Lee Olsen, PhD

Recognized as a pioneer and visionary, Lee had an exceptional career as an IBM executive for over 22 years. He is internationally recognized for his vision and was credited with coining the phrase MultiMedia Computing. Lee has been the keynote speaker in over 60 countries and consulting with top executives, politicians, and Royalty. Lee has been at the forefront of innovation throughout his career and was instrumental in developing and launching Metodika, where he helped the Swedish-based company break into the U.S. market; Magnus Global, where he served as CEO of the Meta4Group; and EBS, which as founder he helped build into a global eCommerce holding company. He also started EOCnet.com in Bermuda and successfully implemented the first international eCommerce law for Online Business. Having launched, operated, and sold several multimillion dollar businesses, Lee is uniquely qualified to solve all of your business needs and propel your company to the next level.

Terri A. Schmidt, Managing Partner Jacksonville, FL

Terri thrives in a fast-paced, challenging business environment. As a senior executive with over 25 years experience in business development, strategic planning, marketing and alliance management, she has a proven track record of developing strategic partnerships with successful implementation and integration results. The foundation of her career began at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida (BCBSF) where she was tapped to spin off new subsidiaries as well as assume leadership positions to expand the business. Through a series of business development partnerships, she contributed to building an alliance of six Blue Cross Blue Shield Plans that resulted in growth from $84 million to over $350 million in value in 6 years. She has managed business segments and subsidiaries ranging from $20 million to over $1.2 billion in annual sales. She has served in various progressive roles with the Blues and Prudential Healthcare as Strategic Business Segment Director, VP of Marketing, Sales, & Solutions Development, President (3 subsidiaries), and Executive Vice President of Business Development.

Thomas Lehman, Partner – Milan Italy; Minneapolis MN

Thomas Lehman, Partner – Milan Italy; Minneapolis MN

An internationally recognized known branding expert and designer, Thomas has worked with Apple, Microsoft, Ferrari, Benetton, Nokia, Aventis Pharmaceuticals (now Sanofi), and many more brands you recognize, Thomas has crafted images through idea creation, branding and ebusiness strategies for Fortune 500 companies all over the world. He also has mid-size company experience including TrendSphere, CIO Consults, Metodika and Jimmy Buffet and start-up businesses like Benjis Bids and BlueCar Partners. Thomas takes your ideas and transforms them into something that will stand out to enhance and appeal to customers/consumers.

Karen Gough, Advisor, Palm Beach, FL

Known as an innovative, “make it happen” business builder, Karen Gough has a leadership heritage of driving results across highly diverse and competitive business segments.

The Private Equity firm Palm Beach Capital tapped Karen to help build targeted companies within their portfolio, where she led the transformation of consumer and customer engagements in the furniture products and services industry. Subsequently, Karen moved to Palm Beach Capital’s TMS Health, a specialty marketing services firm representing the sales and marketing needs of pharmaceutical and health care companies. Today, Karen serves as the Chief Marketing & Development Officer (Consultant) for a group of entrepreneurial owned companies, and Team Leader for JACO Athletic Apparel and Gear.

Karen has held the position of President, The America’s and Global Chief Customer Officer with CIBA Vision (now ALCON), the eye care division of pharmaceutical and health care leader Novartis.

Karen led the marketing efforts for Internet service provider, EarthLink. As EVP and Chief Marketing Officer, responsible for strategic and commercial brand and product marketing; advertising and promotions; direct and retail marketing; consumer insights and research; corporate communications and public relations; and creative and editorial services.

Karen held high impact and multi-faceted roles as the Vice President of Marketing Solutions for The Coca-Cola Company; the Vice President, Sales & Trade Marketing with Reckitt&Colman/Benckiser; and in key marketing roles with the National Football League Properties, Inc., and Pepsi-Cola.

Ragnar Nilsson, Advisor Essen, Germany; NYC, NY

As the Global CIO for Bertelsman, the Global CIO for Aventis Pharmaceutical (now Sanofi) and CIO of Karstadt, Ragnar Nilsson is considered Europes most experienced Chief Information Officer.

Ragnar has always been a true visionary with transforming the global Information structure for major companies with innovative and decisive actions. Rolling out new technologies, processes and headcount across several countries with several cultures has been one of Ragnars strengths. He has been responsible for early ebusiness adoption in Europe and instrumental in the roll-out of many hundred million dollar plus projects.

Ragnar has helped with Insomnia Partners as an advisor, board member and served as a Fellow on several Insomnia Partner projects. He currently sits on multiple boards, and is the CEO of an International Management Consulting company, CIO Consults based in Essen Germany.

Peter Blakeney, Advisor, Atlanta, GA

Peter Blakeney had a significant impact on IBM retiring as a senior executive after 30 years. Peter was the voice of IBM for the launch of Multimedia worldwide. He transformed the way IBM did business with small agile companies as he built the IBM Arts Cafe. This was the highest revenue generating organization for ebusiness responsible for Websites for the fortune 500 companies globally. After leaving IBM, Peter was the COO of SecurityTrends an internet Security Company that was sold to Bertelsmann. Peter now sits on many boards including StellarX.