David Smoley is Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Flextronics, a position he has held since December 2006. Leading IT publication, InformationWeek recently ranked Mr. Smoley as one of the top 50 Global CIOs -- IT Leaders Changing the Business World. Prior to Flextronics, Mr. Smoley served as Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Honeywell's Aerospace Electronics Systems. Mr. Smoley's extensive IT career also includes management positions with General Electric where he most recently held the position of Director and Chief Information Officer for GE Power Controls in Barcelona, Spain. Mr. Smoley holds a B.A. in Computer Science from Clemson University and an M.B.A. from the University of Virginia. Flextronics is a $26 billlion revenue global manufacturing and services provider operating in more than 30 countries worldwide. Flextronics designs, builds and ships complete packaged products for its OEM customers. Additionally, Flextronics provides logistics, after-market and field services to support customer end-to-end supply chain requirements. Less   View all posts

Jane Barrett is a managing vice president in Gartner's AMR Supply Chain Research group. Jane leads the analyst team covering the consumer, retail, industrial and high-tech value chains. As an analyst, she helps organizations with supply chain strategy and best practices using DDVN methodologies, frameworks and maturity models. Jane also covers sales and operations planning. Jane joined Gartner following the company's acquisition of AMR Research. She joined AMR in June 2006, focusing on research and advisory assistance in supply chain strategy and planning; becoming demand-driven; sales and operations planning; supply chain segmentation and complexity management; supplier management and collaboration; order management in configurable product environments; metrics and scorecards; and the role of councils and COEs in driving supply chain excellence. Prior to joining AMR Research, Jane spent more than 20 years in IT, manufacturing, technology and consulting industries, working for QAD, Fujitsu Glovia, OpenPro, HP and Unilever. Her experience includes consulting in manufacturing organizations (industrial, A&D, automotive suppliers, CP, food and beverage, pharma and high tech). Initiatives typically covered financials/cost management, order-to-cash, planning, manufacturing and procure-to-pay processes. She moved from South Africa to the U.S. in July 2000. Less   View all posts