Keynotes & Speakers

Kjerstin Barley
Sr Vice-President and Industry Leader, Technology and Electronics, GE Commercial Finance
Keynote Breakfast: Clean Tech, THE Robust Global Growth Engine.. Even in Uncertain Times

Kjerstin E. Barley is Industry Leader, Technology and Business Services and a Senior Vice President at GE Capital. With a global portfolio of over $7B in assets, GE is a significant provider of capital to companies across technology sectors.

Kjerstin has more than 18 years of experience in technology and financial services. She joined GE Commercial Finance's Media, Communications & Entertainment business in 2005, responsible for debt and equity investments in venture-backed, privately held technology companies. Prior to GE, Kjerstin held progressively senior roles in the Technology, Media & Telecommunications investment banking practices at Bear Stearns & Co. and JP Morgan.

Earlier in her career, Kjerstin held a variety of operating roles at Brown Venture Associates, Silicon Graphics, Inc. and Franz Inc.

Kjerstin received her MBA from New York University Stern School of Business and her BA in political economics from the University of California at Berkeley.

Cathleen Benko
Vice Chairman and Chief Talent Officer, Deloitte LLP
Workplace Innovation – Reshaping the way today’s careers are built

Ms. Benko is vice chairman and chief talent officer for the Deloitte U.S. Firms. She is also leading a pioneering approach to employee engagement and career-life integration called mass career customization, and is the co-author of Mass Career Customization: Aligning the Workplace with Today's Nontraditional Workforce (Harvard Business School Press, 2007) as well as Connecting the Dots: Aligning Projects and Objectives in Unpredictable Times (Harvard Business School Press, 2003). Before her appointment to her current position, Ms. Benko led Deloitte Consulting's high technology industry sector as well as the organization's award-winning Women's Initiative. She continues to serve as lead client service principal for a major technology client.

In acknowledgment of her professional achievements, Cathy has been named one of the "25 Most Influential Consultants" and a "Frontline Leader" by Consulting Magazine, and is the recipient of its inaugural "Leadership Achievement Award" for Women Leaders in Consulting. In addition to her recognition by WITI, Cathy has been cited for her accomplishments by a number of other prestigious organizations, including the San Francisco Business Times, which has named her one of the "Most Influential Women in the Bay Area" for six consecutive years. Cathy has been selected to judge Harvard Business Review's 2008 McKinsey Awards, and is the creator of the Women's Initiative blog, which covers life, work, and everything in between.

Cathy earned her M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Science degree from Ramapo College. She is a member of Deloitte's Executive Committee and the Deloitte Foundation Board. She lives in Northern California with her husband and two children.

Sandy Carter
Vice President Social Business Evangelism and Sales, IBM
Keynote Lunch; From a Whisper to a Scream: Marketing 2.0 - Sponsored by IBM

Sandy Carter is a recognized leader in social business, a best selling author, and one of the most influential women in Web 2.0 technology. As IBM Vice President, Social Business Evangelism and Sales, she is responsible for setting the direction for IBM's Social Business initiative, a $200B market opportunity. Her numerous industry awards include: "Brand Leader of the Year" from the World Brand Congress, "Top 10 in Social Media" from Altimeter Group and Fast Company's "Most Influential Women in Technology." She was also named one of "The Top 25 Social Business Leaders..." . She is an avid social business evangelist, blogger, and twitterer. She holds an MBA from Harvard and a Bachelor of Science degree in math and computer science from Duke University. Visit Sandy at: socialmediasandy.wordpress.com/ and Twitter - twitter.com/sandy_carter

Michelle Yozzo Drake
CEO, The Cove Group, Inc.
Storytelling - A Powerful Leadership Tool
Developing the Natural Leader in YOU!

Michelle has over twenty years of experience in the field of strategic communication as an internationally known executive coach and CEO of The Cove Group, Inc. In her latest book From the Kitchen to the Corner Office: Mom’s Wisdom on Leadership she explores how women can grow as leaders through stories of baking bread, holiday meals and raising children.

As a communication coach, Michelle has helped technical executives from Fortune 100 companies and others including Pfizer and Siemens, General Electric, and Sun Life Financial.

In addition, Michelle hosted a career advice segment for NPR and a weekly talk radio show called Workplace Wisdom. She recently hosted a weeklong internet event called Lipstick Leadership Week which highlighted women’s stories from around the country and is a frequent expert guest on both radio and TV.

Judy Estrin
Chief Executive Officer, JLABS, LLC
Keynote Breakfast Sponsored by Deloitte; Closing the Innovation Gap

Judy Estrin is CEO of JLABS, LLC, formerly known as Packet Design Management Company, LLC. She is the author of Closing the Innovation Gap, to be published in September, 2008. Prior to co-founding Packet Design, in May 2000, Estrin was chief technology officer for Cisco Systems. Beginning in 1981 Estrin co-founded three other successful technology companies: Bridge Communications, Network Computing Devices, and Precept Software. In 1998 Cisco Systems acquired Precept, and she became Cisco’s chief technology officer until April 2000.

Estrin has been named three times to Fortune Magazine's list of the 50 most powerful women in American business, and inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame. She sits on the boards of directors of The Walt Disney Company and FedEx Corporation as well as two private company boards – Packet Design, Inc. and Arch Rock. She also sits on the advisory councils of Stanford's School of Engineering and Stanford's Bio-X initiative. She holds a B.S. degree in math and computer science from UCLA, and an M.S. in electrical engineering from Stanford University

Ardice Farrow
Founder, Co-Creator, Wake Up Women
Storytelling - A Powerful Leadership Tool
Developing the Natural Leader in YOU!

Ardice is a seminar leader, speaker and success coach committed to generating greater enthusiasm, innovation and productivity in the work place.

No stranger to the technology world, Ardice is a former media designer and Executive Producer responsible for many ground breaking products for companies like The Walt Disney Company, Apple Computer, LucasArts Entertainment and the Smithsonian Institute. In addition, Ardice served as a Director of Technology for the development of major internet and software initiatives for publishers such as McGraw-Hill and Thomson Higher Education.

Today she impacts women across the globe as she brings together the creative processes used by entertainment studios and cutting edge technology companies with her insightful, unique approach to producing outstanding business results.

In addition, Ardice hosts the internet radio show “Smart Thinking Smart Talking Women”. She is the creator and co-publisher of the up-coming “Wake Up Women”, a co-authored book series for women by women published by Wake Up Live the Life You Love Publishing Group.

Mk Haley
Director, Product Design and Development, Disney ABC Television Group Digital
Incenting Innovation

Mk Haley serves as Director, Digital Design for the Disney-ABC Television Group's Digital Media division's Product Design and Development team. Based in Burbank, CA, this team is focused on developing technology and platforms that allow engaging experiences with our television content.
With a BFA and MFA in Computer Animation and Design from The University of Massachusetts and California State University, Los Angeles, respectively, Ms. Haley first joined The Walt Disney Company in 1994 as a Walt Disney Imagineering employee while still attending graduate school. With roles in the Virtual Reality Studio, R&D, Special FX, and Creative Development, she worked across both technical and creative roles with Imagineering before moving to the Disney Corporate New Technology team to head up initiatives in Collaboration Technology and Cultures before moving to the Disney-ABC Television Group in June 2007.

Ms. Haley is a faculty member and advisor to several University programs around the country in the areas of Computer Animation and Career Mentoring. Recently awarded "Pioneer" status with ACM SIGGRAPH for work in the Computer Animation and Interactive Technologies arenas for 21 or more years, Ms. Haley most recently served as the Director for Communications, for ACM SIGGRAPH, as well as the current Director for Encounters and Interactive Experiences.

Judy Lin
Senior Vice President, Ethernet Switching Technology Group, Cisco
Leadership Award

Judy Lin is Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco's Ethernet Switching Technology Group. ESTG products generate over $6B in revenue and consist of the Catalyst 3000 and 2000 series of fixed configuration switches as well as Metro Ethernet and Industrial Ethernet switches. In this role she is responsible for driving strategy to continue to deliver the premium network platform to enable Cisco customers to communicate and collaborate effectively on a global basis.

Lin is a senior technology executive with over 20 years of experience leading a variety of start-up and established business. Prior to Cisco, she was senior vice president and general manager at Electronics for Imaging, a leading provider of imaging solutions, where she is responsible for its flagship Fiery product line.

Previously, Lin joined VeriSign in February of 1996 as a founding member of the development team where she was instrumental in building the technology, infrastructure, and products that led the company to $1.5B in revenue. She has also served as senior vice president of product development, IT services, and infrastructure operations.

From 2002-2006, Lin was executive vice president and general manager for VeriSign's Security Services division. In this role, Lin was responsible all worldwide activities for several major lines of business, including SSL Certificates, Enterprise Authentication, Payment Services, and Managed Security Services and Global Security Consulting. These infrastructure services managed millions of security devices, processed over one third of all North America E-Commerce payments, and authenticated hundreds of thousands of businesses and millions of consumers. Under her leadership, the division delivered annual growth in excess of 20%, and made "Secured by VeriSign" one of the most trusted brands on the internet.

Prior to joining VeriSign, Ms. Lin held a variety of software development and management roles at Taligent, Apple Computer and Hewlett-Packard, where she worked on Macintosh operating system, and HP's first commercial UNIX products. She holds dual BA degrees from UC Berkeley for Computer Science and European History.

Shirley C McCarty
President, Shamrock Consulting
Keynote Lunch Sponsored by ING; Panel Hall Of Famers

A pioneer in both computer and software development and technology management for the aerospace industry, Shirley McCarty designed of one of the first precursors of Internet technology. Over three decades, she designed and implemented unique, innovative applications that are still critical to national security today. She has significantly contributed to advancing the professionalism of women by inspiring women to pursue their full potential.

Early in her career, Ms. McCarty was a project leader for the development of one of the first multi-processor operating systems. After a decade of software development and computer systems engineering at Douglas Aircraft and the Aerospace Corporation, she accepted her first management position directing the Aerospace Corporation Systems Software Department. As the Principle Director of Software Engineering, she oversaw seven engineering departments and supervised the development of a broad range of satellite and ground systems for national security programs. Her directorship included research in computer security, computer networks, expert systems and advanced workstation concepts for satellite command and control.

A promotion to General Manager of Human Resources gave Ms. McCarty an opportunity to put technology to work in the business of hiring and developing Aerospace employees. Prior to retiring in 1996, Ms. McCarty directed the newly formed Office of Business Product Development. After retiring, she served as the Vice President of Economic Development for the South Bay Association of Chambers of Commerce. In 1998, she was appointed to the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel, and in 2002, she was elected to chair the Panel. Ms. McCarty is the first woman to serve in that role since the Panel was established in 1967.

She is a Society of Woman Engineers (SWE) Fellow and frequent speaker at conferences and workshops across the nation. She has been involved in a wide range of programs supporting the advancement of women in academic and professional achievement. In 1994, she testified before the federal Glass Ceiling Commission in Washington, D.C., at the request of Secretary of Labor Robert Reich. She has received the Aerospace Corporation President's Award of Merit, The Women in Business Achievement Award and her alma mater's Sioux Alumni Award. She serves on the Advisory Board for the School of Engineering and Computer Science at California State University, Northridge, The California Academy of Mathematics and Science (CAMS) and the Industrial Advisory board of the Purdue University student section of SWE.

Ms. McCarty received her bachelor's degree in economics and management from the University of North Dakota.

Randy Methven
Executive Coach, On Your Mark
Moment of Truth: A Powerful Tool for Meeting Every Challenge with 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.

Heidi Peterson
Regional Director - Western Region, CARE
Leadership Award

For nearly 10 years, Heidi Peterson has been connecting Corporations, Foundations and Individuals with philanthropic ventures around the world aimed at helping the poorest of the poor. As the daughter of a an innovative educator committed to the use of technology to advance learning in Idaho, Heidi's mother taught her early on that when people are connected with hope, and resources, they can overcome tremendous barriers. She has seen the economic advancements upclose during the year she lived in Quito Ecuador where she visited project sites operated by international NGOs and studied ways in which people can overcome the poverty by cutting it off at its roots and gaining access to technology further allowing them to springboard into the global economy.

Heidi's professional background includes working as a anchor/reporter for an NPR affiliate radio station in Boise Idaho, experience in the finanacial services at Smith Barney in Miami Florida, and more recently has been focused on involving people in the issues that most inspire them, meet their personal and business bottom lines, and align with their social values to make the world a better place through her role as Regional Director for the Western Region of CARE USA.

Niti Agrawal
Principal & Founder, Stage 4 Solutions, Inc.
Powerful Peer Networks

Stage 4 Solutions is a product marketing firm with four consecutive years of double-digit growth. The firm specializes in maximizing marketing investments for Fortune 500 high-techs and emerging high-tech leaders by providing strategic business and product plans, focused sales tools, competitive analyses, new product launches, and interim marketing staffing solutions. Stage 4 Solutions is staffed by senior-level consultants in the Silicon Valley and India.

Since founding the company in 2001, Niti and the team of senior marketing professionals have achieved 100% referenceability with market leading clients such as HP, Symantec, SAP, HP, Sun Microsystems, Yahoo!, Symantec, Nokia, Wind River, and a host of start up companies.

Prior to founding Stage 4 Solutions, Niti was the Director of Product Marketing for Agile Software, a leading provider of Product Lifecycle Management solutions. Previously Niti led the team at HP responsible for a $400M PC server product line. In this role she was responsible for managing channel inventory, forecasting, pricing, service and support operations, end of life transitions and new product introductions.

Niti holds an MBA from Stanford University and a BS in Accounting and Finance with highest honors from The Wharton School of Business.

Margaret Anderson
Vice President, SAP Labs, LLC
Leading Virtual Global Teams

Margaret Anderson have over 20+ years of experience in the computer industry including the last 11 years with SAP, where she is currently the Vice-President for the SAP NetWeaver RIG Americas team in SAP Labs. She resides in the Atlanta area but travels extensively for work to locations such as Palo Alto, CA, the headquarters for SAP Labs, Newtown Square, PA, the corporate headquarters of SAP America, Walldorf, Germany, the SAP AG Corporate Headquarters, Sofia, Bulgaria, Tel Aviv, Israel, Bangalore, India and to SAP customers in the Americas when needed. Prior to SAP, Margaret managed development teams in industries related to Timber Products; Georgia Pacific, Telephony; Verizon, and Travel;American Express. Some of her accomplishments include being one of the first SAP R/3 live customers in the US, one of the first SAP NetWeaver BI live customers worldwide and never leaving a customer behind when responsible for airline manifesting for group tours at Americas Express, her first lesson on the cause and effect of programming bugs.

The SAP NetWeaver RIG (Regional Implementation Group) Americas is a virtual team comprised of team members who reside throughout the US, Montreal, Canada and Buenes Aires, Argentina covering 4 times zones. The team is responsible for aiding the rollout out of implementation knowledge to our customers and partners, consulting on new implementation topics, and for driving development projects to impact the next release of the product to make it even better for our SAP community. SAP NetWeaver is the common technology platform for SAP's business applications, providing the foundation for SAP's enterprise SOA and Business Process Platform approach. SAP NetWeaver enables integration and composition as well as development and life-cycle management of applications for the entire eco-system of partners and customers.

The SAP NetWeaver RIG Americas team is part of a global group with sister teams in EMEA (Germany, Spain, Great Britian) and APJ (Singapore, Japan, India, Australia and Hong Kong). The SAP NetWeaver RIG team is part of SAP NetWeaver Development. We have quarterly management team meetings in various SAP development locations around the world and bi-weekly team calls where it’s always the middle of the night for at least one team member.

Over the years, Margaret have become an expert on managing virtuals teams. She has given presentations on this topic at the SAP ASUG Annual Conference and local Atlanta ASUG chapter meeting as well as blogging on this topic in the SAP SDN community.

Margaret is a founding member of the Women In Technology International's (WITI) Global Executive Network. She is looking forward to being more active in this community and perhaps making new friends on her travels abroad. She is also an active member in the Junior Achievement of Georgia.

Margaret graduated with a degree in Computer Science (with honors) from the University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.

Ann Augustine
Principal, Millennial Group
Reality Mentoring

Ann Jakits is principal and founder of Millennial Group, LLC, producer of contemporary learning initiatives for technological companies across multiple channels to align with strategic business objectives. Specializing in custom content development and management services, Ann has partnered with Atlantic Link as reseller for its world class rapid e-learning software. As network director, she initiated the WITI Mentoring program in South Florida to support the professional development of WITI members. Ann is currently incubating the development of its virtual mentoring program.

For the past 18 years, Ann has consulted on custom application development projects and e-learning initiatives for leading corporations, government, and education. Her track record on large-scale technology implementations, including IBM, the Sports Authority, and Office Depot, clearly demonstrates her ability to deliver results and to inspire initiative, leadership, and accountability. Ann earned her M.B.A. in Management from the New York Institute of Technology, and a B.S. in Liberal Studies from Dowling College.

Cheemin Bo-Linn, EdD.
Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Revenue Officer, NetLine Corporation
Championing Entrepreneurial Ventures Within Your Company
Keynote Breakfast: Clean Tech, THE Robust Global Growth Engine.. Even in Uncertain Times
Panel of Technology Leaders

Dr. Cheemin Bo-Linn is the Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Revenue Officer at NetLine Corporation, responsible for corporate and product marketing, strategic sales, and revenue. NetLine, the premier B2B online demand generation leader serves over 88% of the Top Fortune B2B Tech companies and BtoB Top Advertisers and 7 of the top 10 US Media Agencies.

Prior to joining NetLine, Cheemin held senior level executive positions at mid-size and Top Fortune companies including Vice President of IBM. Previously, she was venture advisor and President of Peritus Partners Inc., a global business and marketing group recognized for delivering sustainable profit growth and achieving the highest market valuations.

Her leadership in delivering robust, accelerated growth has earned her industry recognition. She was recently invited to speak at the United Nations. Cheemin received the AACI Award for her contribution to Technology, the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal "Women of Influence" award, and the YWCA "Tribute to Women in Industry" award. She also serves on the American Marketing Association (AMA) Leaders Council.

Cheemin holds a Doctorate Degree (Ed.D) specializing in "Implementation of Computer-Based Management Information Systems and Organizational Change" from the University of Houston. She completed Stanford University's Graduate School of Business Executive Certificate Program in Strategy.

She is a Board of Director at NetLine Corporation and prior, Board of Director for the Association of Corporate Growth (ACG) and the American Electronics Association (AeA). Also, she currently serves on the Advisory Board of WITI, CTSI (Clean Tech Sustainable Industries), and the Technology Commercialization Advisory Board of NIREC (Nevada Institute for Renewable Energy Commercialization).

Rachel Bondi
Founder, MenMatter.com, Tata Communications
How do Men Matter to Women In Tech?

Bestselling Author Rachel Bondi is an entrepreneur and former director at FORTUNE 100 companies such as Microsoft and AT&T. She has appeared nationwide on radio and in print, been voted one of the Top 10 Women of Power by OC Metro magazine, and 2006 Top CFO by the National Investor Relations Institute of Orange County. Featured in TWINS, BROKER, and the OC Register, Bondi has been interviewed by diverse media outlets including MSNBC, TIME Magazine, Tokyo Times, The Wall Street Journal, and has been a featured guest for The Mix on CoxTV and radio nationwide.

Ms. Bondi has studied seven languages and worked in Asia, Europe, Africa, and Latin America. With 15 years of experience spanning a variety of industries, including education, finance, telecommunications, manufacturing, entertainment and software, Bondi held senior positions in sales, marketing, operations, IT, business development, human resources management, managing global relationships with companies such as AT&T, DHL, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, Pfizer, Sun Microsystems, Toyota, Time Warner and others.

Sandra E. Burke, Ph.D., FAHA
Director, Cardiovascular Biology Research (Retired), Abbott Vascular
Keynote Lunch Sponsored by ING; Panel Hall Of Famers
Reality Mentoring

With over thirty years of cardiovascular research experience, Sandra has contributed to the advancement of science and technology as a prolific author of more than 80 abstracts, book chapters and publications in scientific journals. Sandra is also a highly sought-after lecturer for the scientific community.

Sandra encourages women to follow their dreams and passions through mentoring and coaching. She has facilitated and created programs that motivate young women to choose careers in science and technology.

At Abbott, she was a founding member of the Black Business Network and served on its Executive Council. She also served as a member of Abbott Women Leaders in Action. In both roles, she served as a mentor to a number of Abbott employees who were interested in fostering their scientific careers. Named a champion for Abbott's diversity, Sandra regularly serves as a role model to students in the community by speaking at area high schools and student forums on career opportunities.

Leslie Canning
Director, Enterprise Foundation, Cisco
Achieving Revenue Growth through Emerging Markets

Kelly Carnes
President and CEO, Tech Vision 21, Inc.
The 2009 Race for the White House: Will Technology and Innovation Have a Seat at the Table?

Kelly Carnes is an entrepreneur, and nationally recognized technology policy expert and thought leader. She has served the high tech industry for over 20 years, holding leadership positions in technology business, law and government.

She is President and CEO of TechVision21, a Washington, DC-based technology strategy firm. TechVision21 leverages technology, business and government expertise to help companies: pinpoint and secure research and technology funding; forge critical alliances with business and government leaders; and promote and protect their interests in Washington. TechVision21 clients include global companies, leading U.S. research universities, government, and science and technology non-profit organizations.

Before founding TechVision21, Ms. Carnes served eight years at the highest levels of the U.S. government, working first as an aide to then First Lady Hillary Clinton, and later, as a senior technology policy advisor to four Secretaries of Commerce. Most recently, Ms. Carnes served four years as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Technology Policy. As a Presidential appointee, confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Ms. Carnes represented the Administration before Congress, and was a liaison to, and advocate for, the technology business community. Ms. Carnes also represented the United States in negotiations with foreign governments, and in multi-lateral fora, including the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Ms. Carnes also provided strategic direction and management oversight for a large Federal agency; spearheaded sophisticated, highly-leveraged public-private partnerships to promote technological innovation; and led numerous Presidential and Cabinet-level technology initiatives. Private sector partners—including Warner Brothers, Scientific American, the National Association of Manufacturers, and DeVry University—invested $50+ for every Federal dollar invested in these ventures.

Ms. Carnes served as a key point person on numerous high profile issues affecting technology businesses, including regulation of E-commerce, H-1(b) visas, the R&D tax credit, securities litigation reform, financial accounting standards, and the high tech work force shortage. She also helped lead the Administration’s efforts to increase the representation of women and minorities in the nation’s technology work force.

Ms. Carnes directed several Presidential-level technology programs and initiatives, including the National Medal of Technology, America’s highest award for technological innovation. She also created GetTech, an award winning national public awareness and information campaign to encourage teens to pursue technology careers. GetTech features celebrity endorsements, radio and television public service announcements, and an interactive web site. GetTech ads have been broadcast more than 45,000 times, and have reached students in 14,000 public middle schools.

Julie Cavanna-Jerbic
Vice President Sales Operations, Hewlett Packard
Strength, Courage and Wisdom: Leading a Personal Reinvention

Julie Cavanna-Jerbic, Vice President of Sales Operations for Hewlett-Packard is responsible for HP's bid management processes and capabilities. This includes defining requirements for quote and configuration services, pricing and proposals for customers and sales motions, running the day-to-day operations associated with configuration engines data, development and deployment of globally consistent strategies, processes, tools, and metrics, and improvement programs for global bid management.

Julie is currently accountable for two company-wide initiatives:

* Day-to-day execution and transformation of the "customer-to-cash" cycle
* Simplification of the sales environment

Before joining the Sales Operations Executive team, Julie was the Vice President of Finance for IT. She held this role for two years, providing leadership through business partnership, financial governance and results management. This organization was responsible for leading the financial transformation for IT through Next Generation Data Center implementation to extensive analysis of IT Portfolio business return. Julie led Finance for IT’s efforts to meet all finance goals through sound fiduciary decisions

Julie has been with Hewlett-Packard for 24 years. Previously, she was the Senior Finance Director for Global Functions Sales and Marketing and formerly E-Business and Customer Operations, with responsibility for driving capital planning and financial execution; creating and stabilizing a finance organization to drive from business charters to execution ranging from $300M to $2.7B.

Julie Cavanna-Jerbic joined HP in June of 1984. She earned a bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of California in Berkeley, CA and an M.B.A in Corporate Finance and Marketing from the University of Southern California.

Beth Devin
Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Manilla, LLC
Powerful Peer Networks

Beth Devin is our Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and is responsible for all aspects of technology for our business critical eCommerce sites, backoffice systems, and IT infrastructure and operations.

Beth brings 20 plus years of technology development and leadership experience to Art.com from a variety of industries including financial services, telecommunications, and cable broadcasting. Prior to joining Art.com, Beth was CTO of Blackhawk Network, a prepaid and payments network and market leader in stored value card financial solutions. Beth held several technology leadership positions at the Charles Schwab Corporation where she supported the Retail enterprise, including the branch, call center and Schwab.com customer channels, the Schwab Retail Bank, and the Services for Investment Managers business. Beth has also held technology positions at Turner Broadcasting Systems, Pacific Bell Directory, and Bechtel Petroleum.

Beth is a member of the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs and Executives (FWE&E), the Financial Women’s Association, and Women in Technology. She participated in a yearlong fellowship program sponsored by the International Women’s Forum (IWF) in 2000/2001.

Beth received a B.S. degree in Computer Science from San Francisco State University.

Karen Dutch
Vice President, Advanced Storage Group, NEC Corporation of America
Aligning Mission, Vision and Values

Karen Dutch has over 30 years of experience within the storage industry and developed advanced storage solutions for both open systems and mainframe platforms. As vice president of the Advanced Storage Products Group at NEC Corporation of America, Dutch is responsible for the strategy, marketing, and sales of next-generation storage products.

Previously, Dutch served as vice president and general manager of the Open Systems Group at Softek Storage Solutions where she defined and oversaw product management, marketing, and development for their storage management and data protection solutions. Prior to Softek, Dutch was vice president of marketing for InterSAN, Inc. She also served as director of solutions marketing for Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. and spent many years at IBM, holding a variety of technical and managerial roles in both the U.S. and Europe.

Dutch earned a bachelor's degree in computer science and mathematics from Duke University.

Gail Farnsley
Program Manager, Affinity Group Alliance, National Center for Women and Technology
Powerful Peer Networks
Panel of Technology Leaders

As a Visiting Professor at Purdue, Gail's role is to work with College of Technology administrators and faculty, as well as Cummins and other partners to define a vision and strategic plan for what we hope will become a center to pursue areas of critical national and international importance where the College of Technology can engage in discovery, learning and engagement in addressing grand challenges.

Prior to joining Purdue Gail was VP of IT and CIO at Cummins, Inc. In this role she had global responsibility for Information Technology at Cummins, including setting strategy and standards, applications development, implementation and support, and operations and infrastructure. Before her appointment as CIO she worked in various IT roles, including spending two and a half years in the UK where she led the IT organization for the Europe, Middle East, and Africa region, as well as Cummins' Power Generation IT globally. Prior to Cummins, Gail spent nine years with Georgia-Pacific in Atlanta, Georgia, worked as an Analyst at Emery Airfreight and began her career at Public Service Indiana (now part Duke Energy). Gail began her career as a programmer and worked her way through the IT ranks, primarily in applications development and support organizations, with one foray outside of IT to lead a business process improvement project.

Gail's commitment to expanding the benefits of information technology developed during the 25 years she spent working in various IT roles in industry. As CIO at Cummins she was a key champion for an amazing project that provided computers to any student in Barholomew County that needed one. She also led a six sigma project that resulted in a partnership with KPIT-Cummins to provide low-cost IT consulting to non-profit organizations. She has always been active in efforts to encourage women and girls to consider IT career fields and to support women who have made that choice.

Gail has a BS in Computer Science from Bowling Green State University and an MBA from the Krannert School of Management, Purdue University. She lives in West Lafayette, Indiana with her husband and two daughters, 15 and 20.

Susan P. Fisher-Hoch
M.D., Professor of Epidemiology, The University of Texas School of Public Health
Keynote Lunch Sponsored by ING; Panel Hall Of Famers

Sue Fisher-Hoch was born in England in 1940. After completing High School she attended the Sorbonne in Paris, then continued linguistic and cultural studies in Rome. She gained admission to the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine in 1970 at a time when women, particularly married women as she was, were not offered places. At the Royal Free she was awarded the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson fellowship, in memory of the first English woman doctor. She graduated First Class in 1975 with seven prizes for excellence. After internship with Dr. Sheila Sherlock at the Royal Free Hospital, she joined the Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford to train in virology. Between 1978 and 1982 she taught medical students, ran virology laboratories and conducted research, publishing several papers. By 1981 she had membership of the Royal College of Pathology in Virology, a Master's degree in Microbiology with distinction and a doctoral degree in epidemiology (MD) from London University. Her doctoral thesis findings were published in the Lancet and were the first identification of hot water systems as the source of outbreaks of Legionnaire's disease, as opposed to air conditioning. She was also central to the discovery that the parvovirus B19 was responsible for Fifth's Disease (Slapped Cheek Syndrome), and in the first identification of E.coli O157 as the cause of hemolytic uremic syndrome. In 1982 she obtained a Wellcome Trust Fellowship to study the pathophysiology of Ebola hemorrhagic fever in primates in the Porton Down BSL4 facilities using biological respirators. (BSL4 is the highest level of containment that exists, used for the most dangerous viruses such as Ebola and Lassa.) This allowed her to begin to understand the processes involved in shock and death in Ebola. In 1984 she was invited to the CDC, Atlanta space suit BSL4 laboratory and published her findings on Lassa fever virus in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, providing key information on the pathophysiology of Ebola and Lassa viruses. In 1986 she moved permanently to CDC where she remained for eight years, becoming Deputy Branch Chief, Special Pathogens Laboratory, Division of Viral Diseases, and serving as Acting Branch Chief. Her responsibilities included primate studies of pathophysiology, vaccine evaluation, clinical and epidemiological advice for the United States and other countries, and supervision of the Sierra Leone Lassa Fever Research Unit. She published several major papers, notably efficacy of a Lassa Virus vaccine, comparative pathophysiology of Ebola isolates, and longitudinal studies of Ebola virus infections in monkeys.

Dr. Fisher-Hoch traveled widely and gained extensive experience working in China, Thailand, Indonesia and several countries in Africa, conducting studies and publishing reports. While with the CDC, she investigated outbreaks of Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever in South Africa, Senegal and Saudi Arabia, where she gave an invited lecture in Mecca. She investigated devastating outbreaks of Lassa fever in Nigeria. She contributed to the investigation of the Reston, Virginia, outbreak in monkeys imported from the Philippines, visiting Indonesia and the Netherlands to try to track the source of the virus, and then returning to the laboratory to perform primate studies.

In 1992 she married Dr. Joseph McCormick, Chief, Special Pathogens Laboratory at CDC, and in 1993 they moved to the Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan, with the object of returning to the field. Dr. Fisher-Hoch supervised the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, the largest in Pakistan. She established a molecular biology research laboratory, and worked and published studies on pathogens such as hepatitis C, Congo Crimean Hemorrhagic Fever, tuberculosis, typhoid and cholera. In 1997 she and her husband moved to Lyon, France, where she took charge of the design, building and scientific program of a new BSL4 space suit laboratory, financed by Charles Mérieux. Dr Fisher-Hoch was awarded the Chevalier de Legion d'Honneur by the President of France, Jacques Chirac, Le Medaille de Lyon by the mayor and former Prime Minister of France, Raymond Barre, and Le Prix Scientifique du Group Paris-Lyon, for her work in designing, constructing, and rendering operational the BSL4 laboratory of Lyon. In January 2001, she moved to Brownsville, Texas, with her husband to establish the new Brownsville campus of the UT School of Public Health. Here she has established a research program in diabetes and tuberculosis recruiting and training a team of young scientists, mostly women. This program has attracted significant NIH funding, and has made major advances in understanding of these diseases in minority populations. She has established a molecular microbiology laboratory, with a BSL3 for handling pathogens such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis and West Nile Virus.

Dr. Fisher-Hoch speaks fluent French, and Italian, and some Spanish. She has over the years contributed many chapters to major textbooks, written review articles, reviewed for several journals, and has more than 100 major publications. She has written invited editorials for the Lancet, and provided expert advice to the lay press and television, being featured personally in both media, and in books dealing with hemorrhagic fevers. With her husband, Joe McCormick she has published a popular account of their adventures (Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC) which has sold more than 70,000 copies, was translated into seven languages, and is widely read by young, aspiring scientists, particularly women. Together they have made invited presentations to students at institutions such as, MIT, Duke and Vanderbilt Universities, and are now mentoring aspiring young scientists in a post-bac program in Brownsville, again mainly women.

Dr. Pamela Fusco
Principle, LES LLC
Taking The Lead with Web 2.0

Pam has 17 plus years experience in the security arena, working in various sectors inclusive of Healthcare, finance, retail, ecomms, government and manufacturing. Her primary focus is with logical security, implementing and designing security technologies for small, medium and enterprise corporatations. She currently manages a systems security operations department with a global reach. Pam has been a featured speaker at RSA, Blackhat, Forrester, Fortune, Gartner, MCI, and a variety of international events. She has also been featured in publications including Fortune Mag, CSO, ISSA and Newsweek. Her credentials include: CISSP, CPP, CISM, CHS-III, Ph.D.

Debbie Gustafson
VP of Sales, Energetiq Technology
Negotiation techniques to be successful in any leadership role

Debbie Gustafson is an industry veteran for over 20 years and has held various management positions in technical Sales and Marketing in the Semiconductor Equipment Industry. Her focus has been on component and subsystem equipment and service. Ms. Gustafson's is a senior manager at a start-up company, Energetiq Technology, Inc. in Woburn, Massachusetts as their Vice President of Sales and Service. Her responsibility also includes marketing and the management of manufacturing and finance. She has successfully driven the company to become the leading supplier of EUV sources globally. Ms. Gustafson has vast knowledge in the international markets with a focus on Asia. She has managed the opening of a subsidiary in Japan and a joint venture sales and service organization in Korea. She also has extensive experience in negotiating multimillion dollar contracts and supplier agreements.

Currently Ms. Gustafson is the chairperson of the SEMI New England Committee. She holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA in Management from Bentley College.

Rose Hagan
Senior Trademark Counsel, Google Inc.
Aligning Mission, Vision and Values

Rose is Managing Counsel for Trademarks 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 vice-chair of the International Amicus Committee. She is a frequent speaker on internet trademark issues.

Kathleen Hill
President, Hill Coaching
Success Strategies for Life & Career
Panel of Technology Leaders

As a Professional Coach, Kathy specializes in helping people through career and life transitions. With over twenty years of top producing coaching, career counseling, recruiting, sales, and marketing experience, she brings a wealth of knowledge to her clients. She works with individuals in one-on-one and group settings, in addition to leading workshops and teaching teleclasses. Several of her recent classes include: "Exploring Your Life Purpose," "Creating A Mission Statement For Your Life," "Strategies to Successfully Achieve Your Goals," and "Laying the Foundation for Explosive Growth In Your Life & Business." Her personal mission is to "help people connect with their life's purpose and to then live lives that honor it."

Kathy graduated Magna Cum Laude from Northeastern University in Boston, with a BS in Business Administration. She was a top sales producer for several Fortune 100 firms in the Information Technology industry, selling hardware, software, and professional services to clients in the Washington, DC area. She was voted "Outstanding Young Woman of America" in 1982. Every year that she was in sales, Kathy was awarded membership in the "President's Club" and received recognition trips around the world.

Realizing that her life's purpose was to help people, she opened and managed a highly successful executive search firm that provided career counseling and recruiting services for individuals and companies in the technology industry. Her passion for helping people grew, and she now focuses exclusively on coaching individuals through career and life transitions. Her coaching clients are located all across the country.

Yvonne Hunt
Vice President of Philanthropy, Hewlett Packard
Strength, Courage and Wisdom: Leading a Personal Reinvention

Yvonne is vice president of Global Social Investment for Hewlett-Packard Company and serves as the Executive Director of the HP Company Foundation. She provides strategic direction for HP's social investment efforts, guiding grant making of more than $47 million in HP cash and equipment to improve the lives of people in communities around the world.

Prior to taking on the role with HP Global Social Investment, Yvonne spent 6 years as the Vice President of Global Internal Communications for HP and 15 years working in various Human Resources roles for HP in the United Kingdom, Dublin, Ireland, and Barcelona, Spain before transferring to the U.S. in 1999. Yvonne joins the Junior Achievement Worldwide board of directors this fall, and is actively involved in the Silicon Valley chapter of the American Leadership Forum. Yvonne graduated with honors with a Bachelor of Science from Bradford University in England in 1985.

April Kelly
Senior Director, LinkedIn Service Center
Taking The Lead with Web 2.0

April Kelly is the Senior Director of the LinkedIn Service Center. She opened the LinkedIn Service Center in March 2007. She is currently cultivating high-performance, customer-centric teams in the areas of customer service, account management, sales and quality assurance. She joined LinkedIn October 2006 and quadrupled her initial staff within the first six months.
Prior to LinkedIn April worked at PayPal and assisted in the launch of their call center in April 2000. She also developed multiple areas of PayPal’s customer support solution.

April played volleyball at the University of Wyoming and completed her Communications degree at Bellevue University. She has a passion for developing teams, vision and culture. April also has extensive professional background in sales, marketing, coaching and public speaking. She currently resides in Nebraska with her children Collin and Casey.

Nancy Long
Senior Vice President, Global Human Resources, Lunar Logic , Inc.
Strength, Courage and Wisdom: Leading a Personal Reinvention

Nancy Long is Senior Vice President of Global Human Resources for Hitachi Data Systems. She is responsible for all aspects of HR throughout HDS including HRIS, Workforce Planning/Staffing, Total Compensation, Performance Management, Management Development/Leadership Succession Planning, Employee Survey and Diversity/Advocacy, HR-Legal Compliance and OD/Management Support Consulting.

Prior to joining HDS in 2006, Nancy was Sr. Vice President at O’Connor Hospital, reporting where she lead the HR function in an entirely new industry from her prior experience. Nancy’s experience at O’Connor provided a new perspective on many elements of human resources challenges that are unique to health care.

Nancy spent 24 years with Hewlett-Packard, most recently as Vice President, HR for Global Marketing. She held numerous executive level roles at HP, with responsibilities at a global level, overseeing large teams disbursed across multiple countries. Nancy’s career spans multiple functions including Human Resources, Executive Development, R&D, Technical Marketing, and Information Technology. Prior to HP, Nancy spent seven years with United Airlines as a Systems Analyst. Her unique background brings a business acumen that is unusual among HR professionals.

Nancy holds a Masters degree in Human Resources and Organization Development from University of San Francisco. She also has specialist certificates from University of Chicago, Harvard University, Menninger Institute and West Valley College in multiple HR disciplines. She is certified in The Birkman Method, MBTI and TAIS. Nancy is a member of the San Jose State COB Advisory Board, International Executive Service Corp, and the Santa Clara Valley Strategic Human Resources Management organization.

Nancy is also a faculty member at San Jose State University, teaching in the Organization & Management department in the College of Business.

Pat Lynch
Founder & Editor-in-Chief, WomensRadio/WomensCalendar
Aligning Mission, Vision and Values

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.)

Chisoo Lyons
Vice President, FICO
Building a Pipeline of Leaders

Chisoo Lyons currently leads the market-facing innovation group at Fair Isaac.

Throughout her career, Chisoo directed efforts to keep Fair Isaac at the forefront of analytic and decision technology. Chisoo has spent time in client-facing roles, research & development, and business management. She ran the P&L for the Analytics product line for the Financial Services industry. She worked in Research commercializing a series of products called Strategy Science introducing a new category of analytic methodologies often referred to as the third "decision revolution." For eight years, she led an International client delivery group, covering Asia Pacific, Canada, Central America, South Africa, and South America. For many of these clients, she accelerated their adoption of analytics which was instrumental in driving improvement to their bottom line. Currently, her focus is back in Research specializing in collaborating with her clients in the early stage of the innovation process.

Education
M.S., Operations Research, University of California-Berkeley
B.S., Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of California-Berkeley

Michelle Mancino Marsh
Partner, Kenyon & Kenyon LLP
Leading Your Company with Intellectual Property

Michelle Mancino Marsh, a partner in the New York office, practices in the areas of trademark and copyright law, unfair competition, trade secrets, internet law, business method and design patents. Ms. Marsh represents clients in a variety of industries, including consumer goods and services, fashion and retail, computer software and hardware, pharmaceutical and bio-medical products, agricultural products, media and entertainment, including, interactive entertainment, and financial services. She represents clients in state and federal court and in the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Her practice also includes counseling and negotiating licenses, IP acquisitions and co-branding agreements on behalf of clients. Prior to joining Kenyon & Kenyon, Ms. Marsh was a commercial litigator at a Manhattan general practice firm.

Ms. Marsh is a member of the International Trademark Association, and an editor and contributing author to one of the association's publications, the INTA Bulletin. She is a frequent contributing author to the World Copyright Law Report. Additionally, she serves on the board of the New York chapter of Women in Technology International. As a student at Fordham University School of Law, Ms. Marsh was Editor-in-Chief of the school’s nationally recognized moot court program. Ms. Marsh currently acts as an advisor to the school’s teams as well as a judge for numerous moot court competitions.

Mary McDonagh
Program Manager, Deloitte
Taking The Lead with Web 2.0

Mary is the National Technology Leader at Deloitte for Strategy, Research and Innovation (SR&I) and US Communications. In that capacity, she manages the relationship between the internal IT organization and these business areas. She works with the leaders in these business groups to understand their business needs, to help surface technology alternatives and to work with the ITS teams to deliver on the agreed solution.

She joined the U.S. Firms in 1996 as technology leader for their New England office, and held that role for a number of years. Subsequently, Mary led a variety of national projects - including building the Application Development and QA organization in India, and for overseeing the use and testing of all applications in India by Deloitte's functions and channels.

In 2005, Mary launched the Women's Initiative for the internal IT organization - which she still leads today. Mary also represents ITS at Deloitte's Women's Initiative Leadership committee.

Mary has previously held positions at Brown University, and Analog Devices Inc.

Mary holds a Bachelors Degree in Physics and Mathematics from University College Galway, Ireland, and a Masters in Computing Information Systems and an MBA from Bentley College, Waltham, MA

Nancy McGuire
President, McGuire Consulting Group, Inc
Leading Virtual Global Teams
Aligning Mission, Vision and Values

Nancy is President and Founder of McGuire Consulting Group, located in Chapel Hill, NC. McGuire Consulting Group works with companies to improve business results by maximizing performance of high potential leaders.

For 20 years, Nancy has worked for and held leadership positions in corporate America, working for IBM and General Motors. At IBM, Nancy has led professionals and managers in Indirect and Direct Procurement, Materials Planning, Engineering, and Operations. Her work included an International Assignment in Dublin, Ireland.

Nancy has been quoted in a variety of publications, including Business Week, Harvard Business Online, HR Executive Online, and The Christian Science Monitor, and her articles have been published in several online sites.

Nancy serves as an Ambassador for the Triangle United Way. She is a member of the American Management Association, the Society for Human Resource Management, and the Society for Advancement of Consulting.

Nancy holds a BS Degree in Industrial Engineering, from The Ohio State University. She and her family reside in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where, depending on the season, she cheers for the Buckeyes or the Tarheels.

JoAnne Miller
Partner, Milk Street Ventures
Championing Entrepreneurial Ventures Within Your Company

Prior to joining Milk Street Ventures a secondary direct venture capital firm, Jo Anne was a Principal at Nokia Innovent, a seed-stage investing team within the Nokia strategy organization. In this role, Ms. Miller was responsible for management of the portfolio and the Nokia business relationships. Prior to Nokia, Jo Anne was the President and CEO of Gluon Networks, a start-up providing next-generation converged voice and data switching and management systems for local telephone service providers. Jo Anne has more than 29 years of telecommunications and computer industry experience, including senior executive, engineering management, and research roles at JetCell, an indoor wireless/VoIP company (acquired by Cisco Systems), AirNet Communications, a wireless infrastructure company, Tellabs, and AT&T Bell Laboratories. Ms. Miller has a BS in Mathematics from the University of Michigan, an MS in Computer Science from the University of Colorado and an MBA from the University of Chicago

Michelle Price
CEO, Social Media Savvy
Taking The Lead with Web 2.0

Michelle Price's mantra is "Connectivity IS the New Currency".

After 23 years of working in corporate America, she leveraged her internet information junkie habit into income.

Michelle took a leap of faith to the entrepreneur lifestyle she craved – her very first client went from unknown author to NY Times best seller in 9 months. She never looked back.

A leader in using new technologies for over a decade, Michelle has always had a keen sense for the next big thing.

Today, as Founder of A Third Mind Digital Media, she’s leading the edge as a social media capitalist and master influencer who knows the real secret to turning connectivity into currency is to own the "deeper" conversation in your niche.

So she's inspiring and activating women experts with books (and other information products) to re-package, re-purpose and leverage their intellectual property into recurring revenue streams. You know - work smarter instead of harder. And turn all of that social connectivity into currency...

Although many of her clients have already made it to Oprah, blog for the Huffington Post, and have been written up in Fortune, Business Week, “O” and others...most of them are more interested in just having more free time to spend with family or to launch a world-changing movement.

Oh...for the past seven years since her escape, 100% of her clients have been referred from her own social network.

Shelly Schoo
Senior Associate, Point B
Leading Virtual Global Teams

As a senior associate at Point B, a management consulting firm specializing in project leadership and winner of the 2008 "Best Firms to Work For" by Consulting Magazine, Schoo works with Bay Area clients on complex, large-scale program management, M&A integration, global strategic planning, people and performance management, and business and operations planning. Prior to Point B, Schoo spent 15 years at Hewlett-Packard, where she most recently served as the senior director of worldwide business planning and communications for the mobility team. During her tenure at HP, she led the HP Compaq merger services office, which was responsible for integrating a $3 billion business and 65,000 employees globally, in addition to holding various leadership positions in consulting operations and global supply chain redesign. Schoo holds a BBA in finance from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA in marketing and organizational behavior from Yale University.

Lee Schwing
Chief Information Officer, WSA Global Holdings, LLC
Panel of Technology Leaders

Lee Schwing is a technology visionary who has transformed numerous companies through her insightful use of leading edge applications. Known for her broad strengths in business process management and the implementation of key technologies while optimizing best practices. Schwing focuses on shaping and delivering strategies and applied IT solutions, increasing revenues and profits, improving customer service and developing competitive distinctions.

Schwing single-handedly created the technology division of Ziffren, Brittenham, Branca, Fischer, Gilbert-Lurie, Stiffelman & Cook, LLP, one of the top entertainment law firms worldwide. The firm’s client list includes Dreamworks, the National Football League, Pixar, Motown Records, Tom Hanks, and Harrison Ford. Schwing drove the firm from a DOS environment to a firm nationally recognized for its innovative use of technology in security, office automation, and office integration. Schwing is currently working on the merger of ENK International and WSA Global Holdings: ENK International ("ENK"), the Fashion Industry's most exclusive tradeshow organization, and WSA Global Holdings LLC ("WSA"), the leading provider of marketing services to the global footwear and accessories industry, today announced that ENK will acquire WSA to accelerate ENK's fashion product category expansion while further enhancing WSA's already impressive growth. In May 2006, Forstmann Little & Co. acquired a majority stake of ENK.

Schwing led the development of eleven customized core business applications. Her call-logging program won a patent for its innovative use of technology. Schwing was one of the first to integrate Good Technologies, remote software technology, allowing wireless synching and instant access to all office data and applications from remote locations worldwide. And her Contract Management program provided tracking of complex past, present and future contract revenue. With these programs, Schwing was able to recoup $5M annually in uncollected revenue and drive continual increased productivity.

Schwing’s continual drive to utilize the latest technology has enhanced and improved the productivity and the bottom line of numerous companies. As a technology visionary, her work has helped implement significant change in the business world.

Hina Shah
Healthcare Alliances, Business Development, IBM
Achieving Revenue Growth through Emerging Markets

Hina is an Executive and Strategist with strong technology and business background. She has over fifteen years of experience in managing, developing, and building international and domestic strategic alliances which significantly contributed to profit levels and productivity. Expertise in building and managing organizations for market development, software development, marketing, and services.

Her recent work includes developing an ecosystem and markets for the Cell B.E. Multicore technology products and offerings for IBM. She directed the delivery of solutions in growth markets such as Digital Media, Seismic Processing, Electronic Data Automation, Medical Imaging and Financial Services via key alliances and partnerships.