Eric Maynard is the Vice President with Jenike & Johanson, Inc., which is recognized as the world’s leading engineering firm specializing in bulk solids handling technology. Eric received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Villanova University and his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.Read more

Mayor Phillips was elected Mayor of Kingsport in May of 2005 garnering more than 60% of the votes and then re-elected in May 2007 and 2009 without opposition. After serving in the U.S. Air Force from 1963 through 1967, Mayor Phillips moved to Kingsport in 1967 and joined Western and Southern Life Insurance. He then joined Kingsport National Bank in 1968. In 1974, he became a loan officer for the Bank of Tennessee and later became Vice-President, President and C.E.O. of the Bank of Tennessee. In 1987, he was appointed Commissioner of Banking for the State of Tennessee by then Governor Ned...Read more

Richard Kissel has represented the interests of primary and excess insurers and reinsurers for over 25 years and was a founding member of Nicoletti Kissel & Pesce (1995-1998) and Kissel Pesce Hirsch & Wilmer in 1998. 

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Roger Zellner is the Director of Sustainability for Research, Development and Quality at Kraft Foods.   He is responsible for development and implementation of RD&Q sustainability strategy, platforms and tools for package and product design.  Additionally, he is the Kraft Food RD&Q leader for Sustainability internally and externally with customers, NGO’s, government and universities. Roger is currently a co-chair for the Global Packaging Project sponsored by the Consumer Goods Forum. 

In 1983, Roger began with Kraft Foods - Oscar Mayer business.  He...Read more

Daniel E. Leone’s career has spanned from engineering and management positions in product development and manufacturing to vice president responsibilities for sales, marketing and business development in a wide variety of pharmaceutical and specialty chemicals businesses.  His areas of expertise are in accelerating growth across the business lifecycle, strategy development and contract manufacturing.  Dan holds a Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Manhattan College and an MBA from Duke University....Read more

Steven Singer is a Research Scientist in the Earth Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He currently studies the functioning of microbial communities involved in acid mine drainage, cyanobacterial hydrogen production and uranium bioremediation, as well as leading an ARPA-E Electrofuels project to transform electricity and CO2 to hydrocarbon biofuels with autotrophic organisms. He is leading the Microbial Communities Group at the Joint BioEnergy Institute in the targeted discovery of glycoside hydrolase and ligninase...Read more

Dr. Lois Zachary is an internationally recognized expert in mentoring. Her best-selling books, The Mentor’s Guide, Creating a Mentoring Culture and most recently, The Mentees Guide, have become the primary resources of Fortune 500 companies, government, education, technology, health-care and nonprofit organizations interested in promoting mentoring for leadership and learning.

Dr. Zachary is the president of Leadership Development Services, LLC, a Phoenix-based consulting firm that specializes in leadership and mentoring and the director of its Center for Mentoring Excellence. She...Read more

Dr. Chen’s professional experience includes periods in the process industry (Lummus Corp.), a national laboratory (Brookhaven), and academia (Lehigh University). At Lehigh, he has served as Professor in Chemical Engineering, Chair of Chemical Engineering Department, and Dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences. His research on multiphase transport phenomena has been recognized by over a dozen national and international awards, including the D.Q Kern Award, the Heat Transfer Division Award, the Thomas Baron Award and the Max Jakob Award from the AIChE.Read more

Joseph P. Hamilton is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Perkins Coie LLP. He counsels companies and research institutions on their intellectual property needs including the establishment, development and maintenance of patent portfolios. Joe also has extensive experience in litigating patents before Federal courts and the International Trade Commission and has handled numerous patent interferences before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences. He has experience in a wide variety of technologies including chemical and polymer manufacturing and processing, biotechnology, medical...Read more

Lydia Ramsey is an international business etiquette expert with over thirty years of experience.  She offers seminars, keynote speeches and executive coaching to corporations, associations and universities.   Lydia travels throughout the US and abroad to offer her programs on business etiquette.  

Lydia is the author of several books including MANNERS THAT SELL – ADDING THE POLISH THAT BUILDS PROFITS (Pelican Publishing 2008) and LYDIA RAMSEY’S LITTLE BOOK OF TABLE MANNERS (Longfellow Press 2008). She has produced four training videos, including “Dining for...Read more