Technology >> CEO Interviews >> August 7, 2000

Joseph Bellini – C-bridge Internet Solutions (cbis)

JOSEPH BELLINI is President & CEO of C-bridge Internet Solutions. Mr. Bellini has spent over 18 years working across the Americas, Europe, and Asia specifying and directing the implementation of game changing solutions in multiple industry sectors including Manufacturing, Telecom, Utilities, Banking, Health Care, and Insurance. Prior to joining C- bridge, Mr. Bellini served as Executive Vice President, Worldwide Automotive and Industrial Business Unit at i2 Technologies where he led sales, marketing, business solutions, and product solutions. Previously at i2, Mr. Bellini held the position of Worldwide Industries Vice President, responsible for the development of customer value propositions, execution of supply chain opportunity assessments and development of i2's industry solutions footprint. The industry solution sets developed by his team covered both demand management and order fulfillment workflows in Aerospace, Apparel, Automotive, Chemical, CPG, High Tech, Industrial, Metals and Retail Accounts. i2 career highlights include: Developing the Industry Seminar Series; Leading the acquisition of Optimax Corporation whose technology provided the scheduling, sequencing, and product time to market technology used by i2 today; Developing the value proposition generator; Developing the supply chain opportunity assessment (SOA) methodology; and Developing the sales training curriculum. Prior to i2, he was the Senior Practice Director at Oracle Corporation where he established and subsequently directed both the Central US Manufacturing Applications Practice and the Great Lakes Regional Practice at Oracle. Overall practice activities included the specification, configuration and implementation of Oracle Manufacturing as well as the specification and development of systems for CPG, Insurance, Banking, Healthcare and Utilities using the Oracle Designer and Developer product suites. Earlier, Mr. Bellini was the Director of Consulting, Manufacturing Business Unit at EDS where he directed both Business Development and Manufacturing Consulting, helping to first establish and then grow the Manufacturing Consulting Business Unit at EDS. He was key in many acquisitions and equity partnerships including Unigraphics and the Thomas Group. Mr. Bellini is an alumnus of Harvard Business School Executive Education Program and received a BS in both Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mathematics & Statistics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Profile
TWST: Give us a background summary on C-bridge Internet Solutions,

including a short history of your involvement with the company.

Mr. Bellini: C-bridge is the premiere strategy and