Judson Plapp

Jud Plapp is responsible for leading corporate strategy development and execution, providing support to business development and sales activities, communications and media relations. As Intercim's former VP of Operations, Jud's expertise covers pre-sales consulting, business process, product functionality and integration. Prior to joining Intercim, Jud was employed by Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) where he managed enterprise application development and integration, including supply chain integration on both a local and global scale. Jud holds a Master of Science in Management of Technology from the University of Minnesota.

Alain Cruset

Alain Cruset has over 30 years experience in the manufacturing industry. As Vice-President for Industrial Technologies and Industrial Operations at Sanofi Aventis, Cruset was responsible for Engineering, Process Excellence, and Technology Transfer between R&D and Industrial Operations worldwide. During previous assignments with DOW, Marion Merrell Dow and then Hoechst Marion Roussel, he was the Site Manager for both Active Ingredients sites and Drug Products sites, in France and in Italy. Cruset is a Director on the International Board of the ISPE (International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering), a former Secretary and Founder of the French affiliate and has been a member of this organization since 1990. Mr. Cruset holds a Chemical Engineering degree from the Strasbourg based Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie and a PhD from the University of Strasbourg.

Alison Smith

Alison Smith brings more than 25 years of manufacturing software development, support, marketing, and sales experience to her role as senior research analyst at AMR Research. As a senior analyst in AMR Research's Market Services group, Alison is dedicated to the detailed study of the productive application of information technology to the challenges faced by global producers as they seek to implement and evolve demand-driven manufacturing strategies.

Alison's current research focus is manufacturing operations. She publishes frequently on the application of manufacturing operations software, including manufacturing execution systems, enterprise manufacturing intelligence, and asset performance management across a range of vertical industry manufacturing scenarios. She is currently investigating global specification management for process industry manufacturers.

Prior to joining AMR Research, Alison was a founding officer and marketing vice president of Framework Technologies Corporation. In this role, she focused primarily on commercialization, packaging, positioning, and the initial launch of the company's collaborative manufacturing process design application.

Alison has also held various management positions with several software companies, including Mainstream Software Corporation, Decision Software Company, Microtouch Systems, and Cyborg, a provider of data acquisition and chromatography workstations sold to the laboratory R&D environment.

Throughout her career, Alison has developed, installed, and supported supervisory control and manufacturing execution systems in a number of Fortune 500 manufacturing environments.

Alison graduated summa cum laude with a BA from the University of Wisconsin.