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
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.
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.
