About Us: Robert Lauridsen Consultant, trainer and author Robert W. Lauridsen (roblaur@lauridsengroup.com) holds a Ph.D. in Psychology and Research from the University of Southern California and has over 20 years experience developing accountability cultures at both small and large companies including Agilent Technologies, BEA Systems, Align Technology, Novell, Emerson Electric and Adobe Systems. He has written over 25 management articles on generating accountability and committment cultures. He is considered an expert in systematically executing strategy. His book, Boss Talk: A Manager's guide to Exceptional Productivity and Innovation (co-authored by Steven Sherman, MBA) was published ion 2000. Bob is the founder and CEO of  Strategy Execution Challenge and The Lauridsen Group, Los Gatos, CA. Fran Lauridsen, Ph. D. Fran Lauridsen has been a consultant to both government and industry. Her international experience includes having trained managers for the U.S. Office of Education and management consulting for corporations in the Far East. She has received several research grants to further her work in human learning. Dr. Lauridsen holds a degree from Stanford University in Behavior Sciences along with her Ph. D. in Psychology. Post-doctoral work includes three years studying business, language and philosophy with Dr. Fernando Flores. She has published books and articles in the area of human learning and communications. Clients of Dr. Lauridsen's have commented, "She seems to care more about my future than I do." Burt Nanus Professor emeritus of managment of University of Southern California, is author and coauthor of seven books, including the best-selling Leaders: the Strategies for Taking Charge (with Warren Bennis) which is used in his consulting engagements. Dr. Nanus brings over 35 years of educational, research and manageria experience in the processes and methods of leadership. strategy, and long range planning and forecasting, as applied in the business, public and nonprofit organizations.
	Randall L. Englund Randall Englund, MBA, BSEE, NPDP, CBM worked at Hewlett-Packard Company for 22 years, as a senior project manager in high tech new product development and in corporate Project Management initiative. He co-authored Creating an Environment for Successful Projects, Creating the Project Office, and Project Sponsorship. As an executive consultant, trainer, speaker and professional facilitator for the Englund Project Management Consultancy, Randy helps people achieve more from project-based work, using assessments, multimedia experiences, and systemic inquiry. His organic approach includes the behavioral, technical, business, and change management  aspects that create an environment for project success. As a presenter at professional development events, he's been described as one whose insights and style bring the concepts from way up there, to right down here, equips you with tools and empowers you to act.
	Michael Paczan Michael Paczan has over 25 years of technology and product development experience as an executive, manager and technical leader. He has helped define and manage multi-company technology joint ventures and alliances and has experience successfully defing and implementing solutions that significantly enhance and organization's operational effectiveness. His recent professional background includes: VaST System's Senior Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technical Officer (CTO), IMB CTO for the Power.org Initiative and Director of the Sony, Toshiba and IMB joint venture Cell Processor Design Center. Mr. Paczan holds an MBA from the University of Texas in Austin, a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the United States Naval Academy, a Master's Certificate in Project Management from George Washington University and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP TM). His areas of expertise include collaborative leadership, strategy and methodologies for enhancing an organization's operational effectiveness.
	Kyle A. Park Kyle Park has been a CFO for the past 10 years at several venture funded private software companies, His most recent company, VaST systems, was just acquired by Synopsys, a public electronic design automation company. Prior to his CFO tenure, he worked in various finance and accounting capacities at public companies such as Niku (now Computer Associates), Synplicity (now Synopsys) and Synopsys. He earned a bachelor's degree in Finance from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and an MBA from Santa Clara University.
	Brenda Fox Brenda Fox combines entrepreneurial agility and large scale IT experience, to successfully build responsive, efficient and lasting professional services and IT teams that provide outstanding service to customers, employees, suppliers and investors. Ms. Fox has been an integral part of three high-tech management teams, which have raised over $200,000,000 in venture capital.  Ms. Fox has a strong matrix of interpersonal skills, management experience, computer science education, sales, team building, customer management, client services and technology expertise. She has twice built and managed national Professional Services organizations implementing and supporting software, hardware and networks. She has successfully managed large-scale enterprise information technology development and deployment across teams on three continents, and serving thousands of users. Her experience includes strategy and business development, national client service organization managment, ASP hosting, product and market research, directing research and development functions, managing product development and integration, as well as deploying world-wide Enterprise IT infrastructure including ERP, Customer Relations Management, Document Control, Manufacturing Engineering, E-Commerce, Supply Chain Management, Human Resource Management and Informatics-Statistical Analysis Systems. With skills honed over 18 years in the real world of high growth technology start ups, Ms. Fox's greatest talents may be her ability to create organization out of chaos; her ability to envision quantified goals and systems that will best serve the defined mission of an organization and to listen to the customer.
	Jeff Kowalski Jeff Kowalski is the CEO of DSG Technologies, Morgan Hill, California, developer of low temperature microwave heating and curing systems. DSG was founded last year by Jeff Kowalski, former president of Silicon Valley Group (SVG), a company that designed and manufactured vertical diffusion systems.