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Les Laky is a high-tech visionary
and strategist and is an active participant and advisor to several Internet
ventures. With over 30 years of experience from start-ups to multi-national
telecommunication companies including fiber optics, wireless internet and domain
name systems, Les Laky is sought for his knowledge of
infrastructure technologies and telecommunications applications. Recognizing that security
is a critical element of the Internet, Les Laky most recently consulted for
the private email start-up WebLOQ providing the domain naming and dns methodology for sender and recipient privacy and
preparing key position statements, on such as ICANN’s
open gtld program and compliance with federal
export regulations for encryption. Working on the forefront of two major
internet trends, video and wireless, Les Laky was a co-founder of OmniVisionLive,
an internet video directory provider for high profile markets and co-founder
of New Access International, a fixed
broadband wireless service provider with operations in the During the developing years of the
Internet, Les Laky was one of the co-founders and a general partner of
Internet Inventions, a new breed of start-up venture companies headquartered
in Silicon Valley, and one of the co-founders of the Fiber Internet Center of Palo Alto,
intent on upgrading businesses to the faster speeds by reducing the costs of
connecting to the fiber optic network. Since the late 90’s, Les also
ran his own business DomainKeep
providing domain name registration and DNS services for business associates
and entrepreneurs. Long before broadband captured the public's
imagination and behemoth companies' wallets, Les Laky provided strategic
direction in the early 90's to a visionary broadband company 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 in Realizing that large-scale rewiring for
broadband would only happen if driven by "killer apps", Les Laky
was one of the founders of MediaCity, a
successful Palo Alto ISP acquired by SoftNet in
1996 and the predecessor to ISP Channel. Les worked with leading edge Prior to his broadband start-up experience,
Les Laky 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 business. He also headed Nortel's global CPE strategic alliance program, where he helped develop
computer telephony integration (CTI) for PBXs
through strategic alliances with DEC, HP and IBM. Les completed his B.S. in Electrical
Engineering at the les @ leslaky.com 650-208-5708 |
