CGE - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- President of the Center for Global Enterprise
- Senior Adviser for Technology and Public Policy to the Center for Strategic and International Studies
Christopher G. Caine is President of the Center for Global Enterprise, a New York based non-profit organization dedicated to the study of the contemporary corporation in the era of global economic integration. He is also President & CEO of Mercator XXI, LLC (www.mercatorxxi.com), a professional services firm helping clients engage the global economy.
Mr. Caine also served as Director, Human Resources and Environmental Policy for IBM, responsible for public policy issues such as health-care reform, labor, personnel, health and safety, environment, and energy. Prior to that, he was Manager of Federal Government Relations and was Regional Manager of the company's state government relations programs.
Mr. Caine serves as a senior adviser for technology and public policy to the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He is a Fellow of the International Academy of Management. He is on the boards of the following organizations: The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, The Economic Club of Washington DC, The Institute for Education, The Ambassador Theater, and BrainFood.
D. Seetharam is an accomplished leader with 35 years of senior management experience in Indian industry. He has led strategic programs for companies, including the implementation of global initiatives. Experienced in building the brand and reputation of companies, he holds numerous achievements in the area of governmental affairs, manufacturing and operations.
Within two years of being named IBM's Governmental Programs leader in India, he significantly expanded the Company's foot print with government officials. He led the expansion of its strategy and programs designed to establish IBM as a trusted partner with the central and state governments. He has extensive experience and expertise working with governments across India, and elsewhere. As a member of the IBM Global Governmental Programs Leadership team, he contributed directly to the company's worldwide objectives in the areas of Market Access, Open Standards, Workforce Flexibility and Market Support. He also led a number of professional development initiatives comprising colleagues from different cultures and nationalities.
He has demonstrated leadership skills in building motivated, innovative, and high performing teams that consistently delivered on core business commitments and execution of strategy. During his career he has led teams in Manufacturing, Customer Service, Operations and Strategic Planning. In addition to his work with IBM, his professional experience includes employment with Siemens, TVS Electronics, and Tech Pacific.
He is a certified Professional Coach and has served as Advisory Board member of Project Management India Bangalore Chapter for the last 5 years. He has held executive council positions in MAIT (Manufacturing Association of IT) and Confederation of Indian Industry. (CII)
D.Seetharam has a Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering with Post Graduate Diploma in Management. He lives in Bangalore.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Partner at Cravath
David J. Kappos is a partner at Cravath. He is widely recognized as one of the world's foremost leaders in the field of intellectual property, including intellectual property management and strategy, the development of global intellectual property norms, laws and practices as well as commercialization and enforcement of innovation-based assets. Mr. Kappos supports the Firm's clients with a wide range of their most complex intellectual property issues.
From August 2009 to January 2013, Mr. Kappos served as Under Secretary of Commerce and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). In that role, he advised the President, Secretary of Commerce and the Administration on intellectual property policy matters. As Director of the USPTO, he led the Agency in dramatically reengineering its entire management and operational systems as well as its engagement with the global innovation community. He was instrumental in achieving the greatest legislative reform of the U.S. patent system in generations through passage and implementation of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, signed into law by the President in September 2011. Prior to leading the USPTO, Mr. Kappos held several executive posts in the legal department of IBM, the world's largest patent holder. From 2003 to 2009, he served as the company's Vice President and Assistant General Counsel for Intellectual Property. In that capacity, he managed global intellectual property activities for IBM, including all aspects of patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret protection. Mr. Kappos joined IBM as a development engineer. During his more than 25 years at IBM, he served in a variety of roles including litigation counsel and Asia Pacific IP counsel, based in Tokyo, Japan, where he led all aspects of intellectual property protection, including licensing, transactions support and mergers and acquisitions activity for the Asia/Pacific region.
Mr. Kappos has received numerous recognitions, including induction into the Intellectual Property Hall of Fame by Intellectual Asset Management Magazine, being named one of the 50 most influential people in intellectual property by Managing IP, and being named intellectual property professional of the year by the Intellectual Property Owners Association in 2011.
Shelly has been working, as she would say it, "In the business I love," for more than four decades, almost all of that time at Ogilvy & Mather.
Shelly rose through the ranks of Ogilvy & Mather assuming positions of increasing responsibility in the management of the company, including president of O&M Direct North America, Ogilvy & Mather New York and Ogilvy & Mather North America. She was named worldwide CEO of Ogilvy & Mather in 1996 and Chairman in 1997. She became Chairman Emeritus in July 2012.
Shelly started at Ogilvy at a time when the agency's legendary founder David Ogilvy still walked the halls, and personally preached that the purpose of advertising was to build great brands. Under Shelly's leadership, that essential mission has remained the centerpiece of the company's philosophy, extending across regions and marketing disciplines, and attracting some of the world's largest and most respected brands including American Express, BP, Coca-Cola, IBM and Unilever among many others.
Shelly has been a frequent industry honoree. Advertising Women of New York selected Shelly as its Woman of the Year in 1994. She was honored by Women in Communications with their Matrix Award in 1995, was named Business Woman of the Year by the New York City Partnership in 1996, and Woman of the Year in 2002 by the Direct Marketing Association (DMA). She has appeared numerous times in Fortune magazine's annual ranking of America's 50 Most Powerful Women in Business. Shelly was the first woman to receive Columbia Business School's Distinguished Leader in Business Award as well as the Advertising Educational Foundation's (AEF) Lifetime Achievement Award. She was inducted into the American Advertising Federation Hall of Fame in 2013 and is also a member of the DMA's Hall of Fame.
Shelly serves on the boards of several corporate, philanthropic and academic institutions: The Blackstone Group, FINRA, General Electric, Merck, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy, World Wildlife Fund, Partnership for New York City, Lincoln Center, and the Board of Overseers of Columbia Business School, where she received her MBA in 1970. She served for five years as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Smith College, her alma mater. She is a member of Advertising Women of New York, The Committee of 200, Council on Foreign Relations, The Business Council, and Women's Forum Inc. She has also served as Chairman of the American Association of Advertising Agencies.
Shelly is the wife of Dr. George Lazarus, a New York pediatrician, and mother to their three grown children.
David Beier, JD is a Managing Director of Bay City Capital and has been with the firm since 2013. He is a globally recognized leader in health care policy, pricing, intellectual property, government affairs, regulatory affairs, health care economics, and product commercialization. In addition, having spent two decades as part of the senior management teams for Amgen and Genentech, the two largest biotechnology companies in the world, he contributes invaluable perspective regarding strategy for entrepreneurial biotechs, the needs of potential acquirers, and the global health care industry in general.
Mr. Beier served in the White House as the Chief Domestic Policy Advisor to Vice President Al Gore during the Clinton Administration. He has served as an appointee of President Clinton on his Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations, on the Institute of Medicine panel on the Future of Health and Human Services, and as an advisor to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Mr. Beier was also formerly a partner in international law firm Hogan and Hartson and was formerly Counsel to the US House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary.
He has testified before Congress and the Federal Trade Commission, has written numerous law review articles and technical legal works, is regularly invited to author expert OpEds on health care, and has contributed to books on topics ranging from intellectual property, trade, privacy and justice issues.
He currently serves as an appointee of Governor Brown on the California State Government Organization and the Economy Commission, as a Senior Fellow of the Center for Global Enterprise, and teaches as an Adjunct Lecturer at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.
Mr. Beier received his JD from Albany Law School at Union University and his undergraduate degree and Colgate University. He is admitted to practice law in New York and the District of Columbia.
Dawn Leanness is the Managing Director of the African Women Entrepreneurship Cooperative, a program founded at the Center for Global Enterprise, where she is responsible for program design and management.
Dawn has dedicated her career to education, philanthropy, and social entrepreneurship and is passionate about supporting innovative small businesses and NGOs in building sustainable financial models and infrastructures to facilitate their growth. Before joining AWEC, Dawn ran an innovative urban charter school and started her own entrepreneurial ventures in food and fitness.
Dawn graduated from Princeton University with a degree in International Politics and Gender Studies and received her MBA in Non-Profit Management and Leadership and Organizational Transformation from Boston University's Questrom School of Business.
Job Titles:
- Managing Director of the African Women Entrepreneurship Cooperative
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Founding Board Member for the Center for Global Enterprise
- Managing Partner, Council Advisors
Douglas (Doug) Haynes, Managing Partner, Council Advisors (formerly G100) and President of The Council, is a philanthropist and counselor to top executives.
Doug is also a founding board member for The Center for Global Enterprise, a not-for-profit dedicated to promoting effective leadership of global businesses. He is an active philanthropist for the causes of poverty-fighting and veterans' support. He is a founding board member of the Cohen Veteran's Network and Cohen Veteran's Bioscience organizations. Doug is currently serving as a Board Advisor for the Cohen Veteran's Bioscience. He is a board member of the Robin Hood Foundation in New York and Camp Southern Ground in Georgia. He also serves on the boards of technology startup companies - ChainIQ, a Swiss logistics provider; FRISQ, a Swedish health information services provider; Vega Factor, an all-in-one workspace, helping organizations and individuals build high-performing cultures through the science of total motivation; and Obsidian Asset Management, a commercial real estate investment resource providing research and expertly vetted investment opportunities. He has served as a board member and/or advisor to Singtel Corporation, the Darden Graduate School of Business, Villanova University, the Canterbury School, and the Randolph Macon Academy.
Job Titles:
- Research Fellow for the Digital Supply Chain Institute
Dr. David Kurz is a Research Fellow for the Digital Supply Chain Institute (DSCI). He is an expert on organizational learning and leadership development. His research and practice focuses on improving collaborative performance enabling effective strategy execution. Dr. Kurz advises global organizations such as Coca-Cola, J&J, Colgate Palmolive, General Mills and MasterCard on innovative learning and leadership development strategies.
He is a former Director at Wharton Executive Education and Director of Wharton's Center for Learning Leadership. Dave has over 27 years of experience working with fortune class global companies in operations, strategy and talent development. He has been a Principal Consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers and Accenture.
Dr. Kurz currently holds a faculty appointment as a clinical professor in the management department of Drexel University's LeBow College of Business, where he is a leader in developing the school's capabilities in experiential learning.
He holds Masters and Doctoral degrees from the University of Pennsylvania.
Job Titles:
- Chairman Emeritus
- Citigroup As Strategic Advisor
Dr. Irving Wladawsky-Berger is Chairman Emeritus, IBM Academy of Technology, a position he assumed in May, 2007 when he retired from IBM as Vice President of Technical Strategy and Innovation. He was responsible for identifying emerging technologies and marketplace developments critical to the future of the IT industry, and organizing appropriate activities in and outside IBM in order to capitalize on them. He has led a number of IBM's company wide initiatives including the Internet and e-business, supercomputing, Linux, and Grid computing. He continues to consult for IBM.
Job Titles:
- Fellow at CGE 's Digital Supply Chain Institute
George Bailey is a Sr. Fellow at CGE's Digital Supply Chain Institute (DSCI). He is on the Advisory Board of Lockheed Martin, the American Productivity and Quality Center and MarketShare Partners, a privately-held marketing analytics company. He is also the Executive Professor of Digital Innovation and Management at Pepperdine University and the Chairman of the Jackson Hole Ocean Sailing Team; a not-for-profit that teaches kids how to sail and compete on the water and in life. George was the CEO of DIVA Networks, an Internet applications development firm.
Prior to that, George was the acting CEO of Sony's educational solution called "Tenobo" and was based in Tokyo as Sony's Chief Transformation Officer reporting to the Chairman and CEO Sir Howard Stringer. Before Sony, George was a member of the senior leadership team of IBM, running the global semiconductor business, parts of Sales and Distribution and Consulting. Before IBM, George led the global PriceWaterhouse Strategy Change business and was a member of the Chairman's office.
Governor Warsh served as a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 2006 until 2011. Warsh served as the Federal Reserve's representative to the Group of Twenty (G-20) and as the Board's emissary to the emerging and advanced economies in Asia. In addition, he was Administrative Governor, managing and overseeing the Board's operations, personnel, and financial performance.
Job Titles:
- VP, Communications and Global Learning
Ira Sager is a VP, Communications and Global Learning at the Center for Global Enterprise where he is responsible for the Center's global learning initiatives.
Mr. Sager has held several senior editorial roles in 21 years with Bloomberg Businessweek. Recently, he was Director of Special Projects. In that position, he developed strategy and content for editorial projects, realigned coverage in several areas and helped launch Bloomberg Businessweek's award-winning iPad app. He was a member of the editorial team that redesigned and repositioned Businessweek online, launched the publication's first blogs and worked extensively with third-party content providers. He also served as Managing Editor of eBiz, a monthly supplement to Businessweek that chronicled the dot-com era. He has written and edited numerous cover stories, features and news articles on all aspects of the computer industry. Mr. Sager has extensive experience with digital media and knowledge of the technology, management consulting and education industries.
He has a B.A. in English from Baruch College, City University of New York.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
Entrepreneur Jerry Yang co-founded Yahoo! Inc. in 1995 and served on the Board of Directors and as a key member of the executive management team until January 2012. While at Yahoo he led a number of initiatives, including two of the biggest investments in the internet: Yahoo Japan and Alibaba Group. Yang holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University. He is widely recognized as a visionary and pioneer in the internet technology sector, and was named one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35 by the MIT Technology Review in 1999.
Mr. Yang served as a director of Yahoo! Japan Corporation (TSE:4689) and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. until January 2012; and a director of Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) from July 2000 to November 2012.
Yang currently works with and invests in technology entrepreneurs through AME Cloud Ventures, his innovation investment firm. Mr. Yang joined Workday's board of directors in 2013. He serves as a board observer for Lenovo, vice-chair of Stanford University's Board of Trustees, and director for Monterey Peninsula Foundation.
Yang and his wife, Akiko Yamazaki, are well known philanthropists who focus on higher education, conservation and the arts.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Founder and CEO of Breyer Capital
Jim is the Founder and CEO of Breyer Capital, a global venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, CA. Jim has been an investor in over 40 consumer internet/technology companies that have completed successful public offerings or mergers, including Facebook, Etsy, Legendary, Datalogix and Marvel Entertainment. As a lead investor and/or board member, Jim has assisted teams at over a dozen companies complete IPOs. Several of his investments have returned to investors over 100 times their cost, and over a dozen more have returned over 25 times cost.
Prior to Breyer Capital, Jim began his career at Accel, where he served as Managing Partner for over a decade and as President and CEO of Accel Management for 14 years. He also co-founded AKKR, a joint venture between Accel and KKR in 2000. Jim graduated from Stanford University with a BS degree, and from Harvard University with an MBA, where he was named a Baker Scholar.
Over the past several years, Jim has developed a deep personal and investment interest in long-term oriented entrepreneurs and teams working in artificial intelligence (AI) and human assisted intelligence (HAI) and he has made numerous investments in this space.
Jim also has a long track record of investing in China and partnering with Chinese entrepreneurs, including through Breyer Capital's major limited partnership with IDG Capital, a premier technology venture capital firm based in Beijing. Jim has been actively involved with IDG China for well over a decade and currently plays the leading outside strategic advisory role for the firm. IDG's investments in China include Xiaomi, Baidu and Tencent, among others.
Jim currently serves on the board of directors of Blackstone and 21st Century Fox, where he is Chairman of the Compensation Committee and a member of the Nominating Committee. Jim served on Facebook's board from 2005 to 2013 after leading the company's Series A funding round. He served on Etsy's board from 2008 to 2016 and was the company's largest outside shareholder at the time of its IPO in 2015. Notably, Etsy is one of the first B Corporations to successfully go public and continue to grow significantly post-offering.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Cooper Hewitt
- Executive Fellow at Yale School of Management
- IBM 's Marketing Leader
Jon Iwata is Executive Fellow at Yale School of Management, an appointment he received upon his retirement from IBM in 2018, capping a 35-year career with the company. In 2020 he was also appointed inaugural Ogilvy Fellow at the Yale Center for Customer Insights; the fellowship was established to understand how business leadership is evolving in the era of stakeholder capitalism.
Jon reported to three IBM CEOs during two decades of significant transformation of the information technology industry, global business and geopolitics. As IBM Senior Vice President of Marketing and Communications, Jon led the company's global marketing, communications and corporate citizenship organization for a decade. He was chairman of IBM's corporate strategy committee for three years.
As IBM's marketing leader, Jon led the digital transformation of his organization. He developed strategies that substantially grew the value of the IBM brand and repositioned the company at key inflection points: e-business, when the Internet was emergent; Smarter Planet, which described how all systems - from power grids and supply chains to healthcare and cities - would be transformed by the phenomenon of data; and IBM Watson, which heralded the era of artificial intelligence.
Jon is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; a director of the Ladies Professional Golf Association and chair of its nominating committee, and a director of The Center for Global Enterprise.
He is an inductee of the B2B Hall of Fame, the Marketing Hall of Fame, the CMO Club Hall of Fame and the Page Society Hall of Fame, which honors lifetime achievement in business communications. He was named a Brand Genius by AdWeek in 2017. Jon holds a B.A. from the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at San Jose State University.
He is co-inventor of a U.S. patent for nanotechnology for semiconductor design and fabrication.
Job Titles:
- Digital Supply Chain Institute Fellow
Kathy Colucci is a Digital Supply Chain Institute Fellow. Previously, as Vice President for IBM Sales Transformation, Kathy was the senior IBM leader responsible for global transformation of IBM's sales processes, supporting 35,000 sellers worldwide. She improved seller productivity by $100+ million annually, by streamlining the pricing, contracting, collaboration, and forecasting processes, and by freeing seller time spent in pre-sales support using center-based "Deal Hub" resources. Her role included business ownership for IBM's CRM tools, sales dashboards, business analytics, and client master data.
Kathy served as CFO for IBM's supply chain and services delivery organizations, achieving 10-15% productivity annually across $35 billion of spending for IBM's global Supply Chain. As Program Executive, Kathy led the initial work to set up IBM's Globally Integrated Enterprise (GIE) shared services, which optimized IBM's support functions for expertise, scale and velocity.
Ms. Colucci served on IBM's Growth & Transformation Team, a forum for IBM's top leaders, from 2004 - 2016. She was an executive leader for IBM's CEO-sponsored Client Experience Team, a founding member of the IBM Chile Global Enablement Team, a senior advisor to IBM's LGBTQ Diversity Council, and to the IBM Millennial Corp.
Kathy holds an MBA in Finance from the University of Pittsburgh and a B.A. from St. Bonaventure University. She served on the St. Bonaventure Board of Trustees for nine years, including four as Vice Chair, and also was a member of the Business Advisory Council for Northeastern University's D'Amore-McKim School of Business.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Distinguished Visiting Fellow
Kevin M. Warsh serves as Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and as Lecturer at its Graduate School of Business.
In addition, he advises several companies, including serving on the board of directors of UPS.
Prior to his appointment to the Board, from 2002 until 2006, Warsh served as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Executive Secretary of the White House National Economic Council. Previously, Warsh was a member of the Mergers & Acquisitions department at Morgan Stanley & Co. in New York, serving as Vice President and Executive Director.
Warsh was born in upstate New York. He received his A.B. from Stanford University, and his J.D. from Harvard Law School.
Job Titles:
- Director of Operations and Partner Relations for the Cyber Readiness Institute
- Director of Operations and Partner Relations, CRI
Kinsey is the Director of Operations and Partner Relations for the Cyber Readiness Institute. She has previously worked as a Research Assistant for the Institute of Economics and Peace. She also brings an international perspective on human behavior in managing internal and external Institute operations.
Job Titles:
- Global Director of Outreach and Partner Engagement for the Cyber Readiness Institute
- Global Director of Outreach and Partner Engagement, CRI
Lessie is Global Director of Outreach and Partner Engagement for the Cyber Readiness Institute. Most recently, she worked for a cybersecurity start-up, Nisos, as Chief of Staff and Interim Director of Marketing. She also brings experience in working with new and emerging technology and cybersecurity companies from her previous role with an early-stage venture capital firm.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
Mr Li started his career in the refrigerator and refrigerator parts manufacturing business in 1986, and then transferred to motorcycle manufacturing in 1993. In 1997, he entered the automobile manufacturing industry and has been devoted to the development of China's auto industry over the past two decades.
Under Mr Li's leadership, Geely Holding Group has been committed to independent innovation and development, and achieved major breakthroughs in engine, transmission and other core technologies in the automobile industry. Geely Holding Group has been undergoing a strategic transformation since 2007, and launched a series of competitive models into the Chinese market. On 28 March 2010, Geely Holding Group signed a Definitive Stock Purchase Agreement with Ford Motor Company to acquire Volvo Cars. The acquisition was completed on 2 August 2010. Mr Li has received numerous awards, including the "Top 10 Private Sector Entrepreneurs in China", "Outstanding Figures in Chinese Automotive Industry", "Top 10 Philanthropists in China" and 2009 CCTV Top 10 Businessmen of the Year.
Job Titles:
- Director of Data and Infrastructure Design at the Cyber Readiness Institute
Matias is the Director of Data and Infrastructure Design at the Cyber Readiness Institute. He has earned his Master's of Science from the University of South Florida School of Information in Cybersecurity Intelligence and Information Security. He previously worked as a Graduate Assistant to Cyber-Florida and to the USF College of Arts and Sciences. He brings experience teaching cyber policy and safety to young adults.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Professor
Nobel Laureate Michael Spence is a world authority on growth in developing countries and on the convergence between advanced and developing economies. He is a professor of economics at the Stern School of Business at New York University, Professor Emeritus of Management in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution and a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Professor Spence has also served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard and the Dean of the Stanford Business School. He serves on the board of a number of private and public companies and is a Senior Adviser to Jasper Ridge Partners. Professor Spence is a former Chairman of the Commission on Growth and Development. In 2001, he received the Nobel Prize in Economics for work that assessed how markets try to close informational gaps. He has published widely and is the author of several books and numerous articles and papers. His recent book, The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World, describes how the global economy will develop over the next fifty years. It is available on Amazon.
He has a BA in Philosophy from Princeton University, a BA/MA in Mathematics from Oxford University and a PhD from Harvard University.
Job Titles:
- Program Manager
- Program Manager, Impact & Analysis, AWEC
Mimi Murphy is the Program Manager, Impact & Analysis for the African Women Entrepreneurship Cooperative, where she is responsible for day-to-day operations, program impact analysis and overall team support.
Before joining AWEC, Mimi worked in a variety of government-related jobs, from political campaigns and the U.S. Senate to private government affairs offices. She has a strong foundation in constituent-based relations and policy research and analysis.
A recent graduate of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, Mimi received a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations and Spanish. She enjoys traveling to new places, jogging, and meeting up with friends and family over a cup of coffee.
Job Titles:
- Chief of Staff and Data Protection Officer
- Vice President of Mercator XXI
Monica Consiglio is Vice President of Mercator XXI, LLC. In this role she works directly with the President to help drive Mercator XXI's business priorities and operations. Prior to joining Mercator XXI, Ms. Consiglio spent 10 years with the IBM Company.
At IBM, she held a variety of positions within the HR organization. Her experience encompasses Human Resources Data Collection, Staffing Services and Recruiting. Most recently, she spent over six years in the Governmental Programs organization. She was responsible for financial, security, and managerial control processes in the area of Governmental Programs. She worked with team members in 35 countries to ensure all human resource issues were handled appropriately and according to individual country policy. In this role she also managed a multi- million dollar global budget and established a checks and balances system to help capture all expenses on a country level basis.
Ms. Consiglio has a bachelor's degree from the State University of New York at Albany with a major in Psychology and Business Administration.
Peter Jen has over thirty years of experience in the IT industry in various capacities - including technical, general management in marketing, and government relations
For the past two years, Mr. Jen has been the Senior Advisor to the President and CEO of North Asia for SAP, AG. Prior to this, he spent twenty six years working at IBM in both the United States and in China.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Chairman of the Center for Global Enterprise
Samuel J. Palmisano is the Chairman of the Center for Global Enterprise, a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research institution devoted to the study of the contemporary corporation, the management science of the globally integrated enterprise (GIE), global economic trends, and their impact on society. The CGE was established in 2013 to help educate societal stakeholders - as well as leaders from the private sector, public sector, and academia - on the globally integrated economy and its promise for a better future.
From January 1, 2003, through December 31, 2011, Samuel J. Palmisano was chairman, president and chief executive officer of IBM. He was chairman of the Board from January through September 2012 and served as a senior adviser to IBM until his retirement on December 1, 2012. Under his leadership, IBM achieved record financial performance, transformed itself into a globally integrated enterprise and introduced its Smarter Planet agenda.
Mr. Palmisano began his career with IBM in 1973 in Baltimore, Maryland. In a 39-year career with the company, he held leadership positions that included senior vice president and group executive of the Personal Systems Group, senior vice president and group executive of IBM Global Services, senior vice president and group executive of Enterprise Systems and president and chief operating officer.
Mr. Palmisano is a graduate of The Johns Hopkins University. Among his many business accomplishments, Mr. Palmisano was awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from Johns Hopkins University in 2012 and from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2005. In 2006, he was awarded an Honorary Fellowship from the London Business School. Mr. Palmisano has received a number of business awards, including the Atlantic Council's Distinguished Business Leadership Award in 2009 and the inaugural Deming Cup, presented in 2010 by the W. Edwards Deming Center for Quality, Productivity and Competitiveness at Columbia Business School. In 2013 Mr. Palmisano was awarded the French Legion of Honor for his many accomplishments during his successful career at IBM, as well as for his personal commitment to French-American friendship. He is also an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and served as co-chair of the Council on Competitiveness's National Innovation Initiative.
Job Titles:
- Director of Operations and Program Management for DSCI
Sarah Lahti is the Director of Operations and Program Management for DSCI. Prior to joining the DSCI team, Sarah was the Program Coordinator for the USA Women Entrepreneurship Cooperative, a business leadership, and management program run by CGE that empowers women entrepreneurs to scale their businesses. Sarah graduated from Belmont University with her Master's in Business Administration in 2021. Before attending graduate school, she worked in various functions of supply chain management. Sarah held roles with Circle K as a sourcing analyst and Mapco Express as a logistics analyst.
Shanker Annaswamy was the former Managing Director of IBM India Private Limited from 2004-12. He also served as the Senior Advisor- India Enterprise from Jan 2013 until September 2014.
He was responsible for all of IBM's Sales, Marketing, Services and Global Delivery Operations in the India/South Asia region, including operations in Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka.
Before joining IBM, Shanker was the President and Chief Executive Officer for GE Medical Systems, South Asia and the Managing Director of Wipro-GE Medical Systems. He started his career with Philips Medical Systems.
He was the member of NASSCOM's Executive Council from 2004 to 2008, Chairman of the CII National Committee of IP owners and co-chaired the Confederation of Indian Industry's National Innovation Mission in 2007. In 2009, he was nominated to the Prime Minister's Advisory Group on Science and Technology. He was also on the National Executive Board of Amcham and on the National Executive Committee of FICCI.
He continues to be a member of the India @ 75 National Committee of CII.
In 2009, Business Week listed him as among India's 50 Most Powerful People. In October 2011, Shanker was conferred the Best CEO - Multinational Company Award as part of Forbes India Leadership Awards 2011 for Transformational Leadership.
Shanker holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree (B.E) in Electronics and Communication from Madras University and a Diploma in Business Management Education from AIMA, New Delhi.
Job Titles:
- Director, Supply Chain Innovation and Emerging Technologies for CGE 's Digital Supply Chain Institute
- Director, Supply Chain Innovation and Emerging Technologies, DSCI
Shawn Muma is the Director, Supply Chain Innovation and Emerging Technologies for CGE's Digital Supply Chain Institute (DSCI).
His experience includes structuring and managing technology alliances for IBM in the U.S., Europe, Asia, Middle East and South America in a wide variety of industries including aerospace and defense, investment banking, retail banking, chemical and public sector. In addition to the US, he has lived and worked in London, Bangkok and Beijing giving him a broad perspective on challenges facing global corporations. He has designed and implemented governance models and management systems in a variety of multi-partner environments and has vast experience in dealing with the complex issues encountered in multi-cultural environments.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
Kamel is the former founding dean of the school of business at the American University in Cairo. Before joining AUC, he was director of the Regional IT Institute (1992-2001). Prior to that, he managed the training department of the Cabinet of Egypt Information and Decision Support Center (1989-1992).
Kamel holds a PhD in information systems from London School of Economics and Political Science, an MBA and a BA in business administration from the American University in Cairo. His research and teaching interests include management of information technology, information technology transfer to developing nations, organizational transformation, electronic business, decision support systems and entrepreneurship. His work is published in IS and management journals and books. He is the editor of three books; E-strategies for technological diffusion and adoption: national ICT approaches for socioeconomic development (2010), Electronic business in developing countries: challenges and opportunities (2005) and Managing globally with information technology (2003). He serves as the associate editor of the Journal of IT for Development and the Journal of Cases on Information Technology.
Kamel is an Eisenhower Fellow and the Center for Global Enterprise Fellow. He is a member of the AACSB International Middle East Advisory Council; Egypt-US Business Council and board member of Education for Employment Egypt. Previously, he was a board member of the Egyptian American Enterprise Fund, executive vice president of the American Chamber of Commerce and member in the World Bank Knowledge Advisory Commission. He was a founding member of the Internet Society of Egypt. He was chairman of the Chevening Association in Egypt and board member of the Association of African Business Schools. He was member of the Eisenhower Fellowships Alumni Advisory Council; and vice president for communications and member of the Executive Council of the Information Resources Management Association.
He was a guest lecturer and taught degree and non-degree programs at Middlesex University, Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University), Maastricht School of Management, Claremont Graduate University, the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania), American University, Carlton University, University of Ottawa and McMaster University. He was invited as panelist/speaker in a variety of policy issues, IS, management, development and leadership conferences and expert meetings including Asia-Middle East Dialogue, AACSB International, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, UNDP, World Summit on the Information Society, EFMD, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Atlantic Council, German Marshall Fund, Middle East Institute, International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Kamel won a number of organizational leadership award for serving the IT community from Conf-IRM, Canada, Cabinet of Egypt and IRMA, USA. He won the best paper award of the International Conference on Information Resources Management; the London School of Economics and Political Science Alumni Award; The American University in Cairo Distinguished Alumni Faculty Service Award; the UNDP National Human Resource Development Award; The American University in Cairo President's Catalyst of Change Award for Citizenship and Service. Kamel is an advocate of diversity, empowerment, inclusion and using a bottom-up leadership approach.