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'''Laina Raveendran Greene''' is a Member of Board of Directors at [[Emota.net]] and Strategic Accountant at [[Internet Systems Consortium]]. Ms. Greene is an Enterpreneur in Residence, Global Entrepreneur Marketing at Stanford Technology Venture Program.
'''Laina Raveendran Greene''' has extensive experience working as a ICT consultant and running media start-ups. She currently serves as a Strategic Accounts Manager with [[ISC|Internet Systems Consortium]], as CEO and lead consultant with [[G-ET-IT]], as a Board Member for [[Emota.net]], and as an Instructor and Entrepreneur in Residence for Stanford University's Global Entrepreneur Marketing Program.<ref>[http://www.linkedin.com/in/laina LinkedIn]</ref>


She is also the CEO and Lead Consultant at GET-IT and a Member at ITU TELECOM Program Committee.
Ms. Greene has been involved in Internet developments, participation in the [[RFC]] series, and Internet governance since the early 1990s. She is one of the organizers for the [[IFWP|International Forum on the White Paper]],<ref>[http://www.domainhandbook.com/singapore.html#attend DomainHandbook.com]</ref><ref>[http://mailman.apnic.net/mailing-lists/apnic-talk/archive/1998/09/msg00003.html Mailman.APNIC.net]</ref> and has worked with several prominent international Internet fora, such as [[APIA]] and [[APNIC]].<ref>[[ICANN 41]] Interview</ref>


== Career History ==
She was born and raised in Singapore, though she now resides in the U.S.A.<ref>[[ICANN 41]] Interview</ref>
Ms. Greene has been working since 1987 and has held several positions during this time.
==Career History==
===GetIt & Green ICT===
Laina Raveendran Greene is the founder and CEO of GetIt Multimedia. The consulting company initially focused on transforming businesses through visual and communications technology. She sold the business to a group of investors in 2006, though she continues to work as its CEO and Principal Consultant.<ref>[http://www.linkedin.com/in/laina LinkedIn.com]</ref>  It is now known as G-ET-IT, which stands for Green Energy Technology and Information Technology, and their focus has moved to consulting on how to make ICT companies more viable through progressive energy usage.<ref>[http://www.getit.org/ GetIt.org]</ref>


Member of Board of Directors 2010 – Present
She has since become more deeply involved in the green movement within the ICT industry; Ms. Greene has even co-produced a TV documentary on that topic. She has consulted for a number of prominent companies; organized Green Telecom seminars at International conferences; chaired special panels on Green ICT; and participated in a variety of ways as both a consultant, participant, and leader at these events.<ref>[http://www.linkedin.com/in/laina LinkedIn]</ref>
Strategic Accounts at Internet Systems Consortium 2010 – Present
Enterpreneur in Residence, Global Entrepreneur Marketing at Stanford Technology Venture Program 2009 – Present
CEO and Lead Consultant at GET-IT 2000 – Present
Member at ITU TELECOM Program Committee 1996 – Present
Pro Bono Strategic Advisor 2009 – 2010
Chair of Green@ICT sub-committee and Advisory Program Committee member at ITU World TELECOM 2009 2009 –  2009


Chaired the Green@ICT sub-committee of the Program Advisory Comittee for ITU TELECOM'09. Organized 4 panel sessions for the main program. Created the concept of a Green@ICT pavilion and successfully built a team to execute this concept.
Ms. Greene's home is solar powered.<ref>[http://www.esbri.se/sweden-us/sweden-us-biopop.asp?id=26 ESBRI.se]</ref>
Co-Producer (Green Planet documentary)
TELECOMTV
Privately Held; Online Media industry
November 2008 – October 2009 (1 year)


Co-produced with Guy Daniels, a documentary on Green ICT, which now serves as a resource guide for telecom service providers and vendors (and indirectly users). There is a e-book and a website. www.telecomtv.com/greenplanet
===International Representation===
Executive Communications Consultant
Laina Raveendran Greene is the founding Secretary of [[APIA]], which is the Asia Pacific Internet Association. She served her first term from 1996 to 1997, and immediately served a second term from 1997 to 1998.<ref>[[ICANN 41]] Interview</ref> She was also Singapore’s representative to PECC Infocomm Advisory Committee and an International Advisory Panel member of the Asia Pacific Development Information Program (APDIP).<ref>[http://www.streeshakti.com/Laina-Greene.aspx Streeshakti.com]</ref> She served as a Policy Advisor to [[APNIC]] from 1997 to 1999,<ref>[[ICANN 41]] Interview</ref> and as the Chair of the Asia Pacific Policy and Legal Track at [[APRICOT]].<ref>[http://www.apricot.net/apricot98/html/instructors.html APRICOT.net]</ref>
Juniper Networks
Public Company; JNPR; Computer Networking industry
April 2008 – August 2008 (5 months)


Working with the Executive Vice President of Infrastructure Products Group, to help consolidate and finetune external messaging and presentations. Worked cross functionally and collaboratively across Juniper, and accomplished two key communications projects, which will wrap up in August 2008.
Ms. Greene was the only representative of the Baha'i International Community to the Tunis Conference of the [[WSIS|World Summit on the Information Society]]. In 1990, she was called upon as a SE Asian IT expert and representative of ASEAN nations for the [[UNCTAD|United Nations Conference on Trade and Development]]; this involved extensive international travel to present and meet with various national IT regulators. She was also the Consultant to the Chief of the Telecommunication Regulations and Member Relations at the International Telecommunications Union in Switzerland from 1988 to 1989, and later worked as an Advisor to the International Satellite Organization (INTELSAT) in Washington D.C.<ref>[http://www.linkedin.com/in/laina LinkedIn]</ref>
Teaching team
Stanford Center for Professional Development
Higher Education industry
June 2008 – June 2008 (1 month)


Taught a class on "Managing Customer/Stakeholder Relationships Across the Cultural Chasm" to professionals from industry taking the Stanford Advanced Program Management "Leveraging Customer Relationship" course. Students were professionals from around the world, and from companies as varied as Sun, Cisco, Intel, eBay, Compassion International, etc. Stanford Prof Tom Kosnik is the lead teaching team and co-founder of the program with IPS.
She has served on a [[WIPO]] panel of experts on domain name and [[Intellectual Property|intelectual property]] issues.<ref>[http://www.streeshakti.com/Laina-Greene.aspx Streeshakti.com]</ref>
Founder and CEO
GetIT Multimedia, Singapore
Education Management industry
January 1998 – August 2006 (8 years 8 months)


GetIT Multimedia (now renamed GetIT - www.getitcomms.com) was started with a goal to capitalise on visual content and communications technology to disseminate and share technical knowledge to empower and transform businesses.  
===Other Work===
Ms. Greene has an extensive career as a consultant, and over the years her clients have included:  Pacific Internet, [[Cisco Systems]], Juniper Networks, [[Verisign]], Telemedia Italia,  the International Development Research Centre in Canada, and many others.


As founder and CEO for almost 9 years, I was responsible for setting the vision, building business models for a services business, doing national and regional marketing and sales, be responsible for P&L, build the team, etc. I recently sold the company to a group of private investors, and am proud to see that the team I built now has a stake in the business, runs and manages the business.
She has been a business manager and Singapore Telecom, a lecturer at the National University of Singapore's School of Law, and a Board Member for [[Globetel Communications]].<ref>[http://www.linkedin.com/in/laina LinkedIn]</ref>
 
GetIT Multimedia has gained international reputation for offering fast, effective solutions to clients, and has been featured as a leader in knowledge exchange by international such as CNN, CNBC, San Jose Mercury News. It has a 90% recurrent customers, which include clients such as Cisco Systems since 1998.
External Consultant (project basis)
Cisco
Management Consulting industry
1997 – 2006 (9 years)
 
Assisted dissemination of "Are you ready" video to key telecom policy makers and regulators in Asia Pacific, through the launch of "The Internet for Policy Makers" (1997), assisted the organisation of a key regulators forum at the Cisco EBC under the auspicies of APEC TEL and co-organised with PECC (1999), assisted the organisation of key small and medium enterprise policy makers in Asia Pacific at Cisco EBC under the auspicies of the Asia Pacific IT Summit, assisted in the organisation of the Telecom Development Symposium at ITU World Telecom 2006.
Director and Audit Committee member
Board of Directors, Globetel Communications, USA
Public Company; 51-200 employees; GTEM.PK; Telecommunications industry
April 2005 – December 2005 (9 months)
 
Very exciting company with promising telecommunications technologies for developing countries, namely Wi-fi/Wi-Max/DECT integrated technologies (HotZone) and stratellites (offering wide area coverage at economical pricing potentially helping to bridge the digital divide). Served as member of the Board of Directors and of the Audit Committee (one of 2 Independent Directors). During which time, participated actively in 2 face to face Board meetings, and several virtual Board meetings and emergency meetings, 1 face to face and several virtual audit committee meetings, attended Annual General Meeting of shareholders, attended public viewing of stratellite prototype, attended American Stock Exchange Listing and Ringing of the Bell Ceremony, visited staff and team of Globetel to do some due diligence on work of the Board before joining the Board, etc. It was overall an enlightening and intense experience.
Tunis Phase 2 of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) representative
Baha'i International Community (BIC)
Nonprofit; 51-200 employees; International Affairs industry
September 2005 – November 2005 (3 months)
 
Was the sole representative of the Baha'i International Community (BIC) for the Tunis phase of the World Summit on the Information Society. Attended the WSIS preparatory meeting in Geneva, Switzerland as well as the WSIS meeting in Tunis, Tunisia. Helped organise the Ethics and Values Caucus seminar and meeting in Tunis. (BIC is the representative of the Baha'is around the world at the United Nations. It has ECOSOC status as a not-for-profit organisation. Check out www.bic.org for more info)
Secretary General
Asia Pacific Internet Association (APIA)
Nonprofit; 1-10 employees; Internet industry
April 1997 – April 1998 (1 year 1 month)
 
Took the vision of Internet pioneers in Asia to have a regional ISP organisation, and made it happen. They saw the need to create a new trade organisation to lobby and inform regulators about their key issues as well as to facilitate bilateral discussions between service provider members. The organization was successfully created and launched within a 6-9 month period, within which time it attained “trusted advisor” status with many organizations such as APEC, OECD, ITU, APNIC, etc. In fact, within a month of launching, it gained attention and was covered by the Asian Wall Street Journal and CNBC. APIA continues to be a key player in Asia Pacific and today is the key organiser of APRICOT (Asia Pacific Rim Internet Conference on Operational Technologies).
Adjunct lecturer
National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law
Educational Institution; Higher Education industry
June 1995 – June 1997 (2 years 1 month)
 
Taught an undergraduate and another Masters Class on "International Telecommunications Law", which included learning about treaty regulations, Internet policies, etc.
Business Manager
Singapore Telecom (SingTel), Singapore
Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry
June 1994 – December 1995 (1 year 7 months)
 
Accomplishments include successfully concluding negotiations with Sprint, IBM, INFONET, and British Telecom for the development of value-added services using ST’s basic services, within a three to six month period, obtaining attractive terms for ST. Established One Stop Shopping agreements and VSAT service agreement with several countries in the region such as Sri Lanka, Russia, Germany and India within a three to five month period. Co-organised a very successful VSAT seminar with INTELSAT. Was also Singapore Telecom’s negotiator and contact person for relations with Financial Network Association (FNA), a strategic alliance of 13 telecommunications carriers around the world. As Business Manager, was also responsible for traveling to India to look for investments for SingTel as well as reviewing investment opportunities that were already on the table.
Strategic Planning Advisor
International Satellite Organisation (INTELSAT), Washington DC, USA
Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Telecommunications industry
June 1990 – July 1991 (1 year 2 months)
 
Accomplishments include preparing quarterly reports and analysis for the Board of Governors regarding regulatory and structural changes within different countries and its impact on INTELSAT. Helped prepare a new strategic plan for INTELSAT.
Expert
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
Nonprofit; International Affairs industry
March 1990 – April 1990 (2 months)
 
Appointed as telecommunications expert to the ASEAN countries in preparation for Telecommunications Annex for the GATT Uruguay Rounds on Services (now WTO). Traveled extensively to meet with the trade and telecommunications officials within these countries and briefed them on the issues. Presented an oral version of my study on the ASEAN telecommunications situation and its relationship to the GATT-URUGUAY Rounds at a seminar in Bangkok, organized by the Department of Commerce of Thailand, May 1990 and presented a paper at the UN-ESCAP meeting in Bangkok, August 1990. Also attended and presented at a UNCTAD meeting in Belgrade on the Uruguay Telecom services issue.
Consultant to the Chief of the Telecommunication Regulations and Member Relations
International Telecommunications Union (ITU), Geneva, Switzerland
Telecommunications industry
April 1988 – July 1989 (1 year 4 months)
 
Prepared opinions on the member country proposals for the World Administrative Telegraph and Telephone Conference in Melbourne, Australia and assisted in the drafting of alternative compromise texts. Also conducted research into the needs for possible restructuring issues of the ITU for the Plenipotentiary Conference 1990, and provided liaison between the GATT Secretariat (now WTO) and the ITU Secretariat on telecommunications issues relating to trade.
Intern
International Telecommunications Union
Telecommunications industry
April 1987 – November 1987 (8 months)
 
Drafted contracts and was also involved in copyright issues and the review of the member country's proposed telecommunication privatization law


==Education==
Laina Raveendran Greene has a law degree from the National University of Singapore, and a Master's of law from Harvard.<ref>[http://www.apricot.net/apricot98/html/instructors.html APRICOT.net]</ref> She has taken part in a number of special courses, research grants, fellowship programs and other academic endeavors at: the International Court of Justice, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Tufts University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard, Stanford, and elsewhere.<ref>[http://www.linkedin.com/in/laina LinkedIn]</ref>


== External Links ==
== External Links ==
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btY-vJVDpt4 ITU TELECOM Africa 2008: Interview with Laina Raveendran]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btY-vJVDpt4 ITU TELECOM Africa 2008: Interview with Laina Raveendran]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcVOjb8FFrs Communic Asia 2010 - Laina Raveendran Greene]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcVOjb8FFrs Communic Asia 2010 - Laina Raveendran Greene]
==References==
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Latest revision as of 15:18, 28 May 2021
Country: USA
Email: lainarg [at] isc.org
LinkedIn:    Laina Raveendran Greene

Laina Raveendran Greene has extensive experience working as a ICT consultant and running media start-ups. She currently serves as a Strategic Accounts Manager with Internet Systems Consortium, as CEO and lead consultant with G-ET-IT, as a Board Member for Emota.net, and as an Instructor and Entrepreneur in Residence for Stanford University's Global Entrepreneur Marketing Program.[1]

Ms. Greene has been involved in Internet developments, participation in the RFC series, and Internet governance since the early 1990s. She is one of the organizers for the International Forum on the White Paper,[2][3] and has worked with several prominent international Internet fora, such as APIA and APNIC.[4]

She was born and raised in Singapore, though she now resides in the U.S.A.[5]

Career History

GetIt & Green ICT

Laina Raveendran Greene is the founder and CEO of GetIt Multimedia. The consulting company initially focused on transforming businesses through visual and communications technology. She sold the business to a group of investors in 2006, though she continues to work as its CEO and Principal Consultant.[6] It is now known as G-ET-IT, which stands for Green Energy Technology and Information Technology, and their focus has moved to consulting on how to make ICT companies more viable through progressive energy usage.[7]

She has since become more deeply involved in the green movement within the ICT industry; Ms. Greene has even co-produced a TV documentary on that topic. She has consulted for a number of prominent companies; organized Green Telecom seminars at International conferences; chaired special panels on Green ICT; and participated in a variety of ways as both a consultant, participant, and leader at these events.[8]

Ms. Greene's home is solar powered.[9]

International Representation

Laina Raveendran Greene is the founding Secretary of APIA, which is the Asia Pacific Internet Association. She served her first term from 1996 to 1997, and immediately served a second term from 1997 to 1998.[10] She was also Singapore’s representative to PECC Infocomm Advisory Committee and an International Advisory Panel member of the Asia Pacific Development Information Program (APDIP).[11] She served as a Policy Advisor to APNIC from 1997 to 1999,[12] and as the Chair of the Asia Pacific Policy and Legal Track at APRICOT.[13]

Ms. Greene was the only representative of the Baha'i International Community to the Tunis Conference of the World Summit on the Information Society. In 1990, she was called upon as a SE Asian IT expert and representative of ASEAN nations for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development; this involved extensive international travel to present and meet with various national IT regulators. She was also the Consultant to the Chief of the Telecommunication Regulations and Member Relations at the International Telecommunications Union in Switzerland from 1988 to 1989, and later worked as an Advisor to the International Satellite Organization (INTELSAT) in Washington D.C.[14]

She has served on a WIPO panel of experts on domain name and intelectual property issues.[15]

Other Work

Ms. Greene has an extensive career as a consultant, and over the years her clients have included: Pacific Internet, Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks, Verisign, Telemedia Italia, the International Development Research Centre in Canada, and many others.

She has been a business manager and Singapore Telecom, a lecturer at the National University of Singapore's School of Law, and a Board Member for Globetel Communications.[16]

Education

Laina Raveendran Greene has a law degree from the National University of Singapore, and a Master's of law from Harvard.[17] She has taken part in a number of special courses, research grants, fellowship programs and other academic endeavors at: the International Court of Justice, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Tufts University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard, Stanford, and elsewhere.[18]

External Links

References


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