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Candidates

Vice Chair Membership
Marcos Arias
Marcos Arias is a career executive for over 15 years in the world of telecom and Internet services where he has held various positions at BellSouth and AT&T. He currently manages the online, alternate and retail channels at AT&T Broadband Product Marketing. In addition, Mr. Arias manages software and broadband value added applications development and deployment. Mr. Arias has considerable depth in the areas of product marketing, product development, capital management, project management, competitive assessment, market research and financial assurance. In addition, his experiences include marketing to consumer, business, and wholesale segments. Mr. Arias’ education includes the following: Catholic University - B.S. Engineering; Georgia Tech - M.S. Management; George Washington University - Masters Certificate in Project Management. His professional credentials include a Project Management Professional Certification from PMI since 1994 and he has earned a Six Sigma Green Belt. Mr. Arias has had the honor to speak at Exhibitor FastTrak, AON, and Supercomm Conferences.

Vice Chair Programs

Alan Doty
Alan has exploited project management tools to grow success in the medical device and diagnostic industry for more than 10 years. Along the way he built and developed two new product development processes based on application of PMBOK techniques and complying with ISO and FDA cGMP quality and documentation requirements. Alan has set up and presented both in person and remote (webinar, video) conferences to promote and teach project management techniques and technical subjects to groups in the US and Europe and is a regular speaker at medical device and diagnostics industry events. A medical technologist, Alan earned an MBA in 2000 and achieved his PMP credential in November 2006. Alan has worked in both clinical and corporate settings with responsibilities in technical management, product development and marketing. Currently Alan is employed by Millipore Corporation as a product manager. At various times Alan has been active in Toastmasters (past vice president of marketing for his local club), political campaigning, and in civic and social organizations. He and his family reside near Boston.

Naftali Goldsmith
Naftali Goldsmith is the Director of Interactive Marketing at United Jewish Communities, a national non-profit associated with 155 local agencies across North America. He is the product manager of a proprietary web publishing and online fundraising system, and initiates progressive web marketing campaigns using interactive content and social media. Previously, Naftali was the director of web services at Thinking Craft, a direct response marketing consultancy based in Florida, where he headed up content development and web media projects. He has been doing strategic web consulting and project management since the late 1990's both in the private and nonprofit sectors. He has advanced degree training from Columbia Teachers College in education and technology and is certified by the Project Management Institute as a Project Management Professional (PMP).
     

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