In January 2003 Bob Baugh was appointed Executive Director of the AFL-CIO Industrial Union Council. The Council, comprised of the nation’s leading industrial unions and chaired by AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Richard Trumka, is the coordinating body for the federation’s manufacturing policy and legislatitive initiatives.

Bob is also the co-chair of the AFL-CIO Energy Task Force and served as the leader of the U.S. labor delegation to the UN Climate Change Conference negotiations in Bali/2008 and Poznan/2009. He regularily testifies before Congress, is a spokespeson with the media and writes about manufacturing, trade, globalization, energy and the economy. 

Bob has a rich history of union, community and government activism: union organizer, economist/educator International Woodworkers of America, Secretary-Treasurer of the Oregon AFL-CIO, Deputy Director - Oregon Economic Development Department, and Deputy Director – AFL-CIO Working for America Institute. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Detroit and a master’s degree in Industrial and Labor Relations from the University of Oregon.

Workplace and Economic Development publications include: Changing Work: A Union Guide to Workplace Change, Economic Development: A Guide to the High Road, The  High Roads Partnerships Report

Manufacturing and Climate Change publications include: Is Deindustrialization Inevitable, Jobs and Energy for the 21st Century, The Bali Blogs, Greening the Economy: A Climate Change and Jobs Strategy That Works for All, The Poznan Blogs.

Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur, who represents Northern Ohio's Ninth Congressional District , is currently serving her thirteenth term in the U.S. House of Representatives. She is the senior-most woman in Congress and is one of only 90 women out of 535 members of the 110th Congress.

Donald Rosenfield is a Senior Lecturer in Operations Management at the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management, and is Director of the Leaders for Manufacturing Fellows Program (a dual degree Master’s program run by the School of Management and the School of Engineering in partnership with leading global corporations).  He has served at M.I.T. since 1980 as Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, and Visiting Associate Professor.  He has also served on the faculties of Harvard Business School, the State University of New York, and Boston University.   Dr. Rosenfield has helped make the Leaders for Manufacturing Program a groundbreaking program in manufacturing education.  At MIT he has developed courses in Manufacturing Strategy, Operations Management, and International Logistics. Prior to joining MIT, Dr. Rosenfield served on the staff of Arthur D. Little, Inc. from 1976-1988, focusing in the areas of logistics and manufacturing strategy.

Dr. Rosenfield has worked principally in the areas of manufacturing strategy and supply chain management.  He has worked extensively with a variety of corporations in solving problems in these areas, and he has conducted a variety of research activities in these areas.  He has directed numerous studies in such areas as facility location and logistics strategy. He has also conducted a substantial number of management development seminars in the US and abroad.

Dr. Rosenfield has a S.B. in Mathematics, S.M. in Operations Research and an E.E. degree from M.I.T. and a Ph.D in Operations Research from Stanford University.  He has written articles for a number of journals, including Harvard Business Review, Operations Research, Management Science, and Sloan Management Review.  He is the co-author of Modern Logistics Management, published by John Wiley in 1985 and Operations Strategy: Competing in the 21st Century, published by Irwin McGraw Hill in 2007.

Earl Robinson is a designer and manufacturer of aircraft.  Mr. Robinson has been involved in the design and manufacture of a new family of regional jets with seating capacities from 70 to 110 seats. This family of aircraft, referred to as StarLiner 200, 300 and 400, is to be produced by Alliance Aircraft Corporation.   A second aircraft, the StarLiner 100, will have seating capacities of 35 to 50 seats to serve the feeder regional jet market. Both families of aircraft have business jet applications with a containerized hull, large comfortable cabins, Mach 0.8 cruise speed and ranges from 4,000 to 6,000 nautical miles. The StarLiner family of aircraft are “purpose built” for the 21st Century.

Earl was also president of Fairchild Dornier from 1996 to 1998   He conceived the design of the 328Jet (32 seats) derived from the 328 turboprop aircraft. The 328Jet design catapulted Fairchild Dornier into the rapidly growing regional jet market and provided the revenue foundation for the development of the 728Jet (70 seats.)  The 728Jet quickly drew the attention of major airlines; and in December 1997, Mr. Robinson signed the launch order contract with Lufthansa for 60 aircraft and 60 options - total value of $3 billion.  The design of the 728Jet initiated the expansion of the 70, 90, and 110 seat segments of the Regional Jet market which has become the largest growth segment of the single aisle global aircraft market. 

Mr. Robinson was named Industry Executive of The Year in 1998 for his fast paced, on schedule, below cost estimates, development of the 328Jet.

At Raytheon Aircraft Corporation, as Program Manager, Mr. Robinson led the $ 400 million development program for the Hawker Horizon.  Certified in 2004 and re-certified in 2006, the carbon fiber fuselage and aluminum wing, 8 to 12 passenger aircraft now known as the Hawker 4000, is considered a success, reputedly having sold more than 130 units.

Mr. Robinson also worked for Textron Defense Systems as Director of Business Acquisition for the Landing and Communications Systems Business Unit, Honeywell Electro-Optics Division as Director of Airborne Reconnaissance and Warning Systems Programs and Director of D 5 and Integrated Logistics Support Programs 1984 1985, a major infrared linescanner program providing reconnaissance capability to the U.S. Air Force and Navy.

At Northrop Corporation Mr Robinson was Manager of Advanced Projects Division Logistics.  There he led the logistics proposal effort in the competition for an advanced strategic bomber which later became the B-2 bomber.  His responsibilities included organization, administration and execution of a $1B logistics development program for the B-2, as well as $8B of the production program.  He was an early advocate and practitioners of carbon fiber technology, new at that time.

Lt. Robinson was an U.S. Navy F 4 fighter pilot during the Vietnam conflict. His squadron assignments Included VF¬-142, VF 21 and Navy Fighter Weapons School (Top Gun). He accumulated 2000 flight hours and completed 300 combat missions.  Lt. Robinson is a graduate of the Navy Fighter Weapons School (Top Gun) and was the squadron’s tactical airwarfare specialist in addition to his duties as squadron maintenance officer in charge of 220 enlisted personnel.  He carries a Top Secret and Special clearances and earned an M.S. Optics, B.S. Physics, B.S. Math at the University of Colorado.

Alan Tonelson is a Research Fellow at the U.S. Business and Industry Council, a national business organization representing 1,850 domestic U.S. companies – the vast majority of them small and medium-sized, family owned manufacturing firms. Tonelson is also a columnist for the Foundation's globalization website, www.AmericanEconomicAlert.org and for the on-line manufacturing magazine, www.industrytoday.com, as well as a consultant to CNN anchorman Lou Dobbs.  A Research Associate at the George Washington University Center for International Science and Technology Policy, in Fall, 2002, Tonelson became the Henry L. Stimson Center's third Visiting Fellow in China.  The New Republic magazine has called him "probably the most significant economist spreading the nationalist gospel" and The International Economy magazine has named him one of "Washington's Top China-Watchers" for 2004.

Tonelson's book on globalization, The Race to the Bottom, was published in 2000 by Westview Press and issued in paperback in Fall, 2002.  He comments on economic and business issues frequently for radio and television programs such as CNN’s Lou Dobbs Tonight, CNBC’s Power Lunch and Closing Bell, and PBS' Nightly Business Report.  His articles and reviews have appeared in many leading national publications, including Foreign Affairs, The Atlantic, FOREIGN POLICY, The New York Times, and The Washington Post.
 
Tonelson has testified before the Senate Commerce Committee, the Senate Health, Labor Education and Pensions Committee, and the House Foreign Affairs Committee.  Other government fora where he has appeared include the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, the U.S. Trade Deficit Review Commission, U.S. House of Representatives Trade Working Group, the House Northeast Midwest Coalition, the House Blue Dog Caucus, the National Defense University, the State Department Foreign Service Institute, and the State of Maine Fair Trade Commission.  Tonelson has also lectured frequently at universities, government agencies, and civic and business groups in the United States, Europe, Japan, and China. A former Associate Editor of FOREIGN POLICY and Fellow at the Economic Strategy Institute, Tonelson holds a B.A. with highest honors in history from Princeton University.

Ms. Tilton serves as Chief Executive Officer and sole Principal of Patriarch Partners, LLC and its affiliated entities (“Patriarch”). Ms. Tilton’s career spans 27 years and encompasses private equity, distressed asset management, financial engineering, loan sales and trading, investment banking and senior management. In addition to her role at Patriarch, Ms. Tilton currently serves as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of MD Helicopters, Inc., a leading manufacturer of commercial and military aircraft.

Ms. Tilton founded Patriarch Partners to develop innovative financial solutions and to manage and monetize the distressed portfolios of financial institutions. The platform later evolved toward fund investments focused primarily upon the acquisition of companies undergoing pervasive change and loan origination to those same companies. Under Ms. Tilton’s leadership, Patriarch has positioned itself as a proactive partner to companies during periods of operational, industrial and economic transformation. Patriarch provides liquidity, time and strategic support, frequently saving US companies and US jobs. Patriarch inspires management teams to rebuild, using creative structural solutions and add-on investments in order to enhance companies’ long-term values.
 
Prior to founding Patriarch Partners, Ms. Tilton was an executive at Long Drive Management Trust (“LDMT”), where she served a dual role in (1) the development of strategies for the distressed debt CDO managed by that firm, and (2) the creation of new varieties of investment vehicles. Prior to her tenure at LDMT, Ms. Tilton was Executive Managing Director of Papillon Partners, Inc., a firm which she founded to offer customized research, valuation and execution services to sellers of bank debt. Papillon Partners focused on middle-market loans as well as broadly syndicated credits and illiquid corporate bonds. In addition to operating a loan trading desk and research department, Papillon Partners was the holding company for an NASD-registered broker/dealer. Before Papillion Partners, Ms. Tilton accumulated eight years of experience in the research, sales, trading and investing of distressed debt at Oppenheimer & Co, M.J. Whitman, Inc. and Amroc Investments, Inc. Ms. Tilton began her career in mergers and acquisitions at Morgan Stanley & Co. in 1981 and, continued her career in corporate finance and merchant banking at Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Merrill Lynch until 1989. Ms. Tilton earned a B.A. in American Studies from Yale University and an MBA in Finance from Columbia University.

Hans B. Amell is the Chairman and Founder of Catalyst LLC and Catalyst Acquisition Group (CAG).  Catalyst is a specialized firm focusing on Restructuring, Carve outs, Product Introductions, Turnaround situations, Consolidation and Rapid corporate divestitures.  Mr. Amell has developed his own niche in as a global turnaround expert and change agent.  He has been hired predominantly on time-limited (2-3 year) contracts to execute change from C-level or Board positions via his company Catalyst LLC.  Mr. Amell’s career is focused on, Transportation, Consumer products, Financial Services, Environmental, Outsourcing and the converging technologies of Software, Hardware, Telecommunications, and Business Services. Need to be/become Marketing driven companies is a must. Mr. Amell was also a board member (2000-2005) in Dimon Inc. where he acted as the promoter of diversification efforts and the creation of AllienceOne (both NYSE publicly held companies). Mr. Amell is also active in the areas of Environment and Philanthropy. 

Jack A. Levy advises companies and trade associations on all aspects of international economic regulation and trade policy. He has been recognized by Chambers and Partners for his "impressive" and "wide-ranging practice," which includes CFIUS reviews; complex customs matters; export control advice under the ITAR and EAR; OFAC sanctions and anti-boycott compliance; and trade remedy litigation, including antidumping and countervailing duty proceedings, safeguard cases, and section 337 unfair competition actions. He has substantial experience litigating before the US Department of Commerce, International Trade Commission, United States Court of International Trade, NAFTA panels, and the World Trade Organization. Mr. Levy also represents individual companies and associations on trade legislation in the Congress and trade policy issues under review by the executive branch of the United States government.

Mr. Levy has the distinction of being the youngest attorney ever ranked among the Top 25 International Trade Lawyers in the World by Expert Guides. Most recently, he was recognized for his international trade practice in Best of the Best USA 2008.

As a partner with the Boston office of PricewaterhouseCoopers, Mike has focused on the international arena with PwC for 20 years including working in PwC offices in Brussels, Belgium; San Jose/San Francisco; and Seattle.  He had 6 years of experience as a controller and auditor.  He has received degrees in Business Administration, from the University of Akron (Ohio) and a J.D. from Santa Clara University (California).  He is member of the Ohio Society of Certified Public Accountants (CPA), is a Certified Management Accountant (CMA) and is a member of both the California Bar Association and Boston Bar Association.

Mike has taught international taxation courses as an adjunct faculty member in the law school LLM programs at both the University of Washington and Golden Gate University.  He is a frequent speaker and instructor on international taxation, migration, deferral and strategic planning matters both within PricewaterhouseCoopers and in various public forums.  Mike has also written on international taxation, intangible property planning, global business issues, cross-border income taxation and planning for global expansion for publications such as the Journal of Accountancy, International Tax Review, CCH, the Canadian Tax Foundation and the California Bar Journal; as well as "Mastering the Intellectual Property Life Cycle", a compendium on tax-efficient management of IP rights. 

Mike's area of specialty is Integrated Global Structuring (IGS), which is a process of Assessing International Tax Exposure and Designing Strategies for Tax Rate Management and Reduction.   The primary objectives of this process are to reduce after-tax Cost of Capital and to maintain or lower the Effective Tax Rate on profits from foreign activities.   This includes:
• Assessing the tax risks inherent in international sales, distribution or manufacturing operations, and Evaluating the international structure, transaction flow, value-chain and business transition plans;  
• Designing a strategy that can be integrated into international business functions such as trading companies, shared services centers, regional headquarters, procurement/sourcing offices, distribution centers, holding companies, and/or treasury centers; and
• Implementing Principal operating models for European and APAC businesses,  Tax deferral structures, Tax-efficient treasury management, Entity restructurings, Holding structures, and Acquisition structuring.

Phone: 617-530-5266
Email: Michael.w.hardgrove@us.pwc.com