Telecom veteran Arun Sarin, former CEO of Vodafone, MBA 78, MS 78 (engineering), shares his insights on leadership as part of the Dean’s Speaker Series, at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley. April 15, 2009 www.haas.berkeley.edu

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Stephen Pratt, CEO and managing director, Infosys Consulting, speaks on Leadership and Networking from the CEO Perspective at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley. This lecture is part of the annual Career Management Conference for first-year full-time MBA students and the Deans Speaker Series. (October 20, 2009) www.haas.berkeley.edu

By Michael Webster: 7th report of the investigation May 2008, 2:00 PM PDT In a recent drug bust at San Diego State University officials and police led to a federal investigation into drug trafficking SDSU year on campus and found that it is even more sophisticated, deeper and deeper and more dangerous than expected or have seen so far. The arrests coincided with the first anniversary of the death associated with cocaine in the first year student. According to local newspaper reports ninety-six suspects, including 75 SDSU students were arrested on drug charges after undercover operation, after Jenny Poliakoff, 19, was set up dead in his off-campus apartment after a night of celebration. One of the main suspects in this international drug trafficking investigation Omar Castaneda, a member of a band from Pomona with ties to the Mexican Tijuana drug cartels, said authorities. Castaneda, 36 years after their arrest, he was arrested in San Diego Superior Court on charges of possession of cocaine for sale. He is suspected of an important link between drugs flowing into California from Tijuana and sales at SDSU and other California universities. The violent Tijuana drug cartel Arellano-Felix as Organization (AFO) is known, has a solid and deadly of all activities in the drug trade and Baja California in San Diego. Their reach controls drug smuggling in Sinaloa, Jalisco, Michoacán, Chiapas and Baja, and has close ties with San Diego, California. The AFO dispensed an estimated $ 1 million a week in bribes to Mexican officials, police officers and Mexican and reserves to its own security force, well armed, trained, paramilitary. The DEA considers the AFO the violent and aggressive of the Mexican border cartels. Here is the lower profile of the DEA on the AFO and its leaders. Click on or Google: Dangerous Mexican Cartel Gangs The SDSU Police Department approached the DEA and county narcotics task force officers for the support of 07 in December, when it became clear that the drugs distributed on campus and involved Mexican organized drug cartels and crime of gang members and they were afraid that the measure on their ability to be a potentially very complicated international drug trafficking investigation manage scratches. ”We are in contact with several types of narcotics,” SDSU Police Chief John Browning. Said: “If you are serious, you should to someone who has dedicated the resources to do the next level, go.” As the investigation unfolded on the campus of the object with another drug-related deaths. An autopsy showed that Mesa College student Kurt Baker 24th February died of an SDSU fraternity from oxycodone and alcohol poisoning. ”We know there is drug use at school … But if you have an organization that is based actually in a school zone is a different story,” said Garrison Courtney of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. “You do not see.” Research shows that lucrative university and high school are campus fertile markets for drug traffickers. Mexican drug cartels have known this for years and probably be infiltrated many school systems of America by band members had the cartel. Federal authorities point to the drug cartels in Mexico, which are ultimately responsible for border violence by cemented ties to street gangs such as Barrio Azteca prison on the U.S. side. Azteca and other U.S. drug retail strip they get Mexican cartels and Mexican gangs. Mexican gangs run their own sales networks in the United States, and they produce most of the methamphetamine used north of the border. She turned even the Colombians several times to buy cocaine directly from producers in Bolivia, Peru and even Afghanistan. These bands are often the same agreement or alternative law enforcement authorities on the American side of the border. Intelligence suggests Los Zeta. Click on or Google: They are called “Los Zetas, the members of the various gangs made at different times, match including El Paso gang Barrio Azteca, Mexican Mafia, Texas, MS-13 and Hermanos Latinos Pistoleros known further their criminal activities. Authorities both sides of the border believe many of these gang members and other substitutes of Mexican drug cartels have infiltrated and operate openly on many powerful American school systems, especially in states bordering Mexico including Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California. One suspect, Phi Kappa Psi member Michael Montoya, worked as a community service on campus and earned a master’s degree in homeland security next month. Another student on suspicion of possession of 500 grams of cocaine and arrested two guns was a major criminal justice. Authorities identified 22 SDSU students as drug dealers, sold the undercover officers. At least 17 others allegedly supplied drugs. The other suspects have purchased or possession of illegal drugs. According to authorities, the students were from seven compounds in the drug ring, which operated openly involved on campus. The facts show that “most members were aware of organized drug trafficking occurring fraternity houses, authorities said. Drug agents confirmed that” the existence of a hierarchy for the purpose of selling drugs for money. “ The authorities have Theta Chi fraternity as a hub for cocaine-running process. An alleged dealer, Theta Chi member Kenneth Ciaccio, sent text messages to his “faithful customers announcing” that cocaine sales would be suspended over an upcoming weekend because he and his “associates” in Las Vegas would be, authorities said. The same message posted “sale” if the prices on cocaine transactions before the dealers left San Diego were closed. Until yesterday, Ciaccio was at SDSU website featured promoting the Compact for Success program, certain Sweetwater Union High School District students in the university if they maintain a B average guaranteed SDSU President Stephen Weber said that even when campus police, asking for help, decided to other authorities, “it was not clear that we went over to where we are today.” Ramon H. Mosler, chief of the Narcotics Division of the Office of the District Attorney of San Diego, California, said the investigation could have happened at universities in North America. Mosler said his unit joined because the university took the unusual step of asking for help. ”Often, governments do not want us to do these things, and that’s unfortunate,” Mosler said. “I think it’s important to do from time to time to wake up people. It is better awareness of the dangers of drugs.” After selling the house search affidavit Thomas Watanapun $ 400 cocaine undercover agents from a Lexus sedan registered to be to his father in Los Angeles. The authorities said some of the suspects made little effort to conceal their activities. Dealers are not selective about who they were sold, “said Mosler. Also arrested was Patrick Hawley, 20, was arrested on suspicion of armed robbery and selling cocaine near the campus said officials. According to a 2007 study by the National Center for Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, nearly half the nation’s 5th 4 million drug college full-time students or abuse of alcohol at least once a month. responsible for law enforcement in San Diego say street gangs here continue close links with organized crime groups in Tijuana have. A gunman killed recently adopted in an attack in Tijuana, that both a gang in Barrio Logan and the Arellano Felix drug cartel are. Reporter Amy Isackson Kbps. For years, Mexican drug trafficking groups of gang members from the United States are being recruited to do everything to murder by smuggling drugs. Tijuana Cartel Arellano Felix drug gang and San Diego Barrio Logan neighborhood go back at least 15 years. Many students in U.S. schools, as members of the gangs are now many on the American army, as they rotate services. Many veterans are invited to join, where the U. S Military Combat Training by Mexican cartels and gang leaders. Cartels are confronted with the police and the army on a regular basis in Mexico and we hope that these same tactics to bear fruit and enable them to cope with the U. S from the Police in a much more professional, efficient and dangerous . Richard Valdemar, a 30-year veteran of the Los Angeles County Department of Sheriff’s, travels the country teaching conferences and the military police of the gang members trained. Valdemar and other gang experts say gangs, members are invited to join the army for training to learn urban warfare and learn the latest weapons. current emphasis on military urban warfare plays into the mentality of the fight against street gangs, experts say. ”When individuals go into the army, they learn to weapons, defensive tactics and use of sophisticated techniques,” said Larae Quy, the Federal Bureau of Investigation. “You take this back on the road with them. It is a legitimate concern for law enforcement.” Valdemar CITES former Camp Pendleton Marine Sgt Jesse Quintanilla as an example of a high profile. A military court sentenced Quintanilla to death in 1996 for killing his wounded officer and his commander. When interrogators asked Quintanilla why he committed the crimes, Quintanilla said it was for “his brown brothers,” said Waldemar. Quintanilla showed them a tattoo on his chest with the word “sureño,” a reference to file a California gang, according to court records. Head of Recruitment Army in Washington, DC, to dismiss it as urban myth. A military spokesman said army background checks are numerous, and weeds on gang members. The Arellano-Felix Organization (AFO), often called Tijuana cartel, known to be one of the most powerful and aggressive drug trafficking organizations operating from Mexico, it is undoubtedly the most violent. More than any other organization other important traffic from Mexico, this organization extends its tentacles directly from the numbers in the upper echelons of the police and the judicial system in Mexico to street-level people in U.S. cities. The AFO is responsible for the transport, importation and sale of quantities of several tons of cocaine, marijuana, and large quantities of heroin and methamphetamine into the United States of Mexico. The AFO operates primarily in the Mexican state of Sinaloa (their birth place), Jalisco, Michoacan, Chiapas, Baja California and South and North. From Baja, the drugs between California, the most important point of embarkation to the network of the United States. The Arellano family, who together seven brothers and four sisters, inherited the organization from Miguel Angel Felix-Gallardo his incarceration in Mexico in 1989 for his complicity in the murder of DEA Special Agent Enrique Camarena. Alberto Benjamin Arellano-Felix took over the family structured criminal enterprise and offers a business approach to managing the operations of drug trafficking. The AFO also maintains complex communications centers in several cities in Mexico and the United States of espionage and electronic surveillance measures disadvantages disadvantages engage law enforcement of the law. The organization employs radio scanners and equipment for intercepting both hard line, radio and mobile phone to the security of AFO operations to ensure. In addition to technical equipment, the AFO caches of sophisticated automatic weapons has made a variety of international sources. Click on or Google: Mexican cartels, drugs and terrorists are recruiting for more fighters to train as soldiers A Joint Task Force of the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, was composed in San Diego, California established to consider the objective of the working of the AFO AFO operations in Southern California and study drug for regional transport, distribution and money laundering activities of the AFO to pursue in the United States. Click on or Google: Dangerous Mexican / US Criminal companies operating along the Mexican border Sources: DEA FBI San Diego Sheriff’s Office San Diego Trubune