Keynotes

Sierra Dall
President and CEO, Challenge International, Inc.
Climate Change: The Risks... The Opportunities... and The Story of a Sexy New Electric Car
Save the Energy - Leverage the Technology
Sierra Dall Bio

Sierra Dall is President and CEO of Challenge International, Inc., Sierra graduated as one of 4 women with a degree in conservation from Michigan State University. She then followed a wildly diverse career path that involved founding several different businesses including a vocational school for dressage instructors.

In 1995, Sierra formed Challenge International,Inc. a firm that facilitated meetings in order to improve communication within businesses. This led to facilitating meetings during conference calls and ultimately to her becoming an expert in the area of conference calling and web conferencing technologies.

Recently, Sierra combined her conservation background with her webcasting expertise. She is now producing live online seminars that bring businesses together worldwide to discuss and explore the latest solutions for renewable energy, sustainability and green building.

Martin Eberhard
CEO, Tesla Motors
Climate Change: The Risks... The Opportunities... and The Story of a Sexy New Electric Car
Martin Eberhard learned to drive on a farm in Kansas when he was just 13 years old. There began a lifelong fascination with, and love of, cars and driving. So much so that Martin can still remember every car he's ever purchased, how much it cost, and how many miles were on it when he got it. It's this passion, along with 20 years of start-up, management, and development experience that Martin brings to Tesla Motors. Martin considers himself the "customer's advocate," obsessed with making the user experience natural, familiar, and comfortable. Under his guidance, Tesla Motors has developed a revolutionary electric car that goes from 0 - 60 miles per hour in 4 seconds and travels 240 miles on one charge.

Previously, Martin was a co-founder of two successful start-ups, including being CEO of NuvoMedia which he sold to Gemstar - TV Guide International for $187 million in 2000. He now lives in both Northern and Southern California with his college sweetheart, Carolyn, and their two children.

Danielle Levitas
VP, Consumer and Broadband Research, IDC
Women at Play: Women as Consumers of Entertainment Technology
Danielle Levitas is the vice president of IDC's Consumer and Broadband Markets group. She is responsible for driving research initiatives for the subscription services. Ms. Levitas serves as IDC's consumer market expert and conducts custom consulting research across the segment. She is a driven professional with a strong commitment to customer service, advising her clients on a variety of industry trends and developments.

The Consumer Markets programs track trends in gaming, digital audio,
digital television, TV services, next-gen DVD, online consumer content
services and behavior, home networking, and more. The Consumer Broadband
Market program tracks global broadband adoption drivers and trends. The
Consumer Multiplay Services program analyses service providers' bundling
strategies and the impact on and influence from IT vendors, CPE makers,
content providers and others. Included in these services are forecasts of
the technologies, services, and subscribers and extensive vendor analysis,
market positioning, and segment trends. The group also conducts numerous
surveys throughout the year to create a solid foundation for the research
and to inform clients of consumer demand, usage, and preferences.

In 2001, Ms. Levitas launched IDC's Interactive Consumer Services programs,
expanding IDC's coverage in gaming and TV research. In 2004, she expanded
IDC's consumer research products to create dedicated programs for the home
networking and audio markets and helped launch IDC's regional consumer
research programs. Prior to joining IDC's Consumer Device and Technologies
service in 2000, she was a research manager for IDC's storage service,
responsible for conducting research on the worldwide storage market. Since
joining IDC's Storage program in 1995, Ms. Levitas focused on the worldwide
Winchester disk drive market and its components and in 1998, launched IDC's
first U.S. Storage Mechanism end-user survey, which identified market
trends for storage in consumer and commercial environments. In 1999, she
created IDC's first hard disk drive forecast by consumer application. Ms.
Levitas has a bachelor's degree in finance from the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst.

Rebecca Rhoads
Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Raytheon Company
Sharing Our Wisdom
Rebecca R. Rhoads is Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Raytheon Company. She was elected to her current position in April 2001. Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) with 2005 sales of $21.9 billion, is an industry leader in defense and government electronics, space, information technology, technical services, and business and special mission aircraft. With headquarters in Waltham, Mass., Raytheon employs 80,000 people worldwide.

As Chief Information Officer, Rhoads is responsible for developing and implementing company-wide information systems and policies, as well as overseeing the technical direction the company is pursuing in the area of Information Technologies and Systems.

Previously, Rhoads was the Vice President of Information Technology for Raytheon's Electronics Systems Business Unit. In this role she was responsible for all aspects of Information Technology in support of business requirements including development, direction and implementation of segment- wide information systems. Prior to that position, she directed engineering organizations in test systems design, systems reliability, safety and product effectiveness engineering, and manufacturing engineering.

Rhoads has more than 27 years of experience within the defense industry. She began her career with General Dynamics in 1979 as an Electrical Engineer, designing automated test systems for RAM and Stinger missile programs. She worked in the Engineering and Operations directorates, holding various assignments in engineering and management at General Dynamics, Hughes and Raytheon. In addition, Rhoads taught Electrical Engineering classes at California Polytechnic University, Pomona, California.

Rhoads currently serves on the Aerospace Industries Association e-Business Executive Steering Group, the CIO Editorial Advisory Board and the IBM Board of Advisors.

Rhoads has a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from California Polytechnic University. She also holds a Master's degree in the Executive Management program from the University of California at Los Angeles Anderson Graduate School of Business Management.

Cindy Solomon
President, Solomon & Associates, Inc.
Creating a Culture of Courage: The New Leadership Challenge
Cindy Solomon is passionately committed to helping organizations build long-term, profitable relationships with their customers, their leaders and their employees through keynote presentations, executive coaching, leadership training and strategic design. An internationally recognized speaker, writer, executive coach and consultant in the fields of customer service, customer loyalty, employee engagement and leadership, Cindy captivates her audiences with her content rich and provocative message. Cindy is known as one of the most sought after leadership and customer loyalty speakers, and through her executive coaching and strategy work with corporate, public sector and professional association clients, Cindy brings her humorous and compelling insights on the current business landscape, as well as future horizons, to tens of thousands of leaders each year. Her results-oriented view of leadership development and customer loyalty comes from years of working "in the trenches" during her corporate career in marketing, sales and customer service. In addition to her speaking and consulting, Cindy is completing her first book, Creating a Culture of Courage©, due out in 2006. Contact Cindy at WWW.CindySolomon.com.

Dr. Pieter Tans
Senior Scientist, Earth System Research Laboratory, NOAA
Climate Change: The Risks... The Opportunities... and The Story of a Sexy New Electric Car
Pieter Tans obtained his PhD in Physics from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. He has been actively interested in mankind's influence on climate since 1972. In 1978, he did a postdoc with Dave Keeling at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and subsequently worked for six years at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory on high-precision measurements of atmospheric oxygen. Since 1985 he has led the Carbon Cycle Greenhouse Gases group at NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado. This group maintains a cooperative global atmospheric observing network producing the most widely used data of atmospheric CO2, methane, carbon monoxide, and several other greenhouse gases and supporting measurements.

Breakout Sessions

Lisa Askins
Sales Execution Office, IBM Applications on Demand
Participation Drives Innovation
Lisa Askins is a member of the global Sales Execution Office for IBM Applications on Demand. In this capacity she is responsible for providing internal sellers with relevant offerings, usable sales tools, compelling education and targeted marketing programs designed to drive pipeline and signings for Applications on Demand across IBM.

Prior to this role, she was the founder of a firm specializing in sales and marketing consulting for early stage companies. She has also held various management positions focusing on the marketing and selling of enterprise systems.

Ms. Askins holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communications with minors in Sociology and Literature from the University of California, San Diego.

Ani Babaian
Developer Evangelist, Microsoft Corp.
Web 2.0; Beyond The Hype, What Is It?
Ani Babaian has been with Microsoft for over 1 year working as a Developer Evangelist. Previously she worked with Statera - a Microsoft Partner focusing on software development and systems engineering. She worked as a Consultant for Statera and specialized in .NET development, SQL Server and other Microsoft technologies.

Ani's professional career at Statera has spanned working as a consultant or software architect for numerous companies large and small. She has been involved in software and system architecture, code and development reviews and analysis of several companies for salability, security, performance, standards and practices. She has also been integral with leading teams and with business analysts duties, proving her worth as a well rounded solution provider.

Ani is an experienced presenter and presented both regionally in the Denver area as well as abroad in Local events in Tehran, Iran. She has participated in numerous local user groups in both the Denver, CO area and Jacksonville, Florida and performs numerous supportive functions in the local developer community.

Along with Ani's many professional accomplishments, she is also very involved in her community by volunteering and coaching athletes in the Special Olympics as well as being an avid contributor to the Armenians of Colorado organization. Ani serves on CSIA (Colorado Software and Internet Association) events committee, is a Colorado RFID Association member and engages with technology for youth thru schools activities.

Renee Bacherman
President & CEO, Fischer International
Exercise your Business IQ (BIQ)
As President and CEO, Ms. Bacherman oversees Fischer International's global operations with a strong emphasis on product development and expansion, business development and strategic third party alliances. Throughout her career, Ms. Bacherman has focused on managing domestic and international organizations to exponential growth, and transforming organizations in response to changing and emerging market requirements.

Prior to joining Fischer International, Ms. Bacherman worked in public and privately held companies of all sizes including: New England Nuclear, Digital Equipment Corporation, Rational Software, Oracle Corporation and BMC. At Oracle, Ms. Bacherman led the $350M Federal Consulting organization that experienced unprecedented revenue and margin growth during her tenure. At BMC, Ms. Bacherman was asked to take on a variety of roles including Vice President and General Manager, and Vice President of North American Field Operations. She helped BMC divest itself of non-core technology and drove major consolidation and change within the American Field Operations organization.

Randi Barshack
VP of Marketing, Mercado
Shopping in Web 2.0.
Randi Barshack, VP Worldwide Marketing at Mercado Software is an 18 year veteran of marketing, media and technology. At Mercado, she is responsible for driving the marketing vision and execution behind the company through Mercado's worldwide offices.

Randi was most recently Director of Marketing, Intercontinental at Silicon Graphics where she oversaw all marketing activities for Latin America and Asia Pacific. Prior to SGI, she was a founder and VP, Marketing at TeaLeaf Technology where she built the marketing department from the ground up. In addition to her Marketing background, Randi has extensive experience in the Media Industry where she produced a variety of programs for Television, Film and Multimedia. Throughout her career, Randi has spent over a decade overseas in Tokyo and Tel Aviv. She holds a joint International MBA from Kellogg Graduate School of Management and Tel Aviv University and a BA from Dartmouth College.

Martha Bejar
President, Caribbean and Latin America and Emerging Markets Strategy, Nortel
Personal Stories of Successful Women
Martha Bejar is President, Caribbean and Latin America and Emerging Markets Strategy. In this position, Martha has responsibility for Sales, Operations and Marketing for CALA, and is focused on developing a go-to-market strategy for Emerging Markets on a global basis.

Prior to her current role, Martha was responsible for the North American sales organization in support of the Regional Operating Telecommunications Companies in the US and Canada.

Since joining Nortel in 1989, Martha has held a number of key executive positions, including General Manager (GM) of the Voice over IP solutions, GM of the Network Access Division and was also the GM responsible for driving sales in the Latin America division. Prior to Nortel, Martha held numerous technical and commercial positions at BellSouth Corporation and Bell Communications Research.

Martha graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Miami as well as an MBA from Nova University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She also graduated from the Advanced Management Program at Harvard University Business School.

In addition, Martha is a member of Nortel's Women's Executive Board, and a Member of the Leadership Edge Council in support of the devolvement of Nortel's top talent. In 2000, Martha was named one of the top fifty Hispanic women in the United States by Hispanic Inc Business Magazine.

Nina Burokas
Principal, Digerati Marketing
Digital Branding: Building Your Online Identity for Career & Business Success
Nina Burokas is a brand strategist and writer who advises clients on how to leverage emerging trends to enhance their business performance and brand value. As Brandego's blogging maven, her focus is on digital branding for independent consultants and speakers. Nina writes the "Technically Speaking" column and is the book editor for WITI's Savvy magazine. She also serves as the Regional Director and Chair of WITI Orange County.

Andrew Chen
CEO, Power Reviews
Shopping in Web 2.0.
Andy is co-founder and CEO of PowerReviews, where he is responsible for the overall vision and strategic direction for the company.

At Fogdog, Andy led the customer acquisition and creative teams to create a world-class brand based on providing an extraordinary customer experience. Following the acquisition by GSI Commerce, Andy served as Vice President, Product Development and Vice President, Product Management for GSI. In these roles, he worked closely with GSI's ecommerce partners to ensure that the features and functionality of their sites provided an optimal customer experience.

Following GSI, Andy joined Yahoo! Shopping in 2004 as Director of Product Management. There, Andy was responsible for overseeing site features and functionality with a goal of positioning Yahoo! Shopping as the starting destination for customers shopping online.

Marian Cook
President, Ageos Enterprises, Inc.
Going Global: Picking your markets, improving your global leadership skills
Marian Cook is the President of Ageos, a business and technology consulting firm that helps clients find innovative ways to drive profitable growth and develop their leadership. Headquartered in Chicago with an office in Denver and working internationally, the company partners with clients to create new services, products and markets, streamline operations, and create sales and business strategies.

Long active in the community, Ms. Cook has been appointed to Chicago's Mayor's Council of Technology Advisors, Inaugural SpringBoard Midwest Steering Committee, Empowering Women Network Strategic Advisory Board, Founding member of The Field Museum's Council on Africa, Steering Committee for the W/MBE Venture Capital Conference, Regional Advisory Board, Women in Technology International (WITI), Advisory Board, Center for Information Management, Loyola University.

Her leadership has most recently been recognized by The Influential Woman in Business Award presented by The National Association of Women Business Owners, The Top 100 People of Chicago's High Tech Community by I-Street magazine and the "Woman in Black" Award winner for leadership in the technology and business community. Ms. Cook has also been a columnist for IT Contractor magazine and a subject matter expert editor for McGraw-Hill on running professional services firms.

Melanie Deitch
Director of Marketing, Facebook
Social Networking: Does it apply to business?
Melanie Deitch joined the Facebook team as Director of Marketing in January 2006. She has since been involved in every aspect of growing the company's brand and leading marketing and communications strategy. Prior to Facebook, her vision and talent were proven at Loudcloud Inc., where she managed all aspects of corporate marketing, and at Loudeye Technologies, where she served as Director of Marketing. At both companies, Melanie developed branding and marketing strategies across a diverse range of programs and audiences. During her tenure at Waggener Edstrom, Melanie drove communications strategy for the corporate, Office 2000 and MSN lines of business for Microsoft. Melanie holds a bachelor's degree from Washington State University, where she majored in communications.

Kirsten Dixson
Founding Partner, Brandego
Digital Branding: Building Your Online Identity for Career & Business Success
Kirsten Dixson is an authority on building credible online identities for career and business success. She is a founding partner of Brandego and the Reach Branding Club (a virtual personal branding program), and co-author of Career Distinction: Stand Out by Building Your Brand (Wiley 2007). She is a contributor for TheLadders.com and is frequently quoted in articles about career-related technology.

Jessica Fullmer
CEO/Founder, Sustainable Business Institute
Opening new markets for your business: - Customers, Solutions and Innovations
Jessica Fullmer founded the SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS INSTITUTE (SBI), which is recognized worldwide as a catalyst, acting on behalf of the public, to bring together global business leaders and their organizations to initiate and implement equitable worldwide sustainability practices. Over the past ten years SBI has created six initiatives, including its CEO Forum on Sustainable Business where select leaders from the government, business and global organizations are united to share information on current sustainable business practices and consumer trends.

SBI's most significant recent initiative is the Seal of Sustainability (SOS), which was designed to acknowledge best practices within businesses - much as the "Good Housekeeping Seal" was in its day.

In addition, Jessica has served on 14 different Board of Directors and is also currently the Founder, CEO and President of Mo-DV, Inc. (Mobile Digital Video technology).

Holley Garmany
Sr Mgr, Customer Development, NetApp
Participation Drives Innovation
Holley has more than sixteen years experience in sales and marketing, and understands the importance of strong customer references to close business. She is the developer of the Network Appliance customer reference management program, Evidence2Win. Focused on the importance of meeting the needs of the field sales organization, the Evidence2Win program provides the insight and evidence required at each stage in the sales cycle to optimize sales wins. It draws on proven customer reference methodology as well as cutting-edge research. As the chair of the Network Appliance Global Customer Development Council, she oversees the implementation of global best practices as well as ensuring that customer reference information is disseminated through worldwide reliance on the Evidence2Win program and the EvidenceBank reference management system.

Prior to Network Appliance, Holley was with Siebel Systems. She distinguished herself by developing marketing deliverables that leveraged her sales background, which gave her a unique understanding of what is important to customers. She was the program manager of the team that developed the company intranet, mySiebel. The internal success of that program led to developing mySiebel into a module of the CRM product suite that Siebel successfully sold to their customers.

Konstantin Guericke
Co-Founder and VP Marketing, LinkedIn
Social Networking: Does it apply to business?
Konstantin is leading the efforts to spread the word about LinkedIn and to educate users about how to advance their career and business through their trusted contacts on LinkedIn. Prior to LinkedIn, Konstantin served as VP of Marketing at Presenter, where he led product marketing, public relations and corporate marketing. Before Presenter, Konstantin was as VP Sales & Marketing responsible for the initial public launch of social software pioneer Blaxxun. Other executive roles included EVP at Caligari and Project Director of publicly-traded Micrografx. At Beresford Partners, Konstantin helped the CEOs of over two dozen high-tech startups develop their positioning and marketing strategy. He graduated with distinction from Stanford University with a B.S. and M.S. in Engineering.

Bea Hackula
Managing Director, Indlezana Pty Ltd
Bea is the Managing Director of her own consultancy company called Indlezana Pty Ltd (meaning-nurturing with care and empathy) trading as Transformation Africa. She has vast and diverse experience of more than 17 years in both the private and public sectors, 13 years of which she spent in the Quality Assurance, Manufacturing and Procurement environment and four years in Public Administration at Senior Management Level. She spent two years as an internal consultant for DaimlerChrysler in both manufacturing and procurement process re-engineering.

Rose Hagan
Senior Trademark Counsel, Google Inc.
Technology Law On the Move
Rose is Senior Trademark Counsel at Google and has responsibility for the company's trademark and domain name matters. Prior to joining Google, Rose practiced intellectual property law at law firms in Silicon Valley and Austin, Texas.

Rose graduated from Stanford University and Harvard Law School. She is a member of the International Trademark Association, where she serves on the Board of Directors and as chair of the Internet Committee's Online Trademark Use and Related Issues Subcommittee. She is a frequent speaker on internet trademark issues.

Arlene Harris
CEO, GreatCall, Inc.
Personal Stories of Successful Women
Arlene Harris, GreatCall founder and CEO, is an icon in the telecom industry with over 35 years experience as an inventor and entrepreneur, starting and building a number of successful companies in wireless related businesses. She has often been referred to as "the first lady of wireless" with extensive experience in wireless and the SOS Safety Phone targeted to older consumers. Her latest invention, the Jitterbug phones and personalized services, makes a cell phone experience as easy as it can be for baby boomers and their parents.

Ms. Harris first became involved in wireless technology when she helped operators connect telephone calls on a mobile telephone switchboard when she was five years old. She later played a formative role in the growth of her family paging and mobile telephone business, ICS Communications (NKA Metrocall) during the 1970's in Los Angeles. Before selling the company to Metromedia in the first wireless industry rollup, ICS had become the largest paging company in the world.

Next, at the beginning of the cellular age, she joined cellular technology pioneer Marty Cooper to found Cellular Business Systems, Inc., which became the largest independent billing company in the emerging cellular industry. She also is the inventor of the cellular pay phone system - the world's first end-to-end program controlled cellular system

In addition to serving on several boards and acting as an advisor to many companies over the years, Ms. Harris also holds several issued patents as well as a number of patent filings relating to wireless communications.

Denise Haskins
Dr., Raytheon
Ingredients for Women Succeeding in a Technical Field
Denise N. Haskins currently serves in Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems (IIS) business as Systems Engineering Section Manager for all ground systems which includes: Air Force Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS), Consolidated Remote Operations Facilities, and specialized Mission support systems. She orchestrates a staff of thirty personnel that provides systems engineering expertise throughout the entire system life cycle. In addition, she oversees a $10M budget and manages several projects technical direction to ensure compliance with engineering process and coordinates with other technical disciplines.

Denise is a two-year Raytheon employee who was previously employed by Hughes Technical Services Company (HTSC) for five years prior to Raytheon's acquisition. Denise's career path has included positions in both engineering and project management.

She holds a Doctor of Science degree from The George Washington University in Information Management, a Masters of Science in Technology Management at American University in Management Information Systems, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Va. Tech) with a minor in Business Management. This time period enlightened her to the predominant shortage of women and minorities in the information systems profession and motivated her to set forth to overturn numbers and augment women and minorities in her technical field.

She received numerous customer and company accolades which encompass being selected 1997 Fellow for Mentoring Minorities for Faculty at Va. Tech and as a Computer Science instructor, 2005 Raytheon Achievement Award, and 2006 Mid-Atlantic Engineering (MEC) Representative for WITI Conference. She resides in Arlington, Virginia.

Erin Hintz
Vice President, Worldwide Consumer Marketing, Symantec Corp.
Dangers of Web 2.0 And Ways To Protect Yourself
Erin Hintz is vice president of Worldwide Consumer Marketing at Symantec Corp. She leads the teams responsible for product marketing, public relations, global marketing programs, and global partner marketing for all consumer products and solutions.

Hintz has also served as vice president of Consumer and Small Business Marketing; vice president of Worldwide Marketing, Enterprise Administration; director of Product Management, Symantec Consumer Products; and group manager of End User Marketing Programs.

Katie Keating
Senior Director, Adobe Systems Incorporated
Conversations: How is Customer Engagement Changing?
Katie Keating is responsible for leading Adobe's branding identity, worldwide advertising and relationship marketing programs. In this role, Keating drives the strategy and implementation of Adobe's corporate branding efforts, ad campaigns and customer loyalty initiatives.

Since taking on her current role in 2004, Keating has successfully launched Adobe's first major initiative to build its brand in the enterprise market, reflecting the continuing expansion of Adobe's marketing investment beyond the comapny's core creative professional markets.

Keating holds a bachelor's degree in art history from the University of Southern California and a master's degree in business administration from the University of Santa Clara.

Marsha Keeffer
Executive Director, Rubicon Consulting
Shopping in Web 2.0.
Keeffer's experience in retail spans 15+ years of buying, store and distribution management. Shifting into tech, she has spent the past decade messaging, writing and providing counsel for BEA Systems, Hewlett-Packard, The Phelon Group and other Silicon Valley companies. She is currently the Executive Director of Rubicon Consulting.

Daphne Kis
Vice President of Business to Business Programs, CNET Networks
Social Networking: Does it apply to business?
Daphne Kis is Vice President of Business to Business Programs for CNET Networks. She is responsible for strategically directing CNET's thought leadership business unit, Release 1.0 and is publisher of its quarterly report. Kis executive produces Release 1.0's events, including the technology industry's executive gathering, PC Forum. Prior to CNET's acquisition of EDventure Holdings in March 2004, she was President & CEO of EDventure for 16 years.

Outside the company, Kis sits on the executive board of the New York branch of the Women's High-Tech Coalition and is a director of the Fire Island Synagogue. She serves on the board of Girls Learn International, a non-profit organization dedicated to teaching teens advocacy skills and to building female literacy worldwide. She is active in private equity investing and serves on the board of directors of iPerceptions.com and is a business partner to Montreal-based Propulsion Ventures. She previously served on the board of About.com and Chapbooks.com.

Kis holds an MBA from NYU's Stern School of Business and a bachelor's degree in Women's History from Hampshire College. She lives in Manhattan with her husband and two teenage daughters.

Carolyn Leighton
Founder/Chairwoman, WITI
Turning Your Passion Into Profit
Carolyn Leighton founded WITI in 1989 as a worldwide e-mail network for women in all technology sectors. At the time WITI was established, Ms. Leighton was President of Criterion Research, a research consulting firm for the high tech industry which she founded in 1984, as well as chair of the Core Competency Database Project at Stanford University.

Due to Ms. Leighton's leadership and vision, WITI has grown to be the premiere brand and worldwide organization dedicated to empowering women worldwide to achieve unimagined possibilities and transformations through technology, leadership and economic prosperity.

Ms. Leighton has 35 years of experience as an educator and entrepreneur. In addition to WITI, she founded four start-ups in the high-tech, legal sectors and, most recently, the pet industry. She attended the University of Michigan and has a bachelor's degree in human development from Pacific Oaks College. Ms. Leighton was named one of the "Top 100 Women in Computing" in 1997 and 2000.

In addition to her continuing work with WITI, Ms. Leighton now runs a dog camp on the central coast of California.

David Leighton
President, WITI
Building a WITI Network Leadership
Co-founder and President of Women in Technology International (WITI), David is a strong proponent of a diverse technical workforce. Founded in 1989, WITI is the premier organization for women who consider technology central to their careers, businesses, and personal lives. WITI provides regional conferences, professional development programs and a range of individual and corporate benefits to an international constituency of over 1 million. David has been the driving force behind WITI's expansion into a global enterprise; WITI has vibrant regional networks in Asia, Australia and throughout Europe and the United States.

David is a highly successful career entrepreneur who has launched and lead several start-up companies. He is the Chairman of Risk Analysis Group, a security strategies firm specializing in Integrated Risk Management(SM), the enterprise-wide application of business principles that protects and streamlines organizations. He is also the founder of Criterion Research, an executive search firm that locates highly specialized technologists and executives for Internet, software, and semiconductor companies and venture capital firms. A key member of Philippe Kahn's team, David helped to build Borland International into the #2 software company in the world. Retained to do Transmeta's Vice President of Software search prior to their IPO, David assisted then in finding most of their key technologists. David also co-founded Webolution, an Internet infrastructure and custom web-presence consulting firm whose clients include Sun Microsystems and Paramount Pictures.

Mary Jo Lockbaum
Environmental Sustainability Manager, Corporate Express
Save the Energy - Leverage the Technology
Mary Jo Lockbaum is the Environmental Sustainability Manager for Corporate Express, where she develops and implements the company's environmental sustainability strategy and supporting directives, promotes the integration of environmental considerations into corporate decision-making, and establishes corporate initiatives and project partnerships that promote sustainable practices. Prior to joining Corporate Express, Ms. Lockbaum managed solid waste reduction and pollution prevention projects, led ISO 14001 audits, and coordinated hazardous materials response efforts as an Incident Commander. Ms. Lockbaum holds a B.S. in Biology from the University of Minnesota, and an MBA from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Katherine Kelly Lutton
Incoming National Head of Litigation, Fish & Richardson P.C.
Technology Law On the Move
Katherine Kelly Lutton is the incoming head of the firm's National Litigation Practice which includes the firm's patent litigation practice; complex commercial litigation practice; white collar, government and securities litigation practice; ITC litigation practice; labor and employment practice and appellate practice. Ms. Lutton leads and tries high profile, high stakes, and high tech patent litigation in a myriad of technologies, including semiconductor technology, telecommunications, circuits and systems, computer technology and software and Internet applications. She advises clients ranging from Fortune 100 companies to start-ups on their portfolios, patent protection, patent enforcement, patent defensive efforts, patent prosecution, and other intellectual property matters. Ms. Lutton works closely with clients to devise inventive ways of achieving optimal success. In litigation, Ms. Lutton works closely with her clients to define and achieve their short and long-range objectives.

Ms. Lutton brings to the table five years of industry experience as a design engineer with General Electric, where she graduated from the prestigious Edison Engineering Program, as well as a bachelor and masters in electrical engineering. She uses her technical background and expertise, as well as her experiences teaching and speaking, to explain technical and legal concepts in a clear and persuasive manner.

Pat Lynch
Founder & Editor-in-Chief, WomensRadio/WomensCalendar
Participation Drives Innovation
Turning Your Passion Into Profit
In 1969 at the age of 25, Pat Lynch was the first woman to begin an advertising agency single-handedly in the South. By 1977, she had been listed twice in The World's Who's Who of Women and most recently in the International Who's Who and Strathmore's Who's Who. In 1996, she began WomensRadio, (www.womensradio.com) a converging medium, to promote communication for and about women. WomensRadio is now powered by their amazing audio recording and streaming service - AudioAcrobat! Now it is expanding its audio offerings including a new vanity-styled Web radio and radio syndication through the forthcoming WomensRadio "Channel." In 2002, her company began WomensCalendar (www.womenscalendar.org). Today it is the largest databank of women's events in the world reaching over 500,000 women leaders every week. Pat serves on several not-for-profits benefiting women, and is a frequent speaker on the value of opening the media to women's voices and creating the communications bridge to the future. (Contact her directly in Oakland, CA, at 510-891-0006x225 or pat@womensradio.com.)

Michael Mace
Principal, Rubicon Consulting
Humanizing & Monetizing Web 2.0
Michael Mace is a Principal at Rubicon Consulting. A 20-year veteran of some of the tech industry's toughest battles, Mike was Vice President of Strategic Marketing at Palm Source, where he helped handset companies and wireless carrier plan new smartphone products and wireless services. He was Chief Competitive Officer and Vice President of Product Planning at Palm, Inc., where he led the design of the new product planning process, and led the creation of the company's long-term product roadmap. At Apple, his titles included Director of Marketing for both Mac Platform Marketing and the Home & Education Division.

Carole McCluskey
President, EttenAj Consulting
What is a Trusted Advisor and How to Become One
Carole McCluskey is the Founder and President of EttenAj Consulting. She has more than 20 years of experience in the software and high technology industry during which she has worked with many of the world's largest companies: ÊBank of America; JPL; Lockheed; Intuit; GE; Harrah's; Steelcase; Mellon Bank; P&G; Boeing; NetApp; Cisco; and many others.

Prior to forming EttenAj, she was Vice President of Professional Services and Global Services Operations for TIBCO Software. ÊThere, she was responsible for more than $100 Million in Professional Services revenue. ÊWhile at TIBCO, she helped the company achieve record services revenue and profitability growth.

Before joining TIBCO, she was Vice President of Professional Services & Alliances for SchemaLogic, and Vice President of Sales & Services for CapitalStream. ÊShe also held technical consulting and management positions at Attachmate, DSI/Mosaix, and SpaceLabs Medical. ÊThroughout her career, she has worked hard to build strong customer relationships, deliver superior business results, and build great teams and high performing services organizations. She graduated from California State University at Fresno with a B.S. degree in Industrial Technology, Digital Systems.

Maureen McIntyre
President, McIntyre Communications Inc.
Exciting New Technologies for Energy, Cars and Fuel
Save the Energy - Leverage the Technology
Success Stories of Sustainable Companies... and What You Can Do
Maureen McIntyre's interest in green building and sustainable living dates from the late 1970s when she built solar and energy-efficient homes near Boulder, Colorado. Her education began in earnest in 1981 when she founded the Colorado Owner Builder Center where she taught owner builders how to build green homes.
In the 1980's McIntyre co-authored a book, The Owner Builder Experience and began editing and publishing a national magazine Home Resource Magazine. During the 1990's and early 2000's she served as Editor and eventually Publisher of SOLAR TODAY, a national magazine published by the American Solar Energy Society.

McIntyre is currently a freelance writer, speaker, and editor specializing in the benefits and joys of green building and sustainable living. Her writing credits include feature articles in several magazines as well as a number of publications for clients including the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the U.S. Department of Energy, and E Source.

Nilofer Merchant
CEO/Principal, Rubicon Consulting
Spirit Driven Business
Finding the Big Idea: Innovation Strategies B35
Nilofer Merchant founded Rubicon in 1999 after gaining 15 years of operational experience in key leadership positions at notable technology firms such as Apple, Autodesk, and GoLive (later acquired by Adobe). Core firm practices include definition of market and product opportunities, design of go-to-market plans, defense against competition and optimization of ROI.

Time and time again, she has used her expertise to design industry-leading go-to-market programs, winning notable awards from CRN, VAR Business and Marketing Association in the fields of marketing and channel development. Through her many successes, Nilofer has honed her multidisciplinary approach for assessing a business situation clearly, applying critical wisdom and defining a strategic direction.

A partial list of clients includes Adobe, Anystream, Apple, Autodesk, Cogito, The Douglas Stewart Company, Hewlett-Packard, Riverside, VA Software and Zeacom. Key technologies the firm consults on include CAD, consumer electronics, graphics and imaging, internet commerce, mobile devices, PCs and peripherals, software, storage, telephony, wireless platforms, workflow publishing and Web 2.0.

Merchant holds an M.B.A. from Santa Clara University and a B.S. in Economics from the University of San Francisco. She is a coach and mentor to many directors and VPs of high-tech firms who seek to elevate their performance.

Randy Methven
Executive Coach, On Your Mark
Tools for Unstoppable Leadership
Randy Methven positions herself at the interface of leadership, organizational and business outcomes. She is a senior facilitator and transformational coach with a superb track record in helping executives produce breakthroughs in the productivity and effectiveness of their people. Randy has served as an educator, consultant, senior executive, and curriculum and program leader for global businesses and educational institutions. A world class strategist, Randy specializes in helping leaders succeed in times of rapid growth by effectively dealing with the human side of change. She has designed and led training and development programs for over 100,000 people worldwide. Randy is a dynamic and entertaining speaker whose humorous insights and leading edge ideas engage participants, stimulate learning, and inspire action.

Promise Phelon
CEO, The Phelon Group
Conversations: How is Customer Engagement Changing?
A founding partner and president/CEO of The Phelon Group, Promise has more than a decade of customer relationship marketing experience. She has helped companies such as Adobe, EDS, and Hewlett-Packard, minimize sales cycles, maximize market impact and strengthen crucial customer relationships through customer leverage activities. A marketing thought leader and frequent speaker, Promise has also been widely published. She writes about Voice of the Customer, customer leverage and customer reference topics for publications such as CRM Guru, Chief Marketer, Line56, MarketingProfs, and Customer Interaction Solutions Online.

Prior to founding The Phelon Group, Promise was a director at BEA. She held senior positions in sales enablement, product strategy, and product marketing while working with customers such as APL, British Telecom, UBS Paine Webber, and Verizon. During her tenure at BEA, she launched and managed a sales-focused customer reference program designed to ensure field, customer, press, and analyst adoption. In addition, she defined and implemented an Integration Customer Advisory Council. At KPMG, Promise conducted research for SAP. Previously, she was the owner of DCommunications, a public relations firm in Dallas.

Promise holds an M.B.A. in High Technology Management from Pepperdine University and a B.A. from Southern Methodist University.

Linda Popky
President, L2M Associates
Participation Drives Innovation
Linda J. Popky is a senior marketing professional with over 20 years of proven performance in technology and B2B marketing, including extensive experience with Sun Microsystems and Cisco Systems. Currently, she is President of L2M Associates, Inc., a strategic marketing company that helps businesses better leverage their investments in marketing programs, processes and people.

Her expertise includes strategic marketing, communications and messaging, marketing team development, facilitation, sales training and support, channel/field marketing, marketing operations, industry /market development and product marketing. She has architected leading edge customer loyalty and retention programs with a focus on improved business efficiency, customer advocacy and quality, and she has a reputation for strong leadership and team management, as well as strategic program development and delivery skills.

Robin Raskin
Technology Columnist, The Princeton Review
Web 2.0; Beyond The Hype, What Is It?
Women at Play: Women as Consumers of Entertainment Technology
Robin Raskin has spent the past 25 years helping parents raise a generation of digital kids. She's the former editor of PC Magazine and former Editor in Chief of FamilyPC. She's been a columnist for USA Today Online and has authored 5 books about parenting in the digital age. She's been featured on most network television shows including: NBC Today Show, Dateline, CNN, MSNBC, Live with Regis and Kelly, CBS Early Show, and Fox's Good Day New York. As a freelance writer her work has appeared in numerous womens' and technology magazines.

Today, Ms. Raskin is known as The Internet Mom, and produces her own monthly television tours on technology that appear nationwide. This year she created a special magazine issue called Raising Teens, and is currently writing a book for Random House called "200 Things Every Parent Needs to Know About Sending their Kids to College". Raskin consults for the technology industry on strategies to reach consumers; clients include Nickelodeon, Intel, The Motion Picture Association of America, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, SONY, Virgin Mobile, Disney Publishing, Ziff Davis Publishing and Gruner and Jahr. She's also the Director of Communications at The Princeton Review. An outspoken advocate for raising safe children in a digital age, Raskin has served on numerous committees in Washington, including a two year stint with the National Academy of Sciences.

Sheryl Root
President and CEO, RootAnalysis
Creating Executable Business Strategies
Sheryl Root is a strategy, marketing and product development executive with over 18 years of experience an Hewlett-Packard Company and 10 years of software systems experience and leadership in the financial and computing industries. Her strategic and program leadership experience focused on the definition and delivery of technology-based products and solutions, and her marketing operations experience has been in creating new business models, organizational structures, cost reductions, and revenue generation programs. She has demonstrated proven leadership in business strategy development/execution, marketing operations, and software systems delivery working across departments, functional areas and geographic regions.

Sheryl is currently President/Ceo of RootAnalysis, and consults in business strategy creation and execution, program management, and marketing effectiveness for companies like HP, PeopleSoft, Santa Clara University, Novell and Philips.

Sheryl sits on several boards, including Sloan School of Business, WITI (Women in Technology International) Teach for America, and the Stanford Institute on Research in Women and Gender. She holds as Sloan Masters in Business from Stanford University

Jennifer Seibly
Counsel, Industrial Light & Magic and Skywalker Sound
Technology Law On the Move
Jennifer is Counsel at two of the Lucasfilm companies and has responsibility for a variety of corporate matters relating primarily to the current business for visual effects and sound effects production services. Such matters include the management of: the licensing and development of technology and content, the Lucasfilm companies university sponsorship program for technology development, the intellectual property portfolio and the patent strategy for all of the Lucasfilm companies.

Prior to joining the Lucasfilm companies, Jennifer practiced corporate and securities law at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Jennifer graduated from Georgetown University and King Hall School of Law (University of California, Davis).

Rayona Sharpnack
Founder, Institute for Women''s Leadership
Trading Up - 5 Essential Steps for Redesigning Yourself As A Leader from the Inside Out
Turning Your Passion Into Profit
Rayona founded the Institute for Women's Leadership in 1991 - an organization renown for it's groundbreaking work throughout the United States, Australia, and Canada. Drawing from her successful careers in education, professional sports and business, Rayona has become an inspirational coach and mentor for executives in Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, emerging businesses and non-profit organizations.

Rayona has presented her outstanding achievements in advancing women leaders and building high performance organizations to prestigious institutions and associations such as Stanford Business School, UC Berkeley Business School, Mills College, State of the World Forum, the Canadian Federal Government, the Australian Federal Government, Leadership America, and the Professional and Business Women of California. National publications such as Fast Company , Working Mother and the New York Times have showcased Rayona's coaching model and she has delivered scores of keynote speeches, and designed large conferences around the topic of developing extraordinary women leaders. Rayona is currently co-authoring a book on Contextual Leadership for publication in 2006 and is one of several featured authors of the ground-breaking book, "Enlightened Power: How Women Are Transforming the Practice of Leadership."

John Squire
General Manager, Marketing Services VP, Coremetrics
Shopping in Web 2.0.
John Squire joined Coremetrics in 2001, and is responsible for both the development and management of Coremetrics Search Marketing Services and the setting the company's vision of the market and technical strategy for Coremetrics Behavioral Analytics and Precision Marketing solutions. John has over 8 years of experience in developing and delivering Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions to market.

During his tenure at Coremetrics, Squire has held responsibility for product development and management, marketing as well as business development where he was responsible for developing partnerships, alliances and leading M&A activities. John joined Coremetrics from Chemdex, an on demand application service provider for the biotech industry, where he was the Senior Director of Product Management and a member of the Chemdex Executive Team. His team had responsibility for developing the company product roadmap, delivering new products and services, evaluating new markets, and assessing and integrating partner technologies. He also held the positions of Director of Strategic Partnerships and Senior Manager of Sales Operations. Prior to Chemdex, John worked for 3Com in Market Development where he developed and managed partnerships with Siemens, Fuji Medical Systems, Acuson, GE Medical, and other medical application providers. Prior to 3Com, John spent five years with Chevron Products, USA as a Process Engineer. John holds an M.B.A. with High Distinction from the University of Michigan and a B.S. with Highest Distinction in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Davis.

Cynthia Sterling
Director, BMC Software
Exercise your Business IQ (BIQ)
Ms. Sterling joined BMC Software in 1993. She has held several positions at BMC, including director of operations for America's field marketing, director of N. American technical services, WW director of product marketing and business development, director of operations and field enablement, program executive for compliance, and in her current role as director of Americas Marketing. Throughout her career, Ms. Sterling has led teams comprised of diverse backgrounds, geographic locations, and professional levels. International business and management experience demonstrated her influential communication and collaboration skills. Ms. Sterling is skilled in transitioning organizational behavior from chaotic and reactive to organized and proactive, and has executive management experience in identifying and hiring a diverse and talented staff that is empowered to lead an organization to the next level in its lifecycle.

Prior to 1993, Cynthia held several professional and management positions at American United Life Insurance Company. At AUL, her career activities included automating the company's data center which included deployment of several BMC Software solutions. Ms. Sterling holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics degree from Taylor University.

Joey Tamer
Consultant, Expert,
Starting and Profiting from your own Business
Joey Tamer is a widely-acclaimed strategic consultant to technology and media CEOs, U.S. and worldwide. Her work helps create wealth for founders and investors of entrepreneurial ventures, and a high return on investment for Fortune 1000 in-house ventures. Her capital strategies drive up her clients' valuations and profitability. She has a special expertise in working with emerging and disruptive technologies.

She consults to Fortune 1000 and mid-sized companies, capitalized start-ups, and investment funds. Her clients have included J.P. Morgan Capital, Sony, IBM, Apple, Hearst, Blockbuster, Technicolor, Harper Collins, Discovery Channel, Time-Warner, Agfa and Scitex.

Her clients say she is "a brilliant strategist and a practical, down-to-earth, get-it-done person," "invaluable in understanding the competitive landscape and alternative strategies" and that she "cuts right through the noise, giving a clear vision of the future," "protecting us from liability and cutting our costs."

Through the emergence of the PC, new media, and the Internet, her clients have been in the business, enterprise and consumer sectors, with companies in technology, hardware and software, media and entertainment, publishing and advertising, distribution, and investment and venture funding. She has worked in the U.S., Europe and China.

A strategist, policymaker, dealmaker, and negotiator, her work includes strategies on entry, exit, capitalization, return on investment, growth, positioning, pricing, distribution, risk-assessment, new market and international expansion, due diligence, and intellectual property.

She speaks and publishes widely. Visit her online at www.joeytamer.com and she can be reached at joey(at)joeytamer.com.

Mena Trott
Co-Founder & President, Six Apart
Humanizing & Monetizing Web 2.0
Mena Trott is co-founder and president of Six Apart, the company behind The Movable Type publishing platform, TypePad weblogging service and, after an acquisition in January 2005, LiveJournal, an online community organized around personal journals. Named one of Fast Company's "Fast 50 for 2004" and PC Magazine's "People of the Year" for 2004, Mena has been involved in the weblogging space since she began publishing to her own weblog, dollarshort.org, in early 2001. She speaks regularly at industry conferences -- having appeared at Supernova, AdTech, DEMO 2004 and The Wall Street Journal's "D: All Things Digital." Mena can be found writing about weblogging and Six Apart at Mena's Corner.She lives in San Francisco with her husband and co-founder of Six Apart, Ben Trott.

Helen Turnbull PhD
President, Human Facets
Personal Stories of Successful Women
Dr. Helen Turnbull is the President and Principal Consultant of Human Facets, an International Organizational Consulting firm, founded in 1985 and specializing in Organizational Development, Leadership, Global Diversity and Multiculturalism, Strategic Planning, Change Management and all aspects of Group Dynamics, including Self Managed Work Teams.

Human Facets clients include Texas Instruments, J.P. Morgan Chase, Motorola, Hewlett Packard, Citigroup, Lehman Brothers, Linklaters Alliance, A.T. & T., Lucent Technologies, NCR Corporation, National Westminster Bank, IBM, Chorum Technologies, City of Hollywood, FL. and New York Public Library.

Human Facets conducts leadership change efforts, including cultural audits, focus groups and leadership assessments. As Principal of Human Facets, Dr. Turnbull has successfully led teams of consultants in both the USA and Europe working with major corporate clients. Human Facets has designed award winning diversity awareness and skill building initiatives. Dr. Turnbull also conducts O.D. and Strategic Planning interventions and has worked with many Diversity Steering Teams and Leadership Teams to provide a means of connecting awareness of diversity with the Change Management process and the bottom line of the business.

Human Facets has developed three Diversity Assessment Tools - The Diversity Skills Assessment; The Diversity Values Grid and the Gender Gap Assessment Tool. These are online tools and provide clients with behavioral metrics both individually and organizationally. (www.humanfacets.com)

Dr. Turnbull is an accomplished public speaker and has spoken at many conferences including Women in Technology International (WITI), American Society for Training and Development (ASTD), Clemson University, Motorola Women's Conferences in Austin and Phoenix, South Florida Business Women's Conference, National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO), and the City and State Managers Conference for the State of Florida. She speaks on Leadership, Motivation, Global Diversity; Gender, Strategic Planning for Diversity and Change Management.

She is an exceptional teacher, and a skillful facilitator, with an extensive knowledge of working with diverse groups.

Dr. Turnbull is the author of "The Village of Illusions" published in 2005. She is also an Adjunct Faculty at Nova S.E. University, teaching Advanced Organizational Development, Organizational Behavior, and Human Resource Management.

Wendy Wallbridge
President / Executive Coach, On Your Mark
Turning Walls into Bridges, Becoming The Person You Were Meant to Be
Turning Your Passion Into Profit
Wendy Wallbridge, a pioneer in the coaching field, has worked with individuals for over two decades to help them gain clarity of purpose, unlock their power and creativity, and make their mark in the world. In her early twenties, Wendy was diagnosed with lupus, a life-threatening blood disease. Her talent in guiding others to reinvent themselves was sparked by her fourteen-year struggle with lupus and subsequent kidney transplant. Today, Wendy coaches leaders to become their own best advocates, and to champion the expression of their values, passions and talents to make a difference wherever they work.

Wendy founded On Your Mark Corporate Coaching & Consulting in 1993. Wendy and her partner, Randy Methven provide leadership and team development to Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies such as Disney, Wells Fargo, HP, SBC, Intel, Vodafone and Providian Financial as well as technology, financial and educational institutions including Ameritrade, Network Appliance, Nvidia, Alcatel, Silicon Valley Bank and University of California, Office of the President. Wendy has been featured as the change management expert on the Intel-sponsored TV show "Home Sweet Office" and has lectured at the Haas School of Business, The Commonwealth Club and Hewlett Packard. She has been interviewed by: Fortune Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle and the New York Times. http://www.onyourmarkcoach.com/

Susan Wojticki
Vice President of Product Management, Google
Web 2.0; Beyond The Hype, What Is It?

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Cheemin Bo-Linn
VP, IBM
Dr. Cheemin Bo-Linn is a senior sales and marketing veteran with executive leadership experience ranging from startup businesses to Top Fortune global corporations in Information Technology, finance and engineering. Most recently, Bo-Linn was IBM's Client Director and Vice-President, Electronics Industry. With a passionate focus on customer advocacy, she continually leverages information technology and consulting services to optimize the client's business performance.

Bo-Linn's ability to create the winning strategy and deliver significant year-to-year revenue and profit growth has earned her corporate and industry recognition. Her leadership delivers both innovative software and hardware marketing and sales execution excellence. In recognition of these results, she was appointed to the Board of Directors for the American Electronics Association (AEA), which represents over 900 Silicon Valley high tech companies, and was one of the first non - CEO to serve. Bo-Linn received the YWCA "Tribute to Women and Industry" award for her business and financial contribution. AACI of Silicon Valley recognized her with the "Star Award" for her contribution to Technology. Bo-Linn has been named in InfoWorld's "Fast Track: Women on the Move.. Women in Technology in America."ÊÊ

Bo-Linn earned a Doctorate Degree in Administration/Management specializing in the "Implementation of Computer-Based Management Information Systems and Organizational Change" from the University of Houston and graduated from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business Executive Program in Strategy.

Karenann Terrell
Corporate Vice President and CIO, Baxter International Inc.
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Karenann Terrell, long time WITI member, corporate supporter and WITI Advisory Board member is the corporate vice president and chief information officer of Baxter International. She has responsibility for the company's global information technology function supporting Baxter's businesses worldwide, including its sales, manufacturing, science and technology, and supply chain operations.

Baxter International Inc., through its subsidiaries, assists healthcare professionals and their patients with treatment of complex medical conditions, including cancer, hemophilia, immune disorders, kidney disease, and trauma. The company applies its expertise in medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and biotechnology to make a meaningful difference in patients' lives.

Terrell joined Baxter in April 2006 from DaimlerChrysler Corporation where she most recently served as vice president and chief information officer, Chrysler Group and Mercedes Benz North America. Prior to this, Terrell spent 16 years at General Motors where she had responsibility for brand development and e-business management.

Terrell earned her master's degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University, and her bachelor of science degree in the same field from General Motors Institute.