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For over 25 years, Jim has been a successful global business executive, Human Resources leader, HR/business consultant, teacher/trainer/university instructor, and respected public speaker, skilled in translating business needs into pragmatic human and organizational solutions. Often called upon to lead/facilitate professional workshops and to speak at national conferences, Jim currently teaches various HR, business, women’s leadership, and globalization courses, with a particular emphasis on ‘Women and Leadership’ and on the new AlvernoMBA, within the School of Business at Alverno College, the internationally recognized, innovative leader in Ability-based and Assessment-based curriculum.
As a dual US/Canadian citizen, Jim has traveled extensively internationally in his business career, including living/working in South Korea, and being a member of both the Alverno Asian Studies Initiative and the Alverno Latin American Studies Initiative. As such, Jim is an active contributor to the ‘internationalization’ of Alverno’s liberal arts and business curriculum. In his professional career as an HR executive, Jim designed and led best practice initiatives and programs to hire, develop, mentor, and retain women managers and executives, especially in previously male-dominated companies, industries and corporate cultures.
Concurrently with his teaching, Jim consults with diverse business clients. Jim focuses on the development of women as effective leaders and on helping organizations achieve enhanced corporate value and competitive advantage through their unique human capital and organizational capability.
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Joe Hester is a senior attorney at Microsoft where he has supported the worldwide Services business. He helped establish Microsoft’s new managed desktop business and reengineered the process for the localization of Microsoft’s standard agreements around the world. Previously, Joe worked for Accenture and Electronic Data Systems Corporation.
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As Vice President of Multimedia Product Development within Motorola’s Mobile Devices business, Roger Jellicoe is responsible for developing and designing exciting new devices around compelling experiences. In this role, Roger and his staff collaborate with Motorola’s design and technology teams and global external partners to define and deliver these innovative products, from conception to completion. Roger is based in Libertyville Illinois, and manages teams in Libertyville, Sunnyvale, California, and Aalborg, Denmark.
Prior to this role, Roger served as Director of Operations within Motorola’s Mobile Devices business, managing GSM mobile product designs. He was a key leader in the development and delivery of Motorola’s “must have” RAZR V3 handset – one of the slimmest and sleekest mobiles on the market.
Roger has over 30 years of experience in the telecommunications industry and has held roles of increasing responsibility across a number of Motorola’s core businesses. He has extensive experience in managing and delivering new products – from two-way radios to pagers – in markets worldwide.
Roger holds a bachelors degree in electrical sciences from Cambridge University in the UK.
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Valentine has served the city of Chicago for over a decade including as Director of International Programs.
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With over twenty years of international experience, Louise M. Kern began working in the business information industry in 1996. In 1998 she moved to Vienna, Austria as the head of European Operations for a top US business information company. Ms. Kern returned to her native Chicago in 2000 to head the International Division of the same company, expanding their coverage to include data on international companies. Seeing the surging need for high quality business information in the increasingly global economy, Ms. Kern founded Global Business Information Services, Inc. (GLOBIS) in 2003 to cater particularly to the growing number of small and medium sized enterprises expanding internationally.
Initially focusing exclusively on China business information, Globis forged partnerships with leading Chinese private and quasi-governmental credit reporting and market research enterprises, beating venerable international business information companies to win the US Commercial Service’s contract as its source for International Company Profile (ICP) reports on Chinese companies in the fall of 2004. In April 2005 Globis expanded its coverage to include information on businesses and individuals in over 200 countries.
Ms. Kern has lived in mainland China, Austria, Germany, and France. She speaks fluent Mandarin and German, and is conversant in French. She has a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree from the University of Chicago and a graduate diploma from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Nanjing University campus. She is a Board Member of the International Trade Association of Greater Chicago, a member of the International Women Associates, the Chicago Sister Cities China Committee, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs China Roundtable, and the International Visitors Center of Chicago.
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Richard specializes in customized writing and improvisational comedy for any industry. He firmly believes that humor is the most valuable tool in delivering a company's message. (See video samples.)
And he uses humor in a way that reinforces your message, rather than cheapening it. In other words, he uses humor the right way. Richard's overall goal: "To deliver your information professionally and effectively."
An 18-year veteran of corporate entertainment, Richard began his career with Chicago's famous Second City comedy troupe.
For more than 15 years, he's been making corporate events fun and engaging for such clients as IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Fisher-Price, United Way, Microsoft, Mattel, the Chicagoland Learning Leaders Conference and many more.
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While Harry has traveled Asia extensively, he has lectured throughout China, including"China and the WTO". He first negotiated with China in l979 and has been a business consultant for 25 years.
Harry currently serves as Chairman of the Central Asian Productivity Research Center (Focus: academic and economic development programs along the historic "Silk Road" from Turkey to China);
Retired:
* International Business Development Programs
* Center For International Research and Education
* Purdue University Calumet
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Dr. Jianwen Liao is currently an associate professor of entrepreneurship and strategy at the Stuart School of Business, Illinois Institute of Technology. He has held visiting appointment at DePaul University, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), PeKing University, China European International Business School (CEIBS) and Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB). Dr. Liao's research focuses on venture creation process, entrepreneurial growth strategies and management of technological innovation as well. His research has appeared in academic journals such as Small Business Economics, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Small Business Management, Family Business Review, Journal of High Tech Management Research, Frontier of Entrepreneurship Research, and Journal of Management Inquiry, among others. For the last few years, he has been closely involved in the Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics a longitudinal study of nascent entrepreneurs in collaboration with researchers from various universities, foundations and government agencies. More recently, he received two research grants from the US Small Business Administration on the research of business planning by nascent entrepreneurs. Dr. Liao's primary teaching interest mainly includes Entrepreneurship, Business Policy and Strategy and Management of Technological Innovation and Change.
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Bill has more than 16 years of combined experience in consulting and industry. He specializes in strategy, marketing, and operations management, with a focus on international business.
Prior to joining NaviAsia, Bill worked for Lucent Technologies, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, and Waste Management, Inc.
In his current position, Bill advises U.S. companies on how to more efficiently achieve their marketing and manufacturing goals in China. He has helped clients with China strategic sourcing in the metal, plastics and electronics industries. Specifically, he assisted a manufacturing company to establish its manufacturing base in China, and designed a chemical company’s China market-entry strategy.
Bill received his MBA from the Kellogg School of Business at Northwestern University, and earned a PhD in Environmental Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Hands-on manager with entrepreneurial passion and energy tempered with the discipline and experience gained from domestic and international senior executive roles (CEO/COO/EVP) in the information services business. Extensive experience in the US, UK & India building and running business units in internet publishing, financial information services, healthcare informatics and business process outsourcing (BPO). Key strengths include business development finesse coupled with astute operational and financial management, and interpersonal skills honed in a multi-cultural environment. Demonstrated ability to build a strong corporate culture grounded in quality metrics with teams that deliver sustainable operating results that are exceptional.
In summary, I spent the fist half of my career learning how to manage people and an I/S in a multi-national setting, and the second half learning how to manage a B/S and the ins and outs of corporate governance in the US and India.
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International business (UK, India, EU), business development, managing information services business entities, capital structure, mergers and acquisition,
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