Timothy L. Garten
Vice President, Operations
McQueary Brothers Drug Co.

Tim Garten is the Vice President of Operations for McQueary Brothers Drug Co., and has been with the company for 19 years. Garten is in charge of the warehousing and distribution to the independent pharmacies in the company’s eight-state region. He has served on the HDMA Logistics Committee for four years, serving as Co-Chair in 2007 and 2008 and recently spoke at the HDMA 2008 Distribution Management Conference on Cold Chain Best Practices and presented at an NWDA Protec Meeting on introduction to bar code scanning in the workplace. Among other activities, he has participated in the development of the HDMA Cold Chain Distribution Guidelines. Garten received his BA from Missouri State University. 

John G. Howells
Senior Director, Industry Relations
Healthcare Distribution Management Association

John Howells is the Senior Director, Industry Relations, for the Healthcare Distribution Management Association (HDMA). His responsibilities include Electronic Product Code (EPC) technical initiatives. Howells remains active in the development of EPC standards, and he serves as co-chair of the EPCglobal Healthcare and Life Sciences Industry Action Group, the Track and Trace Interest Group and the EPCglobal Data Exchange Joint Requirements Group. He has more than 20 years of evaluating and implementing emerging technologies in the supply chain. Howells previously worked for DuPont in a variety of industries, and for PriceWaterhouseCoopers, where he was one of the first to successfully implement Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and SAP.