Ahmed Abdulwahab CEOserved in one of Germany’s leading Management Consultancies, Kienbaum, as a Senior Consultant in charge of the planning and creation of the main internal investment agency for Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Mr Abdulwahab served as the Corporate and Business Development Manager reporting to the Chairman. While in this role he created the corporate strategy and marketing concept, recruited all levels of staff, and facilitated international investments of more than B2B in Germany by 12 international companies within the first two years.
After earning his MBA at the Arthur D. Little School of Management, he joined Siemens AG as Manager for Planning, Strategy, Communication and e-Business at the Munich headquarters where he also was appointed to the position of Speaker of Siemens Young Leadership Group. Mr. Abdulwahab was transferred to the Middle East to restructure the biggest Siemens operation as Director for Enterprise Communications responsible for indirect sales channels and vertical markets including oil and gas, airports, and hospitality with full profit/loss responsibility. He oversaw the operation's turnaround from a product business to a solution and service business.
Robert W. Brouwer CTObegan his career as an industrial design professional, where he initiated, planned and executed the implementation of a workflow automation system and Computer Aided Design to support the production of trade show exhibits. Subsequently, he joined the Sony Design Center, Europe “think tank” that designed and developed innovative products such as the popular, silver color TVs and took them from concept to production for the European and Eastern European markets.
After earning his MBA at the Arthur D. Little School of Management, where he focused on entrepreneurship and international marketing, Mr. Brouwer joined a consulting company in Munich focused on the retail industry where he served as Chief Creative Officer. He led a variety of projects including development and implementation of a new customer loyalty system. Mr. Brouwer performed a variety of organizational functions, including business development, marketing, finance, and supporting business concept design and execution.
Allyn Radford Senior Advisorhas achieved international recognition for the design and development of solutions for eLearning and eBusiness. Allyn has held positions in private enterprise, higher education and fee-for-service education where he has designed and built a range of innovative infrastructure solutions to satisfy client and stakeholder requirements. His past work has included a range of client projects in education, private enterprise, aerospace and defense in the United States, Mexico, Europe and Australia.
In 2003 Allyn joined HarvestRoad Ltd, a digital object repository vendor, as General Manager of Knowledge Enterprise Solutions with responsibilities that included the design and implementation of standards-based solutions for HarvestRoad clients. In subsequent positions at General Manager level he established the companies professional services group, provided strategic consulting for clients, participated in business development activities, provided input into the product development cycles and maintained an active engagement in key standards activities.
In March 2007 Allyn established Learn’ilities’ Pty Ltd as an independent solution architecture practice. Since starting the business he has won projects to provide services in solution design, content strategy, metadata, vendor selection, and implementation of standards-based solutions in Europe, USA and Australia.
Allyn has participated in a range of educational technology standards communities. He is a member of SCORM Technical Working Group, OASIS DITA Learning Specialization subcommittee. Allyn has been a member of the Board of Directors of IMS Global, a member of specification development working groups (eg IMS Content Packaging v1.2) an advisor to the SCORM-S1000D Alignment project and part of the CORDRA Special Interest Group. He and maintains strong relationships with a range of existing standards organizations and emerging organizations such as LETSI.
Prem Abraham Senior Advisoris Chairman of Gladstone Abraham Group, a San Francisco based private merchant banking group Mr. Abraham has launched numerous companies in the high technology sector as either a founding board member or as Senior Advisor to the CEO. He has advised prominent companies such as Philips, Hewlett Packard, Xerox and Westinghouse Electric; as well as venture capitalists and leading investment banks in special financing situations. Mr. Abraham has an MBA from Harvard University and a MSME from UC Berkeley where he was a doctoral candidate.
Mr. Abraham is Emeritus President of the Harvard Club of the Peninsula. He has been active in civic organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area and is a long time supporter of Rotary International and the San Francisco Symphony. He currently serves on the boards of The Harvard Club of San Francisco and The San Francisco International Programs and as advisor to The Eisenhower Foundation in Philadelphia.