Oded Haner

Oded Haner
Chief Information Officer, Monster Cable Products

Kai Hypko

Kai Hypko
Senior Director, Global Supply Chain, Plantronics

Kai has over 17 years of experience in Hi-tech, OEM and Retail environment. Mr. Hypko is considered a catalyst and change agent, with extensive global leadership experience in supply chain management. Currently the Senior Director of Global Supply Chain Systems at Plantronics Inc., he is responsible for the design and implementation of Oracle’s Advanced Planning & Scheduling Suite.

Wes Olsen

Wes Olsen
Managing Director-Manufacturing US/CANADA, Cisco

Wes Olson brings more than 28 years of manufacturing, engineering, International General Management and Management Consulting experience as Cisco’s Director – US Enterprise Manufacturing Vertical Sales. In this role, Mr. Olson is responsible to drive US Enterprise Solution Sales for Cisco’s business with enterprise manufacturing companies. Integral to Cisco’s strategy for manufacturing customers is the integration of solutions that produce real-time visibility and context-rich collaboration for Continuous Innovation, Supply Chain Agility, Operational Excellence and Customer Intimacy across the manufacturing value chain.

Prior to joining Cisco, Mr. Olson worked at the Tompkins PLC Company, contributing to both top-line growth and bottom-line profitability as he advanced through several business units with increasing leadership and General Management responsibilities. Mr. Olson spent 4 years in India creating a new division for hydraulic assemblies in the fast moving heavy equipment industry in the late 90’s. Mr. Olson is one of the original patent holders for rubber tracks in the agricultural industry and he is a Six Sigma Blackbelt. His experience includes product & equipment design, plant design and construction, Operations Management, Quality Assurance, and General Management. Mr. Olson has been with Cisco for 9 years and worked in Singapore as a Management Consultant to the SE Asian Manufacturing arena for Cisco’s IBSG Consulting team.

Mr. Olson earned a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and holds a Master’s in International Management from Thunderbird University.

Russ Pearlman

Russ Pearlman
Principal, Media & Entertainment Group, Capgemini

Mr. Pearlman has over 15 years of experience in strategic and technology consulting and is the lead for Capgemini’s Digital Content Services (DCS) service line which includes digital material management, intellectual property management, customer experience, digital insights and digital monetization. Additionally, he provides delivery executive leadership with high-profile client companies to achieve world-class results. He has hands-on experience directing teams of over 100 through full project lifecycles – from solution definition through final delivery.

His past experience includes digital supply chain design and implementation, retail e-commerce and distribution, service oriented architecture, enterprise integration and portals using Web 2.0. Additionally, he is knowledgeable in enterprise architecture planning and realization.

Prior to joining Capgemini, Mr. Pearlman served as Interim CTO at Toyota Motor Sales, Enterprise Services, CTO at Koios Works (an entertainment development organization), Senior Manager at Hitachi Consulting and Senior Consultant at Deloitte Consulting. He earned his Master’s degree in Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis. He also serves as adjunct faculty at the Edwin L. Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University.

Devendra Mishra

Devendra Mishra
Chief Strategist, MESA and Conference Chairman, CESCA

Devendra has been the president and COO of such companies as, LIVE Entertainment, VCL-Carolco, Lieberman Enterprises, Technicolor Worldwide Media and Distribution, Strawberries Records and Tapes, International Multifoods, Stan lee Media, etc.

At RCA Records, as the Vice President of Worldwide Manufacturing and Distribution, he implemented the revolutionary Hits and Catalog distribution, which became the hallmark of the industry. As president of worldwide new media and distribution services at Technicolor, Mishra strategically developed and launched Technicolor Entertainment Services and also engineered and put into production its first optical media manufacturing facility.

A professor of Decision Sciences at Pepperdine University, he is recognized as an eminent thinker and practitioner of supply chain management.

Don Eklund

Don Eklund
Executive Vice President, Advanced Technologies, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

At Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment, Don works on new format R&D and deployment. His department is also extensively involved in developing software tools used in the entertainment industry such as Blu-print(tm)

Before joining Sony Pictures in 1995, Don worked at Sony Electronics as a field engineer for professional audio products

Steve Keifer

Steve Keifer
Vice President, Industry and Product Marketing, GXS

Steve has responsibility for marketing and positioning the entire GXS product line ranging from B2B e-commerce outsourcing solutions to software-as-a-service supply chain applications. In addition, Steve leads the strategy and marketing for GXS’ vertical industry programs.

In the retail sector, Steve has spearheaded marketing efforts for GXS’ data synchronization services. In the high tech sector, he has driven programs to target the fast growing Chinese market with B2B e-commerce solutions. Most recently, Steve led the development of GXS financial services strategy, launching several solutions for supply chain finance and cash management.

Steve maintains a popular blog entitled EDInomics (http://blogs.gxs.com/keifers) in which he discusses news, trends and strategies for B2B e-Commerce.

Jeremy Schoales

Jeremy Schoales
Senior Marketing Specialist, Mobile Business Group, Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc.

Jeremy Schoales, senior marketing specialist for Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc., Mobile Business Group, joined the company in 2006. His day-to-day responsibilities include managing the division’s internet marketing activities including its consumer website, pioneerelectronics.com as well as the exclusive social network for Pioneer retailers, Mobile Electronics Live (MEL). His primary initiative is to educate consumers about Pioneer’s in-vehicle entertainment and navigation solutions, while building excitement and demand that directs them to retail and distribution partners.

His dedication and passion for web-based marketing initiatives that deliver tailored, impactful and immediate messages to consumers, has led to several promotions within his relatively short career with the company.

Schoales was vital in the implementation of Pioneer’s Mobile Electronics Live (MEL), an online portal for their retailers, created in 2007 as a way to establish direct two-way communication among its dealer community. MEL offers exclusive product information, video training and technical support to approximately 2,800 participating retail stores and numerous staff members. Schoales has also hosted, produced and edited several of the training videos featured on MEL and on the division’s YouTube channel.

In 2009, Schoales helped to further expand the success of MEL in to the company’s consumer website with a feature called FitFotos. A first in the industry, FitFotos, added new functionality to the mobile entertainment product categories by highlighting installations of car electronics products by authorized Pioneer retailers. FitFotos’s two-fold purpose enables dealers to showcase their professional installation capabilities while simultaneously helping consumers visualize the fit of Pioneer products in their vehicles.

Schoales’s long-term goal is to grow with the company and continue to evolve internet and social media endeavors to keep Pioneer at the forefront of these emerging communications.

Schoales received Bachelor’s of Science degree from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, and lives with his wife in Orange County, California

Cheryl Wiebe

Cheryl Wiebe
Consulting Partner, National Media, Entertainment Practice, Teradata

Cheryl Wiebe is the primary solution delivery executive, responsible for the successful organization and implementation of enterprise data warehouse and analytic application technology for her clients. Those clients are premier media and entertainment companies, including Fox, Paramount, Sony, Warner Brothers, MGM, DIRECTV, Sirius/XM Radio, Dish Networks, and eBay/Paypal. Her work in the M&E since taking on this role, has covered projects working directly with individual studios, building their business intelligence capabilities, participating in industry studies documenting the issues and challenges in the industry’s supply chain, and working with academic institutes whose interest is in building management expertise in the M&E industry. Ms Wiebe’s expertise in demand and supply chain planning and analytic solutions stems from her involvement as a consulting partner in the Teradata Center of Expertise for Demand and Supply Chain Solutions, in which she was responsible for the envisioning, planning, and successful implementation of Teradata’s Demand/Supply Chain solutions for Teradata customers in the retail, high tech, and automotive customers, such as Toys’R’Us, Lowe’s, Safeway, the Gap, Best Buy, Ford, General Motors.

Ms Wiebe joined Teradata (then NCR) in July, 2002, as a result of the company’s acquisition of SageTree, Inc. As Vice President, Professional Services for SageTree, a developer of supply chain analytic software, Ms Wiebe was responsible for customer implementations and in particular, for the successful implementation of key lighthouse accounts. Prior to SageTree Ms Wiebe spent 10 years as a management consulting for KPMG Consulting, in the Los Angeles and Toronto offices. During that time, she performed and managed a wide range of consulting engagements, in which she built skills in data warehousing and decision support systems, IT project management, business/user requirements definition, data modeling, functional analysis, business process re-engineering. Cheryl worked with Western Digital in the role of functional architect of a Quality Information System – a data warehouse, which implemented recall, warranty, and factory quality analytics, taking the project from inception to successful completion. Her list of clients while in these roles included many industries, from High Tech, communications, to retail—e.g., Ingram Micro, Western Digital Corporation, Xerox Canada, Bell Mobility, Rogers Cantel Cellular, and Canada Safeway.

Joe Zenobio

Joe Zenobio
Senior Vice President and Chief Solutions Officer, GS1

Throughout Joe Zenobio’s executive career, he has established a strong reputation as a well-respected corporate leader, presenter, negotiator and innovative business strategist.

He has held a series of high level executive positions in the technology, broadcasting, marketing and financial management sectors over the past 15+ years.

Since April 2008, Joe has been Senior Vice President and Chief Solutions Officer with GS1 US, one of the world’s foremost standards and global commerce organizations.

Before joining GS1 US, Joe held senior executive positions with GS1 Canada. He began there as Chief Operating Officer in 2001 and was promoted to President in 2004. During his tenure, Joe led the company through a period of significant and consistent growth, increasing staff by 110 and revenues by $15 million (600%).

With wide-ranging responsibilities, including team leadership, customer relationship management, and operational strategy and implementation for multi-million dollar business units, Joe has consistently proven himself as a visionary, results-oriented corporate manager with a keen eye for detail. He has an innate ability to both develop and implement complex operational plans across the entire corporate supply chain.

An avid sports fan, Joe brings his competitive spirit to the business world. His “coaching” style is that of a motivational leader who always inspires peak performance from his “players” due to his ability to lead in a hands-off manner, but with open communication and clear, measurable deliverables. In his various positions, Joe’s management style has always created a positive and empowering employee environment that enables team members to define goals, take ownership of their actions and decision-making and be fully engaged and invested in the outcomes.

Prior to his roles with GS1, Joe was COO for Equity Rewards, a national loyalty card program, and was also a senior manager at KPMG, a leading financial advisory firm.

As a senior executive in the broadcasting industry with Corus Entertainment from 1995-2000, he increased sales and implemented strategic cost efficiency measures that resulted in substantially increased profits for the company.
In addition to his strengths as a high-level administrator, Joe is also an excellent written and oral presenter. He is consistently chosen to act as the executive liaison with the Board of Directors and provide regular reporting on corporate developments.

Joe does public speaking on a regular basis, and enjoys sharing his knowledge with University of Toronto and George Brown College students, as well as with youth programs such as The Learning Partnership and Junior Achievement.

Trained as a Chartered Accountant/Certified Public Accountant, Joe is a graduate of the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Commerce degree. Joe and his wife live with their two daughters in Princeton, NJ.

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