Mark Cross
Group President and
Senior Vice President
JohnsonDiversy, Inc.

B.S University of Maine
M.B.A. Harvard Business School

Mr. Cross has 23 years of operations management, consumer and B2B marketing, international business and general management with Kimberly-Clark Corporation in both North America and Europe.

Currently he is the Group President and Senior Vice President of JohnsonDiversy, Inc., a company committed to being the world's most trusted source for cleaning and hygiene products and solutions.

He has served as adjunct professor at Lakeland College in Neenah, WI and has spoken at Emory University's MBA program on consumer and B2B marketing.

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Shail Godambe
Corporate Vice President & General Manager,
Supply Chain Operations Group
Motorola, Inc.
1303 Algonquin Road
Schaumburg, Il 60196

BS in Mechanical Engineering - Indian Institute of Technology
MS/Ph.D. in Industrial Systems Engineering - Illinois Institute of Technology

Mr. Godambe's current responsibilities as Corporate Vice President at Motorola, are in leading the Supply Chain activities in Supplier Sourcing, Manufacturing and Distribution Logistics for Worldwide Operations.

He joined Motorola in 1974 and has worked in Materials Management, Manufacturing Information Systems, Technical Operations and Manufacturing Operations. In 1989 he developed Sector Manufacturing Strategy and has worked in the areas of Environmental, Facilities, Supply Management, Group Support functions that included Information Systems and Infrastructure Manufacturing.

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André Kuper
Manager, Process Technology
Hewlett-Packard Company
1501 Page Mill Road
Mailstop 6UG
Palo Alto, CA 94304

Master's Degrees in Applied Physics and Instructional Design- University of Twente, The Netherlands

Mr. Kuper is employed at the Hewlett-Packard Company. He works with internal and external experts to define business models incorporating the power of the Internet. He creates supply chain communities balancing the need for personal contact, access to information, and action. He collaborates with a multitude of partners to define business webs driven by customer needs for small business, consumer, and major account segments. He focuses on velocity, volatility, and flexibility.

He has published in Cutter IT Journal, achieving supply chain excellence through technology, Production and Operations Management Society, the IT Journal , and on the Internet.

Prior to his work with HP, Mr. Kuper worked at the Applied Superconductivity Lab at UT and at Anderson Consulting ECC in Enschede, The Netherlands, doing research and applying innovations in superconducting technology and multimedia self -learning tools, respectively.

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Len Johnson
VP, Marketing
McGraw-Hill Companies
1221 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10020

BA - Political Science - George Washington University
MBA - University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

As Vice-President , Corporate Marketing at McGraw-Hill, Mr. Johnson is responsible for managing the Corporate brand globally, and for communicating it to key audiences through both online and off-line media vehicles. In addition, he leads efforts to identify and build synergy and marketing capabilities across the company's business units including Standard & Poor's, Business Week, and McGraw-Hill Education. Finally, he manages the Corporate Intranet and Internet.

Prior to joining The McGraw-Hill Companies in June 1999, he was with Unilever HPC NA for 15 years. His last position was as a marketing director responsible for developing new businesses and building one-to-one marketing capabilities. Before that , he worked in brand management in a range of packaged goods categories.

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Robert V. Mazza
Director Assurance Programs, IBM
P.O. Box 12195
3039 Cornwallis
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709

University of Virginia, Darden School of Business
M.S.E.E.- Syracuse University
M.E. - Engineering Physics Stevens Institute of Technology

Mr. Mazza is the Executive Consultant and Technical Industry Management Leader involved in technology product development, product assurance/ validation and communications for IBM worldwide. He is the key leader in ensuring new products exceed quality, customer and business requirements. He drives development, validation, testing and methods to worldwide Personal Systems Organizations. He analyzes and approves product readiness for all PSG Products/ Brands, including: Server, Desktop, Commercial/Consumer Computer System, and Mobile/ThinkPad Products.

He has extensive experience in multiple engagements focusing on quality, customer and business requirements, providing comprehensive development, validation and testing/methods for IBM worldwide. He has comprehensive knowledge of strategic plans, major corporate strategic directives and operational projects utilizing a perspective of a corporate-wide review of IBM hardware/systems development and product development operations.

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CJ Popp, Exec. Managing Director
CS Technology, Inc.
535 8th Avenue, 14th Fl
New York, NY 10018

Serving as Executive Managing Director of Business Development , Ms. Popp is responsible for leading and directing all Marketing, Sales Support, Branding , Corporate Communications, and Product Development initiatives for CS Technology. Having worked for CS Technology since 1995, she has a keen knowledge of technology consulting best practices that are continually integrated into the firm's business development efforts.

Having worked on many of CS Technology's most reputable projects prior to managing the Business Development efforts, she brings a wealth of industry expertise and client knowledge to her position. During her 12 years in the telecommunications industry, CJ's qualifications include providing strategic project planning and implementation management for large corporate relocations as well as building the Managed Services practice for the firm. In addition to directing the business development efforts for CS Technology, she is an integral part of the strategic planning efforts for the firm's enterprise engagements.

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Manuel D. Ron
Of Counsel
Fognani Guibord Homsy & Roberts, LLP
1350 Avenue of the Americas
31st Floor
New York, New York 10019

B.A. Economics St. John's University
J.D. St. John's University
MBA NYU Leonard N. Stern School of Business

Manuel D. Ron is Of Counsel in the Venture Group of Fognani Guibord Homsy & Roberts, LLP, a national and international law firm with offices in Denver, Chicago and New York. His practice includes providing legal and business advice involved in raising capital and building growth companies to emerging businesses and private equity investors. Manuel has also held senior positions in operating companies including CEO of Actiant, a venture capital backed application software provider.

Manuel's business career began as an associate in the investment banking division of Citibank. His involvement in the computer industry began when he later joined multimedia application developer Sixth Gear, ultimately serving as Director of Legal and Business Affairs. Manuel is a former U.S. Army officer and paratrooper. He is a graduate of St. John's University School of Law and also earned an M.B.A. in Finance from New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business.

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R. Malcolm Schwartz
Partner, ret
PriceWaterhouseCoopers
14 Edgewood Drive
Summit, NJ 07901

BSE Princeton University

Mr. Schwartz recently retired as a senior partner in the Corporate and Operations Strategy practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Strategic Change Business Unit in the New York area, and has continued to counsel several clients and to provide services that often involve complex relationships of strategy, organization and operations, in terms of business processes, controls, costs and profitability, risk management, and management systems and controls.

He has been a leader of PwC's worldwide advanced cost-management systems and controls. He had been a leader of PwC's consulting practice in the New York area; was one of the principle authors of the project that provided integrated guidance on internal control and risk management to the financial-professional sponsoring organizations; and was one of the designers of the PwC's Enterprise approach to assessing performance, cost effectiveness and benchmarking/best practices. He has over 40 years of business experience, which includes staff, supervisory and management roles, in industrial engineering, materials management, distribution, and accounting and financial functions; as well as division and group management.

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