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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.
Andy Dé (www.andyde.com) is Senior Director of Applications Solutions Management (ASM) for SAP's Manufacturing Solution, and is based in Dallas, TX. In this role, Andy is globally resposible for solution strategy, vision, packaging, field enablement, messaging and positioning, market awareness and demand generation for the SAP Manufacturing solution. He has over six years of manufacturing operations management experience in discrete manufacturing, and over 10 years of technology solutions marketing and management experience. Dé holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Bombay, India, and a master's degree in materials science and engineering from the University of Florida. He has an International MBA (I-MBA) from the TelAviv International School of Management (TISOM), Israel and a MBA in Business Strategy and Marketing from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario in Canada. He has lived, worked, studied or trained in the US, Canada, India, Israel, France, Germany and Italy, and is proficient in five languages including English and French.
Arne Svendsen is working as Production IT Manager for Arla Foods with responsibility of global company strategies in the field of Manufacturing Applications; including the integration to SAP. Before joining Arla Foods three years ago, he worked as a consultant in the area of process control and data collection, mainly in the food and beverage industry, with a passion for bringing the ISA standards into practice. Arne is heading the corporate Production-IT team, which supports the production sites with tools, methods and solutions for cost reduction, performance and optimization. The horizontal scope includes the process, the packaging and the laboratory functions.
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