Dr. James J. Hickman
Dr. Hickman has been associated with the chemical and electronics industries for more than 35 years, primarily with DuPont where he held a variety of international and domestic senior management positions. His primary interests have been in semiconductor,printed circuit fabrication and assembly, IC packaging, HDI, and nano technology businesses and their associated leading edge materials.
Hickman retired from DuPont in 1998. He was a founding partner of the Quantum Performance Group, a market research and consulting firm. Jim has been instrumental in the creation, development, and growth of many new businesses and has been a leader in the value positioning (making money) of these businesses on a global basis.
He has been active in the IPC for over 30 years and has received its prestigious President's Award. He was instrumental in scheduling industry-wide technology exchanges between suppliers and IBM, AT&T, Motorola, Intel, Amkor, and Solectron. He was a founding member of the Suppliers Management Council Steering Committee and continues to serve as chairman of it's New Technology subcommitteefor future industry technology exchanges.
Dr. Hickman continues to publish on emerging technologies and has been invited to be a keynote speaker at the 1st and the 2nd International Embedded Passive Conferences. He co-chaired the event in Munich in November 2004.
Jim has been an advisor to North Carolina State University, NCMC, and SRC in microelectronics.
Dr. Hickman holds a BS in chemistry from Tufts University and a Ph.D. in physical organic chemistry from the University of Notre Dame.
Dr. Alan Poskanzer
Dr. Poskanzer is a seasoned professional with a unique combination of business and academic qualifications and experiences that spans more than three decades.
As a research manager at Dynachem Al led the development of more than 60 specialty chemical products for the PWB and microelectronics industries. As the COO of LinMar Technoliogy he built a niche specialty chemical company that served the Southwest's circuit industry.
Dr.Poskanzer managed a broad portfolio of technology and patents at the University of California, where he negotiated and closed a number of major complex licensing and funding agreements. Al directed the licensing office at Arizona State University, the 4th largest university in the U.S., where he licensed patented technologies ranging from rechargeable lithium batterries to anti-cancer pharmaceuticals.
Al most recently served as Director, Technology Licensing at Boeing where he licensed important composite molding and drilling technologies for a broad array of Boeing products including the C-17, the F-22, and Boeing's new 787 jetliner.
He is the recipient of the coveted Gold Medal Award from the American Electroplaters Society and the 1999 Chairman's award from the Arizona Governor's Strategic Partnership for Economic Development for his contributions in creating and implementing the Intellectual Property Policy of the Arizona Board of Regents.
Dr. Poskanzer holds a BS and an MS in chemistry and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Clarkson University.
Marc Chason
Marc Chason is a recognized industry expert in multiple spaces of the high technology electronics industry with skills that include engineering management, strategic visioning, technology transfers, and new technology/business development. Focusing on both technology and business development, his primary interests include microminiaturization and electronic manufacturing, nanotechnology, portable energy technology, and printed electronics technology.
Marc has been involved with leading edge technologies for over 33 years, 23 of them at Motorola where he was most recently a Director in Motorola Laboratories. Marc has significant experience in building and leading high-performance multidisciplinary teams that deliver product solutionsMarc is committed to developing fast paced leading edge technologies that have industry-wide impact for top-line and bottom-line growth. Technologies that originated in his laboratories have shipped millions of Motorola products with realized millions of dollars in cost savings. While at Motorola he was a NIST-ATP Principal Investigator and was the technology business contact for DARPA and NIST-ATP programs.
In addition to holding 23 US Patents in numerous technical spaces, Marc has authored many papers and presentations and has participated in a wide range of professional activities including the International Electronics Manufacturing Initiative (iNEMI) Technical and Research Committees.
Marc, who holds a BS and an MS degree in Materials Science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook has received many awards and honors, including being named a Motorola Dan Noble Fellow, Motorola's highest technical honor.
Mark C Hehl
Mr. Hehl, a frequent visitor to the Far East and an experienced "China Hand". Mark was Manager of Worldwide Quality for Timex Corporation. During his tenure he implemented quality improvement and Six Sigma initiatives with the company's vast supply base in China. His experience in improving business and quality in the PRC spans the aerospace, electronics, metal parts, plastics, textiles and automotive industries.
An early student of Dr. Deming, Hehl was a delegate and featured presenter (Quality Improvement in China) at the Third American Quality Symposium held in Shanghai September 2004. Named Ho Man Kai (Cantonese for Good and Knowledgeable) by his colleagues in China, he developed "Ho Man Kai's 14 Tips for Implmenting Improvement into Chinese Organizations". (Available by request to Weiner & Associates).
Attendees to Hehl's unique "Business Process Improvements in China" workshops are generally able to immediately apply what they learn back in their own organizations. His "Moving Operations Overseas - Should You Do It?" seminars have been widely acclaimed.
Other Hehl programs, workshops, and presentations avaiklable through Weiner include:
- Conducting Business in China
- Cross Cultural Training - Improving Your Business Effectiveness in China
- China - Converting it from Threat to Opportunity
- Implementing Six Sigma and Lean in China
- Cost Reduction, Schedule, and Quality Improvement for Chinese Companies.
- Assessing/Evaluating Chinese Companies
Mr. Hehl holds a BS in electrical engineering from the New York Institute of technology and an MS in management from the Polytechnic Institute of New York.
Clinton J. Norris
Mr. Norris has held a wide range of senior executive positions ranging from Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer of BC International to that of consultant to the United Nations Environemental and Natural Resources Montreal Protocal Unit (UNDP). He has led missions and served as policy and strategy advisor to the governments of India, China, Indonesia, and Brazil for country program preparation under the Montreal Protocol for CFC phase-out.
Clint served as UNDP Solvent Sector expert as well as a consultant to the World Bank Montreal Protocol Unit for project preparation and seminar missions in India and Brazil, as well as project preparation missions to South and Central America, and throughout the Far East for UNDP. The UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) has sought his evaluations and reviews for projects throughout the Middle East , the Far East, and Africa.
H e has served as a consultant for private industry on assignments that included marketing strategy, business plans, strategic options, plant site selection, technology selection, JV partnerships, and products for import and export.
Mr. Norris spent 29 years at DuPont in a wide range of technical, manufacturing, environmental, marketing and management assignments culminating with worldwide (P&L) business responsibility for managing three diverse global businesses with multihundred million dollars in sales: Worldwide solvents business serving electronics and non-electronics industries, and including the phase-out of CFCs; photoimageable polymers for the electronics industry; and an equipment business serving the electronics industry.
Mr. Norris was the recipient of the United States Environmental Protection Agency's 1997 Stratospheric Ozone Protection Award given as a result of his environmental leadership, program development, and accomplishment in the Philippines with UNDP, the Philippine government, and the private sector. He is listed in "Who's Who in World Petrochemicals and Plastics" as well as "Who's Who in Executives and Professionals" (2004).
He has served on the Board of Directors of BCI, the Corporate Advisory Board of Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering, and on the Board of Directors of The National Ethanol Vehicle Coalition.
Mr. Norris holds the degrees of B. Ch.E. and M.Ch.E. from Villanova University Where he won a National Science Foundation Fellowship, was a Scott Scholar, and a member of Tau Beta Pi National Engineering Honor Society.
Henry Hisano Utsunomiya
Mr. Utsunomiya, a Japanese government licensed management consultant from METI (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry) , is President of Interconnection Technologies, Inc. of Nagano, Japan. He has more than 25 years of accomplishments in both domestic (Japan) and international markets of high technology products. As a senior executive at Eastern Company Ltd. he pioneered the manufacture and marketing of P-BGA subtrates for IC packaging in Japan, Asia, and the United States.
As an inventor, Utsunomiya invented a new interconnection packaging device and while at Eastern filed for patents for P-BGA Substrate & Design Methods. At Mikuno Shoji he built a compound semiconductor business in Japan from scratch as well as a multimillion dollar GaAs wafer business.
Utsunomiya has been appointed a member of the Nagano local government Future Industry Strategic Vision Project as well as a member of its PSR Project. He is a noted speaker and has presented key papers at international assembly and packaging conferences in Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Germany, and the United States.
His publications include the very first Japan JISSO (Assembly, Interconnecting, and Packaging) Technology Roadmap; International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (1999 and 2005 editions); 2001 Japan Technology Trends Report, Taiwan's LCD Industry (2001 and 2004) and many others. His market survey report clients have included the JPCA, DuPont, Hitachi Cable, and Samsung Electromechanics.
In a country where training and certification is so important, Utsunomiya holds certificates on business management, statistical quality control (SPC) and overseas business (the latter from the peter Drucker Center at the Claremont Graduate School in California).
A recipient of the prestigious IPC Presidents Award, Utsunomiya is active in JEITA (Japan Electronics & Information Technology Industries Association), ITRS (International technology Roadmap for Semiconductor), and JIEP (Japan Institute of Electronic Packaging).