Bill Adams is responsible for transportation, inventory, S&OP, and service management in the Americas for Hercules' largest business division, and as chair of Hercules' Corporate Logistics Council is also responsible for global supply chain infrastructure and development.  Prior to his current position Bill was Director of North America Supply Chain for BetzDearborn, now a division of GE, and prior to that he spent over 20 years with Dupont in procurement and supply chain management roles, most recently with Dupont's Crop Protection business division.

Stu Agler is currently the Manager, Logistics Process Improvement for ExxonMobil Chemical Company. He joined Mobil Chemical Company in 1980 after receiving his BA from the State University of New York at Binghamton, and his MBA from the University of Rochester, and spent the first half of his career in finance and planning roles in different parts and locations of Mobil's Chemical business. In 1994, he moved over into sales and marketing roles, first for thier polymers, and then basic chemicals businesses. With the merger of Exxon and Mobil in late 1999, Stu moved to Singapore to take on first regional, and then global responsibility for sales and marketing activities in their Basic Chemicals businesses. In 2004, Stu moved to his current role, where in addition to overseeing the Corporations rail operations, he has responsibility to identify, develop and implement best practices in the supply chain area across ExxonMobil's nine business units.

Sanjay L. Ahire (Ph.D. in Management Science, The University of Alabama, 1992; Masters in Management Studies, 1985 and Bachelor of Chemical Engineering, 1982; University of Bombay) is a professor of operations and supply chain management at the Moore School of Business (University of South Carolina). Dr. Ahire’s research interests include conceptual and empirical analysis for operations and supply chain process improvement strategies, including lean, six-sigma, business process reengineering, and supply chain optimization. He has published extensively in leading scholarly journals, including Management Science, European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Decision Sciences, Interfaces, and IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. His research has been well-cited and used by researchers and practicing executives. His 1996 article in Decision Sciences Journal has been recognized as the second most cited article in that journal in the last 35 years.

Dr. Ahire is also an accomplished teacher and consultant in operations improvement strategies and techniques. He won the 2002 Wickham Skinner Award for Teaching Innovation Achievements from the Production and Operations Management Society, the 2005 Teaching Excellence Award from the University of Dayton, and the 2005 Teaching Excellence Award from the Southwestern Ohio Council on Higher Education. These awards were given based on his ability to link his teaching and research expertise in operations and supply chain management to a wide range of manufacturing and service firms. Dr. Ahire has led development of cutting-edge programs in operations and supply chain management, and executed significant consulting projects through these programs and independently with leading firms including GE, GM, Johnson & Johnson, NCR, Sonoco Products Company, Standard Register Company, and others. These projects have resulted in tens of millions of dollars of savings to client firms due to improvements in the design and execution of their operations and supply chains.

Dr. Ahire has served on the editorial review boards of Production and Operations Management, Journal of Operations Management, Decision Sciences, and Quality Management Journal. He was also the track chair for the teaching innovations track for the national annual conferences of the Production and Operations Management Society (Chicago, April 2005) and Decision Sciences Institute (San Francisco, November 2005).

Nelson Baltazar is vice president of global logistics, customer care and quality assurance.
Mr. Baltazar came to Chemtura in May 2006 as director of global transportation. His role was expanded in November 2006 to include logistics for the Americas, and he was promoted to his present position in November 2007.

Before coming to Chemtura, Mr. Baltazar was corporate manager of global transportation and logistics for Carrier Corporation, responsible for all modes of global and domestic transportation. He also served as program manager for Carrier’s North American HVAC rationalization and headed inbound logistics initiatives to rationalize the company’s supply base. Mr. Baltazar has expertise in establishing a quality mindset with an emphasis on identifying measurable standards, benchmarking, root cause analysis, process improvement, value stream mapping, and kaizen events.

Previously, Mr. Baltazar held positions of increasing responsibility at Ryder Integrated Logistics in the areas of operations, global Fortune 50 account management, and business development. Prior to that, he worked in logistics management for Metpath New England (now Quest Diagnostics).

Mr. Baltazar holds a Bachelor of Science in management and organization from Central Connecticut State University and a Master of Science in quality systems management from the National Graduate School, Massachusetts.

Tim has 20 years of Supply Chain experience gained in Chemicals, Food, Minerals and Paper industries and has held senior positions covering planning, logistics, customer service and purchasing. Tim has particular expertise in change management/restructuring, process reengineering and ERP implementation, acquisition integration, and outsourcing. Tim, who holds an MBA from INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France, is currently based in the Netherlands but has worked or studied in several European countries as well as the US and South Africa.

P.J. Block started his career in 1991 with Ashland after completing his Undergraduate work at the University of Kentucky, and his MBA in Finance from Vanderbilt University. His first role was in the Planning and Analysis Department as a Financial Analyst. While there, he worked on multiple capital projects, Strategic Planning, and several M & A opportunities.

From the Planning department, he moved into Ashland Distribution and performed multiple roles across various business units, including Sales, Sales Management, Material Management, and finally Sourcing, as the SE Chemicals Regional Supply Manager in Atlanta.

From the Regional Supply Manger role, he moved into Ashland's Supply Chain optimization group, where his primary focus is acquisition integration into the supply chain, along with Supply Chain project management. Most recently he has performed the role of Integration Leader for Ashland's recent acquisition of the Emulsions business of Air Products.

P.J. and his wife and 2 children currently reside in Dublin, OH and work at Ashland's Dublin Campus.

Craig Casto is the Global Auto ID and Label Technology Leader in Dow Chemical’s Supply Chain Technology Center. This Technology Center has ownership of all of Dow’s Auto ID and Label applications implemented throughout the world and is responsible for establishing corporate direction in the form of “Most Effective Technology” (MET) in these areas. Auto ID includes Bar Codes, RFID, GPS and Voice Recognition while labels includes EH&S product regulatory label production systems. Craig brings more than 30 years of logistics, production planning and Auto ID experience to this position having held various positions in Marine Transportation, Inventory and Production Management and Supply Chain Technology leadership. Craig has held his current role as Auto ID and Label Technology leader since 2001 having joined Dow during the merger with Union Carbide.

Leif Chastaine, Vice President of Solutions Marketing, InSync Software
Mr. Chastaine currently leads InSync Software’s business development and marketing activities for RFID and eBusiness solutions. Mr. Chastaine has over 15 years experience including seven years in senior product management, marketing, sales, and business development roles with several eBusiness and BPM software companies. Prior to moving into the world of software, Mr. Chastaine successfully led several system deployment projects including product scheduling, master scheduling, and distribution optimization systems at Ore-Ida Foods (a wholly owned subsidiary of HJ Heinz ) and also served as an aerial navigator in the USMC. Mr. Chastaine holds a B.B.A. in Production and Operations Management with honors from Boise State University.

Lawrence Cresci serves as the Director of Global Supply Chain Operations for The Dow Chemical Company. He is responsible for leading the on-site and off-site supply chain operations for the company, and is responsible for the functional excellence, safety, security, service, cost, and investments of these operations.

Lawrence has worked in Europe, North America and Asia, and has served in various Global Supply Chain, Manufacturing and EH&S roles within Dow, covering a number of different Plastics businesses, as well as the Hydrocarbons and Energy business. He has occupied his current role since October, 2007. Lawrence has a proven track record of results in his more than 20 year career, and is an integral part of the Supply Chain Leadership for the corporation.

Lawrence grew up in Wales, and graduated with a Bachelors Degree in Chemical Engineering from The University of Bath, UK. He enjoys spending time with his wife and two children, is an avid rugby enthusiast, and loves to ski.

Kim is the President of Air Liquide America L.P., driving the US distributor and cylinder business of the world’s largest industrial gas company. Air Liquide’s products include medical gases for hospitals, gases for welding, and products and services to assure high tech laboratory equipment is operating correctly. Her team extends from Alaska to Houston to Hawaii.

Kim earned her BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Missouri – Rolla in 1982 and her MBA from Rice University in 2001. She holds one patent and is honored to serve on the Board of the Academy of Chemical Engineers at her alma mater, as well as the Executive Advisory Board of the Houston Strategic Forum. Her career has included: solid operations and project experience, energy procurement, sales, and too many “special projects” to mention. She has learned to value trusting her instincts, seeking out new approaches, and taking risks. She devotes herself to work and her 14-year old daughter, Alex. Her husband Terry Doyle, a former chemical plant superintendent, provides crucial support at home.

Mike Duhamel has been with Owens Corning for 7 years in varied roles within the logistics group. Currently, Mike is the Carrier Relations Leader for Bulk Tanker and Rail. In his role, he is responsible for establishing transportation strategies for inbound freight for all plants in North America. His focus is on cost reduction, capacity management, and fostering the relationships with our carrier partners. Mike also leads the Inbound Logistics Team focusing on service improvements, offsetting inflation, and implementing productivity initiatives within the various businesses.

Mike was in the logistics field for 8 years prior to Owens Corning, working in truck operations and third party warehousing. He holds a B.B.A. from the University of Toledo in Operation Management and Information System, and a MBA from Tiffin University.

Tom Fannon is the Manager of Standardization for Ashland’s Global Supply Chain. His responsibilities include managing all areas of electronic connectivity for Ashland’s business units as well as managing standardization activities across the supply chain. Tom is the past Chairman of the Board of CIDX (Chemical Industry Data Exchange) and has been a board member since 2002. He has worked in the chemical distribution arena for 27 years. He joined Ashland's IC&S Division in 1987 and has held various sales and management positions within Ashland’s Distribution.

Joseph (Joe) Francis is Chief Technology Officer for the Supply Chain Council (SCC). In this capacity, Mr. Francis supports the design and delivery of education and training in use of the Supply-Chain Operation Reference model (SCOR™) and related business process models.
 Mr. Francis is a former chairman of the Supply Chain Council SCORBoard and managing director of a business process company focused on process team development, business process management programs, and business process management research and education. 

Prior to establishing his current company, Mr. Francis was the senior director of Hewlett-Packard’s (HP) Business Process Management (BPM) Services for HP Technology Solutions Group, and senior director of HP’s BPM Services for the company’s CIO. He is one of the key founders of BPM at HP, having created and managed functions overseeing the universal company standards, methods and frameworks for BPM, as well as having created more than two dozen teams for business-unit and functional-unit BPM programs (including HP’s Sarbanes-Oxley 404 program) and global teams in HP’s consulting and integration business. His SCOR related work with HP clients included dozens of companies from a base as diverse as Volvo, SASOL, Samsung, Daimler-Chrysler, and Dupont among others.   

David Stephens is Chief Executive Officer of Savi Technology, responsible for the overall operational, business and product development of the company’s supply chain management and security solutions to government, defense, defense supplier and other commercial customers worldwide.

Stephens, who has been a Savi executive since 2003, has nearly two decades of senior management experience in building key relationships and revenues for companies of various sizes – from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. Prior to his current position, Stephens was General Manager of Savi’s Americas group and Senior Vice President of the Public Sector business, where he drove significant growth.

Previously, he worked in senior management positions at Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU) and AT&T Corp. (NYSE:T) in their Federal Government businesses. Prior to Savi, Stephens was Managing Partner of The Tracey Group, a firm he co-founded that has helped companies develop strategic market plans, build sales organizations and successfully conduct business with the Federal Government.

Prior to founding The Tracey Group, Stephens held a variety of executive management positions, including general management, business development, sales, research and development, and business operations. As President and Chief Operating Officer of SIGCOM, Inc., he repositioned the company and significantly increased cash flow. At Lucent Technologies as Vice-President of Business Development-Government Solutions, he spearheaded growth efforts for the newly formed business unit. Under his leadership, his organization developed and closed $4 billion in new contract value within the first two years. During a 17-year career at AT&T, he established a reputation for success in business turnaround, innovative technology solutions and new business development while leading multiple business units.

Stephens earned his MBA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and his BS Degree from Lenoir-Rhyne College. He has also completed the Advanced Management Program from UNC-Chapel Hill.

Savi Technology is a Savi line of business that provides products, services and solutions based on Radio Frequency Identification and complementary Automatic Identification Technologies for enterprise-wide asset and supply chain management and security to defense, defense suppliers and other government customers.

In his current capacity as Senior Director for Responsible Care®, Dave manages the Responsible Care Partner program and serves as a senior consultant for all aspects of Responsible Care field implementation. Following retirement from a 33 year career in DuPont in 1996, Dave worked as a supply chain and employee safety consultant for two years before joining the American Chemistry Council staff as a Member Relations Executive in 1998. Dave holds a Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University and has managed the Responsible Care Partner Program since December 2005.

Glynn E. Goertzen serves as Vice President of Commercial for Pilot Chemical Company. Glynn has worked at Pilot for seven years in positions of increasing sales management responsibilities. In his current position Glynn manages Pilot's sales, marketing, customer service, supply chain and corporate accounts functions. Prior to joining Pilot Glynn worked for Kerr McGee/North American Chemical & Univar for twelve years with various sales, marketing and product management responsibilities. Glynn received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Akron and Master of Business Administration from Rockhurst College in Kansas City, Missouri.

J. Stephen Hamilton is President & CEO of ChemLogix, which was established on January 1, 2001. ChemLogix provides integrated logistics solutions for the Chemical Industry.

Prior to ChemLogix he was President & CEO of GATX Chemical Logistics. Leaman Logistics, Inc. was acquired by GATX Corporation September 1999.

Previous to GATX Chemical Logistics, he served as President and CEO of Leaman Logistics, Inc a wholly owned subsidiary of Chemical Leaman Corporation specializing in third party logistics services for the chemical industry. Mr. Hamilton joined Chemical Leaman in the summer of 1990 as Vice President, National Accounts, and was named Vice President, Sales & Marketing in 1993.

Prior to his arrival at Chemical Leaman, he was with PQ Corporation in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania for 16 years, most recently as the National Sales Manager. At PQ Corporation, a medium-sized chemical company, he progressed from Plant Manager to Product Manager to Business Group Manager before being named the National Sales Manager.

Previous to PQ Corporation, he served as the Labor Relations Manager for Johnson & Johnson in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Mr. Hamilton received his Bachelor of Arts Degree from Penn State University, and attended St. Joseph’s University M.B.A. Program. He also served in the The U.S. Army and is a Vietnam Veteran. Penn State University presented Steve with the Pashek Award for Distinguished Service to the Logistics Profession on April 17, 1998.

Marty Heyne began his career with MWV Specialty Chemicals in 1985 as a project engineer in the DeRidder, Louisiana plant. While in DeRidder he also worked as refinery process engineer and as post refinery area manager. He transferred to the division’s Charleston, South Carolina, plant in 1988 to supervise the tall oil refinery. In 1993 he became production manager of the Charleston polychemicals plant. He returned to the DeRidder facility in 1997 as plant manager. In 2000, he moved to Wickliffe, Kentucky, to become plant manager of the carbon operations. In 2004 he transferred to the Covington, Virginia, plant as operations director. In 2007 he became Vice President, Operations, for the Chemical division in Charleston, SC..

Marty holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla and a Master of Business Administration from The Citadel.

He lives with his family in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.

Greg Javor is responsible for all Customer Service, Logistics, and Outsourced Manfacturing activities for Azko Nobel Decorative Coatings in North America, encompassing 12 DC’s and over 900,000 customer shipments annually to over 7,000 customer locations. Greg has been with Akzo Nobel and former ICI paints who AzkoNobel acquired in 2008 for 9 years. Greg has dramatically transformed ICI’s North American Customer Service and Logistics network in terms of configuration, facilities, outsourcing, technology deployment, safety performance, and people. He is currently working on the larger enterprise integration with AkzoNobel. In 2005, he was awarded the prestigious ICI Global “Sustainability” award for his leadership role with the implementation of the Manual Handling program throughout ICI’s NA Logistics network. Prior to AzkoNobel and ICI, Greg has held various senior Supply chain roles in the 3PL and Retail Industries throughout his career.

David Shannon is Senior Vice President of Product Management, Marketing and Strategy for Savi Technology, a Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] business providing supply chain management and security solutions to government, defense, defense supplier and other commercial customers worldwide.

In this role, Shannon has overall responsibility for defining Savi Technology’s markets, developing strategies and integrated solutions (both hardware and software) to serve them, and in branding the company worldwide.

Shannon, who has been with Savi Technology in a number of increasingly responsible positions since 1999, previously was Vice President of International Solutions Consulting, which combined his technical and strategic skills to help grow Savi’s business worldwide.  Prior to this position, he was the company’s Vice President of Product Management, responsible for all software products and solution architecture.

At Savi, Shannon has been instrumental in architecting and implementing Savi’s SmartChain® software platform and transportation security and asset management applications, which are uniquely integrated with all types of Automatic Identification Technologies such as bar codes, Radio Frequency Identification and GPS location systems.  He has also played keys roles in opening Savi’s Asia business and growing its European customer base.

Prior to joining Savi, David spent 15 years at IBM in roles ranging from corporate distribution operations, supply chain/transportation research and development, consulting, product management, and marketing.   

David has holds a Masters of Science degree in Management Science and Operations Management from Purdue University and a BS in Quantitative Analysis from Pennsylvania State University. 

Mark Krueger has been involved in logistics for the past 30-plus years. Currently he manages the corporate domestic logistics operations at Bostik, Inc. and is domiciled in Milwaukee, WI.

During the past 30-years Krueger has severed in a number of key positions coverings all modes of transportation, both international and domestic. Born and educated in Wisconsin he is well traveled having visited over 40 foreign countries and all 50 states.

At the present time he has the lead position on the TOTAL Petroleum US traffic council, representing this French based oil companies US interests, which include BOSTIK.

Krueger is married with three grown children and three grandchildren. He and his wife are instrumentalists in a local symphonic band and enjoy the great outdoors.

Craig Long is Vice President, Quality and Six Sigma, for Milliken & Company. In this role, he is responsible specifically for Six Sigma deployment, Milliken Product Management Improvement, and Milliken Performance System. He has held positions of increasing responsibility for Milliken since 1974, so he knows the company very well. He previously served as Vice President, Milliken University and Quality, and Director of Quality. During the 1980’s he worked in the industrial fabrications business part of the company as Market Manager, Senior Account Manager, and Senior Development Engineer. He first joined Milliken in the Gainesville Plant, holding assignments of increasing responsibility from Industrial Engineer trainee to Industrial Engineer and Industrial Engineering Manager.

Craig has been a member of the Six Sigma Council, and co-chair of the U.S. Quality Council. He has also been a member of the South Carolina Quality Forum Advisory Board, has been chair of the Wofford College Parents Advisory Council, and a member of the United Way of Spartanburg Board. Currently, Craig is a member of the U.S. Quality Council, and serves on the Board of Greater Spartanburg Ministries. He holds a B.S. in Economics, Western Carolina University, and is a Harvard Advanced Management Program Graduate.

Kevin McBride is currently Director of Operations Planning and Systems at Orica USA Inc., a global leader in mining services and explosives.  Orica is about industry solutions, about developing integrated approaches to blasting that less than a decade ago would have been inconceivable in terms of level of performance and risk to any surrounding infrastructure or the environment. The sophistication, accuracy and flexibility of our technologies are highly advanced, making the combination of our network of relationships with customers and complementary service providers a valuable competitive edge.

Mr. McBride received his Masters of Business Administration from University of Phoenix, and his Bachelor’s Degree from Brigham Young University.  He is responsible for multiple Sales and Operations Planning processes across North America, and sits on the Executive Sales and Operations Planning meetings with company executives.  He is responsible for forecasting sales and shipment demand, inventory levels, and production plans for over 4,000 products across North America.  Mr. McBride also works as a Six Sigma Green Belt on supply chain productivity and process improvement initiatives.

Prior to his experience at Orica, Mr. McBride worked for Hexion Specialty Chemicals, Inc., global leader in manufacturing of resins and adhesives, in logistics and compliance.

Margaret McCarvill is responsible for both Indirect Procurement and Corporate Logistics at Rohm and Haas Company. She added Indirect Procurement to her role in January of this year. She has been Corporate Logistics Director for Rohm and Haas Company since March of 2006. She was North American Region Controller for the Rohm and Haas Company from 2003 to 2006. Prior to joining Rohm and Haas, Margaret was Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Business Development at Astaris LLC, a joint venture between FMC Corporation and Solutia, Inc. in the phosphorus chemicals industry. Prior to the Astaris experience, she spent 19 years with FMC Corporation in the US and abroad in a variety of Finance, Business Development and Information Technology management positions.

She has an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and has a BA in the Honors Program from Villanova University. She and her husband, Stephen Amadio, reside in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.

Stacey McMahon is the Director of Operations-NAFTA for the Active Oxygens Business Line at Evonik Degussa Corporation, one of the world’s largest specialty chemical companies. She started her career as an Inside Sales Representative for Degussa's Metal Group before moving to an outside Sales position for several years. She then moved to the Marketing side of the business as Product Manager for Temperature Sensing, Precious and Special Metal Compounds before accepting a position at the corporate headquarters as Customer Service Manager for both the Chemical and Pigment Groups of Degussa. This position led to several management and director positions, within Marketing and Sales with the Active Oxygens Business Line.

As the Director of Operations-Active Oxygens, Stacey brings with her a very broad and vast experience from all disciplines of the business unit-Sales, Marketing and Operations.

Stacey is currently a member of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) and the International Customer Service Association. She holds a B.S. from the University of Bridgeport and a Certificate in Supply Chain Management from Penn State. She is married and has one son, aged fifteen.

Dr. Leonard McMullen is with the Agricultural Products Group of FMC Corporation.  He currently is the Director, Global Supply Chain.  Prior to this role, he was based in FMC’s Hong Kong office for four years (2003-2007) as the Director FMC Agricultural Products International, a manufacturing and sourcing subsidiary.

 Dr. McMullen first joined FMC in 1994 and held variety of technical, management and leadership roles.  He holds a BS from (Rowan University) and a PhD in Organic Chemistry from the University of Maryland.  Dr. McMullen is also a Graduate of the Harvard University Advanced Management Program.

George Morrison is currently the Global Director of Supply Chain and Quality Processes and he has this responsibility for the $4.5Billion business in Specialty Materials.
George is responsible for all supply chain planning and execution activities including transportation logistics, trade compliance and quality processes. He is leading efforts to develop and standardize core supply chain processes to ensure a reliable and compliant supply chain network. He is responsible for the company’s SIOP process and is implementing tailored improvement to dramatically improve customer service, quality, inventory and cost.

George joined Honeywell from Johnson & Johnson where he held management positions as Director of Business Process Excellence and Director of Customer Satisfaction. Previously he was with Avery Dennison Corporation where he also held management positions in manufacturing and engineering, operations, business planning and materials management. George is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt. He is based at the Specialty Materials headquarters in Morristown, NJ.

Peter Murray is currently one of DuPont’s Competency Leaders working on enabling DuPont’s Supply Chain Transformation and shifting the emphasis from a functional focus within operations to a strategic part of the business management process across DuPont. This includes extensive work on identifying and developing the competencies required at all levels of the organization to create the performance capability and make the improvement sustainable.

Peter has 18 years of professional experience in supply chain, product and program management, operations, and business management. He has been with DuPont for six years. Peter first joined DuPont as the Global Supply Chain Manager for the joint venture with Dow Chemical, DuPont-Dow Elastomers. Previously Peter has worked for other companies such as Newell-Rubbermaid, Raytheon, and Kao of Japan where as the primary supplier to Microsoft for packaged software Peter led the supply program for Windows 98.

Peter is APICS CIRM certified was part of the development team for the new APICS Certified Supply Chain Professional Certification body of knowledge. He works with APICS to develop products and services for large organizations such as DuPont. Peter also works with the Corporate Executive Board and Supply Chain Council representing DuPont for Supply Chain Development research and development. He also is certified in Demand Flow Technology and has led LEAN centered change across businesses.

Brian O’Neil, Global Supply Chain Manager, is responsible for Ticona Demand Planning, Long Term Supply Planning and Finite/Detailed Production Scheduling. He is a supply chain champion of the ERP system and has responsibility for Materials Master Data. Most recently he held the position of Master Black Belt for Celanese Supply Chain in Dallas. Brian has lead and applied Six Sigma Improvements Methodologies since 1995.

He joined Celanese from Johnson & Johnson where he was responsible for the training and deployment of Six Sigma. This included the methodologies of DMAIC, Lean and Design for Six Sigma for the global Wound Management Business. Prior to Johnson & Johnson Brian held various positions of increasing responsibility with Six Sigma and operations management at Allied Signal / Honeywell.

He has experience in applying the statistical methodologies in both operational and transactional settings for process improvement. Brian has led Lean implementations for work cell redesign and has experience in the application of Lean planning tools to reduce inventory and improve order fill rates.

Harry has been active in the RFID space since 1999 with active tags in closed end loop applications for the food, pharma, and transportation industries. In 2001 he began working with passive tag technologies again in closed end loop projects for manufacturing, warehousing, legal and healthcare. He saw the use of RFID technologies in many industries outside of the realm of supply chain. He realized that RFID can complement the use of bar coding in many applications from amusement parks to quality control in a pharma research labs. He and his associates have a number of patent pending, RFID applications with the US patent office. Harry has spent the last five years in the RFID space working with Active as well as Passive RFID technologies in a number of industries in a “hands-on” capacity.

As he traveled and spoke with end users, attended trade shows and seminars on RFID he realized the need for a single, global, RFID trade association that can service and represent the RFID industry and at the same time interface with the end users in a common forum providing vendor neutral, educational information, training, and support to the end users who are looking to implement this new technology. Thus was born “The International RFID Business Association, Inc. a “Not for Profit” educational, trade association.

As Director of Product Marketing for Chemicals, Elinor is responsible for product marketing activities in the Chemicals, Specialty Chemicals and Polymers markets in the areas of Supply Chain Management, Advanced Process Control and Production Management & Execution.  She and her team work to leverage the synergies and best practices across these business processes for customers in the chemicals markets.

Elinor joined AspenTech in January 2000 from Philips Petroleum Company where she spent eleven years working as a supply chain specialist, implementing end-to-end supply chain projects in the Plastics and Chemicals Division.   Previous to that position she worked as a process engineer in polyethylene and polypropylene plants.

Elinor earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from Kansas State University. She is based at AspenTech office in Houston, TX.

With more than 18 years supply chain industry experience, Mark has recently joined Agility as Senior Solutions Manager within the Supply Chain Solutions team.

Having grown up in rural Oxfordshire, Mark went onto Loughborough University to study 'Transport Management & Planning'. At the time, amongst his peers this was an unusual choice of academic study. A one year placement with an emerging third party logistics company as it would now be called saw Mark develop an aptitude for the use of spreadsheet modelling to cost vehicle fleet operations. From this point forward Mark's career specialism was determined; the application of modelling, simulation and analysis techniques to supply chain problems.

Mark spent six years as a planning specialist within third party distribution. This gave him a good grounding especially in transport planning. Exposure to third party logistics was punctuated with a brief foray into systems specification as an applications engineer and product manager for a warehouse management software house.

For the last 12 years Mark has held a number of roles with the well known supply chain modelling specialist, Radical Limited. As a former 'CAST User of the Year', he joined Radical as a Consultant in 1996 and helped grow the business to global proportions going on to holding a number of senior positions including, Commercial Manager and VP Professional Services. Mark ended his time with Radical working flexibly as a Senior Consultant and has unparalleled experience having modeled supply chain networks on every continent apart from Antarctica across all industry sectors.

Michael is currently Supply Chain Manager for Pilot Chemical and is responsible for the global sourcing and category management of raw materials, domestic and international logistics, and warehousing agreements.  Using a data-driven approach, Michael has led the effort to partner with a third party logistics provider to improve Pilot’s logistics, while enhancing visibility and realizing cost savings.

Pilot Chemical is a global chemical company providing the household and industrial detergent, personal care, lubricant, oilfield, emulsion polymerization, textile, and agriculture industries with high-quality specialty chemicals. Pilot’s proprietary technologies involve alkylation, sulfonation, sulfation and a number of other specialty operations.

Prior to joining Pilot Chemical, Michael worked as a Strategic Sourcing Consultant for U.S. Bank.  His experiences at U.S. Bank included developing and implementing sourcing strategies for a broad array of indirect spend categories, and managing supplier relationships at a strategic level.  Michael is a graduate of Miami University, with a degree in Accounting and Finance.

Imogene Treble is a Product Regulatory Leader in Environment Health and Safety at Dow. She joined Union Carbide in 1978 as an Analytical Chemist. She moved into a Product Regulatory role in 1996, focusing on FDA and TSCA EPA regulations. She continued in this role after the merger of Union Carbide with The Dow Chemical Corporation in 2001. Since 2005 she has led the Dow Global GHS Team and is the Hazard Communication portion of the GHS Implementation.

Imogene has a Bachelors degree in Chemistry from the University of Connecticut and a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Massachusetts.

Jack Weiss is the CEO and founder of WAM Systems—a leading provider of supply chain planning solutions to the chemical industry and home to Picaso™, a globally-recognized supply chain planning solution supporting a broad range of chemical markets.

Starting his career in finance as a senior manager at L. F. Rothschild Securities and member of the securities trading desk at Merrill Lynch Capital Markets, Jack later entered the chemical industry, joining Exxon Chemicals in Houston as Manager of U.S. Decision Support Services. While there, he seized on an opportunity to independently support supply chain planning activities with an enterprise software solution.

This led to the founding of WAM Systems in 1987 and the development of a new breed of advanced decision support and analysis software—the Picaso Supply Chain Planning Solution. Over the next 20 years, Jack led his company through numerous successes in delivering planning and optimization solutions to global customers like Basell, Ergon, Degussa Engineered Carbons, DuPont, Lyondell, Petrobras, and PetroChina.

Today, he continues to build WAM’s strong reputation in the industry by directing the company through ongoing success, providing world-class best practices analysis and consulting and holding a well-deserved place among the recognized leaders in the global supply chain planning marketplace.

A native of Buffalo, New York, Dr. Swift is the chief economist at the American Chemistry Council (ACC) in Arlington, Virginia where he is responsible for economic and other analyses dealing with markets, energy, trade, tax and innovation, as well as monitoring business conditions and identifying emerging trends for the domestic and global chemical sector. He is an authority on the global chemical industry and his research and analyses are critical to decisionmaking by executives and business managers through out the industry. Dr. Swift disseminates economic and societal contributions of the business of chemistry and general information about the industry to ACC member companies, the media, Wall Street analysts, the academic community and the public in general.

Prior to joining the American Chemistry Council, Dr. Swift held executive and senior level positions at several business information/database companies, directing business research, forecasting, and consulting efforts, as well as domestic and international business forecasting services and related on-line databases. He also conducted single-client industrial market research and related projects. Dr. Swift started his career at Dow Chemical USA .

Dr. Swift is a member of the National Association for Business Economics (NABE) and is a member of NABE's panel of 40 professional forecasters and chairs the NABE Manufacturing Roundtable. He is also a member of the Harvard Discussion Group of Industrial Economists and is a participant in the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank's forecasters' survey. Dr. Swift is a member of the Heritage Council of the Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF) and is also a member of the Commercial Development and Marketing Association (CDMA) and the Société de Chimie Industrielle. He has authored articles in such diverse journals as Business Economics, Chemistry Business, Chimica Oggi, Cost Engineering, and Hydrocarbon Processing and writes a monthly economics column in Chemical Engineering Progress. Dr. Swift has been featured on National Public Radio and has appeared on Bloomberg TV and Nightly Business Report.

Dr. Swift is a graduate of Ashland University with a BA degree and a graduate of Case Western Reserve University with a MA degree in Economics. He is also a graduate of Anglia Polytechnic University with a DBA (doctorate in business administration) degree and has completed the Tax Analysis and Revenue Forecasting Program and other studies at Harvard University as well as studies at the University of Oxford. Dr. Swift is an adjunct instructor of business economics at the University of Mary Washington.