Carlos Agudelo, Co-Founder and COO, Tengiva

Brian Alhanati, Vice President, CustomFab USA

Louis Arsenault, Consultant, mmode

Joseph Assi, Co-President, Travelway Group International

Melanie Bland, Manager, Research and Design Partnerships, Wilson School of Design at Kwantlen Polytechnic University

Diarra Bousso, CEO & Chief Creative Mathematician, DIARRABLU

Philip Champagne, President, Groz-Beckert USA Inc.

Sandra Chebaro, Manufacturing Process Manager, INNOTEX

Giuseppe Cianci, Chief Operating Officer, bierrebi International

Navi Cohen, Vice President, Advanced Materials, SRTX

Annie Cyr, CEO & Co-Founder, Tengiva

Marie D'Avignon, Vice President, Operations, SPESA

Justine Decaens, R&D Manager, Groupe CTT

Richard Dore, Sales Director, Cansew Inc.

Will Duncan, Executive Director, SEAMS Association

Gabe Elberg, General Manager, Cansew Inc.

Jamie Elias, Canada Country Manager, CGS, Inc.

Bert Feinberg, Vice President, Frontier Distributors/Phillocraft, SPESA Board Member

Mark Fernandes, President, Robocuts

Philip Fine, Reporter, Just Style

Eugenio Fonts, Vice President, International Sales, Atlanta Attachment

Summer Gao, Production Manager, Soia&Kyo

Benton Gardner, Vice President, The Needle's Eye

Dave Gardner, Editor/Publisher, The Needle's Eye

Natalie Gilmore, Vice President - Design and Product Development, Soia&Kyo

Ross Goldberg, Director of Operations, Way Out West Inc.

Martin Gopman, President, Universal Sewing Machine Co., Inc., SPESA Board Member

David Handal, General Manager, Agencia J.E. Handal S.A.DE.C.V., SPESA Board Member

Mark Hatton, Managing Director - Americas, American & Efird/Elevate Textiles, SPESA Chairman

Frank Henderson, President, Henderson Sewing Machine Co., SPESA Board Member

Aimee Heuschkel, Marketing Director, Americas, Lectra

Valerio Izquierdo, Vice President, Business Development and Partnerships, Groupe CTT

Yong Jin, CEO, Leridge Corporation

Lynsey Jones, Executive Director, AAPN

Bob Kirke, Executive Director, Canadian Apparel Federation

Matt Kopacko, Engineering Manager, Mine Safety Appliances Co.

Sarah Krasley, CEO, Shimmy Technologies

Shane Livingstone, Plant Manager, MSA, The Safety Company

Veronika Maerz, Director, Marketing, VDMA TFL

Leonard Marano, President, Americas, Lectra, SPESA Board Member

Holli Markwald, CEO & Founder, Prairie Wear

Michael Mayr, COO & Founder, Silana - Automated Fashion Production

Maggie McDonald, Vice President, Communications, SPESA

Michael McDonald, President, SPESA

Kristy Meade, Vice President of Technical Textiles and Technology Shows, Messe Frankfurt North America

Charlie Merrow, CEO, Merrow Superior LLC, SPESA Board Member

Ramon Molano, Sales-Account Manager, Merrow Superior LLC

Jonathan Palmer, CEO, Autometrix

Pascale Patenaude, R&D Projects Coordinator, INNOTEX

Pam Peale, Vice President of Global Sales & US Operations, DeSL

Truy Pham, Director of Sales, Autometrix

Russell Pritchard, CEO, Pritchard Paper Products

Michael Rabin, Sales Director of the Americas, Morgan Tecnica Spa, SPESA Board Member

Jessica Ramey, Owner, Mercantilia Consulting

Dave Reid, Director of Sales US/Canada, American & Efird

John Robinson, Senior Strategic Account Manager - Apparel, Aptean

Lila Rousselet, CEO and Production Manager, Montloup

Rickey Ruff, Founder/Managing Director, Global Nuclear Concepts

David Samuels, President, Universal Sewing Supply

Marine Savard, Project Manager, MMODE

Leslie Schachter, Director of Marketing & Strategy, Cansew Inc.

Eric Schlossman, Vice President, Consew, SPESA Board Member

Krista Schreiber, Apparel & Textile Industry Advisor

Lonny Schwartz, Advisor

John Schweizer, Vice President & General Manager, NA Discrete, Aptean

Scott Shearouse, Senior Regional Account Director, Aptean

Sam Simpson, President, Samuel F Simpson LLC

Michel St-Amand, President, The 4th Dimension of Sewing Ltd

Greg Stanton, Industrial Engineer, Mine Safety Appliances Co.
Devin Steele, Publisher, eTextileCommunications.com/Southern Textile Association

Olivier Vermeersch, President, CTT Group

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