ChainLink’s research advisory board includes leading innovators in their field, thought leaders, and seasoned executives who have established track records in supply chain consulting, software and operations. The advisory board guides the company’s research topics and editorial calendar.

	Keith Belton - Vice President of Marketing, Amicore
	Y.Y. Chang - CIO, Compal
	Dave Demers - Chief Strategy Officer, Avicon
	Steve Geary - Partner, Supply Chain Visions
	David Turbide - CFPIM, CMfgE, CIRM, Founder / President, Production Solutions
	Deborah Turbide - CFPIM, CMfgE, CIRM, Founder / President, Production Solutions
	Kate Vitasek - Founder, Managing Partner, Supply Chain Visions .

Keith Belton - Vice President of Marketing, Amicore
Keith Belton has 18 years of experience in product marketing, product management, and general management experience for leading supply chain and health care value chain software and consulting firms.

Mr. Belton is Vice President of Marketing for Amicore, a leading provider of integrated clinical and practice management applications for the health care value chain. He was the founding CEO and Chief Marketing Officer for worldwide consulting firm PRTM's supply chain benchmarking subsidiary, the Performance Measurement Group. During his tenure, PMG became the largest provider of supply chain benchmarking services, with nearly 500 of the world's largest electronics, semiconductor, automotive, aerospace, consumer goods and pharmaceutical organizations as customers. PMG's benchmarking services used the metrics definitions embedded in the Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) model, which PRTM originally developed.

Mr. Belton was Chief Research Officer for Giga Information Group, one of the world's largest technology research firms, overseeing the direction of Giga's research content. Mr. Belton was responsible for the management and development of Giga's research analyst and consulting community of nearly 100 professionals. He was the research team leader for ERP/SCM research and analysis. During his tenure, Giga grew from $15M to $50M in revenues and executed a successful public offering as one of the largest analyst firms.

Earlier in his career, he served as Partner at Benchmarking Partners/Surgency where he was the responsible for vendor and service provider advisory services. He has also served as the interim CEO and CMO for a private trading exchange software and services firm, and senior marketing executive for an early-stage provider of supply chain event management software.

Mr. Belton has spoken at numerous industry events and conferences, including SAPPHIRE, CA World, Enterprise Outlook, the Red Herring executive conference, GigaWorld Forum, the Yankee Group, and Manugistics Users Group. He has a B.A. in Economics from Haverford College and has completed work towards his MBA at Boston College's Graduate School of Management.

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Y.Y. Chang - CIO, Compal
Y.Y. Chang has over 25 years experience in information technology for discrete electronic manufacturers. He currently serves as the Chief Information Officer for Compal, a $3 billion, 8,000 employee contract manufacturer of notebook computers, handhelds, cell phones, and monitors for Dell, Toshiba, HP, Compaq, NEC, Acer, and others.

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David Demers - Chief Strategy Officer, Avicon
Dave Demers is responsible for leading strategy and delivery engagements for supply chain and eBusiness strategies for Avicon clients; he also assesses all vertical business opportunities for Avicon. He ensures that supply chain best practices are integrated with leading-edge Internet technologies in creating collaborative commerce solutions.

Mr. Demers has developed a unique understanding of the supply chain management discipline. In addition to his consulting experience, Mr. Demers also brings a broad cross-industry experience base including past positions in government, consumer products, and the high technology industry.

Before Avicon he co-founded the Performance Resource Group, a supply chain consulting practice. In that capacity, he directed supply chain strategy design and implementation assignments for industry leaders including Dell Computer, Cisco Systems, HP, Apple, Siemens and many others.

Prior to consulting, Mr. Demers' cross-industry experience includes senior management positions at Ore-Ida Foods, a division of H.J. Heinz, M & M Mars, and Digital Equipment Corporation. During the course of those assignments, he led major change initiatives involving redesign of their supply chain strategies on a national and international basis.

Mr. Demers holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Logistics from Northeastern University and a Master of Business Administration degree in Business Logistics from Pennsylvania State University.

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Steve Geary - Partner, Supply Chain Visions
Steve Geary has worked with organizations around the world in variety of industries and, through frequent speaking engagements and publications has become known as a leading expert on supply chain design and performance. With more than 15 years of experience in supply chain management, both as a "hands-on" manager and as a highly respected consultant and author, Mr. Geary brings a wealth of domain expertise and thought leadership.

Mr. Geary is currently engaged in a broad ranging project for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, helping drive transformation of the military's logistics to more nimble, flexible, and responsive capabilities. As a part of the DoD's "Future Logistics Enterprise" initiative, Mr. Geary is leading the Objective Assessment for the Joint Staff to uncover key learnings from Operation Iraqi Freedom. He is also deeply involved in the DoD RFID efforts.

During his career, Mr. Geary has held a broad range of senior positions in manufacturing, materials management, business development, product marketing, and product management with companies including Teradyne, Inc., PRTM, Emerson Electric Co., and IBM. He has worked in Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States.

Prior to joining Supply Chain visions, Mr. Geary was Vice President of Supply Chain Solutions for Tilion, a leading edge Supply Chain Event Management (SCEM) software provider. Before Tilion, he was the supply chain Service Director for The Performance Measurement Group, LLC, the world leader in quantitative analysis and benchmarking for supply chains.

Mr. Geary holds a BS and a Master's in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from Cornell University and an MBA from the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. He is s Certified Production and Inventory Control Manager.

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David Turbide - CFPIM, CMfgE, CIRM, Founder / President, Production Solutions
Author of the books Computers in Manufacturing, MRP+, Why Systems Fail, among others, Mr. Turbide is an independent consultant and freelance writer serving both the developers and the users of software and systems for manufacturers. He has extensive first-hand knowledge of manufacturing functions and management practices, enterprise systems and vendor manufacturing software offerings. With over three decades of industry analysis, consulting, teaching, writing, engineering, project management, technical analysis and management experience, he has exceptional analytical and communication skills as demonstrated by his published books, articles, papers and speeches.

Mr. Turbide has helped hundreds of users of manufacturing systems to select, implement, and get better results from their systems. In addition, he has performed analysis, written white papers and case studies, and advised the developers of this software to help them improve their products and market positioning. He has authored a number of reports for major analyst firms and is especially attuned to the needs and challenges of the mid-sized manufacturer.

In 1996, Mr. Turbide and a partner launched Midrange ERP magazine, later renamed Midrange Enterprise, to act as an information and education resource for the small to medium manufacturing community. The magazine, along with peripheral publications, APS magazine and FLOW Manufacturing Report, were acquired by Penton Media in 1999. Mr. Turbide continued to serve as Editor-in-Chief until December 2001 when the magazine was converted to an online format. Having returned to private practice, he is now able to leverage the broad market knowledge acquired through his manufacturing consulting practice and work as an independent journalist, to his clients.

Mr. Turbide is a certified Manufacturing Engineer, is certified by APICS at the fellow level in Production and Inventory Management and in Integrated Resource Management, and is a Senior Member of SME/CASA. He is a frequent speaker at regional and national conferences and seminars (in-person and online). Mr. Turbide may be reached at 603-926-1435 or via email .

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Deborah Turbide - Founder /Vice President, Production Solutions
Debby Turbide has over thirty years of combined media, marketing, business management, and systems engineering experience. She has a strong entrepreneurial background, having conceptualized, organized and executed dozens of new programs, products and multidisciplinary events. As VP / GM of Productions Solutions she currently helps companies develop web media and marketing plans, creates and packages education and training programs, plans, coordinates and manages in-person and Internet events and delivers strategic planning and project implementation services. In her previous position as Director of TOTALsupplychain.com / Penton Media, Inc., she managed all of the Online Media products for Penton Media's Supply Chain Group, including Internet event management, electronic publishing, the online directory marketplace and RFP evaluation center. She was responsible for both product development and business development, created marketing and sales materials, built partnerships to broaden the reach of the supply chain network and was accountable for online sales.

Having worked in the manufacturing industry segment since the mid-1980's Ms. Turbide led a number of large consulting engineering projects for the DOD in the CIM / Factory of the Future arena. Formerly with IBM and then Hewlett-Packard, she began organizing and managing in-person conferences in the early 1980s and has expanded her expertise over the last fifteen years. Ms. Turbide co-founded MFG Publishing Inc. and was publisher of Midrange Enterprise magazine and APS: Advanced Planning & Scheduling magazine from 1996 to 2000. Contact Ms. Turbide at Production Solutions: 603-929-0055.

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Kate Vitasek - Founder, Managing Partner, Supply Chain Visions
Kate Vitasek is the Founder and Managing Director of Supply Chain Visions. Ms. Vitasek has been helping companies with their Supply Chain Strategies since 1994. She is a thought leader in the area of Supply Chain Management. She is a well-recognized authority on metrics management and implementation. Ms. Vitasek is a published author and is a frequent speaker at industry groups and universities on the topic of Supply Chain Management. She has been actively involved in the Council of Logistics Management and most recently was a Track Chair for the 2001 Conference and as a speaker in their Book Tour series. Ms. Vitasek is currently on the CLM Executive Committee.

Ms. Vitasek brings a unique blend of consulting, practitioner and general management experience to the firms she works with. She has worked for P&G, Accenture's Logistics Strategy Practice, Microsoft and Modus Media International, a global 3PL. This blend of skills ensures that solutions are both practical and cost effective.

Ms. Vitasek began her career in supply chain management with Accenture's Logistics Strategy practice where she helped a variety of companies solve their supply chain management problems. Ms. Vitasek began focusing her efforts in the high tech industry by developing a fulfillment strategy for Microsoft in 1994. Her strategy recommended consolidating individual Marketing Operations groups to manage their 22 marketing programs and led to a decrease in number of suppliers from over 450 to less than 100. Ms. Vitasek went on to join Microsoft as an employee where she led a cross-functional 22-member team to design and implement a worldwide after market fulfillment solution for their $9 billion corporate licensing program. Her work led to improve service levels from up to 2 months to 10 days worldwide and improved worldwide product availability from 17% to 95%.

Ms. Vitasek then joined Modus Media International where she most recently was Vice President and General Manager, Microsoft Global Account Team. Modus Media is the largest global provider of outsourced supply chain management services to the high technology industry and was recently recognized in Business Week's Top 20 privately held high tech companies. Ms. Vitasek joined Modus Media to lead their "Best Practices" efforts where she provided thought leadership in key business areas, including creating a "Catalog of Best Practices" to help facilitate the recognition and move towards best practices. She designed the company's business measurement process that helps departments "Validate the Value Add" that Modus Media provides to its customers. Ms. Vitasek has also held the positions of Director of Marketing, Director of Supply Chain Design, and Vice President of Operations Services.

Ms. Vitasek graduated summa cum laude from the University of Tennessee with an MBA in logistics.

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