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Advisors and Associates Knowledge Planning Corporation's principals, analysts and advisors participate in professional, consulting, advisory and leadership networks of experienced consultants, principals and international associates. We approach client opportunities in a consultative format using the skills, talents and experiences that are within those robust networks to supplement and to amplify the core competencies of Knowledge Planning Corporation to identify and achieve value for our client and its constituencies and to provide continuous evaluation to re-enforce those objectives over time. Accordingly, we are able to provide honest evaluations, strategic planning and project collaboration based on our own sets of knowledge as well as the skills, talents and experiences of our extensive transglobal network of principals, consultants, analysts, and adjunct advisers. Knowledge Planning maintains an extensive network of Associates as direct participants, consultants and as knowledge-centers. The breadth and depth is global to local, from high-tier constructs to project elements, and available for engagements ranging from immediate applications to long-term evaluation and management. Among those Associates: Uri Ben-Zion, Ph.D., Department of Economics, Ben Gurion University Dr. Ben-Zion is recognized as a thought-leader in Management, Economics and Socio-Economics and has led significant projects and studies that reveal and predict pricing mechanisms, costs structures and societal responses in areas that include banking, governmental policy development and implementation, pension and investments management, and networks. Roger Manela, Ph.D., Social-Worker/Educator, Detroit Schools System, Michigan, USA Dr. Manela has worked closely with Knowledge Planning Corporation on international models of political confederation and democratic participation in economic development, education, social welfare, health service delivery, and conflict resolution in Asia, Africa, Latin America, Israel and the Arab Middle East. He has worked with Dr. Hatto Fischer's, Athens Greece ongoing programs on international and multi-cultural models of education to promote political participation and community involvement among youth. He has been a consultant with Yoram Shohamy, FIS Limited, Cardiff, Wales & Tel Aviv, Israel, on issues related to the role of insurance in economic development. John W. Landgraf, Ph.D., Director, Landgraf and Associates, Ltd. Dr. Landgraf is internationally known for providing cutting edging business intelligence and analysis to clients, including some of the largest financial institutions in the world, to help them expand into foreign markets and avoid illegal financial schemes. Areas include domestic US, Eastern and Western Europe, with special expertise in Russia and former CIS, with such banks as Credit Lyonais, Bank Austria, Barclays, Citibank, and others. He has been honored for his work in international financial risk management through the collection, analysis, and application of critical business intelligence and the application of cultural and personality analysis, Mr. Landgraf has helped numerous companies mitigate the risks of business development and deployment in emerging markets including in the the former Soviet Union and in the Pacific Rim. As Director of Landgraf and Associates Ltd., and I3, Mr. Landgraf's career spanned all aspects of psychological and technical intelligence and security services, and specializing in providing confidential consulting services for navigating the international offshore financial world as well as difficult international markets such as those in Russia and Eastern Europe. Gideon Amihood Gideon Amihood has over thirty years of banking and financial services experience with expertise in trade finance, project finance, private banking, currency exchange and trading systems implementation and co-ordination. He has worked in Europe, Israel and Brazil with major institutions including Citicorp, Credit Lyonnais, Chase Manhattan and Bank Leumi. He is currently Head of Treasury for BNP Parisbas's Tel Aviv operations. Mr. Amihood has an MBA from Cape Town University. Joseph F. Noferi, Managing Director, Compliance Surety Associates Joseph F. Noferi and Ralph L. Dillon are managing directors at Compliance Surety Associates (CSA). Formerly they were the directors of quality compliance and quality engineering (respectively) in the biopharmaceutical group at Pfizer. They have been working in anti-counterfeiting and anti-terrorism for major pharmaceutical companies and the United States government for over 30 years. CSA focuses on proactive Quality Assurance solutions for Regulatory Compliance and to address Product Surety. Quality Assurance is the only function that touches product from the earliest moments of discovery all the way through customer use. It has been effectively underwriting corporate risk since the advent of the GxPs in the 1970s. Proactive Quality solutions and focused strategic integration will define success in the changing landscape of the future. Compliance Surety Associates focuses globally on: Strategic planning for quality compliance, Identification, risk quantification and risk reduction programs, and Supply Chain defense and proactive crisis management. Compliance Surety Associates focuses locally on: Proprietary meta-tools for successful inspection management, and Product Development and Facility Readiness Assessments. (see "Quick Locate" in left margin of this page for two recent articles on Anti-Counterfeiting and Anti-Terrorism). Address all Inquiries to: 
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