Advisory Board

Stewart L. Beall
Michael Doyle
Donavon Favre
Jonathan I. Mark
Rina Rotshild, Ph.D
Robert A. Rudzki
Andy H. Sze

Stewart L. Beall
Stewart L. Beall, C.P.M, is Director, Executive Projects for CAPS Research (www.capsresearch.org). Since joining CAPS Research in 2001, Mr. Beall has performed major research on industry-sponsored contortia, private exchanges and the recently published CAPS focus study, The Role of Reverse Auctions in Strategic Sourcing. In addition, he facilitates focus work shops on spend analysis, e-sourcing and other topics important to CAPS Research's major donors; and presents at various sourcing and procurement forums annually. Before joining CAPS Research, a partnership of the Institute for Supply Management, Arizona State W. P. Carey School of Business and 160 Fortune 500 and global 1000 companies, Beall spent 25 years in various management positions in operations, marketing, accounting, finance, procurement and logistics. He was the Chief Procurement Officer for eight years for Cyprus Amax and Phelps Dodge Mining companies, in addition to being the Chairperson for CAPS for 5 years. Beall holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Finance from the University of Notre Dame (1967).

Michael Doyle
Michael Doyle is a recognized authority in Procurement, Sourcing Strategy, and Supply Chain Optimization. Educated at Central Michigan University, he received a BS in Industrial Management, after which he went on to the University of Colorado to earn his MBA in Business Administration. Since that time, Michael served as the Executive in Residence at the University of San Diego (1989 and 1990), where he co-developed an MBA concentration in Strategic Supply Chain Management, and subsequently served as Professor of Procurement and Sourcing Strategy at the Eli Broad Graduate School of Management, at Michigan State (1996 and 1996). He is Chairman and CEO of the National Initiative for Supply Chain Integration (NISCI). His career has led him from purchasing, production planning, inventory control, and manufacturing management at Ford Motor Company, to his current position as owner and director of eight years of Doyle Consulting Group. Recent engagements in manufacturing and service industries include: oil & gas semiconductor, automotive, appliance, pulp & paper, computer, food, telecommunications, trade show, finance, and transportation. His work spans from North America to Europe and Asia. He is frequently featured in the published business press covering issues in procurement, sourcing strategy, and supply chain optimization.

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.

Jonathan I. Mark
Jonathan I. Mark is President of Sentinel Investments, LLC, an investment and advisory firm. Previously he was a Senior Managing Director of Castle Harlan, Inc, serving effectively as its Chief Investment Officer. In addition, he was on the board of a number of Castle Harlan portfolio companies. Mark currently serves on the board of Network-1, a NASDAQ traded software-based security company. Previously he was a Director of Bain & Company in Boston, and a member of Bain's Investment Committee, initiating and leading Bain's East Coast Private Equity Group. Prior to that, he headed the Bain's Worldwide Consumer Products Practice. In addition to consumer products, Mark has provided consulting services to companies in a wide range of high technology, service and manufacturing industries. Before joining Bain in 1981, he was a Systems Analyst with Systems Programming Ltd. (SPL) in Johannesburg, South Africa and had been a Programmer Subcontractor to Elbit Systems in Haifa, Israel. Mark received a B.Sc. (with high distinction) in Computer Science from the University of Cape Town, an M.S. in Computer Science from the Technion, and an M.B.A. (with honors) from Harvard.

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).

Andy H. Sze
Andy H. Sze is the Managing Partner of Ginkgo Enterprise LP, an investment partnership with diversified equity holdings and Fastrax Logistics, a consultancy that provides shippers with creative solutions to logistics and transportation challenges. From 1983 to 1999, Mr. Sze was the President and CEO of The Clipper Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of Arkansas Best Corporation (NASDAQ: ABFS). Clipper generated $120 million in revenue by providing quality 3PL and multimodal transportation services. It has received a significant number of quality awards and enjoys the highest rating from the Blue Book and the Red Book. A native of Hong Kong, he started at Clipper as a student intern, and joined the company full time as Director of Research & Development in 1976. Under Mr. Sze’s leadership, Clipper migrated from the dying domestic forwarding industry into new areas that complemented its core LTL business. He re-engineered Clipper into a virtual transportation provider by replacing union labor, trucks, brick and mortar terminals with non-union subcontractors. This transformation simplified Clipper’s business, lowered distribution cost, improved service quality and enhanced operational flexibility. By shifting asset ownership to subcontractors, Mr. Sze drastically lowered Clipper’s capital requirements and reduced its fixed cost exposure. In 1994, after attaining the highest EBIT in Clipper history, Mr. Sze and the founder’s family sold the business to Arkansas Best Corporation for $61 million. Mr. Sze is a member of the Business Advisory Committee, Northwestern University Transportation Center and the Chancellor’s Advisory Board, University of Illinois at Chicago. He is a Certified Member and past Director of the American Society of Transportation & Logistics. In 1991 and 1992 he was appointed by the U.S. Department of Commerce as an Examiner for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. A top Industrial Engineering graduate from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1973, Mr. Sze subsequently earned his MBA from University of Chicago and MS from Northwestern University. He was admitted in 1978 to practice transportation law before the Interstate Commerce Commission. In 1999, the Intermodal Transportation Institute of University of Denver recognized him as an Honorary Fellow.