CONFERENCES

Shai Agassi, President of the Product and Technology Group is a member of the Executive Board of SAP AG since April of 2002. He is responsible for the global development efforts for all SAP products and SAP’s portfolio of industry-specific solutions. The products include mySAP Business Suite, the world leading enterprise application suite (including such applications as customer relationship management and supply chain management); SAP NetWeaver platform - the first fully integrated service oriented infrastructure platform; SAP xApps - the world’s first set of packaged composite applications; and SAP Business One, a leading global small business application suite.

Before his appointment to the SAP Executive Board, Agassi was CEO of SAP Portals and later of the combined company SAP Markets and SAP Portals, which previously operated as a fully owned subsidiary of SAP AG. The subsidiaries were integrated into SAP AG in April 2002, at which point Agassi was appointed to the SAP Executive Board.

Shai Agassi, a software entrepreneur, founded TopTier Software (originally called Quicksoft Development) in Israel in 1992. SAP acquired the company in April 2001. In addition to TopTier Software, Agassi co-founded several other companies, together with his father, Reuven Agassi, including Quicksoft Ltd., a leading multimedia software localization and distribution company in the Israeli market; TopManage, a developer of small business software that was acquired by SAP in April 2002, and became BusinessOne, the Small business offering by SAP; and Quicksoft Media, a multimedia production company that ceased operations in 1995.

Agassi graduated with honors from Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology, where he received a bachelor's degree in computer science. He is based in SAP Labs in Palo Alto, CA.

Mark Bregman is the chief technology officer of Symantec, responsible for the Symantec Research Labs, emerging technologies, architecture and standards, and developing the technological strategy for the company. He will also guide Symantec’s investments in advanced research and continue to strengthen its patent portfolio.

Bregman joined Symantec through the company’s merger with VERITAS Software. At VERITAS, Bregman served as chief technology officer, responsible for cross-product integration, advanced product development, merger and acquisition strategy, and the company's engineering development centers in Pune, India and Beijing, China. He also served as VERITAS’ executive vice president in charge of product operations since joining the company in 2002.

Prior to joining VERITAS, Bregman was CEO of Airmedia, a wireless Internet firm.

Previously, Bregman spent 16 years at IBM where he led the RS/6000 and Pervasive Computing divisions and held senior management positions in IBM Research and IBM Japan. He was also technical assistant to IBM CEO Lou Gerstner.

Bregman holds a bachelor's degree in physics from Harvard College and a master's degree and doctorate in physics from Columbia University. He also serves on the Board of Overseers of Fermi National Accelerator Lab. He is a member of the Visiting Committee to the Harvard University Libraries, a member of the American Physical Society, and a senior member of IEEE.

David DeWalt is President, EMC Software Group, at EMC Corporation. With 2004 revenues of $8.23 billion and nearly 24,000 employees worldwide, EMC is the world leader in products, services and solutions for information storage and management that help organizations extract the maximum value from their information, at the lowest total cost, across every point in the information lifecycle.

Promoted to President, EMC Software Group (ESG) in May 2005, DeWalt is responsible for ESG's business, product, technology, and go-to-market strategies, for accelerating the integration of the EMC Documentum and EMC Legato sales teams, and for advancing EMC's evolution to a leading solutions-focused technology company. By providing best-of-breed software products and integrated information lifecycle management solutions, EMC Software has elevated EMC to the ranks of one of the world's 10 largest software companies measured by revenue. DeWalt reports to EMC President and CEO Joe Tucci.

Prior to this, DeWalt was Executive Vice President, EMC Software Group, sharing responsibility for its leadership with Executive Vice President Mark Lewis, since 2004. DeWalt joined EMC in 2003 when EMC acquired Documentum, the global leader in enterprise content management, where he served as president and CEO for more than two years. As the driving force behind Documentum's development of the market-leading enterprise content management platform, DeWalt led the company through nine consecutive quarters of growth, five record revenue quarters, and four successful acquisitions. Under his leadership, Documentum's revenues grew more than 64 percent, and its customer base grew from 1,200 to over 3,000, solidifying the company's position as a global market leader, with the most robust and comprehensive enterprise content management solution available.

DeWalt's 18 year career in the technology industry spans engineering, product management, marketing, and sales management. Prior to joining Documentum, De Walt was founding principal and vice president of Eventus Software, a web content software company, where he was responsible for sales and marketing, consulting services and support, product management, and business development. Following the 1998 acquisition of Eventus by Segue Software, an e-business software company, DeWalt served as Segue's vice president of North American sales. Before Eventus, he was vice president of sales and marketing at Quest Software, a provider of performance management solutions and before that held various positions in sales management over six years at Oracle Corporation.

DeWalt was named one of the 25 most influential executives in high technology by the readers of the industry publication CRN and serves on the Board of Directors of Serena Software, an industry-leading supplier that automates change to enterprise code and content. He received his B.S. in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from the University of Delaware.

Thomas Kurian is senior vice president of development for Oracle Corporation's middleware platform products, including Oracle Application Server and development tools. He is responsible for shaping all technological aspects of the products' development, release process, management, and business development.

Mr. Kurian has been with Oracle since 1996, holding various product management and development positions in Oracle's Server Technologies Division. He played a key role in bringing Oracle9i Application Server to market. He also served as Oracle's vice president of e-business, driving a number of company-wide initiatives focused on transforming Oracle into an e-business.

Prior to joining Oracle, Mr. Kurian worked in London, Brussels, and San Francisco as a consultant with McKinsey and Company, an international management consulting firm, serving clients in the software, telecommunications and financial services industries.

Mr. Kurian holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, summa cum laude, graduating from Princeton University. He also holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. He serves as an advisory member on the boards of several international venture funds and software companies.

Ray Lane is General Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, America's premier venture capital firm, focused on helping entrepreneurs with technological and market insight, organizational development, team building, selling, and managing growth. Since joining KPCB, Ray has sponsored several investments for the firm aimed at improving enterprise productivity. He sits on the boards of Elance, MetaMatrix, Virsa, Visible Path, Xsigo Systems, SpikeSource and PodShow. He also serves on one public board, Quest Software.

Before joining KPCB, Ray was President and Chief Operating Officer of Oracle Corporation, the second-largest software company in the world and the leading enterprise software and services company. During his eight-year tenure, Oracle exhibited phenomenal sales growth, from approximately $1 billion in 1992 to its current annual revenue of $10 billion. Ray led Oracle's business expansion beyond its core database technology into enterprise applications and professional services.

Before joining Oracle, Ray was a senior partner with Booz-Allen & Hamilton, where he pioneered and led the Information Systems Group, a worldwide consulting practice targeted at helping senior management achieve better results from information technology. He also served on Booz-Allen's board of directors and executive management committee. Prior to Booz-Allen & Hamilton, Ray served as division vice president with Electronic Data Systems Corp (EDS). In addition, he spent ten years with IBM in various product-management, sales and marketing positions.

Ray received a bachelor's degree in mathematics and an honorary Ph.D. in Science from West Virginia University (WVU). He was elected to the Academy of Distinguished Graduates of WVU and serves as a director of the Foundation Board for the University. Recently, WVU honored Ray by naming the Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. Ray also serves on the board of trustees of Carnegie Mellon University. He has been an active campaigner and planner for Carnegie Mellon's establishment of a Silicon Valley campus, and the co-creator of a High Dependability Computing Consortium with Carnegie Mellon and NASA. Ray also serves as Vice Chairman of Special Olympics International and has served on the International board of Special Olympics for several years. He also holds an honorary Ph.D. from Golden Gate University.

C.K. Prahalad, the Paul and Ruth McCracken Distinguished University Professor at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, specializes in corporate strategy. His books include Multinational Mission: Balancing Local Demands and Global Vision (1987), co-authored with Yves Doz, Competing for the Future (1994), co-authored with Gary Hamel and printed in fourteen languages, and named the Best Selling Business Book of the Year in 1994. The Future of Competition: Co-Creating Unique Value with Customers (2004) (co-authored with Venkatram Ramaswamy), and translated into twelve languages. Business Week described the book as “provocative” and “an important book full of disruptive ideas”. The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty through Profit (2004). The book was selected as one of the best books of the year 2004 by The Economist, Fast Company and Amazon.com.

He is also the author of numerous award-winning articles. Harvard Business Review awarded him McKinsey Prizes for: “The End of Corporate Imperialism”, co-authored with Kenneth Lieberthal (1998); “The Core Competence of the Corporation”, co-authored with Gary Hamel (1990), and “Strategic Intent”, also co-authored with Gary Hamel (1989); “Weak Signals vs. Strong Paradigms”, published in the Journal of Marketing Research (1995), was awarded the 1997 ANBAR Electronic Citation of Excellence; “The Dominant Logic: A New Linkage between Diversity and Performance (1986), co-authored with Richard Bettis, was selected the Best Article published in the Strategic Management Journal for the period 1980-88; “The Role of Core Competencies in the Corporation” (1993) received the 1994 Maurice Holland Award as the Best Paper published in Research Technology Management in 1993; “A Strategy for Growth: The Role of Core Competence in the Corporation” won the European Foundation for Management Award in 1993.

He has been honored for his contributions with a Life Time Achievement Award by the Ross School of Business. He received honorary doctorates from the University of London (Economics), Stevens Institute of Technology (Engineering) and University of Abertay, Dundee (Business). He was a member of the UN Blue Ribbon Commission on Private Sector and Development.

A prominent world-class figure, Professor Prahalad has consulted with the top management of many of the world’s foremost companies. He serves on the Board of Directors of NCR Corporation, Hindustan Lever Limited and the World Resources Institute. He is the Chairman and Founder of The Next Practice.

S. Ramadorai, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Tata Consultancy Services Limited, has been associated with the Company for the past thirty years. Joining as a trainee engineer, Ramadorai took over as CEO in 1996 and has been instrumental in building TCS to a $ 1.6 Billion global software and services company with a talent base of over 30,000 associates, a geographical reach of 32 countries and an enviable client list which includes six of the Top Ten Fortune companies. Ramadorai has now set his sights on ensuring that TCS is among the global Top Ten software companies.

His key initiatives include his relentless pursuit of excellence in quality. In August 2004, TCS became the world's first organization to achieve an integrated Enterprise wide Maturity Level 5 on both Capability Maturity model and People Capability Maturity model.

Ramadorai firmly believes that learning is a continual process, which does not end with formal education. With this in mind, he has striven to make TCS a learning organization, conducive to developing ones full potential. TCS spends 6 % of its annual turnover on training and development and has invested in a world class Training Center. Additionally, each year, every TCSer has the opportunity to undergo 20 days training.

His academic credentials include a Bachelors degree in Physics from Delhi University, India, a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics and Telecommunications from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, and a Masters degree in Computer Science UCLA.

Simon Witts, corporate vice president of the Enterprise and Partner Group at Microsoft Corp., is responsible for Microsoft's enterprise business worldwide, including sales and service for global customers and partners. He previously oversaw Sales & Marketing in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), where he was responsible for sales and marketing across 40 Microsoft subsidiaries. He has a passion for ensuring that Microsoft has the right relationship with its key customers and partners.

Microsoft's worldwide enterprise segment business is measured in terms of customer satisfaction, product share, and revenue and growth. Witts heads this global segment, which focuses on the relationship between Microsoft and its enterprise customers and partners. Witts' goal is for Microsoft to be viewed by its customers and partners as the best enterprise software and solution partner, particularly in terms of fostering long-term, predictable relationships.

Witts has been working in enterprise sales for Microsoft since 1993. He helped establish the enterprise business in the United Kingdom subsidiary for four years and then spent the next three years as general manager and president of the Canadian subsidiary. After he left Canada, he stepped up as vice president of Enterprise Sales for the EMEA region. Before joining Microsoft, Witts served eight years in a number of sales management roles at IBM U.K. Ltd.

Witts holds a bachelor's degree in pure math and theoretical physics and a master's degree in information technology, both from the University of London. He is a citizen of the United Kingdom; his wife, Karen, is an American citizen. They have three children: Peter, Daniel and Hannah. In his spare time, Witts enjoys photography and fishing.

Dr. Vanessa Colella is an Associate Principal in McKinsey & Company's Silicon Valley Office, where she works primarily in the areas of strategy development and organizational change for high technology companies. She is the leader of McKinsey's High Tech Organization Initiative, which is dedicated to defining and deploying the best practices of organizational design and effectiveness within the unique and fast-moving environments of our leading high tech clients. Her recent experience includes:

• Working with a multi-national software company to design and implement several new functions and processes to drive a more customer-focused approach to the market place
• Developing a leading perspective on role that software can play in enabling businesses to meet key challenges (e.g., optimizing clinical research and development for pharmaceutical companies; improving front line sales effectiveness for retail banks)
• Preparing a high tech company for the organizational transformation associated with the divestiture of a business unit comprising half of the company's revenues
• Developing a growth strategy for a media and entertainment company facing declining industry growth and instability in the marketplace due to the introduction of disruptive technologies

Prior to joining McKinsey, Dr. Colella taught at the Santa Fe Institute and authored a book on agent-based modeling.   She was also a teaching fellow and researcher at the M.I.T. Media Laboratory and at Rockefeller University and spent six years teaching junior high and high school Biology and Chemistry.

Dr. Colella has an S.B. in molecular biology from M.I.T., an M.A. in technology and education from Columbia University, and S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in media arts and sciences from M.I.T.   

Con Goedman is currently Head Business Information with Shell International Exploration and Production, New Business Development. He has over twenty five years of experience in the petroleum industry, primarily in the upstream petroleum technology area.

Throughout his career he has held varied supervisory and management positions within the New Business Development area of Shell International, including Europe/N. Africa Exploration, Russia/former Soviet Union and Shell International in Houston, in areas of application development, technical services management, strategic planning, operational management, eBusiness development and Business Information.

He holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from the van Leeuwenhoek instituut in Delft, The Netherlands.

David Green has worked with many organizations to make medical technology and health care services sustainable, affordable and accessible to all, particularly to the poorer two thirds of humanity. David is a MacArthur Fellow, Ashoka Fellow and is recognized by Schwab Foundation as a leading social entrepreneur. His most significant work is the development of an economic paradigm for making health care products and services available and affordable to the poor. This paradigm of ‘compassionate capitalism’ utilizes production capacity and surplus revenue to serve all economic strata, rich and poor alike, in a way that is both financially self-sustaining and affordable to all members of society.

In 1992, David directed the establishment of Aurolab (India), the first non-profit manufacturing facility in a developing country to produce affordable intraocular lenses (IOLs), suture, pharmaceuticals and eyeglasses. Aurolab is one of the largest manufacturers of IOLs in the world, with sales to 109 countries. David also directed the establishment of suture (wound closure product) manufacturing at Aurolab in 1998 and hearing aids in 2003. In addition to establishing medical manufacturing, David has helped develop high-volume, quality eye care programs that are affordable to the poor and self-sustaining from user fees. He helped develop Aravind Eye Hospital in Madurai, India, which performs 250,000 surgeries per year, making it the largest eye care system in the world. 70 percent of the care is provided free of charge or below cost, yet the hospital is able to generate substantial surplus revenue. David has replicated this cost recovery model in Nepal, Malawi, Egypt, Guatemala, El Salvador, Tibet, Tanzania and Kenya and has assisted the Lions Aravind Institute for Community Ophthalmology to build their capacity to provide this assistance to well over 100 programs worldwide. He is now collaborating with the International Agency for the Blind to create an “Eye Fund” that will improve financing for sustainable eye care. David also is Vice President of Ashoka, where he works to develop more abundant and efficient financing for the social sector.

Erik Keller has been a participant in the information technology industry for over 20 years in a variety of roles and formed Wapiti LLC in January 1999. As principal of Wapiti, he has provided strategic consulting services for dozens of companies seeking advice on enterprise-software business models and technologies. Erik currently consults with venture-capital firms, works with a variety of enterprise software companies on both a project and retainer basis, and key buyers of technology products. In the past he has authored columns for Manufacturing Systems, Managing Automation and other trade magazines. He is currently a columnist for MSI magazine. In the spring of 2004 his book, Technology Paradise Lost, which predicts the future of IT spending in corporations was published.

Before forming Wapiti, Erik was a Research Fellow, Director of Research and Vice President with Gartner Inc. While with Gartner, he managed the enterprise software group, which had over 45 analysts in the areas of front-office, back-office and e-commerce software. With Gartner for more than a decade, Erik has worked with over 1,000 companies worldwide (including many of the Fortune 100) to advise them how to deploy and develop information technology strategies with an emphasis in the manufacturing sector.

Erik is currently a Research Fellow in residence at AMR Research and a Research Fellow at Saugatuck Technology. He is also on the Board of Advisors for Questra.

Andreas Kluth has been writing for The Economist since 1997 and is currently technology correspondent, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. From 2000 to 2003, he was based in Hong Kong, covering business and finance throughout China and South-East Asia. From 1997 to 2000, he was based in the head office in London as a global finance correspondent. Mr Kluth is also a teaching fellow at the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley, and a regular commentator on NPR's Marketplace. He is German and American, and has a Bachelor's degree from Williams College in Massachusetts and a Master's degree from the London School of Economics.

Dennis Kneale has been Managing Editor of Forbes since May 2000. He had previously held the position of Executive Editor of Forbes since November 1998. He covers telecommunications, health care, drug companies, media and entertainment, and the Internet.

Prior to joining Forbes, Mr. Kneale spent sixteen years with The Wall Street Journal where, most recently, he was Senior Editor of the Technology, Science & Health section. In 1997, he oversaw coverage in The Journal on the breakthrough in AIDS treatment, which won the Pulitzer Prize for National Affairs Reporting.

Mr. Kneale reported for the Fort Lauderdale News/Sun Sentinel for two years prior to his tenure at The Wall Street Journal. He graduated with a BA in Journalism from the University of Florida (1979).

James L. Koch is founding director of the Center for Science, Technology, and Society, Co-Founder of the Global Social Benefit Incubator, and Professor of Management at Santa Clara University. The Center is recognized globally for its leadership in promoting the common good of an increasingly technological society though applied research, conferences, and partnerships with major technology companies. Jim received his MBA and Ph.D. from UCLA. He served as Dean of the Leavey School of Business from 1990 to 1996. Jim’s research and consulting focus on socio-technical systems and high performance organizations, technology and business models for scaling innovations in developing countries, and the role of social capital in society and the workplace.

Adam Lashinsky is a senior writer at FORTUNE, where he started as a contributing columnist in 1999. He covers finance and Silicon Valley for the magazine. He also is a featured commentator for "Marketplace," the nationally broadcast radio business-news magazine, and a regular contributor to business-news programming on the Fox News Channel. Recent articles include: “How to Beat the High Cost of Gasoline,” a feature on the surprising coalition promoting alternative fuels; “Burning Sensation,” a profile of Craigslist; and “Look Who’s Online Now,” a feature on Rupert Murdoch’s Internet strategy; and “Remembering Netscape,” the definitive oral history of the birth of the Web.

Prior to joining FORTUNE’s staff in 2001, Lashinsky was the Silicon Valley columnist for TheStreet.com, the online financial news publication based in New York. From 1997 to 1999, he was the San Jose Mercury News' first high-tech stocks columnist and from 1992 until then, he covered a variety of beats as a reporter and editor for Crain's Chicago Business. He left Crain's for a year beginning in late 1994 to work as a Henry Luce Scholar in Tokyo as a reporter for the Nikkei Weekly, the English-language version of Japan's main economic daily Nihon Keizai Shimbun. From 1989 to 1992, he worked in the Washington DC bureau of Crain Communications, Inc.

A native of Chicago, Lashinsky earned a degree in history and political science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1989. He is based in San Francisco, where he lives with his wife, Ruth Kirschner.

Ashwin Rangan joined the walmart.com team as Chief Information Officer in April 2005. Prior to this assignment, he served as senior vice president and chief information officer of Conexant in Newport Beach, CA. Ashwin was a member of the founding team that spun-out Rockwell Semiconductor Systems (in January 1999) and created Conexant. Prior to joining Rockwell Semiconductor Systems in 1995, Rangan served as senior manager of Demand Management Systems at AST Computer in Irvine, CA, until AST was acquired by Samsung Electronics.

Besides work, Ashwin is associated with several start-ups and early-stage companies in California, serving variously as mentor and advisor.

Ashwin has a Masters in Industrial Engineering and Management with an emphasis on IT and Operations Management from NITIE, Bombay, and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Bangalore, India. He is accredited with both CPIM and CIRM by the American Production and Inventory Control Society. He is accredited with both CSP and CISA. Ashwin was most recently accredited as a Certified Corporate Director by the Anderson School at UCLA. He is a long-standing member of the International MENSA.

Toby Redshaw is Corporate Vice President of Information Technology (IT) Strategy, eBusiness and Business Development for Motorola. He oversees the company’s enterprise-wide IT blueprint, including the integration of IT solutions across Motorola’s various business sectors, anticipating IT industry future directions, and establishing the IT architecture and standards across the organization. He co-chairs the enterprise-wide eBusiness efforts.

In addition, Redshaw also has primary responsibility for IT business development that will create appropriate partnerships, joint development efforts and alliances, to successfully drive additional value creation through business strategies and drive new breakthrough corporate IT initiatives. In this position, Redshaw reports to Motorola’s Chief Information Officer.

Redshaw joined Motorola in October 2001. A Mexican and a British citizen, he completed a 17-year career with Federal Express, where he was Vice President of Global Supply Chain Integration. With FedEx, Redshaw spent six years in Asia, and another three years in Latin America. He held a number of high-impact positions with FedEx, including: Chief Information Officer, Latin American and Caribbean Business Units; and various field, operational and technology posts. Immediately prior to joining Motorola, he worked for Zoho, Inc. in Sunnyvale, California, where he directed its international business units, a JV in China and a U.S. business unit.

Redshaw holds dual degrees in philosophy and economics from the University of Memphis. He also is a fellow with the Institute for Global Futures, and is on the advisory board of several technology related firms.

Bruce Richardson has been analyzing the software market for more than 20 years. Since joining AMR Research in 1988, he has been responsible for spearheading new research directions, contributing to the company's analysis of leading market trends, and presenting AMR's analysis in public forums throughout the world.

Prior to AMR Research, Bruce held senior marketing management positions within the software and networking industries. He currently serves on Mass eComm's Leadership Roundtable Series Advisory Board and is a member of the Boston College Technology Council.

Bruce graduated cum laude from Boston College.

Rick is a senior analyst covering the computer software sector in Global Investment Research. He has held this position since joining the firm in 1982. Rick became a partner in 1994 and a managing director in 1996.

In addition to covering the software sector, Rick is also a business unit leader in the Global Investment Research Department co-managing the firm’s Technology Investment Research Group. He has been ranked as the top software analyst on the street for nearly 20 years by the Institutional Investor and Greenwich Surveys.

Prior to joining the firm, Rick worked for two years in public accounting in Los Angeles. He is also a Certified Public Accountant and serves on the User Advisory Council for the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), advocating for better financial disclosure and accounting standards to benefit investors.

He received his M.B.A. and B.A. from Cornell in 1978 and 1977, respectively.

Peter Sobiloff joined Insight in 1998 following the sale of Think Systems to i2 Technologies. Immediately prior to joining Insight, he was Vice President of Business Development at i2 Technologies (1997-1998). Mr. Sobiloff was previously President of Think Systems, a supply chain management software company backed by Insight. Prior to this, he was President of Datalogix, a vendor of enterprise application software for process manufacturers, and previously held senior executive roles at Ross Systems, a vendor of financial application software. Mr. Sobiloff guided Datalogix and Ross through their initial public offerings and the sale of Datalogix to Oracle Corporation. He graduated from Baruch University with a degree in Business Administration.

At age 35, John Wood left his job as Director of Business Development for Microsoft’s Greater China region to form Room to Read, a nonprofit organization that promotes literacy in impoverished parts of the world.

John founded Room to Read because he was concerned that nearly 1 billion people lack basic literacy. “I was blessed with a solid education. As a result I had a great career and made some money. I started Room to Read as a way to give that same opportunity to children in some of the world’s poorest villages”.

Room to Read, founded in 2000, has sponsored the opening of a network of over 2,500 libraries and 200 schools across Asia, with a goal of increasing the network to 20,000 serving at least 10 million children. In 2006, the organization will expand into Africa, starting with Ethiopia.

John, a native of Connecticut, holds a B.S. from the University of Colorado, awarded magna cum laude, and a Masters in Business Administration from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.