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Wayne F. Abba is an executive advisor and principal of Abba Consulting, a management consulting firm based in Virginia, USA.  Mr. Abba is an Internationally-recognized spokesperson for program management using Earned Value Management (EVM).  With over 30 years’ experience in program analysis and a worldwide reputation as a leader in acquisition improvement, he was integrally involved in the complete reengineering of US Department of Defense (DoD) contract cost and schedule management policies and implementation. Wayne retired in 1999 from his position as Senior Program Analyst in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology at The Pentagon, Washington, DC.Currently an independent consultantspecializing in EVM in the Public Sector, Mr. Abba’s recent clients include the US Federal Aviation Administration, the US Agency for International Development and the US Navy.  He has been an advisor to the Office of Management and Budget, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and other US and foreign government agencies.  He is a corporate member of the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) and an officer of the NDIA Program Management Systems Committee. Wayne Abba has a Masters degree in Public Administration from The American University, Washington, DC, and a B.S. degree from the University of the State of New York, Albany, New York.  He lives in Falls Church, Virginia, USA.

Some career highlights:

• 30+ years’ experience in program management, including 17 years in OSD (U.S. Department of Defense)

• Three-time recipient of the Secretary of Defense Medal for Meritorious Civilian Service (1993, 1997 and 1999)

• Senior DoD program analyst for contractor performance management, based in the Pentagon, responsible for EVM policy and for analysis of major DoD acquisitions

• Coordinator of multi-party agreements with defense ministries of Australia, Canada, Sweden & the UK related to cooperation on acquisition policies & standards

• VP for a major PM software and services company (1999 – 2004)

• Current member of the NDIA Program Management Systems Committee with responsibility for international liaison

• Current contributing author and advisor to GAO team developing cost estimating guide   

• Past President of PMI’s College of Performance Management

• Winner of PMI’s Distinguished Contribution Award (1999)

• Frequent keynote speaker worldwide on the subject of EVM, Program & Project Management (1990 – present)

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Dr. Martin Barnes is an informative, perceptive and engaging speaker. He has lectured and delivered training in project management in 22 countries around the world. He is President of the Association for Project Management (APM), the professional body for project managers in the UK. He was a founding member of APM in 1972. He was APM Chair in the 1980s and was named an APM Honorary Fellow in 1995.  Martin has a civil engineering degree from the University of London and a PhD from the University of Manchester. His doctorate was awarded in 1971 for research into improved methods of financial control for engineering projects. Martin Barnes invented the classic Time/Cost/Quality triangle and other project management techniques over the years. He built up his own PM business over 15 years until it merged with what is now PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1985. Now a consultant in project management, Martin was also Executive Director of the Major Projects Association (MPA) for nine years until 2006. Dr Barnes has advised on significant projects in many countries in Europe, Asia and Africa, for the World Bank, other funding agencies, governments, promoters and major contractors. He has worked on projects in the infrastructure, engineering, defence, aerospace, IT, financial, business change and media sectors. Martin’s BBC television programme on project management is used as a training aid in many countries. Martin led the team that developed the New Engineering Contract (NEC), a system of contracts designed to facilitate and stimulate the use of modern project management across all the contributors to a project. The NEC is now widely used in the UK and in other countries and is recommended by the UK government for all publicly funded projects. Martin Barnes has been active in the IPMA since 1972, having attended all but one of its world congresses since that year.  He has been a keynote speaker at many of them. He is an Honorary Fellow of IPMA and a former Chairman of its Council. Dr Barnes is a recipient of the Chartered Institute of Management’s Special Award and of the Institution of Civil Engineers’ Watson Medal in the UK, both for his personal contributions to the development of project management. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the UK’s highest engineering recognition, and is a Churchill Fellow.

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Alfonso Bucero, PMP, is founder and Managing Partner of BUCERO PM Consulting, and an International Correspondent for PMForum and PM World Today in Spain. He previously managed the office in Spain for the International Institute for Learning (IIL), and was a Senior Project Manager at Hewlett-Packard Spain (Madrid Office) for thirteen years.  One of the best-known project management professional leaders in the Spanish-speaking world, Alfonso is an active member of the Project Management Institute (PMI®), of the ALI (Asociación de Licenciados, Ingenieros y Doctores en Informática), and of the Spanish Project Management Association, AEIPRO (afíliate member asociación of the International Project Management Association, IPMA). Alfonso was the founder, sponsor and President of the Barcelona, Spain Chapter of PMI until April 2005, and he is an IPMA Assessor. He belongs to the LIAG (Leadership Institute Advisory Group) of PMI.  He is now the President of PMI Madrid Spain Chapter located in Madrid (Spain). Alfonso has a Computer Science Engineering degree from Universidad Politécnica in Madrid, and is now studying for his Ph.D. in “Project Management”. He has 28 years of practical experience and has managed and consulted on projects in different countries throughout Europe. Alfonso is the author of the book “Dirección de Proyectos, una nueva vision” published by “LITO GRAPO Editors) in Mexico on June 2003, and of Chapter 7 of the book “Creating the Project Office”, published on February 2003 by Jossey-Bass Editors (San Francisco/California), authored by Robert J. Gram, Paul Dinsmore and Randall L. Englund. Alfonso Bucero is co-authored with Randall L. Englund of the book “Project Sponsorship – Achieving Commitment for Project Success”, published by Jossey-Bass Editors in April 2006. Alfonso has published articles in national and international PM magazines, in India, Spain, Russia and the USA, and is a Contributing Editor for the PM Network professional magazine (Crossing Borders), published by PMI.  Alfonso Bucero lives in Madrid, Spain and speaks at project management events and meetings throughout Europe and Latin America.

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Gilles Caupin is former President and Chair and an honorary Fellow of the International Project Management Association (IPMA).  He is one of the founders and a past-President of the French project management association AFITEP, past-Chair and Distinguished International Fellow of the International Cost Engineering Council (ICEC), and past-Chair of the Global Project Management Forum initiative. Mr. Caupin is a Certified Cost Engineer from AFITEP (ICEC system), a lifetime member of the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering International (AACEI), a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI®) (Member N° 6558), a founding member of the first PMI Chapter in France, a member of the American Society for the Advancement of Project Management (asapm), a founding member of AFITEP and SMAP in France, an Honorary Member of APOGEP (Portugal), and an honorary Fellow of PMA (India).  He is past Chair of the IPMA Certification Management Board, first assessor and international validator for several IPMA certification bodies, and has played a leadership role (as a member and chairman of the Certification Validation Management Board) in the development of the IPMA Certification System since 1994.  He has recently assumed the position of IPMA Mediterranean Network Secretary General.  Gilles Caupin has over 40 years of experience in projects and project management, in a variety of fields and industries including major transportation projects. Mr. Caupin has a diploma in Electrical Engineering from the Ecole Centrale de Lille in Paris.  He has owned his own consulting practice, Caupin & Associates, for many years and, although currently semi-retired, is available for short assignments. Gilles has presented papers, speeches and workshops on project management around the world for the last twenty years and is widely recognized as one of the leaders in the world of professional project management.

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Carol Dekkers is President of Quality Plus Technologies, Inc., a progressive management consulting firm specializing in working with companies who want to improve their success with software intensive systems programs and projects.  Ms. Dekkers is an expert consultant who works with clients to implement software measurement for estimating and process improvement, project and process management, process improvement, requirements, software sizing (using function point analysis), and team communication.  Carol’s has over twenty years of progressive experience across all phases of the systems development life cycle.  Her project management experience spans multiple industries including financial, judicial, MIS, insurance, engineering and scientific systems, in both private and public sectors.  Ms. Dekkers is a former President of the International Function Point Users Group (IFPUG) and has been active in leadership positions with the Project Management Institute (PMI®) (past chair of the PMI Metrics SIG), the American Society for Quality (ASQ software division council), and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) software engineering standards subcommittee. Carol has been a visiting scientist at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI),  Carnegie Mellon University based in Pittsburgh, and currently holds credentials as a Project Management Professional (PMP), a Certified Management Consultant (CMC), a Certified Function Point Specialist (CFPS), and a Professional Engineer (Canada).  Carol is a co-author of two new books (2008):  Program Management TOOLKIT for software and systems development (Talentum); and The IT Measurement Compendium: Estimating and Benchmarking Success with Functional Size Measurement (Springer), and of three previous books: Practical Project Estimation 2nd Edition (ISBSG) and two others, plus a myriad of over 60 published articles on communication for engineers and scientists, measurement, function points and software process improvement. Having spoken in over 25 countries, Ms. Dekkers is a seasoned presenter who works easily in new cultures and with foreign language translation services, and is well versed in the opportunities and challenges of global program management.

Some career highlights include:

• Professional member of the National Speakers Association (NSA) and the International Federation for Professional Speakers (IFFPS), and one of only 20 graduates of the Central Florida Chapter Speakers Academy in 2008.

• Invited keynote presenter for 2 years (2008, 2007) by the SAP board of directors to the SAP Global Quality Day in Waldorf, Germany, plus many other international Process Improvement and Quality Conferences

• Project editor to ISO for Functional Size Measurement (ISO/IEC JTC1 SC7 WG 12) and current U.S. delegate to ISO SC7 (Software Engineering) since 1994.

• Recognized international expert in the software metrics field and author of many articles on function points, software metrics, and the human aspects of introducing change. 

• Author of bimonthly column in IT Metrics Strategies, a Cutter Information system periodical, and frequent articles in CrossTalk, MetricViews and Software Quality Professional.

• Co-author of 2 books: Program Management Toolkit - for software and systems development, with Forselius et al, Talentum 2008 (April); and The IT Measurement Compendium – Estimating and benchmarking success with functional size measurement, with Bundschuh, Springer 2008 (July).

• Contributor to 3 books: The Software Quality Engineer body of knowledge, ASQ 2007; Software measurement advice from the experts, IFPUG 2005; Practical Project Estimation (1st and 2nd editions), ISBSG 2005.

• Member of the American Society for Quality (ASQ) Software Division council, and track chair for the annual World Congress on Quality and Innovation (WCQI) Software track (Since 2002)

Frequent presenter and trainer at international metrics and quality conferences (since Fall 1991) including IFPUG, Quality Assurance Institute (QAI) , American Society for Quality (ASQ), Applications of Software Measurement (ASM), Better Software, Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS), Applied Computer Research (Client/Server conference), SMEF, SSTC, SEPG, Metrikon, etc.

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Paul Dinsmore is President and principal consultant for Dinsmore Associates, an international project management and organizational change consultancy with global offices based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.  Paul is a globally recognized author, expert and authority on the subject of modern project management. A long time member of the Project Management Institute (PMI®), Paul has been honored with PMI’s Distinguished Contributions Award as well as the prestigious Fellow Award.  He is one of the early PMPs -- Project Management Professionals (PMP number 129) certified by the Institute. Paul participated as a member of the PMI Standards (PMBOK) and Research Committees, is a former director of PMI’s Educational Foundation, and is founder and counselor of PMI Chapters in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil. Paul Dinsmore works as consultant and keynote speaker in South America, North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. He is a graduate in engineering from Texas Tech University and completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School and Postgraduate in Management by the Getúlio Vargas Foundation in São Paulo.  He is the author of 12 books published in the United States, Japan, Brazil and Korea. Among them: How to Become a Project Management Professional; Winning in Business with Enterprise Project Management; Creating The Project Office – A Manager’s Guide to Leading Organizational Change, and the AMA Handbook of Project Management.  Paul Dinsmore is one of the world’s most entertaining and popular speakers on the subject of modern project management.

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Randy Englund is an executive consultant for the Englund Project Management Consultancy and is a Professional Associate for the Stanford Advanced Project Management (SAPM) program, specializing in converting strategy into action and effective project management offices.  He motivates others through keynote presentations and by developing and delivering custom workshops and consulting engagements world-wide, especially for SeminarsWorld sponsored by the Project Management Institute.  Randy’s experiences stem from 22 years at Hewlett-Packard (HP) Company, where he was a senior project manager and part of the corporate Project Management Initiative to lead continuous improvement of project management across the company.  At HP he was also a program manager in high tech new product development.  Previously he conducted projects for General Electric Medical Systems for 10 years.  Recent engagements have included:  keynote on achieving project maturity; conducted a risk management initiative; designed a streamlined PM process; identified example case studies; designed and delivered PM training sessions for managers and team leaders.  He is co-author of the recently published book on Project Sponsorship:  Achieving Management Commitment for Project Success.  He previously co-authored the books: Creating the Project Office: a Manager’s Guide to Leading Organizational Change, and Creating an Environment for Successful Projects (Second Edition).  He was a chapter contributor for the AMA Handbook of Project Management: Second Edition, and has published articles in magazines, such as Projects & Profits.  In speaking and training engagements, Randy includes the behavioral and organizational aspects that increase the probability of optimizing results from a portfolio of projects.  His interactive style encourages the exploration of action-oriented practices that are immediately applicable to project-based work.  He incorporates multimedia to discover concepts that may be adopted, adapted, and applied.  He believes in an organic approach to the implementation of project management, recognizing that nature and natural living systems provide many answers to complex scenarios.  He merges these concepts with real life experiences.  The results are memorable interventions that transform how individuals approach their work.

Randy Englund has an MBA in management from San Francisco State University and a BS in electrical engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara.  He is New Product Development Professional (NPDP) certified and a Certified Business Manager (CBM).

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Mr. Theofanis Giotis is Co-Founder, ownerandCEO of ITEC Training SA & ITEC Solutions SA since 1988, based in Athens, Greece. Since 2004 he is also Co-Founder & President of the Greece Chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI®).  Theofanis has over 20 years of professional experience in Project and Program Management, Information Technology, Economics, Operational Research and Management. As an entrepreneur, consultant and trainer, Theofanis has worked in different cultural environments, mainly in EMEA region. Since 1992, he was part of a team that setup the first Project Management Office (PMO) in Greece for a Greek Telco for managing a project of €200 million budget. Since 1987 he has managed hundreds of IT/TELCO projects. As an ICT expert he has envisioned, planned, designed, developed and implemented hundreds of Infrastructure Deployment and Application Development projects for Greek & multinational companies. He has experience in 2 and 3 tier applications using different programming languages and tools (Cobol, DBase II/III/IV, Clipper, Visual Basic, Access, Excel VBA, SQL Server etc). Since 1987 he also has gained tremendous experience in the field of Information Technology and Project Management (more than 22.000 consulting and training hours).  Theofanis has given more 100 presentations on ICT & Project Management and has passed more than 80 professional certifications. Since Sept. 2005, he has published more than 100 articles about Project Management in Greek professional magazines (the only columns for Project Management in Greece).  Theofanis holds a BA in Economics from Athens University, Greece and an MSc in Management (O.R.) from Lancaster University, UK. Also he holds a Computer Programming/Systems Analysis degree from ACE College, Athens, Greece. He was certified as PMP® in 2003 and graduated from the PMI® Leadership Institute Masters Class in 2007.  Theofanis serves as International Correspondent for PMFORUM.org in Greece. Since 2001, Theofanis has taught more than 55 ProjectManagement and PMP® preparations courses with more than 633 attendees. As of July 2007, he has trained over 35% of all Greek PMPs.  He is a member of the following societies and organizations: AMACON, IEEE, ISACA; Project Management Institute (PMI®); PMI Greece Chapter (PMI-GREECE); PMI SIG Information Systems member since 2003; PMI SIG Education & Training member; PMI Frankfurt Chapter; PMI Washington D.C. Chapter; and PMI Troubled Projects SIG.  His volunteer leadership has included: Greek PMI Chapter Co-Founder (PMI-GREECE) (2004); Greek PMI Chapter President (PMI-GREECE) (2004 until today); OPM3® 2008 Update Project Team Volunteer since 2005; and Lexicon ProjectVolunteer since 2006.  He is a member of the PMI 2008 EMEA Global Congress CoPAT.

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Alan Harpham, BSc MBA FAPM FCMC

Alan describes himself as being on his 4th career, as what Charles Handy calls ‘a portfolio manager’.  Alan is an independent management consultant; focused on programme management, project management and executive coaching – individuals and teams. Alan is the Chairman of the APM Group, an Accreditation, Registration and Examination Certification Body for key elements of Best Practice in programme and project management, ITIL, and Change Management. It works with its main partners - the Office of Government Commerce (OGC), The Stationery Office and the Chartered Management Institute - to develop a wide range of activities that broaden the application of Best Practice.  He is chairman of Workplace Ministry Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire (see www.workplaceministry.org.uk).  He is a Board Member of The International Center for Spirit at Work and also on the selection committee of the International Spirit at Work Awards (see www.spiritatwork.org).  He is chairman of Cranfield University’s Science & Engineering Ethics Committee and also chairs the SPD Research Ethics Committee (medical).  Alan was co-owner and a founding director of P5 – the Power of Projects, a consultancy specialising in the application of project and programme management in owner/client organisations.  He is also a former trustee of a number of charitable organisations including MODEM, and The Friends of the Bedford Child Development Centre.  He was a founding member of the Jury for the IPMA International Project Management Awards and continued as such until 2006.

Alan Harpham is a former Managing Director and senior consultant of Nichols Associates (now part of The Nichols Group), one of the UK’s leading consultancies in project and change management.  He was previously an early Director of Cranfield University’s MSc in Project Management and started his own project management consultancy.  Alan’s early career was as an engineer and line manager with John Laing.  Alan is a Fellow of the Association for Project Management (APM) in the UK.  He has presented and written on – change management, inspirational leadership, managing successful programmes, management by projects, the Politics and politics of projects, managing cultural differences, the Project Context, Maturity Models, Life-work integration, Spirit at Work, Why would a businessman study theology?, and many other topics.

Alan’s personal interests include spirit in work (he is an editorial advisor of MODEM’s e-zine ‘Spirit in Work’), he was founding chairman of MODEM (see www.modem.uk.com), and a former Steward of Spirit in Business (www.spiritinbusiness.org).  He likes hill walking, scrambling, international traveling, good food and company, and watching rugby. 

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Adesh Jain is M. Eng, CPP, MPD, is Managing Director of the Centre for Excellence in Project Management (CEPM) Ltd. (India), President of PM Guru, Inc. (USA), and Honorary President of Project Management Associates (PMA - India).  Adesh is the immediate past president and current Chair of the Council of Delegates for the International Project Management Association (IPMA), and is Chair of the IPMA Nation to Nation Forum.  Adesh’s career includes 40 years of project-oriented work, including projects for Litton Industries and Control Data Corporation in the USA in the early 1970s. In 1973, Adesh returned to India where he became No. 2 in one of the largest steel plants in India. In 1975, Adesh was asked by Bharat Heavy Electrical Limited, the largest Indian Government engineering undertaking, to head their IT and Project Management services, the youngest CEO ever to head a division there. He became Chairman of the Heavy Engineering Group in 1982.  In 1991, the President of India honored him with a Fellowship award for laying a strong foundation for the IT industry in India. He has since been conferred with 6 major awards in India, including the 'Gem of India' award. Adesh started the CEPM in 1992, and founded PMA, India - a-not-for-profit registered society in 1993.  He was elected to the steering committee for the Global PM Forum in 1996 and received a Distinguished Contribution Award from the Project Management Institute (PMI®) in the USA in 1997.  In January 1999, Adesh became the first non-European to become a Vice President of IPMA, serving three terms through 2004. He was elected President of IPMA for 2005-2006 and IPMA Chair for two years beginning January 2007.  Adesh has addressed or trained over 50,000 people world wide, has made over 40 keynote presentations, is author of the book “New Dimensions in Project Management” (1992), and has authored over 50 articles on project management. Since 1999, Adesh has contributed significantly to modern PM in China where he has trained over 2,000 professionals. He is Honorary Chairman of the China Project Management Committee (CPMC), the first non-Chinese to enjoy such a privilege. In 2001, he was invited to give a keynote presentation in the Great Hall of China at a UNIDO conference. During the last two years, Adesh has been a keynote speaker at major conferences in Abu Dhabi, China, Sweden, Poland, Thailand, and Turkey.  For the last ten years, he has organized and managed an international PM conference in New Delhi, and he was the organizer and project manager of the 19th IPMA World Congress held in New Delhi in November 2005, the first IPMA congress outside of Europe and the largest IPMA congress ever held.  Adesh Jain has a BS in Mathematics and BS in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and a MS in Control Systems from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.  Adesh received the IPMA Honorary Fellowship award in October 2006 and became a Global Advisor for PMForum in 2007.

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Gopal Kapur, founder and president of the Center for Project ManagementÒ, consults, writes and educates in both the public and private sector as a noted authority on business and project management. Since 1975, Mr. Kapur has been developing innovative strategies for providing management solutions to organizations of all sizes and disciplines, which not only help meet the challenges of today’s evolving business landscape, but address the changes imperative to organizational longevity. Through consultation at every level of an organization, Mr. Kapur empowers individuals to achieve optimum performance. Mr. Kapur’s unique rapport with all echelons of corporate players, from the CEO to the end user, has armed him with the insight necessary to provide practical solutions to a wide variety of management problems. Many Fortune 500 companies have adopted Kapur’s highly successful Project Process ArchitectureÔ (PPAÔ). PPA provides a practical strategy for managing portfolios, programs, and projects to success.  He has lectured at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Commonwealth Club, the National Press Club, University of California (Berkeley, Riverside, and Davis), and The Brookings Institution. His keynote addresses and speeches have won him prestigious awards, both in the United States and abroad. He was honored as “Best Speaker” at Harvard University (Kennedy School of Government), Project Management Institute’s international conferences (San Diego, Vancouver, and Toronto), and Technology Leadership Conferences. His highly acclaimed third book, “Project Management for Information, Technology, Business, and Certification,” was published by Prentice Hall. He also authored two computer-programming textbooks (IBM 360 Assembler Language Programming, John Wiley & Sons; Programming in Standard COBOL, SRA, Inc.). Mr. Kapur’s articles have appeared in management and technology publications worldwide. His white papers and research are utilized by leading consulting bodies: Gartner Group, Forrester Group, CIO magazine, CIO Insight, and Computerworld. He has recorded several segments of Gartner Group’s Talking Technology including the highly popular Seven Deadly Sins of Project Management, and the CXO radio. Mr. Kapur authored the monthly column, ProjectExpert, for CIO Decisions.   Mr. Kapur graduated summa cum laude (Gold Medal) with a diploma in Civil Engineering from the Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, India. He was awarded the Distinguished Achievement Award for his contributions to education by the President of India. Mr. Kapur is a member of the Harvard Policy Group, Project Management Institute, and Rotary Club, and has served as a trustee for the Charles Babbage Foundation.  His hobbies are card magic and cooking, which he uses to raise funds for various charities. His food columns appear in the Roseville Press-Tribune, Granite Bay Press-Tribune, Placer Herald, and RGB Living.

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Brian R. Kooyman, B. Arch, R.A.I.A., F.A.I.P.M., M.A.I.C.D., M.P.D, is Managing Director and CEO of The Tracey, Brunstrom & Hammond (TBH) Group, based in Sydney, Australia.  Brian is also Adjunct Professor in the Graduate School of Business at Curtin University in Western Australia, Adjunct Professor of Project Management at the University of Technology Sydney in New South Wales, and Honorary Associate in the School of Government at the University of Sydney.  Brian is the past National President of the Australian Institute of Project Management (AIPM) and was Chairman of the Global Council of the Project Management Institute (PMI®).  He was a member and the Chair of PMI’s Nominating Committee for 2001 and 2002 and is currently the Vice Chair of PMI’s Ethics Review Committee.   He has been a keynote speaker at project management conferences in Australia, India, South Africa, and the USA, and is well known throughout the world of professional PM.  Brian has over 35 years experience on a wide variety of projects and programs, and has been directly involved in several famous Australian projects, including The Sydney 2000 Olympics, The Sydney Harbour Casino (NSW), The National Biological Standards Laboratory (ACT), The Darling Harbour Redevelopment (NSW), and Federation Square (Vic).  Brian also has extensive experience as an Expert Witness for such International projects as The Australian Embassy in Beijing, The Australian High Commission in Geneva, The Australian Embassy in Hanoi, Mt Worsley Aluminium Refinery (WA), and The Roi Namur Sewerage Treatment Plant (Marshall Islands). Brian has achieved workplace assessment against the Australian Project Management Competency Standards, at Master Project Director Level. TBH is one of the largest independent and privately owned project and strategic management services companies in Australia, with offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane and Perth. TBH provides strategic and project management services for the Construction, IT and Telecommunications industries. Brian has a Bachelors Degree in Architecture from the University of New South Wales (1972), and was named Managing Director of TBH in 1995.

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Dhanu Kothari is an enthusiastic and a passionate consultant, workshop leader and motivational speaker with the breadth and depth of Project Management experience backed by 30 years of service in IT and Engineering with HP, DEC, Honeywell, Nortel, Scotiabank, Univac and the Norwegian Computing Center. His speeches, presentations and workshops are consistently rated as “Very Good” to “Excellent” and “Outstanding”.  He is currently president of D2i Consulting, a firm specializing in project management delivery and consulting, including Methodology, Process, PMOs, Audits, coaching and training.  Dhanu holds a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Pune, India and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Production Engineeringfrom the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland.

Dhanu is a past President of the Project Management Institute (PMI), Southern Ontario Chapter, Canada, and currently President of the Newmarket Rotary Club. Dhanu has authored two books on Project Management enttitled “Rainbows & Ratholes: Best Practices for Managing Successful Projects” and“From Ratholes to Rainbows: Managing Project Recovery”.  He has published numerous articles and papers on project management, in journals and conference proceedings.

Past speaking engagements have included: the PMI-ISSIG and PMI-IT&T SIG; the PMI-SOC Chapter; the ICE/CIPS Technology Conference; PMI Chapters: Lakeshore, Durham, CTT, SWO, Peterborough, CIPS-ITSI; IEEE  and ASQC Chapters;  ProjectWorld Toronto; PMI Symposia in Long Beach, San Diego, and Pittsburgh; and conferences in Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto.

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Mark Kozak-Holland is a recognized author, a certified business consultant and a noted speaker in the world of project management. As a historian, he seeks out the wisdom of the past to help others avoid repeating mistakes and to capture time-proven techniques. His lectures on the Titanic project have been very popular at gatherings of project managers and CIOs. As the author behind the “Lessons from History” series, Mark Kozak-Holland brings years of experience as a consultant who helps Fortune-500 companies formulate projects that leverage emerging technologies. Since 1985 he has been straddling the business and IT worlds making these projects happen. The books from the www.lessons-from-history.com series have been written for organizations applying today's business and technology techniques to common business problems. Lessons from the past assist projects of today in shaping the world of tomorrow. www.lessons-from-history.com. The series uses relevant historical case studies to examine how historical projects and emerging technologies of the past solved complex problems. It then draws comparisons to challenges encountered in today's projects. Mark Kozak-Holland has a B.Sc. with Joint Honours in Computer Science and Statistics (University of Salford, UK).

Mark Kozak-Holland is the author of “Titanic Lessons for IT Projects”; “Avoiding Project Disaster: Titanic Lessons for IT Executives”; “Project Scapegoats: Lessons from the Titanic Project”; “Winston Churchill, the Agile Project Manager”; and “Churchill’s Adaptive Enterprise: Lessons for Business Today”.  His latest book is "Project Lessons from the Great Escape (Stalag Luft III)" (ISBN-10 1895186803 / ISBN-13 9781895186802), published by Multi-Media Publications Inc.

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Harvey Levine, PMI Fellow, is a well-known project management author and consultant and one of the most widely respected authorities on the subject of PM software and practices in the United States. He is also a leading advocate and mentor in the expanding field of Project Portfolio Management. Harvey is a Principal with The Project Knowledge Group, a PM consultancy based in New York and California.  A former President and Chair of the Board of Directors of the Project Management Institute (PMI®), Harvey has over 45 years of PM experience, including nearly 25 years with the General Electric Company. In 1986, Mr. Levine founded The Project Knowledge Group, a consulting firm specializing in building project management and portfolio management competencies. Harvey Levine has been one of the leading consultants to the PM software industry in the USA for over two decades. He has provided evaluation, feedback and product development services to dozens of the leading vendors in this field, and continues to provide several with software evaluation, training, development, and general support.  Mr. Levine has also been recognized as a PM software industry watchdog, and a PM software “guru” for his knowledge, understanding, and insights regarding both vendor and user issues.  He still provides PM consulting services to a wide variety of businesses in both the private and government sectors. Mr. Levine has been Adjunct Professor of Project Management at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Boston University in the USA. He also conducts lectures, workshops & seminars at other schools, symposia and organizational meetings; and in-house seminars and training sessions for corporate clients. Mr. Levine is the author of three books: "Project Portfolio Management: A Practical Guide to Selecting Projects, Managing Portfolios, and Maximizing Benefits" (recently published by Jossey-Bass); "Practical Project Management: Tips, Tactics, and Tools" (John Wiley & Sons 2002); and "Project Management using Microcomputers" (Osborne/ McGraw-Hill 1986).  He is a frequent contributor to various technical and software publications on PM, and was feature editor of the PM Software Forum in PMI’s Project Management Network magazine, for 13 years. He contributed chapters to several important PM books, including Project Management Handbook (2nd Ed. - VNR), Handbook of Project Management (AMA), and The Field Guide to Project Management (VNR). He has published over 240 articles and whitepapers on PM in the past 15 years. Mr. Levine served as President and Chairman of the Board of PMI during 1985-86, received PMI's Distinguished Contribution to Project Management award in 1989, and was elected a Fellow of PMI in 1998.

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David Mathie is an internationally recognized project management expert.
Born in Hornsby, NSW, Australia he is currently an executive consultant, executive director of QRE P/L, & Monte Christo Properties P/L, and a director of two US companies: iWorld Projects and Systems, Inc. and PMForum, Inc.  Trained in electronics, David held engineering and management positions in industry before turning to management consulting; he developed his management & consultancy skills across different industrial sectors (including aerospace & defense, oil & gas and resorts & hospitality) and cultural environments in many countries (Great Britain, Czech & Slovak Republics, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Russia, USA). Fluent in Italian, he also speaks conversational French, German & Dutch and some Russian. He is currently heavily involved in beach resort real estate development on Curtis Island and in providing management consulting to private industry in Europe. Briefly, David was headhunted from Marconi (UK) to Phillips (NL) in 1969. From there he went to Paris (FR) in 1971 where he set up a small Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) company contracting to Phillips, Hewlett-Packard & Panavia. In 1972 he was headhunted to assist the Italian Government develop a systems support organization to manage their avionics portion of the Tornado (MRCA) program. He subsequently built up an ILS consultancy practice in Italy, which was sold in 1980. From 1976 to 1984 he helped develop the Artemis Project Management Information System, developed the Italian market and assisted in international sales efforts; when Artemis was sold he remained a consultant (sales, management & training) until early 1987. He built up an Italian-based, boutique international management consultancy practice (Consulenza Project Management - CPM) from 1978 to 1994, which was sold to the Italian practice of Ernst & Whinney in mid-1989. He was a partner in Reconta Ernst & Young (REY) and, in 1993, Ernst & Young Consultants (Italy) was formed, with David as a founding partner. David resigned from E&Y and returned to Australia in December of 1996 for family reasons. He formed Mathie Pells & Associates (MPA) in early 1997.  An IPMA (formerly INTERNET) Member since 1978, David was a founding Member of the Italian Association of Project Management in 1984.  He served on the board from 1984 to 1995 and as Chairman from 1987 to 1989.  He also served on the Board of ANIMP (Associazione Nazionale Impiantistica - Italian National Association of the Engineering & Construction Industry) from 1987 to 1995.  He was an IPMA Vice President from 1991 thru 1994.  David is a Life Member of the Society of Logistics Engineers (SOLE); Foundation Member of the SOLE Northern Italy Chapter (1976); and isListed in Who's Who Italy 1993.  He is widely known for having significantly contributed to the development of the Project Management profession in Italy.  He has also been a member of the Project Management Institute (off and on) since 1987.  David has published many articles and papers on Project Management and Management By Projects in Italian, and organized Italian and International Congresses, Symposia and Round Table Meetings on PM, MBP, CM, ITE and ‘Doing Business in the former Soviet Union’.

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Mary  McKinlay, BA  FAPM  MIoD, is Managing Director of  Mary McKinlay Projects Ltd, a Project Assessment and Training firm based in the UK.  She is also currently Vice President of the International Project Management Association (IPMA) and an Adjunct Professor of Project Management at (ESC Lille) in Lille, France.  Having worked in Project Management for almost 30 years as practitioner, researcher and trainer, Mary is a Project Management enthusiast who is often invited as a Conference speaker. Recent speaking engagements have  included the IPMA World Congresses in Budapest, India, Shanghai and Krakow;  PM Tage in Vienna;  Ukrainian  PM Association conferences in Kiev; conferences in Dubai, Slovenia, Nizhny Novgorod (Russia), Vienna (Austria), and Lisbon (Portugal), and the APM Conference in London. She has given workshops and tutorials all over the world. Following a degree in Systems Engineering, she started her career  on the Tornado aircraft project and subsequently worked on many large programmes. A further dimension was added by participation in research programmes involving collaboration between industry and academics e.g. Alvey, SERC and ESPRIT. One of these projects was to generate a process model for Project Management using soft systems methodologies. This underlined the need for Project Management improvement and influenced her later work.  Having trained in the use of the Project Excellence Model, Mary has acted as an assessor for the IPMA Awards since 2004. She has also jointly delivered Training Workshops for the Awards. She is a Governor of the University of Greenwich and an active member of the UK Institute of Directors.

Mary’s areas of expertise includeProject and Programme Management, Risk Management, Systems Engineering. Special field of interest Aerospace and Defence. Professional interests are in the principles & theories of programme/project management and development of a closer relationship between Industry and Academe; working together trans-nationally and establishment of standards to make this possible; and use of Systems Thinking principles as a foundation for effective project management, especially in the field of complexity.

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Ed Naughton, BE, C. Eng., F.I.E.I, IPMA-a, PMP, is the founder and current Director General of the Institute of Project Management of Ireland, the leading authority on the PM profession in Ireland.  Ed is a former Vice President of the International Project Management Association (IPMA) and is currently a Co-chair of IPMA’s “Nation to Nation” Project Management Forum. Ed has researched, published and presented many articles and papers on project management and is the author of the Irish Project Management Competence Baseline. During his thirty year career, Ed has worked as a project manager and/or project management consultant on a large variety of high profile domestic and international assignments. Ed Naughton is a graduate of University College Dublin (BE, civil), a Fellow of the Institute of Engineers of Ireland, a Chartered Engineer (Ireland), a Professional Engineer in Canada, and holds an IPMA Level A certification.  He is former editor of the quarterly international publication “Project Management Practice”. One of Ireland’s most dynamic speakers on the topic of modern project management, Ed Naughton lives in Dublin, Ireland, but is available to speak worldwide.

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David L. Pells, PMI Fellow, is the President of PMForum, Inc., a project management (PM) publishing and services firm based in Texas.  He also serves as Managing Editor for www.pmforum.org, the world’s first (and still one of the most popular) website devoted to professional project management, and for the monthly eJournal PM World Today (www.pmworldtoday.net).  He is also the President and CEO of iWorld Projects & Systems, Inc., a public US company formed in 2004 to invest in companies offering project management products and services.  He has over 30 years of PM-related experience in a wide variety of industries, programs and projects, including engineering, construction, transit, defense and high technology, and project sizes ranging from several thousand to ten billion dollars.  David is a Fellow and past member of the Board of Directors of the Project Management Institute (PMI®).  He is past president of the Eastern Idaho and Dallas PMI chapters; founder and Chair of PMI’s first Specific Interest Group (SIG); founder and Chair of the Global Project Management Forums (meetings of leaders of PM associations from around the world); and founder and Chair of the American Project Management Forums (meetings of PM representatives from various US government agencies in Washington, DC). Mr. Pells was awarded PMI’s prestigious Person-of-the-Year Award in 1998 and highest award, the PMI Fellow Award, in 1999. Since 1990, David has been a speaker at international project management conferences and meetings in Austria, Brazil, Canada, France, India, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Russia, South Africa and across the United States. Mr. Pells has a BA in business from the University of Washington and an MBA from Idaho State University in the USA.

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Miles Shepherd is Managing Director and principal consultant for MS Projects Ltd. based near London, England, UK. He is also a Global Advisor and International Correspondent for PMForum, Inc., and for the websites www.pmforum.org and www.pmworldtoday.net. Miles has over 30 years experience on a variety of projects in UK, Eastern Europe and Russia.  His PM experience includes defence, major IT projects, and decommissioning of nuclear reactors in the UK and Eastern Europe.   Recent assignments have also included major rail and business development projects, including a major collaborative project for the European Commission to strengthen accreditation capabilities in Eastern European countries, and the development of post graduate project management education in Romania.  He holds significant posts with the Association for Project Management (Vice President, and is a past Chairman) and the International Project Management Association (Past President and Chairman of Council).  Miles is an Associate Lecturer and research supervisor for the Open University, Visiting Fellow at Bournemouth University, and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at University College, London.   Mr. Shepherd is managing director for MS Projects, Ltd., does executive PM consulting and academic development work, and acts as Director for Europe, Middle East and Africa for Business Development Institute International.  Miles has a BS in Management Systems, and various government and industry certifications). Miles was named an honorary Fellow of APM in 2007.

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Tom Taylor is a well known and well respected project management professional with over thirty years of front line experience.  He is also an original, enthusiastic thinker, speaker, presenter, broadcaster and author on project related themes.  Tom likes a challenge on his occasional speaking assignments – as topics, delegates or context.  His presentations have durations from minutes to days.  Tom is experienced in event chairmanship, workshop facilitation, panel leadership and participation as well as providing lectures, talks and presentations. Venues are stretching across the world but in U.K. have included larger places such as the Royal Albert Hall, Excel, many Universities, Bridgewater Hall – Manchester and others.  Delegate numbers vary from a few people to hundreds.  Events may be open / public, or for professional associations / bodies, or private / internal arrangements. 

Tom became an enthusiastic project manager in his early 20s in the 1970s.  His project experience is mainly in U.K. usually with a construction aspect.  He has covered a wide selection of sectors, project types, client bodies, contract forms, procurement routes, project teams and mixtures of activities (programmes).  Projects with profile include the Cable and Wireless College, the RADA Centenary Project and the National Tennis Centre for the Lawn Tennis Association.  He has also been a consultant, advisor, trouble-shooter and expert witness.  Employment has included ARUP, KF Baker and Partners and Laing Management Contracting.  In 1985 Tom was a joint founder of Buro Four an eminent UK project management outfit and its initial chairman for fifteen years.  He is now a retained advisor.  He also provides project management related services and products through dashdot. 

Tom has been an active volunteer and contributor to the Association for Project Management (APM) progressing from branch committee member to London Branch chairman to Council Representative to Executive Board member to APM Chairman (2004-06) to current Vice President and recipient of the inaugural APM President’s Medal in 2007 – and all in only twenty years!  He is proud to be a Certificated Project Manager (CPM) and Fellow of APM.  He also has links with IPMA and other member associations particularly supporting involvement of next generation project managers.  He is an innovative supporter and promoter of the involvement of managers of projects in Sustainability, the Environment and Green Issues.  He is an occasional PM lecturer at the Bartlett School of Architecture – London and at Bath University, as well as being an external PM examiner at U.C.L.

Tom is an author of articles, media pieces and books including “How to Select the Right Project Manager”, “Characteristics of Effective Project Managers”, “Management in Practice” and “GMPM” – with others in preparation.  Tom presents in English with good humour, sometimes with PowerPoint or video or flipchart support, with handout notes where appropriate, and provides opportunities for delegate participation through exercises and debate – and if the attendees do not ask questions of him then he will ask questions of them!

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Michel Thiry, MSc, FAPM, PMI Fellow, is Managing Partner of Valense Ltd.  He has over 30 years of worldwide professional experience and has worked in many cultural environments.  He graduated as an architect and has worked on a number of major construction projects for over 20 years.  Following a fruitful career in construction, he has now focused on combining his Value, Project and Program Management expertise to organizational issues.  Michel is recognized as a worldwide authority on strategic applications of project, program and value management and has supported the development and implementation of a number of strategic programs for large multinational organizations.  Michel is a regular Keynote Speaker for major International events and a Seminar Leader for the Project Management Institute’s PMI® SeminarsWorld since 2001. He is a visiting professor at Henley Management College (UK), UTS in Sydney (Australia) and École Polyfinance Business School in Casablanca (Morocco). He provides his expertise to major organizations, in various fields, including construction, financial, pharmaceutical, IT and IS, telecom, water treatment, transportation (air and rail), local government and others.

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Rebecca Winston, Esq., JD, PMI Fellow, is a former Chair of the board of the Project Management Institute (PMI®). An experienced expert on the subject of project management (PM) in the fields of research & development (R&D), energy, environmental restoration and national security, she is well known throughout the United States and globally as a leader in the PM professional world.  Rebecca has over 25 years of experience in program and project management, primarily on programs funded by the US government.  She is a graduate of the University of Nebraska’s College of Law, Juris Doctorate (1980), in Lincoln, Nebraska and has a Bachelor’s of Science (BS) degree in Education from Nebraska Wesleyan University and a Master’s Degree in Biology from Idaho State University in the USA.  She is a licensed attorney in the states of Iowa and Nebraska, USA. Active in PMI since 1993, Rebecca Winston helped pioneer PMI's Specific Interest Groups (SIGs) in the nineties, including the Project Earth and Government SIGs, and was a founder and first co-chair of the Women in Project Management SIG. She served two terms on the PMI board of directors as director at large, Secretary Treasurer, Vice Chair (for two years), and Chair (2002). She was elected a PMI Fellow in 2005.  She is also a member of the American Bar Association and the Association of Female Executives in the United States. Ms. Winston currently serves as a consultant to organizations such as the National Nuclear Security Administration (USA), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on topics ranging from Program and Project Management to project reviews, risk management and vulnerability assessments. She has extensive recent PM experience in the areas of national defense and security, and has worked closely with local, regional and national officials, including Congress and the Pentagon.

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