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myDIALS Advisory Board

The Advisory Board includes the following industry veterans.

Owen Bobeldyk

Managing Director and Founder, 19 Degrees PTY LTD, Australia

Owen manages a consulting firm that specializes in the integration of Business Information Systems with Business Improvement Initiatives, primarily focused on the mining industry in Australia and Western Europe. Previously, he spent a number of years with BHPBilliton, where he became a six-sigma black belt in business improvement and managed a number of business improvement projects. He also founded a community of practice within the BHPBilliton group of businesses, which grew to be the largest and most successful community of practice within BHPBilliton.

Owen has also worked for Western Mining Corporation, Nabalco Alumina, Redsion Gold and Leads, and Northrup.

John Graff

VP, Marketing and Customer Operations, National Instruments, USA

John directs an integrated team of marketing and sales professionals who are focused on educating a worldwide audience of engineers and scientists on a broad range of NI hardware and software products for measurement and automation. During his 22 years at NI, he has played a significant role in NI's long track record of growth and profitability. Today, John has responsibility for the company's global marketing efforts, it's award-winning web presence, and the company's customer operations, including CRM, SFA, and Business Intelligence functions. John has also played a key role in fostering the company's highly regarded corporate culture. NI has been recognized by FORTUNE magazine as one of the Best Places to Work for ten straight years.

John earned his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. John also serves as Board President for the Austin Children's Museum.

Dianne Ledingham

Partner, Bain & Company, USA

Dianne Ledingham is a partner in the Boston office. She is a leader in Bain's Technology, Media and Telecom practice areas. She also leads Bain's NA Sales Force Effectiveness efforts as part of the Customer Strategy and Marketing Practice area. Dianne joined Bain as a consultant in 1990, was elected to Vice President/Partner in 1997 and to Director in 2004.

Over her tenure with Bain & Company, Dianne has worked in a variety of technology, media, and telecom industries. Examples of her recent assignments include growth strategies for enterprise software, IT services, network equipment, semi-test equipment companies and cable providers, merger integration for mobile device and information management companies, operational improvement assignments in publishing, and sales force effectiveness improvements across several technology companies.

Dianne earned an MBA from the Harvard Business School with distinction. She is a graduate of Brown University where she received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering with honors.

Peter Pitsker

Entrepreneur, USA

Peter Pitsker devoted most of his corporate career to the field of industrial automation with senior management positions in The Foxboro Company, Modular Computer Systems, and General Automation. Peter later led the management consulting firms of North & Donahoe and TechnoManagement as President and CEO. Peter was a founder of Triconex Corporation, a leading developer and manufacturer of Fault-Tolerant Safety Shutdown systems. After the successful launch of Triconex, Peter was involved in the formation and venture funding of Wonderware Corporation and served as Chairman of the Board and President before retiring in 1993 after a successful initial stock offering.

Peter has served on several boards of directors including North & Donahoe, Triconex, Wonderware, eFinity, Borealis, and Visual Systems. He continues to work in support of emerging companies as an advisor to the founders.

Roy J. Wilson

Executive, Heritage Search Partners, USA

Roy J. Wilson is the Managing Director of Heritage Search Partners – Houston, a retained executive search firm focused at officer level search. Previously, he was with Russell Reynolds Associates, the premiere global executive search firm, leading the Technology and Officer Practice for the Southwest. Roy has more than 30 years experience as a global Human Resource Executive and Information Technology/Chief Information Officer. From 2004 to 2007, he was recognized as one of the top ten HR executives and CIOs in North America.

Roy has worked in a variety of industries including Energy Services, High Technology, Pharmaceuticals, Electronics, Manufacturing, and Retailing. He began his career with Texas Instruments and then held executive positions at Schulmberger Ltd., Pearle Vision/Diageo, Compaq, BMC Software, and Allergan.

Roy serves on the Advisory Board of myDIALS and is a past member of the Board of Directors of the Lupus Foundation. In addition, he served on the Advisory Board of Texas A&M University from 1995-2004. He received his B.S. in Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management from Syracuse University with continuing education from the London Business School and Columbia University.