v  John Radko, Chief Technology Strategist, GXS

John Radko, chief technology strategist at GXS, advises the GXS’ leadership team on technology and coordinates and encourages technology advancement across the full range of GXS product lines.  These include hosted supply chain automation applications, electronic document interchange (EDI) services and business-to-business (B2B) integration products.

John previously led the architecture and construction of the GXS Internet Commerce Platform (ICP), a standards-based infrastructure for provisioning GXS’ hosted Internet services.  During the ICP project, Mr. Radko played a significant role in shifting the engineering teams to open standards and the Java programming language for all new development.

Prior to this, John held a variety of technical leadership positions within GXS.

Mr. Radko’s career began at GE, of which GXS was once a subsidiary, in one of the company’s technical leadership development programs. Mr. Radko earned a Bachelor of Science from the University of Maryland.

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v Franziska Kraus, Motorola

As Business Integration Manager at Motorola Franziska Kraus brings in more than 18 years of professional experience. She leads an international team governing integration services and providing business analysis for integration projects.

Franziska’s special interest is in aligning EAI and B2B Architectures with Enterprise Process & Data models, providing visibility and metrics to the integration layer and fine tune to match up to the company strategy.

She managed multi national trading partner projects and was instrumental in providing collaboration across geographic areas Supply Chains and Businesses. As a consultant Franziska shared her in depth knowledge for the first ever RosettaNet implementation in China.

Due to her combined technical and process background in integration platforms and ERP systems Franziska gathered extensive experience required to realize value and benefits in the area of integration; especially in economically challenging times.

Franziska is EDIFICE Vice-Chair since June 2009

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v Pierfrancesco Manenti, IDC

Pierfrancesco Manenti is the research director for Manufacturing Insights within IDC's European Vertical Markets Group.

In this role he provides insight into the key issues and trends affecting the manufacturing industry verticals in Western Europe, including discrete manufacturing, process manufacturing, automotive, CPG, and retail.

Manenti has developed strong market experience in understanding industry-specific process challenges and vertical-specific technology trends in order to provide strategies on IT demand from both the end-user and vendor perspectives.

He analyzes and anticipates key trends in industry-specific business process challenges, forecasts IT strategies and spending in specific sub-verticals in Western Europe, and provides consulting and advisory support to end-user organizations as well as IT vendors.

Manenti comes to Manufacturing Insights with 15 years' business experience spanning the functional disciplines of business development, business unit management, supply chain and demand management strategies and implementation, customer support, and accounting processes.

Prior to joining IDC, Manenti spent more than 10 years with TXT e-solution, a Europe-based SCM software vendor, where he held increasing roles and responsibilities, including industry business unit manager for automotive, business development manager for manufacturing industries, and U.K. operations director.

Manenti has a degree in computer science from Pisa University (Italy).