Dr. Jerald L. Feinstein School of Business and Public Management, Department of Management Science The George Washington University Washington DC 20052, USA (202) 994-3904 (Office) (202) 994-4930 (FAX) E-Mail: jerry@gwu.edu

Biographical Sketch

Professor in the School of Business and Public Management, the George Washington University and former Visiting Fellow at Harvard. He serves on the advisory boards of high-technology start-ups, teaches and develops courses in telecommunications and advanced networking technologies, Internet Commerce, and other technology courses within the MBA, Master of Science, and Executive Programs, and is recognized as an international authority on Next Generation Internet applications, telecommunications, Internet-based commerce, technology change management, and artificial intelligence.

Consultant to Fortune 100 Companies and Government Organizations in the areas of telecommunications, Next-Generation Internet applications, and advanced information systems; and was formerly associated with Booz, Allen & Hamilton, The Stanford Research Institute of Stanford University, and MITRE (earlier, a part of MIT Lincoln Labs). Responsible for helping to deploy billion dollar telecommunications, information systems, and IT infrastructure upgrade initiatives.

Recognized author and educator - - editor of several peer reviewed technical journals, delivers a series of technology seminars presented throughout the world, invited lecturer at Harvard, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, Oxford University, University of Virginia, and American University, and Regional Editor of The Expert Systems Journal.

Consultant to Internet-based startups in the technology and venture capital areas, and served in senior management positions with profit center responsibility in several large corporations. Collaborated closely with the Naisbitt Group (John Naisbitt, Megatrends) to forecast the impact of rapidly changing technology on organizational dynamics and corporate profitability.