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Ram
Manchi,
President and Chairman
Ram Manchi was elected AGMA's President in July of
2007. As President, Manchi is responsible for
driving AGMA's goal to mitigate the gray marketing and
counterfeiting of technology products around the globe.
Manchi will lead the organization in increasing
awareness and visibility of the issues surrounding gray
market and counterfeit. As such, Manchi will facilitate
AGMA's growth and help foster the exchange of best practices
and successes between members, solution vendors and
the community. He will also help to further develop
and build partnerships with government entities and
spearhead development of industry whitepapers and reports
driven by AGMA members.
Manchi was elected to the AGMA Board in 2004 and most
recently served as its Vice President. Manchi
has been an active member of AGMA and a strong advocate
of the AGMA mission over the past four years.
Currently, Manchi is Director, Global Business Controls,
Customer Advocacy Finance at Cisco Systems, leading
Cisco's customer advocacy business controls organization.
His areas of focus include containment of unauthorized
service usage, compliance initiatives and introducing
and ensuring best practices in Cisco service access
and usage. Manchi has extensive knowledge on the
topics of service abuse, gray markets, export compliance
and the impact of unauthorized product on business and
their customers. Manchi has over twenty years
of diversified global corporate experience.
Manchi's work experience includes several business
areas including business development, supply-chain management
and marketing. Prior to Cisco, Manchi worked several
years at AT&T and Lucent.
Manchi also served on the Board and is Treasurer of
One World Children's Fund, a non-profit organization
to serve underprivileged and orphans worldwide.
Marla
Briscoe,
Vice President and Public Relations Chair
Marla Briscoe was re-elected AGMA's Vice President
in July of 2007, having previously served as Vice President
from 2001 to 2005, and most recently as Secretary. Briscoe
has been a driving force in the development and global
expansion of AGMA, and as Vice President takes an active
leadership role in supporting the AGMA President in
spearheading the organization's growth and strategy.
Briscoe is also currently the Chairperson of the PR
committee, a role in which she has helped champion the
awareness of AGMA's efforts and helped develop AGMA's
reputation as a thought leader on gray market and counterfeit
technology issues.
Briscoe is Brand Protection-Americas Manager for Hewlett
Packard and is responsible for the global management,
education and prosecution of gray market infringements.
She has a strong legal background, which is balanced
by her excellent business process management.
Prior to the merger between HP and Compaq, Briscoe
served as Legal and Investigative Manager for Compaq's
Global Cross Border Office which was responsible for
driving mitigation of gray market activity for Compaq.
Before coming to Compaq, she was a transactional
attorney with the firm of Doherty, Doherty & Adams
and a litigator with Filteau, Sullivan & Georgantas.
Briscoe attended The University of Houston Law
Center and upon graduating clerked for the Court of
Appeals for the First Judicial District of Texas, Houston
Division.
Marie
Elizabeth Myers,
President Emeritus
Marie Myers was instrumental in the formation of AGMA,
the first technology industry association to address
gray marketing of which HP is a founding member. Myers
currently serves as the President Emeritus.
A global executive with over 12 years of experience
in international business, Myers is Hewlett Packard’s
Vice President of Internal Audit, Finance and is responsible
for the global internal audit
department, managing key relationships with
internal and external auditors.
Myers served as Director of Internal Audit and in a
prior role, was the Director of Finance, Worldwide Sales
and Services, where she led Compaqs initiative
to address global gray market issues. Myers was
responsible for worldwide audits of distribution channels
and developing global business practices and strategies
to prevent the diversion of Compaq branded products.
Prior to joining Compaq, Myers held several management
positions in Australia for the Department of Trade and
Industry and Treasury.
Myers has a Master of Business Administration from
the University of St. Thomas in Houston, TX and graduated
from the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
with a Bachelors of Economics and a Bachelor of Arts
degree.
Peter Hlavnicka,
Treasurer and Director
Peter Hlavnicka was elected AGMA Treasurer in 2005
while already serving as a member of AGMA’s Board
of Directors since 2004, and is responsible for AGMA’s
financial health.
Hlavnicka is responsible for Nortel’s Global
Enterprise Pricing and Brand Management. Hlavnicka
has been one of the key players at Nortel in the developing
and implementing internal processes and controls as
well as channel and end user awareness to prevent gray
and black
market
of Nortel branded products.
Prior to his role with Nortels Global Enterprise
Marketing, Hlavnicka brings over 14 years of experience
in various Sales & Marketing, Business Development,
Operations, and Engineering positions. Prior to
Nortel, Hlavnicka worked on his PhD in cybernetics and
artificial intelligence at Technical University Kosice
in Slovakia. He received a master's degree from
Technical University Kosice in Slovakia and a MBA from
University of Western Ontario, Canada.
Jim
Vanlandingham , Secretary
Jim Vanlandingham was elected as AGMA's Secretary in
November 2008 and has been an active member since 2003.
Vanlandingham is currently Worldwide Channel Compliance
Manager for Hitachi Global Storage Technologies in San
Jose, California. He is responsible for channel
partner compliance audits, gray market policy and investigations,
and related processes.
Jim has more than 25 years experience in the IT industry.
Prior to Hitachi Global Storage Technologies,
he worked in numerous business units across North America
for IBM in the areas of Internal Audit, Financial and
Business Planning, Pricing, and Sales Operations.
Vanlandingham has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the
University of Missouri and an MBA from the University
of Southern California.
Anne
Kiernan, Director
Anne Kiernan was elected to AGMA's board in 2005 and
has been an active member since 2003.
Kiernan is currently Vice President of Worldwide Sales
Operations for Hitachi Global Storage Technologies in
San Jose, California. In this role, she is responsible
for sales operations, contract negotiations, channel
compliance and customer fulfillment for distributors
and OEMs worldwide.
Kiernan's work experience has spanned over 21 years.
Starting with IBM in 1985, she has held various
financial planning positions, including development
and SG&A expense, and also worked as a pricing manager
for the PC division.
Kiernan also has global experience serving two international
assignments, one in Hungary at IBM's European HDD manufacturing
plant, where she was responsible for the start up of
the Greenfield financial organization; and one in China,
acting as interim CFO for a manufacturing facility.
Returning to the states, Kiernan served as a business
advisor to the Vice President of Finance for the Technology
Group before taking a position at IBM as Worldwide Sales
Operations Director. Prior to the joint venture,
she led the effort for sales on the pre-merger integration
work to combine IBM and Hitachi's hard disk drive businesses.
Kiernan received her Bachelor of Science degree in
Accounting and Law from Clarkson University in New York.
Franziska Hanreich,
Director
Franziska Hanreich has rejoined the AGMA board as the
Seagate Representative in January 2008; she previously
served on AGMA's board from 2005-2006 as a representative
of Maxtor Corporation.
Hanreich was recently appointed Director of Global
Marketing Integrity by Seagate. Her responsibilities
include developing practices and strategies for the
continued mitigation of product diversions.
Franziska joined Seagate with more than 25 years experience
in the storage industry, including 10 years at Maxtor.
While at Maxtor, Hanreich has also served as Director
of Sales & Marketing - Business Planning, responsible
for managing worldwide desktop pricing and demand forecasting,
as well as Director of Corporate Financial Planning.
Prior to Maxtor, Hanreich has also held executive &
management positions with Storage Tek (now Sun Microsystems)
and JD Edwards (now Oracle).
Hanreich has a Master of Business Administration and
a Bachelor of Arts degree, both from the University
of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado.
Vivian Vassallo,
Director
Vivian Vassallo has rejoined the AGMA board as the
Dolby Laboratories, Inc. representative in 2007; she
previously served as a director of AGMA's board and
Treasurer representing 3Com Corporation from 2002 to
2005.
Vassallo is the Senior Director of Global Compliance
and is responsible for the development and execution
of Dolby's worldwide Brand Protection and Licensing
Compliance programs. Prior to Dolby, Vassallo was the
Business Compliance Manager at 3Com Corporation. In
this role, she lead a cross functional team addressing
Gray Market and Anti counterfeiting efforts.
Vassallo has over 18 years experience in global channel
sales, marketing and compliance with expertise in analyzing
and negotiating complex business issues, resolving disputes
and developing policies to meet corporate business compliance
and brand protection enforcement goals.
Phyllis Massey,
Director
Phyllis Massey was elected to the board in 2007 and
represents HP. Massey is a founding member of
AGMA and has participated in several AGMA projects since
the inception of AGMA in 2001.
Massey is the Manager of HPs Brand Protection
Team, and is responsible for the development and execution
of Hewlett-Packards global gray market mitigation
strategy, managing a worldwide team. This includes the
development of global business practices and policies
to prevent the diversion of HP branded products, and
tracking the success of the strategy. She joined
the team in 1999 and has provided its leadership for
the last 5 years before and after the HP and Compaq
merger.
Prior to the merger between HP and Compaq, Massey held
several positions in the North America region in Human
Resources and Channel Marketing. Massey has a
broad educational and business background with over
30 years of experience in sales, marketing and brand
protection management.
Massey has an MBA from the University of Southern California
in New Venture Management, and has worked for such corporations
as Toshiba and Frigidaire.
Scott Olsen, Director
and Government Affairs Committee Chairman
Scott Olsen is currently Manager,
Market Integrity - Legal Compliance Organization for
Sun Microsystems where he is responsible for global
market integrity focusing on proactive and reactive
measures to stop counterfeiting, gray market fraud,
and service abuse. He oversees Sun's training programs,
internet monitoring, and global consequences guide as
they related to violations of channel programs and supply
chain issues.
Scott has been with Sun for over ten years and has held
the positions of Channel Systems Engineering Manager,
Federal Account Professional Services Engagement Manager,
and implemented Sun's first effort to deploy a Partner
Relationship Management suite of tools and processes.
Prior to joining Sun, Scott held the positions of senior
intelligence analyst and computer analyst within the
U.S. Federal intelligence community. He also is a trained
Six Sigma Black Belt and was an adjunct faculty member
of The National Cryptologic School.
Scott received his BS from the
University of Utah with a certificate in Criminology
and Corrections and a dual MA from Webster University
in Management and Computers.
Cori E. Hartje,
Director
Cori Hartje serves as the senior
director of Microsoft's Genuine Software Initiative
in Redmond, Washington. Hartje is responsible
for overseeing various anti-piracy efforts and product
group integration programs focused towards the company's
efforts at preventing counterfeit and other forms of
software piracy. Prior to her current role, she
was a key member in Microsoft's Worldwide Licensing
and Pricing organization where she handled marketing
and analyst relations. Hartje was also a regional
sale manager for a number of years. Before joining
Microsoft, Hartje worked in
educational technology.
Cori is currently active with
various industry groups and is regularly a spokesman
for anti-piracy activities. Ms. Hartje also serves
on the corporate board of directors for BrainX.com.
Cori earned a graduate degree
from Washington University in St. Louis.
Joanne
Cooke ,
Executive Director
Joanne Cooke is responsible for AGMA's strategic development
and global membership growth. Joanne will focus on the
public relations, marketing and membership activities
for AGMA including conference coordination and event
planning. Joanne will drive the worldwide activities
of AGMA's EMEA and APAC regional councils.
Prior to AGMA, Joanne was employed by Water Standard
Management (US), Inc., and Allis-Chalmers Energy Inc.
where she was Corporate Secretary and Assistant Corporate
Secretary, repectively. In these roles, she coordinated
all annual stockholders' meetings, board meetings and
committee meetings under compliance with the corporate
bylaws and under all fedral and state regulations.
Joanne has over 20 years experience in multiple disciplines
within public and private corporations, additionally
in investor relations, marketing, risk management, human
resources as well as a variety of legal coordination
activities including intellectual property and contracts.
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