Blythe J. McGarvie has operated profitable business units and managed employees in business endeavors from China to Chile, France to Finland. She has been CFO of a Fortune 500 company in the US and of a leading consumer goods company in Paris. She is the author of Fit In Stand Out, subtitled Mastering the FISO Factor: The Key to Leadership Effectiveness in Business and Life (published by McGraw-Hill in October 2005). This book has reached wide distribution in the US. It was featured by Barnes and Noble in its fall promotions and has been published outside the US, including Spanish, Indian and Russian language versions. Her new book, Shaking the Globe, subtitled Courageous Decision-Makers in a Changing World (published by John Wiley & Sons) will be available in bookstores January 2009.

Since January 2003, Ms. McGarvie has been C.E.O. and Founder of LIF Group, offering a global perspective for clients seeking profitable growth and providing leadership seminars for corporate and academic groups. She has a pulse on developing leaders and responding effectively to changing situations as a result of her extensive corporate experience and her service on several boards, including Accenture, Pepsi Bottling Group, The Travelers Companies, and Viacom.

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McGarvie is renowned for her perspective on leadership, consumer markets and worldwide economic trends. She brings her energy and enthusiasm in helping others achieve financial success. McGarvie also was appointed Senior Fellow for Northwestern University’s Kellogg Innovation Network. She was a pioneering CFO, and in 1995, was one of only ten female CFOs in the Fortune 500.

From 1999 through December 2002, Ms. McGarvie was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of BIC Group, a French company traded on the Euronext and one of the world's leading manufacturers of convenient disposable products. For five years prior to joining BIC, Ms. McGarvie was Senior Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer of Hannaford Bros. Co., a $US 3.6 billion supermarket retailer, acquired by the DelHaize Group in 1999. Her international experience includes being based in Paris France for BIC Group and as Chief Administrative Officer – Pacific Rim of Sara Lee Corporation, based in Chicago, where she was responsible for the finance, strategy, information systems and human resources functions for the personal product business in Asia, Australia and South America, growing the division from $124 million to $600 million in sales over a three-year period ending in 1994. Ms. McGarvie is a Certified Public Accountant. She was one of three alumni featured in a video for the Kellogg Graduate School of Management Centennial kick-off event in October 2008.

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