About the Speakers:

Ladd R. Hall
Ladd R. Hall is Vice President/General Manager of the Nucor Steel Division of Nucor Corporation located in Berkeley County, South Carolina. Mr. Hall graduated from Utah State University with a Bachelors of Science in Business Marketing and a minor in Japanese. He has been with the Nucor Corporation for the past 22 years. Mr. Hall started his career in 1981 at the Plymouth, Utah steel division where he worked in the sales department until 1988. He then became a department manager over the Cold Finish division in Brigham City, Utah where he worked for the next five years. In 1993, he became a Vice President/General Manager over the Vulcraft Division located in Grapeland, Texas. He went on to become the Vice President/General Manager over the Brigham City, Utah Vulcraft, Cold Finish, & Grinding Ball Divisions. He ran the Brigham City Divisions until August of 1998 when he became the General Manager over the Darlington steel mill in Darlington SC. In January of 2000, he became VP/General Manager at the Berkeley Division.

Mr. Hall has served as a director of the Chamber of Commerce, has been on the board of the Family Support Center, the Low Country Manufactures Association, a member of the Rotary International Club, volunteered as a Varsity Coach for the Boy Scouts of America and spent many hours as a volunteer coach for Little League Basketball, Softball and Soccer.

Mr. Hall loves to golf, fish, hunt and participate in about any kind of outdoor recreation. He enjoys reading and family activities.

He is the proud father of eight children: four daughters age 22, 19,17, & 15 and four sons that he and his wife Sally have adopted from Russia; ages 11, 9, and a set of eight year old twins. Taking into account the number of children that he has, much of his spare time is spent in attending his children's activities, church and school functions and helping with homework.

Dr. Richard B. Phillips
Dr. Richard B. Phillips is International Paper's senior vice president-technology. In this position, Phillips has overall responsibility for providing manufacturing and engineering services, as well as oversight of corporate research & development and environment, health & safety.

From 1986 until being named to his current position in May 1995, Phillips served as staff vice president and director-process technology, where he was responsible for corporate and environmental affairs and development and application of process technology for the company's pulp, paper and converting manufacturing facilities worldwide.

Phillips began his professional career with International Paper in 1971 and has held a variety of technical and engineering positions including manager-manufacturing technical services for the pulp and paper sector and manager-chemical process technology.

Phillips earned his bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees in chemical engineering from North Carolina State University. He completed post-doctoral work at the University of Grenoble in France.

Phillips is located at International Paper's Technology Center in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Frank A. Dottori
Frank Dottori is President and Chief Executive Officer of Tembec Inc. He was born in Timmins, Ontario in 1939 and graduated from the University of Toronto in 1963 with a BASc in Chemical Engineering and Applied Science. He held a wide variety of positions in both the mining and the pulp and paper industry.

In 1973, he and three other executives founded Tembec Inc., reviving a pulp mill in Temiscaming, Quebec that had been shut down, and since 1979 has been Tembec's President and CEO.

Mr. Dottori is deeply committed to the forest products industry and has served on numerous activities and associations related to the industry. He is former Chair of the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association (CPPA), as well as the Forest Engineering Research Institute of Canada (FERIC), Chair of the Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canada (PPRIC) and also, former Co-chair of the Forest Sector Advisory Committee of the Canadian government (FSAC).

He has also served as a Governor of the Montreal Stock Exchange (MSE), Director of the Canadian Labour Market Productivity Center (CLMPC), Trustee of the Museum of Fine Arts and Governor for the Council of Canadian Unity as well as a director of other organizations and corporations. He is a Director for Bell Nordique as well as Chairman of the Free Trade Lumber Council.

He actively promotes recreational, educational, and cultural community activities and is a founder of the Contact, the weekly Temiscaming community newspaper.

In recognition of his diverse achievements in business and community service, Mr. Dottori has received numerous awards with the most notable being his appointment as Member the Order of Canada in 1989 as well as:

+ Honorary Ph.D., University of Quebec
+ Man of the Year, United States Paper Industry Management Association
+ 2T5 Meritorious Service Award, University of Toronto
+ McGill Management Achievement Award, McGill University, Montreal
+ Businessman of the Year, Northern Ontario Business Community
+ Honorary Degree in Education - Nipissing University
+ Highest Achievement Award for the Order of Engineers of Quebec
+ Medal of excellence - Professional Engineers of Ontario

Dr. Martin Kenney
Professor Kenney is with the Department of Human and Community Development at University of California - Davis. He obtained a B.A. in Sociology in 1974 and his M.A. in 1976 also in Sociology, both from San Diego State University. He holds a Development Sociology Ph.D. degree from Cornell University, 1984. He had been a Professor at UC-Davis since 1992, and a visiting Professor or instructor at Hitotsubashi University, Kunitachi, Tokyo, Japan; Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan; University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark; Kobe University, Kobe, Japan and Cambridge University.

He is the author or editor of the following books:

M. Kenney with R. Florida (Eds.). 2004. Locating Global Advantage: Industry Dynamics in the International Economy (Stanford: Stanford University Press).

M. Kenney (Ed.). 2000. Understanding Silicon Valley: Anatomy of an Entrepreneurial Region (Stanford: Stanford University Press).
Translated into Japanese in 2002 (Tokyo: Nihon Keizai Huoron-sha)

M. Kenney and R. Florida. 1993. Beyond Mass Production: The Japanese System and Its Transfer to the U.S. (Oxford University Press 1993).

R. Florida and M. Kenney. 1990, paperback 1991. The Breakthrough Illusion: Corporate America's Failure to Link Production and Innovation. (New York: Basic Books)

M. Kenney. 1986, paperback 1988. Biotechnology: The University-Industrial Complex. (New Haven: Yale University Press).