Laina Raveendran Greene

Country:	USA

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.

She is also the CEO and Lead Consultant at GET-IT and a Member at ITU TELECOM Program Committee.

Career History

Ms. Greene has been working since 1987 and has held several positions during this time.

Member of Board of Directors 2010 – Present 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. 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 Executive Communications Consultant 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. 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. 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.

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.

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

External Links

• ITU TELECOM Africa 2008: Interview with Laina Raveendran
• Communic Asia 2010 - Laina Raveendran Greene

International Telecommunication Union

World Summit on the Information Society

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