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Dr. Alan G. Robinson, Isenberg School of Management, Author - "Corporate Creativity: How Innovation & Improvement Actually Happen"
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John Heaps, President, Florence Savings Bank
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Perry Walraven, President and CEO, Performance Controls, Inc. a Subsidiary of Hitachi Medical Corporation
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