Meet the Speakers
Rear Admiral (Ret) Michael E. Finley
Partner, Global Public Sector Business Group
PRTM Management Consultants
Mike is a partner in PRTM’s Global Public Sector business group, specializing in consulting to aerospace, defense, and government clients. He is a recognized expert in logistics, public-private partnerships, and outsourcing, and has hands-on experience driving operational excellence and bottom-line results. After a very successful Navy career, where he was awarded the Chief of Naval Operations Award for Excellence in Operations Research and eventually promoted to two-star admiral, Mike entered the private sector as CEO of a supply chain optimization and modeling company.
Ray Rodon
Vice President of Business Development EMEA
Agility Defense & Government Services
Raymond Rodon is the Vice President of Business Development for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) business unit of Agility Defense & Government Services (DGS). Agility DGS is one of the world’s leading providers of integrated logistics to governments, relief agencies, and international institutions. Ray is currently responsible for all activities associated with business development for Agility DGS in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
Ray’s extensive government and commercial logistics experience come from a career in both the U.S. Military and the defense contracting community. Ray’s positions within the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) include Brigade Commander of the 23rd Quartermaster Brigade, Director of DoD Disposal Policy for the Defense Logistics Agency, and Deputy Director for the Defense Energy Support Center. Ray moved into the industrial sector in 2000 as a Senior Director at Enron-Enron Energy Services. He then spent six years working for Kellog Brown & Root Services, Inc (KBR). Ray’s most recent position with KBR was Senior Operations Manager for KBR Logistics.
Ray graduated from Kent State University with a degree in botany and received a master’s degree in administration from Central Michigan University. He currently lives and works in Kuwait.
Glenn Keys
President and CEO
Aspen Medical
Glenn Keys is the CEO and Managing Director of Aspen Medical. Glenn’s career covers a broad range of businesses, from start-up’s to US multi-nationals. After a distinguished career in the Australian Army, where he covered a range of tasks, from test flying to engineering and logistics support for Army aircraft, Glenn was responsible for the establishment of a number of new businesses, either as start-ups or as new business units in global corporations. Glenn has worked in a number of international locations, including Europe, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Glenn’s focus on customer service, coupled with detailed project management, has lead to the success of a broad range of ventures.
Glenn also has a strong sense of community involvement, working closely with organisations such as the ACT Down Syndrome Association, and the Special Olympics ACT Region.
Glenn has led Aspen Medical from its founding almost five years ago to today when Aspen Medical is a substantial international business with a presence in the Asia, the Pacific, Australia and the United Kingdom. Aspen has won or been a finalist in a number of awards since its inception, including the Australian Entrepreneur of the Year Awards 2006 (Service Industries), Chief Ministers Export Awards 2006 and 2007, ACT Exporter of the year in 2007, Project Management Awards in 2005, 2006 and 2007, the Australian Achiever Awards for Customer Service in 2006 and the Telstra Business Awards in 2007. Aspen Medical as also recognized by BRW Magazine as the fastest growing company in 2007, with annual growth of 357.5% for the last four years, and was acknowledged as thre Coolest Company in Australia in 2008 by Anthill Magazine and PWC.
Glenn also sits on a number of Boards, from pharmaceutical companies to environmentally friendly car sharing ventures.
Glenn is a graduate of the University of New South Wales, and the International Test Pilots School in the UK, and is a member of the Australian Institute of Project Management and a Fellow of Engineers, Australia and a Fellow of Engineers Australia.
Ozlem Ergun
Associate Professor and Co-director
Center for Humanitarian Logistics
Dr. Özlem Ergun is an associate professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. She is also a co-founder and co-director of the Humanitarian Logistics Research Center at the Supply Chain and Logistics Institute. She received a B.S. in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from Cornell University in 1996 and a Ph.D. in Operations Research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2001.
Professor Ergun's research focuses on the design and management of large-scale networks. Specifically, she studies logistics and communications networks that are dynamic and partially decentralized. Her main research contributions are the development of a set of new algorithmic and analytical tools and their applications to important real world problems. She has recently focused on understanding how collaboration among different entities can help the entities to be more efficient as well as create value for the overall system. She has applied her work on network design, management and collaboration to problems arising in the airline, ocean cargo and trucking industries.
Recently, Dr. Ergun has taken a leadership role in promoting the use of systems thinking and mathematical modeling in applications with societal impact within the INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and Management Science) community. She was a co-chair of the committee that established the INFORMS “Doing Good with Good OR Student Paper Competition” and is currently serving as a co-chair of the competition prize committee. She is an Editor for INTERFACES special issue on Humanitarian Applications. Finally, as the co-director of Center for Humanitarian Logistics at Georgia Tech, she has worked with organizations that respond to humanitarian crisis around the world, including: World Food Programme, CARE USA, FEMA, USACE, CDC, AFCEMA, and MedShare International.
Professor Ergun teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in optimization and logistics. She was awarded the NSF Career Award in 2003. She, together with a Ph.D. student and a colleague, recently won the EURO/INFORMS 2007 Management Science Strategic Innovation Prize given on the subject of Logistics in 2007.
Captain Frank Hruska
Assistant Chief of Staff for Logistics and Infrastructure (N4) for Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Central Command
Bahrain
Captain Frank J. Hruska was born on Long Island, New York and graduated from Hofstra University in 1987, earning a Bachelor of Business Admission in Public Accounting; he was commission a Supply Corps Officer after completion of Officer Candidate School in 1988. Captain Hruska is currently serving as the Assistant Chief of Staff for Logistics and Infrastructure (N4) for Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Central Command in Manama, Bahrain.
Captain Hruska has successfully completed four sea tours, three as the ship’s Supply Officer: USS L. MENDEL RIVERS (SSN 686), homeported in Charleston, South Carolina from April, 1989 through July, 1992; USS CHOSIN (CG 65) homeported in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii from July 2001 to July 2003; and USS BATAAN (LHD 5) homeported in Norfolk, Virginia in July 2006 to July 2008. His other sea tour was as Stock Control and Aviation Supply Officer aboard USS SAIPAN (LHA 2) March 1994 through July 1996, homeported in Norfolk, Virginia. During these sea tours he has deployed to the North Atlantic, Mediterranean, Pacific and the Arabian Gulf
Captain Hruska’s shore tours include Navy Acquisition Contracting Officer (NACO) intern at the Information Technology Acquisition Center in Washington D.C (1992-1994). The Naval Inventory Control Point in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he held two positions during his tour. First, as a Contracting Department Head supervising over $1.2 billion in contract awards, he then assumed the duties of Assistant Integrated Weapons System Team Head for the F/A-18, supervising all repairable assets (1998 – 2001). The Logistic Policy Officer and Fleet Services Officer at U.S. Fleet Forces Command (2003- 2006), Norfolk, Virginia.
CAPT Hruska earned a Master of Business Admission degree in Operation and Logistics Management from The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio (1998) and a Master is Science in National Resource Management from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, Washington, D.C. (2009). He has earned all three Supply Corps warfare designations (submarines, surface, and aviation). CAPT Hruska holds DAWIA level III qualifications in both Contracting and Logistics and was selected into the Acquisition Professional Community (APC). He has also earned his Joint Professional Military Education (JPME) phase 1 and 2 accreditation.
CAPT Hruska married the former Diane Gallo of Long Island, New York in 1998. The Hruska’s currently reside in Virginia Beach, Virginia with their son Frank Jr. CAPT Hruska has been awarded the Meritorious Service Medal (two awards), Navy Commendation Medal (four awards) and the Navy Achievement Medal (two awards).
Lieutenant Colonel Pol Deschuyteneer
Director, Centre d'Identification et de Documentation des Materiels (CIDMat)
Belgium MOD
Pol Deschuyteneer is Lieutenant Colonel in the Belgian Air Force and started his career in the operations in the Air Defense in Germany. After this period he switched to the IT business, responsible for “Analyze and Development” of logistic Software.
In Parallel he was auditor for the ISO 9001, 9002, 9003 standards and was responsible for “audits” in the industry. During this period he acquired a lot of experience in Logistics systems.
As Director of the Belgian Codification Bureau he is looking for a greater integration of the codification into the Logistic by convincing the Material Manager of the added value of the codification. He is also leading a NATO working group for the integration of the Codification System used by Logisticians and the RIC (Reportable Items Codes) system used by Operational organizations.
Finally he is also member of the Uid (Unique Identification of Items) NATO working group to ensure that this concept doesn’t conflict with the Codification System.
Shane Targett
CEO
Giode
Shane Targett is Europe’s most recognised expert in Military Inventory Optimisation and Supply Chain Management and is employed at Cranfield University lecturing for the UK Defence Academy. He graduated from Cranwell in 1981 before joining the Royal Air Force Supply branch. In the early ‘90s, Shane read an MSc in Logistics Engineering at Exeter University and pioneered Inventory Cost-Optimisation in the UK MOD and has consulted in Defence Inventory Optimisation and SCM since retiring from the RAF as a senior officer in 1999. Shane is a Chartered Fellow of the Institute of Logistics & Transport and established Giode in 2002.
Colonel Raimo Petasnoro
Chief of Logistics, Army Materiel Command
Finland Army Materiel Command
Born on June 21st 1959 in Oulu (Finland), Colonel Raimo Juhani PETÄSNORO is the Commanding Officer of the Logistics Division in the Army Materiel Command headquarters, Finnish Defence Forces in Tampere.
Col PETÄSNORO graduated from the Military Academy (Cadet School), Helsinki in 1984. He has studied the Infantry Captain Course (Battalion Commander Course) in Combat School, Tuusula 1988 – 89; the Logistics Officer Course in Logistics School, Lahti and Weapon School, Kokkola in 1992. He graduated from the General Staff Course at the Military Academy, Helsinki in 1995.
He has served in Infantry as a Deputy and Company Commander in Kainuu Brigade 1984 – 1992. He has served in various Logistics posts in Finnish Army; in Kainuu Brigade, Oulu Military Province HQ, Northern Command HQ, Tervola Depot (CO) and Army Materiel Command HQ 1992 – 2007. He served as a Chief Military Liaison Officer (CMLO) in UNMEE, Ethiopia, Addis Ababa in 2006. He has served as a Chief of Logistics Division in Army Materiel Command HQ, Tampere since 2008.
Col PETÄSNORO has gained broad and deep experience in development-projects in Army Maintenance as a Team Leader or Project Manager since 2001. Some of these projects are still ongoing.
He was promoted to Colonel in 2009. He is married and has a son and two daughters. His hobbies include cross-country skiing, forestry and any kind of activities in his holiday house.
Bruno Cantin
Head of Logistics Defence Planning and Policy Division
NATO
Mr. Bruno Cantin works at NATO HQ as Head Logistics in the Defence Policy and Planning Division of the International Staff. He has over twenty-five years of command and staff work experience in armaments, logistics, standardisation, personnel management, financial management, maintenance, technical support management and information resources management. He served in the Canadian Armed Forces as a Land Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Officer for twenty-two years, retired in 1998 to take over the Logistics Plans Officer post in the International Staff until October 2002 when he was promoted to his current post.
Mr. Cantin graduated from the Royal Military College of Canada as an engineer in Engineering and Management in 1977. He served in Germany as a junior officer in different maintenance related posts within the 4th Canadian Mechanised Brigade Group for three years. He then went to complete a Master degree in Business and Administration specialising in Information Systems in 1983. He worked at National Defence Headquarters in Land Maintenance Information Systems and as Integrated Logistic Support manager in two capital acquisition programmes. His time at national defence Headquarters saw his deployment in 1984 to the Israel-Syrian border with the United Nations and in 1993 to ex-Yugoslavia where he commanded the Canadian Logistic Battalion and the National Support Element for nine months. During that period he also assumed the duties of Canadian Contingent J4. He also served at Canadian Army Headquarters in different posts and in the Canadian Mission at NATO Headquarters, Brussels.
Douglas Kent
Director for Europe
Supply Chain Council
Douglas is the Chairman of the European Supply Chain Council’s Leadership team where he is also one of a select few SCOR certified instructors.
Douglas Kent serves as the President of eKNOWtion, a global Supply Chain Consultancy he founded in 2002. He also serves as Chief Strategist and Director of Technology Forecaster’s Quarterly Forum, a high-tech research and networking firm. Douglas has over 20 years of experience focused on the development; marketing and deployment of tailored supply chain solutions for companies across a wide variety of industry sectors. Before founding eKNOWtion, Douglas was a Principal Consultant of Pittiglio Rabin Todd & McGrath (PRTM) and formerly the Vice President for the Integrated Material Services division of Avnet Inc. Prior to this, Douglas held various positions in Sales, Operations Management, Product Management and Procurement.
Douglas is an MBA graduate from Pepperdine University's School of Management and studied at Harvard University during his post-graduate years. Douglas is also a frequent lecturer, conference lead and author of many Supply Chain articles.
Douglas is also an adjunct professor at the International University of Monaco (IUM) as well as France’s ESC/Ceram Business School.
Major General (retired) Chris Stern
Senior Advisor
KBR
Major General (retired) Chris Steirn served in the British Army for 36 years, seeing service in UK, Germany, Middle and Far East. Operational service includes Northern Ireland, extensive command experience at four levels across the two Balkans’ theatres and the Middle East. A specialist in transport and logistics, he has experience in running outsourced support at divisional level. He was responsible for designing the Army’s movements and sustainment plan during the early stages of the Iraq War and subsequently ran the Defence Strategic Movements Agency for three busy years of operational deployments; finally completing his service by leading the Kosovo Protection Corps through their process of change. A career spent primarily on operations, both living in battlefield infrastructure and delivering life support to troops in the forward battle-space underpinned the logic of his transition, upon retirement; joining KBR two years ago to assist with the development of their expeditionary campaign support, battlefield and barrack infrastructure business.
Andre Maas
Technical Officer, AC135 Data Management
NAMSA
André Maas is currently the technical officer responsible for codification at NAMSA (NATO Maintenance and Supply Agency).
Having graduated as an engineer in aerospace technology, he joined the French MoD in 1974 and started his career in R&D and certification of aircraft engines. In 1985, he moved to the French codification bureau where he held various posts and was involved in several IT projects. In 1991, he was temporarily assigned (6 months) to the German codification bureau. He was the French representative on AC/135 Panel A (from 1998 to 2003) and has also chaired Panel A (from 2003 to 2006).
In 2006, he joined NAMSA as an expert in NATO codification.
Baudouin Heuninckx
Advisor to the Head of Air Material Branch
Belgian Ministry of Defence
Baudouin Heuninckx (usually known as “Baud”) is a part-time researcher in the law of defence procurement in the Defence and Strategic Procurement Unit of the Public Procurement Research Group (PPRG) and tutor on the Executive Programme in Public Procurement Law and Policy within the University of Nottingham, as well as a full-time Belgian Air Force officer specialised in in-service support and the management of large projects.
He started his career as a technical officer in the Belgian Air Force 15th Air Transport Wing. Baudouin became in-service support manager of the Belgian Air Force C-130H military transport aircraft, where he finalised the avionics upgrade programme of the aircraft and defined its new support policy. He was then manager of the Belgian Air Force search and rescue Sea King helicopters, and of the civilian-type transport aircraft used by the royal family. He led the Belgian government’s regional aircraft procurement programme to completion in 2000, before joining in 2001 the A400M military transport aircraft programme division within the Executive Administration of the Joint Organisation for Armaments Cooperation (OCCAR) as Logistic Support Officer, a post he left mid-2008. Following professional training at the Belgian Royal Military Academy, he is currently the senior advisor of the Head of the Aeronautical Material Branch in the Belgian Defence Staff.
After having successively earned Masters’ degrees in engineering, international politics and European Union law, he is working on a Ph.D. on the law of collaborative defence procurement in Europe.
He is a fellow of the Academy of Political Sciences of New York (APS), and a member of the International Bar Association (IBA) and of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS). He has been awarded the Belgian Orders of Leopold and of the Crown, as well as the Belgian military Medal of Merit and the French National Defence Medal.
Colonel Roman Dufek
Chief of Movement and Transportation and Logistics information services, Multi National Logistics Centre
Czech Ministry of Defence
Brigadier General Libor Krejcar
Director Logistics Division, Czech Ministry of Defence
Czech Republic
Dr David Moore
Director of Centre for Defence Acquisition, Cranfield University
The Defence Academy of the United Kingdom
David Dickie
Director
Advance Aid
Colonel Furio Zanatta
Logistic Command, 2nd Division - 1st Department, Head 1st Office "Combat Aircraft"
Italian Air Force
George Bond
Director UK National Codification Bureau and Chairman
NATO AC135
Air Commodore (Retired) Andy Spinks
Business Development Director (Aviation Maritime & NATO)
KBR UK
Major General Mark McQuilan
Commander, Canadian Operational Support Command (CANOSCOM)
National Defence and the Canadian Forces