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Joseph S. Rosenthal, Ed.D. , Founder and Chairman of the Board
Dr. Rosenthal has 25 years of experience as a consultant to many Fortune 25 global companies in the areas of leadership and organization strategy, organizational assessment and organizational design. Prior to forming iQuest, he was a Partner with Hanover Strategies LLC, a Principal at Nextera Enterprises and an Associate Partner with Accenture´s Organization and Change Strategy practice. Dr. Rosenthal received a B.S. in Psychology from American University in 1974; an Ed.M. in Counseling in 1976; and an Ed.D. in Counseling from Boston University in 1985.
 
Robert Cooper, President
Robert has day-to-day operating authority for iQuest and is responsible for all aspects of business operations, development and revenue-based operations. He has over 25 years experience managing global sales, field operations, professional services and business development in the information technology industry. Robert has held leadership positions at Netkey, Context Media and Ziff-Davis Education and was a founding partner in Williams Energy Systems, Inc. At Netkey, an enterprise software company, he focused on Fortune 500 self-service solutions and was part of the team that successfully re-launched the 25-year-old software company, delivering solutions to dozens of Tier 1 companies in the financial services, consumer packaged goods and retail sectors. Prior to Netkey, he ran Sales and Global Field Operations for Context Media, a pioneering Enterprise Content Integration company, acquired by Oracle. As Vice President of Sales and Marketing with Ziff Davis, Robert grew the company’s Education Center to the largest single site education center in North America and led a team that commercially launched ZDU.com. He holds an MBA from University of Rhode Island and a BA from The University of Vermont.  
 
Bill Ives, Ph. D. Advisor, Knowledge Management Applications
Dr. Ives has worked with Fortune 100 companies in knowledge management, portals and learning for over 25 years. He currently focuses on business applications of Web 2.0 tools such as blogs, wikis, RSS and social book marking. For several years he led the Knowledge Management Practice within the Human Performance Service Line at Accenture and was an advisor to their internal KM group. He has published extensively on these topics and is a frequent conference speaker. Bill writes the blog Portals and KM. He recently completed a book on the business applications of blogs, Business Blogs: A Practical Guide. Prior to his consulting career, Dr. Ives was a Research Associate at Harvard University exploring the effects of media on cognition. He obtained his Ph. D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Toronto.
 
Alex Cavalli, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer and Board Member
A veteran of the Austin high-tech community since 1984, Cavalli was formally Deputy Director of the IC2 (Innovation, Creativity & Capital) Institute at the University of Texas. Dr. Cavalli and his staff created the foundation for much of what is now recognized as the Internet. Working with leading universities and corporations and supported by US government funding, the EINet project was designed to demonstrate how electronic commerce would work and what network infrastructure was necessary to support it. This seminal work included the creation of the first Internet search engine, introduced in January 1994. Called EINet Galaxy, it became the model for every search engine that followed. Dr. Cavalli’s team also developed the first commercial quality web browsers that introduced many of the features found today in the Netscape and Internet Exlorer browsers. The team also developed the first Virtual Private Network and operated as the Internet’s first Certification Authority, a function now embodied in companies such as VeriSign and GTE CyberTrust. In addition, Dr. Cavalli and his team, in collaboration with CitiCorp, devised new electronic payment mechanisms for use by businesses engaged in Electronic Commerce. Dr. Cavalli holds a Ph.D. in Physics from Dartmouth College and a B.S. from Dickinson College.