Les Laky (www.leslaky.com), a co-founder and Vice President of Sales of Internet Inventions (www.internetinventions.com), is a high-tech visionary, strategist and implementer. With over 30 years of high-tech experience in a wide range of businesses from start-ups to large multi-nationals, Les is much sought after for his knowledge of Internet services, infrastructure technologies and telecommunications applications.

Long before broadband captured the public's imagination and behemoth companies' wallets, Les provided strategic direction in the early 90s to the visionary broadband company, First Pacific Networks, to offer a combined telecommunications and energy management system on hybrid fiber/coax cable (HFC). Les was among the pioneers in cable modem technology and applications to integrate internet, telephony, interactive television and energy management in a single device, and to deploy these services through the cable companies (MSOs), local exchange carriers (LECs) and the electric power utilities throughout North America and Europe.

Realizing that large-scale rewiring for broadband would only happen if driven by "killer apps", Les was a founder of MediaCity, the predecessor to ISP Channel (www.ispchannel.com). As Director of Sales, Les worked with leading edge Silicon Valley entrepreneurs to successfully implement their "killer app" services on the Internet and helped ISP Channel grow into the 3rd largest provider of turnkey Internet cable services in the U.S.

Prior to his broadband start-up experience, Les worked with several high-tech and telecommunication giants in deploying telephony infrastructure, integration and applications. At Nortel, he developed and successfully grew the 5-year strategic plan for their customer premises equipment (CPE) business. He also headed Nortel's global CPE strategic alliance program, where he developed strategic alliances with DEC, HP and IBM to develop computer telephony integration (CTI) for PBXs.

Les completed his B.S. in Electrical Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley, and graduate studies in Management at Columbia University and Harvard University.

Portfolio Company Involvement
• VP Sales, NETmachines, DomainWorld, Data Rain

[ Bob Evans ] [ Rod Beckwith ] [ Les Laky ] [ Bob Marzewski ] [ James Newman ]

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