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CHAPTER 8

ABOUT THE EDITORS AND PRODUCTION EDITORS

Lew Roberts

is President and founder of L.Roberts &

Associates Inc., a USA based firm that provides professional

consulting and management development services, aimed

at improving business performance, with an emphasis on

the field of supply chain management. His consulting and

management development career has included working

numerous major firms worldwide. Lew has taught at the

Georgia Institute of Technology on the Executive Masters in

International Logistics (EMIL) Program and at The National

University of Singapore on ‘Developing aWorld Class Supply

Chain Management Strategy’. He has written numerous

articles and is co-author of a book with Robert Trent.

Robert Trent

is the chair of the management department

at Lehigh University. He also serves as the co-director of

the Center for Value Chain Research and as the supply

chain management program director. Prior to his return to

academia, Dr Trent worked for the Chrysler Corporation.

He has worked on numerous special industry projects

and has consulted with or provided training services to

over 40 government agencies and corporations and has

worked extensively with companies during research visits

and projects. He has authored or co-authored dozens of

articles and numerous books and textbooks.

Sanjeev Bisnath

holds Diplomas in Electrical Engineering

(Durban University of Technology), Engineering Business

Management (University of Warwick) and Project

Management (School of Project Management). He has

been responsible for the development of all 13 books in

the Power Series and is currently managing several other

volumes in the series. He is employed as a Senior Advisor

by Innovative Circuit, a section within Eskom R&D. He is

a registered Professional Technician with ECSA and a

member of the SAIEE.

Pierre Esterhuyzen

holds a BComm(Hons)(Business

Management) and an LLB from the University of South

Africa. His career at Eskom started in the Generation

Division at Lethabo Power station where he held various

positions in the Maintenance Department before pursuing

a career in procurement. He is currently appointed as a

Senior Manager in Group Commercial and Technology,

Project Sourcing, where he is responsible for overseeing

the procurement function of Medupi, Kusile and a number

of Return-to-Service/Refurbishment projects of existing

Fossil Fuel Power Stations.