As president and chief executive officer of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) in Lombard, Illinois, USA since 2005, Rick D. Blasgen is responsible for the overall business operations and strategic plan of the organization. His efforts support CSCMP’s mission of leading the supply chain management profession through the development and dissemination of supply chain education and research. Blasgen was recently designated by the U.S. Department of Commerce to serve as the Chair of the Advisory Committee on Supply Chain Competitiveness (ACSCC) providing the Administration advice and counsel on issues and concerns that affect the supply chain sector.
Terry Bills
Terry Bills is the Global Transportation Industry Director at ESRI, responsible for all transportation segments worldwide. He has over 25 years of experience in transportation planning and policy, information technology and GIS.
Mr. Bills has been a Principal Planner for a large regional transportation planning agency, as well as the President of a GIS and transportation consulting firm during his career. He was a Doctoral Candidate at UCLA, where he was also awarded two Masters’ degrees.
Lee D. Lambert
Lee D. Lambert has been Chancellor of Pima Community College since July 1, 2013.
Chancellor Lambert is a strong believer in the transformative power of education and the central role community colleges must play in our highly competitive 21st century economy. He sees community colleges as centers of opportunity for students of all ages and backgrounds, and knows they can be a critical stepping stone to a better quality of life for our families, friends and neighbors.
Chancellor Lambert’s vision for PCC is shaped by his commitment to set of fundamental principles: open access, community engagement, prudent fiscal stewardship and consistent measures of accountability. He believes that by embracing diversity, creating a student-centered learning environment and aligning resources to the needs of the community, PCC can become one of the premier community colleges in the United States.
Chancellor Lambert’s involvement in national and state organizations means PCC is in a position to influence important educational and workforce policy discussions. He serves on the Board of Directors of the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) and in 2013-14 he served on AACC’s Executive Committee. He is a former chair of AACC’s Committee on Program Initiatives and Workforce Training.
He has served as board chair of the National Coalition of Certification Centers and, in July 2014, received the group’s Founders Award for Vision and Leadership.
In April 2014, Chancellor Lambert was named to the Executive Committee of the Arizona Manufacturing Partnership. He also is a founding member of the Manufacturing Institute Education Council, and a member of the Founders Circle and Board of Directors of Tucson Regional Economic Development (TREO).
Chancellor Lambert received a Juris Doctor degree from the Seattle University School of Law and a bachelor’s degree in Liberal Arts from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash.
A U.S. Army veteran, Chancellor Lambert was born in Seoul, South Korea, grew up on three continents, and graduated from high school in the Olympia, Wash. area.
He often is asked to speak at national and international conferences. He recently spoke at the International Conference on Community Colleges and at AACC’s 20th Annual Workforce Development Institute, where he presented on “The Keys to Collaboration: K-12 and Workforce Relationships.”
Marc Anderberg
Marc Anderberg currently is the chief analyst for research and data development projects being conducted by the Center for Employability Outcomes, a think tank housed at the Texas State Technical College. The research is focused on identifying and validating the technical and soft skills employers deem essential to worker engagement, productivity and performance across all sectors of the economy. He served as the director of applied research in the Labor Market Information Division of the Texas Workforce Commission for twenty years. His duties there included identifying and profiling emerging demand occupations and managing the state’s automated student and adult learning follow-up system. Prior to working for the TWC, Mr. Anderberg was the state labor market analyst for JTPA programs administer by the Texas Department of Commerce. Previously he’d been the Director of Quality Workforce Planning serving the thirteen counties of the Texas Coastal Bend. He began his professional career teaching policy analysis and statistics at Macalester College.