Speakers

AMR Research
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Stephen Hochman, Research Director, Supply Chain
As a research director for AMR Research, Steve brings over 15 years of supply chain and technology implementation expertise to AMR Research's clients. Steve's insight spans supply- and demand-side topics. His research is particularly focused on trends in supply globalization and tactics for agile supply network response.

Prior to joining AMR Research, Steve directed sales operations for New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc. In this role, Steve led radical worldwide re-design of the company's supply planning processes, instituting advanced materials, capacity, and freight hedging techniques via the company's Chinese supply line. Steve also directed administration of $1 billion in U.S. sales orders, managing inventory allocation, available to promise, and perfect order tracking and analysis.

Before New Balance, Steve served as an executive vice president at SupplyChainge, Inc., the software company that pioneered Lead Time Optimization (LTO) supply planning solutions. Steve was responsible for the company's go-to-market planning and execution and helped manage its transition from manufacturing services provider to supply planning software enterprise.

Steve was also the co-founder and executive vice-president of Lucy Activewear, Inc., the multi-channel retailer of women's sports apparel and accessories. Prior to Lucy, Steve was a senior product marketing engineer at Intel Corporation, where he was responsible for new product and new venture development.

Earlier in his career, Steve worked as a senior analyst in the environmental strategy group at Abt Associates, Inc. and as a strategy consultant to Fortune 500 senior executives at Bain & Company.

Steve graduated magna cum laude from Dartmouth College. He earned his M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Cisco
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Mark Ebner, Supply Planning Manager - Process and Tool Development

Mark currently holds the position of manufacturing program manager at Cisco Systems, Inc. Over the for the past 6½ years at Cisco Mark has held various roles including program manager, coordinating new product introductions, demand planning manager encompassing a core business product line, and process and application design program manager. During his time as a process designer, Mark was an instrumental member of the team for the Cisco Lean project, which moved Cisco from a consignment to turnkey outsourced model and introduced Lean inventory modeling to Cisco's contract manufacturers. Through these various roles, Mark has interacted with global team members located in San Jose, Virginia, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Bangalore, and Europe.

Currently, Mark holds the responsibility for the lead role for process and tool development for the Supply Planning organization. In this role, Mark is responsible for identifying and implementing a Supply-Demand balancing application, with flexible what-if scenario capabilities. The selection and implementation of Kinaxis RapidResponse has introduced a supply planning model that simulates the Cisco global supply chain, allowing for rapid decision making when supply disruptions or demand upsides occur.

Outside of work, Mark has been a diversity awareness trainer for a summer youth camp (Camp RYLA sponsored by Rotary District 5170), for the past 3 years, hung out with his little brother from the Big Brothers, Big Sisters program for 9 years, and raised nearly $25,000 for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society for the past 4 years while training for 5 marathons and 2 triathlons.

Mark received his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California/Davis and was a member of the 1992 NCAA Division II National Champion tennis team.

PRTM
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Clarence Chen, Principal
Clarence is a Principal with PRTM based out of Silicon Valley. Clarence has over 17 years in supply chain management and operations across high tech and industrial manufacturing companies. His practice focuses on supply chain innovation and use of systems to enable strategic change. Prior to PRTM, Clarence founded a venture backed supply chain planning software firm that was acquired by Manhattan Associates. Clarence is APICS CPIM certified, and is a graduate of UC Berkeley and the Univ of Notre Dame.

QUALCOMM
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Melanie Watson, IT Manager
Melanie Watson is an IT Manager at Qualcomm responsible for Demand Management Applications in the Qualcomm CDMA Technologies division. Melanie has over 14 years experience in High tech companies supporting ERP and planning applications.

Research in Motion
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Dany Toniutti, Project Manager, Supply Chain Systems
Dany Toniutti is the Program Manager for Outsourced Manufacturing projects at Research In Motion (RIM). In this capacity he is responsible for overseeing and strategically leading a portfolio of projects aimed at establishing and improving RIM's outsourced manufacturing capabilities and effectiveness. Recently appointed to a program management role, Dany has been assigned to lead RIM's implementation of Kinaxis RapidResponse.

Prior to joining RIM, Dany spent 25 years at Kodak in various IT management roles focusing specifically on manufacturing and supply chain initiatives. During his tenure he led several large scale, global projects. Dany was also an active member of the Lean Manufacturing steering committee at Kodak and prior to leaving Kodak he held the position of Purchasing Manager.

Dany holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from York University and a Project Management Professional (PMP) designation.

Kinaxis
Kinaxis stands alone in delivering an on-demand Response Management service that drives operations performance management for brand owners and contract manufacturers. RapidResponse extends beyond supply chain planning systems to enable global leaders such as Casio, Coty, Honeywell, Jabil Circuit, Raytheon and Benchmark to access real-time information; quickly collaborate to reach optimal decisions that align with corporate objectives; and rapidly drive effective action when faced with constant changes. For more information, visit the Kinaxis web site at www.kinaxis.com or the company's blog at blog.kinaxis.com.
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Doug Colbeth, President, CEO and Chairman of the Board, Kinaxis
Douglas Colbeth became President and CEO of Kinaxis in March 2003 after having served as a Kinaxis board member since January 2001.

Prior to investing in Kinaxis (formerly Webplan), Doug saw tremendous potential for the company — which he aptly described as a "gang of geniuses in Canada with a very powerful modeling technology." As CEO, Doug had a vision for this technology to serve as a foundation for a new software category — Response Management. As a pioneer of the World Wide Web, Doug understood the Internet's influence on consumer behavior and how it would dramatically increase demand volatility. The problem of effectively responding to consumer demands would be further exacerbated by the dramatic market shift of outsourcing manufacturing operations. In response, under Doug's leadership, Kinaxis developed a world-class Response Management offering which enables companies to quickly respond to constant changes in demand — driving breakthroughs in customer service and operating performance. Today, the Kinaxis on-demand RapidResponse service empowers front-line decision makers at brand owners and contract manufacturers with multi-enterprise visibility and collaborative analysis tools to effectively respond to change across a distributed supply chain.

Prior to Kinaxis, Doug was Co-founder and CEO of Spyglass Inc., a leading provider of Internet software technologies. Spyglass technologies are utilized inside millions of products including PCs, televisions, telephones, and hand-held devices. Most notably, Spyglass technology is the foundation of the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser. In June 1995, Spyglass became the first Internet software company to conduct a successful Initial Public Offering, and in March 2000, Doug negotiated its merger with OpenTV Inc., at a value of $2.4 Billion.

Doug holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Siena College in Loudonville, New York, and studied Quantitative Economics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (R.P.I.) in Troy, New York. While attending R.P.I., Doug was awarded a research grant from Texas Instruments Inc. to develop modeling software for various Texas Instruments products.

Outside of his work with Kinaxis, Doug and his wife Margaret are pioneer philanthropists in the area of juvenile psychiatric disorders. The Colbeth Child and Adolescent Clinic was established in 2000 and is operated by the University of Illinois Medical Center. During 2006 the Colbeth Clinic served 16,000 inner city children in the Chicago area. This state of the art clinic employs a multidisciplinary approach to treating a wide range of psychiatric disorders, including: depression, bipolar, OCD, ADHD, psychosis, and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Charles Funk, Product Manager, Kinaxis
Charles Funk is a Product Manager at Kinaxis and his areas of focus are Multi-Enterprise Management (managing the outsourced supply chain), Data Integration, Deployment, and Education. Charles has been with Kinaxis for over 7 years, beginning as a Business Consultant supporting the sales team and then later moving into Product Management. Charles began his career in manufacturing during which he as has held several engineering and management roles over the course of 7 years at companies such as Kimberly Clark and Boeing Aerospace. After obtaining his MBA, Charles founded a medical software company which he later sold to the market leader. Charles holds a Bachelor of Applied Science (Mechanical Engineering) from the University of Waterloo and a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from Queen's University. In addition he received a CPIM certification while at Boeing.

Peter Hanschke, Director, Product Management, Kinaxis
Peter Hanschke brings over 16 years of Product Management experience to Kinaxis. Having worked for companies such as Adobe and IBM/Rational Software, Peter is well versed in bringing together product roadmaps and how to define and execute the plan to realize the roadmap. In his 1 ½ years at Kinaxis Peter has created and managed the RapidResponse roadmap.

Dave Haskins, Chief Technology Officer, Kinaxis
David Haskins first joined Kinaxis as Vice President, Research and Development in 1997. In his current role as Chief Technology Officer he has managed the evolution of RapidResponse into a sophisticated rapid response solution. Dave brings more than 20 years of experience in senior research and development positions, including the last 11 in executive roles. His primary area of focus has been on information management solutions. Under Dave's leadership, Kinaxis has established itself as a technology innovator.

Dave led the development of the first Kinaxis Web-native solution. This transitioned the Kinaxis technology from windows client-server to a more powerful solution set that utilized Web technology to speed the transfer of critical decision-making data to all supply chain participants. Dave also led the integration of eXtensible Markup Language (XML) technology into Kinaxis solutions to enable seamless system-to-system collaboration.

Before joining Kinaxis, Dave held several executive research and development positions at Fulcrum Technologies, an information retrieval and knowledge management company. At Fulcrum, Dave was responsible for the introduction of new products that successfully transitioned Fulcrum from a private to public company and resulted in early rapid growth.

Dave holds a Bachelor of Science and a Masters of Science in Computer Science from Queens University in Kingston, Canada.

Duncan Klett, VP Analytics Research, Kinaxis
Duncan Klett co-founded Kinaxis in 1984, at the time called Cadence Computer Corporation. Throughout his time at Kinaxis, Duncan has focused on product innovation. Acting as the interface between manufacturers, the Kinaxis design team, and executives, Duncan has led the successful fulfillment of customer requirements. In his current role as Vice President, Analytics Research, Duncan draws on more than 30 years of experience with analytics and software solutions to design the next generation of Kinaxis product features to help brand owners, manufacturers and their entire supply chain network - from customers through to suppliers - gain a competitive advantage. Prior to starting Kinaxis, Duncan held various positions with Bell Northern Research where he worked in the development of real-time software, and Mitel Corporation where he was Manager of IC Computer Aided Design. Duncan is an OMN (Ottawa Manufacturers Network) advisory board member, is actively involved in OCRI (Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation), and regularly gives lectures at universities and industry events. Duncan holds a Bachelor of Applied Science and a Masters of Applied Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He is also a certified Professional Engineer.

Randy Littleson, VP Marketing, Kinaxis
Randy Littleson assumed the role of Vice President, Marketing for Kinaxis in July 2003. Randy's strengths in building winning marketing strategies that translate end user requirements and market demand into the final product, have enabled him to create successful marketing teams throughout his more than 15 years in the industry.

Prior to joining Kinaxis, Randy served as Vice President, Marketing and Business Development at Interface Software, where he led the company's product marketing strategies, as well as all marketing communications and business development initiatives. Previously, Randy was Executive Vice President and General Manager for Spyglass, Inc., a provider of strategic Internet consulting, software, and services for the information appliance market. He played a critical role in repositioning Spyglass from the PC technology space to the embedded software market. During his tenure at Spyglass, Randy helped build growth revenues from $0M to $50M/yr. run rate in embedded software and services in less than four years. At Spyglass Randy led product development, professional services, business development and strategic marketing, as well as the integration efforts with OpenTV Corp., who subsequently acquired the company. He has also held various management positions at Palindrome Corporation, a Seagate Software company, Novell, Inc., and Unisys Corporation.

Randy earned an M.B.A. from the Keller Graduate School of Management and a Bachelor of Computer Sciences and Communications from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Learn more about Response Management at the Kinaxis blog authored by Randy.

Bob May, Senior Product Manager, Kinaxis
Bob May is a Senior Product Manager at Kinaxis and in his 18 years Bob's fulfilled roles in integration, design, services, support, and most recently product management. Prior to Kinaxis Bob was an independent IT consultant.

Kris Reid, Director, Deployment Services, Kinaxis
Kris is Director, Deployment Services and is responsible for the Integration, Customer Project Management and Training Delivery teams at Kinaxis. Kris has been with Kinaxis for over 8 years working in a number of roles. Prior to joining Kinaxis, he worked in various manufacturing roles with Allied Signal and Digital Equipment. Kris possesses a great understanding of the challenges and best practices associated with software implementation.

John Sicard, EVP Development and Service Operations, Kinaxis
John Sicard has spent over eleven years helping to build a number of key functional areas at Kinaxis before being promoted to Executive Vice President, Development and Service Operations. Having started as a key contributor to the architecture and development of Kinaxis Response 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, Alcatel-Lucent, Jabil Circuit, Raytheon, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, Teradyne, and many others, has resulted in a unique practitioners perspective on how manufacturers have regained control over an increasing volatile supply chain.

As Executive Vice President, Development and Service Operations, John oversees the design and development of all Kinaxis software as well as those teams responsible for its implementation and support. Through a strong team of industry experienced consultants, integrators, educators, and a first rate deployment methodology, John's team is able to implement RapidResponse in a matter of weeks.

Before Kinaxis, John held senior software design positions in research and development at Enterprise Planning Systems, FastMAN Software Systems, Inc, 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.

Craig West, Manager, Predefined Resources, Kinaxis
Craig is Manager, Predefined Resources and is responsible for the standard resources in RapidResponse such as workbooks. Following a career as a SAP Consultant with a leading consulting company, Craig joined Kinaxis 7 years ago as an Integration consultant, whereby as part of the product implementation team Craig supported key customer deployment activities. For the last 5 years, prior to his recent appointment, Craig was a Solution Consultant, helping drive extensions to client's use of RapidResponse through reporting and business process work. Craig has worked in a high tech manufacturing environment as well as consulted for various other industry verticals such as Aerospace and Defense and Heavy Equipment. He is both a Certified Integration Consultant as well as a Certified SAP Consultant.

John Westerveld, Product Manager, Kinaxis
John Westerveld is Product Manager at Kinaxis and responsible for the RapidResponse Analytics and web interface. He joined Kinaxis over 6 years ago bringing with him 16 years of manufacturing experience including 10 years in the IT field. John is a qualified APICS instructor and is certified APICS CPIM.