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PAMELA MILLAR
    Management Consulting & Marketing Strategist
    CEO, Bridgemakers Consulting

    Pamela Millar has entrepreneur in her bloodstream, having spent the past twenty years
    launching computer software and hardware companies into the global market.  She has her
    MBA in international management and some of the biggest names in information technology
    companies in the world have been her clients, including Pixar, Compaq, Netscape and Sun
    Microsystems. A strong believer in the power of entrepreneurial thinking, Pamela helped
    optimize market positioning for innovative software companies around the world, including
    Dynaware, Pastel Development, Pixar Corporation, No Hands Software, Kensington Microware
    and others. Her range of experience includes both inbound and outbound marketing, from
    market development planning to product advertising and messaging worldwide.  She is fluent
    in French and Spanish, speaks some Mandarin Chinese, and has lived and worked in France,
    Belgium, Mexico and Taiwan.


    Pamela was senior global product strategist for Sun Microsystems for seven years, co-chairing
    the steering committee which determined the worldwide strategy for the company's software
    portfolio and chairing a group of product marketing directors across the company. Many of her
    responsibilities included customer needs analysis, competitive and market segment analysis,
    product requirements definition and global marketing strategy. In partnership with the global
    engineering team at Sun, Pamela contributed over one million lines of source code to the open
    source community, including the entire multilingual architecture for the Solaris Operating
    System. Since leaving Sun, Pamela has been guiding and stewarding new entrepreneurial
    companies such as TEKIO, the Romero Institute, Earth Networks Television and Justsystems
    Corporation.

    In her spare time, Pamela has also been active social entrepreneur.  She rode her bicycle across
    the United States to raise money for Mobility International, an organization which helps people
    with disabilities travel internationally.  Still committed to this cause, Pamela helped form the
    Accessibility initiative at Sun Microsystems, ensuring equal access for people with disabilities
    to the latest internet technology across the suite of Sun's products.

    Pamela co-authored a book of Buddhist spiritual teachings, which is now selling worldwide in
    23 languages.   Her contacts with readers around the world sensitized her to the living
    conditions of impoverished communities worldwide.  With a rash of natural disasters in many
    areas of the world in the 1990's, Pamela helped organize numerous flood relief efforts in the US,
    Latin America and Europe. She is also a field reporter for a satellite television station
    broadcasting only positive and inspirational programming around the world.

    Pamela is now CEO of Bridgemakers Consulting Corporation, a group of like-minded
    consultants and business coaches who offer a range of services including product management
    and product marketing, strategic business planning, program management and customer service
    optimization.

SOPHIE LAPAIRE
Program & Product Management Consultant
President, Bridgemakers Consulting                                        


    Sophie Lapaire guides her clients toward specific planned deliverables and success metrics.  She
    has spent more than twenty years consulting software companies in all aspects of global product
    management, including customer profile analysis, industry and market segment analysis,
    software program management, software localization planning and organizational leadership
    modeling. Her clients have included Sun Microsystems, Microsoft Corporation, NASA Ames
    Space center, Lotus Corporation and Electronics for Imaging, among others. Sophie also has her
    Masters degree in Conference Interpreting and has interpreted for such personalities as Pope
    John Paul II, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Supreme Master Ching Hai, and Michel Courvoisier.  
    She was also staff translator for the Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia. She is
    fluent in French, Spanish, Italian and English.


    Sophie has a keen eye for optimizing organizational efficiency within business planning
    systems. She has a talent in unifying processes across multiple divisions and organizations,
    standardizing workflow, eliminating redundancy in process, and specifying exact timelines and
    deliverables.  She has worked very actively with product teams to increase time to market
    while keeping an eagle eye on quality metrics.  She has vast experience in architecting
    repeatable and efficient workflow systems and guiding her customers toward desired success
    metrics.  An experienced diplomat, Sophie is a skilled business negotiator, successfully
    mediating cross-cultural and cross-divisional priorities. She is also versed at financial planning,
    budget tracking systems and financial reporting.

    In her private life, Sophie is an avid golfer, having played for years on the French National
    Golf team as well as competitively representing UCLA on a Fullbright scholarship throughout
    her college years before joining the professional mini-tour.

    Sophie has a personal passion for the protection of human rights and has been actively
    supporting numerous humanitarian causes since her early adulthood.  She lived and worked in
    the Vietnamese refugee camps in Hong Kong, assisting the “boat people” with social and job
    skills and offering a source of moral support for their plight. She has also served as liaison and
    communications manager for numerous flood relief efforts in conjunction with the International
    Red Cross and has spoken before international audiences on the needs of refugees and the
    disenfranchised.  She co-authored a book of Buddhist spiritual teachings which is now selling in
    23 languages worldwide.  She is also a field reporter for a satellite television station
    broadcasting only positive and inspirational programming around the world.

    Sophie is now president of Bridgemakers Consulting Corporation, a group of like-minded
    consultants and business coaches who offer a range of services including product management
    and product marketing, strategic business planning, program management and customer service
    optimization.



    AMIT SRIVASTAVA  
    Performance Management Consultant

    Amit is an energetic specialist in Corporate Performance Management and Decision Modeling.
    His approach to his clients’ business problems centers around a philosophy that “Complex
    problems have simple solutions.” He has spent his career providing performance driven
    business intelligence solutions to various Fortune 500 companies, including Yahoo, Google,
    Qualcomm, General Electric, Capital One, Nationwide, Biogen Idec, and VISA Corporation.
    Amit’s experience as a corporate Bridgemaker is to serve as a liaison between Finance and IT
    communities, with a particular expertise in the complex decision modeling software of Hyperion
    and Cognos.  As an expert in Enterprise Performance Management and Business Analysis, his
    expertise is a perfect compliment for the Six Sigma expertise of the entire Bridgemakers
    Consulting team.

    After pursuing an MBA (Information Systems & Finance) from University of Toledo, Ohio,
    Amit forged a strong career as a technology driven management consultant. He has extensive
    experience designing data models, and providing streamlined solutions for corporate financial
    planning, budgeting, forecasting and reporting processes.

    Amit also has a Science and Law degree, giving him a unique understanding of the corporate
    and financial structures required for entrepreneurial start–ups. In his personal life, he is
    energetic, humorous, patient, honest and assertive. In his free time he loves practicing Reiki
    meditation and spending time in nature with his young family. Amit has been a strong
    advocate of religious harmony most of his life and has spent many hours volunteering as an
    avid social worker for the mentally disabled and the elderly.
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