Bob Hutchen is a partner with Booz & Company based in New York. Bob has worked with a variety of Life Science and Consumer Product Companies over the last 20 years on a range of operational and financial topics. He is currently working with a number of organizations to help them respond to the challenges in the economic environment. He is also working closely with several health care organizations to ready themselves for the healthcare reform legislation that will be potentially be enacted later this year. Bob has an MBA from the Wharton School, his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan Ross Business School. He also has the CPA designation.
Todd Abraham is vice president of global research with Kraft Foods, and is responsible for strategic innovative research programs as well as research support to business divisions. Abraham has responsibility for the research groups at the Glenview, East Hanover, Tarrytown, Madison and Munich sites. He came to Kraft from his role as senior vice president, product development, Nabisco Foods Company, and held previous leadership positions in marketing and R&D at Pillsbury and Procter & Gamble, with both North American and international experience. Abraham completed his Sc.B. in chemistry at Brown University in Providence, RI; received his doctorate in chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania in 1981; and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School in May 1981.
Ms. Chew is a Vice President located in New York. She is responsible for a team that covers all International, Emerging Markets and Global Equity strategies, as well as Commodity funds. Prior to this role, she worked as a Fund Manager with Promark Asset Management where she was responsible for the International portfolios. Ms. Chew received a B.A. from Columbia College and a dual degree M.B.A./M.A. from the Wharton School and the University of Pennsylvania. Ms. Chew has over 12 years of industry experience.
Nicolaj Siggelkow is a Professor of management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He is currently the Strategy Area Coordinator of Wharton’s Management Department. He studied Economics at Stanford University and earned an M.A. in Economics from Harvard University. He received a Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University and the Harvard Business School.
His current research focuses on the strategic and organizational implications of interactions among a firm’s choices of activities and resources.
Professor Siggelkow has been the recipient of multiple MBA and Undergraduate Excellence in Teaching Awards, including the Class of 1984 Award presented to the faculty member with the highest teaching rating in the MBA classroom, the Wharton Award, and the Wharton Graduate Association Student Choice Award.. In 2008, he received the Administrative Science Quarterly Scholarly Contribution Award for the most significant paper published in ASQ five years earlier. Nicolaj is a member of the Editorial Review Boards of Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Strategic Organization, and Academy of Management Perspectives.
Marisa Carson-Bibens is a manager in the Merchandising offices at Tiffany & Company in New York City, where she has worked for 11 years. Before taking on her current role, she has held positions in the department of Category Management and Demand Planning. Currently, she is responsible for Procurement and Supply Chain management for Tiffany’s fine and engagement jewelry product lines. Mrs. Carson-Bibens received a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School.
Bill Dordelman is Vice President and Treasurer of Comcast Corporation, where he is responsible for overseeing the company’s relationships with financial institutions and managing capital formation activities. Prior to joining Comcast in 1993, Mr. Dordelman was an investment banker with Lazard Freres and Morgan Stanley. Mr. Dordelman holds a B.A. in Economics and French from St. Lawrence University.
Ann Acierno is a senior fashion industry executive with more than 25 years of industry experience. She is chief executive officer of Bill Blass New York, a position she has held since March of 2008. Prior to Bill Blass New York, she was president of new business development at Tommy Hilfiger and an executive vice president at Victoria’s Secret. She began her career in retail fashion at the age of 16, when she joined the training program at Macy’s. Ms. Acierno holds a B.S. in Management/Merchandising from Michigan State University.
Olivier Chatain is an Assistant Professor of Management at the Wharton School. His areas of research include competitive strategy, value-based business strategies, formal models applied to business strategy, and value creation and value capture in buyer-supplier relationships. In addition to his time in academia, Professor Chatain spent three years as a strategy consultant with Roland Berger Strategy Consultants in Paris, France. He received his PhD from INSEAD.
Michael Useem is Professor of Management and Director of the Center for Leadership and Change Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His university teaching includes MBA and executive-MBA courses on leadership and change, and he offers programs on leadership, governance, and decision making for managers in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. He also works on leadership development and governance with many companies and organizations in the private, public and non-profit sectors. He is the author of The Leadership Moment: Nine True Stories of Triumph and Disaster and Their Lessons for Us All; Investor Capitalism: How Money Managers Are Changing the Face of Corporate America; Leading Up: How to Lead Your Boss So You Both Win; and The Go Point: When It’s Time to Decide. He is also co-author and co-editor of Upward Bound: Nine Original Accounts of How Business Leaders Reached Their Summits.
Monica co-leads McKinsey Leadership Services, which houses McKinsey & Company’s leadership and client capability building services within the American Organization Practice. She also serves as co-leader of McKinsey’s Consumer Organization practice and currently serves a mix of consumer sector, healthcare, and social sector clients. She is a leader of McKinsey Women, driving McKinsey’s efforts to be the best place for the development of professional women, where she has focused on leadership skill building and performance management. The program has delivered significant gains in women consultant recruitment, satisfaction and retention and earned McKinsey a spot on the “100 Best Companies for Working Mothers” list developed by Working Mothers magazine. Her expertise includes leadership capability building, organization design and leveraging mindsets and capability-building programs to drive sustainable performance transformation.
Monica received an A.B. from Harvard College in Government, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa. She received an M.B.A. and Certificate in Public Management from Stanford University Graduate School of Business concurrent with an M.A. in Education from the Stanford University School of Education.
Amy Wilson is a Human Resources Director at Medtronic corporate headquarters located in Minneapolis, MN. In this position, she leads Medtronic's corporate campus recruiting and summer associate programs, as well as its MBA Leadership Development Rotation Program (LDRP). Previously, Amy was a participant in the Marketing LDRP where she first led a team focused on marketing cardiac rhythm therapies to hospital customers, and then served as product manager for an implantable drug infusion pump therapy. Amy joined Medtronic in 2002 in the information technology function, where she led several strategic technology projects including an assignment based in the Netherlands.
Prior to Medtronic, Amy worked as a software engineer at Lockheed Martin Information Systems in Orlando, FL. She has an engineering bachelor’s degree from Villanova University, an engineering master’s degree from the University of Central Florida, and an MBA from the Wharton School.
As Group President, Mr. Black currently leads Kimberly-Clark’s businesses in Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Previously, Mr. Black served as Kimberly-Clark’s Chief Strategy Officer, leading the development, execution and monitoring of the company's strategy. Additionally, he led K-C's innovation and enterprise growth organizations, including research and development, engineering, new business, and global strategic partnerships, joint ventures and alliances.
Prior to joining Kimberly-Clark in 2006, Mr. Black served as Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Board of Directors for Sammons Enterprises, Inc., a multi-faceted conglomerate. Sammons, with assets in excess of $27 billion, ranks among the largest privately owned companies in the world.
Previously, Mr. Black was President of Steelcase International and a member of the Executive Committee of Steelcase, Inc. – the world leader in office products and related services. At Steelcase, Mr. Black’s earlier roles included Vice President Marketing, Vice President Corporate and Service marketing, Vice President Strategy and Corporation Development, and Vice President Europe. During his last four years with Steelcase, he was based in Strasbourg, France, where as president of Steelcase International, he led operations in more than 130 countries.
Before Steelcase, Mr. Black was with McKinsey & Company, one of the world's top management consulting firms. At McKinsey, he led strategy and operational improvement efforts in a wide variety of industries, including consumer goods, healthcare, retail, telecommunications and basic industries. Prior to joining McKinsey, Mr. Black held senior roles in planning, development and general management with Baxter Healthcare, a $9 billion medical products and services company.
Mr. Black earned a bachelor of science degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1982 and a master's in business administration from Harvard Business School in 1984.
Mr. Black lives in Highland Park, Texas, with his wife, Katy, and their four boys. In addition to involvement with his children’s activities, he enjoys biking, skiing, motorcycling, coaching, and opportunities to have a positive impact on people’s lives in the world and the local community.
Eric Dash has covered banking for the business section of The New York Times since January 2004, focusing on the players, personalities and issues shaping the industry. More recently, he has been a major contributor to The Times' coverage of the running financial crisis, including the government rescues of Citigroup, Bank of America, and A.I.G. He also contributed a major story on the failures of risk management to "The Reckoning," a series of articles exploring the causes of the crisis that earned a 2009 Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Financial Journalism and was a finalist for a Pulitizer Prize. He has also written extensively on corporate governance issues and executive pay.
Mr. Dash graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned dual degrees in business and history at the Wharton School and the College of Arts and Sciences. He also holds a master’s degree in international political economy from the London School of Economics. Mr. Dash grew up in Pittsburgh. He now lives in New York City.
Rob Weber is Senior Fellow for the Fisher Program in Management and Technology and a Managing Director of Antiphony, an innovation consulting firm. Prior to Antiphony, Rob served as President of Intellifit Corporation a provider of body scanning technology for multichannel apparel applications. His entire career has focused around starting and building technology based enterprises, including operational roles as President of Elastomeric Technologies, a specialty electronic connector manufacturer, Marketing Director for Ensoniq Corp, a leading manufacturer of electronic musical instruments and multimedia products and President of knoa, an e-learning software company. He has also served as Managing Director of the business consulting firm Antiphony where he focused on technological innovation strategies. Weber has invested in dozens of start-up technology ventures through angel venture groups Robin Hood Ventures and the Mid-Atlantic Angel Group Fund, both of which he co-founded. He is a graduate of the Jerome Fisher Program in Management at the University of Pennsylvania where he received a BSE from the Wharton School and BAS from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
Alexa is passionate about making personal finance education accessible and interesting to everyone. The concept of LearnVest came to her when she realized she was graduating from Harvard College without ever learning a single thing on the topic of personal finance. She would be taking a job working on Wall Street but hadn't the faintest idea about what to do with her 401(k).
In the fall of 2008, Alexa enrolled in Harvard Business School. But when the economy went into a tailspin knocking the country into the worst recession in 80 years she knew the time was now to launch LearnVest. She kept thinking that when the financial professionals fail us we have to rely on ourselves. So, in early 2009, when LearnVest received national recognition, selected as an Astia 2008-2009 company, she took a leave from Harvard Business School, with a singular goal of bringing personal finance education to as many people as possible, as quickly as possible.
Prior to founding LearnVest she worked for several years as a trader at Morgan Stanley in New York in their Global Proprietary Credit Group. After Morgan Stanley, Alexa then served as head of business development at Drop.io, a technology focused-start up, backed by RRE ventures and DFJ Gotham Ventures.
In addition to LearnVest, Alexa is the co-founder of L.W.A.L.A. (www.lwala.org) a 501c3 focused on fighting HIV/AIDS in Africa, with a secondary focus on microfinance.
Vijay Shreedhar is a senior marketing manager at Amgen, a leading human therapeutics company in the biotechnology industry. He is a member of Amgen’s Commercial Leadership Program which is specifically designed to prepare candidates for a future in general management. At Amgen, Vijay has held positions of increasing responsibility in sales and marketing, and is currently working on the launch of the first biotech product for the primary care market. Prior to his time at Amgen, Vijay was engaged in discovery research at Harvard Medical School and Wyeth, where he focused on understanding the mechanisms underlying the initiation and regulation of immune responses. Vijay holds a Ph.D. in Immunology and Oncology from the University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, and an MBA in Healthcare Management from the Wharton School.
Brian leads Massive’s Products and Partners team, which spans strategy, product management, business development, partner management, and finance. Prior to Massive, he spent two and half years in Microsoft’s Corporate Strategy Group identifying growth opportunities and building business plans to address them. Brian has also worked in early stage venture capital at Scripps Ventures and in management consulting at McKinsey. Brian received a BA from Williams College and an MBA from Wharton.
Megan Mitchell is a Senior Associate Director with Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs overseeing the co-curricular activities WEP offers the University of Pennsylvania’s entrepreneurial-minded students. Megan works closely with a volunteer student management committee in the design and execution of the year-long Wharton Business Plan Competition. She also manages all aspects of the School’s Entrepreneur in Residence and Global Entrepreneurial Internship programs. In addition, Megan works closely with student clubs, alumni and local groups to identify areas of mutual interest and potential collaboration.
Prior to joining Wharton in August 2004, Megan was an organizational relations specialist with a global professional membership association. In that capacity she established and managed relationships with corporate and government executives interested in the project management discipline.
Megan holds a BA in Economics and Public Policy Studies from Duke University and a MSEd from University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education.
Harold Sirkin is a Senior Partner and Managing Director in BCG’s Chicago office. He leads the firm’s global Operations Practice. Under his leadership, the firm has emerged as the foremost driver of client results in two areas critical to profitable growth—globalization and innovation. Hal previously led BCG’s highly successful Ecommerce and IT Practices.
Hal works with leading companies worldwide to improve their global competitiveness, innovation returns, operating efficiency, and strategic use of IT. His expertise spans a broad range of industries, topics and geographies.
Hal is coauthor of GLOBALITY: Competing with Everyone from Everywhere for Everything, published by Business Plus in 2008, and Payback: Reaping the Rewards of Innovation, published by Harvard Business School Press in late 2006. A thought leader both within and outside the firm, he is frequently quoted in the press worldwide and writes a monthly column for Business Week on-line. He has authored a wide range of articles for business publications, including several for the Harvard Business Review.
Hal has been with BCG for 28 years. He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and a BS summa cum laude from the Wharton School and is currently on the Knowledge@Wharton Advisory Board. He is a Certified Public Accountant.
Jennifer Bernstein is currently a Senior Manager on PepsiCo’s Corporate Strategy & Development team, where she works on global mergers & acquisitions across foods and beverages. She joined PepsiCo in 2005 after nearly three years of running her own firm, Investics, LLC, a marketing finance consultancy that aided clients, including Amgen, Microsoft and Lilly Pulitzer, in measuring marketing ROI and effectively allocating marketing resources. Prior to earning her MBA at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where she also earned her undergraduate degree, Jennifer was a marketing communications executive, working on the agency side for clients in the beauty and healthcare industries.
Katharyn White brings twenty years of international sales and marketing experience to her current mission as Vice President, Marketing, IBM Global Business Services.
Katharyn leads IBM’s marketing for Global Business Services. She has recently taken this role after leading marketing and strategy in Northeast Europe across IBM’s hardware, software, and services portfolios. Katharyn is a member of IBM’s global Senior Leadership Team, the Integration and Values Team, and in that role, leads the team’s efforts on enabling every IBMr, and our clients, to deliver, and benefit from the Globally Integrated Enterprise. Katharyn was the chair of the Northeast Europe Climate Change Steering Board, and led the integration and transition of IBM’s innovative partnership with Lenovo, which acquired IBM’s Personal Computing business.
Katharyn was previously Vice President for IBM Market Intelligence, Industry and Solutions Marketing, and prior to that she led Distribution Channels Marketing for IBM Europe Middle East Africa. Katharyn’s first assignment in Europe was Vice President, Marketing for IBM’s PC Division. Before that she was Vice President, Worldwide Sales, focusing on delivering PC solutions across the IBM portfolio, and Sales Director working on global accounts.
Prior to joining IBM in 1996, Katharyn held positions in product management, marketing and manufacturing for DuPont. She began her career in sales and marketing positions at Hewlett Packard.
Katharyn is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Duke University (Mechanical Engineering and Material Science) and holds a Masters in Management from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Katharyn lives in the Greater Washington DC area with her husband and two children.
L. Felipe Monteiro is an Assistant Professor of Management at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He has a PhD from the London Business School and additional degrees from COPPEAD, Brazil and the Law School of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. His research interests include Knowledge management in multinational corporations, global technology scouting and emerging markets multinationals. Currently he is working on how multinational corporations source knowledge on a global basis and open innovation and knowledge protection. Apart from Wharton, he has held positions at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), the Harvard Business School, Latin America Research Center and the Banco do Brasil.
Greg Pellegrino is the Global Managing Director for the Public Sector in Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and Deloitte Consulting. Greg leads member firms in helping our public sector clients address a range of issues including national security, impact of the aging population, meeting citizen expectations, accountability & performance and innovative partnerships. Mr. Pellegrino has advised senior business executives and public sector leaders for more than 20 years. He is a well-recognized expert on innovation and strategies for improving citizen service and mission performance. In 2006, Greg was chosen one of the top 10 market channel leaders by Washington Technology Magazine.
In 2002, Mr. Pellegrino was called to serve the newly created U.S. Transportation Security Administration to help create an award winning e-Government program for communications and information sharing. He is responsible for Deloitte’s work with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the firm’s efforts in homeland security globally. Currently, Greg is leading a multi-organization effort to help people of the developing world access clean drinking water.
Mr. Pellegrino is the Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Washington-based Homeland Security and Defense Business Council representing the leading suppliers to the Department of Homeland Security. He was the Co-Chair of the 2003 Privacy and Security Working Group for the Council for Excellence in Government study, Homeland Security from the Citizen’s Perspective. Mr. Pellegrino is often a featured speaker at national and international meetings where the focus is government performance or homeland security.
Greg Goldman has a background in both the not-for-profit and for-profit sectors. He was most recently the Vice President of Korman Communities, a Philadelphia-based residential real estate company. Prior to that, Greg was Executive Director of MANNA, a local organization that delivers nourishment to people living with HIV/AIDS. During his six-year tenure there, the organization’s service capacity and budget more than doubled, and its reach extended to include all 11 counties of the tri-state region.
From 1992 to 1998, Greg was the Senior Program Officer at The Philadelphia Foundation, where he directed the financial resources to dozens of community-based organizations throughout the City and region.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Northwestern University, Greg holds a Master’s Degree in public policy from the University of Chicago. He is also a recipient of the prestigious Eisenhower Fellowship, an international development program for emerging community leaders.
David Seltzer co-founded Mercator Advisors in 2001 with Bryan Grote.
Mr. Seltzer has over 30 years of experience in public and project finance, advising governmental issuers on finance strategies and assembling debt financings. His recent assignments include serving as financial advisor to a private operator on a $100 million port terminal acquisition and helping the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission design and implement a “public-public” partnership with PennDOT to provide an average of $1.67 billion/year in funding for statewide highway and transit purposes.
Mr. Seltzer also served as in-house financial advisor to the Federal Highway Administrator regarding development and implementation of “innovative financing” initiatives, including TEA-21 finance provisions and helped launch the USDOT’s TIFIA credit program and evaluate the inaugural cycle of loan applications.
Mr. Seltzer taught graduate-level courses in finance and accounting at the Wharton School and the Fels Center of Government at the University of Pennsylvania and for the University of Southern California. Mr. Seltzer holds B.A. in Urban Studies form Trinity College and an MBA (Public Finance) from the Wharton School.
Rick Norment serves as the chief of staff of the National Council for Public-Private Partnerships (NCPPP). Mr. Norment joined the Council staff in November of 1999.
Founded in 1985, the NCPPP is a non-profit organization of representatives of both the public and private sectors, working to promote the use of public-private partnerships for improved delivery of public services and infrastructure. NCPPP activities include publications, conferences and other educational programs for members and the general public, providing best practice examples and case studies of successful public-private partnership projects. NCPPP is headquartered in Washington, DC and its membership is predominantly located in the United States.
Mr. Norment has over 25 years of experience in management and development of national associations. His areas of expertise include: organization and program development, public affairs and government relations, at both the national and international levels. His first experience with public-private partnerships was with housing programs at the US Department of Housing and Urban Development in the early 1970’s.
He has authored numerous articles in trade and special interest press, and has given numerous presentations before national and international conferences. Norment also serves as a frequent lecturer for the U.S. Department of State’s International Visitors Program and the U.S. Agency for International Development. He serves as the U.S. representative on the Editorial Advisory Board of the PFI Intelligence Bulletin, a European Community publication reporting on private financing initiatives.
Mr. Norment's work experience includes senior management positions with the National Association of Manufacturers, the American Gear Manufacturers Association, the Steel Shipping Container Institute, and Foodservice & Packaging Institute.
Mr. Norment did his graduate work in U.S. History at The American University in Washington, D.C., where he also served as an adjunct professor. He currently is active in state and national politics, as well as several local civic organizations.
