The People

He's held senior roles with:

• Xerox
• Apple (Director Supply Chain and Logistics)
• Eclipse Group (Founder & CEO)
• Brocade
• Shutterfly
• Tumbleweed

Nigel has served as a consultant and providing mentoring and coaching for successful growth, turnaround and process (and profitability) improvement with:

• Cisco
• Photoworks (where he served as SVP Customer Operations during the turnaround and sale to American Greetings Interactive)
• Inmac (now CDW), and
• Alcoa, to name a few.

Nigel earned his Management Services Diploma from the University of Worcester, England, as well as Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Engineering from the University of Wales.

Deby has held various senior positions at companies including:

• Novellis
• PhotoWorks (VP Operations)
• Arzoon, Inc (Founder and Chief Product Officer)
• Non-Stop Solutions (VP Business Development)
• Skyway (Senior VP Solutions Development)

She has a particular passion for new technologies, and was a co-founder / creator of an internet-based SaaS software company. SaaS, which developed supply chain execution and visibility software, innovated next generation supply chain systems in many of her other positions.

Deby achieved a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia College in Chicago, and has been a University lecturer and a certified coach for both students and business professionals.

Peter brings work experience from global trade and brokerage leaders including:

• OHL (VP Commercial Program Management)
• PK Global Logistics Consulting (Consultant)
• DHL/Exel (Global Customer Director)
• MSAS Cargo International (VP Logistics and Information Technology)

Most of Peter's career was spent with MSAS / Exel where he held a variety of management roles in customer service, marketing, business planning, account management, and information technology. A large part of his career has been focused on global customers as a designer and practitioner of global customer management programs. More recently Peter has worked with OHL, a leading 3PL, as an independent consultant, helping the company in a variety of areas including M&A, acquisition implementation, developing customer pricing and profitability management tools, global standards processes, and business strategy.

We try not to hold against Peter that he achieved his Master in International Management with Honors at the American Graduate School (Thunderbird School of Global Management). He also holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science from the University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.

Michele began in field sales and progressed quickly to lead the marketing efforts of:

• Sea-Land Services, Inc. (Director of Marketing, Alaska Division; Americas, Atlantic Sales)
• Itel Rail (Director Strategic Research and Planning)
• American President Lines (Market Research), and
• Emery Worldwide (Director, Marketing Services)

She formed Carrollco Marketing Services in 1993 and has worked in tandem with Eclipse then Reclipse throughout:

• Eclipse Group (Chief Marketeer)
• Intelleflex (Marketing Goddess)
• American President Lines (Market Research)

And has served actively as a trade advisor to the:

• Republic of Ireland
• Northern Ireland (UK Trade & Invest)
• North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, and
• 125+ client companies in the past five years

Michele led the dynamic turn-around and growth of the CSCMP San Francisco Roundtable, serving as 2008-2011 president of the non-profit organization, and currently chairs CSCMP's Global Recruitment Advisory. She is active in the Organization of Women in International Trade (OWIT), a former president of Women in Logistics (WIL) and a resident of the Irish Innovation Center (IIC).

Michele earned an International MBA (IMBA) from the University of South Carolina, and a Bachelor of Arts (BA) with honors from Furman University.

He's held senior roles with:

• Champagne Logistics Apple (VP Solutions & Development)
• Kuehne & Nagle
• DHL/Exel
• Eclipse Group (VP Supply Chain Transformation)
• Intermatic

Dennis has established cost reduction programs, improved methods, and developed ergonomic programs that saved millions of dollars in direct and overhead expenses. He works closely with both branded companies and third-party providers to develop collaborative operational solutions. He is a team player, a talented engineer and a superb project manager who can apply real-life thinking to strategic problems.

Dennis earned his Bachelor of Science degree, with a focus is Industrial Engineering from Southern Illinois University of Carbondale, and then went on to earn an MBA from Lake Forest Graduate School of Management.

He has senior level experience at companies such as:

• Lam Research
• Flextronics International (Global Quality Manager)
• Digital Link
• Telesensory
• Unisys
• Apple

After receiving his Bachelor of Arts at San Jose State University, Tim went on to obtain his Master degree in Business from the Pepperdine University's Graziadio, School of Business.

Ian's brings work experience from global transportation, service and consulting leaders including:

• FedEx (Director, Project Management; Senior Research Manager)
• Greyhound Lines (VP, Maintenance & Engineering; Director, Operations Analysis)
• ServiceMaster (Corporate Logistics Manager)
• Dupré Logistics (Director, Supply Chain Excellence)
• Family Vision Centers (VP, Manufacturing & Distribution)
• Oliver Wyman (Senior Associate - Consultant)

Ian's career is a balance of consulting, project management, engineering, and alternating staff and line management roles in various elements of the supply chain. He has a broad business background having worked in the transportation, manufacturing, financial, facility construction and services, energy, military, chemical, and aviation sectors. A large part of his career has been focused on providing strategic consulting to executive management.
Ian has led strategic cross-company projects for companies such as FedEx, ServiceMaster, Dupré Logistics and Greyhound Lines. He has held operating roles at such companies as Schneider National, the United States Air Force, and Mattel Industries, and executive roles at Greyhound Lines, Family Vision Centers, and Piedmont of Michigan. Ian has been a management consultant for Oliver Wyman and established his own successful consulting firm. He has developed and marketed optimization-based business modeling and decision support software, and has conducted numerous lectures to various industry groups on product launch planning; technology planning and implementation; optimization and decision support; and on activity-based-costing.
Ian earned his Executive Masters in Business Administration from the Fogelman College of Business and Economics at the University of Memphis in Memphis, TN. He also holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Industrial & Systems Engineering from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA.

She has held roles in companies such as:

• Fotomoto, Inc. (VP Ops & Finance)
• Shutterfly (Operations & Program Management)
• Accordus (Senior Director, Strategic Technology Solutions)
• Brio Technology (VP Operations & IT)
• MySoftware Company – Director of Operations

Inge has also served on the City Council of San Carlos, as both a member and the Mayor for the city. As a consultant she has extensive experience with the following organizations:

• Cisco Systems, Inc.
• PhotoWorks
• Eclipse Group

Inge attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Architecture.

Eddie has held Management and Consulting positions at:

• Irish Innovation Center
• Microsoft
• Wheaton Worldwide
• Olympia

Eddie is a leader in process management and redesign having consistently and successfully reengineered processes to manage cost and streamline operations. At Olympia and Wheaton worldwide Eddie transformed warehouse handling processes to significantly reduce cost, he also significantly reduced shrinkage costs associated with materials, equipment and claims.

At Microsoft, Eddie analyzed distribution in the gaming industry, including optimal in-transit packaging form factors and physical vs. electronic supply at the level of business to customer. More recently Eddie Managed operations at Silicon Valley's Irish Innovation Center where he supported high-tech start-ups to drive focus on expanding value added services and build infrastructure capable of supporting scalability.

Eddie attended the National University of Ireland, Galway and received a BSC degree in Commerce. He then went on to earn his Master in Supply Chain Management from Smurfit Business School at University College Dublin.

He has experience at well established companies such as:

• Sanmina-SCI – Global EMS Cable Division
• US Smokeless Tobacco Company
• Moonblink Communications

Michael has a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration, with a focus in Marketing from San Jose State University.