Dan Beaulieu is a well-known industry writer and columnist who has written sales and marketing columns for Circuitree, Printed Circuit Design & Manufacture, U.S. Tech, and Printed Circuit News. He is also a feature article author who writes about various board shops and how they perform in the industry. Dan has over 30 years experience in the PCB industry. He is considered one of the industry's top marketing and sales experts, as well as perhaps the strongest and most focused strategist in the industry.

MONDAY COLUMN: Dan's Audio Column "It's Only Common Sense" Crosstalk: Dan Beaulieu, Steve Gold & Steve Williams Read Dan's Archived Column"Creative Selling" Read Dan's Latest Book Review

Back to Basics with Dan Beaulieu brings you audio interviews with industry leaders as Dan continues to keep his finger on the pulse of the US Printed Circuit Board industry. Check back often for more of these exclusive recordings that provide an insight into the minds of industry team members as they relay the current events and goals of their companies.

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Steve Gold offers his insights and opinions about business issues of the day. The Gold Record will also give “behind the scenes” perspectives of factory tours and exhibitions around the world. The column will also utilize all the technologies offered by PCB007—audio, video and the written word.

TUESDAY COLUMN: Steve's Audio Column "The Gold Record " Crosstalk: Dan Beaulieu, Steve Gold & Steve Williams Read Steve's Articles - Click Here

Dan Feinberg is President and CEO of Fein-Line Associates, Inc., a consulting firm focused on the electronic interconnect and assembly industries and a founding Partner in the Quantum Performance Group, LLC, a market research firm. Dan was formerly president of Morton Electronic Materials (formally Dynachem), a $240 million division of Morton International, Inc., and a group vice president of the parent company Morton International until its acquisition by Rohm and Haas in 1999.

EVERY OTHER WEDNESDAY: Dan's Feinberg's Audio Column "Fein-Lines"

Joseph Fjelstad, a founder of Silicon Pipe Inc., is an international authority and innovator in the field of electronic interconnection and packaging technologies with more than 150 U.S. patents issued or pending. He is the author of "Flexible Circuit Technology " and author, co-author or editor of several other books including "Chip Scale Packaging for Modern Electronics". He has also authored numerous technical papers and articles. He frequently presents seminars on PCB, flex circuit and chip scale packaging technologies at industry conferences. You may contact him at 408-973-1744 x203, or by e-mail at J_Fjelstad@sipipe.com.

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Andy Shaughnessy is the editor of PCBDesign007. As a former editor for Printed Circuit Design magazine, Andy has the experience and expertise to make PCBDesign007 the top online source of information for everyone whose livelihood depends upon PCB design. Andy has been a journalist for 14 years, including tenure as editor-in-chief of Printed Circuit Design & Manufacture magazine. He is also a past conference chair for the PCB Design Conference series. Andy began covering PCB design and EDA in 1999. His articles have appeared in EE Times, PC Fab and Circuits Assembly.

COLUMN: Andy Shaughnessy's Column "The Shaughnessy Report "

Louis De Rose is president of De Rose and Associates, Inc., management and training consultants in Carlsbad, California. His clients include General Electric, IBM, Monsanto, Mobil Oil, Becton Dickinson, and Control Data. Before establishing his own consulting firm, Mr. De Rose was professor and chair of the Business Management Department at Fordham University. He also taught at Cornell and Manhattan College. Author of the books Negotiated Purchasing, How to Negotiate Purchase Prices, and The Value Network , he is a feature writer and consulting editor for Purchasing World Magazine, and writes extensively for business and technical publications. Mr. De Rose is an arbitrator on trade and contract disputes with the American Arbitration Association, and has served on the Procurement Advisory Committee of the United States Senate. He has conducted seminars on supply chain management, outsourcing and process reengineering, and marketing and sales around the world, and has lectured before chapters of the Institute of Supply Management, sales executive clubs, and production and quality control societies.

MONTHLY COLUMN: Lou DeRose's Column "Selling Value "

Ronald Schaeffer is Chief Executive Officer of PhotoMachining, Inc. He has been involved in laser manufacture and materials processing for over 20 years, working in and starting small companies. He has over 100 publications, has written a monthly column in CircuiTree and is currently on the Editorial Board of Industrial Laser Solutions. He is also on the Board of Directors of the Laser Institute of America and is affiliated with the New England Board of Higher Education. He has a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Lehigh University and did graduate work at the University of Paris , after which he worked for several major laser companies. He is a US Army veteran of the 172nd Mountain Brigade and the 101st Airborne division. In his spare time he farms, collects antique pocket watches, plays guitar and rides his motorcycle.

MONTHLY COLUMN: Ron Schaeffer's Column "Light Reading"

Ken Bahl, President of Sierra Proto Express (San Jose, CA) started in the PCB business in 1965 as a process engineer with Honeywell in New Hampshire. In 1986 Ken founded Sierra Proto Express, the PCB industry's leader in innovative bleeding edge technologies -- dedicated to producing Tomorrow's Technology Today. Bob Tarzwell is presently working with Ken to introduce new bleeding edge, advanced circuit technology like lead-free, high reliable electronics, heat sinking technology and ultra fine lines to the world. Since selling his company in 2000, Bob has disseminated PCB high-tech to many companies as a consultant, and has written ten books on PCBs and car racing. He has three patent pending applications in fine lines, high reliability and outer space PCBs. He is currently semi-retired in the Bahamas, spending his free time writing books, working on antique cars and deep sea fishing.

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Harvey Millerhas been watching the printed circuit industry for over 30 years as economist-- U of Michigan, analyst, and database creator. Before that he built economic input-output models of the electronics industry for 10 years. He began his electronics career as a components engineer for computer and telecom OEMs, Burroughs and GTE among them. At present he's putting it all together, generating powerful marketing database tools for the global printed circuit board industry at www.FabfileOnline.com.

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The EPTE Newsletter from Japan is brought to you by Dominique Numakura, the founder and managing director of DKN Research. He has been working for circuit board businesses and packaging material businesses more than 25 years. He has been developing a lot of advanced technologies in high density substrates and materials in the last decade. He provided more than 100 full articles for major conferences and magazines. In addition, he is the author of several books of electronic packaging technologies. Dominique is a regular contributing writer of columns for magazines and newspapers. Mr. Numakura has a Master Degree in Physical Chemistry and Nuclear Chemistry (Ibaraki University, Japan). Email: dnumakura@dknresearch.com Web: DKN Research Address: 62 Adams Street, Haverhill, MA 01830 U.S.A. Telephone: 1-978-372-2345 Fax: 1-978-469-0188

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Each week watch this column for reports from our contributing writer from Taiwan with their update of the Taiwanese Printed Circuit Board Industry.

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