| Kewill Customer Symposium - Accelerate '08 | ||
| Oct. 22-23, 2008 in New Orleans, LA, at the Loews New Orleans Hotel |
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SpeakersTeradyne’s Corporate Trade Compliance Manager since 2003. Responsible for Teradyne’s compliance with international trade regulations. Member: American Shipper Editorial Board BS in Electrical Engineering and a MS in Engineering Management
Brian Baskin is currently a Global Sales Director and founding member of Crane Worldwide which opened in August of this year. In addition to his sales role, Brian is currently leading the Kewill Forwarding implementation at Crane along with the global IT infrastructure deployment. Brian’s past assignments including global account management & solutions design roles in Austin, TX, as well as Northern and Southern California where he managed an account base of over $250 million dollars in revenue. Brian graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with degrees in History and Technical Theater. He currently resides in Austin, Texas with wife Lara and two children Hunter and Emma.
Patrick Burnson is the executive editor of Logistics Management Magazine. He is charged with writing regular monthly features examining a wide variety of supply chain issues, and provides readers with daily news updates on the LM website. His blog, “Critical Cargoes,” tracks trends and invites reader feedback, and he makes regular speaking appearances at worldwide seminars. Prior to joining LM, Mr. Burnson held senior executive positions with the Economist Group and World Trade Magazine.
Celeste holds a BS in Math and Computer Sciences from the University of New Hampshire and an MBA in Information Systems from New Hampshire College.
Mr. Jerry Greenwell is a career Census Bureau employee. He joined the Bureau’s Foreign Trade Division in 1972 and immediately became involved in the various aspects of generating the balance of trade figures for the United States. Initially, he had overall responsibility for procedures and specifications relating to the Transportation Statistics Program. Following this assignment, Jerry became Senior Procedures Writer with responsibilities for all export procedures and specifications. In 1982, he became Program Manager for the Division’s Automated Export Reporting Program. During his tenure, 175 companies in the trade community elected to submit electronic export data directly to the Census Bureau. In 1995 Jerry received the Department of Commerce's Bronze Medal for work with the Automated Export Reporting Program. Jerry served Chief of the Division’s Regulations, Outreach and Education Branch from May 1999 until October 1, 2006. Currently, he serves as the Division’s Trade Ombudsman with overall responsibilities for matters pertaining to the international trade community. Jerry received the Gold Medal Award for Customer Service in 2000, the Department of Commerce's highest form of honorary recognition for his contributions to the amendment of the Foreign Trade Statistics Regulations clarifying the U.S. principal party in interest and forwarding agents responsibilities in preparing the SED. Jerome M. Greenwell U.S. Census Bureau
Vice President, Customs Brokerage and Technical Services: Licensed Customs Broker; Certified Customs Specialist Mary began her career in 1978 with John V. Carr & Son in Detroit MI. Over the next few years she held a variety of release and entry positions, Mary acquired her Customs Brokers license in 1997. Mary became a Training Manager in 1991, developing and administering a program designed to take a new hire with no logistics experience to processing basic transactions including the involvement of Other Government Agencies. Additional training programs developed and administered by Mary covered the skills and knowledge required to advance to senior processing positions. During this time business was moving and changing fast and Mary along with it. 2 years after beginning the training program Mary moved back to an operational position by becoming Manager of the Regional Processing Center, managing many of the individuals she previously trained. In 1996, Mary moved into a Directors role overseeing the Michigan operations. With the acquisition of John V. Carr by AEI in 1996, Mary became the Northern Border Director, assisting with the business and system integration responsibilities. Additional acquisitions involving Danzas, DHL and Exel occurred taking each taking advantage of knowledge gained from the prior one. Mary saw her role change and expand over the next years including Director CHB of a group of International offices and then Director of Customs Brokerage Services. In 2005 Mary was named to her current position of Vice President of Customs House Brokerage and Technical Services. In this role Mary is responsible for Consulting, Technical Advisors, Projects, Post Entry Functions, Reconciliation in addition to monitoring and ensuring compliance to CBP regulations and OGA requirements. In addition Mary is the key contact with IT Services and serves as a key team member on several project teams. Over the course of her career, Mary has played a key role in a variety of activities for the company. These have included integration tasks, quality& production improvement tasks, systems updates, development of best and super users in the field, development of a 300+ chapter Import Manual, stations, process and file audits, customer, process and system implementations. Mary is a member of NCBFAA, AAEI and ICPA
Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for Kewill Brian brings over 15 years of marketing and product management experience to Kewill and has held executive positions in marketing and product management with SupplyWorks, Eleven Technology and Computer Network Technology. In addition he has held senior software engineering positions with Motorola and Newbridge Networks. He received his Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo. Carter Lee, Vice President, Technology Operations, is responsible for the technical infrastructure at Overstock.com. Carter served as the Director of Internal Systems from 2004-2007. Since joining Overstock.com in 2001, Carter has worked with technologies that support corporate headquarters, customer care, and the fulfillment centers. Prior to joining Overstock.com, Carter was a Systems Engineer for Hospice of the Valley and Vice President of Technology for a computer hardware supplier in Phoenix, AZ.
Amy Magnus, a licensed Customs Broker, is District Manager for A.N. Deringer in Champlain, NY. Ms. Magnus serves on the Board of Directors and is Co-Chairman of the Customs Committee for the National Customs and Freight Forwards Association. Ms. Magnus also serves as the Secretary for the Northern Border Brokers Association as well as member of the Northern Border Customs Brokers Customs Committee. In addition to Ms. Magnus’ association activities, she is an ACE Trade Ambassador, a member of a special advisory group working directly with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the Trade Support Network in the development of CBP’s Automated Commercial Environment (ACE). Prior to joining A.N. Deringer’s team, Ms. Magnus was the Vice President of Trans-Border Customs Service, subsequently purchased by UPS. Prior to becoming a Customs broker, Mrs. Magnus worked for the United States Customs Service for eighteen years. When she left Customs, she was the Trade Compliance Manager in Champlain New York Area Service Port. Mrs. Magnus’ responsibilities included supervision of all trade-related personnel and functions in the Champlain Area Service Port. During her Customs career, Mrs. Magnus worked with various Customs Headquarters Offices in Washington, D.C. to draft and implement new policies and procedures as they related to NAFTA, Compliance Measurement, The Customs Modernization Act, Enforcement, and other Trade Sensitive Issues. Prior to her position as Trade Manager, Mrs. Magnus was the Fines, Penalties, and Forfeiture Officer for over five years, and in her early years with U.S. Customs, she served as an Inspector and an Import Specialist. Ms. Magnus is a graduate of the University of Vermont, and many, many years ago taught High School English. Director of Parcel Logistics and Operations Systems: Swiss Colony Mr. Steve Wheeler has worked in the field logistics for over 28 years. He has been involved in all facets of operations and operations systems within the mail order environment. Mr. Wheeler has held a number of fulfillment operations and logistics management positions, including Director of Distribution and his current position as Director of Parcel Logistics and Operations Systems for The Swiss Colony, Inc. He has worked extensively with stakeholders in the parcel shippers industry to advocate for parcel shippers. Steve presently serves as President of the National Association of Perishable Shippers and Vice-President of the Parcel Shippers Association. In addition, in his role as representative for the National Association of Perishable Shippers, he serves on the United States Postal Service’s Mailers Technical Advisory Committee (MTAC). |
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Ms. Celeste Catano is the Principal Business Analyst at Kewill and has over 30 years of industry experience. Celeste is also the Architect for the Import and Customs Brokerage software applications at Kewill. Among other things, Celeste is a licensed Customs Broker, a Post Release Trade Ambassador, the Trade Co-Chair of the Trade Support Network (TSN) Transition Committee, and a member of the TSN Entry Committee.
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