Founder and Executive Editor of RTInsights and CDInsights
new york, new york, united states
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Claim your profileLes is a business entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience developing and managing successful companies in the internet publishing, enterprise software, strategic consulting and financial services markets. He has proven hands-on experience in M&A, general management, technology deployment, marketing, sales, business development and product management. Les is a pioneer and technology visionary. He championed the use of interconnected systems and co-developed and co-marketed with IBM the first commercial cross-platform guaranteed messaging platform called MQSeries, which now is a multi-billion dollar market for many major software vendors. Les co-founded the Message Oriented Middleware Association with IBM. In 2001, while at ebizQ.net, an internet portal company specializing in the application of event-driven middleware and related integration technologies, Les pioneered the world's early use of the web, virtual conferences and webcasts to support the marketing of enterprise software and strategic consulting services. Specialties: * IoT real-time analytics solutions driven by the confluence of new technologies including machine learning, mobile, cloud and big data; * Strategic consulting including operations management, technology deployment, business transformation and strategic marketing, * Business Development to Fortune 1000 clients through internet-based lead generation and nurturing, direct selling and managing channel partnerships,






Master Of Business Administration, Design, Information Systems at University Of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School Of BusinessGraduated: 1977
Bachelor Of Arts, Accounting, Applied Mathematics at Binghamton UniversityGraduated: 1975
Bachelors, Accounting, Applied Mathematics at Gibbs CollegeGraduated: 1975