The Future of the Global Supply Chain - 2010 and beyond
Join supply chain leaders from diverse industries as they discuss the changes they see coming in the next 5 years, especially with regards to Asia. Be it getting consumer products to some of the fastest growing markets like India and China, exploring outsourcing or offshoring options, or negotiating for production capacity with best-of-breed contract manufacturers, Asian operations are foremost on the minds of these managers. Hear them talk about the changes they are making on the ground to prepare for these transformations.
Panelists
Brad Bao, Assistant General Manager, Tencent
Brad
Bao currently works as the Assistant General Manager of Tencent USA, (the US
based subsidiary of Tencent, China’s largest Internet company with over 230
million active accounts), overseeing Tencent’s US operations.
Since
joining Tencent after graduating from the Haas School of Business in 2005,
Mr. Bao has been helping drive the company’s core strategy and international
development, including partnership, business development, M&A and strategic
research. During the last few years, Mr. Bao helped the company gradually
build up the core operation and team in the US, and in 2007 launched its US
casual gaming service, partnering with AOL.
Prior to
MBA, Mr. Bao has over 7 years of working experience in both the high-tech
industry and consumer goods industry in China, including 2 years as
co-founder of a startup venture in the Internet Security and Digital
Surveillance System industry in Beijing. He also has 5 years of working
experience at several multi-national companies, including IBM, Kodak and
Formica.
Mr. Bao holds his Master of Business Administration degree from Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, and bachelor degree in International Marketing from Wuhan University in China.
Yuen Lee, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales & Marketing, Augmentum
Mr.
Lee has 25 years of experience in systems development, sales, marketing and
general management. He comes to Augmentum from Attensity, where he was
Senior Vice President of Enterprise Sales. Before that, Mr. Lee was the
Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Services at Ion Systems and SVP/GM
of North America and Asia for Walker Interactive Systems. At Walker, Mr. Lee
established a solid position in Asia Pacific with significant sales to the
region's blue chip companies such as the BHP Group, Electricity Generating
Authority of Thailand, Caltex Pacific of Indonesia, Cathay Pacific Airways,
RHB Bank of Malaysia, Bank of the Philippine Islands, and China Merchant
Bank. Earlier in his career, Mr. Lee helped to establish Stratus Computer as
the leading OLTP systems provider in Asia Pacific.
Mr. Lee
started his career at Prime Computer as an operating systems kernel software
engineer and earned his bachelors degree in computer science from MIT and
his MBA from UCLA's Andersen School of Management.
Augmentum offers value-added software development services to its customers worldwide. Augmentum engineers augment their clients' teams as an extension, utilizing leading edge development tools and technologies, as well as proven processes, to create commercial-quality software. Augmentum, Inc. is headquartered in Shanghai, China and Foster City, California with additional facilities in Beijing.
Mark Klender, Principal - Strategy & Operations, Deloitte Consulting
Mark
Klender leads Deloitte Consulting’s Performance Improvement (PI) practice in
the West and is the Technology, Entertainment, and Telecommunications
industry lead for PI. Mark has more than 20 years of experience focusing on
location strategy, corporate real estate, cost reduction, and shared
services. He founded Deloitte’s location strategy and corporate real estate
consulting practices.
Mark has
written and spoken extensively on location strategy, corporate real estate,
economic competitiveness, and cost management. He most recently co-authored
a study for the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, evaluating the global
competitiveness of Silicon Valley, under corporate life cycle and value
chain frameworks. He has authored an international study with Fortune
onsite selection activities and decision-making and has authored studies on
economic development incentives, headquarters needs, occupancy cost
management and outsourcing, and the impact of reengineering on corporate
real estate. Mark is a four-time recipient of Deloitte’s Leadership Award
in Real Estate Excellence.
Mark’s
past clients include: Allstate, Amgen, Avery Dennison, AT&T, Brown Shoe,
Chevron, CVS, eBay, First American Title, First Data, the Gap, General
Electric, Hewlett-Packard, Ingram Micro, Kaiser Permanente, Mattel, Mercury
Interactive, NCR, Neiman Marcus, Nestle, Nordstrom, PacifiCare, SC Johnson,
Sprint/Nextel, Sun Microsystems, UBS, Warner Bros and Webvan.
Prior to
joining Deloitte Consulting, Mark worked with Fantus Consulting, the Council
of State Governments, U.S. Senator Carl Levin, and the Pacific Gas and
Electric Company.
He holds a B.A. in Economics (Public Finance) from the University of Michigan and a Masters in Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley.
Geoff Stafford, Senior Manager of Production Strategy, Gap, Inc.
Geoff
Stafford is currently the Senior Manager of Production Strategy for Gap
Inc's Banana Republic division. During his almost 10 years with Gap, he
has worked throughout the supply chain in Social Responsibility, Sourcing
Strategy, Supply Chain Finance and Brand Operations. He has traveled
throughout the world while working with the company's overseas sourcing
offices - primarily in Asia. Responsibilities have included creating
country-level global sourcing strategies, tracking key trade and other
market issues impacting Gap's supply chain, analyzing new sourcing
countries, developing international operational policies and conducting
in-depth analysis on key sourcing countries.
Prior to joining Gap, Geoff received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a focus on Southeast Asian economic development policy; his dissertation was entitled: Globalization Amid Diversity: Economic Development Policy in Multi-Ethnic Malaysia (1987-1997).
Moderator
Dr. Yu-Sheng Zheng, Associate Dean, Cheung Kong GSB
Dr.
Zheng is Professor of Operations Management at the Cheung Kong Graduate
School of Business and serves as Associate Dean of the school. He is also
Professor of Operations and Information Management at the Wharton School,
University of Pennsylvania. He has taught at the undergraduate, MBA
and Ph.D levels. His research interests include inventory management,
supply chain management, manufacturing operations, service operations and
financial models.
Dr. Zheng's research results have been published in the world's leading academic journals. He has been an associate editor of Operations Research and Management Science for many years, and also served on the editorial board of Manufacturing and Service Operations Management. He has provided consulting service to numerous multinational companies such as IBM, Teradyne Inc, Voice of Europe, Corporate Decisions, Inc. and Vanguard Group. Dr. Zheng is a frequently-invited speaker at major international academic and industrial conferences.