management
Kris Lee
Title: Director, Compliance and Ethics
Company: Oracle
Location: Causeway Bay, Wan Chai, Hong Kong
Drawing on nearly three decades of experience, Kris Lee is a highly regarded professional in the information technology industry. As the director for compliance and ethics for Oracle, Mr. Lee leads in internal investigations, fraud, security and offers support in risk management. Additionally, Mr. Lee trains and assesses, manages stakeholders, analyzes data and works with internal and external subject matter experts. He has been in this position for more than a year. Oracle offers a fully integrated stack of cloud applications and platform services.
Richard Pesserl
Company: Robert Bosch LLC
Location: Farmington Hills, MI, United States
With a career in automotive solutions and technology for more than 25 years, Richard Pesserl is a trusted named in the industry. Proficient at acquiring new sales, managing projects, planning products, negotiating long-term contracts and international business, he is an asset to the team of Robert Bosch LLC as a sales team manager. His position also includes forecasting, pricing strategy, leading international cross-functional teams, sales and management. Mr. Pesserl possesses highly valuable extensive sales and management skills in highly sophisticated sensors, electronic, mechanical and hydraulic components focused in automotive and truck OEM. In his line of work, he provides many services to high-end clients, spearheading a sales team to produce the Bombardier Spyder and with niche customers on autonomous driving. Read the rest of this entry »
Mark Towson, M.Sc., FCIPD
Title: Group Human Resources Director
Company: Mark Towson Consulting
Location: Cobham, Surrey, United Kingdom
Mark Towson parlays nearly four decades of experience to his current role as a group human resources director with his own consulting firm. As a seasoned professional having worked in Asia Pacific, Europe and the United States, Mr. Towson delivers on building organizational capability and executing complex cross-border change management. With his guidance, executive teams improve business performance along the lines of his strategy. Designing corporate strategies is a specialty of Mr. Towson’s, and grants him affiliation with the Society of Human Resource Management and the Association of Top Professionals. In addition, he is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development in the United Kingdom. Read the rest of this entry »
Ashley E. Williams
Title: Director
Company: Ashlen Maintenance Planning & Training Services
Location: Pinjarra, WA Australia
Ashley Williams has more than 25 years of experience in the mining industry, with the last five spent at the helm of his own training and maintenance company. In this role, he provides clients with in-depth, one-on-one training, taking into account their unique strengths and skill sets for use in association with Microsoft and SAP software. He is also responsible for maintaining a vast amount of data for major companies, combining his managerial and technical expertise.
Glyn Sinkinson
Title: 1) MD, Chief Executive Officer 2) Worldwide Sales Director 3) Equal Partner
Company: 1) The Bar Necessities (Worldwide) Ltd 2) Tydan Specialty Blades Inc. 3) Steri_X/International
Location: Manchester, UK
As a high-ranking professional of three companies, Mr. Sinkinson credits his parents Kay and Derek as “two of the best parent’s to ever walk this Earth.” He also credits his brothers Wayne and Lee, his sister Joanne and all his children, grandchildren, cousins, aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews, and respective partners, and his second mother, Christine McBride. He has many fond memories of his childhood, including being rushed to get 16 stitches as a result of a classmate who accidentally hit him in the head during a game of brick toss, in the absence of balls and ropes that had been put away after hours by the schoolyard. Because of his injury, he missed a swimming event for his school’s Gala, but the school offered him two tickets to sit on the sidelines at the Gala. Although the boy who hit him originally hid in fear afterward, he visited the boy’s home to offer him the second ticket and they attended together. His parents were hardworking and honest, and had everything but money, and helped him through many childhood diseases. As a person who truly loves himself, two songs that describe his life are ‘When a Child is Born’ by Johnny Mathis and “The Greatest Love of All” by George Benson. He took up golf at the age of 29 and joined a local club, Blackley, where he won several competitions, including the clubs most prestigious “Captains” in his first year. He sees himself as “the chosen one” who achieves what he sets out to do and always raises the bar. Read the rest of this entry »
David J. Armstrong
Title: Vice President of Marketing
Company: Konica Minolta Business Solutions (Canada) Ltd.
Location: Ontario, Canada
After receiving an MBA, David J. Armstrong began working in sales for Xerox, where he gained experience in business equipment. He enjoyed the field, which inspired him to continue working in sales and marketing. Mr. Armstrong has 35 years of professional experience and is recognized for his ability to generate and formulate dysfunctional teams and put them back together. In his role, Mr. Armstrong is responsible for overseeing the leading element of the company, growing relationships with leasing partners’ companies, identifying who needs training and coordinating training, maintaining pricing responsibility for all hardware products, liaising for third-party leasing companies, building third-party relationships which would benefit the company, holding strategic marketing responsibility, handling direct and dealer channel marketing, as well as marketing analytics, and sales training and development. Read the rest of this entry »
Colin David Burger, Lead Engineer
Title: Lead Gas Turbine Field Service Engineer, Technical Field Adviser
Company: WorldWide Gas Turbine Contractors Inc.
Location: Mission, Canada
Colin David Burger is the Lead Gas Turbine Field Service Engineer and Technical Field Adviser for WorldWide Gas Turbine Contractors Inc., a top turbine contractor which offers hands-on experience in the power industry/rotating equipment market specializing in gas turbines and has a great level of commitment to achieving the highest quality. Read the rest of this entry »