Project Description Phil has over 30 years of experience in strategic business development, technology, and management leadership at a variety of large- and middle-market international and domestic companies. His specific areas of emphasis include strategy, innovation, organizational design and business model execution. At IOP, Phil has served as chairman of Creative Foam, GT Technologies, Vita and Coldwater Veneer, and as a board member of Kuss Filtration and Edelbrock.

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Prior to joining IOP, Phil served in leadership roles at a variety of manufacturing and service-related companies including The Woodbridge Group, Inc. (President – North America and Global Purchasing, Quality & Program Management); Enterprise Electronics, LLC (President & CEO); and Magneti Marelli Holding North America (President, CEO, and Board Member), as well as other roles spanning transportation, healthcare/medical, and consumer products sectors. While at each of these companies, he provided visionary leadership and implemented functional and disciplined metric-based systems to measure standardized operational practices, stakeholder value, new business growth, and employee engagement.

Phil holds a B.S. In manufacturing engineering from Michigan State University and an MBA in international business from Wayne State University (Detroit).

He also completed an Advanced Executive Program in strategy and technology at M.I.T. Sloan School of Management, and earned his Ph.D.

With highest distinction in management strategy and innovation from Capella University School of Business & Technology. Phil is a fellow at the Institute of Chartered Marketing (CIM – London, U.K.).

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The lightweight rover has two big eyes or cameras that would stream pictures and videos down to the Earth. Mr.Vaish, an alumnus of SRM University and whose official designation is ‘Skywalker’, said that such space missions used to be limited to ‘extremely’ elite people and PhDs. “That stereotype is breaking,” he said. Unlike Chandrayaan-1, India's first mission to the moon, where its probe had a hard landing on the moon surface that terminated its functioning, a soft landing is key. The lunar lander with the rover inside is critical to this objective. John, 23, who had joined Team Indus as an intern, is helping the start-up design this four-legged lander, code-named HHK.

The lander has to be durable as it would be clocking speeds close to 10 kilometres per second before it slows down, prepping up for the descent. Team Indus is one of the 16 remaining from the 29 that had entered the GLXP competition. It plans to use ISRO’s workhorse - the polar satellite launch vehicle (PSLV) to send the spacecraft to the moon. But Team Indus needs to secure a verified launch contract by this December to remain in the GLXP competition and complete the mission by the end of 2017. Two of its rivals – Israeli non-profit organisation SpaceIL and US-based start-up Moon Express, have already secured verified launch contracts for 2017. “I love them (Team Indus).

I love the fact that they are from my mother country, are trying to think anew,” said Naveen Jain, billionaire entrepreneur and co-founder of Moon Express in an interview. He, however, cautioned that Team Indus had only four months left to buy the rocket launch contract and that the biggest hurdle for them is the development of the lander. This month, Moon Express became the first private company to get permission from the U.S. Government to travel beyond Earth’s orbit and land on the moon in 2017. The company, co-founded by Mr. Jain in 2010 with space entrepreneur Bob Richards and computer scientist Barney Pell, is also aiming to mine the moon for rare metals and elements.

Some of these include platinum, titanium, gold, and the non-radioactive Helium-3, regarded as having the potential to power nuclear fusion reactors. Team Indus is backed by angel investors including India’s top tech entrepreneur Nandan Nilekani, as also support from corporates such as Tata Communications, Sasken and Larsen & Toubro. Narayan said the firm requires to raise funding of about $65 million. Jain of Moon Express said raising money in the ‘space’ space is difficult as it is not a proven business and most venture capitalists don't understand it. M7800 downloader for mac. He said angel investors may put in some money but that doesn't add up to millions of dollars.

“Space is an extremely hard business. It requires a tremendous amount of effort and finances,” said Mr. He said that Moon Express has signed a multi-launch deal with aerospace company Rocket Lab to use its launch services for the moon mission. “For us, winning the prize is an icing on the cake,” he said. Narayan is not deterred by his more resourceful competitors.

He doesn't think that a race or competition is won by one with the deepest pockets or that all the smart people work for the richest. He compared his mission to the 1983 Cricket World Cup – won by the underdog Indian team, defeating a formidable West Indies team in the finals.

“It (Indian team) was just a team of ordinary people who said we will make this happen. They tried really hard and got lucky,” said Mr. “I think we have a very good (chance).”. Huawei's Device CEO Richard Yu has reportedly posted teasers regarding two smartphone launches at its event on Thursday, just ahead of the start of IFA 2016 on Friday. However, the company executive has also clarified that these smartphones will not be Mate S2 and Mate 9 as suggested in some earlier leaks. The teasers posted on Chinese social networking website Weibo were by Android Pure, and don't reveal much about the upcoming smartphones but do suggest that one of them will be sporting a square camera panel at the back while the other will be sporting a circular rear camera setup. On Monday, popular tipster Evan Blass that Huawei will be launching two smartphones under its Nova series, named Nova and Nova Plus, along with MediaPad M3 tablet at IFA.

The Nova series by the company will reportedly be aimed at its female users. One of company's executives has also confirmed that the smartphones that will be launched ahead of IFA will not be from Huawei's 'Mate' series and said that they will be from an entirely new series of smartphones, as by Android Headlines. According to the report, new smartphones from Mate series will be launched in two months and the company will also introduce a new version of their Android-based Emotion UI. Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Chief Executive Officer Sergio Marchionne is looking into a tie-up with Samsung Electronics as the Italian-American company widens its search for a technology partner to gird against being left behind in the race to develop self-driving cars. Marchionne, who dropped his push for a merger with a fellow automaker last year, has increasingly turned his intention to technology providers.

In March, he offered to assemble cars for and in May a cooperation project with Alphabet Inc.' S Google on driverless vehicles.

Amid discussions with and Amazon, Samsung is the latest big-name technology company on Fiat's radar. 'We have a very good relationship with, both as a supplier and as a potential strategic partner,' Marchionne said late Saturday in an interview with Bloomberg Television in Rome. 'I happen to have a good relationship' with Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong because both serve on the board of Exor, Fiat Chrysler's biggest shareholder. As previouly reported, Samsung is advanced talks about buying some or all of Fiat's car-parts unit Magneti Marelli, people familiar with the matter said earlier this month.

While Marchionne declined to comment on whether Samsung is a suitor, he looks to be positioning the division as a carrot to woo a partner, noting that Magneti Marelli had drawn the interest of several potential buyers. 'Marchionne is trying to pass the message that he is not interested in a straight sale' of the parts business, but instead wants to 'use Marelli as a common platform to develop self-driving cars with Samsung,' Massimo Vecchio, a Milan-based analyst for Mediobanca, said in a note. Marchionne said that Magneti Marelli has 'strategic value' and 'is going to provide a significant platform for technology development' for the owner of the Jeep, Maserati and Alfa Romeo brands. Magneti Marelli is part of Fiat's components division, which also includes metal-parts manufacturer Teksid and Comau, which makes robots and automation equipment. Samsung is particularly interested in Magneti Marelli's lighting, in-car entertainment and telematics business, the people said, asking not to be identified because the discussions are private. Marchionne will have the chance to meet Lee on Monday, when the Exor board is scheduled to review the investment company's second-quarter earnings.

The talks between Fiat and Samsung on a deal have slowed recently over differences about the valuation of the businesses, South Korea's Maeil Business Newspaper reported August 25. Lee is set to discuss a Magneti Marelli deal with Marchionne when the Samsung executive visits Europe for the Exor board session, it reported. Fiat Chrysler shares dropped 2 percent to 6.04 euros at 12:14pm in Milan. Samsung rose 1.7 percent in South Korea. A partnership with a technology company has taken on added importance for Marchionne after his efforts to merge with General Motors Co. Were rebuffed. Fiat Chrysler is particularly exposed to changes in the auto market because of its small size compared to the likes of GM, Volkswagen AG and Toyota Motor Corp.

A sale of some or all of Magneti Marelli would also help Marchionne, 64, achieve his goal of eliminating Fiat's debt before he retires from the CEO post by 2019. Still, decisions over the future of Magneti Marelli 'won't happen overnight,' Marchionne said.

VMware CEO pledges cloud computing freedom In what’s become something of an annual tradition, we talked with VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger at the outset of the virtualization leader’s VMworld 2016 conference. In this interview with Network World Senior Writer Brandon Butler and IDG Chief Content Officer John Gallant, Gelsinger shared the big news from the event, including new tools that make it easier for customers to build cross-cloud environments, as well as an expanded partnership with IBM.

With finalization of the Dell/EMC merger just over the horizon, Gelsinger reassured VMware customers about the company’s independence but said the resources available from that powerful ally will put ‘turbochargers’ on VMware’s back. He discussed the state of the software-defined data center and where customers stand in the deployment of virtual networks. BRANDON BUTLER: What is the big message from VMware and VMworld 2016? The big message is clearly this idea of the that enables our customers to have cloud freedom, control and simplicity. With that, we’re making two big area announcements.

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One is the, bringing together all the core technologies to build and operate clouds and make them simpler to build and run, as well as a new set of cross-cloud services - largely built on the capabilities of - enabling our customers to manage, run and connect workloads on any cloud, including major public clouds that aren’t built on VMware technologies at their core, like Amazon, Microsoft Azure, etc. That’s the big headline: changing the way people can take advantage of cloud for the future. VMware Cloud Foundation is a unified SDDC software-defined data center platform and that they are the first customer to take advantage of that to build and accelerate their cloud offerings. It’s an extension of what we announced earlier with them but now IBM with SoftLayer will be bringing a new offering forward that allows people to essentially instantiate a full VMware SDDC environment in minutes. That used to take days.

Tata Group signs robotics research tie-up with Harvard & Yale The Tata Group is tying with Ivy league universities Harvard and Yale to research and bring to market products based on soft robotic, sensors, deep-learning and network sciences. More partnerships are on the cards as the salt-to-steel-to-software conglomerate bets on innovation to grow. The group has set aside $25 million over a five year period to fund the research and will even send the group's employees to the universities to work on the research. 'It is the Tata Group's vision to touch the live of 25% of the world's population.

To accomplish this vision, we are engaging with the best research institutions around the world to enable sustainable market development,' Gopichand Katragadda, Group Chief Technology Officer at Tata Sons, said. With Harvard University, Tata Sons, Tata Communication, Tata Steel and JLR have established a six-year research alliance centered around soft-robotics, advanced materials, deep learning and sensor technologies. With Yale, Tata Sons, Tata Consultancy Services and Tata Chemicals have set up a five-year alliance in the areas of network sciences, consumer behaviour and other research opportunities. The group had already announced that it was working with IIT-Madras in the region of advanced materials and was collaborating with the Royal Society in the UK. In addition to sending Tata employees to the universities, the program will also help university faculty and students to take sabbaticals and work in the Tata companies.