Ed Tazzia

Ed graduated from Michigan State University in 1973 with a BA in Advertising. He joined Procter in 1973 in BS&HCP. He says he took the interview in Cincinnati because he'd never been on a plane before. Ed started on the B-88 brand (Coast) and was part of the team that introduced it into test market. He did his sales training in Boston and later worked on Ivory, Top Job, Vibrant Bleach and division new products. Ed left P&G in 1983 to join the North American Soccer League as the Vice President of Marketing. He returned to brand management with Vlasic Foods (Campbell's Soup Company)becoming the Vice President of Marketing. In 1991 Ed joined Silo Super Stores, the US subsidiary of The Dixon's Stores Group, LTD. In 1993 he joined IBM. Ed became a Managing Director of Gundersen Partners, a consulting and executive search firm, in 1997 and was named Managing Partner in 2003.

Guyer McCracken

Guyer joined P&G in 1980 in the Finance Department of the Buckeye Cellulose Division. In 1989, he was appointed Finance Manager of P&G Taiwan. He moved to Asia Pacific, and assumed responsibility for the growing Chinese market. He returned to the US in 1996 as Comptroller for the Food & Beverage Sector of North America.

Guyer left P&G in 2000 to become CFO of Swapalease.com, a start up company engaged in the automobile lease transfer market, and moved to his current position in 2003 as COO and CFO of Texstyle, Inc, a private manufacturer of home textile products produced at their wholly owned subsidiary in Shanghai and distributed through major retailers in the U.S. and other international retail markets. Guyer also earned his CPA certification in 2002.

He has served as President of the Northwestern University Club of Cincinnati and as Scoutmaster for the Boy Scouts of America.

Guyer and his wife Kim live in Lebanon, Ohio with their three children and a large assortment of horses, dogs, cats, birds, and ferrets.

Michael Cleary

Michael Cleary joined P&G's Advertising Department in Toronto, Canada in June 1968, after graduating with an MBA degree from the University of Windsor. After becoming a Brand Manager in Toronto, he spent two years in Cincinnati with assignments in the Paper and the BS&HCP Divisions. He then returned to Canada before spending time in Austria, the UK and Belgium. He retired from P&G as Vice President of Advertising - Europe, in May 2000, after 32 years service.

Following retirement from P&G, Mike was hired by Saatchi & Saatchi in London. Mike is on the board of Optimad and also works part time with Advertising Assessments International, a consulting firm that helps clients search for, and evaluate the performance of, agencies. He remains active in the World Federation of Advertising.

Martha Miller de Lombera

Martha, a native of Mexico City, joined P&G there in 1976 as Brand Assistant on Crest and Escudo (Safeguard). She rose through the ranks with assignments in all categories, being named General Manager P&G-Mexico and then VP/GM Health and Beauty for the UK/Ireland, returning to Mexico in 1993. In 1998 she also assumed the GM role for Central America and took on joint leadership of the Latin America North Market Development Organization. In 2001 she retired after 25 years to take more time to be with her family and have some flexibility.

Martha is a Board member of Nationwide Financial Services in Columbus Ohio, of Ryerson Tull in Chicago, and of Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste in Mexico. She is on the advisory Board of Nestle Mexico, C&A Mexico and Fondo Unido (United Way Affiliate). Martha is also Co-Founder and current Chair of the dynamic PG Alums Mexico Chapter, which has approximately 700 members after only 1 year. She is a member of the International Women's Forum and the Mexican Equestrian Federation's Three Day Event Committee.

Martha lives in Mexico City with her husband Guillermo and is the proud Mother of three daughters, the eldest a PG employee and the other two studying in the US.

Martha Miller de Lombera

Mohan Mohan, from India, is a retired Procter & Gamble marketing executive, having had a memorable career spread over three continents for nearly 30 years. He joined the Company in 1972 in Geneva, Switzerland and gained experience in building business and organizations across Europe, Middle East and Africa. He acknowledges freely that all his accomplishments are entirely due to the people in the Company who helped him along the way in all locations he lived and worked.

Key highlights during Mohan’s P&G career were:

• In Saudi Arabia, introduced and built business on new brands such as Pampers, Ariel, Pringles. Helped expand business across all Gulf Countries.
• Doubled business in Ireland
• Responsible for the successful start-up and development of P&G’s Egyptian factory and business operations which is thriving today.
• esponsible for the successful start-up and development of P&G’s business in Portugal; handling Laundry & Cleaning and Health & Beauty Care divisions.
• As Vice President and General Manager , UK and Ireland, responsible for Health, Beauty Care and Cosmetics he helped grow these businesses.
• He was a Global Team Leader for recruiting talent for Europe.

Deborah M. Kielty

Deborah M. Kielty joined the World Trade Center Institute in Baltimore as President and Executive Director in October 2001, following a 20 year international career with Procter & Gamble. As head of the World Trade Center Institute, Ms. Kielty leads the largest international business network in the mid-Atlantic region, serving over 2000 clients across the private, diplomatic, government and academic sectors. In this capacity, Ms. Kielty reports to a Board of Directors largely made up of private sector business executives. She is responsible for overall strategic leadership, financial management, and organizational development.

Immediately prior to joining the World Trade Center, Ms. Kielty served as Vice President Global Alliances & Licensing (1999 – 2001) and General Manager Worldwide Strategic Planning (1992 - 1999) for Procter & Gamble Beauty Care, based in Hunt Valley, Maryland. Ms. Kielty also served as Managing Director, Procter & Gamble Health & Beauty Care Europe (1988 - 1991) based first as Associate Advertising Manager in Rome and later as Managing Director Cosmetics in London. Prior to that, Ms. Kielty served as Brand Manager and Associate Advertising Manager, Procter & Gamble de Mexico (1983 - 1988) based in Mexico City.

Ms. Kielty holds a Bachelor's Degree from the University of California at Santa Barbara, and a Masters Degree in International Management from Thunderbird’s American Graduate School of International Management in Glendale, Arizona. She was awarded Thunderbird's Barton Kyle Yount Award given to the member of each graduating class who most exemplifies Yount’s ideals of scholarship, accomplishment and character, and was the keynote student speaker at her graduation. In 2006 Ms. Kielty was awarded Thunderbird’s Distinguished Alumni Award for Career Achievement. She has traveled and conducted business in over 50 countries, and speaks several languages.

Ms. Kielty serves on many boards, including the Baltimore Council on Foreign Affairs, the Governor's Sub-Cabinet for International Affairs, and the University of Maryland’s Smith School of Business CIBER (Center for International Business Education and Research). She has two young children adopted from China and in 2002 assumed the CEO position of Families with Children from China in Maryland. She is active in the Federal Hill neighborhood community in Baltimore, and in 2003 was chosen as one of Baltimore's Top 50 Leaders. For the past three years, Ms. Kielty has served as M.C. for Maryland's Annual International Business Leadership Awards, and annually hosts the Embassy Day Tradeshow -- the largest such gathering of private sector business leaders and Embassy diplomats in the region.

Mike Halloran

Mike graduated from Lehigh U. in 1981 and Sloan School of Management, M.I.T. with an MBA in 1983. He joined P&G in the Food Service and Lodging Products (FS&LP) Division, turning down several offers from other great marketing companies like Johnson & Johnson, General Foods, Colgate, and Hasbro. Mike worked on several brand assignments in FS&LP through 1989 before moving over to the Beverage Division working in Mt. Dora, Florida with Sundor Brands on Sunny Delight, Hawaiian Punch, and other juice brands. Mike left P&G to start his own consulting business in 1993 then joined Optimum Group (a.k.a. CoActive Marketing Group) in 1994. He served as Sr. VP Strategic Marketing before being named President in 1998. CoActive Marketing Group is a leading promotion and interactive agency in the U.S. Mike has continued to work on P&G business for the last 10 years. His expertise is in strategic marketing and interactive marketing. He has become a serial entrepreneur who is currently involved in 4 start-ups with most of his time focused as a founding partner of Zipscene.com, a portal whose mission is to become "The Google of Event Entertainment Content." Mike resides in Cincinnati and has three children & two grandchildren.

Neil Comber

Neil joined P&G’s Advertising Department in Mexico in 1972 after graduating from the University of the Americas. Following brand management training there, he came to the U.S. as Scope Brand Manager. He then returned to Mexico to work on Ariel and other L&CP Brands, before moving to the UK to help convert British babies to diapers and subsequently to Spain as Advertising Manager. His next assignment was back in Cincinnati to start up Hispanic and other target marketing efforts. He was recognized for his pioneering efforts as Ad Age’s first Hispanic Marketing Executive of the Year. He later also was a pioneer in global category management in Home Care.

He currently is a senior consultant with the Cincinnati Consulting Consortium, offering “global” strategy and marketing planning and implementation expertise in the U.S. and Latin America.

Neil is closely involved with the Hispanic community in Southwestern Ohio/Northern Kentucky. He currently serves as the Co-Chair of the Tristate Hispanic Scholarship Fund Gala, and is on the Su Casa Hispanic Ministry Development Committee among other efforts.

Samir Hawwa

Samir is a native of Palestine and Lebanon, but now a citizen of Switzerland, where he's resided since joining P&G as a Marketing Assistant in 1960. During the course of his 37 years Company career, Samir managed virtually every one of the Company's Middle East and African markets.

He was the first on-the-ground Manager of P&G's, now nationalized, Iranian subsidiary. He was also the Manager of the 15 Crush franchises of our Geneva operations. His most recent assignment prior to retirement was to set up and manage our Nigerian and East African subsidiaries, manage our various licensing set-ups in the Middle East and Africa, and the Health Care Sector of Geneva operations.

Following retirement in 1997, Samir did consulting work, as well as founding his own successful business specializing in exports of Fast Moving Consumer Goods to various ME and African markets.

Samir was elected to the Board of the Alumni Association in 2003 and also serves on the P&G Geneva Retirees Commitee. He has been active in organizing a number of get-togethers for Geneva Retirees and Alumni. He feels stongly that the P&G Alumni network is a major asset which must be developed to its full potential.

Nadim Gargour

Ned obtained a Master of Science degree from the University of California; Berkeley in 1963 after which he entered P&G's Cincinnati headquarters. In 1965 was transferred to the Brussels and held a variety of positions including General Manager in Turkey and member of the Worldwide Operations Committee. Ned left the Company in 1999. Subsequently, Ned worked with Andersen Consulting in the area of Databased Direct Marketing for some of their major clients. Today, he runs Garwin Marketing, his own Marketing Consulting and Website Development Company in Brussels.

Bob Viney

Bob graduated from the US Naval Academy, and has a Master's degree in systems engineering from San Jose State University. He began his career at P&G in the Coffee Division in 1976. During his 15 years with the company, he served in various positions, including: Brand Manager for Bonus and Tide, Advertising Manager, Taiwan and Corporate Environmental Marketing Manager. After leaving P&G, Bob served as Vice President, Marketing for Church & Dwight Co., Senior Vice President and Marketing Director at CYRK and Bronner, Slosberg, Humphrey, leading promotional and direct marketing agencies, respectively. He was a founding Partner and Principal of Exchange Applications & Marketing Group, a database marketing software company. Most recently, Bob headed Account Management at Verilytics, an internet services company, where he worked with Fortune 500 companies and non-profit affinity groups to create and launch branded internet portals that enhance relationships with customers, employees and members.

Samir Hawwa

Samir is a native of Palestine and Lebanon, but now a citizen of Switzerland, where he's resided since joining P&G as a Marketing Assistant in 1960. During the course of his 37 years Company career, Samir managed virtually every one of the Company's Middle East and African markets.

He was the first on-the-ground Manager of P&G's, now nationalized, Iranian subsidiary. He was also the Manager of the 15 Crush franchises of our Geneva operations. His most recent assignment prior to retirement was to set up and manage our Nigerian and East African subsidiaries, manage our various licensing set-ups in the Middle East and Africa, and the Health Care Sector of Geneva operations.

Following retirement in 1997, Samir did consulting work, as well as founding his own successful business specializing in exports of Fast Moving Consumer Goods to various ME and African markets.

Samir was elected to the Board of the Alumni Association in 2003 and also serves on the P&G Geneva Retirees Commitee. He has been active in organizing a number of get-togethers for Geneva Retirees and Alumni. He feels stongly that the P&G Alumni network is a major asset which must be developed to its full potential.