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- Clinton O. Longnecker, Ph.D.: Author, UT Professor, Motivational Speaker
- Larry Singer: Vice President, Hewlett-Packard Company
- Mazin Yousif, Ph.D: Chief Enterprise Architect and Head of Architecture for Shell at T-Systems International
CLINTON O. LONGENECKER
The University of Toledo
2801 West Bancroft
Toledo, Ohio 43606 USA
419.530.2368
FAX: 419.530.7744
e-mail: clinton.longenecker@utoledo.edu
Clinton Oliver Longenecker is an award winning educator, is one of “America’s leaders
in the area of rapid performance improvement” and is the Stranahan Professor of Leadership
and Organizational Excellence in The College of Business and Innovation at The University
of Toledo. His teaching, research and consulting interests are in leadership and organizational
development and all facets of performance improvement. He has been the recipient
of over twenty (20) outstanding teaching, service and research awards during his academic
career and several industry awards including the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the
Year, Toastmaster International Leadership Award, The Jefferson Award for Outstanding
Public Service, and Outstanding University Research Award and has also received numerous
“Best Professor” recognitions.
He has published over 150 articles and papers in leading academic and professional
journals including the Sloan Management Review, Industrial Management, Business Horizons,
European Business Review, and Organizational Dynamics among others. He is frequent
media source and his research has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Investor’s
Business Daily, MSNBC, NPR and a wide variety of media outlets. His best-selling book,
Getting Results: Five Absolutes for High Performance describes the best practices
of over 2,000 high performance managers and how they achieve outstanding performance
and has been translated into nine languages. His latest book, Two-Minute Drill: Lessons
for Rapid Organizational Improvement from America’s Greatest Game chronicles the keys
to rapid performance improvement from their research on over 1,000 organizational
improvement initiatives. Clint is also featured in several educational videos including
the award winning CRM training film "Effective Performance Appraisal" and most recently,
"Continuous Improvement in Manufacturing" based on his research.
Clint is an active management consultant, educator and executive coach whose clients
include a wide variety of Fortune 500 firms and entrepreneurial organizations including:
Harley-Davidson, ConAgra, SSOE, ProMedica Health Systems, Whirlpool, Eaton Corporation,
Cooper Tire, Dana Corporation, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and O-I Inc. among
others. Clint has been described by Career Publications as, “one of the top motivational
speakers in the U.S. who can blend cutting edge research, common sense, humor and
conviction into a real and inspiring call for better performance that can help us
all!” Dr. Longenecker has also served as a Visiting Lecturer at the University of
the West Indies Barbados and has also lectured extensively in Poland, Hungary, and
Russia. He holds a B.B.A. in marketing, an M.B.A. in management, both from the University
of Toledo, and a Ph.D. in management from The Pennsylvania State University.
Clint is an active community servant, a committed member of the Christian and Missionary
Alliance Church and an active Bible study leader and Christian speaker. He has spent
extensive time working in the country of Haiti managing several missionary school
and hospital construction projects. Clint is very happily married to the former Cindy
Breese and they have three children, Clinton Charles, Shannon Marie, and Stephen Lorenzo.
LARRY SINGER
Hewlett-Packard Company
Vice President, U.S. State, Local, and Education Sales
Enterprise Business
Larry Singer is Vice President of U.S. State and Local Government, Education and Public Health Care Sales (SLED), responsible for driving growth in this important segment HP’s Enterprise Business. Since joining HP Larry has led a resurgence in HP’s SLED business, engaging a broader partner community to meet the needs of a public sector undergoing a transformation in their adoption of new technologies to improve both the effectiveness and efficiency of their operations.
Larry has nearly 30 years of experience in both the public and private technology sectors, with expertise and leadership roles across information technology, public policy and administration, corporate strategy, engineering, sales, marketing, business development, procurement, and services functions.
A former senior vice president at Sun Microsystems, where he was a member of the Executive Management Group, Larry served as "CIO in residence" and "strategic insights officer." He also chaired Sun’s Global Sourcing Council. Previously he was appointed by the governor of Georgia as that state’s first CIO and first executive director of the Georgia Technology Authority, responsible for developing a statewide IT policy and strategy. He has been a frequent columnist and contributing editor to both Government Technology Magazine and to Public CIO Magazine.
Prior to that, Larry was chairman and CEO of Public Interest Breakthroughs, Inc., a 501 (c)(3) entity that he founded to work with state and local governments in health and human services. He also served as a research fellow in the Technology and Telecommunications in the Public Sector program at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. His early experience includes sales management positions with Texas Instruments and Computer Associates International.
A graduate of the University of Redlands (Johnston College) in Redlands, California, Larry completed the Senior Executive Fellows public policy program at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
He lives with his wife and five children in Emerald Hills, California.
MAZIN YOUSIF
Chief Enterprise Architect and Head of Architecture for Shell
T-Systems International
Dr. Yousif is the Chief Enterprise Architect and Head of Architecture for Shell at T-Systems International. Before that, he was the Chief Technology Officer for Cloud Computing in the Global Technology Services at lBM Canada. He also held various technical executive positions at Numonyx, lntel and IBM. Dr. Yousif was also a chief architect at Numonyx with focus on the role of Phase Change Memory (PCM) in servers’ architectures and data centers optimizations. He was a principal engineer at lntel leading many projects on energy optimizations, virtualization and autonomic computing. He was also one of the principle architects defining the lnfiniBand architecture (IBA) and chaired the management working group in the industry-wide InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA).
During his tenure in industry, he has established and led many multi-international, multi-company projects. Dr. Yousif chairs the Advisory Board of the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM). He founded the NSF lndustry/University Cooperative Center for Autonomic Computing with three universities and 20+ companies. He has been an adjunct professor at four universities (Duke, North Carolina State, Arizona, and the Oregon Graduate Institute). He chaired standard bodies, has served as General Chair or Program Chair for many conferences, and serves in the editorial board of many journals.
He is a frequent speaker in academic and industry conferences on various topics related to cloud, autonomic and green computing. He has also published extensively (more than 70 publications). During his tenure at Intel, he awarded eleven professors world-wide several million US dollars to conduct research. He is also in the IEEE Distinguished Visitors Program. Dr. Yousif finished his Masters and Ph.D. degrees from the Pennsylvania State University in 1987 and 1992, respectively.
