November 7, 2011
RENOWNED ICT EXPERT DIANE LANDAU SUPPORTS WORLD
ECONOMIC GROWTH BY LEVERAGING COMMUNICATIONS
INNOVATION, INFRASTRUCTURE, INVESTMENT
Global Resources CEO celebrates 20 years of international connectivity;
Adds Financial Times “International 100” honor to growing list of
accomplishments
Posted by Katherine Post
IRVINE, Calif. -- Nov.7, 2011 (Wobwire.com) - As the communications
industry has advanced over the last 20 years, Diane Landau not only has
seen the world become more connected and prosperous, but, more
importantly, has helped make it happen. Her many international
achievements have cemented her place this month on the prestigious
Agenda International 100 -- Financial Times' list of top global management
experts, which will serve as a key resource for multi-national companies
seeking to strengthen their boards of directors with individuals possessing
extensive global experience and savvy.
When Landau graduated with a master’s degree from Harvard University in
1985, there were more phones in Tokyo than in all of Africa. In fact, more
than 95 percent of the world’s telephones were located in high-income or
upper-middle-income countries. But today, with nearly three decades of
experience in information and communications technology (ICT), Landau has
helped companies and more than 50 countries to generate millions of dollars
in revenues, while those nations’ citizens prosper from the impacts that more
accessible and affordable communications provide.
“I believe most people experience technology on a personal level, and those
who leverage technology obtain direct and quantifiable benefits as a result,”
said Landau, the president and CEO of the international consulting firm
Global Resources, Inc. “But I have built a career around developing
technology and infrastructure investments that impact developing nations
from a top-down and international perspective. It’s just vital to consider how
those tools will flow through the economy and directly back to benefit
individual users, while generating the returns everybody wants to see.”
Since 1991, the year Global Resources, Inc. was founded, Landau has been
working exclusively with developing and emerging countries, designing and
implementing ICT and infrastructure projects. A few examples of recent
assignments:
• Azerbaijan: Landau’s expertise led her to Azerbaijan in 2007 as the
General Advisor to the Ministry of Communication and Information
Technologies. Landau designed the Regional Innovation Zone (RIZ) concept
and led all aspects of the global team’s efforts – a project that served as a
Parliamentary catalyst to redefine tax, customs and legal parameters for
conducting business in the country’s ICT/high-tech sector, benefitting global
suppliers and the people of Azerbaijan.
• Egypt: Landau advised EgyptAir’s Maintenance and Engineering (EA
M&E) subsidiary on the modernization of its ICT systems, developed
project terms for the major institutional transformation and led contract
negotiations between EA M&E and the selected vendors. Landau
continues to work with Egypt, supporting EgyptAir and serving as the ICT
Sector Specialist at the U.S. Trade and Development Agency’s (USTDA)
Egypt: Forward ICT Workshop this December.
• Turkmenistan: Landau became the first American ICT consultant to work
with Turkmenistan after the country began to re-open in 2007, advising and
assisting the communications ministry as it launched its first commercial
outreach to U.S. companies the following year.
Global Resources consults on global strategy, investment and operations
planning and sound governing practices for organizations expanding into
and managing operations in developing and emerging markets. Landau
serves as a senior advisor and problem solver to boards, CEOs, Fortune
500 technology firms and top international business, government and
investment decision-makers, leading teams that have completed nearly 100
ICT and infrastructure projects internationally.
“Global Resources has grown and diversified during the era in which the
telecom sector has been dramatically redefined,” said Daniel Stein, the
former USTDA regional director for Europe and Eurasia. “Ms. Landau’s
ability to comprehend core business drivers and design innovative projects
paved the way for our U.S. government Agency to fund one of the first-ever
e-government projects and the first fiber pathway to connect Jordan and
Israel – which resulted in increased trade while also boosting Jordan’s
tourism revenues.”
From her earliest graduate school application to Harvard University’s
Kennedy School of Government, Landau had a single, long-term goal: to
help developing countries get communications access, resulting in benefits
for all countries from those investments. Her application centered on the
need for a combined business, engineering and policy education. After two
years of studies between MIT, Harvard Business School and Harvard's
Kennedy School of Government, Landau's master’s degree primed her to
assist investors pursuing opportunities in developing and emerging markets,
while she helped those countries' governments create sound commercial,
technical and policy plans that would boost their transparency and
attractiveness to investors, while yielding needed ICT networks and
connectivity.
Since earning her graduate degree, Landau has travelled the globe, with
projects in Africa, Europe, North and South America, throughout Asia –
South East, the former Soviet Union republics and the Indian Subcontinent –
and the Middle East. Before founding Global Resources, she spent five
years leading AT&T Network System’s (now Alcatel Lucent) launch into
India, which today, along with China, accounts for one-third of the world’s
telephone users.
In addition to her professional accomplishments in the field, Landau is also
the coauthor of Chronicles of Corporate Change: Management Lessons from
AT&T and its OffSpring (Lexington Books, 1987) and is frequently
quoted in leading international business publications for her industry
expertise. She participates in international development and ICT
conferences as a dynamic public speaker and is a member of the Women
Corporate Directors, Forum for Corporate Directors and several other
international development associations.
Most recently, Landau was named by the Financial Times to its Agenda
International 100 - a list chosen by a blue-ribbon panel of corporate
governance experts as top prospects for public boards requiring
international management savvy. Landau’s selection to the International 100
puts her among those best-equipped to meet the multidimensional
challenges of public board service today, and she was recognized at a Nov.
3 “Globalization in the Boardroom” event at The Metropolitan Club in New
York. The event will feature noted guest speakers including Sanjay Khosla,
director for Best Buy, and Erroll B. Davis, independent director for General
Motors Co. and Union Pacific Corp.
In the next 20 years, Landau looks forward to continuing to help companies
securely invest in developing and emerging markets and to access talent
and resources from those countries, while enhancing individuals’ access to
those technologies and investment tools. Landau fully embraces the
enormous strides that have been made over the years to link countries and
people who did not have communications access. However, she believes
work should now be focused on moving to the next stage: ensuring that
information flow is globally shared, so that even more individuals and
countries can equally contribute to a healthy and profitable economic return
for all.
Media contact: Kevin Twer / Allison Hata
Allison@hkamarcom.com
714-426-0444
RENOWNED ICT EXPERT DIANE LANDAU SUPPORTS WORLD
ECONOMIC GROWTH BY LEVERAGING COMMUNICATIONS
INNOVATION, INFRASTRUCTURE, INVESTMENT
Global Resources CEO celebrates 20 years of international connectivity;
Adds Financial Times “International 100” honor to growing list of
accomplishments
Posted by Katherine Post
IRVINE, Calif. -- Nov.7, 2011 (Wobwire.com) - As the communications
industry has advanced over the last 20 years, Diane Landau not only has
seen the world become more connected and prosperous, but, more
importantly, has helped make it happen. Her many international
achievements have cemented her place this month on the prestigious
Agenda International 100 -- Financial Times' list of top global management
experts, which will serve as a key resource for multi-national companies
seeking to strengthen their boards of directors with individuals possessing
extensive global experience and savvy.
When Landau graduated with a master’s degree from Harvard University in
1985, there were more phones in Tokyo than in all of Africa. In fact, more
than 95 percent of the world’s telephones were located in high-income or
upper-middle-income countries. But today, with nearly three decades of
experience in information and communications technology (ICT), Landau has
helped companies and more than 50 countries to generate millions of dollars
in revenues, while those nations’ citizens prosper from the impacts that more
accessible and affordable communications provide.
“I believe most people experience technology on a personal level, and those
who leverage technology obtain direct and quantifiable benefits as a result,”
said Landau, the president and CEO of the international consulting firm
Global Resources, Inc. “But I have built a career around developing
technology and infrastructure investments that impact developing nations
from a top-down and international perspective. It’s just vital to consider how
those tools will flow through the economy and directly back to benefit
individual users, while generating the returns everybody wants to see.”
Since 1991, the year Global Resources, Inc. was founded, Landau has been
working exclusively with developing and emerging countries, designing and
implementing ICT and infrastructure projects. A few examples of recent
assignments:
• Azerbaijan: Landau’s expertise led her to Azerbaijan in 2007 as the
General Advisor to the Ministry of Communication and Information
Technologies. Landau designed the Regional Innovation Zone (RIZ) concept
and led all aspects of the global team’s efforts – a project that served as a
Parliamentary catalyst to redefine tax, customs and legal parameters for
conducting business in the country’s ICT/high-tech sector, benefitting global
suppliers and the people of Azerbaijan.
• Egypt: Landau advised EgyptAir’s Maintenance and Engineering (EA
M&E) subsidiary on the modernization of its ICT systems, developed
project terms for the major institutional transformation and led contract
negotiations between EA M&E and the selected vendors. Landau
continues to work with Egypt, supporting EgyptAir and serving as the ICT
Sector Specialist at the U.S. Trade and Development Agency’s (USTDA)
Egypt: Forward ICT Workshop this December.
• Turkmenistan: Landau became the first American ICT consultant to work
with Turkmenistan after the country began to re-open in 2007, advising and
assisting the communications ministry as it launched its first commercial
outreach to U.S. companies the following year.
Global Resources consults on global strategy, investment and operations
planning and sound governing practices for organizations expanding into
and managing operations in developing and emerging markets. Landau
serves as a senior advisor and problem solver to boards, CEOs, Fortune
500 technology firms and top international business, government and
investment decision-makers, leading teams that have completed nearly 100
ICT and infrastructure projects internationally.
“Global Resources has grown and diversified during the era in which the
telecom sector has been dramatically redefined,” said Daniel Stein, the
former USTDA regional director for Europe and Eurasia. “Ms. Landau’s
ability to comprehend core business drivers and design innovative projects
paved the way for our U.S. government Agency to fund one of the first-ever
e-government projects and the first fiber pathway to connect Jordan and
Israel – which resulted in increased trade while also boosting Jordan’s
tourism revenues.”
From her earliest graduate school application to Harvard University’s
Kennedy School of Government, Landau had a single, long-term goal: to
help developing countries get communications access, resulting in benefits
for all countries from those investments. Her application centered on the
need for a combined business, engineering and policy education. After two
years of studies between MIT, Harvard Business School and Harvard's
Kennedy School of Government, Landau's master’s degree primed her to
assist investors pursuing opportunities in developing and emerging markets,
while she helped those countries' governments create sound commercial,
technical and policy plans that would boost their transparency and
attractiveness to investors, while yielding needed ICT networks and
connectivity.
Since earning her graduate degree, Landau has travelled the globe, with
projects in Africa, Europe, North and South America, throughout Asia –
South East, the former Soviet Union republics and the Indian Subcontinent –
and the Middle East. Before founding Global Resources, she spent five
years leading AT&T Network System’s (now Alcatel Lucent) launch into
India, which today, along with China, accounts for one-third of the world’s
telephone users.
In addition to her professional accomplishments in the field, Landau is also
the coauthor of Chronicles of Corporate Change: Management Lessons from
AT&T and its OffSpring (Lexington Books, 1987) and is frequently
quoted in leading international business publications for her industry
expertise. She participates in international development and ICT
conferences as a dynamic public speaker and is a member of the Women
Corporate Directors, Forum for Corporate Directors and several other
international development associations.
Most recently, Landau was named by the Financial Times to its Agenda
International 100 - a list chosen by a blue-ribbon panel of corporate
governance experts as top prospects for public boards requiring
international management savvy. Landau’s selection to the International 100
puts her among those best-equipped to meet the multidimensional
challenges of public board service today, and she was recognized at a Nov.
3 “Globalization in the Boardroom” event at The Metropolitan Club in New
York. The event will feature noted guest speakers including Sanjay Khosla,
director for Best Buy, and Erroll B. Davis, independent director for General
Motors Co. and Union Pacific Corp.
In the next 20 years, Landau looks forward to continuing to help companies
securely invest in developing and emerging markets and to access talent
and resources from those countries, while enhancing individuals’ access to
those technologies and investment tools. Landau fully embraces the
enormous strides that have been made over the years to link countries and
people who did not have communications access. However, she believes
work should now be focused on moving to the next stage: ensuring that
information flow is globally shared, so that even more individuals and
countries can equally contribute to a healthy and profitable economic return
for all.
Media contact: Kevin Twer / Allison Hata
Allison@hkamarcom.com
714-426-0444
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