Founder and CEO
Lester is an entrepreneur who
holds a number of patents for inventions in what he and
Peter Keen have named PCC – Personal
Consumer Communications.
Lester graduated with a BSEE (Electronic and Electrical
Engineering) degree from the University of Cape Town, South
Africa.
Since immigrating to the U.S.A., Lester has worked in the
full life-cycle of systems and software development for
numerous small and large companies such as
MCI, PRC
(now part of Northrop Grumann) and
Intelsat.
At MCI, Mr. Sussman was one of the primary systems
architects that successfully implemented a modernization of
MCI's telephony network management system. He played a
leading management role in positioning
INTELSAT
for the era of digital satellite communications and the
Internet.
In 2000, Lester founded ceBerg, anchored on a number of his
granted patents. He has acquired various patent license fees
from a number of multinational companies. Lester continues
to actively file patents.
As part of his commitment to encouraging and supporting
entrepreneurs in their building of their own IP innovations,
Mr. Sussman regularly provides
seminars to universities and business groups on how to
develop, file and problem-solve in their own patent
applications
Principal Advisor
With 30 years of experience in a wide variety of software,
systems and management positions, Dr. Robert N. Charette is
an internationally acknowledged authority and pioneer in IT
management and engineering, business and technical risk
management, and the lean development & management of
large-scale software-intensive systems. Dr. Charette is the
President of the
ITABHI
Corporation, an international high technology company
involved in information and telecommunications systems
management consulting.
Dr. Charette serves as a senior advisor to a wide variety of
Global 100 companies, high tech consortiums, as well as
government departments. Dr. Charette is on the advisory
board of the Project Management Institute’s special interest
group on risk management (1997-present), was the working
group chair (1998-2001) of the new IEEE standard 1540 on
software risk management, served on the advisory board of
the Usenix
/ UMichigan ICAMP II computer security project (1998-1999),
was the elected chair of the US Software Engineering
Institute risk advisory board (1995-1997), has served as a
member of the National Research Council's Review Committee
of Space Shuttle software safety (1992-93), was past elected
vice-chairman and chairman of the National Security
Industrial Association Software Committee (1988-89,
1990-91), and is a member of various professional society
technical review committees.
Dr. Charette is the
author of over 75 articles on software, systems, and
management, served as a consulting editor and columnist to
Software Management magazine in London, and is now on the
editorial board of
Software
Quality Professional. He is also the author of the
books: “Software
Engineering Environments: Concepts and Technology”
(1986), “Software
Engineering Risk Analysis & Management”
(1989), “Applications
Strategies for Risk Analysis”
(1990), "Introduction to the Management of Risk" (1994) and
co-author of “A
Unified Methodology for Systems Development”
(1987) .
Principal Advisor
Mr. Diwan was a Managing Director of
EMP and
CEO of AIG Asian Infrastructure Fund. He is a member of the
Asian Fund’s Oversight Committee.
Rauf joined EMP in 1997 as a Managing Director of EMP,
AIG Asian Infrastructure Fund II. He also was responsible
for establishing and managing EMP’s regional office in
Singapore, and has served on the Board of several Asian
companies. He was instrumental in developing and executing
EMP’s strategy in Korea.
Prior to joining EMP, Mr. Diwan had served 15 years with
the
International Finance Corporation. In 1997, he was
Director of the Power Department of the IFC, responsible for
investments in the power sector of all emerging markets. He
achieved the highest level of investment in the sector
during his tenure. Prior to that, he was Manager of the
Power Division in 1996 and Division Manager of the
East Asia Division from 1994 to 1995. In East Asia he
was responsible for turning around and expanding IFC’s
business in China. In the Power Division, he was responsible
for several innovative structures and played a leading role
in advisory work on the first BOT project in China. From
1978 to 1988, Mr. Diwan held many leadership positions in
the IFC Asia and the Infrastructure Departments.
He has a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from Oregon State
University and an M.B.A. from Columbia University. He was a
DuPont Fellow at Columbia. He is also a graduate of the
Stanford University Executive Program.
Principal Advisor
Peter is the Founder and Chairman of
Keen
Innovations. Keen Innovations is a
management consulting,
executive education and research organization
specializing in helping senior managers in the public and
private sectors exploit information technology-enabled
business opportunities.
Peter is a
professor, adviser to senior management in business and
government organizations,
author,
executive educator, and
public speaker.
Peter was named as one of the top 100 business “gurus” in
the world – thought leaders with impact – in a 2003 survey.
This ranking is based on objective measures of citations of
his work in the scholarly literature (influence as a thought
leader),
Google search engine “hits” on his name (public impact
and interest), and media references on Lexis/Nexus
(newsworthiness). He is regularly ranked in the top ten
consultants in the world in the IT field but the business
guru rating indicates the extent to which his work is more
general than just IT.
