Bio
Henry Chesbrough
Henry Chesbrough is Adjunct Professor and Executive Director at the Center for Open Innovation, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.
Arati Prabhakar
Arati Prabhakar is a partner at US Venture Partners.
Ashok Rao
Ashok Rao is Chairman of TiE Global.
John Roese
John Roese, senior vice-president of Huawei North American Research Center, oversees the company's overall research and development activities. He assists in establishing the product/device direction for R&D and impacts each unit's business, process and procedures.
Prior to joining Huawei, he was the global chief technology officer for Nortel based in Ottawa Canada, responsible for the leadership of the 12,000 R&D staff of the company. Additionally his responsibilities included leading the advanced research groups, common R&D, R&D strategy, the Nortel Intellectual Property Law group, standards activities, and broad externally facing evangelism and customer interaction on a global level. Prior to Nortel, he was CTO for Networking Technologies at Broadcom, CTO at Enterasys (now part of Siemens Enterprise Networks) and CTO of Cabletron Systems. His career has spanned the broad Information and Communications Technology market with experience in enterprise and carrier markets and technologies ranging from silicon development to higher level IT applications. He have been a member of the boards of numerous companies including Blade Network Technologies, Pingtel, Smartshare systems, and Bering Media and represented his companies in various initiatives within the industry including the board of One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) and board of the Alliance for Telecom Industry Solutions (ATIS).
Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran
Vijay Vaitheeswaran is an award-winning correspondent for The Economist. In his two decades on staff, he has covered development issues, energy and environment, health care, and innovation. He is an expert advisor to the World Economic Forum/Davos and a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He also teaches at NYU's Stern Business School. Mr. Vaitheeswaran has addressed groups ranging from the U.S. National Governors' Association and the U.N. General Assembly to the TED, AAAS and Aspen Ideas conferences. His most recent special reports for The Economist were on innovation and on technology in health care. His latest book, ZOOM, was named a Book of the Year by the Financial Times. Mr. Vaitheeswaran is also the author of Power to the People, a book on the future of energy.
Encyclopædia Britannica Article
- Economist, The
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