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 U.S. and Ecuador.

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 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 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 University of California at Berkeley, and graduate studies in Management at Columbia and Harvard. 

les @ leslaky.com

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