Les Laky is a high-tech visionary, strategist and implementer and is an active participant and advisor to several Internet ventures. With over 30 years of experience from fiber optic, wireless and Internet start-ups to multi-national telecommunication corporations, Les is sought for his knowledge of infrastructure technologies and telecommunications applications. 

Currently, Les Laky is the COO and a co-founder of OmniVisionLive (www.omnivisionlive.com), a virtual tour provider for real estate and other high profile markets, and CTO and co-founder of New Access International (www.newaccess.net), a fixed broadband wireless service provider with operations in the U.S. and Ecuador. In addition, Les provides a private domain name registration service for friends and business associates as the Keeper at DomainKeep (www.domainkeep.com).

Prior to his current activities, Les Laky was one of the co-founders and a general partner of Internet Inventions, a new breed of start-up venture companies head quartered in Silicon Valley, and one of the co-founders of the Fiber Internet Center of Palo Alto (www.fiberinternetcenter.com), intent on reducing the costs of connecting to the fiber optic network and upgrading customers to the faster speeds.

Long before broadband captured the public's imagination and behemoth companies' wallets, Les Laky provided strategic direction in the early 90's 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 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 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 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 (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 and Harvard.