Webcast

Keeping Food Production Profitable: How Bay Valley Foods has Impacted Profit in 10 Plants in Under a Year

Sponsored by CDC Software

Available on -demand

Moderator

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  David R. Brousell

  Editor-in-Chief, Managing Automation

  David R. Brousell has been Editor-in-Chief of Managing Automation since 1998. Brousell started his career in technology journalism in 1978 at Electronic News. In 1985, he joined Datamation Magazine, and was named Editor-in-Chief in 1991. Brousell has covered numerous industry developments, technology shifts and major product introductions, including the mainframe era and the development of relational databases; the rise of the minicomputer; the advent of personal computing, client-server computing and the evolution of enterprise applications, and the dawn of the Internet and the worldwide web. Along the way, he has interviewed such notables as ENIAC inventor J. Presper Eckert, IBM's Thomas J. Watson Jr., Microsoft's Bill Gates, Oracle's Larry Ellison, Cincom's Tom Nies, Lotus's Mitchell Kapor, Netscape's James Barksdale, and Intel's Andrew Grove. Brousell has received numerous journalism awards, including two consecutive Jesse H. Neal Editorial Achievement Awards, the highest award for business journalism in the U.S. Under his leadership at MA, the magazine has been cited 9 times for editorial achievement.

Panelists

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  George Jurkovich

  Senior Vice President of Operations, Bay Valley Foods

  George Jurkovich is a food industry expert with a career spanning over 20 years, including 12 years at H.J. Heinz Company, where he directed the manufacturing, engineering, procurement, distribution and customer service for a $5.0 billion division, and managed 34 factories. In his current role at Bay Valley Foods, he is responsible for 17 plants throughout North America.

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  Mark Sutcliffe

  President of CDC Factory, CDC Software

  Mark Sutcliffe is an authority and speaker on people-focused change management. Sutcliffe founded MVI Technology, which was acquired by CDC Software in 2006 and re-launched in 2007 as CDC Factory. Today, Sutcliffe continues to drive strategy and productivity for food production and consumer products companies based on work conducted with experts from companies as diverse as Gillette, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson and The Coca-Cola Company.