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Study Group: Lead Acid Battery Experts(?)

Council Members in this Study Group: 38

This study group may include experts knowledgeable on topics such as aerospace & defense, building materials, chemicals, construction, oil & gas, timber & forest products, utilities & power generation, mining, agriculture, industrial equipment and transportation, among others.

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George Dorkhom, President and Managing Partner, AD&A Worldwide George Dorkhom
President and Managing Partner
AD&A Worldwide

George Dorkhom is President and managing partner of AD&A Worldwide, a corporate restructuring group. Prior, Mr. Dorkhom was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Ingersoll International, a global manufacturing company that manufactures large machine tools and cutting tools and specialized machines...

Jack Lifton, Managing Director, Jack Lifton, LLCJack Lifton
Managing Director
Jack Lifton, LLC

Jack Lifton is an Independent consultant, focusing on the sourcing of nonferrous strategic metals. His work includes exploration and mining, and the recovery of metal values by the recycling of not only metals and their alloys but also of metal-based chemicals used as raw materials for component manufacturing....

Ron Solanki
Strategic Sourcing Manager
Bristow Group, Inc.

Ron Solanki is the Chief Executive Officer and the President of Solanki Group Inc., a management consultancy to major US, Asian and European Electronics Corporations in the areas of business strategy, portfolio management, business development, manufacturing, and supply chain management. He also serves...

Ron Turi
Owner and Principal
Element 3 Battery Venture, LLC

Ron Turi is the Owner of Element 3 Battery Venture, an advanced, large-format, lithium ion battery manufacturing company. Mr. Turi has more than 20 years of experience in product development for packaging materials, imaging products and lithium batteries in battery and coating industries. He possesses...

Phil Akin, President and Chief Executive Officer, Hellman Associates, Inc.Phil Akin
President and Chief Executive Officer
Hellman Associates, Inc.

Phil Akin is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Hellman, where he has worked since 2005. Hellman is a full service marketing and advertising agency with a client base covering 127 of the current Fortune 500 companies, including Best Buy, Advance Auto Parts, 3M, LS Power, GE, Ecolab, John Deere,...

Walter van Schalkwijk, PhD
Owner
EnergyPlex Corp

Walter van Schalkwijk, PhD, is Principal of EnergyPlex Corporation, a firm providing consulting services in the portable power systems such as batteries, fuel cells, and solar cells. Dr. van Schalkwijk has more than 25 years of experience in providing consulting services, executing research, developing...

Christopher Shea, Franchise Owner, Batteries Plus LLCChristopher Shea
Franchise Owner
Batteries Plus LLC

Christopher Shea is Franchise Owner of Batteries Plus, a retail and business-to-business battery chain. Mr. Shea has been responsible for financial planning and development of W.R. Grace’s $110M battery separation division, which he helped selling for twice the expected price. He has more than 20 years...

Jerome Burkeland
President
The Burkeland Group, LLC.

Jerome Burkeland is the President of The Burkeland Group, LLC, an independent consulting firm, where he has worked since March 2003. Mr. Burkeland has over 26 years of experience in consumer battery industry, having worked with many of the leading consumer battery retailers. The Burkeland Group is focused...

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Recalls: The True Costs of Outsouricng Both The Part And The Quality Control | 09-01-2008
Analysis of: GM recalling 944,000 vehicles | www.forbes.com
Author: Jack Lifton, Managing Director, Jack Lifton, LLC

The Detroit Three followed the lead of Jacques Nasser at Ford in the early 1990s and began to eliminate internal supplier quality management and PPAP, production parts approval processes. After internal engineering supplier monitoring had been made into a supplier self approval regime came the outsourcing...

Bob Lutz Seems to Have Learned Doublespeak From George Orwell. Failure is Success, Says Lutz. | 08-29-2008
Author: Jack Lifton, Managing Director, Jack Lifton, LLC

On what basis do OEM American carmakers deserve federal loan guarantees? Is it because their legacy costs weren't their own fault? Is it because they made lower quality vehicles than their foreign competitors? Is it because they sent American jobs overseas so that the unemployed workers they created...

Minor Metals Markets Are Not Transparent And Hedging Non Exchange Traded Metals Requires Great Skill | 08-26-2008
Author: Jack Lifton, Managing Director, Jack Lifton, LLC

End users of minor metals for critical purposes, i.e., for purposes that are not economically or technologically possible without a particular minor metal, can hedge the required supply of metal by financing the producer's output, through offtake agreements, for example, and by being the buyer of last...

Have Chrysler's Cereberus Accountants Uncovered Systemic Fraud In The OEM Automotive Supplier Cost-Cutting Agenda, Or Is It Just Hypocrisy They Have "Found"? | 08-20-2008
Author: Jack Lifton, Managing Director, Jack Lifton, LLC

In just this year Cerberus' accountants may have inadvertently exposed the seamy side of cost cutting in the American OEM automtoive industry: 1. Overcharging by non-competitive politically correct suppliers, 2. Underbidding by suppliers desparate to keep their own factories open, and now 3. Short-weighting...

Is Palladium Overpriced Even At Less Than $300/Ounce? | 08-18-2008
Analysis of: Timminco CEO Blamed For Norilsk Woes | www.financialpost.com
Author: Jack Lifton, Managing Director, Jack Lifton, LLC

If we believe the news out of Russia then there must be palladium aplenty residing in the vaults of, or under the control of, Norilsk, the world's largest palladium producer.

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