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John Ward, <\/strong>CEO, Compression Institute\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Mr. Ward is CEO of the Compression Institute, a non-profit organization which advocates business and economic practices to meet the challenges of based on the ideas of Robert \u201cDoc\u201d Hall as summarized in his book, \u201cCompression.\u201d Mr. Ward served as senior vice president at Meldisco for 15 years, then as an international consultant on company turnarounds for 12 years.\u00a0 Mr. Ward is the recipient of the Presidential Award from the Cost and Savings Council.\u00a0 He is former executive director of the Association for Manufacturing Excellence.\u00a0 He holds degrees in computer science from both New York University and New York Institute of Technology<\/p>\n

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