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January 1, 2009
Mark B. Solomon
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John Fontanella: 1948-2008
John Fontanella, vice president of research at the consulting firm AMR Research and an influential supply chain theorist, died in Boston Nov. 30. He was 60.

Fontanella, who initially joined Bostonbased AMR in 1998 and after a brief hiatus returned in 2006 as vice president of research, studied radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology, wholesale distribution, global trade, supply chain visibility, supply chain security, and supply chain event management. He was frequently quoted in this and other industry publications.

From 2004 to 2006, Fontanella served as a senior vice president of research services at Aberdeen Group and as vice president of supply chain services at Yankee Group. Prior to joining AMR, he held executive positions in logistics and supply chain management for Microsoft Corp. and Digital Equipment Corp.

Ron Carey: 1936-2008
Ron Carey, who as president of the Teamsters union led arguably the most memorable insurrection in the union's long and controversial history, died of lung cancer Dec. 11 in New York City. He was 72.

In 1997, Carey called a nationwide strike against UPS over the company's use of part-time workers. That strike, the first such job action in UPS's history, lasted 15 days and made headlines around the world. In the end, UPS's 185,000 Teamster workers won pay increases, better pension benefits, and the promise of 10,000 new full-time positions. The strike shut down the UPS network and would prompt many shippers who had previously used only UPS to diversify their carrier base. UPS never regained some of the business lost to the strike.

Weeks after the strike ended, Carey was removed from office and charged with perjury after telling investigators he was unaware of a scheme concocted by advisers to divert $885,000 from the union's treasury to groups that had donated to his re-election campaign. Several aides were convicted in the scheme, and one later testified against him.

A federal oversight panel barred Carey from running again for the office and ordered him not to participate in union matters for the rest of his life. A federal jury acquitted Carey on all counts in 2001, but the panel refused to remove the ban. Following his acquittal, Carey retired.

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Marksolomon
Mark Solomon joined DC VELOCITY as senior editor in August 2008, and was promoted to his current position on January 1, 2015. He has spent more than 30 years in the transportation, logistics and supply chain management fields as a journalist and public relations professional. From 1989 to 1994, he worked in Washington as a reporter for the Journal of Commerce, covering the aviation and trucking industries, the Department of Transportation, Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court. Prior to that, he worked for Traffic World for seven years in a similar role. From 1994 to 2008, Mr. Solomon ran Media-Based Solutions, a public relations firm based in Atlanta. He graduated in 1978 with a B.A. in journalism from The American University in Washington, D.C.

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