Xavor Advisor Network
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Tony Rodriguez Tony Rodriguez is a multi-functional leader with global experience at Warner Bros. and Seagram in finance, strategic business planning, supply chain and business team management. He has a proven track record of business performance improvement and leadership development with a focus on identifying root causes and developing collaborative solutions for successful implementation. Tony was a North American COO with a focus on identifying and implementing supply chain process improvements. He also has experience as a Deputy CEO managing global commercial joint-ventures (Seagram and Absolut Vodka Co.) and start-up internet business teams. He has leveraged his language skills (Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and French) on several international assignments including Argentina, Hong Kong, United Kingdom and Chile. |
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| Elliot S. Mandelman
Mr. Elliott Mandelman is a world-renowned Demand Management Guru, and was the visionary as well as the chief architect for one of the leading Demand Management software of the word, Demand Planner, when it was under Think Systems, which subsequently got bought by i2. Mr. Mandelman’s claim to fame is his deep expertise in Demand Management, Supply Chain, and Inventory Management. With a rich experience spanning more than 3 decades across hundreds of customers, Elliott’s most recent clients include Sony, Samsung, Huawei Technologies (China), Adtran and Alcatel. |
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David Chappell Principal of Chappell & Associates in San Francisco, California |
| Assists information technology professionals to create, use, and sell better business technology solutions. | |
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Richard Boland Professor of Information Systems, Case Western Reserve |
| • Qualitative studies of technology design and use • Design thinking in management • Focus on how managers and consultants turn an ambiguous situation into a problem statement and declare a particular course of action to be rational. |
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Nicholas Berente Instructor, Case Western Reserve University’s Executive Doctorate of Management Program |
| His research focuses on complex design processes and the role of information systems in supporting innovation. He has a bachelor’s degree in finance from John Carroll University and an MBA and PhD from Case Western Reserve University. He is former president and founder of Pentagon Engineering Corporation, a nationwide systems integrator that specialized product lifecycle management (PLM) assessment, implementation, and support services. Nick sold Pentagon Engineering in 2002. | |
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David Kirsh Professor of Cognitive Sciences, UCSD |
| • Official areas of specialization are: artificial intelligence, situated cognition, philosophy of mind and science, and foundations of cognitive science • Research work in cognitive engineering and how to better design highly interactive environments • Areas of expertise; Knowledge Management, Usability, Information Architecture and Design |
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Dr. Imran Currim Chancellor’s Chaired Professor in Market Research, Paul Merage School of Business, UC Irvine |
| • invented POS (point of sales) Analysis for Consumer Behavior • Marketing Research in customer choice, and the design and marketing of products and services |
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Dr. Vijay Gurbaxani Associate Dean, Full Time MBA & Undergraduate Programs, Paul Merage School of Business, UC Irvine |
| Areas of Expertise: Strategic Sourcing of Information Systems, Economics of Information Systems, Value of IT investment, Information System Budgeting Author of the book Managing Information Systems Costs: An Economic Analysis of Hardware-Software Tradeoffs |
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Dr. Ramesh Jain Donald Bren Professor in Information & Computer Sciences at University of California, Irvine |
| Dr. Jain is an entrepreneur, researcher, and educator. He is best described as a pioneer in multimedia information systems, search, image databases, machine vision, and intelligent systems. While a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and the University of California, San Diego, Jain founded and directed artificial intelligence and visual information systems labs. His current research interests are in experiential computing and its applications. | |
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Walt Scacchi Acting Director, Sr. Research Scientist, Research Faculty, ISR |
| Associate Director, Computer Game Culture and Technology Laboratory Research interests are Organizational Studies of Software Development in Open Source Communities, Organizational and Software Process Engineering Software Systems Acquisition, Electronic Commerce, Computer Supported Collaborative Work Environments, Software Technology Transfer and Innovation Engineering |
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Pankaj Jalote Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering |
| Research interest is in software engineering (software quality, software process improvement, software architecture analysis), and fault tolerant systems and reliability. | |
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Ruijun Zhang Supervisor of Doctoral students, Division head Computer and Accounting Program |
| Research areas: Financial management and Control, Financing and Accounting Information System (FAIS), Value Chain Management in IT environment: Model |
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Long Junsheng Professor Peking University Guanghua School of Management |
| Interests are related to the Chinese innovations in supply chain, logistics and retailing. | |
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Xiaona Zheng Professor Peking University Guanghua School of Management Specializing in Supply Chain Management and Operations Management |
