Aswin Rangan currently serves as the Chief Information Technology Officer (CITO) for MarketShare Partners (MSP), backed by Elevation Partners. MSP is a leading Numerati firm, offering the world's most advanced decision analytics using econometrics. MSP's customers are Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) and Brand-stewards of some of the world's most prestigious Brands. Prior to this, Ashwin was a strategy consultant with Bank of America's Consumer Banking Sector. Ashwin stepped-down in 2006 as the General Manager and Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Wal-Mart global.com. Prior to this assignment, he served as CIO for walmart.com. Before that, he was senior vice president and CIO of Conexant Systems Inc. Ashwin was a member of the founding team that spun-out Rockwell Semiconductor Systems (in January 1999) and created Conexant. Before Rockwell, he served in various senior IT management positions at AST Computer (later, Samsung Electronics). Ashwin serves as a Board member with a handful of promising start-ups. He is a published author, having recently released a book entitled “Tomorrow's CIO: Strategic Conversations that align IT with the Board Room”. Less   View all posts

Tim has 4 years experience with Gartner, and 23 years experience in the IT industry. Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Payne worked in supply chain management for multinationals for 15 years including NCH Europe, where he was the European Supply Chain Director for 2 years and 3M Europe, where was European Supply Chain Analysis & Development Manager for 17 years. Tim has led many European supply chain re-engineering, improvement and optimization programs, including several supply chain system implementations. Less   View all posts

Simon Ellis currently leads the Supply Chain Strategies practice at Manufacturing Insights, one of IDC's industry research companies. With over 20 years experience in the industry, Simon most recently was the Supply Chain Strategy Director/Futurist for Unilever North America, a $12 billion division of Unilever, the maker of such well-known products as Dove, Suave, Wisk, all, Q-tips and Vaseline. Simon was responsible for leading the implementation of key new technologies that impacted the future of the Unilever Supply Chain. Prior to Unilever North America, Ellis worked for Unilever subsidiaries Lipton/Foods in finance from 1985-1990, and Lever Brothers in finance and logistics from 1990-1997. Less   View all posts

Dr. Lapide managed the launch of MIT's Supply Chain 2020 Project. He is currently an advisor to it, oversees CTL's Demand Management initiatives, and is responsible for its Strategy Alignment training workshops. He is also directs the research supporting the Demand Management Solutions Group (www.demandmanagementsolutionsgroup.com) ,a consortium of companies looking to advance DM strategies, principles and methods. Dr. Lapide has extensive experience as a consultant, high-tech manager, software market analyst, and business researcher. He is a frequent presenter at supply chain events and has written numerous publications, including his co-authorship of a book on e-business and SCM. He has worked at AMR Research, Accenture, Data General and A.D. Little. Dr Lapide holds an SMEE from MIT and a Ph.D. in OR from the Wharton School. Less   View all posts