Donavon Favre
Thomas L. Magnanti
Philip W. Roizin
Rina Rotshild, Ph.D
Robert A. Rudzki
Donavon Favre
As Teaching Assistant Professor at North Carolina State University, Donavon Favre is a widely read author and consultant on sourcing and procurement. In his current role, Mr. Favre uses his vast experience to teach project management, supply chain and sourcing and procurement. Earlier in his career, he was a managing partner for Accenture, co-leading the global sourcing and procurement consulting practice. He founded Accenture Procurement Solutions (APS), Accenture’s Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) business and led the sale of the single largest procurement outsourcing engagement to date at Deutsche Bank. Over the years, his work has been published in Supply Chain Management Review and three textbooks including Strategic Supply Chain Alignment, (Gower Publishing, 1998) and Purchasing Handbook 2000; and Purchasing Handbook 2005.
Thomas L. Magnanti,
professor and dean of engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dr. Magnanti is the Dean of the School of Engineering and one of twelve Institute Professors at MIT, where he has been a faculty member since 1971. In his tenure, he co-founded and served as co-director for the Leaders for Manufacturing Program and the System Design and Management Program, headed the Management Sciences Area of the Sloan School of Management and co-directed MIT’s interdepartmental Operations Research Center. Dr. Magnanti is a past president of the Operations Research Society of America (ORSA) and is the former president of the Institute of Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). He holds an undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from Syracuse University, master’s degrees in Statistics and Mathematics from Stanford University, and a doctorate in Operations Research, also from Stanford University.
Philip W. Roizin
Philip W. Roizin is Brookstone President and Chief Executive Officer. Brookstone, Inc. is an innovative product development and specialty lifestyle retail company that operates 310 Brookstone Brand stores nationwide and in Puerto Rico. Typically located in high-traffic regional shopping malls and airports, the stores feature unique and innovative consumer products. From December 1996 until his appointment, Mr. Roizin served as our Executive Vice President, Finance and Administration. From May 1995 to December 1996, he served as Chief Financial Officer of The Franklin Mint. From July 1989 to May 1995, he held various senior positions with Dole Food Company, including Vice President/General Manager of Dole Beverages and Vice President of Strategic Services. From 1985 to 1989, Mr. Roizin served as a consultant for Bain & Co., a management consulting firm.
Rina Rotshild, Ph.D
Rina brings over 12 years of experience in the research and development of advanced
optimization and intelligent decision support solutions. Prior to Emptoris,
Rina was Senior Manager of the Operations Research at The SABRE Group in Boston.
Rina was responsible for the research and development of optimization algorithms
in decision support software products for the transportation and logistics
industry. She has developed a routing and scheduling model for optimizing the
inbound and outbound freight transportation for a large car manufacturer and
a grocery chain, an optimization engine for overnight air freight carrier,
an algorithm for a fuel optimization system for motor carriers, and an optimization
engine for managing the load plan networks of LTL carriers. She has also been
involved in various other developments such as yield management and resource
scheduling products. Prior to SABRE, Rina conducted post-doctorate research
at the IBM Watson Research Center, working on Interior Point methods for solving
mathematical programming problems. Rina holds a BS in Civil Engineering from
Technion and an MS and Ph.D. in Operations Research and Transportation from
MIT.
Robert A. Rudzki
Robert A. Rudzki is a former senior corporate executive, who is now President of Greybeard Advisors LLC (www.GreybeardAdvisors.com). Greybeard Advisors assists enterprises improve their near-term financial performance and their long-term business viability. He is also a director of a privacy and security software company, and is an Advisory Board member of several companies. Previously, Mr. Rudzki served as Senior Vice President, Materials Management and Chief Procurement Officer for Bayer Corporation, a subsidiary of Bayer A.G. At Bayer, he led a nationally recognized transformation effort that generated significant improvements in costs and working capital. Prior to that, he was an executive of Bethlehem Steel Corp. In the course of his career, he has held various executive management positions, which included finance, accounting, procurement and logistics, business development and P&L responsibility. A frequent public speaker, he has been on Purchasing Magazine’s Editorial Advisory Board and was selected by Supply and Demand Chain Executive for its annual “Pros to Know.” Mr. Rudzki graduated Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude, from Lehigh University with a B.S. in industrial engineering and a minor in chemical engineering. He holds an M.B.A. from The Wharton School. He has authored, or co-authored, several important business books: Straight To The Bottom Line®: An Executive's Roadmap to World Class Supply Management (co-author, 2005), On-Demand Supply Management: World Class Strategies, Practices and Technology (co-author, 2007), and Beat the Odds: Avoid Corporate Death and Build a Resilient Enterprise (author, 2007).
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