Lester Sussman is the CEO and Founder of ceBerg, Inc.  He has 20 years experience in the design and development of complex information systems.  He graduated as an Electronic and Electrical Engineer from the University of Cape Town, South Africa in 1983.  Mr. Sussman worked for a number of companies in the greater Washington D.C. area including MCI Telecommunications, PRC and INTELSAT.  At MCI, Mr. Sussman was one of the principal systems architects in the design and development of MCI's next generation network management system, which remains in critical use today.  In 1994, Mr. Sussman joined INTELSAT as a senior systems engineer.  Upon joining, he identified the potential value of the Internet for INTELSAT's business.  He helped securely connect the organization to the Internet, conducted seminars throughout INTELSAT on its benefits, and lobbied INTELSAT 's management to market Internet connectivity via satellite.  Mr. Sussman's efforts culminated in the launch of INTELSAT's
Internet connectivity product, at a summit meeting attended by the more than 140 global telecommunications providers that owned the organization.  Mr. Sussman was instrumental in acquiring one of the Summit's keynote speakers, Dr John Gage, Chief Researcher at Sun Microsystems.

Mr. Sussman is well qualified to present on software patents.  He currently holds four sole US patents, has an additional six pending patent applications and is researching a further two patents.  He has licensed one of the patents for upfront fees to companies such as Sharp and Casio. For the past couple of years he has been working on launching a high-tech start-up anchored on his fourth patent-embedding multi-media Yellow Pages directly into a phone.  His coordinates are:

Lester Sussman
CEO & Founder
ceBerg, Inc.
9213 Bulls Run Pkway
Bethesda, MD 20817

Phone: +1 (301) 897-3288
FAX: +1 (301) 897-0016
Email: lester.sussman@ceberg.com

Updated 10 Nov 03