Lisa Becker
Director
Worldwide Procurement, Japan/Asia Regional Development , Pfizer

a Director within the Worldwide Procurement team at Pfizer Inc., is currently leading the development of the Asia Procurement organization as well as working directly with Asian

markets, including China, on sourcing and procurement initiatives.  Prior to this role, Lisa spent two years in Tokyo leading the Japan Sourcing Initiative. Over the past ten years,Lisa has been instrumental in working with internal customer groups, both at Pfizer and GSK, to deliver significant savings in Sales & Marketing and Real Estate/Facilities spend areas.

Prior to her involvement with Sourcing, Lisa provided property and facility services consultancy to clients in the UK and Europe, as well as practiced as an Architect in both the US and UK.  Lisa holds a B.A. in Architecture from the University Of Notre Dame and an MBA from the London Business School.

Camille Burns
Vice President of Operations
Women Presidents’ Organization

Camille is the Vice President of Operations for the Women Presidents' Organization, a peer advisory organization for women presidents and CEOs of privately held, multimillion dollar companies. She oversees 81 groups and a membership

Ming has a M.S. degree in Computer Science. For the first eighteen years after graduation, Ming has worked for three major telecommunication companies including AT&T Bell Labs,

In her prior role working with the digital economy she was a champion for sound security and privacy tools to protect the Internet and promote successful global e-commerce. Andrea served as ITA’s project leader for the U.S. delegation to the Working Party on Information Security and Privacy of the Paris-based OECD. Her regional focus spanned Europe, South Korea and the Middle East/North Africa. She was a principal WTO and FTA advisor for e-commerce policy and has participated in high-level trade projects with Japan, India, Bahrain, Oman, U.A.E. and APEC. In 2005 she played a leading role in organizing a DOC workshop on RFID. Subsequently much of her work focused on innovation and emerging technologies. She also served as liaison to the CEO-led Global Business Dialogue on E-Commerce, and as Officer for the joint DOC-USTR High-Tech Trade Advisory Committee, where she led 40 executives appointed by Congress to advise on industry priorities.

Ms. Da Silva holds an MBA and an MA in International Development. Prior to Commerce she enjoyed a faced paced career in executive search on Wall Street. She grew up in Norway, is multilingual, and has lived in Jerusalem, New York City, Albuquerque and Washington DC. She is a member of Women in International Trade, Society for International Development and the Norwegian American Chamber of Commerce

Katha Diddel started her company in Mainland China 28 years ago. It began as an import/export trading company sourcing products throughout the Peoples Repiblic of China. Five years

after founding her company, she established her business as a U.S. corporation to bring her own line of home furnishings, home decorative accessories, fine linens and gifts into the market. Now celebrating her twenty-eight year in business, she has introduced a new fashion line of handbags, a variety of totes and shoes. Her high-end products are still made by hand in cottage industries in China. Her product line is enhanced by licensed programs with well-known International and American designers.

Diddel majored in Chinese and History at Brown University and also studied fine art at Brown. She lived and worked in Hong Kong and China when she first established her company in 1980. She has been featured on radio and TV programs as well as newspapers and magazines in the U.S. and abroad.

Linda J. Denny is President and CEO of the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC), the leading advocate for the advancement of women-owned businesses as

vendors and suppliers to the nation’s corporations and government associations.

A nationally-recognized expert in the field of women’s business development, Ms. Denny draws upon her depth of experience from the corporate, financial services and entrepreneurial arenas to lead this multi-faceted organization into its next decade of successful growth.

During the period of time in which she served as interim president, from October 2006 to June 2007, Ms. Denny accomplished considerable goals. These included driving corporate membership and revenue growth; enhancing internal and external communications, and advancing the vision for WBENC’s global reach. Ms. Denny joined WBENC as vice president in 2003 and has since managed every component of WBENC’s operations, to include policymaking, fundraising, major national programs and events, and corporate membership.

Earlier, as national director of domestic growth markets for ING Insurance Company of America, formerly Aetna Financial Services, Ms. Denny demonstrated her talent for reaching decision makers among women’s and diverse markets by targeting and delivering on their priorities. She spearheaded and implemented what was then a revolutionary marketing strategy to surface the critical issues that women and women business owners face around financial planning and retirement, and then ensured its success by training the sales force to address those issues expertly.

As corporate vice president at New York Life Insurance Company, Ms. Denny created and led the New York Life Women's Initiative, a nationwide program that boosted the hiring, productivity and retention among women agents. Prior to this role as a compliance officer and supervising registered principal for NYLIFE Securities Inc, she was responsible for over 2000 agents/registered representatives, 240 managers and several hundred staff members working in 32 general offices in 13 states.

Ms. Denny’s aptitude for sales was evident early on as an agent for New York Life Insurance Company, where she quickly qualified for the Million Dollar Round Table, became one of the leading sales managers in the company, and by 1990 was the fifth woman to ever be appointed as a General Manager at New York Life.

Prior to that, Ms. Denny had first hand entrepreneurial experience as head of a manufacturing, home distribution and wholesale distribution business, which she ran for five years.

Ms. Denny is an active member of distinguished organizations such as The Advisory Board of the IBM-World Bank, Small/Medium Business Growth Project; the Board of Visitors for the John H. Johnson School of Communications at Howard University; the Board of Directors of the National Women’s History Museum; the W/MBE Diversity Committee for the Institute for Supply Management (ISM), the Office Depot Women’s Advisory Board, and a Founding Board Member of the, Association of Women’s Business Development Centers. She is also a member of the ASAE, Center for Association Management, and the MGM/Mirage Diversity Council. She has served as Treasurer of the Women’s Leadership Board at the Kennedy School of Government; Harvard University

Ms. Denny is a frequent speaker, and addressed women’s retirement issues at the 2000 Republican National Convention. She received the 2002 Outstanding Alumnus Award, Pittsburg State University.

Denise Evans is a marketing executive for IBM Market Development. She leads an organization responsible for implementing IBM’s strategy for and marketing to businesses

owned or operated by Asians, Blacks, Hispanics, Native Americas and Women in the Americas. Ms. Evans’ previous positions include: Director of e-business for the Enterprise Systems Group, Director of Customer Loyalty, ibm.com Director of Relationship Marketing, Distribution Channels Marketing Manager for IBM Global Financing, and Americas Project Director of e-business. She was a member of the IBM Global Relationship Management team. Her industry experience includes Computer Services, Aerospace, Industrial, Retail, Higher Education, Health, and State & Local Governments.

Denise is a graduate of Brown University and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics and economics. She holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She has held leadership positions in several non profits, including the Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce. She is a member of the Advisory Council for the Center for Excellence in Education, a member of the Board of the Montgomery County Business Roundtable for Education, a board member of the Asian Business Council and a committee leader for the Native American Chamber of Commerce.

She has received numerous awards including the global SMB General Manager Award, Golden Circle Award, the top Employee Charitable Contribution Campaign Coordinator Award, and Leadership Award from the Native American Chamber of Commerce.

Richard Levick, Esq. President & CEO of Levick Strategic Communications, represents countries and companies on the highest-stakes global crises and litigation. His firm has directed

Ms. Xiaobing Feng serves as Senior Regional Manager for China and Mongolia of the Advocacy Center located within the U.S. Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration. In this capacity, she works with U.S. business interests competing for international marketing opportunities worldwide.

Xiaobing’s principal responsibilities center on the development and implementation of advocacy strategies in support of U.S. companies and interests pursuing project and procurement contracts overseas. Xiaobing works with senior Commerce Department officials, officers at the Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee (TPCC) agencies, executives of U.S. companies, and with foreign decision-makers on behalf of American business interests abroad.

Xiaobing advises and counsels businesses on developing strategies to compete successfully overseas. She works closely with colleagues posted at U.S. Embassies and Consulates abroad and with contacts at foreign embassies in Washington. In addition to core responsibilities, Xiaobing serves as Liaison Officer to Special Counsel to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce. She was detailed at the U.S. Embassy/Beijing in 2004, World Bank in 2006, and will be at U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in November 2008.

Xiaobing Feng has more than ten years of work experience in China as a college professor, government officer, and businesswoman. Prior to her current role, she represented U.S. companies in their bids for Chinese Government tenders, provided services including structuring business strategies and assisting clients in business negotiation and communicating with government decision-makers.

Xiaobing Feng is a native of the People’s Republic of China, and was educated in both China and the United States.

Marilyn Johnson is Vice President of Market Development for the IBM Corporation. In this capacity, she leads an organization responsible for developing IBM’s strategy for and marketing to businesses owned or operated by Asians, Blacks, Hispanics,

Kristin Heim Mowry, Chair of Mowry International Group, is an international trade and market access attorney whose practice consists of providing global business, investment, regulatory

and government relations advice to U.S. and international clients. Ms. Mowry has advised and represented corporate and government clients in international trade matters such as unfair trade litigation, WTO issues and disputes, and U.S. export control and economic sanctions laws.

Before Ms. Mowry founded the law firm, she served for over five years in the U.S. government in both the U.S. Department of Commerce's International Trade Administration and in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. In addition, Ms. Mowry had practiced at O’Melveny & Myers, LLP and Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale & Dorr, LLP.

Ms. Mowry is a lead attorney for clients in some of the largest and most high-profile antidumping and countervailing duty cases against China, including the antidumping investigation of wooden bedroom furniture, polyester staple fiber, activated carbon, and tow behind lawn groomers and parts thereof, among others.

Ms. Mowry earned her law degree at Georgetown University and also holds a Master's degree in international relations from the University of Chicago. Ms. Mowry received her undergraduate degree in political science from the University of Chicago. Ms. Mowry is on the Board of Directors of the Maryland-China Business Council.

In December 1999 Sheri founded Shan Industries, LLC a holding company to acquire and operate two manufacturing

companies; Accurate Forming, a metal stamping company located in New Jersey and Thermodynamics, a rotational molding company operating in Oklahoma.  Shan makes products as diverse as the Lilly Insulin Pen and the largest one piece plastic pallet which is used to deploy U.S. assets to Iraq.    As CEO of Shan Sheri negotiated an agreement with a Chinese company, Szu Mao, located in Dong Guan in which Accurate would provide complex deep draw parts to be used in high end writing implements for Sheaffer Pen Company and worked with Chinese companies to manufacture molds for Thermodynamics.  Sheri sold her interest in Shan Industries in August 2008 and continues in a consulting position. Sheri is also the President of SLOCO Consulting where she counsels businesses on raising capital (equity and debt), cost reduction strategies, restructuring, customer-centric strategy, and realistic legal protections in a global economy. 
Sheri has been instrumental in raising close to $80 million in debt and equity for her entrepreneurial endeavors, some of which include the leveraged buy outs of Magnetic Data Technologies, a $60 million manufacturing group with domestic and international holdings including an operation in Shenzhen, China; Kodak’s Datatape, a $55+ million company which made high speed tape recording devices for, among other things, the Space Shuttle; Tyco International’s Accurate Forming and Thermodynamics divisions which she operated through Shan.  Sheri has also delved into real estate development and created a 20 unit upscale condominium project, the OrloVon, in the historic Adams Morgan neighborhood of D.C.

Sheri has received numerous awards for her entrepreneurial endeavors including the Inc. 5,000 America’s Fastest Growing Private Companies and Leading Women Entrepreneur of the World and sits on a number of non-profit boards including the Kristi House which is part of the Orlowitz-Lee Children’s Advocacy Center.  Sheri counts as her greatest achievement the endowment of the Orlowitz-Lee Children’s Advocacy Center which co-locates the myriad agencies involved in providing services and help to children who have been sexually abused

Kathy Palokoff is the founder and CEO of CUSTOMERicity, a global idea company that facilitates, creates and executes ideas based on the power of customers to change the

marketplace. CUSTOMERicity unites the collaborative talents of best-in-class professionals to find differentiating solutions in marketing, leadership, communications, sales, technology, new product development, operations, human resources and finance. Formed eight years ago, CUSTOMERicity represents a new model of doing business, working with organizations who are committed to sustainable change based on economic, environmental and social responsibility. Since its formation, the women-owned company has experienced double-digit growth each year. Prior to forming CUSTOMERicity, Kathy was in top management positions for several emerging technology companies and served as a vice president at Saatchi & Saatchi, one of the world’s largest advertising agencies, collaborating with clients such as DuPont, Kodak, Merial, and Prudential. Kathy is active in the Women’s President Organization and currently serves on the boards of Sias International University Foundation, a unique university in central China focused on developing global citizens who can make a difference in business and society, and In-VestUSA, a national organization that raises community funds to provide police officers with bullet-proof vests. She holds a B.S. in Journalism, Masters in Public Administration, and has completed all doctoral coursework and comprehensives from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for a Ph.D. in Technical Communication and Rhetoric. Married with six children, she resides in Rochester, New York.

Patrick E. Tunison
International Lending Officer in the Office of International Trade
US Small Business Administration

Patrick Tunison is currently the Chief International Lending Officer in the Office of International Trade, of the US Small Business Administration. Mr. Tunison is responsible for Credit Policy, Lending Products and Auditing of Loans for the SBA Staff assigned to the United States Export Assistance Centers.

Kelly Kelly Watkins shares her international wisdom on how communication affects leadership and customer service - via consulting, speaking, customized training, and distance

learning. She specializes in helping international companies lead more productively and serve customers more profitably. Her clients include: Deloitte & Touche, Invensys, Campbell Soup, Holiday Inn, Black & Decker, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, American States Insurance, Dubai Human Resources Forum, Lindblad Expeditions, Business & Professional Women.
 
Kelly is President of Expressive Concepts, founded in 1992. She has written five books and 125+ articles. She is Chair-Elect of the International Forum for the National Association of Women Business Owners and Past President of the National Speakers Association/KY.

Kelly has an MBA degree in Marketing and International Business, as well as a B.S. degree with Distinction in Marketing. She has served as adjunct faculty at various colleges.

Mr. S. Tien Wong is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Opus8, Inc., a private investment firm specializing in middle market buyouts, private equity and venture capital investment.

The firm seeks to acquire North American call center, CRM (customer relationship management), and outsourced marketing services and technology companies.

In February, 2008, Mr. Wong acquired a majority interest in Lore Systems, Inc. an advanced IT services company located in the Washington DC metropolitan area. Mr. Wong is currently serving as Chairman and CEO of Lore Systems. In 1991, Mr. Wong co-founded and served as CEO of CyberRep, Inc. until 2003. He garnered awards as Customer Inter@ction Solutions magazine's MVP Quality Award and Customer Interface magazine's ACCE (Award for Call Center Excellence).

Mr. Wong is a recognized international expert in CRM, direct marketing, and BPO. He has presented at dozens of industry events around the world, and has written numerous articles on the CRM and BPO spaces. He has also provided industry commentary on the ABC, Fox, NBC, CNBC, Maryland Public Television, and China's CCTV networks.

Mr. Wong was the recipient of the 2001 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award for Greater Washington. He is CEO of The Tien and Beverly Wong Foundation, which supports youth, education, and social services charities. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College where he majored in Government.