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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.
Randall is Oracle's Vice President serving industrial markets. In this role he leads Oracle's largest application vertical and has been responsible for driving strategic initiatives establishing Oracle as the leading solution provider for industrial markets. Randall brings more than 15 years of experience in leadership positions in consulting, sales, business development and marketing. He has held management positions and consulted to high tech, financial, industrial and software firms. While at Oracle Randall has worked with many large global companies including Dell, Intel, Royal Ahold, General Electric, Emerson Electric, Motorola, Tyco, and Ingersoll-Rand, to identify new technology based business opportunities that provided significant ROI and business value. He was also instrumental in developing and implementing Oracle's capability maturity assessment framework used to identify the value of implementing e-business technology solutions. His experience spans all aspects of the value-chain including finance, marketing, manufacturing, distribution, sales, and service. Randall has also been instrumental in pioneering initiatives around managed services and cash flow neutral implementations.
Doug Kennedy is Vice President of Global Alliances and Channels at Oracle Corporation. Doug is responsible for Oracle's partner programs and strategies, including the management of global alliance relationships, partner business initiatives and field Alliance and Channels management. Over the past fourteen years, Kennedy has held various positions at Oracle within Alliances, Sales and Support. Most recently, he led the Oracle field support services organization in the United States. In this role, his organization's responsibilities included support account management for the top 100 U.S. enterprise customers, support services lifecycle management and the delivery of Advanced Product Services to each customer. Prior to this role, Kennedy was the Vice President of Platform Alliances and was responsible for managing the relationships with all server, storage, operating system and system management vendors on a global basis. Prior to joining Oracle, Kennedy held technical and sales positions at International Business Machines.
Michael Ni is Vice President of Product Strategy for the Applications Technology Group at Oracle Corporation. He is responsible for the applications technology strategy driving both the effective and differentiated leverage of technology and platform architecture across the Oracle family of applications. Prior to joining Oracle, Mr. Ni has spent over 14 years in Enterprise Software, serving in roles including VP of Product Management for PeopleTools / JDE Tools for PeopleSoft, VP of Product Development for OnePage, Inc, Director of Product Management for Oracle CRM, as well as Marketing Strategy Consultant for PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Mr. Ni holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, a MS in Systems Engineering from Stanford, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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