Diju Raha
CEO of Eximsoft and former Senior VP of
Nortel
Mr. Raha is a publicly acclaimed leader in global work, creating
Nortel Networks’ major knowledge work outsourcing in 1989, and
expanding this capability over the past decade. At Nortel, Mr.
Raha served as Vice President for International Research and
Development, breaking new ground in India, as well as in China,
Russia and Brazil. Mr. Raha pioneered the concept of OFFSHORE
DEVELOPMENT CENTRE. |
Carlos A. Primo Braga
Senior Adviser, International Trade Department, The World Bank
Mr. Braga specializes in international trade, intellectual
property rights, trade in services, multilateral trade
negotiations and the WTO. Dr. Braga received a degree in
Mechanical Engineering (1976) from the Institution Tecnologico de
Aeronautica (Brazil), and an MSc (1980) in Economics from the
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. He holds a PhD (1984) in
Economics from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA.
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Jim Kolbe
The tenth term in the United States House of Representatives
Mr. Kolbe was first sworn into Congress in 1985, becoming the
first Republican to represent southern Arizona since statehood. He
represents the people of Arizona's Eighth Congressional District,
which includes most of Tucson, eastern Pima County, all of Cochise
County and parts of Pinal and Santa Cruz Counties. |
Dorothy Leonard
William J. Abernathy Professor of Business Administration, Harvard
Business School
Dr. Leonard's major research interests and consulting expertise
are in organizational innovation and technology strategy and
commercialization. She is currently studying the generation,
identification, and management of knowledge assets in companies.
She has consulted with and taught about innovation for governments
(of such countries as Sweden, Jamaica, and Indonesia) and major
corporations (such as IBM and Nielsen Media Research), and she
serves on the corporate board of directors for American Management
Systems and for Guy Gannett Communications. |
Todd MacCallum
Vice President of Western USA. ICICI OneSource |
Alan Madison
Former VP of Intuit
Will describe IT Outsourcing from the perspective of a
Tucson-based company. |
Dr. Toshiharu Mogi
Global Head of the Strategy Solutions Group, Wipro Technologies,
Inc.
Toshiharu Mogi, PhD '96, moved to NYC after completing his PhD at
Cornell in materials science and engineering. He used to work for
McKinsey and Co. in Stamford, CT, as a management consultant. |
Peter Nag
The New York-based vice president at Lehman Brothers
In charge of the project management office (PMO) responsible for
the initiative. |
Neeraj Nityanand
Sr. VP and Head of Worldwide Marketing & Strategic Alliances for
Satyam Computer Services Ltd.
Mr. Nityanand educational background includes a Bachelors in
Engineering from I.I.T. Kanpur, M.S. in Metallurgical Engineering
and Materials Science and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University.
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Doug Norman
Chief Technologist and MITRE Corporation Section Leader for Air
Force Battle Management & Command and Control (BM/C2).
Mr. Norman has an MS in Computer Science from AFIT with
specialties in Computational Theory and Artificial Intelligence.
He has also completed all but dissertation for the Ph.D. in
Neurobiology from SUNY@ Stony Brook. |
Basab Pradhan
Senior VP, Infosys (leading Outsourcing company)
Mr. Pradhan received a Bachelor’s Degree in technology from the
Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, and a Master’s Degree in
business administration from the Indian Institute of Management in
Ahmedabad. Infosys Technologies |
Dr. Sanjay
Saini
Head of Radiology at Emory University |
Uday Singh
Partner, Outsourcing Practice at A. T. Kearney (leading
international consulting firm) |
Phil Verghis
President, The Verghis Group, Inc. |
Ronald S. Weinstein, M.D.
Director of the Arizona Telemedicine Program and Professor and
Head of the Department of Pathology at the University of Arizona
College of Medicine
He received his M.D. degree from Tufts University School of
Medicine and did his residency and fellowship training at the
Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard. He has chaired US
academic pathology departments for 23 years. |
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Gio Wiederhold
Professor at Stanford University (Department of Computer Science
with courtesy appointment in College of Medicine) and advisor to
IRS on international intellectual property issues. |
