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Alexandra
Lajoux is Director of Research and Publications at NACD, and
Editor-in-Chief of Director’s Monthly. She joined the
Association’s staff in 1987, after serving for two years on the
NACD’s Editorial Advisory Board. Alexandra has been an editor,
researcher, and writer in the corporate governance field since
1978, when she served as Senior Editor of Directors &
Boards journal. She has also served as Editor of Mergers
& Acquisitions and Export Today, and has written
columns for several trade publications, including Northeast
International Business, IR Update, and Trustee.
For the past two years she has served as
Editor-in-Chief of the Arthur Andersen Guide to Human Capital. She
is also the author of The Art of M&A Integration and
coauthor of The Art of M&A Financing and
Refinancing, The Art of M&A Due Diligence, and The Art
of M&A: A Merger/Acquisition/Buyout Guide—all published
by McGraw-Hill. She holds an M.B.A. from Loyola College and
a Ph.D. from Princeton, and is a Member of the Governing Board of
the Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni, 1999-2002 term. She
is listed in Who’s Who of American Women, 2000-2001
edition.
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Dheeraj
(Raj) Khera
has nearly 15 years of experience in engineering and business
development. For the 10 years prior to co-founding Khera
Communications,Inc., he worked in electronics engineering and
technology transfer for the National Institute of Standards and
Technology. Building on this experience, he and his brother, Vivek,
started Khera Communications, Inc. to provide high-end web site
development services.
As CEO of Khera Communications, he
has led the development and growth of two popular business
portals: GovCon, which he recently sold to VerticalNet (NASDAQ:VERT),
for government contractors and MoreBusiness.com for small
businesses. These web sites have been ranked by magazines such as
the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and numerous others as being
among the best business-related sites. Advertising clients include
American Express, IBM, British Airways, Staples, Microsoft,
Sprint, Network Solutions, and many other companies that want to
reach the small business community. Mr. Khera holds B.S. and M.S.
degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland,
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Oron
Strauss, 27, is President and CEO
of the Public Policy and Politics Division
of Netivation.com,
Inc. (NASDAQ: NTVN). Oron co-founded Net.Capitol,
Inc.in December 1996 and Net.Capitol was
acquired by Netivation.com in December 1999. Oron helped grow
Net.Capitol to over 35 employees and
its position as the leading provider
of Internet-based products and services for public affairs and
political organizations.
Oron graduated
cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1995, where he majored
in History and Government. He was Editor-in-Chief of The
Dartmouth Review from 1993 to 1994 and served on the Board of
Directors of the Hanover Review,
Inc., from 1993 to 1995. His honors thesis
was a study of "Entrepreneurship and the Internet."
Oron was
profiled by TechCapital magazine as one of the top ten under-30
CEOs in the mid-Atlantic region.
Washingtonian magazine featured Oron as one
of "100 People to Watch." Washington Business Forward
profiled Oron
as part of
the "Next Network" -- one of the 40 up and coming leaders
in
the Washington region. FYI magazine featured
Oron as a "Rising Star."
Oron, his dog
Bonzo, and Net.Capitol, have been featured in the
Washington
Post, New York Times, Washington Business Journal, Electronic
Business,
TechWeb, and others. He spoken to numerous groups including
the World
Bank, US Senate Press Secretaries Association, Georgetown
University,
Carnegie Mellon University, DC New Media Society, the Zeff
Group
Internet Marketing and Advertising Conference, the Politics Online
Conferece,
Susan B. Anthony List, and DC WebGrrls. Articles he has
written about
entrepreneurship have been featured on the Kauffman
Foundation's
Entreworld Web site, Garage.com, and the Microsoft Small
Business web site.
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Frank Wood
graduated with a BS in computer science from Cornell University
and was President and CEO of ToFish!, Inc. ToFish! commercialized
a histogram-based image matching technology developed by his
partner Greg Pass at Cornel which allows users to search the Internet for pictures similar to ones they
provide. The technology analyzes the
pixels of a picture to create a "profile," then searches
for similar profiles. In January 2000,
ToFish! was acquired by America Online.
Frank is also special projects coordinator for Hands On
DC, an all-volunteer service project to improve the
Washington, DC, public schools and
raise college scholarships for local students.
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