Jack Barry, Director – Pegasus Global
Prior to his current position, Mr. Barry served as the Worldwide Director of Materials Distribution, and Director of Physical Distribution and Transportation for GTE Corporation (now Verizon) where he had responsibility for the supply management activities within the manufacturing and service activities, worldwide. His wide breadth of experience is a result of serving in several senior management procurement positions with national communications and technology firms.
Mr. Barry holds a Master of Business Administration degree (Finance) from Columbia Business School, Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts degree (History and Economics) from Hunter College, City Universities of New York. He directed the research project and co-authored the book, Logistics in Service Industries.
Justin G. Castillo, Partner – Levine, Blaszak, Block & Boothby LLP
As a partner at Levine, Blaszak, Block & Boothby, LLP, in Washington, D.C., Justin Castillo advises companies in both their strategic planning and contract negotiations for telecommunications and IT products and services. He regularly negotiates agreements with the major telecommunications providers for global voice and data services and has negotiated numerous enterprise agreements for local and wireless services. Justin also works on regulatory issues involving enterprise customers and on resolving disputes between customers and carriers.
Before joining LB3 in 1997, Justin served as a trial attorney in the Commercial Litigation Branch of the Department of Justice, where he worked in the Civil Fraud Section for three years representing the government in cases involving the False Claims Act.
He is a member of the D.C., California, New York and Colorado bars.
Dan Coulter, Telecommunications Manager – FIS
Dan Coulter is a telecommunications manager for FIS and has more than 20 years of experience with telecommunications, Cisco network engineering and network sales support. Dan currently manages the FIS technical team responsible for the Asentinel TEM application. He is also involved in the carrier management responsibilities for FIS. Prior to FIS, Dan managed a team that provided pre-sales engineering support for network projects and was involved in network planning for mergers and acquisitions, including the network migrations of several large data centers. While working as a Cisco Certified Network Engineer, he was responsible for designing Cisco networks for data centers and financial institutions both domestically and internationally. Dan has a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science with a minor in general business from the University of Arkansas.
Hank Levine, Partner – Levine, Blaszak, Block & Boothby LLP
Henry D. (“Hank”) Levine is a partner in the firm of Levine, Blaszak, Block & Boothby LLP, where he specializes in the representation of large users on telecommunications-related matters. He has negotiated communications contracts on behalf of Fortune 100 companies and the equivalent, including DuPont, the City of New York, IBM, Honeywell and Goldman Sachs. And he has been heavily involved in settling (or, where necessary, litigating) contract disputes between large users and their carriers.
From 1983 through 1992, Hank was a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Morrison & Foerster, where he founded (and chaired) the firm’s communications group. He currently serves as chairman of TechCaliber Consulting, LB3’s telecommunications consulting affiliate, and as general counsel to the Wall Street Technology Association. He has been a member of the Committee on Technologically Enhanced Buildings of the National Research Council and the Executive Board of the New York Telecommunications Reliability Advisory Council; was retained by the United States General Services Administration to provide strategic advice and assistance in connection with the FTS2000, FTS 2001 and Networx programs (through which the government purchases much of its telecommunications services); served as counsel to the Ad Hoc Committee of Enterprise Customers in the WorldCom bankruptcy proceeding; and was a key witness in the government’s successful efforts to block the merger of MCI and Sprint.
Hank received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale in 1972 and his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1976. He also holds a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
Ann Oka, Partner Senior Vice President – Supply Management, Sodexo, Inc.
Ann Oka is senior vice president of supply management for Sodexo in North America. She has supply chain responsibility for over $ 4.5 Billion in spend. Reporting directly to CEO George Chavel, she is also a member of the company's executive team.
Ms. Oka joined Sodexo in 2003 following 20 years with Unilever Bestfoods, where she most recently served as vice president of supply management, responsible for supporting Unilever's North American food business.
A seasoned supply chain professional, Ms. Oka began her career in operations, managing a vegetable oil refinery in San Francisco and later overseeing food production operations in Santa Fe Springs, CA. In the mid-1990s, she took a corporate position at Bestfoods' headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, NJ as a systems and financial liaison for a nascent shared service purchasing organization. She rose steadily through the organization to become the senior purchasing executive for Bestfoods. Ms. Oka was named vice president of supply management, following the company's merger with Unilever in 2000.
Oka's business and industry expertise have allowed her to expand her influence; she currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Sodexo Foundation, the Board of Trustees for the Center for Strategic Supply Leadership, (CSSL), as Treasurer and member of the Executive Committee of the GS1 Foodservice Initiative, and on the customer advisory board for Ariba.
Ms. Oka holds a Bachelor's of Science degree in chemical engineering from the University of California-Berkeley and a Master's of Business Administration degree from the University of California-Irvine.
Ms. Oka resides in Darnestown, MD with her husband and son.
Hyoun Park, Research Analyst-Telecom and Unified Communications – Aberdeen Group
At Aberdeen, Mr. Park has conducted over 20 research studies that align current behaviors in telecom, social business, and video to quantitative business value. He has propagated the best practices of these technologies through benchmark reports, traditional media, and social media to educate the market on the processes, organizational changes, metrics, and functionalities that separate Best-in-Class implementations from costly investments that only provide a technical proof-of-concept. In doing so, Hyoun combines Aberdeen’s methodologies with his own experience as a social scientist and over a decade in enterprise IT.
Prior to Aberdeen, Hyoun worked both on the enterprise and CLEC sides of the telecom relationship. On the enterprise side, he worked at Bose and Teradyne in multiple IT and Telecom roles, while on the CLEC side, he managed billing and vendor relations with customers and other carriers.
Hyoun holds a Master’s of Business Administration degree in Entrepreneurship and Marketing from Boston University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Women’s and Gender Studies from Amherst College.
Rocky Perkins, Sr. Manager Communications Engineering –
Norfolk Southern Corporation
Rocky has spent 32 years in the communications field with class 1 rail road Norfolk Southern Corporation. Experiences include field services management with more than 92 employees covering four states, as well as management of Norfolk Southern's vast microwave system and management of the communications engineering group. The last five years have been spent in the IT department heading up telecom contracts and management, both wireline and wireless. He resides in the Atlanta, GA area, and his hobbies include golf and travel to watch daughter play colligate soccer.
