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"Tell me who you walk with and I'll
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Alan Hald |
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Alan Hald, M.B.A. is a strategic business consultant to the company.
He was one of the founders of MicroAge Inc., a fortune 500 company. Alan has
been referred to as "the single most influential advocate for high-tech
industries in the state." This is reflected in Alan's roles as chair of the
board of the Arizona Technology Incubator, leader of the Governor's New
Economy Task Force, leader of the Governor's Strategic Partnership for
Economic Development (GSPED), and chair of the public policy committee of
the Computing Technology Industry Association.
As a
business leader, Ernst & Young and Inc Magazine recognized Alan as the 1995
National Master Entrepreneur of the Year. For his commitment to improving
Arizona‘s business climate for technology companies he was recognized as
Arizona's "Entrepreneur of the Year" for supporting entrepreneurship. In
1998, Alan was inducted into the Arizona Business Hall of Fame. In the
recently published Grassroots Leader For A New Economy, the author Doug
Henton, described Alan as a classic example of business entrepreneur turned
civic entrepreneur. |
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Steve Sullivan |

Steve Sullivan
began his career as an
Army Ranger and served as a platoon leader, company commander and operations
officer. After leaving the military, he entered the business world and spent
twenty-one years in a variety of executive positions in corporate America.
He is responsible for generating in excess of 1.2 billion in sales growth.
He is an
internationally recognized authority on Sales, Leadership, and Performance
issues. He is the author of seven books. Two of which, Selling At Mach 1
and Leading At Mach 2 were business bestsellers. Leading At Mach 2
was a Business Book of the Year Selection. His videos on Selling and
Leadership are Vision Award winners. His most recent book Remember This
Titan is the acclaimed biography of celebrated coach Bill Yoast. He
holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from the University of
Florida and a Masters in Systems Management from the University of Southern
California.
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Giovanni Vescovo |
President
and CEO of Promostudio, Venice, Italy - a Management Consulting Company
established by Giovanni Battista Vescovo in 1987, which now is the Italian
Representative for leading international Business Economy personalities in
its commitment to provide Customised Consultancy and Executive Management
Training.
The Company's mission is to introduce the best international Management,
Economics and Finance practices and develop innovative ideas, methodologies
and management tools to support Operating Enterprises in
implementing their own Corporate culture.
Among the world-renowned personalities represented by
Promostudio are: Edward de Bono, Lateral Thinking creator, Renato Tagiuri,
Emeritus Professor at the Harvard Business School and Michael J. Spendolini,
Benchmarking guru.
PROMOSTUDIO is in touch with many leading speakers of the world of
economics, including Nobel Laureates in Economics as a special category
other than experts in Economics and Finance, and is unique in numbers and
specialties. Another group includes international Management experts at the
very top of their fields, such as Marketing, Benchmarking, Business
Administration or Strategy. |
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Dudley Lynch |
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Dudley Lynch,
president of Brain Technologies Corporation, is often viewed as the leading
popular interpreter of Dr. Clare Graves and his Gravesian conceptual model
of how the people work within the worlds of society, culture and technology.
Mr. Lynch has written more books on Graves' ideas and models than anyone
else, and no one's Gravesian books have enjoyed more marketplace success.
Three of Mr. Lynch's Graves-based titles are available both in English and
German. One of these, Strategy of the Dolphin®: Scoring a Win in a
Chaotic World (with Paul Kordis), was a Literary Guild alternative
selection in the U.S. It ranked as high as the No. 3 bestselling business
book in French, the No. 5 bestselling business book in German and was a No.
1 bestseller in German, Swiss and Austrian self-help bookstores. His latest
book is "The Mother of All Minds."
He also is the lead author of
BTC's
Code of the Monarch: A Guide to the
Real
Global Business Revolution, which was published in German in
1996 by Junfermann Verlag under the title of Der Schlüssel zur
Globalierung. Handbuch für den Wandel (The Key to
Globalization: A Handbook for Change). The work joined Marshall
McLuhan’s The Global Village as the initial works published in
Junfermann’s Medienanthropologie series.
His work,
Your High-Performance Business Brain—An Operator’s Manual,
(Prentice-Hall), was a Macmillan Executive Book Club Alternate Selection.
The content and title have since been revised.
Your Dolphin High-Performance Business Brain:
21st Century Thinking Skills for Ambitious People Under Challenge or Under
Fire was published by BTC. This work has been published in
German as DelphinDenkin (DolphinThink) by Rudolf Haufe Verlag. Also,
he is the lead author for
Evergreen: Playing a Continuous Comeback
Business Game, published by New Echelon Press.
Newport
University of Newport Beach, Calif., awarded Mr. Lynch the title of Doctor
Honoris Causa (Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters) in 1994 for his
contributions to the fields of personal and business thinking skills
development. The honor was bestowed at the university’s St. Gallen,
Switzerland, campus. |
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Robert Mazzucchelli |
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Robert
J. Mazzucchelli is a fast-track visionary leader with over 14 years of
executive level business success and accomplishment. Since 1987, he has
co-founded and run three successful companies. In each case, Mr.
Mazzucchelli rapidly got operations up and running while leveraging his
leadership skills and business development expertise.
Robert founded 141 USA, which evolved into 141 Worldwide. He grew the
business from 11 offices producing $11 million to 40 offices generating $115
million within two years. He also transformed Clear Channel Entertainment’s
marketing group into a globally focused multi-million dollar EBITDA
contributor.
Mr.
Mazzucchelli has demonstrated the ability to apply innovative and sound
business and marketing principles in both product and service business
models. Clients read like a "Who’s Who" of blue-chip corporations; Kodak,
RJR Nabisco, Adolph Coors Company, Diageo, Dun & Bradstreet, Coca Cola,
Perrier, Visa, BAT and Clear Channel Entertainment to name a few.
He
created the industry standard from an innovative product idea in the colored
gemstone industry. Robert expanded revenue opportunities for market leader
Clear Channel Entertainment in Europe, producing over $15 million of revenue
in 18 months. He paved the way for their expansion into Latin America. Into
each business situation he brings "new thinking" and a love of "problems".
Consulting Areas:
Turnarounds - Communications - Start-Ups - P&L -
Global Marketing - Crisis Management - Market Entry Strategies - Joint
Ventures - Strategic Alliances - Negotiations - Leadership |
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Philipp Johner |
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Professional activities:
Managing
Partner of the Manres AG in Zollikon, Switzerland, the leading institution for
assessments, coaching and training in the field of leadership and
personality development
Coach of
persons with outstanding achievements in the fields of economy,
administration, sport and art
Culture &
leadership development in renowned national and international enterprises
Methodology:
Solid
basis in theology and philosophy
Working
models and instruments from different branches of psychology, particularly:
depth psychology, sport and business psychology
University
degrees in psychology and philosophy from Zurich University
Further
education in astrophysics at ETH Zurich; diploma in psychotherapy
Entrepreneurial background:
Since 1990 Founder and Partner of several leadership & coaching companies.
Activities prior to founding the companies:
For 10
years in the Zurich stock exchange ring
Swiss
champion and on 5th place in the world championship in kick boxing
Swiss
vice-champion in Taek Won Do |
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Hemanth Rao, MD |
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Dr
Rao was born in
Madras (Chennai),
India and received his
medical degree from
Madras
University.
He completed his post-graduate medicine from the Mt Sinai School of Medicine
in NY, his Neurology/Epilepsy/Sleep training from LIJMC (Albert Einstein
College of Medicine in NY) and his NeuroMuscular fellowship from Washington
University in St Louis. Dr Rao is board certified in Neurology and
subspecialty board certified in ElectroDiagnostic medicine. He became
President and CEO of United Sleep Medicine in 2004 and is also president of
Neurology Consultants of the
Carolinas. Dr Rao has extensive business experience working with
corporations in various stages of development. |
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Bob Alexander |
Bob Alexander is a
senior project manager for Forsythe Solutions Group currently serving as a
project executive for a disaster recovery infrastructure upgrade project for
a global shipping conglomerate. Bob specializes in helping organizations
realize business objectives through project implementations. Highlights of
Bob's career include the management of the data processing aspects of the US
Air Force's Strategic Air Command's Command Center Upgrade Project and of US
Army Intelligence and Electronic Warfare Surveillance Systems supporting the
soldiers in the field. Bob has led organizations focused on the advancement
of systems from both the hardware infrastructure and software engineering
perspectives. |
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