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Tom Snyder, Chairman Mr. Snyder was previously CEO of Huthwaite International, one of the world’s largest sales management consultancies, which reengineers the sales operations of Fortune 500 firms.
Boeing, Microsoft, Reuters, HP, Time Warner, Google, IBM, PW Coopers, Eli Lilly, Booze Allen, UPS, United Airlines, Bayer, Ernst & Young, and Bank of America are among his clients.
He is a sought after international speaker and was recently named one of the Top 100 Most Influential Sales Leaders.
His Escaping the Price-Driven Sale became a New York Times best seller.
McGraw-Hill is releasing his new book, Selling in a New Market Space, in late 2009.
Early in his career, Mr. Snyder founded a Washington, DC based cash & carry and grew it to $40 million. He holds a BS in Computer Science and an MBA in Operations Research.
Donald H. Bosic Mr. Bosic retired from NASDAQ as Senior Vice President, Corporate Client Group.
He brings 25 years of public policy and operating experience in regulating broker/dealers and public companies.
As head of NASDAQ Listing Qualifications, with responsibility for monitoring initial and continuing compliance for all 4,000 NASDAQ listed companies, he participated in 2,000 IPO’s and 1,000 delistings. He was also directly responsible for developing and integrating both the qualitative and quantitative standards. While head of marketing, Mr. Bosic developed and managed NASDAQ MarketSite, NASDAQonline.com, and NASDAQ.com brand extensions along with overseeing NASDAQ’s national television marketing campaign.
Previously, Mr. Bosic was responsible for broker/dealers regulation at National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc (now, FINRA.) Thereafter, he managed the national overview function for broker/dealer regulatory operations and internal department processes.
Mr. Bosic has a B.S. in Accounting and Economics from Shepherd University and is a graduate of the Wharton Executive Development Management Program.
Merle A. Coe is CEO of Cash & Carry America, Inc.
Previously he was MicroNEX’s CEO where he led the team’s $18 million raise to commercialize the CRISP integrated POS/enterprise supermarket technology.
As project manager for the first two perpetual inventory systems for distribution centers, he developed and implemented practice improvements.
He has been a consultant in automating more than 100 retail operations, including ethnic stores.
While Vice President, Computer Data Systems, Inc., (NASDAQ listed) he built the Financial Services Group into a highly profitable multi-million division.
Responsible for designing reporting protocols, charts-of-accounts, and internal accounting procedures for National Credit Union Administration, Executive Office of the President, National Science Foundation, and Booz Allen Hamilton.
Early in his career, he was a senior member of the technical staff at MITRE.
He holds a BA in Mathematics and an MBA in Accounting.
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Don Vehlhaber
As President and CEO of SPI Consulting International, Inc. and Managing Director of SPI’s wholly-owned subsidiary in London, SPIINTL, Ltd., he designed numerous business strategies that today are generally accepted as “best practice” in the industry.
Representative accounts include Food Lion, Kroger, Wal*Mart, Vons, Fleming, SYSCO, The Limited, Western Auto, CVS, Sears, Procter & Gamble.
Previously he was Director of KPMG Peat Marwick’s National Manufacturing, Retailing and Distribution Practice and Vice President of Deloitte & Touche’s logistics consulting group. Earlier he was Executive Vice President, Operations of Worldwide Chain Store Systems, Inc., the world’s largest chain store automation firm. He received his BA degree in Management with a minor in Industrial Engineering.
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Duane Wolter
is a forensic accountant and “hands-on” operator.
He has completed eight acquisitions, two divestitures, one IPO, and $3 billion of public and private financing during his quarter-century career in the retail industry.
Early in his career he was audit manager for Arthur Andersen & Co. >From 1976 until 1979 he was assistant controller for May Department Stores ($10 billion) and returned to May from 1990 until 1994 as Senior VP of Finance of Hechts Department Stores ($1.3 billion).
In between, Mr. Wolter was VP of Finance of The Home Depot.
He was also Executive VP of Finance of Ames (a $5 billion discount retailer) and CEO of Ames’ Murphy Division where he completed the consolidation of the Zayres stores ($3 billion).
He holds a BBA and earned his CPA license in 1973.
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Gene Zarwell,
CEO of Axis International Marketing, has worked in 17 languages on four continents.
Engagements include directing businesses in Australia, Caribbean, Europe, Eastern Europe, New Zealand, North America, and Russia.
As Florida Citrus Water Ski manager in 1965, massive NYC 1964 losses were transformed into a $81 million profit. In 1996, Atlanta’s Olympic Committee recovered from losses when his strategies were implemented. In 1990, losses on SofTool USSR ‘90 were turned into a $500,000 profit within 6 months after implementing a recovery program. An advertising engagement for DoD shortly after the Viet Nam War resulted in the National Guard exceeding recruitment goals within three months after the campaign aired. Other engagements include directing marketing communications for eleven Bendix Corporation divisions; product introductions in commercial, aerospace, and recreational industries; institutional media issues pertaining to investor relations; business expansion in 130 countries; and, Internet marketing for virtual products.
Gene earned a BS, Broadcasting with a minor in Electrical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin. He is a graduate of the Army Command and General Staff College.
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Sergei P. Atamas, MD, PhD
Dr. Atamas is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Microbiology & Immunology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
There, he serves as Director of Basic Research for the Division of Rheumatology and Clinical
Immunology. He earned his MD in internal medicine and his PhD in biochemistry.
He also completed a post-doctorate fellowship specializing in immunology. Teton Sands Group
The 24 research projects for which Dr. Atamas was either principal or co-investigator during the past decade were funded by grants of $8 million from government institutions and private foundations. He is the author of more than 60 articles and 100 abstracts, including 42 peer reviewed articles, in leading scientific publications such as Journal of Immunology, Arthritis & Rheumatism and American Journal of Pathology. He is a frequent guest speaker at national and international scientific conferences.
Dr. Atamas takes time from his extensive research and publishing activities to mentor postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty. He also teaches University of Maryland’s Host Defenses & Infectious Disease course to medical students for which he has received the Teaching Award each of the past six years.
Stephen A. Boyko has more than forty years of financial experience in a broad range of industries.
He taught managerial finance at American University and formulated securities regulatory policy for the National Association of Securities Dealers.
As an international consultant, he provided a practitioner's perspective for the privatization of the former Soviet Union in the areas of corporate governance and regulatory development of the Ukrainian Capital Market.
He now serves as chairman and CEO of N2K Ecosystems Inc., an entrepreneurial business development company.
Mr. Boyko's white papers and editorials about economic and capital markets policy matters frequently appear in academic and industry trade journals. His new book, We're All Screwed, is the first of a series intended for mass audiences designed to popularize an economic dialogue that has heretofore been the arcane province of economists and policy wonks.
Mr. Boyko holds a BA in history and MBA in finance. He is conversant in French, Russian, and Ukrainian.
Michael W. Broomfield Mr. Broomfield is CEO and Chairman, Tagnetics, Inc. ~ a leading producer of automated shelf price labeling and promotion technology for supermarkets. Previously, Mr. Broomfield was Senior VP, responsible for operations, at Penn Traffic – a $2.2 billion, 15,000 employee wholesale food operator.
Early in his career, Mr. Broomfield was a Departmental Director at Sainsbury (the UK’s largest supermarket chain) responsible for 71 stores with revenues of $3.5 billion. When Sainsbury acquired Shaws’ Supermarkets, Mr. Broomfield was appointed Sr. Vice President responsible for integrating the two businesses as a single concern and updating the combined entity’s business practices. He was then appointed General Manager of Sainsbury’s hypermarket division, Savacentre Hypermarkets, where he increased profits 40% over four years. When Sainsbury acquired 20% of Giant Food, with an option to acquire the remainder, Mr. Broomfield was appointed COO of this $4.3 billion supermarket chain based in the Washington, DC area. Giant was subsequently wholly acquired by Royal Ahold. As a member of Giant’s Board Mr. Broomfield was tasked with developing and implementing a strategic plan to integrate the operations of the supermarket chains Ahold had acquired in the US.
Mr. Broomfield is a graduate of St. Thomas School and Charing Cross College. He completed the Executive Management Program at Columbia Business School.
Louis M. Brown, Co-Chairman, Micros, Inc. Micros is the world’s largest point-of-sale systems provider in the hospitality industry.
As a founder, Mr. Brown raised the initial capital and established the dealer network that enabled Micros to displace NCR and IBM as market leaders in the USA.
He managed the Merrill Lynch-led divesture of Westinghouse’s majority interest in Micros.
His efforts are currently focused on expanding Micros’ international presence and developing new markets.
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Roger A. Campos, President and CEO, Minority Business RoundTable (MBRT)
Patterned after The Business Roundtable, which represents Fortune 500 CEOs, MBRT is the membership organization for CEOs of leading African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, and Native American businesses.
Prior to MBRT, Mr. Campos was Vice President of government relations for the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities.
Past positions include: CEO of EKKOR Electronics; Consultant to Administrator, Small Business Administration; Special Assistant to the Administrator, Community Services Administration; Management Associate, Executive Office of the President, OMB; and Legal Counsel, USDA.
Mr. Campos holds a Juris Doctorate degree and a BA in social sciences.
Edward J. Dawson, Chairman, President, and CEO, Capital Alliance Corporation Mr. Dawson is CAC’s officer in charge of merger operations where he has completed more than 130 transactions, including Avis’ largest acquisition. He is the author of four merger books, the latest How to Successfully Sell Your Corporation. He has served as secretary, treasurer, and president of M&A International, an international organization of investment banking firms, where he was twice voted “Dealmaker of the Year.”
Prior to Capital Alliance, Mr. Dawson spent nine years with Texas Instruments in key positions in finance, engineering, business planning, marketing, and general management. He has a strong computer background covering micro through large-scale processors.
Mr. Dawson holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and a bachelor’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University, where he lectures on mergers and acquisitions. He teaches Effective Negotiating at the SMU Graduate School of Business.
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Paul S. Dwyer, Jr., CEO, Viamericas Corporation
Viamericas is a consumer remittance company with operations throughout Latin America.
Its money transfer services are available at over 500 agencies in the United States and 5,500 payout locations in Latin America.
Prior to Viamericas, Mr. Dwyer was a partner at the law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering. His practice focused exclusively on Latin American business transactions, including commercial, financial and regulatory aspects of transactions across Latin America, with a particular emphasis on private equity investments and capital markets issuances. Mr. Dwyer has represented private equity funds in their investment and fundraising activities, has served on the investment committee of one client fund, and has structured and executed capital markets offerings and project financings throughout the Latin American region.
Mr. Dwyer is a graduate of Tufts University, with a degree in Latin American Studies, of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, with a Masters degree in international business and Western Hemisphere diplomatic history, of the Harvard Law School, and was a Fulbright Fellow to Colombia.
Don Firth, President, JobsInLogistics.
JIL is the largest on-line job board for transportation, distribution and supply chain industries.
Previously, Mr. Firth was CEO of Blair Distributors (Pathmark’s $3 billion food distributor) and a Senior VP of Pathmark.
Before Pathmark, he was Executive VP of Deloitte & Touche consulting division. While a partner with Coopers & Lybrand, he was responsible for the International Logistics Management Practice.
He was also VP of Logistics for Steinbergs Supermarkets, a US and Canadian grocery chain with $3.5 billion of annual sales.
Mr. Firth holds a B.Sc. in mathematics from Newcastle University in England. He was editor and co-author of Profitable Logistics Management and Distribution Management Handbook, both published by McGraw-Hill and widely used as university textbooks.
Terry Fowler, President, Eagle View, LLC.
As USAF colonel, Mr. Fowler was commander of all Air Force commissaries in Europe. He led the task force that merged the Air Force, Army, Navy, and Marine Corps commissaries into Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA) – now, at $5 billion in revenue, the eighth largest supermarket chain in the US.
He was subsequently appointed Director of Legislative Liaison in the Pentagon, responsible for obtaining DeCA’s appropriations ($1 billion annually).
Upon retiring from the Air Force, he became Vice President of Empower IT, Inc., which produces the military equivalent of Nielson and IRI data. At Empower, he opened-up such major consumer product goods companies as Procter & Gamble by securing contracts for market data and analytics.
Mr. Fowler is a graduate of VMI and the Air War College. He holds a masters degree in management from Ball State University and another masters degree in business from Central Michigan University.
Lloyd K. Mosemann II, Senior Vice President, Business Development, SAIC. Before joining SAIC in 1996, Mr. Mosemann served 22 years as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force during which he held the titles “Logistics and Communications,” “Communications, Computers and Logistics,” and “Communications, Computers and Support Systems.” Prior to the USAF, he held logistics and supply positions in the U.S. Navy and other commands including Deputy Director, Defense Support Analysis Staff, Defense Logistics Agency.
Mr. Mosemann has received numerous commendations and awards, including: two Presidential Meritorious Rank Awards; five Air Force Exceptional Service Medals; the Defense Meritorious Civilian Service Medal; Society of Logistics Engineers Founders Medal; three “Federal Computer Week 100” Awards; “Government Computer News” Stetson Award; 1996 Inductee in “Government Computer News” Hall of Fame; and, the DOD Software Program Managers Network H Mark Grove Award for Excellence in Software Management. He has Bachelors and Masters degrees from the University of Chicago.
Joshua Isaac Smith Mr. Smith is a nationally renowned entrepreneur and lecturer. He serves on the board of three Fortune 100 companies: Caterpillar, Inc., FedEx Corp., and Allstate Insurance Corp. Previously, he was founder, chairman, and CEO of the MAXIMA Corporation that achieved a national reputation as one of the top African-American-owned firms in the U.S.
He received a BS cum laude in biology and chemistry from Central State University.
He holds honorary doctorate degrees from five universities.
Don Watt is chairman and CEO of DW+Partners, a fund committed to acquire and manage specialist assets in the area of branding, product development and packaging, retail design, communications and technology in support of the consumer experience at retail.
Mr. Watt is the founder and former chairman of Watt International Inc, a multi-disciplined strategic planning design and implementation firm, known for integrating brand, product and space. At Watt International he created the Sam’s Choice which was chosen by Wal*Mart for its private label beverages.
Past and present clients include Home Depot, Safeway, Loblaws, Ahold, Do-it-Best Corp, Nestle, Kraft and Cott Corporation. He serves on the boards of Aastra Telecom, Forzani Group, Menu Pet Foods and Cott Corporation.
