Speakers' Biographies
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Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer,
FedEx Corporation |
| In his role as CIO, Mr. Rob Carter is responsible
for FedEx's key applications and technology infrastructure. Mr. Carter
is also responsible for customer service at FedEx and was recently named
chairman of FedEx Kinko's. Rob joined FedEx in 1993. He has more
than 25 years of systems development and implementation experience utilizing
a wide variety of technology. His professional awards include: Information
Week Chief of the Year Award (2000, 2001, 2005); Network World's 25 Most Powerful People in Networking (2001, 2005); CIO
Magazine 100 Award
(2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004); CIO Magazine 20/20 Vision Award (2002);
Business 2.0 "20 Rising Executives" (2002), ComputerWorld Premier
100 (2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004); Salomon Smith Barney CIO of the Year
Award (2001); and InfoWorld Chief Technology Officer of the Year (2000).
He serves as a member of the Saks, Inc. Board of Directors and the University
of Florida Foundation Board of Trustees. In the Memphis community, Rob
serves as chairman of the Capital Campaign for the University of Tennessee
Hamilton Eye Institute and is a member of several civic boards including
the Memphis Riverfront Development Corporation and The Life Blood Foundation. |
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CEO, Meadow Networks |
| Ms. Robin Chase is founder and CEO of Meadow
Networks, a consulting group that applies wireless technologies to the
transportation sector, reducing dependency on fossil fuel, minimizing CO2
emissions, and creating more adaptable, resilient, and cost-efficient economies.
Ms. Chase is also founder, former chairman, and CEO of Zipcar. Robin lectures
widely and has been frequently featured in the major media including the
Today Show, The New York Times, National Public Radio, Fast
Company, Wired, and Time, as well as in several books on entrepreneurship. She has received
many awards, including the Massachusetts Governor's Award for Entrepreneurial
Spirit, InfoWorld's Top 100 Innovators of 2001, and has been cited
as a Trendsetter by Fast Company in its 2002 Champions of Innovation Award.
Robin serves on the National Smart Growth Council, the Massachusetts Small
Business Assistance Committee, and the Kyoto Cities Initiative International
Advisory Panel. |
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CEO, Earthmate.com |
| In addition to her responsibilties at Earthmate.com,
Ms. Brook DeLorme is executive vice president of DeLorme Publishing, where
her day-to-day focus is on map data creation and emerging technologies.
Over the past year, Ms. DeLorme has been briefing government agencies about
the spatial future, and introducing DeLorme's new world atlas to
military users. As owner and CEO of Earthmate.com, Brook has set
up an Internet-based supply house for mapping software and GPS. Earthmate
is the supplier and information source for DeLorme GPS products, including
the Earthmate Blue Logger GPS and the Earthmate USB Laptop GPS. After being
educated in the arts and working as a designer, she entered the technology
field based on an interest in the relationship between humans and technology
trends. |
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Founder, President and CEO, G2 Microsystems |
| Mr. John Gloekler has over 24 of years experience
spanning the semiconductor, software, and consulting industries. G2
Microsystems designs and manufactures integrated circuits for mobile resource
management. From 1994 to 2002, Mr. Gloekler held leadership positions within
Ernst & Young's supply chain practice, and was a key contributor
in developing the practice from its initiation to over 800 people in 2002. As
a partner at E&Y, John sold and delivered million dollar supply chain
engagements to IBM, Compaq, Cisco, HP, Toshiba, Apple, Samsung, Chiron,
and others. Previously, he was vice president of manufacturing for Austek
Microsystems, and held various roles at National Semiconductor and Texas
Instruments. |
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Principal, Dimebank Software |
| Dr. Chris Kantarjiev designed the delivery
scheduling and execution system for Webvan. Dr. Kantarjiev currently works
at Oracle Corporation in the distributed database group, where he is trying
to extend the notion and operation of a database to The Grid. Previously,
Chris was CTO of Unimobile, a company specializing in global wireless data
solutions. He also worked at Silicon Graphics, where he built systems to
move visual bits around very fast. While at the Computer Science Lab at
Xerox PARC, Chris spent time working on various aspects of ubiquitous computing.
His stint at Digital Equipment Corporation included work that supported
the X Window System, a personal workstation/supercomputer ("Titan"),
and the building of the (then) world's fastest TCP-linked PostScript
printer. Chris is currently the chair of the Enterprise Grid Alliance Technical
Steering Committee. |
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Founder and Chief Scientist, Clearsight Systems, Inc. |
| Dr. Wolf Kohn is a distinguished mathematician,
scientist, and technological pioneer. Dr. Kohn is the co-creator of the
mathematical foundations and
computational technologies for multiple-agent hybrid control theory,
which forms the foundation for Clearsight products. Wolf was a member
of the General Motors team that designed the first computer control for
automobile engines, and he pioneered the development of declarative control
theory and technology with applications in avionics, air traffic control,
robotics, and intelligent manufacturing. During his career, he has held
key technical and scientific positions with leading organizations such
as General Motors, Lockheed Corporation, NASA Johnson Space Center, and
Boeing Computer Services. Wolf has won a number of awards, including
the Robert E. Gross Award for Technical Excellence from Lockheed, Technical
Person of the Year from Clear Lake Technical Societies, numerous technical
awards for his work at NASA, and the Engineer of the Year Award while
at Boeing. He is the author of more than 100 papers and two books, and
he holds two patents with additional patents pending. In addition, Wolf
teaches in the field of enterprise control in the department of industrial
engineering at the University of Washington. |
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Chief Logistics Officer, The Fritz Institute |
| Ms. Mitsuko Mizushima has led global teams
and a multitude of projects in logistics and supply chain management for
over 20 years. Her expertise expands the Fritz Institute's capability
to provide best practices from private sector logistics to support the
operations of its partners in the humanitarian relief community. The Fritz
Institute strengthens the infrastructures of humanitarian relief organizations
by mobilizing logistics and technology expertise and resources from the
corporate and academic communities. Ms. Mizushima has led the creation
of both traditional and online supply chain organizations, processes, and
services. Best known for her leadership roles at global transportation
and shipping company APL, Mich headed APL Business Logistics Services,
a process-driven organization that uses proven, state-of-the art technology
to deliver supply chain solutions to global clients. She recently served
as CEO of an Internet start-up company that provides supply chain management
services over the web. |
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President, Pyxis Innovation |
| Mr. Perry Peterson is the founder and president
of the PYXIS Innovation, Inc., and the inventor of the PYXIS data structure.
His work in this area began in 1985 while searching for a universal data
structure that would provide ideal coding for spatial data analysis and
modeling. Mr. Peterson has had an active life in a wide range of
design and management roles, including heavy construction, land development,
water resources, municipal GIS, geomatics, and intricate software developments
and architectures. Perry is a qualified geodesist with the Ontario
Provincial Government and has completed and consulted on many high precision
and engineering surveys. He served as a pilot in the Canadian Military. In
1986, Perry worked to develop the first breakline land surveys for automating
terrain models. In 1991, he designed the first use of digital ortho
photos as a base to a GIS for the Department of National Defence. Perry
has founded and run several successful companies in the fields of engineering
and information technology. He is also an adjunct professor lecturing on
engineering and information technology at St. Lawrence and Loyalist Colleges.
His work was recognized in 1988 by the Canadian Society for Civil Engineers. |
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Founder, Adozu, Inc. |
| For the last decade, Mr. Robert Poor has been
creating the technologies, standards, and companies that drive "The
Internet of Things." At the MIT Media Laboratory, Mr. Poor coined
the phrase "wireless embedded networking" to describe his research
in low-power, low-overhead wireless networked systems. In 2001, Rob co-founded
Ember Corporation to commercialize this new class of wireless network,
optimized for control and sensing applications. He also became an active
participant in the IEEE 802.15.4 standards process and was founding director
of the Wireless Industrial Network Alliance. In 2005, Rob left Ember to
found Adozu, Inc, a company building "asset awareness" systems
for wireless sensing, real-time location, and tracking physical goods.
Previously, he held positions at Stanford University's Artificial
Intelligence project, Lucafilm's Pixar precursor, and NeXT. |
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Vice President, Skyhook Wireless |
| Mr. Jed Rice is responsible for identifying
and creating new market opportunities for Skyhook's Wi-Fi positioning
technology while solidifying the company's position as the only commercial-grade
WiFi positioning system capable of supporting a broad range of location-based
services. Mr. Rice is also responsible for launching and managing Loki,
the first "mass-consumer" location-based service, an auto-location
aware Internet search and navigation application. Prior to joining Skyhook,
Jed created, launched, and led the Self-Service OnDemand initiative at
Siebel Systems, where he successfully managed a team that closed the largest
OnDemand contract in the company's history. He joined Siebel as part
of the acquisition of Edocs. As director of business development of Edocs,
Jed established and managed the strategic relationship with Siebel which
eventually led to its acquisition. He also led Edocs' entry into
the public sector market and was responsible for managing strategic OEM,
reseller, and systems integrator relationships. Jed also served as a corporate
attorney with a nationally recognized law firm serving the high-tech and
VC communities. While practicing law, he was involved with and led a wide-range
of strategic transactions to include VC financings, M&A deals, IPOs,
and technology licensing relationships. |
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CTO, Zipcar |
| Mr. Roy Russell is founding CTO of Zipcar,
and has over 25 years of experience in engineering and R&D management.
Mr. Russell led the development of all the technology through Zipcar's
first six years of growth. Prior to joining Zipcar, Roy was the development
manager in the Healthcare Solutions Group at Lernout and Hauspie, responsible
for leading development of large scalable automatic speech recognition
systems for medical dictation. He also managed development of many of the
commercial shrink-wrapped products such as Voice Express. While at L&H,
Roy established and built several development, QA, research, and localization
teams. Before that, he was director of sofware develompent for Kurzweil
AI, where he managed commercial products, including several award-winning
speech recognition consumer products. |
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Assistant Professor of Logistics, University of Tennessee |
| Dr. Funda Sahin's teaching and research
interests are in operations and supply chain management, logistics and
transportation, e-Business, inventory planning and control, and information
intensive supply chain management. As a research associate for the Information
Systems Consortium for Supply Chain Integration at the Thomas A. Read Center,
Texas A&M University, Dr. Sahin conducted applied research on distribution
network optimization and the distributor's role as a data manager.
Funda also served as a member of the research team studying the MRE supply
chain for the Combat Rations Network under the Department of Defense. She
has published numerous papers in Decision Sciences and Production & Inventory
Management. She is a member of and regularly presents at the Decision Sciences
Institute, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences,
the Production and Operations Management Society, and Association for Operations
Management. |
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