Leonard M. Fuld
Well-known pioneer and expert in the field of competitive intelligence, Mr. Fuld is President and founder of Fuld & Company. He has addressed audiences around the world, including the Conference Board, Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP),and the Strategic Leadership Forum. His seminars are based on the more than 3,000 assignments completed by Fuld & Company in the past 20 years. Mr. Fuld has authored three books on competitor intelligence, as well as a multimedia CD-ROM, The Fuld War Room. In addition, he has written for The Wall Street Journal and has been profiled in Business Week, Forbes, The Economist, Fortune, Fast Company, and on the Today Show.

Benjamin Gilad
Dr. Ben Gilad, founder and President of the Washington-based Academy of Competitive Intelligence (ACI) and former associate professor of strategy at Rutgers University, is considered a leading developer of CI theory and practice in the U.S. Since 1983, Dr. Gilad has helped Kellogg, CPC International, Southern California Gas Company, NIPSCO Industries, and Amerigas create intelligence functions from scratch. Business Week chose him to teach its executives about CI and Fortune chose him to lead its CEO skills sessions on the subject. The American Management Association chose him to lecture to its Presidents' division. His seminar on building an intelligence organization, offered by SCIP, has run seven years straight as one of the highest rated seminars by Competitive Intelligence professionals.

Jan Herring In addition to co-founding the Academy of Competitive Intelligence, Mr. Herring is a Meritorious Award winner of the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP). He is the principal partner of Herring and Associates. Mr. Herring is the former Director of Intelligence at Motorola, Inc., where he designed and developed a modern intelligence system that is recognized by many as the most advanced operation of its kind in the corporate world. Before Motorola, Mr. Herring spent 20 years with the CIA, where among other national intelligence programs he created the U.S. Governments first business intelligence program. Upon leaving, he was awarded the agency's highest honor, the Medal of Distinction.

Award Advisory Board Members

Brad Ashton, Executive Consultant, Xenergy, Washington, DC USA

Alan Breakspear, President, Ibis Research, Inc., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Max Downham, former Corporate Vice President, Nutrasweet (Currently, Executive Director, International College of Surgeons), Inverness, IL USA

Jenny Fisher, Director Corporate Business Intelligence, Motorola, Schaumburg, IL USA

Bob Heibel, Professor, Mercyhurst College, Erie, PA, USA

Mark Little, Director Business Analysis, GlaxoSmithKline, RTP, NC USA

Jerry Miller, Associate Professor, Simmons College, Boston, MA USA

Jay Paap, President, Paap Associates, Inc., Waban, MA USA

Karl Rose, VP External Business Affairs, Shell EP, Houston, TX USA

Anne Selgas, President, Competitive Connections, Rochester, NY USA

Denis Simon, President, Monitor China, Wanchai, HONG KONG

Ruth Stanat, President, SIS International Research, Fort Wayne, IN USA

Mark Stott, President, Stott Resources, Dallas, TX USA

About Fuld & Company

Who We Are
Fuld & Company Inc. is the world's preeminent research and consulting firm in the field of business and competitive intelligence. Founded by Leonard Fuld, a pioneer and recognized leading authority in the field, Fuld & Company is a full-service business intelligence firm, providing research and strategic consulting, business intelligence process consulting, and training to help clients understand their external environment. Our ultimate goal is to help our clients make better decisions and improve their performance.

Since 1979, our company has served many public and private companies, including more than half the U.S. Fortune 500, as well as numerous international clients, and our client roster continues to grow. Our clients tend to be Fortune 500 companies. Within those companies, we serve the business intelligence needs of many functional areas including Operations, R&D, Strategic Planning, New Ventures, E-Commerce, Mergers & Acquisitions, Marketing, Sales, Distribution/Logistics, Purchasing and Human Resources.

Our staff brings to our clients industry expertise in consumer products/retail, technology, telecommunications, e-commerce, financial/business services, pharmaceuticals/health care, energy/utilities and industrial/manufacturing. Our project managers are experienced in analysis and comprehensive reporting to executives as well as managers. Through extensive experience researching strategic, operational and tactical issues for companies in a wide range of industries, we have the interviewing, documentation, analysis and presentation skills to meet the needs of our clients.

Whether we are analyzing markets or competitors, helping companies establish in-house competitive intelligence capabilities or training staff in intelligence-gathering methods and analysis techniques, our work translates into bottom-line gains for our clients. Fuld & Company's impressive record of repeat business (more than 90% of our assignments come from repeat clients) is a testimony to the quality of our work.

About The Academy of Competitive Intelligence

The Academy of Competitive Intelligence is the culmination of a vision of the two most respected pioneers in the field of competitive intelligence, Ben Gilad and Jan Herring. It was founded in February 1996 in response to a shortage of rigorous, comprehensive training in the new field of CI and a clear need for experienced help for managers charged with building a competitive intelligence function. Much of the training of the Academy is based on the founders' record as the creators of the fundamental CI theory used by all major US companies, and their practical experience in setting up the leading intelligence programs in Corporate America. Its mission: to train, to educate and to counsel managers and companies in the art and science of competitive intelligence.

For further information about the Award, contact:

Patti Kane
Gumpert Communications
Tel. (781) 444-5543
Fax (781) 449-2128
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