Global Leadership:
Winning in the Dynamic Marketplace
Friday, October 27, 2006
Sage Hall - Cornell
University
Keynote Speaker:
Anand Chandrasekher, SVP, Intel & General Manager, Ultra Mobile Group (Intel)
Case Study Panelists:
Hope Hughes, Director, Human Capital Practice (Deloitte)
Jose Irizarry, VP, Worldwide Compensation Consulting (American Express)
Global Leadership Culture Panelists:
Christine Deputy, VP, Global Staffing (Starbucks)
Barbara Phillips, Director, Global Talent Planning (Pfizer)
David Windley, General Manager, HR (Microsoft)
Dr. Richard Shafer, Associate Dean for Corporate Relations (Johnson School, Cornell) - Panel Moderator
Anand Chandrasekher
Senior Vice President, Intel & General Manager, Ultra Mobile Group
Intel Corporation
Anand Chandrasekher is Senior Vice president and General Manager of Intel Corporation's Ultra Mobile Group. This group is responsible for low power Intel® architecture products, ultra-mobile PC's and the smart mobile and hand-held market segment. Chandrasekher's responsibilities include strategic direction, platform planning, design, development, marketing and business management for this segment. In this role, Chandrasekher reports directly to Intel’s CEO, Paul Otellini.
Prior to his
current assignment, Chandrasekher was Senior Vice President and General
Manager of Intel's Sales and Marketing Group; in this capacity, he had
responsibility for worldwide sales and marketing operations and served
Intel's global customer and market needs.
Previously,
Chandrasekher was Vice President and General Manager of the Mobile
Platforms Group. Chandrasekher led the team responsible for the
architecture, design, development and marketing of Intel's platform
solutions for the mobile computing segment. He led the team that
delivered Intel's most recent hit—Intel® Centrino™ mobile
technology—to
the market; and, under his leadership the mobile group became the
fastest growing business unit at Intel. He was promoted to Intel
Corporate Vice President in 2003.
Prior to his
Mobile
Platforms Group role, Chandrasekher was Vice President of the Intel
Architecture Group and General Manager of the Intel Architecture
Marketing Group, where he led strategic planning and marketing
activities for Intel's enterprise, mobile and desktop platform
products; in this capacity, he was responsible for the launch and ramp
of the Intel® Pentium® 4 processor family of products. In 1997,
Chandrasekher formed and led Intel's Workstation Platform Group and was
its General Manager through 1999; under his leadership, Intel's
workstation business grew into a multi-billion dollar business. From
1995 to 1997 he served as Technical Assistant to Craig Barrett, current
Intel Chairman.
Chandrasekher earned
his bachelor's degree in computer science and a master's degree in
engineering from Cornell University
Case Study
Panelists
Hope Hughes
Director, Human Capital Practice
Deloitte Consulting
Hope Hughes is a Director in Deloitte’s Human Capital Practice. Hope specializes in implementing large scale, global strategic change and transformation, which includes leadership alignment, organization readiness, training and communications.
She has led a number of efforts that have focused on talent management, coaching and leadership development, operating model/organization design, outsourcing/shared services delivery, and risk/regulatory adoption for global financial services clients (such as American Express, Citigroup, and Credit Suisse).
Prior to joining Deloitte, Hope worked for Xerox Corporation in a number of key leadership positions. She also taught as the adjunct faculty for Northwestern University's undergraduate leadership course on "Paradigms and Strategies of Leadership".
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Jose Irizarry
Vice President, Worldwide Compensation Consulting
American Express
Jose Irizarry is currently the Vice President of Worldwide Compensation Consulting at American Express Company, based out of the Company’s Global Head Quarters in New York.
He leads a 55 person organization across 10 locations globally whose primary focus is to enable American Express' growth objectives through the effective consultation, design, and delivery of its total rewards programs.
Jose's 11 year career with American Express has been characterized by innovation and a strong ability to create solutions that support business priorities and the attraction and retention of talent. Among the initiatives he has shaped and drive are the redesign and deployment of many business unit and corporate level incentive plans in the arena of sales effectiveness, cross-sell and retention of key talent. These initiatives have been widely credited with creating stronger linkages between business strategy, employee performance and rewards.
Jose has over thirteen years of compensation consulting experience and holds an undergraduate degree from Cornell’s College of Industrial and Labor Relations. He is also a member of Society for Human Resources Management, World at Work, and the Conference Board Council on Compensation.
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Christine
Deputy
Vice President, Global Staffing
Starbucks Coffee
Company
Christine Deputy is currently the vice
president of Global Staffing for Starbucks Coffee Company. This
position is her sixth since joining Starbucks. In this role,
Christine is responsible for our overall approach to staffing at
Starbucks.
Starbucks hired Christine in March of 1998, as the zone director of
human resources for the Canadian zone. In this role her focus was
ensuring the continuing growth for Canada, working with the BC
market in managing the sensitive labor environment and connecting the
corporate hr teams with the Canadian employment environment.
After 9 months in her role in Canada, Christine joined the retail human
resources team in Seattle. In this assignment she developed the
integrated job profile, performance review and career journey for the
store manager position in retail. As well, she supported the
Café
Starbucks and Circadia locations and provided hr support for the Pasqua
acquisition.
Christine’s next assignment was the Zone Partner Resources director for
the NW zone. During her tenure the NW zone grew from 700 stores
to over 1500. She was promoted from that role to vice president
of Partner Resources for U.S. stores.
After a year, Christine accepted the position for vice president of
Talent Management, U.S. Business Operations. In this role, she
was responsible for the staffing, learning, compensation, strategy and
organization effectiveness groups supporting the U.S. Business
operations.
Formerly, Christine was Vice President, Human Resources, for Thomas
Cook Group, the leading international travel and financial services
group. She has a wide range of experience in Human Resources with
primary focus on the training and organizational development areas.
Projects include the development of a curriculum of customer focused
training, development of behavioral profiles and implementation of a
behavioral interviewing process, introduction of 360 degree feedback at
all levels, creation of an international executive development program
and the integration of the Marlin Travel group into Thomas Cook.
As well, Christine managed the customer service function and led the
role out of a local market management program with the travel and
foreign exchange division of Thomas Cook.
Christine is a graduate of the George Washington University with a
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology.
Barbara
Phillips
Director, Global Talent Planning
Pfizer Inc
Barbara joined Pfizer in November, 2003 after 10
years at
American Express Company in several corporate and generalist HR roles
that focused on talent management and leadership. She is
responsible
for refining Pfizer’s global talent strategy, processes and
infrastructure to support the strategic imperative of building the
performance potential of all Pfizer colleagues.
Barbara manages the Pfizer senior leadership team’s global talent and
succession planning processes, and partners very closely with leaders
of multiple company-wide initiatives (global performance management,
global leadership development and diversity & inclusion) to ensure
an integrated approach across the company. Before her career in
the
corporate world, Barbara managed the operations of two ambulatory
medical centers in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Barbara holds a B.A. in Biology from Williams College, and an M.A. in
Organizational Psychology from Columbia University. She also
completed
the Advanced Organization Development Program sponsored by
Columbia.
Barbara was a member of the Organization Development Network of Greater
NY Board of Directors from 1994-1999 and served as President for two of
those years. She is currently Chair of the Conference Board’s
Council
of Talent Management Executives II.
David Windley
General Manager, Human Resources
Microsoft Corporation
David Windley is a General Manager of Human
Resources at Microsoft. His
HR team is responsible for driving the HR agenda for the global sales,
marketing and services group (SMSG), and supporting all Microsoft
employees outside the United States (Canada, EMEA, APAC, LATAM etc)
Before joining Microsoft, David was the VP Human Resources for all
business units at Intuit (the makers of Quickbooks, Quicken and
TurboTax), and previously the VP Human Resources for Silicon Graphics,
Inc., where he co-led the HR function. He has lived abroad in Geneva
and Singapore supporting the European and Asian regions. David has also
held Human Resources management roles in he construction engineering,
insurance and software entertainment industries.
David has an MBA from San Francisco State
University and BS from San Diego State University.
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Dr. Richard Shafer (Panel Moderator)
Johnson Graduate School of Management
Cornell University
Dr. Shafer is Associate Dean for Corporate Relations at the Johnson School at Cornell University. He is a Director at the Center for Organizational Fitness, specializing in working with senior teams on strategy execution, organizational design and change management. Prior to joining Cornell in 1997, he was a partner in Deloitte Consulting with responsibility for a regional change leadership consulting practice. He served as National Director of Human Resources for Deloitte & Touche LLP for 12 years, after holding a variety of senior executive positions at Corning, Inc.
In his various consulting and human resource management roles Dr. Shafer has worked closely with the leadership teams of a variety of corporate and professional firms and non-profit organizations. His role has centered on creating the change strategy for and facilitating large-scale change. Projects have included mergers and acquisitions, starting new businesses, restructuring and reengineering functions, implementing information systems, and launching a variety of innovative human resource programs in areas such as leadership development and the advancement of women.
Dr. Shafer completed his Ph.D. at Cornell’s School of
Industrial and Labor Relations in 1997. His research and recent
consulting have centered on developing an organizational model for
creating agile organizations, built to deal with continuous,
unpredictable marketplace change.