Terry Kline holds responsibility for coordinating product development process reengineering activities, and the implementation of associated information systems across GM business sectors. In addition, Terry has been assigned to oversee information and technology requirements for GM’s expansion into Emerging Markets. His direct experience in vehicle development and extensive background in information systems implementation are integral to driving GM’s common global product development processes. Terry also interfaces with GM’s joint venture and alliance partners to align their capability with GM common systems and processes across Global Product Development. Terry served dual capacity as the Chief Information Officer for Asia Pacific from December 2004-December 2007. In this capacity, he was responsible for the deployment and operation of IT systems across the region. He was also a member of the Asia Pacific Strategy Board. Prior to that position, Terry was the Chief Information Officer for North America Product Development. Terry joined GM from New Venture Gear, Inc. where he served as Vice President and Chief Information Officer. Prior to that assignment, he worked at Navistar International as Director of Information Systems, Truck Engineering and Manufacturing. There, he was responsible for collapsing the Engineering, Manufacturing, Service Parts and Sales organizations to a single bill of material master. Terry has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Toledo in Computer Science and Engineering and an MBA from Indiana University.

Mr. John Kolb is the Vice President of Engineering for Proliance International, Inc. He holds a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. At Proliance, he is responsible for all Product Design and Manufacturing Process Development that includes collaboration with global partners for worldwide integration of product/process initiatives. John is the recipient of the SAE International Arch T. Colwell Merit Award in Recognition of his Outstanding Contribution to SAE Literature that Advances the Technology of Self-Propelled Vehicles. His work here is developed around advancements in predictive fatigue analysis. Mr. Kolb has also won several awards from SAE International for Oral Presentations on Fatigue and Structural Stress Research Involving Vehicular Heat Exchange. As Vice President of Engineering at Proliance International, Inc. and in previous roles throughout his career, John has worked to integrate CAE and IT tools globally to drive flexible, efficient Manufacturing Processes. He has also presented extensively on Proliances' PLM strategy that focuses on high velocity product development and has resulted in impressive cost reduction and quality benefits. Mr. Kolb's PLM strategy offers a global solution for the future that is applicable to all industries.

Don is the Executive Director of Advanced Development for MEDRAD, Inc., a Pittsburgh-based manufacturer of innovative medical equipment and disposable products used in diagnostic imaging, including angiography, interventional cardiology, computed tomography, and magnetic resonance. He is responsible for managing and directing technology and product innovations and expanding the company’s intellectual property portfolio. Don sits on the MEDRAD Innovations Advisory Board and Corporate Services Advisory Board. Externally, he sits on the Board of Directors of the Business Marketing Association and serves as an Advisor to the Board of the Product Strategy Network, as well. Don holds a Master of Science and a Bachelor of Science from West Virginia University, both in Electrical Engineering. He was also a Swiger Doctoral Fellow at West Virginia University, during which he completed all of his PhD coursework. He and his wife also have the distinction of having been the first participants in ABC TV’s Wife Swap reality television series!

Paul Bevilaqua has spent much of his career developing Vertical Take Off and Landing aircraft. He joined Lockheed Martin as Chief Aeronautical Scientist of the Skunk Works, and played a leading role in creating the Joint Striker Fighter Program. He invented the lift fan propulsion system that made it possible to build a stealthy, supersonic VSTOL aircraft, and led the engineering team that demonstrated the feasibility of building variants of this aircraft for the Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps. He streamlined the new product development process by applying the principles of Lean Manufacturing to engineering and design activities. Prior to joining Lockheed Martin, he was Manager of Advanced Programs at Rockwell International. He began his career as a USAF officer assigned to the Aerospace Research Laboratories at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He received an Air Force Scientific Achievement Award for his contributions to turbulence theory, AIAA and SAE Aircraft Design Awards, AIAA and AHS VSTOL Awards, and Lockheed Martin AeroStar and NOVA awards. His publications include articles in the Journals of the AIAA and the Royal Aeronautical Society.

James Jackson is Development Systems Manger for Timex Group USA, Inc., the nations’ leading watch manufacturer. James began work with Timex as a process engineer in the case manufacturing group in Little Rock, Arkansas, thirty-five years ago. James became manager of the CAD/CAM design group in the early nineties with responsibility for product process and tooling design for new watch case components. In 1999 he joined the new product development group at corporate headquarters in Middlebury, Connecticut. In this new role James was given responsibility for acquisition, development and implementation of all new product development systems as the company expanded and globalized their manufacturing and assembly operations. Web collaboration was critical to the success of this expansion. In 2006 the company initiated new strategic processes and PLM software for development and management of all Timex Watch and Fitness Measurement products. James has worked to develop new web enabled solutions to integrate global design documentation, engineering documentation, cost analysis, forecasting, MRP, shipping and sales data into a graphic user friendly PLM console. Success required integrating various industrial design and cad software platforms and various operating systems including Windows, Unix and Linux, and database platforms including Oracle DB, Visual FoxPro, MS SQL server and user deliverables in various Microsoft office applications. At the workshop James will participate in the panel discussion examining integration strategies across companies.

Mike Burkett is regarded as the leading expert in product lifecycle management (PLM), having co-authored the first industry publication that defined the market. As the vice president of AMR Research’s Industry Value Chain Strategies team, Mike draws on more than 15 years of experience introducing and supporting products from concept to end-of-life. Over the past eight years at AMR Research, Mike, a Six Sigma Master Blackbelt, has conducted a variety of research on software developments and business issues. He currently focuses on product management and innovation, and specializes in value chain issues that are specific to aerospace and defense companies. Prior to joining AMR Research, Mike worked as a senior manufacturing engineer at The Foxboro Co. Prior to Foxboro, Mike was a motion control applications engineer for EG&G. Mike is a member of the Product Development Management Association (PDMA) and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME). He has been quoted in numerous trade publications and in Fortune and The Wall Street Journal. Mike holds a BS in manufacturing engineering technology from Wentworth Institute of Technology and an MBA from Babson College.

Mr. Bellio joined Mercury Marine in 1999 and his current role is Director – Global Product Development, Processes, Systems and Support Services with responsibility for transforming and integrating the company’s people, partners, technology and processes through the creation of an integrated system for the company’s global product development process. Fred has extensive experience in all aspects of engineering and manufacturing systems, as well as, product development process development and project management. Prior to joining Mercury Marine Fred worked for 14 years in the aerospace industry working for Boeing and Bombardier Aerospace. Mr. Bellio graduated from Ryerson Polytechnical University with a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering and has a MBA in Technology Management from the University of Phoenix.

Najib Abusalbi is Chief Architect of Operations & Production for Schlumberger Information Solutions. He joined the company in 1984 after three years in postdoctoral research in Physics and Chemistry, and has held multiple product development and management positions in several exploration and production domains – including information management director, operations manager, project director and program manager, as well as recruiting, training and career development manager, and innovation and research director. Najib holds a PhD. in Atomic Physics from Louisiana State University and is recognized as a Scientific Advisor in Schlumberger's Communities of Practice where he has been leading the Project Management community since 2005.

Keith Zobott is Corporate Director, Engineering IT Enterprise Applications at Honeywell where he has been responsible for a strategic initiative entitled VELOCITY PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT. He will discuss how this approach has allowed Honeywell to use PLM as an enabler to dramatically reduce time to market at a cheaper cost, whilst incorporating lean concepts and initiatives. Although only one-and-a-half years into the project, Keith has already witnessed a 30% reduction in cycle time, with targets of 70-80% expected to be met during the next four years. Keith will additionally consider how looking at your own business and your specific product offerings can assist you in gaining the most out of your PLM architecture.

Daniel R. Shoenhair, Director: Engineering Business Manager for PING Inc., began his career at PING 28 years ago. Starting in the marketing area, he later managed this department and spent some time as an independent sales representative for PING is South Florida. In 1996, Mr. Shoenhair was named PING’s Director of Materials leading the Production Planning, Purchasing, Incoming Inspection, Warehouse and Logistics functions of the company. Since 2001, Dan has spent time within Engineering working on PING’s new product development processes as well as establishing the company’s project management and PLM disciplines. As an Engineering Director, Dan has been intimately involved in the company’s stunning Lean PD improvements: product introductions increased from 3 to 16 per year, time to market drop from 24 to 9 months. Dan has additionally been a thought leader in bringing Toyota’s and Michael Kennedy’s knowledge capture theories to bear on the company’s engineering discoveries. Recently Mr. Shoenhair has been focused on PING’s Lean Enterprise initiatives and has led teams leaning out numerous administrative processes, such as invention disclosures, patents, trademarks, credit/collections, account receivables, commissions, returns, sales reporting and engineering test data.

Dr. Michael Grieves splits his time between the business and academic worlds. He is the author of “Product Lifecycle Management: Driving the Next Generation of Lean Thinking” (McGraw-Hill, 2006).He founded and was Co-Director of the Product Lifecycle Management Development Consortium (PLM DC) at University of Michigan’s College of Engineering. He developed and teaches the Product Lifecycle Management Overview course, the first executive-level course on PLM at the university level. Dr Grieves lectures world-wide on PLM and will use his wealth of knowledge to help attendees to adopt progressive manufacturing processes which increase profit and eliminate waste by Integrating PLM and MES.

Joe Barkai is practice director for Manufacturing Insights' Product Life-Cycle Strategies research service. In this role he is responsible for research and analysis on the types of investments that introduce operational efficiencies to the domain while improving the responsiveness to customer requirements. Mr. Barkai examines discrete manufacturing, with a focus on complex, mission-critical capital equipment to identify business imperatives, best practices and emerging technologies. Mr. Barkai's near term activities will focus on the automotive, agricultural, and construction equipment industries, and his research topics will include warranty cost containment, the creation of agile manufacturing and service organizations, and effective product lifecycle management, Service Lifecycle Management, and the process integration of the two. A senior executive with over 20 years industry experience in product management, marketing, and business development, Mr. Barkai is a thought leader with strong focus on the business value of technology in manufacturing and customer service. Prior to joining Manufacturing Insights, Mr. Barkai was the founder and principal at Diagnostic Strategies, where he provided management and technology consulting to manufacturing and service organizations of Fortune and Global companies concerning strategy, operation, and technologies. His responsibilities in this role included offering clients strategy assessment and realignment, operational analysis and improvement, business process reengineering, technology benchmarking, and technology insertion. Mr. Barkai is founder of the Transportation Industry Knowledge Management Consortium that has become the Service Technology Program Office of the Society of Automotive Engineers where he now serves in an advisory role. He is a member of IEEE, ACM, SAE, AFSM, and HDI. He has authored and delivered over 30 articles and conference presentations and has taught continuing education courses in knowledge management and information retrieval. Mr. Barkai holds a technical degree in industrial photography from Hadassah College, Israel, and a B.A. in Fine Arts, with a minor in mathematics from Haifa University, Israel. In addition, he studied computer science at the State University of New York and attended the School of Executive Development at the University of Texas at Arlington.

Jeff Hojlo is a research analyst at AMR and is responsible for research and analysis on trends and developments in product innovation and the product lifecycle management (PLM) market. Jeff will be chairing the two day conference, drawing on over 15 years of professional experience to interact with the audience and raise some interesting perspectives on PLM. Jeff also works with business and technology executives on developing product and marketing plans, and strategic business initiatives. Jeff is a member of the Product Development Management Association (PDMA), and writes on topics such as global product development and launch, integrated product and process development, and the front end of innovation.

Kurt Kuhn currently manages an organization of engineers and software developers that implements Boeing's 5 year strategic Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) plan to support major production programs. While at The Boeing Company, he has performed strength, stability, fatigue, and damage tolerance analysis of metallic and composite structures via finite element methods and classical hand analysis techniques. Also, he has experience in delivering CAE software from concept to full implementation. Kurt holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Delaware (UD). While there, he studied the analysis, test, and manufacture of composite materials at UD's Center for Composite Materials (CCM).

Bruce M. Belzowski, Associate Director and Assistant Research Scientist, received his B.A. and M.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Michigan, respectively. At UMTRI, he has authored research reports focusing on a variety of automotive topics including product development, manufacturer-supplier-dealer relations, globalization, information technology, knowledge management, and human resources. His current research topics include Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), powertrain strategies, and globalization of the automotive industry. He is director of UMTRI-AAD’s China Automotive Program and Powertrain Strategies Program. He is also a steering committee member of the GERPISA global automotive research group in France and a Joint Researcher at the Institute for Technology, Enterprise, and Competitiveness at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan.

Prior to co-founding SmartOrg in 2000, Don Creswell spent 12 years at SDG (Strategic Decisions Group) where he was Vice President and General Manager of SDG Decision Systems, a software and education arm; General Manager of the Decision Quality Association and director of that organization's Intelligent Decision Systems software organization; Director of practice development for the R&D management consulting practice and Director of The Smart Organization program. Prior to joining SDG, Don was a senior management consultant at SRI International, Vice President of Pan American World Airways, and Marketing Vice President of an RCA high tech division. In his private life he is a jazz pianist and spent some 30 years as a soccer referee, National Referee Assessor, serving for several years as National Director of Referee Assessment for the United States Soccer Federation. His wife, Terri, is a professional photographer and writer.

Giri has worked in prestigious IT & Design organizations for over 13 years and lead projects involving PLM implementation & customization, CAD customization, Engineering-Application development involving multitude of technologies. PLM implementation and Engineering software development experience is well supported by his strong experience in the manufacturing domain. He also has an extensive experience in initiating technology focused CoEs and growing these groups.

As Vice President, Marketing and Strategy, Jeff leads Invention Machine’s corporate marketing programs, and overall market strategy. Jeff brings to Invention Machine more than 15 years of enterprise software marketing experience. Jeff joined Invention Machine from Endeca, a leader in the enterprise search market, where he held a variety of marketing and operational leadership positions, fueling explosive growth over his four and a half year tenure. Jeff was the Executive Director of Product Marketing at Ascential Software, playing a key role in the organic growth and strategic acquisitions that led Ascential to become a recognized leader in enterprise data integration, and ultimately a key acquisition in IBM’s information management strategy. Jeff has also held marketing and product management positions at Alphablox and Idiom Technologies, and was the original product manager at Business Objects. Jeff is a graduate of Tufts University with a BA in Computer Science.

Don is the Executive Director of Advanced Development for MEDRAD, Inc., a Pittsburgh-based manufacturer of innovative medical equipment and disposable products used in diagnostic imaging, including angiography, interventional cardiology, computed tomography, and magnetic resonance. He is responsible for managing and directing technology and product innovations and expanding the company’s intellectual property portfolio. Don sits on the MEDRAD Innovations Advisory Board and Corporate Services Advisory Board. Externally, he sits on the Board of Directors of the Business Marketing Association and serves as an Advisor to the Board of the Product Strategy Network, as well. Don holds a Master of Science and a Bachelor of Science from West Virginia University, both in Electrical Engineering. He was also a Swiger Doctoral Fellow at West Virginia University, during which he completed all of his PhD coursework. He and his wife also have the distinction of having been the first participants in ABC TV’s Wife Swap reality television series!

Jan LaHayne is the VP and CIO for Littelfuse, the world's No. 1 fuse maker, according to Hoover's. Headquartered outside Chicago, the $600-million firm has more than 10,000 customers in 32 locations around the world. In the high-speed electronics business, products can move through an entire lifecycle in less than 18 months and as the CIO of Littelfuse, Jan is charged with insuring that the organization’s information systems are secure and the global data is available and visible across the world wide locations both internally and externally – a function that PLM surpasses. She will co-present with the Global Director of Product Management at Littelfuse, Jay Harris to discuss how they brought PLM to the executive board and got senior level buy in for this investment. From an original environment that saw PLM as a one time package, this presentation will look at the Littelfuse’s global vision for PLM and their estimated return over the forthcoming years.

Jay Harris is the Director of Product Management for the Automotive Business Unit of Littelfuse, Inc. world's No. 1 fuse maker, according to Hoover's. Jay’s work has touched every functional area related to the development and launch of new products including: engineering, research, manufacturing, operations, acquisitions, market development and business development. Jay has also Global Director of Product development where he managed the global engineering team for the Automotive Business Unit. It was in this role that he began to understand the importance of Product Lifecycle Management. Like most companies, Littelfuse had numerous legacy, paper-based, systems that were not meeting the needs of their evolving business. As one of the major champions for the establishment of a PLM system within Littelfuse, Jay has worked with a global team to sell the importance of robust data management systems and will discuss with his co-presenter Jan LaHayne, CIO, Littelfuse the importance of driving the fundamental disciplines.

Mike Burkett is the VP of Research for AMR and is regarded as the leading expert in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), co-authoring the first industry publication that defined the PLM market. Mike’s presentation draws on more than 15 years of experience introducing and supporting products from concept to end-of-life. As a Six Sigma Master Blackbelt, he has conducted a variety of research on software developments and business issues. Recently, Mike completed research on benchmarking the perfect product launch, the value of PLM, program management in aerospace and defense, aftermarket services, lean manufacturing, and quality systems for Six Sigma manufacturing. As a result of this Mike will be looking at the importance of change management in organizations

Kathryn Bundy is the Vice President, Technical Product Knowledge, for Cadbury Schweppes, the #3 soft-drink maker in the world. In her role, Kathryn is accountable for strategic initiatives to ensure that Cadbury’s captures and utilizes its data and knowledge to lead the innovation agenda from a product perspective. Kathryn will discuss how to transform data and information into usable knowledge through collaboration and community activities. The work being done in these initiatives impact every aspect of the product lifecycle from concept development to product obsolescence. Like other companies Cadbury has gone from multiple legacy systems (everything from paper to very sophisticated solutions) and is working towards a comprehensive solution and business process to aid in the transformation of the confectionery business. Kathryn has been with Cadbury’s for 20 years and has worked in a variety of disciplines – including product development, quality, operations efficiency, and knowledge management.

Linda Channell is the Global Director, Upfront Vehicle Development Process Systems, Information Systems and Services for General Motors. She is responsible for the information technology development and deployment within GM’s Global Design Centers. Linda will discuss the challenges she and her team faced globally implementing technologies that have transformed GM’s Global Design Centers. She’ll highlight the importance of aligning the IT and business strategies and how the initiative has given the designers and engineers the ability to work as a single, virtual team capable of global, real-time collaboration. The efforts have enhanced GM’s ability to develop innovative vehicles and to design, engineer and manufacture vehicles anywhere in the world for any market in the world.

John Crary is the V.P. and CIO of Lear Corp. He has been involved in the Lear corp. PLM project since it's inception a few years ago and works hand in hand with various OEM customer counterparts for an efficient use of the PLM tools. He'll describe that project and it's on-going stages as the auto industry embraces PLM. In the complex and sometimes urgent world of a global tier-one automotive supplier, it is always important to keep customer satisfaction as the primary mission. Lear corp., a global just-in-time and sequenced provider of automotive interiors and components, uses PLM to insure that the products are designed and delivered to keep the customer, the thirty plus global automotive manufacturers, delighted. You will hear how PLM is used in the supplier industry for integration with the customer, the management of design work for products that are delivered a few years out and the resultant importance of PLM for delighting automotive OEM's worldwide.

Keith Zobott is Corporate Director, Engineering IT Enterprise Applications at Honeywell where he has been responsible for a strategic initiative entitled VELOCITY PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT. He will discuss how this approach has allowed Honeywell to use PLM as an enabler to dramatically reduce time to market at a cheaper cost, whilst incorporating lean concepts and initiatives. Although only one-and-a-half years into the project, Keith has already witnessed a 30% reduction in cycle time, with targets of 70-80% expected to be met during the next four years. Keith will additionally consider how looking at your own business and your specific product offerings can assist you in gaining the most out of your PLM architecture.

Raj G. Iyer leads the Product Lifecycle Management program at The United States Army’s Tank Automotive Research development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) where is responsible for developing and integrating technology and processes for the lifecycle data management of the Army’s combat and tactical vehicle fleet. The PLM solutions being developed address enterprise interoperability, configuration management and product data exchange with OEMs to more efficiently provide logistics support to the Army’s extended lifecycle land assets. Dr. Iyer will address the Army unique challenges associated with implementing PLM along with a preview of some innovative approaches to implementation such as the use of open architectures and standards. Dr. Iyer will also discuss results from various pilot projects that have resulted in time savings of several orders of magnitude in comparison to the current product data process.

Korhan Sevenler is the Director of PLM in Xerox. He leads the development, integration & deployment of commercial and internally developed IT solutions globally in Xerox. His organization is responsible for PLM systems including CAD/CAM/CAE, PDM, Requirements Management, Problem Management, Configuration and Change Management, Visualization, Data Exchange and Supplier portal. Xerox is currently deploying new integrated CAD & PDM solutions corporate-wide. Dr. Sevenler will discuss the “think global, act local” approach and the balance between common global processes and local optimization. He will discuss the challenges and opportunities in changing processes/systems in the midst of important platform development cycles. While reducing the overall cost in R&D, Xerox has improved productivity year after year by innovative approaches like Design for Lean Six Sigma (DfLSS) for many different functions. He will explain Xerox’s strategy to reduce/eliminate internally developed applications with Commercial Off-the-Shelf systems.

Jeff Hojlo is a research analyst at AMR and is responsible for research and analysis on trends and developments in product innovation and the product lifecycle management (PLM) market. Jeff will be chairing the two day conference, drawing on 15 years of professional experience to interact with the audience and raise some interesting perspectives on PLM. Jeff also works with business and technology executives on developing product and marketing plans, and strategic business initiatives. Jeff is a member of the Product Development Management Association (PDMA), and writes on topics such as global product development and launch, integrated product and process development, and the front end of innovation.

Dr Michael Grieves is a renowned international author and PLM expert, whose portfolio of work in this area includes the critically acclaimed Product Lifecycle Management: Driving the Next Generation of Lean Thinking (2005). In his presentation, Michael will emphasize the importance of applying PLM to product development processes and will highlight the relationship between PLM and ERP, establishing the different function between the two. He will proceed to reveal the key applications forecasted for the future of PLM implementations and outline the benefits they will bring to large and small organizations.

Jim Miller is Vice President of Product Operations for Cisco’s worldwide manufacturing organization. He is responsible for new product introduction (NPI) and product lifecycle management for key Cisco products including all routing platforms, IP Phones, switching as well as government systems. Interfacing directly with the engineering design, supply chain and manufacturing organizations, Jim has created a continuous improvement strategy and culture through which new processes and systems are improving the quality, cost and delivery metrics throughout the product lifecycle . Jim will address how, in a world where manufacturing and operations have changed from building products to building new business models, new manufacturing business models have become synonymous with value creation for Cisco. In order for Cisco, or any business to succeed, partnering with vendors to create and enable these new business models, whether they’re for hardware, software, or value-added services is a critical business component. Jim will also focus on the many dynamic factors constantly influencing the manufacturing business environment – specifically globalization, the role of IT, environmental compliance, and macro-economics.

Christian Rimkus is Senior Consultant for PLM Solutions at Airbus CIMPA and works as a DMU Quality Project Manager on behalf of Airbus in Hamburg. One of his current projects deals with product data quality control by means of key performances indicators (KPI) within the A380 program. Christian graduated as a naval engineer and started his career working for TRIBON Solutions (now AVEVA), a software system responsible for preliminary design, hydrostatic and stability calculations for all kind of vessels. He specializes in application development for production planning, assembly planning and weld planning systems for the shipbuilding industry. Throughout this panel discussion Christian will draw on first-hand experience from his current position at Airbus, through to his past involvement in the development of PLM integration tools for shipbuilding CAD/CAM software. Christian’s knowledge and experience lends itself brilliantly to discuss with the other panelists the trials and tribulations of PLM integration.

Melissa McCreary is an Information Technology Project Manager for Smith & Nephew, Inc. Melissa has 7 years of experience in Information Systems Project Management including establishing and managing budget, schedule, and resources for implementation of SAP DMS/ECM, Solidworks integration with SAP and Global Labeling Systems implementation. Melissa also has expertise in Part 11 Compliance and system validation requirements for critical software business systems. Melissa holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Liberal Arts from Pennsylvania State University and a Project Management Certification from Boston University.

Steven White is the PLM Project Manager at Heartware and has enthusiastically led organizations and consulted with start-up companies in the Research, Development, Clinical Evaluation and Commercialization of numerous Medical Device Technologies. Innovative Devices he has developed through Product Lifecycle stages include; Ventricular Assist Devices, Interventional Cardiology and Vascular Access Devices, Laparoscopic Devices, Gastroenterology Devices, Hemodialysis Devices and Dental Implants. Throughout his career, Steven has developed many successful cross-functional organizations and systems to deliver highly profitable device technologies with leading Medical Professionals world wide. Steven discusses how he has created, implemented and managed highly motivated Design Teams, robust Design Control Systems, and effective Product Development Systems, for small Enterprises and Global Companies.

Jody Crow is Director of PDM Implementation at Cutter & Buck. A key benefit from implementing a PLM environment that Jody will discuss has been the vast increase in information visibility across the entire business. Historically, Jody has observed that detailed product information was only accessible to the design and technical groups that created the information. However, with PLM in place, different groups in production, inventory management and customer service can now access such information. Jody will also provide insight into how Cutter & Buck is now able to easily communicate information to vendors all over the world, in turn enhancing collaborative efforts. Finally, Jody will outline her strategy to save time and streamline the implementation process. Jody's knowledge and hindsight will give delegates an excellent opportunity to learn and to benchmark themselves against other companies.

Chris Farinacci serves as vice president, applications marketing at Oracle Corporation, the world’s largest enterprise software supplier, where he is responsible for product lifecycle management, supply chain management, and enterprise visualization marketing. Prior to joining Oracle, Mr. Farinacci served as senior vice president, marketing at Agile Software, responsible for all global marketing functions. Prior to Agile, Mr. Farinacci held various leadership roles in marketing, strategy, product development and field operations at i2, Aspect Development and SDRC (now Siemens PLM). Mr. Farinacci has over 17 years experience in the engineering and design, supplier relationship management, supply chain management and product lifecycle management software markets.

Ahmed Noor is Director of the Old Dominion University’s Center for Advanced Engineering Environments, funded by NASA, plus he is also Eminent Scholar and William E. Lobeck Professor of Aerospace Engineering, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA. His current professional activities focus on advanced learning technologies, visual simulations, intelligent design and synthesis environments. Mr Noor will leverage his work on collaborative distributed knowledge management, structural and computational mechanics to deliver a sensational presentation highlighting the future of virtual product creation. He is a Fellow of the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA) and of five professional societies: the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Academy of Mechanics, and the U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics. He is a Founding Member of both the International and U.S. Associations of Computational Mechanics, and is a Past President of USACM.

Jeff Frye, president of Linx/AS, has led the company from its inception in 2000 to its prominent position as SAP's go-to-market partner for process and CPG industries in the NPDI/PLM arena. Jeff’s strategic perspective on SAP and deep understanding of the underpinning technology has also powered the growth of the Innovations division and solidified Linx/AS as a partner in the SAP industry value network (IVN). Over the past year, he has successfully driven the launch of multiple SAP NetWeaver-based products, including Intellectual Property Manager™ (IPM) and WorkSafe Suite™, as well as the development of the formulation workbench. His strength in leadership is rooted in ground-up experience: ten years of manufacturing and shop-floor insight greatly honed Jeff's eye for applying technology to business. He rose from the senior consulting ranks at Deloitte to a directorship at CIBER/Digiterra, and, along the way, he founded NetCorp, an Internet/Java application development firm.

Rosalee Hermens is Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Timberland. In this role, she is responsible for development and execution of Timberland’s global information systems and strategies. Prior to joining Timberland, Rosalee was the founder and Principal of Hermens and Associates, a strategic IT management consulting firm. Before leading the consulting firm, she was Vice President and Chief Information Office for Aspen Technology, Inc. Her previous experience also includes eleven years at Compaq / Digital Equipment Corporation. In addition to her technology experience, Rosalee has financed middle-market and high-technology companies, led budgeting and strategic planning, managed the process for numerous acquisitions and directed the leasing and fit-out of office buildings. She has extensive international experience, having lived and worked in the US, France and Taiwan.

Mike is responsible for defining and executing on Adobe’s strategy for the Manufacturing industry. Mike brings with him over 25 years of experience in Manufacturing, both as a practitioner in the industry as well as a marketer to this segment. In addition to his five years as a manufacturing manager on the factory floor, Mike spent 15 years at Hewlett Packard where he was part of the team that established the HP manufacturing vertical program across the world. He has also held management positions at ILOG, a French software company, and BEA, a leading middleware company. Mike has both a Bachelor and Master of Science in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University, and an MBA from Santa Clara University.

Bill is a Senior Enterprise Architect in the IT organization and joined Intel in 1996. He started at Intel working on the design engineering application and has since been involved in deploying large enterprise capabilities across the company. Bill has spent the majority of his team helping to improve master data and product data management capabilities and is responsible for the MDM and PLM architecture for Intel. He has helped the company deploy a central instance for product data management, including product excursion and issue management, environmental compliance, and external collaboration capabilities in conjunction with a master data foundation that links product lifecycle and PLM with supply planning and ERP.

For over 20 years Kreg has held a variety of positions in the field of Quality. While in Canada, Kreg worked for organizations such as Pella Hunt Corporation, Kaiser Aluminum, and Collins & Aikman Plastics. Since arriving in the United States, Kreg has worked for Collins & Aikman, Lear Corporation, and Triple S Plastics. He is currently Director of Global Quality Systems for Cequent Performance Products, a producer of trailering and towing products located in Tekonsha Michigan and Mosinee Wisconsin. Kreg has most recently been published in Tracks Magazine and contributed to the Certified Quality Engineer Handbook Second Edition published through American Society of Quality. Kreg spoke at this year’s Global supply chain conference held in Phoenix by AMR. Kreg has held the position of education and certification chairman, local London chapter of ASQ, while in Canada, and has spoken throughout the United States on the topic of Global Quality Systems, Technology and Quality Integration, and most recently Metrics that Matter.

Sudarsan Rachuri is a Research Professor with the Department of Engineering Management, George Washington University, Washington DC. He is a Guest Researcher in the Design and Process Group, Manufacturing Systems Integration Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD. Presently, his work at NIST includes development of information models for product lifecycle management, assembly models and system level tolerancing, and interoperability standards development. He coordinates research projects with industry and academia. He is the regional editor (North America) for the International Journal of Product Development, and associate editor for International Journal of Product Lifecycle Management. His presentation discusses how PLM can be used to maintain and monitor quality levels within a product lifecycle and in turn serve to cut costs and bring products to market faster.

Mr. Prang is the CEO and Chairman of Conformia and joined Conformia from the Mentor Capital Group, LLC (MCG) where he advised technology entrepreneurs in product strategy, business development, sales, marketing, and operations. A 25-year enterprise software veteran, he drives corporate strategy, product development, operations, and industry specific practice teams. He has experience in software and services business models, and in all cases his companies emerged as market leaders during his tenure. He was previously President of Aspect Development, Division President of Cadence Design Systems and Division General Manager of GenRad. Mr. Prang has mentored multiple enterprise software companies including Epic Design (now Synopsys), Agile Software, Rightworks (now i2), and SupplyBase (now i2). He will leverage his knowledge within this field to lead the Conformia workshop on the challenges and opportunities for PLM in the Process Industries, discussing the key drivers for the process and pharma industries to adopt PLM.

Dr. Jordan Cox is the head of the Advanced Product Development which focuses on the modeling and automation of trans-national product development using network models and autonomous agents. He has consulted for Honeywell Corporation, Johnson & Johnson, CCI, and United Technologies Inc , plus he is currently serving on the Technical Advisory Board for Pratt & Whitney. Virtual product development is a technique used to simulate potential product development and explore the possible options and implications of various approaches before a company actually deploys. Aerospace companies have been using this technique in recent years to estimate, /a priori/, potential ROI for a given product development strategy. Virtual product development uses network models of workflow similar to the structures used in product lifecycle management. These techniques, once coupled with PLM, allow for the investigation of the impacts of trans-national organizational structures and other global issues. This presentation will review current research in virtual product development including autonomous agent strategies that facilitate optimization and automation. Also, several case studies from the aerospace sector and other industries will be presented.

Prior to founding SmartOrg Inc., Don Creswell served in various management positions at Strategic Decisions Group (SDG), including Vice President and General Manager of SDG Decision Systems, a software and education arm; General Manager of the Decision Quality Association and Director of SDG's Intelligent Decision Systems software organization; Director of Practice Development for the R&D management consulting practice; and Director of the Smart Organization Program. Prior to joining SDG, Don was a senior management consultant at SRI International, Vice President of Pan American World Airways, and Marketing Vice President of an RCA high tech division.

Harin Shetty is a Managing Director in BearingPoint’s Enterprise Solutions Group, one of the world’s largest management and technology consulting firms. His key strengths are in global supply chain strategies and enterprise resource planning (ERP) assessments for multinational corporations. He has acted as a key client advisor to senior management in their strategic business assessment, process transformation, ERP system planning, and systems implementation initiatives. He has had wide international consulting experience focused on delivering value to client business fundamentals that have an effect on their bottom line and revenue growth. His presentation will focus on challenges faced by global organizations across their ideation to launch platforms. He will highlight best practice organizations who successfully manage their product life-cyle management solution and key technology enablers.

Paul O'Connor is an expert in the field of New Product Development. For nearly 20 years he has worked with executives and facilitated teams of senior managers. In 1984, Paul founded The Adept Group Limited, PLC. Capitalizing on his skills in business strategy, marketing research, technology assessment, organizational process and team facilitation, Mr. O'Connor influences and guides the product development and innovation efforts of clients in both consumer and industrial markets, around the globe. His clients include many of the world's best know companies. Paul is author of "Implementing a Stage-Gate Process: a Multi-Company Perspective," which is used as a teaching aid in several MBA programs. He is also a contributing author on implementing product development process to The Handbook of New Product Development (John Wiley & Sons, 1996) and a past contributor to R&D Magazine. He is presently Managing Director of The Adept Group, past president of PDMA (Product Development and Management Association. He currently teaches portfolio and pipeline management for the PDMA and the Institute for International Research.