Management Team

	Charanjit Lohara
	President and Chief Education Officer

	Charanjit Lohara is a senior executive with over 40 years of experience in organizing, building and operating companies. For the last ten years he has been developing a new Enterprise Management Process and methodology for managing enterprises in the new global environment. As President/CEO, Mr. Lohara built three companies from start-up to multi-million dollar scale and took one of them public. He is an executive with hands-on experience as CEO, CFO, CIO, and in Planning and Operations Analysis, Process Design and Control, Operations Management and Change Management. He has identified or developed state of the art technology changes and successfully introduced those that support better management of the enterprise. He has created a philosophy, methodology and technique for architecting, structuring, relating, aligning and executing enterprise management process with Lohara-Kazeef frameworks. He is now in the process of writing a book with Mr. Mike Kazeef: The Edge of Excellence; The NEW Generation of Enterprise Management . He is a part time lecturer at the University of Southern California, department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. He teaches graduate level course in Modern Enterprise Systems. He holds degrees in Chemistry, Physics and Industrial Systems Engineering. :::E-mail:::


	Mike Kazeef
	Executive Consultant


	Mike Kazeef is presently President of Enterprise Management Group, a consulting company in the field of strategic planning and execution. He has 35 years of management experience in a capital and energy intensive industry from process engineer to plant manager and Group executive and VP of a multinational Fortune 200 company. He also held responsibility as President of a new high technology metal forming company in discrete manufacturing for automotive parts.

	Born and educated in France he has lived and worked in the US since 1969 and holds MB degrees in Physics and Chemical engineering from the University of Paris. He has started four new green field facilities in North America between 1969 and 1992 and was in a position to pioneer innovative management techniques that can be applied to any industrial arena. He is now in the process of developing the LK e-Corporate Governance Index and writing a book with Mr. Charanjit Lohara; The NEW Generation of Enterprise Management. :::E-mail:::


	Dr. Stan Settles
	Executive Consultant


	Dr. Stan Settles is the IBM Professor of Engineering Management and former Chairman of the Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Southern California. His research and teaching interests are in the areas of quality management, engineering project management, and manufacturing systems engineering.

	Prior to his USC roles he served as Program Director for Design and Integration Engineering at the National Science Foundation. Dr. Settles was on loan to the NSF from Arizona State University in Tempe, where he was a Research Professor in the Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering. In 1992 and early 1993 he served as Assistant Director for Industrial Technology in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

	Dr. Settles had a 30-year career with AlliedSignal Aerospace (now Honeywell), primarily in Phoenix, Arizona. He held a number of positions in design and project engineering, manufacturing, and general management. His titles included: Manager of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Division Director of Planning, Division vice-president of Manufacturing Operations, and Corporate Director of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.

	Dr. Settles taught as an adjunct faculty member at Arizona State University in 22 different semesters from 1966 through 1991.

	Dr. Settles is a fellow and past president of the Institute of Industrial Engineers, a fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science, a senior member of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, a member of the American Society for Quality, the American Society for Engineering education, and IEEE/Engineering Management Society.

	Dr. Settles was honored by election to the National Academy of Engineering in 1991. He is listed in a number of biographical references, including Who's Who in America. Dr. Settles served as the Chairman of the National Research Council's Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design. His commitments to many aspects of society resulted in his being given the USC Faculty Service Award for 2001.

	He earned his M.S.E. and Ph.D. in industrial engineering from Arizona State University. He holds B.S. degrees in both industrial engineering and production technology from LeTourneau University. Stan and Evelyn have been married for 40 years and enjoy their four sons and eight grandchildren. :::E-mail:::


	David W. Dragnich
	Vice President, Government Sectors


	David Dragnich is the Vice President for Business Development and Chief of Federal Programs where he is responsible for sales, consulting engagements and software implementation for senior level government and industrial leaders, and prime contractors to the government. He has over 30 years of leadership experience having held senior executive positions in R&D, line, program, business development, and relationship management with multiple prime contractors operating some of the nation's largest science and technology facilities. In addition, he is the Managing Partner of The Winslow Group, a seven-year old Washington DC based executive management and development consulting firm specializing in "making technology a competitive advantage". David received his B.S. and M.S. in mechanical engineering from Washington and Oregon State Universities respectively, and has done extensive postgraduate work in engineering, simulation, and business management. :::E-mail:::