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PAMELA MILLAR Management Consulting & Marketing Strategist Author & Speaker 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 was a field reporter for a satellite television station broadcasting only positive and inspirational programming around the world. She is currently the green business writer for Examiner for Seattle and Portland. Her portfolio can be seen here. Pamela is CEO of Bridgemakers Consulting Corporation, a group of like- minded consultants and business coaches who offer a range of services including strategic business planning, branding & Identity, product marketing, program management and customer service optimization. |
SOPHIE LAPAIRE Program & Product Management Consultant Social Media Manager President, Bridgemakers Consulting
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 over 23 languages worldwide. She was a field reporter for a satellite television station broadcasting only positive and inspirational programming around the world. As a passionate animal lover, she is also the author of a popular cooking blog called Kind Cooking and a vegan chef and instructor, teaching in the Portland/Vancouver areas the art of gourmet vegan cooking. Sophie is president of Bridgemakers Consulting, a group of like-minded consultants and business coaches who offer a range of services including strategic business planning, product marketing, social media management and customer service optimization. |