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Michael Kleeman, University of California San Diego, Senior Fellow
Thursday, April 03, 2008

Michael Kleeman is a senior fellow at UCSD working with the School of International Relations and the California Institute of Telecommunications and Internet Technology (CALIT2) on policy especially in large complex systems and critical infrastructure issues and a former Senior Fellow at the Annenberg Center at USC. He has been active regarding issues of communications network design, constructions and operations and recently working on issues of network reliability and robustness. Formerly a Vice President at The Boston Consulting Group, Director at Arthur D. Little, and a founding executive at Sprint International, Mr. Kleeman has been involved with numerous technology companies in North America as advisor and executive. He recently served as the Co-founder, Vice President and Chief Technical Officer of Cometa Networks, a nationwide 802.11 firm, and before that Aerie Networks, a US nationwide long distance fiber optic carrier and was also the founding CTO of Global Telesystems Group and strategy consultant in the launch of WilTel. He has also worked in healthcare, as a researcher at UCSF, planner with Permanente Medical Group of Southern California, and developing medical standards and systems for the US Department of Labor.

He holds an MA from the Claremont Graduate School, an undergraduate degree from Syracuse University, He serves as the National Chair of Strategy for the American Red Cross and on the Boards of Equal Access, a not-for-profit providing digital satellite radio services to developing nations and the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito. Previously he was a visiting fellow at University of California Berkeley (BRIE) and a fellow of the BIOS Institute, a firm specializing in Complex Adaptive Systems, served on the founding advisory board for CALREN and served on the Board of Science Foundation Ireland.

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