2007 Automotive News PACE Award Judges

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Toshikata "Toshi" Amino

Executive-in-Residence & Distinguished Fellow
Fisher College of Business
The Ohio State University
Visiting Professor, Kansai University of International Studies

Raymond G. Boeman, Ph.D.

Director, Transportation Program & National Transportation Research User Facility
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Robert M. Chapman

Retired Vice President, Allied Signal Corporation
Former Chairman, Technical Task Force
Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles

Pierre Durand

Vice President
Capgemini (retired)

Wade Edwards

Partner
W. R. Edwards & Associates

Thomas Hachiya

Principal
Sansei Technik Services

Robert W. Hall, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus of Operations Management
Indiana University

Thomas H. Hanna

President and CEO (retired)
American Automobile Manufacturers Association

Susan Helper, Ph.D.

AT&T Professor of Economics
Case Western Reserve University

Al Kinzer

Principal
A.O. Kinzer and Associates, Inc.

Harold Krivan

President
Sawgrass Solutions LLC

Lawrence Lonero

Principal
Northport Associates

Laura D. Marlino

Technical Program Manager for Power Electronics and Electric Machinery
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

E. Kidder Meade

President
Multiline Long Distance Inc.
Retired Executive VP
International Industrial Group
Former President
Eagle Manufacturing
Group VP Marketing
Litton Industrial Automation

Lee R. Miskowski

Vice President
Ford Motor Company (retired)

Allan D Murray, Ph.D.

President,
Ecoplexus Inc.

Douglas A. Ober, CFA

Senior Vice President
The Bank of New York Asset Management

Glenn S. Omura, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Marketing
Michigan State University

Isaac Porche, Ph.D.

Senior Analyst
RAND Corporation

Karl K. Rink, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
University of Idaho

William L. Sharfman, Ph.D.

Director of Judging

Michael J. Smitka, Ph.D.

Professor of Economics
Washington and Lee University

L.J. (Larry) Tibbitts

Tibbitts, Edwards & Associates
Former Plant Manager, General Motors Corporation
Cadillac Motor Car Division

Scott N. Whitlock

Attorney At Law (retired)
Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease, LLP