Ken Bradley is president of Lytica Inc., a company specializing in supply chain management consulting and services. From January 2003 through January 2005, he was the Chief Executive Officer of CoreSim, an advanced systems design analysis company. Prior to CoreSim he was with Nortel Networks from 1972 to 2002, most recently as Nortel's Chief Procurement Officer. During his 30-year career at Nortel, Mr. Bradley held several national and international executive positions in supply management, operations management, and technology development, including Vice President, Supplier Strategy; Senior Managing Director, Guangdong Nortel Communications Joint Venture in China; and Vice President, China Joint Venture Program. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Radisys, SynQor, and Powerwave Technologies. He is an electrical engineer and a member of the Professional Engineers of Ontario. close

Charlie Barnhart is a private equity investor and founder and principal of Charlie Barnhart & Associates LLC, a consulting company on the electronic manufacturing services market. He was previously a senior consultant with Technology Forecasters Inc., and a consultant on the Council of Advisors at GLG NYC. Charlie has over 30 years experience in the electronics industry and has held professional positions in virtually every aspect of the business, including engineering, operations, sales and marketing, merger and acquisitions, and strategic corporate development. He previously worked at leading EMS companies, including SCI Systems, Sanmina-SCI, and Sperry Corp. He is a prolific writer and author of the Outsourcing Navigator Series, a globally recognized methodology and tool-set used by leading EMS and OEM companies to formulate and manage their outsourcing initiatives. Charlie authored and teaches the EMSPro Workshop, an advanced business course for senior OEM professionals on the inner operational and financial workings of the global EMS industry. close

Bolaji Ojo steers EBN discussions, events, and activities designed to help the community better navigate its network of alliances and supply chain issues. He sees his primary job as helping to create an environment where everyone involved in the electronics supply chain can have open, honest, and interactive communication about issues affecting the market. Ojo believes the electronic supply chain is populated by "partners and rivals" involved in relationships that are fluid, impermanent, and dominated by the unending quest for profit. As in international relations among countries, communication is critical in an environment where the supply chain thrives best when companies understand "there are no permanent friendships, only permanent interests."

Ojo keeps the conversation going among the various parties, including OEMs (original equipment manufacturers); semiconductor, IP&E, and other component suppliers; software vendors; contract manufacturers; distributors; logistics services providers; and other third-party service vendors. It helps that he talks to all parties involved in the electronics supply chain, tapping the extensive network of experts in the industry to explore and unravel knotty issues of interest to everyone.

Ojo has spent the last 25 years covering business issues on four continents, specializing over the last 11 years on the electronics industry supply chain. In addition to supply chain issues, his primary focus also includes business finance. He previously worked as Editor-in-Chief of Electronics Supply and Manufacturing Magazine and business editor for Electronic Buyer's News, one of the first publications to track the industry supply chain. Prior to joining United Business Media, Ojo had worked at Bloomberg News, Futures World News, and Asia Inc. Ojo has graduate degrees in Journalism (Columbia University, New York) and International Relations (Nigeria) and is a fellow of the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Business and Economic Reporting (Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism). He is also a fellow of the World Press Institute, St. Paul, Minn., and the Fondation Journalistes en Europe, Paris. close