Professor Lee obtained his B.Soc.Sc. degree in Economics and Statistics from the University of Hong Kong, his M.Sc. degree in Operational Research from the London School of Economics, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Operations Research from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Prior to founding iSuppli, Derek was CEO of International Rectifier, a leading power semiconductor company. His 22-year career at IR commenced in 1977 as a production engineer. Subsequently, he served as Vice President of Operations, and in 1985 was promoted to Executive Vice President for Marketing and Administration. In 1989, he became President of IR's Power Products Division, was elected to the Board of Directors in 1994, and became CEO in March 1995.

Derek earned a BSEE degree summa cum laude from Princeton and a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Stanford as a Hertz Foundation Fellow at the age of 22. He is a member of Princeton's Engineering School Leadership Council.

Prior to Intel, Dawn worked as a Sr. Subcontract Negotiator for Douglas Aircraft Company in Long Beach, California and held several roles in procurement, manufacturing, inventory management and engineering support. She is a graduate of Michigan State University with a BS in Materials Logistics Management and has an MBA from Pepperdine University. Dawn is also CPIM certified.

In his role, Mulligan assumes leadership for all sourcing, logistics and materials management activities at Solectron. Mulligan directly leads all sourcing and central logistics teams and has strong functional dotted-line relationships to all materials, warehousing and logistics activities performed at Solectron's manufacturing and repair sites.
Prior to his six years of senior management experience at Celestica, where he also served as vice president, Commodity Management Asia, and vice president, Corporate Commodity Management, Mulligan held various supply chain, IT and purchasing management positions at Nortel Networks. Mulligan brings to Solectron extensive relationships with many of our largest customers, including Cisco, Nortel, NEC and Lucent.

Ms. Murphy-Hoye has also been responsible for corporate leadership of Intel's Materials/ Procurement technology, business, and people systems strategic development, as well as operations responsibilities, including organizational consulting and facilitation, strategic long range planning, and communications. Ms. Murphy-Hoye has also managed the development of the distributed Global Inventory Management System, led the SAP Indirect Procurement program, developed an Artificial Intelligence-based factory capacity simulation / planning capability, as well as defined Constraint-Based Planning capabilities across the factory supply chain.

Ms. Murphy-Hoye has a BS degree in Mathematics from the University of Arizona.

Prior to his time at i2, Murty worked at Cyrix Semiconductors implementing i2 and SAP solutions in the company's manufacturing division. He has also previously worked at Harris Semiconductors, now Intersil, on the development and implementation of the Berkeley Planning System. In this role, Murty and his team received the prestigious management science Franz Edelman Award in 1993.

Murty received his bachelors of science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Regional Engineering College in Surathkal, India. He also received is masters of science degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Alabama.

Prior to joining Stanford Resources, Paul was a Program Officer at the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council, where he directed studies on software engineering, wireless communication technologies, and the economic and social impacts of computing and communications technologies. Previously, Paul contributed to business development and technology assessment activities at Mogee Research and Analysis Associates, a patent trend analysis firm. He was an analyst at the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), from 1993 to 1995, where he wrote the study Flat Panel Displays in Perspective and contributed to a study on innovation and commercialization of emerging technologies. Paul received a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering and Master of Science in electro-optics from Tufts University. In 1994, he was awarded a Master in Public Policy degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Danny has over 29 years experience in telecommunication and networking, more than 20 years in a management capacity, and all gained in Nortel. He has held various management positions in manufacturing, engineering, and supply chain management including Director, Manufacturing Operations, and Technical Operations and Director, Carrier Grade Solutions. Danny has significant experience in providing technical and organizational leadership during business startup, new product introduction, technical development, mergers, acquisitions, divestures, and restructuring programs. He has an MBA in General Management from the University of Phoenix, a BS in Engineering from Cogswell Polytechnic College. Danny is listed in the 2004 edition of The National Register's Who's Who in Executives and Professionals.

In 1999, the Customer Services Division was formed under John's leadership. The team was tasked with delivering customized solutions to new and existing Kinaxis customers. He also directed the "Business Process Improvement" initiatives with major accounts, including Northern Telecom, Lucent Technologies, Teradyne, and AlliedSignal Aerospace. As Vice President, Customer Services, John ensures a fully integrated customer support lifecycle that begins with developing tailored solutions and continues with delivering ongoing services. Before Kinaxis, John held senior software design positions in research and development at Enterprise Planning Systems and FastMAN Software Systems, Inc. John earned a Bachelor of Computer Science, General Science Option, from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, which included a strong software development curriculum.

Ray brings enterprise software experience honed from more than a decade of product management, management consulting, and marketing roles. Prior to joining Forrester, he headed up the CRM Analyst Relations program for PeopleSoft. At Oracle, Ray served senior roles in product management for both the ERP and CRM product lines. And while at Personify, he was the marketing chief for a Web-analytics startup valued at $2 billion.

Before working for packaged application vendors, Ray developed his management consulting and strategy experiences at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Deloitte Consulting, and the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He specialized in SAP implementations, general strategy, program management, mergers and acquisitions, and healthcare.

Ray graduated from the Johns Hopkins University with a B.A. in natural sciences and public health. His graduate training includes a master's in public health from the Johns Hopkins University in health policy and management and health finance and management. He is also certified in SAP FI/CO modules, facilitation, and program management office.

Bill's team of more than 300 professionals is responsible for the identification of appropriate process and technology solutions, deployment of these solutions, and management of the supporting infrastructure. With extensive international manufacturing on one side and increasingly more complex product development and inventory management on the customers' side, the team is responsible for technology enabling one of the industry's most sophisticated and complex supply chains. Amkor Technology currently has major factory operations in Korea, Philippines, Japan, China, and Taiwan with sales throughout the world and business management centered in the United States.

Bill is currently serving as Chairman of the RosettaNet Executive Board. This is an international standards organization dedicated to advancing commerce throughout the business community utilizing standard messaging and electronic communications.