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Tei Iki
Former Senior Vice President, Sony Display Systems;
Former North American R&D Lead, Sony Corporation of America;
Co-chair for the New Space Theater Initiative, Reuben H. Fleet Science Center
Tei Iki has spent a four decade long career in the Electronic Display Business. He is retired from Sony Electronics, Inc. where he
founded and headed a multibillion dollar computer display business and also was in charge of Sony's North American R&D. During
his career, Tei has worked with Tektronix, Hewlett Packard and Sony and held a variety of technical and management positions. Tei
is most notably credited in the industry as one of the developers of color CRT displays for the computer industry. During the
course of his career, the display business unit headed by Tei was awarded the business performance award for
growth and profitability for three years in a row. Tei now spends his time as a consultant helping others commercialize
new technologies and is a board member of several companies. Tei studied Physics and Chemistry at UC Berkeley and is still
involved with the insitution through the UC San Diego School of Engineering and Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Gary So, MEng
VP, Strategic Business Development, Open Text; Former VP, Office of the CTO,
Software AG; Former VP, Office of the CTO,
webMethods, Inc.; Former Director of Professional Services, Active Software, Inc.
Gary So is a 10-year veteran of the enterprise software industry. Currently he is Vice President, Strategic Business
Development at Open Text, Inc., where he is responsible for market and business development strategies to complement and
extend the value of the Open Text Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Suite. Previously, Gary was Vice President in the
Office of the CTO at Software AG, where he played a pivotal role in the company's product and technology strategy. Gary
held the same position at webMethods, Inc., where he was instrumental in driving the company's go-to-market approach and
advancing its status as an industry thought leader. Gary is a recognized authority in the areas of enterprise application
integration, business process management, and service-oriented architecture technologies, and co-authored a book on these
topics in 2006 titled, "Integration and SOA: Concepts, Technologies, and Best Practices". Gary holds a Master's degree in
Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto, and a Bachelor of Applied Science (Electrical Engineering) from the
University of British Columbia.
Michael Jones, MA
President, ProFinance Associates; Co-founder and Chair, The Security Network
Michael is President of ProFinance Associates, Inc., an investment banking
firm headquartered in San Diego. ProFinance provides M & A and financing
advisory services. ProFinance is co-founder and Michael is Chair of The
Security Network, a San Diego-based organization to identify and promote the rapid adoption of innovative,
dual-usage security technologies and to function as a national /
international test bed for the security field. Michael sits on the Advisory
Board of the Entrepreneurial Management Center (EMC) and the Advisory Board
for the Colleges of Engineering and Sciences, and lectures periodically in
the Business School at SDSU.
Andrew Csinger, PhD
Entrepreneur in Residence, UBC Industry Liaison Office; Founder and President,
Xcert Software Inc.; Founder, Cogneto Inc.
Andrew was Senior Vice President and CIO of Group Telecom, founder and Presid ent of Xcert Software, and
President of Interspect Systems. Andrew is regarded as a thought leader in the data security industry. He has been
involved in successful liquidity events at Xcert Software - sold to RSA - and Group Telecom, which
completed an IPO. Andrew has recently taken a role as Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) at UBC.
Drasko Sotirovski, MASc PEng
Senior Software Architect, Raytheon
Drasko is a software architect at Raytheon Company in California. Drasko has specialized in program design, fault tolerant
systems, and distributed systems during more than twenty years of experience developing large-scale real-time software
for defense, simulation, transport, and telecommunication systems. Drasko has the real-time and distributed system experience
necessary to create industry-standard and compliant solutions.
Reuven Granot, PhD
Former Chief Scientist, Israeli Ministry of Defense - Scientific Deputy for Research and Technology;
Consultant to several Israeli industries; Professor at
University of Haifa and Israel Institute of Technology
In his previous role with the Israeli Ministry of Defense, Reuven led the development of Israeli supercomputer and introduced state-of-the-art
computer technologies into the defence community. Reuven's research is in the area of development of robotic software control
agents to represent a human operator interfacing with a complex tele-robotic system
environment as well as the progression from tele-operated equipment to human supervised autonomous control.
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