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Team
Kenneth
H. Smith, Founder & CEO
Ken
Smith is a career entrepreneur with over 12 years of high
technology and services industry experience. Prior to
starting Digiticians he was a member of the original management
team at eYak, an IP Telephony concern, where as Vice President of
Marketing & Strategy he helped grow the company from 8
to over 100 employees and raise the company's valuation from $10M
to $210M in nine months. Previously Ken served as Director of
e-Strategy at Mainspring, a Cambridge-based Internet strategy
services firm. Before Mainspring Ken led USWeb's
Boston-based Internet strategy consulting services practice and he
was a co-founder of the Internet advertising division of
communications giant Arnold Communications. Ken's first
entrepreneurial venture was as co-founder and Vice President of
Business Development for Communicate, a Santa Monica-based retail
store-front operation that offered Internet access, software
training and CD-ROM development to consumers. Ken is a
founding board member of the Massachusetts Interactive Media
Council and served for five years as president of the
International Interactive Communications Society Boston chapter.
He is a frequent speaker at major Internet conferences throughout
the US, in the UK and Germany and has been a guest lecturer at
Harvard University, Tufts University, Boston College and UCLA.
Anne
Marie Biernacki, Founder & CTO
Anne
Marie Biernacki is a career entrepreneur with over 15 years of
start-up experience, and was named one of ten "Women to Watch
for 2005" by Mass High Tech Magazine. Before starting
Digiticians Anne Marie was previously the VP/CTO of Fuelspot, an
online B-to-B exchange and supply chain enabler in the energy
products sector. Before Fuelspot, Anne Marie was a founding team
member of Avicenna / Care InSite, an e-Health transaction and
services pioneer eventually purchased by Healtheon / Web MD. Prior
to Avicenna, she consulted to numerous Federal research programs
for companies including The Analytic Sciences Corporation (TASC)
and Photon Research Associates and was actively engaged in small
entrepreneurial ventures commercializing optical signal processing
technologies through the Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR)
grant program. Anne holds a Masters degree with additional
graduate work in Electrical Engineering from Tufts University and
was a Draper Fellow at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. She
has been active in XML and other standards activities and commerce
initiatives for web services, and she has been a guest lecturer at
Northeastern University, and a panelist and presenter with the
Women's Enterprise Initiative. She is currently an active member
of NEWBO and The Commonwealth Institute.
Samir
Dautovic, Manager of Service Operations
Samir
Dautovic was born in Bosnia and graduated Tono Hrovat, Bosnia and
Herzegovina. He moved to the United States in 1996, and it has
been all about learning since then. He graduated from the Computer
Learning Center in 1999 as an Information Technology Support
Professional. Samir worked for AT&T Broadband as Technical
Support Specialist, and was promoted to Senior Technical Support
Specialist in 2000, where he operated as department
resource/subject matter expert/role model in providing on-the-job
training and coaching to team members on complex technical
problems and effective resolution of escalated issues. He joined
the Digiticians in August 2001 and has been instrumental in
providing day-to-day leadership in the Service Operations team and
ensuring that standards of service are met with our customers.
Strategic
Advisory Board
Clayton
Christensen
Clayton
M. Christensen is a professor of business administration at the
Harvard Business School, with a joint appointment in Technology
& Operations Management and General Management. His research
and writing interests center on the management of technological
innovation, developing organizational capabilities, and finding
new markets for new technologies. Prior to joining the HBS
faculty, Clayton served as chairman and president of Ceramics
Process Systems Corporation (CPS), leading manufacturers of
products made from injection-molded powdered metals,
high-performance ceramics, and ceramic-metal composites. From 1979
to 1984 Clayton worked as a consultant and project manager with
the Boston Consulting Group. In 1982 Christensen was named a White
House Fellow, and served through 1983 as assistant to U.S.
Transportation Secretaries Drew Lewis and Elizabeth Dole. Clayton
holds a B.A. with highest honors in economics from Brigham Young
University (1975), and an M.Phil. in economics from Oxford
University (1977), where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. He
received an MBA with High Distinction from the Harvard Business
School in 1979, graduating as a George F. Baker Scholar. He was
awarded a DBA from the Harvard Business School in 1992. His book,
The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms
to Fail, won the 1997 Global Business Book Award for the best
business book published in 1997.
Les
Goldstein
Les
Goldstein has thirty plus years serving as a successful executive
in a number of technology and service related companies. These
companies include software related businesses serving the banking
industry as well as a company providing payroll and related
services to the small and mid size business market. Mr. Goldstein
was Chief Operating Officer of Advantage Systems, which sold
sophisticated cash management software and services to the banking
industry. The company grew to $10mm in revenue before being sold
to ADP. Mr. Goldstein was also President & CEO of InterPay
that grew to the fourth largest payroll and related services
provider in the United States. That was sold to Paychex in 2003.
Mr. Goldstein has served on the IBM Board of Advisors for The
Financial Services Industry as well as the Compaq Computer
Financial Services Board of Advisors. In both instances he was
selected for his expertise in the successful application of
technology to business related problems. Mr. Goldstein has
extensive experience in the areas of general management, business
development, sales/marketing and customer service. He currently
serves on a number of company Boards as well as being involved
with consulting activities. Mr. Goldstein has an MBA from George
Washington University and a BS from The University of Bridgeport.
Rana
Gupta
Rana
K. Gupta is a Director at Navigator Technology Ventures (NTV), an
affiliate of Draper Laboratory. NTV is an early stage venture
capital firm funding technology start ups. Mr. Gupta has been in
technology-driven business development, sales and marketing roles
since 1988. Before joining NTV, he was Product Manager for Global
Services with yet2.com, a B2B marketplace for technology transfer.
Prior to this, Rana started two companies - IndoSine U.S. Link
Ltd., a business development company assisting clients expanding
their business by finding customers, markets and technology in
India, China and the U.S.; and under IndoSine, a wireless software
company, International Solutions, in which he acted as VP of Sales
and Marketing. Mr. Gupta was also Manager, PRC Investment Strategy
for Zeneca Pharmaceuticals, in Beijing, China. Before joining
Zeneca he was with Arthur D. Little, Inc. Also, while with Arthur
D. Little, Mr. Gupta was part of the start-up team for the
Bangalore, India office. Mr. Gupta holds a BA in Mathematics from
Earlham College, an MS in Operations Research from Stanford
University and a MBA in Finance and International Business from
New York University's Stern School of Business.
John
Facella
John
Facella has been the President and CEO of a number of high
technology start-ups and one NASDAQ public company. These
companies include Digit Wireless, a firm with innovative patents
in the cellular mobile phone industry, several in information
security, and Cha! Technologies Services in Internet e-commerce.
Mr. Facella has also served as a Board director for 4 companies,
an Advisory Board member for 2 companies, and an Advisory Board
member for 2 non-profits. He served for 7 years on Georgia Tech's
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Industrial Advisory
Board, and was vice chairman for 2 years. Prior to his work with
start-ups, Mr. Facella worked for 20 years in various management
roles with Motorola in its wireless communications sector, in
product management, marketing, sales, engineering, and project
management. Mr. Facella earned a BSEE from Georgia Tech, and an
MBA in marketing and international business from Georgia State
University. Mr. Facella is also the founder and chairman of The
CEO Management Group™, a peer networking organization for
experienced CEOs. Today Mr. Facella focuses on wireless
technologies for public safety and homeland security.
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