[alac-comments] Nominating committee
Please find attached my resume. I am an independent, and therefore, very neutral, author, consultant with extensive CEO, technology, strategy, industrial policy and facilitation experience. I have an international perspective: born in the UK, spent a great deal of time in France, did high school in Canada, undergraduate and business school in the US. I have worked in Germany, Canada and the US and have done business around the world. I have a demonstrated track record of thought leadership and technological innnovation. My career includes: - Being an early user of the Arpanet from 1972 while taking graduate courses on the impact of computers at Harvard with some courses at MIT. - A book on industrial policy and strategy that predicted the importance of technology (key technologies were identified - telecom, computers, and biotech) in changing companies' strategies in 1983 (Davidson and Fisher, Seizing the Future, TransCanada Press) - Involvement in politics including policy work for Brian Mulroney, two term Prime Minister of Canada which led to the NAFTA and the most important tax reform in Canadian history, the introduction of a value added tax to replace an inefficient wholesale tax that effectively subsidised importers rather than encouraging Canadian exports. - Developed the first ever strategic expert system with 3,000 rules about business strategy in addition to distributing all the leading software for strategic analysis in the 80s and 90s - Developed a leading edge information warehouse based upon object oriented distributed warehouses with OLAP capabilities. - Authored a classic book on best practices in information technology with Harvey Gellman, the first person to buy a computer in Canada in 1952 and the dean of Canadian IT consulting (Davidson, Gellman and Chung, Riding the Tiger, HarperCollins Canada, 1997 and Jist Publications, US 1999). - Authored a well respected book on best practices in starting, growing and turning around software and Internet companies. See web site to download: www.eclicktick.com. - Have been CEO of a packaged software company, strategic and IT consulting firm, foreign exchange ASP, and business incubator - Have trained facilitators and am certified in Myers-Briggs - Am a prolific author in the area of technology strategy, business and new product strategy My most recent articles have been (1) a major white paper on the evolution of converged IP networks and the resulting change in industry structure and selling processes. (2) how good ethics is good business and how current boards of directors need to understand strategy and performance reporting in order to fulfill their fiduciary duties. I am on the Editorial Advisory Board of "Strategy and Leadership" magazine and have taught strategy, international strategy and strategic management at universities in Canada and the US. My skills represent a combination of business and technology strategy knowledge and experience, combined with world class knowledge of strategic market development and strategic management and facilitation capabilities. I have facilitated large organizations like Canada Post Corporation and Baxter International as well as advising over 50 high tech firms. I also have experience as a result of my work with three incubators in advising international high tech firms from Korea, Japan, Canada, France, the Bahamas and the UK. With respect to innovation on the Internet, I am on record as having recommended to Hummer Winblad's interim CEO when he was first appointed that the ideal strategy for Napster was to move to a micropayment model where file transfer between downloaders would trigger a micropayment to the intellectual property owners. This advice was not taken and the company of course, took a litigious strategy that failed. In terms of software development, I have been involved in bringing 12 products to market around the world primarily in the strategic tools and information warehouse area. I take particular pride in a project where I improved the productivity of my development team by a factor of 20X over a three year period by moving to an component based, object oriented, distributed object database application server that acted as an application server, information warehouse, modeling tool and performance reporting system based upon ParcPlace and later IBM VisualAge Smalltalk and the Gemstone object database server. On the security side, I have consulted two two startup firms in the area, one Internet and one software based. I am a member of the Computer History Museum. Yours truly Alistair Davidson Contact Information: Alistair Davidson Managing Partner Eclicktick Corporation 1812 Sand Hill Road, Suite 307 Palo Alto, CA 94304 Phone: 650-322-8880 Cell: 415-225-8610 Fax: 707-924-2472 E-mail: alistair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx www.eclicktick.com Free E-book: "Turn Around! A brief guide to starting, growing and turning around your software or Internet company." is available free at http://www.eclicktick.com Newest articles available at www.eclicktick.com: "Strategy and ethics: a guide for directors" "Selling to network services providers with business cases" "Choosing the right information management project" "Increase your profits." "Relaunching failed products." "Increasing Your IT Sales Through Better ROI, White Papers and Benefit Analysis" "After the recession, what?" "Increase your profits." "Executing your plan." "Improving Sales Performance: the economics of high tech sales." "The end of an era in software; the birth of the solution channel." 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