M. Douglas Adams

Doug Adams is the President of MDA Associates International. This Boston-based consulting firm was founded in 1986 and is dedicated to helping companies assess and maximize competence, develop leaders, and enhance individual and organizational performance and growth. The firm’s core competencies focus on leading organizational and strategic change, developing and assessing executive leadership, building top management teams and facilitating strategic planning processes and related initiatives. Clients have included Citibank, Gillette, MetLife, Fidelity Investments, Textron, General Electric, Bose Corp., State Street Corp., Genzyme, Sun Microsystems, Oxford University Press, Bayer Consumer Care, BMG Entertainment, Bank of Ceylon, John Keells Holdings (Sri Lanka), and MAS Holdings (Sri Lanka & India).

Mr. Adams has developed an international practice and has worked with over one hundred clients in thirty countries during the past sixteen years. Prior to starting his own practice he was a consultant with McKinsey & Company in New York and London, Director of Management & Organization Development at Pepsi Cola Co. and Vice President of Organizational Planning and Development at Computervision Corporation.

In addition to his role on the HRLF Board, Mr. Adams is also active in the Strategic Management Society and served on the Board of the Organizational Development Division of the American Society for Training and Development. He previously served on the Human Resources Committee of the Massachusetts High Technology Council.

Lisa Brown

Lisa Brown is the Global Delivery Application Services Organization HR Director for Hewlett-Packard Corporation. HP is a leading global provider of products, technologies, solutions and services to consumers and business.

Lisa’s background includes over twenty five years of Human Resources management experience, in both domestic and international settings in the high technology environment. Over the course of her career Lisa has acquired expertise in the fields of Organizational Development, Compensation, Staffing, Mergers and Acquisitions. Lisa has played HR business partner roles with Senior Executives of Digital Equipment Corporation and Compaq Computer Corporation.

Lisa has served in the Board of the Harvard Schools Trust System, the Merrimack Valley Girl Scouts Board and most recently she became member of the BOD of the Human Resource Leadership Forum. She holds a degree in Sociology and Psychology from Merrimack College and has completed one half the requirements of an MBA at
Babson College. Lisa is fluent in Spanish.

Tom Finnerty is Vice President of Human Resources for Smith & Nephew Endoscopy headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts.

Smith & Nephew Endoscopy is a world leader in the design and delivery of medical devices focused in the area of minimally invasive surgery. With revenues of over $600 million, Smith & Nephew Endoscopy is a division of Smith & Nephew PLC, a global healthcare company headquartered in London. Tom is a member of the Executive Team and responsible for all aspects of Human Resource Management including Organizational Design, Recruitment, Compensation, Leadership and Employee Development and Employee Engagement.

Prior to joining Smith & Nephew in 1999, Tom was with Chiron Diagnostics for almost 9 years where as Executive Director of Human Resources Tom held the senior HR role for Chiron's global organization of 3500 employees. Prior to joining Chiron he worked for The Foxboro Company in both Operations Management and Human Resource Management.

Tom holds a Bachelors degree in Human Resource Management from The University of Massachusetts and a Masters degree in Business Administration from Babson College.

Trudy Hanes is a Senior Human Resource Manager for Cisco's engineering technology groups. Cisco is a leading provider of communication and networking solutions. In this role, Trudy is responsible as a business partner to align business and leadership/talent
strategies, implement change thereby increasing organizational effectiveness and top line results. She has also delivered scalable and sustainable bottom line improvements in HR
process' to enhance productivity.

Trudy's background includes over 25 years' experience in Human Resource management both in the domestic and international fronts in the high technology environment. She has linked organizations human resource strategies with business goals to achieve competitive advantage. Her experience encompasses businesses in rapid growth situations, acquisitions, divestitures, downsizing, financial turnaround and in developing global partnerships and joint ventures in both Asia and the Middle East. She has held various leadership positions, such as: Vice President, Human Resources; Director, Human Resources; Manager, Manager of Human Resources. She has also consulted to several Fortune 500 technology firms with multi national businesses and to US companies with non-US majority ownership.

Over the course of her career Trudy has led organizations and played HR business partner roles, with Senior Executives at companies such as Cisco Systems; Loral Corporation; Honeywell; Quantum Corporation; Matsushita, Inc and its US companies ( MECA, Panasonic, MKQC) , Industrial Relations Associates, Inc. She has served as director on the board of the Massachusetts Business Group on Health, is past president of the Minneapolis Personnel Association and is currently involved in the Human Resource Leadership Forum. She was recognized with a WYCA Women's Leadership Award and as Volunteer of the Year for her leadership in the New England Human Resource Association in 2001.

A graduate of the University of Minnesota with an M.A. in Industrial Relations and an M.S. in Nursing Administration, she has also completed the Managing Organizational Effectiveness Program at the Harvard Business School.

Nancy Mobley, as President & CEO of Insight Performance Improvement, Inc., directs the operations of Insight's strategic HR team to provide outsourced human resource solutions for early stage and mid-market companies.

Prior to founding Insight, Nancy was a Senior Consultant and Team Manager for Watson/Wyatt Worldwide where she helped leading organizations develop strategies to increase overall business effectiveness.

Previously, Nancy gained extensive human resource experience with Computervision, formerly Prime Computer. Her tenure with this nation-wide organization led to increasingly complex managerial responsibilities, including hands-on technical expertise in the benefits, compensation, staffing and training groups. She also has Director level human resource experience in the non-profit sector at universities.

Nancy is professionally certified by The Society for Human Resource Management as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR). She is an active member of The Human Resource Leadership Forum, where she serves on the Board of Directors and also as Co-Chair of the Membership Committee, The Northeast Human Resource Association, The Boston Club, where she is a member of the Strategic Planning Committee, and The Commonwealth Institute. She is a board member at the Smaller Business Association of New England, serves as a Corporator on the Board of Trustees at Dedham Institute for Savings and is Nominating Chair on the Board of Alumni Trustees at Wheaton College.

Nancy holds an undergraduate degree in Psychology from Wheaton College and is a graduate of the Entrepreneurial Management Program at Babson College. She is a former faculty member at the Center for Creative Leadership, where she served as a certified feedback specialist to executives across the country. She is recognized as an executive coach, teacher, and author in the area of building high performance work environments.

Craig Saline

Craig Saline joined Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. in January 2004 and is responsible for the corporation's human resources strategies and programs. He has more than 33 years of human resources experience with global manufacturing and technology companies, with specific expertise in change management, leadership and team development and business process improvements. Mr. Saline began his career with General Electric Company, holding varying assignments in appliances, television, medical systems, information systems and aircraft engine businesses including an international assignment in Europe. Most recently he served as interim Vice President, Human Resources for Tufts New England Medical Center, and Senior Vice President, Human Resources, North American Region for Reckitt Benckiser, Inc. Mr. Saline also held the senior human resources leadership position with Teledyne, Inc. and Marshalls, Inc, and World Kitchen.