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Date: Sat, 19 Nov 1994 14:36:05 -0500
To: Joseph Wang <joe@MIT.EDU>
From: dallnutt@ns.RezoNet.NET (David E. Allnutt)
Subject: Re: [Joseph Wang: What is everyone up to?]


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I have read the recent e-mails from GNA with interest...and frustration. I
had put myself on earlier listserv lists for GNA but last week unsubscribed
because of the mess and useless mail. I have beeter things to do with my
time than read all the stuff that flowed onto my screen. All this to say
that I am extremely interested in helping in some way (ideally,
remunerative...but I'm also a bit of a pioneer in my own right, so I'm
flexible). I think GNA has tremendous potential, but needs to move more
quickly to establish a niche.

I'm attaching some bio notes, so you people can assist me in identifying an
area I might be of some use. Perhaps PR, fundraising, etc. And by the way,
could someone send me info on the leadership of GNA. One inconvenience I
have now is that I pay $1 (Cdn) an hour via a service provider for Internet
access as I'm not currently associated with a university.

Look forward to hearing from you.

Cheers,
David Allnutt/Montreal


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David E. Allnutt, M.P.A.

David Allnutt, 45, international businessman, educator and consultant, is
President of his own consulting company, The CorpEd Group, Inc. (1984),
which provides strategy/operations, finance, and sales/marketing advice to
leaders in business, government and the not-for-profit sector. In the
private sector, he has/has had clients in high technology, chemicals, food
and beverage, packaging, financial services, consulting, entertainment and
communications industries. The group has representation in Toronto, New
York, Paris, Hong Kong and Bangkok.

Mr. Allnutt has been Vice-President of Alexander Proudfoot Company, a
leading worldwide consulting firm in performance, profitability
improvement, quality enhancement and training advice to Chief Executive
Officers/Managing Directors for 48 years.

Mr. Allnutt was Executive Assistant to the Prime Minister of Quebec in the
mid-70's and, earlier, Assistant and Chief of Staff, consecutively, to
three of his senior cabinet ministers. He has also been Senior Advisor to
the Cabinet Office and the Ministry of International Affairs. From 1970 to
1973, he was a journalist for one of Canada's largest dailies, The Montreal
Star. Earlier, he was a journalist for The Sherbrooke Daily Record and the
radio network of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

He has also been part of the consulting group of the Canadian International
Development Agency (CIDA), which provides consulting expertise to CIDA
clients around the world.  Between 1986 and 1990, he was President of
Canifex International Inc., a Montreal-based international development
non-profit organization which promoted public-private joint ventures in the
developing world.

He is also Senior Research Associate of New York-based Greenwich
Associates, the world leader in strategic research and consulting for
professional financial services -- banking, stockbroking, investing and
bond and foreign exchange dealing -- in North America, Europe and Asia.

Mr. Allnutt has been an advisor for over 10 years to the Bronfmans of
Montreal, one of Canada's leading business and philanthropic families, and
various of their business and philanthropic interests.

He is Founder and Honourary Member of The Corporate-Higher Education Forum,
which began in the early 80's. He was the first Vice-Chairman and a
Director of the Forum, a nonprofit organization which is a coalition of
some 90 chief executives of Canada's largest corporations and its leading
universities. He was co-signatory of the first Forum task force report on
R&D and technology transfer, which produced the seminal study, Partnership
for Growth/Ensemble vers l'avenir; the report provided the framework for
the Forum's first decade of action. Mr. Allnutt has won national and
international awards for founding the Forum.

Through his consulting and other professional activities, Mr. Allnutt
promotes increased business-education dialogue and cooperation in countries
and regions around the world, notably in the Asian Pacific Rim. The "forum
model" which Mr. Allnutt markets has been emulated in Europe and Australia,
and is currently in the offing for Mexico; the model provides an effective
framework for bringing together a nation's intellectual resources and its
entrepreneurial forces for improved productivity and competitiveness.

=46or his contributions to Canadian and Quebec society, Le Devoir, one of
Canada's leading dailies, called Mr. Allnutt "a favorite son" and "definite
Cabinet material" after it was revealed in 1989 that the Quebec Premier had
asked him to run in the provincial general election that year.

Mr. Allnutt is active in the community. He sits on the Board of Directors
of the public-private Waste Management and Recycling Fund, where he
represents one of Canada's premier industry groups. From 1987 to 1994, he
served as an elected trustee of Montreal's Baldwin-Cartier School
Commission, where he sat on the Executive Committee.

Between 1982 and 1992, Mr. Allnutt was a visiting executive professor to
graduate and undergraduate students at McGill and Concordiauniversities
(Montreal) in operations management, business strategy, industrial policy,
international marketing, human resources, corporate finance, economics,
media management, Canadian politics, and international politics. He has
also lectured at the Asian Institute of Technology (Bangkok).

As a senior administrator and member of the management committee between
1977 and 1984, Mr. Allnutt was responsible for public, government and
business relations, and strategic planning, at Concordia University,
Canada's seventh largest post-secondary institution.

Mr. Allnutt holds a master's degree in management from Ecole nationale
d'administration publique, the Universit=E9 du Qu=E9bec's graduate school of
management. He did his undergraduate work in communications at the
University of Montreal. He is also an alumnus of the Productivity College
in West Palm Beach, Florida (USA) and the Canadian Management Centre,
Toronto.

He is founding President of the Canadian Business Council for Thailand and
Indochina, a bilateral country association of businessmen and women
fostering increased commercial links with Canada's largest trading partner
in ASEAN and the neighboring emerging economies. He is also a member of
several other professional associations.

Mr. Allnutt is a frequent commentator and speaker on business, economic,
education and public policy issues; he has written for, or been featured
in, many of Canada's leading daily and business publications, including The
Globe and Mail, Le Devoir, The Gazette, The Financial Post, La Presse, The
Toronto Star, Le Soleil, The Vancouver Sun, The Ottawa Citizen, The Windsor
Star and other publications, including The Canadian Journal of Higher
Education, The Bangkok Post and The Nation  (Bangkok).

Mr. Allnutt was born in Sherbrooke, Quebec, on February 13, 1949; he is
fluent in French and English. He has lived in Canada and Germany; his work
has taken him through North America, Europe, Africa and Asia.

David E. Allnutt
(514) 626-4944
e-mail: dallnutt@interlink.net


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