Mark is the Director of Global Demand Planning at the Gillette Company. His key role is to provide leadership and directions for the Demand Planning Groups across the company's five geographical regions. Prior to that, he worked for organizations including Johnson & Johnson, Starbucks and Levi Strauss, primarily in the areas of forecasting and demand planning. Mark is an IBF Advisory Board member.

Mark is responsible for Forecasting & Planning and Program Management for Microsoft’s North American Home & Entertainment (H&E) Division, which manufactures products geared towards Retail Supply Chain. He has also been responsible for Corporate Planning, Corporate Finance, Corporate Internal Computer Audit, and Xbox systems implementation management. Prior to that, he worked for Deloitte & Touche and Cooper & Lybrand auditing and consulting.

Martin is Head of Information Management and Forecasting at AstraZeneca in the United Kingdom. He is currently responsible for global forecasting and provides support to Global Supply Chain. He worked for the former Zeneca and its forerunner, ICI, for over 30 years. Prior to his current role, he was head of decision support and held senior roles in change management, international marketing, project management and R&D. Martin is an IBF Advisory Board member.

Larry is the project director for MIT’s Supply Chain 2020 Project, a multi-year, collective research effort exploring the future of logistics and supply chain management. The research includes investigating such areas as future technologies, business practices, corporate structure, regulations, and customer expectations. Larry was profiled in 2001 by Supply Chain Technology News magazine as one of the four top thought leaders in the supply chain arena.

Mark began his career in manufacturing operations for the Dodge Truck Division of Chrysler Corp. He subsequently held management positions in manufacturing operations, product development, and forecasting and planning in companies such as NCR Corp. and Hanson. He also served as SVP for Ponderosa. He has conducted IBF’s In-House Forecasting Training Seminars for companies such as Bombardier, AOL, Wyeth, Cadbury-Schweppes, Gap, Wachovia, and more.

Dave is a 15 year veteran of Avnet. Prior to assuming his current position, Dave served the Avnet's Mid Atlantic, Northeast and Canadian regions as an Area Director, where he managed a Supply Chain Solution Business Development and Implementation Team, focused on analyzing, designing, proposing and implementing customized Supply Chain Solutions that continued to provide competitive advantage for its customers and suppliers.

Coby is responsible for leading the implementation of processes and cultural change to improve the effectiveness of planning and forecasting in the NAFTA region. He has 16 years of experience in the crop protection business and has held roles in Sales, Marketing Programs, and CRM Management. He is responsible for the development of strategic plans and providing leadership to maximize the lifetime profitability of key products from test tube to exit.

Prior to joining Forereach in 2004, John was the Director of Strategic Quality for Motorola University, where he was responsible for enabling clients to enhance their business performance by applying an integrated set of Business Improvement tools, including: Lean Six Sigma; executive and employee alignment; baseline and gap analysis; change acceleration; business process reengineering and benchmarking.

Azhar is the Lead Consultant for the Hospital Association of Southern California’s (HASC) Hospital Quality Committee. He helps to develop a standardized statewide measurement and reporting system for hospital quality. He is a member of the Steering and Technical Committees of the California Hospital Assessment and Reporting Task (CHART) Force. Azhar has extensive experience in forecasting and teaches a course in quantitative risk analysis at Harvard University.

Prashant has over 12 years of experience in Forecasting & Supply Chain Management. At Herbalife, he has built a strong global forecasting team within the Supply Chain Planning organization. His accomplishments include successful implementation of the Global Forecast Collaboration (GFC) process as well as development of a road map for Forecasting and Sales & Operation Planning (S&OP).

Greg has over 25 years of experience across multiple industries. Before joining IBM, he worked in the systems and plant operations environments for Hercules Chemical, International Harvester, Schlumberger and Loral Aerospace Electronics. As a supply chain practitioner, he has designed, implemented and managed several ERP projects, Supply Chain Optimization deployments, and collaborative planning, forecasting and replenishment systems. Greg is past president of APICS.

Jerry is a Senior Scientist in Hewlett-Packard Laboratory, Hewlett-Packard Co., where he developed many innovative methodologies for real world applications. He has worked on many projects over the years including: experiment design and analysis, product demand modeling and forecasting, system performance monitoring and analysis, revenue modeling and prediction, automatic data quality assurance and trend change detection.

Ken manages the Forecasting and Capacity Planning team at Wells Fargo Home Mortgage. This group forecasts demand volume and personnel requirements for the mortgage sales and fulfillment centers across the country. Prior to Wells, Ken had worked in the areas of supply chain management, product life cycle management, and outsourcing in companies such as United Technologies and NordicTrack.

Steve oversees the detailed SKU level forecasting, as well as the aggregate level financial forecasting including sales, margins and inventories. In 2001, Steve led the selection, design and implementation of a major forecasting & demand planning system for Carters. Steve has been with Carters for 16 years, working mostly in forecasting. During the time spent outside of forecasting, Steve served as VP of production planning. Steve is an IBF Advisory Board member.