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2009 JUDGING OPPORTUNITIESParticipate in Judging. We seek experienced professionals (Director Level or above) at leading global organizations as well as those involved in academia in relevant subjects to judge the various modules of the competition. Judges may elect to participate in judging either part or all of the competition, depending on their interest and availability. Benefits of judging the Global Business Leadership Competition are:
2008 JUDGES' BIOGRAPHIESGeorge Abe is a lecturer and faculty director of the Applied Management Research (AMR) Program at UCLA Anderson School of Management. His teaching responsibilities include entrepreneurship, business plan development and field study program advisories. AMR is the field study program, required of all full-time MBA students. Abe was business development manager for the UCLA Office of Intellectual Property, which is responsible for patent protection and commercialization of UCLA research. Previously, he was a venture partner with Palomar Ventures, a VC firm in Santa Monica, California. Before Palomar, he was with Cisco Systems in the office of the chief technical officer. Prior to that he was with Infonet Services Corporation (NYSE:IN, now BT) where he designed Infonet’s IP data service and helped spinout the company from its parent, Computer Sciences Corp (NYSE: CSC). From 1998 until 2006, Abe was a member of the board of directors of Switchcore AB, a publicly traded fabless semiconductor designer in Sweden. He has also held board of director positions with various startup companies and not-for-profit organizations. He is the author of Residential Broadband, which presents an analysis of high-speed residential networking, published by Cisco Press. Be has a B.A. in mathematics and an M.S. in business, quantitative methods from UCLA. Susan Baumgarten has over 30 years of experience at Hughes Aircraft Company and Raytheon Company in executive leadership, business development and systems engineering. She was a corporate vice president at Raytheon, a major aerospace and defense electronics firm with over 80,000 employees and annual revenues exceeding $20 billion. She served as president of Raytheon International, Inc. integrating activities in 76 countries throughout the world, responsible for international growth and operational performance of Raytheon’s international companies. She was a member of the Board of Directors for Raytheon Systems Ltd., UK, Raytheon Canada Ltd. and Raytheon Australia. Baumgarten also developed a growth strategy for Raytheon’s global services business, established and led the Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Systems business, and led large systems engineering organizations. A special moment in her career was flying in the backseat of an F-15 fighter jet seeing Hughes/Raytheon products in action. Baumgarten is a three-time alumna of UCLA with a B.A. in mathematics and biochemistry, an M.S. in electrical engineering and an MBA from the Anderson where she received the Carter Award. She is presently focusing on corporate and advisory boards, international business, philanthropy and education. Kelly Bean is the assistant dean of UCLA Anderson’s Office of Executive Education Programs. Originally from Pittsburgh, PA, Bean received a Bachelor of Science in business administration and a Master of Human Resources from the University of South Carolina. She currently serves as a board member and program committee chair for the Human Resource Planning Society in Atlanta, GA., and is active in a variety of professional organizations. Prior to her current role at Anderson, Ms. Bean served as executive director of Executive Education for Goizueta Business School at Emory University. She was also the associate director of Executive Education at the Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina before taking the position at Emory University. With a strong management background in organizational design and development, she has created and delivered executive education programs on topics such as management practices, corporate governance, and leadership, to name a few. Her executive education clients have included The Coca-Cola Company, The Home Depot, Intercontinental Hotels Groups, Chevron/Texaco and Verizon among others. Ms. Bean has extensive experience in human resources and she is also a certified consultant for the Birkman Method, the industry-leading personality assessment process that measures human behavior and occupational strengths. George Brenner was the VP/IS for Turner Broadcasting. Previously, Brenner was the CIO for Universal Studios, joining the company when it was still MCA/Universal. Brenner was a key technology leader at these companies. Brenner has worked in the entertainment and home building industries concentrating on the Internet and supply chain management supporting consumer product offerings. In these roles he introduced analytical analysis and strategic reporting via the Internet, created sales and traffic reporting (metric analysis) and alert information to senior management, created and installed new business processes systems supporting manufacturing, distribution, returns, sales, supply chain (vendors), executive management and finance areas within an organization. He developed with third parties, Internet enabled business applications linking suppliers with business units, and enabled bidding and automatic contract generation. Brenner developed a service business from scratch as a new start-up division of a software company, including the creation of business and marketing plans, obtained funding, presented the business model to independent software analysts, trained sales staff and built the organizational support bringing the service to market. He has a track record of success in understanding new technology and utilizing it in solving complex business problems. He has been able to supply reduction in costs, streamline operations, introduce new services and assisted in improving cash flows in a wide range of business situations. Brenner is skilled in all areas of executive and technical management utilizing expertise gained throughout his career with major companies: building information, telecommunications and customer service departments, supporting business operations and growth, establishing strategic multiple year and tactical one-year business plans. Brenner has worked for Kaiser Permanente, KBHOME, Candle Corp, Universal Studios, Turner Broadcasting, Mobil and J. Walter Thompson. Brenner is married, has two daughters – both of whom are graduates of UCLA – three grandchildren and resides in Southern California. Joy Chen is managing principal of Chen Partners, Inc., a pay-for-performance executive search firm. She conducts senior-level searches for vice presidents through CEO and board directors, with a focus on small- and middle-market companies in North America. Prior to forming Chen Partners, Chen was a principal with global executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles, where she was consistently recognized for her exceptional client service, and where she served as a worldwide trainer of her fellow partners in leading-edge executive search practices. Chen speaks and writes broadly on talent challenges facing global companies. Her work on addressing corporate human capital challenges has been cited in the Financial Times, Business Week, Economist and other leading business publications. Chen’s work in human capital spans public and private sectors. Chen is a former deputy mayor of Los Angeles, where she spearheaded major education and workforce development initiatives which since have become nation-wide models for addressing regional skills shortages. Prior to entering public service, Chen worked for 10 years in commercial real estate development, creating innovative urban development projects throughout Southern California. A 2004 American Marshall Memorial Fellow, Chen earned an MBA and an M.A. in urban planning from UCLA, and a B.A. from Duke University. Dr. Hilla Dotan received her Ph.D. Degree in organizational behavior from UCLA Anderson School of Management, and her B.A. in economics and psychology from the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. Dotan is a member of the Human Resources and Organizational Behavior department at the UCLA Anderson School and teaches in the Fully Employed MBA program. She is currently teaching her new course: “Relationships: the New Business Bottom Line” which focuses on building effective relationships and networks at work to improve outcomes for leaders, their employees and the organization. Prior to joining UCLA Anderson, Dotan worked for the Dutch Government where she conducted a cross-national research study on the implementation of a health and safety directive in the European Union. The research was published as a professional article which influenced some aspects of Dutch social policy; especially the risk analysis procedure for ensuring employee health and safety in Dutch business enterprises. Dotan also heads a private consultancy that specializes in cross-cultural negotiations and in building effective relationships with peers, subordinates and clients. The tools and assessment instruments used in the firm are based on Dotan’s ongoing research and practice. She has coached senior management and CEOs of industry leading companies in the Netherlands, Israel and the U.S. Dotan will be joining the Recanati School of Business Administration at Tel-Aviv University as a faculty member in the organizational behavior department in the fall of 2008. Thomas Epley is a highly experienced “turn-around” CEO. During his career, he has taken control of over a dozen companies in a wide variety of industries and difficult circumstances, rapidly executing a turn-around plan to initiate a rescue, implementing actions to attain a state of progressive viability, and installing a long term strategy and management team. He has been chairman and/or CEO of Potter Brumfield, Cuno Filtration, Bekins, Northern Ordnance, Technicolor, Paradyne, Globespan, AMIS, and many others; organizations whose businesses range from low-tech transportation to high-tech semiconductors. He currently serves as an operating partner for Francisco Partners, a leading high-tech buyout firm. He has been a director of publicly traded companies Paradyne, Globespan, AMISemiconductor and Carlton Communications. Epley also serves on the executive committee of the Board of Visitors for UCLA Anderson School of Management, and on the Board of Governors of the Pardee RAND (Ph.D. Public Policy) Graduate School. He has a B.S.M.E. degree from the University of Cincinnati, 1963, and an MBA from the Kellogg School at Northwestern University, 1970, both with honors. Gigi Johnson is president of Maremel Ventures, a media and technology strategy consulting and venture firm, and Maremel Media, a creator of music and family educational content. She also teaches at UCLA Anderson in new media for MBAs, undergraduates and executives. Maremel produces cable/broadband family television, has a small recording label for children’s music and produces a regional family concert series.Johnson also speaks frequently on new media, as well as teaches workshops on digital media literacy for family-oriented non-profits. Johnson was executive director of the Entertainment and Media Management Institute at UCLA Anderson until 2005, and presently is faculty director of its Global Entertainment Executive Program. She joined UCLA Anderson in 1999 and helped launch UCLA Anderson’s Center for Management in the Information Economy. As a managing director at Bank of America, she financed entertainment and media acquisitions for nearly a decade. She is on the management board of the Interactive TV Alliance and in the Interactive Peer Group of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Johnson received her MBA from UCLA Anderson School and her B.A. in cinema-television production from the University of Southern California. Dr. Iris Firstenberg is an adjunct professor of psychology at UCLA and adjunct professor of management at UCLA Anderson School. She teaches courses on problem solving, decision making, and innovative thinking in both the psychology department and MBA programs. In UCLA Anderson Executive Education programs, Firstenberg has taught for many years and is consistently one of the most highly rated instructors. Firstenberg also teaches seminars on creativity and innovation for a wide variety of organizations, including Amgen, Toyota, Sony Pictures, Johnson & Johnson, Times Mirror, SHRM, Braille Institute, LAPD, Los Alamos National Labs, Northrop Grumman, Cedars-Sinai Health System, Raytheon, Lawrence Livermore National Labs, Bell-Carter Foods, Boeing, Symantec, Edison, DirecTV, NASA and others. Firstenberg has written articles and papers on thinking strategies, problem solving, and innovation, and is co-author, with Professor Moshe Rubinstein, of two books: Patterns of Problem Solving (Prentice Hall, 1995) and The Minding Organization (John Wiley and Sons, 1999). Professor Firstenberg and Professor Rubinstein have also created and developed a program entitled “Integrated Innovative Thinking Teams.” Many organizations have successfully implemented the process to more effectively transform creative ideas into business solutions. Firstenberg is the recipient of the 2002 UCLA Faculty Distinguished Teaching Award. Bob Foster is an adjunct professor at UCLA Anderson School of Management, where he teaches high technology management, business plan development and management consulting field study. He taught half-time for 16 years while a full-time business executive and joined the faculty full-time in 1999. He created and teaches the High Technology Management course, teaching it to over 800 students over the past 16 years. For the past six years Foster has been the director of the Global Access Program (GAP), the international field study for Anderson’s Fully Employed MBA students. He provides overall academic direction of the program including the design and development of GAP’s six-month integrative, capstone course with 180 students and eight faculty advisors. He interfaces with GAP’s international partners from trade and technology development agencies in Finland, Australia, Italy, New Zealand, Ireland and Chile. GAP was a major reason why Business Week in November 2007 ranked UCLA Anderson as the #1 Part-Time MBA Program in the U.S. He was awarded the 2006 Citicorp Teaching Award of the Year, voted by the faculty as the most outstanding professor at Anderson. The fully employed MBA classes of 2003 and 2005 each voted him the Most Outstanding professor. He is a member of the Pasadena Angels and the Tech Coast Angels, which are angel investing organizations who invest in startup technology companies. Foster is also an active independent director is several corporations. He has an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management and a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Oregon State University. Richard A. Kleinert, principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP, has worked in the human capital field for more than 30 years across a wide range of industries, both on the employer side as director of employee benefit plan administration for General Motors Corporation, and as a consultant. His experience covers the spectrum of human capital, including total rewards programs, HR operations and technology, change and learning, and organizational development. In his current role, Kleinert leads Deloitte’s Human Capital practice in Asia Pacific and leads the Consumer & Industrial Products industry program for Human Capital in the United States. Recent clients include Toyota, Nissan, Yamaha, Disney, Raytheon and Hawker Beechcraft. Kleinert has an M.A. in applied economics, an M.H.S.A. in medical care organization from the University of Michigan and a B.A. (Phi Beta Kappa) from the College of Wooster. Kleinert is a certified employee benefit specialist (CEBS), a past president of the International Society of Certified Employee Benefit Specialists, charter member of that organization and sponsor member of The Center for Effective Organizations. He speaks on a wide range of human resource-related topics. Barbara S. Lawrence is professor of management at UCLA Anderson School of Management. She has been a member of the faculty since 1983, served as HROB area chair and works in the MBA, Doctoral, Fully Employed MBA, Executive MBA and Executive programs. Lawrence teaches management, organizational behavior, research methods, organizational change, group dynamics and career development. Her consulting focuses on teams and executive development. Lawrence’s current research examines organizational reference groups, the evolution of organizational norms, and internal labor markets and their influence on employees’ expectations and implicit work contracts. Her work on careers includes the Handbook of Career Theory, Cambridge University Press (with Michael Arthur & Tim Hall). She received the Outstanding Publication in Organizational Behavior Award from the National Academy of Management. Her work with co-authors in Spain received the Best Paper Award of the International Conference of the Iberoamerican Academy of Management. Her research has been funded by corporate, academic, and government agencies, including the National Institutes of Health. Lawrence is past-president of the careers division of the Academy of Management. She served as senior editor for Organization Science for nine years, as co-editor for special issues for the Academy of Management Review and the Journal of Organizational Behavior, and on the editorial boards of The Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly and Organization Science. Carol Lindstrom is vice chairman of Deloitte & Touche USA LLP., leading the strategic relationship management function. Lindstrom served as a member of the Deloitte & Touche LLP Board of Directors for six years and has served on the DTT Global Board of Directors since 2003. Lindstrom has held many management and client leadership positions during her Deloitte career including; managing director of the Global Strategic Relationship clients in the U.S., managing director of Deloitte’s e-business unit, dc.com, managing director of the America’s Technology practice, managing director of the San Francisco and Orange County practices, lead client service partner for VISA and other clients. Lindstrom joined Deloitte and Touche in 1995. Prior to joining Deloitte, she was a partner at Andersen Consulting for many years. She received her B.S. degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. Kit Lokey is the chairman emeritus of the Board of Directors and a founder of Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin, Inc. In addition to being chairman, Lokey was Houlihan Lokey’s CEO and president until 2002. His activities within the firm currently involve business development and strategic initiatives, including geographic expansion, acquisitions and strategic partners. He sits on a number of corporate and charitable boards, with the latter including the largest independent theatre group in the city of Los Angeles. Lokey earned a bachelor’s of science degree in engineering and a master’s in business administration from the University of California, Los Angeles. Seth Lubove is Los Angeles bureau chief for Bloomberg News, and a senior writer for Bloomberg Markets magazine. He joined Bloomberg in April 2006 after 16 years at Forbes, where he also served as Los Angeles bureau chief, deputy bureau chief, associate editor and staff writer. His areas of coverage include corporate strategy, entertainment, and companies in the Western U.S. Prior to joining Bloomberg and Forbes, Lubove was a staff writer at Florida Trend magazine from 1987 to 1990. He was also a staff reporter in the Pittsburgh bureau of The Wall Street Journal from 1985 to 1987 and a business reporter at The Miami Herald from 1983 until 1985. Lubove has a B.A. in english from the University of Pittsburgh and an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University. He has received awards from the Los Angeles Press Club and the New York Press Club, and is a finalist in the Public Interest category of the 2008 National Magazine Awards. Richard Little is a managing partner for VentureWest Partners, a Denver-based investment banking firm, and is responsible for the firm’s West Coast operations. He has more than 35 years of experience, primarily as CFO, in high growth, multinational, public and private, e-commerce, information technology and manufacturing companies. His diverse growth company experience, finance MBA from UCLA Anderson, engineering degree from UCLA and KPMG CPA have given him the basis for developing, communicating and executing complex business and related financial strategies. He also has more than 30 years of international business experience, including responsibility for starting and managing international operations. Little’s experience prior to VentureWest Partners includes most recently the role of CFO, general counsel and secretary for HireRight Inc. (NASDAQ: HIRE), a technology enabled, web-based services provider, where he helped develop and execute the growth strategy from early stage to IPO. He also developed the company’s strategy for and established its international operations. During his career he provided the financial leadership as CFO and helped lead Teradata, a database supercomputer manufacturer, from initial sales to $150 million and an IPO in three years, before its acquisition by NCR. Prior to Teradata, he was the CFO of publicly traded Quotron Systems, the original global stock market data provider. He helped lead the company’s growth from $60 million to $350 million in five years, including development and execution of the strategies necessary to drive global expansion into 13 countries and he listed the company on the London Stock Exchange. Julie Makinen is deputy business editor of the Los Angeles Times, overseeing a staff of more than 50 reporters and editors in California, Washington, New York, Mexico and China. Throughout most of her 14 years in journalism, Makinen has had a strong connection with foreign affairs. She worked as an editor supervising foreign correspondents at the Washington Post and The Times for more than seven years, with a particular focus on East Asia. She has worked in Iraq and Afghanistan as a reporter and editor. Makinen holds a bachelor’s degree in human biology from Stanford University and a master’s degree in East Asian studies from UCLA. Eric Mark is Deloitte Consulting’s lead corporate and competitive strategy principal for Media & Entertainment. He works with traditional and emerging media and entertainment companies on business-strategy issues and has worked with all of the major movie studios and music companies, and related businesses such as post-production houses, game publishers, broadcast and cable networks and digital-distribution companies. Mark has a significant market presence as a thought leader in media & entertainment and corporate strategy. He is a frequent speaker and panelist at industry conferences and colloquia, including NAB, CES, Digital Hollywood, the National Association of Recording Merchandisers, and the Wharton and NYU Media Conferences. Prior to joining Deloitte Consulting, Mark was a senior member of the Media & Entertainment Strategy practice at IBM Global Business Services (formerly PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting), and before that he was a manager in the strategy practice at A.T. Kearney. Mark holds a bachelor of mathematics in computer science from the University of Waterloo, an MBA in strategic management and marketing from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and a master of arts in international studies from The Lauder Institute of the University of Pennsylvania. Mark is also a graduate of the Second City Conservatory and Writing programs. A native of Toronto and erstwhile denizen of Paris, he currently resides in Marina del Rey, California. Ilana Meirovitch currently serves as the director of operations in the Deloitte US Talent organization. In this role, Ilana is responsible for national talent/HR operations, including technology support, budget and finance oversight, process and service excellence as well as reporting and analytics. Meirovitch has been with the Deloitte US Firms for nearly 20 years. She began her career as a tax professional in the Orange County practice where she served clients until 1995. Since then, Meirovitch has supported firm leadership in various roles, largely as a chief of staff to the tax managing partner (leading the Pacific Southwest region, and later on all national tax service lines as well national tax clients and markets) with a focus on operations. She was also part of the shared services organization for a period of time as a controller for the PSW tax practice and subsequently led the entire U.S. Field Finance team. Meirovitch was born and raised in Israel, where she served in the military for two years after graduating from high school. She has a bachelors degree in business from the Bar Ilan University in Israel, and an MBA from UCLA Andersen where she graduated in 1988. She currently resides in Orange County with her husband and teenage son. Ilana Meskin is president of Meskin Consulting, Inc. Meskin’s passion for leadership and organization development comes from an impressive corporate track record of over 25 years of professional human resources experience at two major companies, Amgen and ARCO, with significant accomplishments across both line HR and corporate functions. In her 16-year tenure at Amgen, she held key roles of increasing scope as her own career tracked the company’s hyper growth period, pioneering in HR while the company grew from a workforce of 2,000 to 20,000, and from $1B to $15B. As the former executive director of leadership at Amgen, Meskin owned talent review processes such as succession planning for the top 100 leaders, executive assessments and drove a focus on career management at all levels. Prior to Amgen, Meskin’s career included 11 years with ARCO Solar, as director of HR until the acquisition in 1990 by Siemens. She holds a B.A. in linguistics from York University, Canada, and is fluent in French. Meskin serves on the Board of Camp Ramah in California, and is a graduate of the Wexner Heritage Foundation program in communal leadership. Currently, her consulting practice areas include executive coaching, talent management processes, and workforce change management and engagement. David Melnick, CISSP, CISA, is a principal in security and privacy services within the audit and enterprise risk services practice in the Los Angeles office of Deloitte LLP. Melnick brings more than 17 years of experience designing, developing, managing and auditing large scale secure technology infrastructure. He has authored several books through McGraw Hill Publishing and Macmillan Publishing including PDA Security: Incorporating Handhelds into your Enterprise, Working with Active Server Pages, Web Development with Visual Basic 5.0 and Special Edition Using Microsoft’s Commercial Internet System. Currently his books have been translated into 4 languages including Japanese, Chinese and Italian. In addition to publishing security and technology books, Melnick has spoken widely on the topics of security and electronic commerce. He has held a number of positions supporting the deployment and securing of ecommerce infrastructure over public networks including: chief technology officer for B3 Corp providing ecommerce infrastructure for financial institutions including Wells Fargo and Bank of America; and VP of Transaction Systems for Warner Music Group, an AOL Time Warner Company. Finally Melnick actively supports the international security community as a current elected member on the Board of Directors of ISC2, the premier international security certification organization. Jim Moffatt is the consulting regional managing director for the Pacific Southwest of Deloitte Consulting, LLP. He is also the consulting national managing director regions, consulting national client excellence leader, executive committee member, and an advisor partner for Kaiser Permanente. Moffatt has 21-one years of consulting experience with Deloitte Consulting, with a primary focus in strategy and operations within the health care and life sciences industry. He has worked with a number of clients, including Kaiser Permanente, Edison International, Allina Health Systems, Premera, WellPoint and Cedars Sinai Medical Center, among others. Moffatt earned a B.A. from the University of California at San Diego, and an MBA from UCLA Anderson in 1987. He is also a member of the Board of Directors Center for Non-Profit Management. Moffatt is married to Cynthy Moffatt, who is also an alum of UCLA Anderson (1988). They have three children: Caley (15), Cole (12) and Cade (8). Jim is active in the local community coaching Little League and AYSO Soccer. Caroline Nahas is managing director of Southern California for Korn/Ferry International and is also a member of UCLA Anderson’s Board of Visitors. Ms. Nahas has served as a member of the Executive Committee of Korn/Ferry International from December 1995 until August 1998 and she has also served on IHOP’s board of directors since 1992. Ms. Nahas is also a director of Whittier Holdings, Inc. and United Way of Greater Los Angeles. Steven Nichols has been president and chairman of the board of K•Swiss since 1987. From 1979 to 1986, Nichols held various positions at Stride Rite Corporation including member of Board of Directors, corporate vice president merchandise, president Stride Rite Footwear and chairman Stride Rite retail. Nichols graduated from New York University with a bachelors of science in banking and finance. Alysa Polkes is in charge of the Southern California business of BlessingWhite (a global training and human capital consulting organization). In this capacity, she works with organizations to develop inspiring leaders, engage employees at all levels and create high performing cultures. Previously, she was chief of staff and director of the MBA Career Management Center at UCLA Anderson. In her role as associate director at the Wharton School’s MBA Career Development Center, she designed and led a month-long MBA Global Immersion Program to Central and Eastern Europe. Polkes has served as a member of the Board of the MBA Career Services Council (MBACSC) and the steering committee of the International Placement Directors’ Group. She has also been a member of the faculty of UCLA Anderson’s “Women’s Leadership Institute” – an Executive Education program. Polkes spent four years in marketing at The Procter & Gamble Company. Earlier in her career, she worked for the United Nations in Vienna, Austria. She has launched and directed a Presidential Commission on Eastern Europe as well as founded and managed a private consulting and career counseling practice. She has a B.A., magna cum laude, from Brandeis University and an M.A. in international law and diplomacy from The Fletcher School of Harvard/Tufts Universities. Sean Popcock, a recent UCLA Anderson graduate, was a member of the initial team of students that developed the Global Business Leadership Competition concept. Since graduating, Popcock has been in a management training program with Westfield LLC, the largest retail property group in the world. Within this program Popcock has had numerous responsibilities related to the firm’s shopping centers, including mall management, systems integration, property valuations, and financial analysis, reporting and budgeting. Before business school, Popcock worked for Instinet Corporation, where he was a director of internal audit. While at Instinet he led the development of a firm-wide operational and technological risk assessment and established the scope of the firm’s Sarbanes-Oxley compliance efforts. Prior to Instinet, Popcock was a senior consultant in the enterprise risk services group at Deloitte & Touche LLP. Popcock received his MBA, with honors, from UCLA Anderson School of Management and graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in management from Binghamton University. In his spare time, Popcock enjoys fine wine, sampling the newest cuisines in Los Angeles, traveling, and rooting for his beloved New York Yankees. Glen Rochkind is senior vice president and media practice director of Hill & Knowlton. Eugene S. Rosenfeld is one of the nation’s leading real estate developers and has successfully led a number of major companies both in the residential housing and commercial real estate fields. Rosenfeld along with Apollo Advisors founded Western Pacific Housing, a residential development company which merged with Schuler Homes, Inc., a publicly traded homebuilder. Ultimately, the combined companies were sold in 2002 to D.R. Horton for $1.4 billion. His early work included eight years of service as president and CEO of Kaufman & Broad. Currently he is the sole proprietor of Forest Lane Group, a major investor and developer of commercial and residential property in both the U.S. and Europe. As a Los Angeles civic leader, Rosenfeld has served on numerous boards of art, health and academic organizations. He previously served as chairman and trustee of the UCLA Foundation and currently is a member of the UCLA Chancellor’s Associates. He is chairman of the Board of Visitors for UCLA Anderson School of Management and he also serves on the board for The Painted Turtle Camp. Rosenfeld received his bachelor of science in business administration from the University of California in 1956. David Rosenblum is a principal in the Los Angeles office of Deloitte Consulting LLP, with responsibility for our strategy and operations practice on the West Coast. In addition, he is the national service line leader for corporate and competitive strategy for Deloitte Consulting LLP. With over 25 years experience advising complex organizations on strategy development and execution, Rosenblum has worked a broad range of issues for organizations in a wide variety of industries. In addition to his client work, Rosenblum has led or been a key advisor to multiple strategy development efforts for Deloitte; led a multi-year research effort focused on the topic of business model innovation; and served on various Deloitte governance committees. Rosenblum’s publications include a lead article in Harvard Business Review (March 2003). He was a guest lecturer in graduate courses at Anderson for a number of years; has spoken at Stanford GSB and Claremont McKenna College; and has spoken at conferences sponsored by organizations such as the Conference Board. His current thought leadership focus is on the topic of growth architecture. Rosenblum received a B.A. in economics from Wesleyan, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and a MBA in finance from Wharton. He is chairman of The Echo Foundation, which operates a 285 student elementary school that serves hearing and hearing-impaired children in Culver City, California. He is a member of The California Club. Richard Rumelt received his doctorate from the Harvard Business School in 1972, having previously earned a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley. He worked as a systems engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratories and served on the faculty of the Harvard Business School. He joined the UCLA faculty in 1976. During 1993-96 he was on long-term leave from UCLA, serving on the faculty at INSEAD, France. Currently, Professor Rumelt holds the Harry and Elsa Kunin Chair in Business and Society and teaches strategy and general management at UCLA Anderson School of Management. Professor Rumelt was President of the Strategic Management Society in 1995-98. He received the Irwin Prize for his book Strategy, Structure, and Economic Performance. In 1997, he was appointed Telecom Italia Strategy Fellow, a position he held until April 2000. He has won teaching awards at UCLA and received a “best paper prize” in 1997 from the Strategic Management Journal. He has also been featured in McKinsey Quarterly. Professor Rumelt’s research has centered on corporate diversification strategy and the sources of sustainable advantage to individual business strategies. His current research interests center on the dynamics of industry transitions with a focus on the patterns and forces shaping the evolution of complex industries. Mariko Sakakibara is associate professor at Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Sakakibara received her Ph.D. in business economics and MBA at Harvard University. She received her Master of Engineering degree from University of Tokyo, and Bachelor of Engineering degree from Kyoto University. Prior to coming to the United States as a Fulbright Scholar, she was deputy director at the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Japan. She joined the UCLA faculty in 1994. Her main fields of interest include alliances, innovation, intellectual property rights, international strategy and national competitiveness. Sakakibara’s research has been published in leading journals in economics and management such as the American Economic Review, RAND Journal of Economics, Strategic Management Journal, and Research Policy. Her book entitled Can Japan Compete?, co-authored with Michael E. Porter and Hirotaka Takeuchi (Macmillan, 2000), was selected as one of the “Books of the Year” in 2000 by The Economist. Professor Sakakibara teaches courses in the MBA, Executive MBA and Ph.D. programs on strategy, international business and innovation. She has served as a consultant to the Department of Commerce of the U.S. government and OECD, and advised a variety of international corporations. Rockwell A. Schnabel served as the U.S. Representative to the European Union from 2001-2005. Ambassador Schnabel went to Brussels from Los Angeles, California, where he was chairman and co-founder of Trident Capital, a $1.5 billion venture capital firm. Schnabel joined the LA-based firm of Bateman, Eichler Hill Richards Inc. (now Wachovia Bank) and rose through the ranks to become its president. He accepted his first government post in 1986, when former President Ronald Reagan named him U.S. Ambassador to Finland. After leaving Helsinki in 1989, Schnabel served at the Department of Commerce as Undersecretary then as Deputy Secretary and as Acting Secretary of Commerce in the administration of George Bush, Sr. As Deputy Secretary, he worked on the early talks on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). “Rockwell Schnabel has extensive experience working with European nations as an international financier, former official at the U.S. Department of Commerce, and past diplomat,” President Bush said when announcing his nomination to the post. “He will be an excellent representative of the United States to the EU at this critical juncture in our relationship as we work together toward a new global trade round and look to expand our relationship with Europe.” Currently, Schnabel is chairman of the Board of Directors at The Sage Group, LLC, a Los Angeles based boutique merchant bank and the advisory director of Trident Capital. Schnabel served as chairman of the LA Convention Board and of the Police and Fireman’s Pension Fund ($12 billion). He and his wife founded the Schnabel Foundation to support health, education and the arts. Schnabel received a Medal of Honor from The Netherlands Olympic Committee, a Gold Medal from the Dutch Government, and the U.S. Department of Commerce Gold Medal Award, the department’s highest honor. In 1981, he was awarded Commander of the Order of Good Hope by the government of South Africa. Most recently, he was honored with the 2006 Humanitarian Award from the Anti-Defamation League. Schnabel attended Trinity College and holds an Honorary Doctorate of Law from Pepperdine University. Dr. Hans Schollhammer is a professor at the Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the area of Global Economics and Management. Dr. Schollhamer studies multinational business strategies, intra-organizational conflicts in multinational firms, management of innovation, and entrepreneurship. He teaches courses in international and comparative management; international business economics, business policy, corporate entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial strategies and venture initiation, and business ethics. Schollhammer has held faculty positions at the European Institute of Business Administration (INSEAD) in France, the Cranfield Institute of Technology in England, the Institute for International Studies and Training in Fujinomiya, Japan, and Columbia University. He is also the author of several articles and books on entrepreneurship and international management issues. John Simrose is a principal in Deloitte consulting’s strategy and operations practice. John has more than 15 years of experience managing large business transformations for global 500 companies, and is a published thought leader in areas of order-to-delivery strategy and supply chain operations improvement. Prior to consulting, he had 10 years of manufacturing management experience in quality control, production supervision and distribution center management. He received his master in business administration from McGill University in Montreal, Canada and his bachelor of business administration from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. Holly Taylor, senior vice president, entertainment/lifestyle Division, Rogers & Cowan has over a decade of experience in public relations, with diversified experience representing film, television, music and travel clients, as well as corporations, directing high-profile media campaigns. She has orchestrated more than 100 media events with VIPs ranging from Hollywood celebrities to rap stars to the President of the United States, and she has created and executed major publicity campaigns, maintaining a strong track record of successfully placing clients in major national media. She developed an expertise in the travel industry where for five years she represented Studio 54 impresario Ian Schrager and Morgans Hotel Group, his collection of luxury hotels around the world, including: Mondrian in L.A., Delano and The Shore Club in Miami, Hudson in NYC, and St. Martins Lane in London, among others. Her array of special events have included New Year’s Eve in Times Square for which she managed all media relations for seven years, the launch and expansion of the Tribeca Film Festival founded by Robert DeNiro, and the Director’s Guild of America Awards, among others. In the music arena, her clients have included Island / Def Jam Music Group, Interscope Records, Arista Records, the Recording Industry Association of America, and Marc Anthony. She directed all media for hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons and his initiatives for six years. Taylor played a significant role in building the entertainment practice at Howard Rubenstein prior to joining Rogers & Cowan where she works with a diverse array of clients ranging from TiVo to Borba Skincare to Live Video and the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Willie Tucker is a managing partner at Newman Tucker Group, Inc. Tucker is responsible for the recruitment of middle to senior level management staff. Tucker has worked in the recruiting field for 10 years. Prior to partnering with Chuck Newman, he was a senior staff consultant with Management Recruiters International where he successfully placed mid to senior level candidates in the information technology, sales and marketing areas. Additionally, Tucker consistently received recognition as a “Top Producer” within the firm. A former nominee for the office of U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, Tucker is a respected political consultant and fundraiser for national and state candidates. His unique style of professionalism as well as his vast network of political and professional associates is a contributing factor to the successes of the Newman Tucker Group. A native of Southern California, Tucker holds an undergraduate degree in political science from UCLA as well as graduate degrees in political science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. John Ullmen, Ph.D., lectures on leadership for UCLA Anderson School of Management. Based on his ongoing research and practice, he has published numerous assessment instruments, articles and books, including Don’t Kill the Bosses: Escaping the Hierarchy Trap; Invisible Bridges: Building Professional Relationships for Results; and Which Bird Gets Heard? How to Have Impact Even in a Flock. As managing director of Ullmen Associates, LLC, an organizational effectiveness firm, Ullmen has extensive coaching and consulting experience at the senior management and CEO level. His clients span a wide range of Fortune 500 firms and industry leaders in technology, media/entertainment, consumer products, healthcare, finance, real estate, professional services, defense and government agencies. Ullmen began his career as an officer in the U.S. Air Force, where he served as a lead systems engineer for a top-secret Joint Chiefs of Staff intelligence program. He holds a B.S. from the USAF Academy, a master of public policy from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in organizational behavior from UCLA. Ullmen is a frequent keynote speaker for organizations and business events. He also holds a patent in the field of travel commerce granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Ullmen lives in Woodland Hills, CA. Bruce G. Willison is a professor of management and former dean (1999 – 2005) of UCLA Anderson School of Management. His appointment in 1999 came after a distinguished 26-year career in the banking industry, most recently serving as the president and chief operating officer of Home Savings of America and H.F. Ahmanson & Co. While dean, UCLA Anderson’s faculty was ranked number one in “Intellectual Capital” by Business Week and overall the school placed in the top ten of U.S. News and World Report’s rankings. Willison began his banking career at Bank of America, where he held several corporate and lending positions in Los Angeles and Mexico City. He joined First Interstate Bancorp in 1979 as a strategic planner and held various executive positions at the bank and its holding company, including chairman and chief executive officer of First Interstate Bank of Oregon, and chairman, president, and chief executive officer of First Interstate Bank of California, as well as vice chairman of the bank’s holding company, First Interstate Bancorp, until 1996. Then, Willison became the president and chief operating officer of H.F. Ahmanson and Co., the parent of Home Savings of America, one of the largest savings banks in the country. Though his appointment marked his first academic post, Willison had had a long association with Anderson, serving on its Board of Visitors since 1993. He also currently serves as a director of Health Net, Inc., SunAmerica’s fund complex, Move, Inc. and IndyMac Bancorp. Willison and his wife, Gretchen, are active members of the Los Angeles community, providing energy and enthusiasm to a host of organizations. A native of Riverside, California, Willison earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from UCLA, and an MBA in finance from the University of Southern California, following his service as an officer in the U.S. Navy. Richard Waters, West Coast Editor, Financial Times is based in San Francisco and is responsible for the West Coast editorial coverage of the Financial Times and FT.com. He also leads the FT’s coverage of the information technology industry. Before moving to the West Coast, Waters worked for the FT in New York for nine years. His various roles there included New York bureau chief and Wall Street correspondent. He was also the FT’s Information Industries Editor, tracking the convergence of technology, telecommunications and media. Waters began his FT career in London, where he held a number of financial reporting positions, including head of the international capital markets desk, securities industry correspondent and accountancy and taxation correspondent. He has won awards for his coverage of Google’s IPO, the bankruptcy of Bank of Credit and Commerce International, and his reporting on accountancy. Earl M. Weitzman recently retired from Deloitte Tax LLP, following a 37-year career with Deloitte Entities. In addition to serving clients as a lead client service partner and lead tax partner, his positions with Deloitte included: national director, tax practice quality control; deputy tax regional managing partner, Pacific Southwest; tax partner-in-charge, Orange County, California During the course of his career, his professional activities included: tax practice and procedures committee, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants; Board of Directors, chair of Committee on Taxation and chair of Subcommittee on California Tax Legislation, California Society of Certified Public Accountants; vice president and Board of Trustees, California Society of Certified Public Accountants Education Division; Board of Directors and chair of Taxation Committee, California Society of Certified Public Accountants, Orange County/Long Beach Chapter. Weitzman is an alum of UCLA, earning a B.S., MBA and J.D. from the university. Earl was also one of the founders of the Orange County Chapter of the UCLA Anderson School of Management Alumni Association and has served as the Chapter’s founding president and has served on its Board of Directors. Robert Wynne is a communications executive with more than 20 years experience in strategic marketing, public relations, branding and journalism. His firm represents Cornell University’s Johnson School of Management, the law firm of Stroock & Stroock & Llavan, Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems, Veritainer Corp. and others. Previous clients include MIT, Ferrari-Maserati and the Daniel Pearl Foundation. Prior to starting his own company, Wynne served as director of marketing for Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP in Los Angeles. Prior to that, he was director of communications for the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. He developed the strategic marketing plan for the School, promoting the image to corporations, students, academics and the media. He is a former reporter for Newsweek magazine and the Los Angeles Times. |
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UCLA Anderson Academic & Executive Competition Committee Members Carol Lindstrom, Vice Chairman, Deloitte & Touche, Anderson Board of Visitors Co-Chair Tom Schwartz, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs & Company, Anderson Board of Visitors Co-Chair Professor David Lewin, Neil H. Jacoby Chair in Management, Faculty Lead |
