Executive Leadership Technology Summit
- Steven Shepard, President, Shepard Communications Group
A professional author and educator, Steven Shepard specializes in international issues in telecommunications with an emphasis on strategic technical sales, services convergence, the social implications of technological change and the development of multilingual educational materials. He has written books and magazine articles on a wide variety of topics.
Mary Evslin, Chair, Vermont Telecommunications Authority
Mary Evslin is Chairman of the Board of the Vermont Telecommunications Authority, tasked with assuring that high-speed Internet access and mobile phone coverage is available in every corner of the state by 2011. A frequent speaker at technology conferences, Evslin serves on the Grameen Foundation's Technology Advisory Council.
Bill Schubart, co-founder & CEO, Reso.com
Bill Schubart’s expertise helped launch a fully integrated e-commerce services partner offering Web commerce design and integration, channel-specific call and email customer care centers, Media Just in Time manufacturing, fulfillment, distribution and information and revenue management. Major clients include National Geographic Society, Annenberg Media, and WNET, A&E/The History Channel.
Richard "Dick" Pecor, Chief Knowledge Officer, Telecom Practice, Executive Crash Course Company
Dick Pecor’s telecom business career spans 38-years. For RBOC, he filled technical and management roles in Switching and Outside Plant Engineering Departments for 26 years. Since 1995 he has been teaching telecommunications to industry and college audiences and continues a consulting practice focused on telecom network design.
Joe Candido, President, Fifth Element Associates, Inc.
Joe Candido has over 20 years’ experience in sales, consulting, technology and advanced teaching methods. He combines industry expertise, product knowledge, client requirements and sales skills to create programs that give his clients a competitive advantage, a compelling value proposition to differentiate itself in the minds and hearts of its clients.
Ann DeMarle, Director, Emergent Media Center, Champlain College
As the first recipient of the Roger H. Perry Endowed Chair, established to support initiatives promoting innovation, change and entrepreneurship at the College, Ann DeMarle is using the endowment to create a new on-campus center dedicated to emergent media. Much of her work has involved the integration of education and technology.
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Created in 1987 as a nonprofit, public interest organization, the Vermont Business Roundtable membership is comprised of 110 CEOs of Vermont's most active and committed for-profit and not-for-profit employers. The Roundtable engages in research and analysis, collaboration, communication and advocacy to bring a uniquely balanced, non-partisan, and long-range perspective to policymaking in Vermont. Its mission is to make Vermont the best place in America to do business, be educated and live life.