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District 5170 Team
"Technology & Business"
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Roy
Russell, GSE Team Leader, D-5170, has been a member of the Rotary Club of San
Jose since 1983. His classification is
Water Treatment, and he is the owner of a small, family company that specializes
in providing ultra high purity water and equipment for the electronics and
biotechnology industries. He was the 1996 recipient of the D-5170 Carl G.
Orne
Award: “To the Rotarian who makes the greatest personal commitment to world
peace and understanding.”
Roy was an Army Information Officer during the Vietnam War, 1968-1969. His training
and assignments included Army Special Forces, Civil Affairs Advisor, and Defense
Information. He has a BA in English from Stanford University and an MS in Journalism
from Northwestern University.
Beginning in 1994, he began making frequent humanitarian trips, 14 in all, to
Vietnam to assist the hill tribes people known as Montagnards, He has traveled
throughout the country from Ha Noi to the Mekong Delta.
In 1999, he organized and presented a series of technical seminars
on current water treatment technologies for scientists in Vietnam,
and was commissioned
by the University of Denver to write the background class material about Vietnam’s
Montagnards for the university’s course on the world’s indigenous peoples.
Michael Becker comes to the Rotary Group Study
Exchange - Vietnam with over 12 years of experience in international technology
business development and marketing. Michael is Founder and CEO of MettaTech,
a leading Strategic and Tactical high-tech marketing consultancy in the Silicon
Valley.
Before starting MettaTech, Michael was Director of Product Marketing for Ecrio
Inc., a provider of presence-enabled applications and infrastructure software
for the wireless telecommunications industry. He has developed and marketed
Internet communities and electronic book-based mobile commerce solutions for
Gemstar Inc., and was responsible for marketing, selling, and delivering communications
testing solutions at Hewlett-Packard, now Agilent Technologies. He came to Agilent
from A&D Engineering. With A&D, while in Tokyo,
Japan, he was responsible for developing the European OEM consumer and professional
medical electronics distribution channels, and with A&D's United States subsidiary
he managed the North and South American markets.
Michael is functionally fluent in Japanese and is an acting board member, VP
Collegiate Relations, of the Silicon Valley American Marketing Association. He
has an MBA from Santa Clara University, and a BS in Business Administration from
Saint Mary's College of California.
Karen
graduated from Arizona State University and began her career with a Big
5 accountancy firm as a certified public accountant (CPA) and certified management
accountant (CMA). Soon, venturing out on her own, she focused her accounting
and business background on new, start up companies in the high-tech field.
As a result, Karen has held Chief Financial Officer positions with several
technology companies, including Telesuite Inc., Rivals.com, Inc., and Telocity
(now Direct TV). Prior to becoming a CFO, Karen worked with other
companies in various management and executive roles.
Karen is a seasoned executive with a wide spectrum of experience in a variety
of companies, both publicly and privately held. She has managed relationships
with partners, financial and legal communities, Boards of Directors, suppliers,
and customers; built operational departments, organized international offices.
She currently heads her own consulting company, Subfocal Solutions in Santa
Cruz, California, which provides interim CFO support for small, emerging
technology companies.
Dana
Sacchetti joins the Rotary Group Study Exchange team as a management consultant,
currently working with Hewlett-Packard. He has worked during the past
year primarily on the merger and integration of HP and Compaq, and has served
in a variety of roles on the integration team. Prior to his current
role, Sacchetti served as a communications and marketing consultant for
HP, Veritas Software, and Oracle, and he focused his efforts in corporate
and
CEO communications for HP and Veritas.
Sacchetti graduated with distinction from Syracuse University in 1999 as
a dual major in creative advertising and political theory. On campus,
Sacchetti served as student body president and worked largely on issues relating
to diversity. He was born in Boston, grew up in Plymouth, Massachusetts,
and has lived in San Francisco for three years.
In his spare time, Sacchetti enjoys playing guitar and violin, mountain
biking, photography, snowboarding, and travel. He has traveled extensively
throughout Latin America and Europe. He is a volunteer for the San
Francisco Food Bank, coaches a team in San Francisco Little League, and
has worked with area schools and non-profit organizations to build and
maintain
an Internet presence.
Tri
was born and raised in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnam, left as a
boat person in 1980 and currently lives in Livermore, CA with his wife and
three children. He is a graduate of UC Berkeley (B.S.) and University of
Wisconsin at Madison (Ph. D), both in Chemical Engineering.
He is a staff engineer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, conducting
research on ignition kinetics and other properties of energetic materials.
His previous research activities were in the areas of rechargeable batteries
and capacitive desalination. He has several patents, author or co-author
of over 50 technical publications. He was also employed at Lawrence Berkeley
Lab and IBM.
Sue McKinney GSE Coordinator in Vietnam 
Sue McKinney is a California attorney, living and working in Vietnam
for nearly nine years. She is a principal in four companies operating
in Vietnam, and is a business development and project management consultant
to the aquaculture, import - export, and trading sectors. Her companies
provide sales, sourcing and quality control services to a variety of
European and American companies. US clients include Sur La Table, Mullally
International (on behalf of Martha Stewart and Costco), Bauer International,
and Patriot Timber.
Sue is also the owner of Red Door Deco, a furniture and decorative
arts business, with shops located in the heart of old Saigon and Hanoi.
Red Door Deco exports furniture and accessories to Europe, Australia
and the US; and provides turnkey interior design and decorative fit-out
services to resorts and furnished accommodation projects. The website
is reddoordeco.com
Sue participates in a number of philanthropic projects in Vietnam,
and has chaired the boards of the American Chamber of Commerce Community
Service Committee and Operation Smile. With the cooperation of Rotarians
in the US, Sue has implemented two Helping Grant projects from The
Rotary Foundation in Vietnam. She served as the incountry coordinator
for both the RI President's delegation to Vietnam in 2002, as well
as the 4 Rotary Group Study Exchange programs between Vietnam and 4
Rotary Districts in the US in 2002-2003
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