ADDRESSING THE
GLOBAL E-WASTE CRISIS
James
Kao
CEO / President / Founder
James W. Kao is
an experienced CEO with a successful track record
of delivering results in startup and Fortune
500 environments. Over the course of his career,
Mr. Kao has raised over $24 million of funding
to support several start-up companies. In 2000,
he co-founded Managize, a supply chain management
company later sold to Escalate, Inc. Prior to
Managize, Mr. Kao founded and led eALITY , a
business process enterprise software firm. He
served as CEO of The Right Sizing Group, a data
warehouse consultancy, whose clients included
Wells Fargo Bank, Charles Schwab, Intuit, Mervyn's
and TransAmerica Corp.
Mr. Kao also played
a key marketing role in significantly driving Oracle
sales for the HP product business, and also held
management positions with HP and IBM. Mr. Kao holds
a BS in math/computer science from UCLA and an
MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.
ADVISORY BOARD
Renee
St. Denis
Board Advisor, Global Recycling Operations
Renee St. Denis
is the Director of Product Take Back and Recycling
in the Hewlett Packard Americas organization.
In this role, Ms. St. Denis represents HP on
issues relating to the sound end-of-life management
of electronics. Ms. St. Denis and her team are
responsible for developing environmentally sound
disposal solutions for excess and obsolete Hewlett-Packard
products, as well as customer and legislatively
required take back programs across the Americas.
Ms. St. Denis was instrumental in forming HP’s
alliance with Noranda, Inc. to design and manage
HP’s recycling centers located in Roseville,
California and Nashville, Tennessee. These two
facilities manage more than 3,500,000 pounds
of obsolete and excess products generated by
HP and its customers each month.
Ms. St. Denis
received her Bachelor's Degree in Finance at
the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California,
and her Master's of Business Administration at
the University of Southern California in Los
Angeles. Renee has worked for Hewlett Packard
for 14 years in a variety of operational and
management roles.
Chris
Altobell
Board Advisor, Global Recycling Operations
Chris is the Marketing
Manager for HP’s Product Take Back and
Recycling organization for the Americas. He is
responsible for the strategic development and
execution of HP’s recycling services and
programs for enterprise customers and consumers
including HP’s on-line consumer recycling
service various retail programs. Chris has been
with HP for 6 years - all with the Product Take
Back and Recycling organization, and has been
in the computer recycling industry for over 12
years. Prior to working at HP, he was the Vice
President of Business Development for United
Datatech and a Marketing Representative for Noranda
Recycling.
Chris received
his Bachelor’s of Science degree in Business
Administration & Economics from Saint Mary’s
College and is currently completing his MBA at
the UC Davis Graduate School of Management.
Dr.
Arun Swami
Board Advisor, Information Technologies
Dr. Arun Swami
is currently senior computer scientist in the
office of technology at Adobe Systems. Previously,
he was principal scientist at Xerox Palo Alto
Research Center (now PARC, Inc.) where he studied
developments in genomics and proteomics and problems
in computational biology. At Digital Jones, Dr.
Swami held the position of interim Chief Technology
Officer (CTO). He was involved in the acquisition
of Digital Jones by Deal Time (now Shopping.com).
He was co-founder and CTO of Neta, Inc., an e-commerce
startup acquired by Infoseek. Dr. Swami was chief
data architect at Internet Profiles Corporation.
At IBM's Almaden Research Center, he served as
a pioneering research team member in data mining
and published seminal work in this field. His
data mining paper is one of the most cited computer
science papers in his field. Dr. Swami holds
a PhD from Stanford University.
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