Speakers
Ron Davis
Ron Davis is a key player in Qualcomm’s drive to implement a world-class, Brand Protection (BP) and
intellectual property rights (IPR) protection program. Ron capitalizes on his experiences as a former FBI
Special Agent; big-four international security consultant; security director for General Dynamics Space
Systems; volunteer security director for Dennis Conner’s successful America’s Cup campaign; global
director, corporate security for Honeywell; and anti-counterfeit leader for Cisco Systems. He was
recruited to establish Qualcomm’s Brand Protection Program in 2005. In addition to managing global
BP/IPR investigations, forensic examinations and international BP investigative resources for Qualcomm,
Ron is uniquely involved in his industry as the only US based Vice Chairman of the 215+ corporate
member’s, Quality Brands Protection Committee (QBPC), in China. Ron was also elected as QBPC’s
“Goodwill Ambassador” to the United States. He travels to China and Asia, 6 or more times each year.
His BP team includes Chinese citizens who serve as BP Senior Manager and BP Manager Analyst in
China. He has the valuable perspective of having lived/worked in Hong Kong/ China/Asia and organized
Cisco’s anti-counterfeit program to complement its ongoing IPR and gray market efforts. That unique
experience, enhanced by ten+ years leading Qualcomm’s BP efforts, makes him one of the most
experienced professionals in the Brand Protection space. Ron served as a United States Marine Corps
combat helicopter pilot. He has been designated a Certified Protection Professional (CPP) and Certified
Fraud Examiner (CFE). Known by many for his love of networking, he is the advisory board President
for Michigan State University’s (MSU) Center for Anti-counterfeiting and Product Protection (A-
CAPP), the first true academic approach to the study of counterfeiting and intellectual property
protection. He is also a long term member of the Board of Directors, not-for-profit, Identity Theft
Resource Center (ITRC).
Mike DeStefano
Mike DeStefano is the Global Brand Protection Manager at DuPont Corporate. He leads the Corporate
Global Anti-Counterfeit Network and is responsible for assessing brands and businesses of the DuPont
Brands for a proactive approach to combating counterfeiting. Mr. DeStefano has been with DuPont in
various roles for over 20 years, including Project Director for the Corporate Remediation Group, Supply
Chain Manager and Top Line Growth Black Belt, moving from the Chemicals Solutions Business to the
Corporate Brand Protection Group in March of 2012. Mr. DeStefano was selected April 2013 as a member
of the ACAPP Industry Advisory Board.
Darrell Donahue
Dr. Donahue’s research related to food safety, food defense and risk assessment in general has a broad
spectrum and background. Most recently, Dr. Donahue has been involved in the area of quantitative risk
assessment. Dr. Donahue’s experiences related to risk assessment and modeling are: National Academies
of Science Committee, Scientific Criteria for safe food (2001-2003); US-EPA, Science Advisory Board,
Computational Toxicological Framework for Risk Assessment (2003), Microbiological Risk Assessment
for drinking water (2004-present); US Army-CHPPM, task force for anthrax threat models (2003-
present); an AOAC International, Best Practices for Microbiological Methods (2004-present) and most
recently (2009-2011) as a member of the Council of Canadian Academies focused on the evaluation of risk
assessment methods used in the Canadian government. Dr. Donahue serves as a consultant to the
International Commission on the Microbiological Specifications for Foods and as an expert on
WHO/FAO panels in food safety and defense. He also consults with the federal government in the area
of risk assessment and its evaluation. In these risk assessment venues, Dr. Donahue contributed his
expertise to the exposure assessment and dose response portions of risk assessment where he can
capitalize on and contribute his strengths in industrial statistics and Monte Carlo simulation and
modeling. Additionally, Dr. Donahue was a 2007-08 AAAS Science Fellow with the Department of
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