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President: Lee McKnight

Dr. McKnight is Wireless Grids' visionary. After leading work at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, Dr. McKnight was the founder of the Internet Telephony Consortium at MIT's School of Engineering . Dr. McKnight is co-editor of Internet Economics (MIT Press, 1997), a path-breaking work that comprises one of the first attempts at developing metrics for economic analysis of Internet transactions; Dr. McKnight is also co-author of The Gordian Knot: Political Gridlock on the Information Highway (MIT Press, 1997), a historically grounded vision of a regulatory and policy framework for the future. The basic research for the emergence of Wireless Grids comes from Dr. McKnight's National Science Foundation-funded “Virtual Markets and Wireless Grids” project that began in 2001. He is a Professor at Syracuse University 's School of Information Studies and co-founder of its Internet Governance Project. Dr. McKnight has a PhD from MIT, an MA from Johns Hopkins University and a BA from Tufts University.

 

Chief Strategy Officer: Dr Norman Lewis

Prior to joining WGC, Norman Lewis was the Director of Technology Research, Orange UK plc, (formerly the Home Division, France Telecom). In this role and prior to that as the founder and Director of Globalisation and Power in the Twenty First Century (1997) he has been a strategic pioneer in crafting innovation frameworks for the future application of information and communication technologies in society. Norman has a global reputation as an excellent communicator and inspirational presenter, with the ability to explain complex questions to a wide range of audiences. He has a robust track record of being able to focus, develop and mobilise a team around a set of objectives. His research team while at Orange were recognised as Internet thought-leaders across the world. Throughout his career, he has combined a passion for technology and people with a professionalism that has included extensive commitments in the private and public sphere, in voluntary as well as commercial environments. He is currently the Chairman of the ITU's TELECOM Programme Committee and has acted as a consultant to the World Intellectual Property Organisation. He holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of Sussex (UK) and has lectured at several Universities in the UK including Sussex , the University of Kent , Canterbury and Oxford.



 

Vice President, Engineering: Ian Pringle

Immediately prior to joining WGC Ian spent six years as a key member of France Telecom's high profile Technology Research team where he specialized in consultancy, research and prototype development of disruptive emerging technologies. Ian's work covered many domains including Grid computing, Home networking, End User creativity, Interfacing, Social networks, Search and Information Management. Ian has had a varied carrier. He started working as an analyst/programmer developing distributed database systems and moved into Internet and multimedia production in the mid 90's. He has built and managed multi-disciplined engineering and production teams several times and acted as technology strategy consultant to a number of start-ups. He was headhunted into the leading UK ISP Freeserve (later acquired by France Telecom) in 2000 where he ran the Technical Production team before moving into the R&D role. Ian holds a Master of Science degree with Distinction in the subject of Internet Application development.



 

Director of Marketing & Sales: Audrey Selian

Audrey has been contributing to company business development and strategy since mid-2005, and began working on the concept of mobile regions and wireless grids in 2001. She holds a PhD in Technology Policy & Management from the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University , and was a doctoral fellow at Harvard University 's National Center for Digital Government. Prior to re-entering academia, Audrey worked as a research consultant in the retail/consumer products and e-business strategy groups of PricewaterhouseCoopers Management Consulting in New York . More recently, Audrey has held consultant positions at both the Strategy & Policy Unit and the Regulatory Reform Unit of the Development Bureau of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) at the UN in Geneva , Switzerland . Her work has focused on issues around 3rd Generation mobile technologies, the evolution of mobile standards, mobile devices in youth markets, ICT research and general telecommunication market and development trends. Audrey holds Masters degrees from the Fletcher School (2001), as well as the London School of Economics (1997) and a BA from Wellesley College (1996).



Senior Engineer & Systems Architect: David Grandinetti

David started working on the Wireless Grids research project at Syracuse University in 2001, where he was doing a B.S. in Computer Science. After graduating, he became the first employee of WGC and was put to task to create the long term architecture as well as help shape implement our products. David enjoys live music, fixing up his home, and occassionally running in the afternoon.









Senior Interface Developer: George Karl

George came to the WGC team after 15 years working variously in the movie effects industry, interactive gaming and visualization. He developed inverse kinematic techniques for 3D animation and an interface for human motion notation at the Computer Graphics Research Group, Ohio State University . George's major focus in entertainment production became motion capture. More recently he has been involved in scientific visualization for nanotechnology, previsualization and proto-typing. Currently he is spending his waking hours developing interfaces in Flex, Flash and Air.





 

 
Advisory Board:
Jim Anderson, StandardID, co-founder About.com
Berge Ayvazian, Yankee Group
Sean Branagan, Communigration
Pascal Chesnais , France Telecom
Bob Frankston
Don Gonson, Wilmer Hale
William Lehr, MIT
Mike Liebhold, Institute for the Future
Ed Marootian, CA
Alan Nugent, CA
Jesse Parker, Dragonvest