2007 Annual Conference
Strategic Planning: Lessons from Practice
Keynote Panel of Senior Strategy Practitioners
John L. Cullivan John L. Cullivan
Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy
Cardinal Health

Cardinal Health is the leading provider of products and services supporting the healthcare industry. Mr. Cullivan works with the executive team and operating unit leaders to develop and deliver corporate and business unit strategies and is responsible for establishing the conditions and capabilities for continuously creating and executing value-maximizing strategies.
Gavin Schutz Gavin Schutz
Executive Vice President
Azcar Media Services

Gavin Schutz is a founder of Four Media Company, and formerly Executive Vice President and CTO for Ascent Media Group, a Media and Entertainment services provider. 4MC grew revenues from $27MM to over $600MM using a combination of M&A and internal growth. The strategy included a roll up of small owner operated facilities that were working in the creative fields of motion picture and television post production, media management and broadcast. The Company was purchased by Liberty Media and renamed Ascent Media Group.
Jim McComb Jim McComb
Senior Vice President of Strategic Planning
Countrywide Home Loans

As Senior Vice President of Strategic Planning for the home equity division of Countrywide Home Loans, America's largest mortgage lender and servicer, Mr. McComb is responsible for facilitating the division's strategic management process, including the development, implementation and measurement of the overall divisional strategic plan, and of more than seventy five regional, departmental and marketing channel plans. He is also responsible for management of the division's organizational development, and for creating a culture of strategic thinking throughout the division. In both 2005 and 2006, he was honored as the most innovative strategic planner at Countrywide by the company's executive management team.
Iain Somerville Iain Somerville
Managing Partner
Somerville & Associates

Iain serves CEOs and Boards - mainly growth businesses and nonprofits in the $70-700 million range - assisting them to resolve strategic issues, set new directions and make breakthroughs in performance. He also assists his client CEOs and their executive teams in obtaining exceptional expertise, superior talent, growth capital and shareholder liquidity tailored to their needs. Iain was a founder and managing partner of the Accenture Organization & Change Strategy practice, Enterprise Transformation program, M&A and Alliances Center of Excellence and Institute for Strategic Change. He held senior management roles with McKinsey and IBM and was a founding member of A4SL Coaching & Consulting. Iain earned his MBA with High Distinction at Harvard Business School where he graduated as a Baker Scholar. He also holds master's degrees in psychology and theology, and a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering.
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