SVII Principals
Howard Richard Lieberman
Chief Executive Officer and Board Chairman
Howard Richard Lieberman has three decades of experience as an innovator in audio, computing, and education. He founded the Silicon Valley Innovation Institute to develop and apply a conscious innovation model internationally, in order to turn Vision into Value.
Mr. Lieberman has founded five companies: Interactive Visual Analysis Languages (INTERVAL), Integrated Acoustics, Escatech Media Inc., Dorado and Asonda Corp. Mr. Lieberman has invented and brought to market new technologies at Bose Corporation, Apple Computer and the companies he founded, including hardware and adaptive content software architectures.
Sue Lebeck
Program Director
Sue Lebeck is Founder and Principal Consultant from Working-Arts. A program manager and software architect, Sue understands the power of well-designed frameworks and procedures to build and evolve effective systems. A creativity teacher and expressive arts consultant, Sue understands the human process of creativity and the elements needed to support it. An interdisciplinary thinker, Sue brings these perspectives together at SVII..
Paul Masson
Alliance Director
Paul Masson is a specialist in the formation of research and technology commercialization public-private alliances. Mr. Masson is the managing partner of the Strategic Alliances Resources Network, LLC (STARNET) consulting practice providing services to firms seeking to form research & development projects involving public and private sector partners. His clients include NASA, the Dept. of Defense, Boeing, Hewlett Packard/Compaq, and the AGATE Alliance Assn. Inc., a consortium of general aviation companies.
Leslie Janoe
Director of Executive Outreach
Leslie Janoe, President of Janoe Associates, provides training, coaching and consulting services focusing on change management and organizational effectiveness. As a consultant she has assisted public and private organizations in complex change initiatives. She emphasizes stakeholder management, customer orientation and leadership development.
Robert Porter Lynch
Mr. Lynch has been recognized for his ground-breaking work in creating "alliance architecture," and the profession's first benchmarking studies. He pioneered the initial research in Alliance Architectures with Best Practices followed by a long series of bench-marking studies in Alliance Formation and Management.
In his consulting practice, he places a strong emphasis on implementation in a wide variety industries ranging from aerospace (aviation & defense), automotive, energy, financial services (banking, real estate, insurance), high tech and medical and petro-chemicals.
Dr. Thomas J. Buckholtz
Dr. Buckholtz innovates incisively. His ideas led to the creation of the Palos Verdes Estates (California, U.S.A.) Shoreline Preserve, Rotary International’s Donations-in-kind Information Network, the United States federal government’s Government-Wide Acquisition Contract, and the Republican National Committee's Grassroots Division. He had pivotal roles in the creation of $100 million in productivity gains throughout a $6 billion company; multi-participant computer games; automated document libraries; hand-held computers; the enterprise software license; and the early 1990s United States nationwide grassroots coalition of private-sector, news-media, academic, and government employees and organizations that spotlighted the opportunity to improve governmental service to the public. Currently, he serves as a business advisor and executive coach.
John Joss
John Joss has been writing for 30+ years. After serving in the Royal Navy as a pilot he started writing in London for a conglomerate (I.C.I) and a motorsports magazine. He moved to Texas: oilfield engineer for Schlumberger, then technical/promotional writer for Dresser Industries. He moved to San Francisco as advertising/promotion writer Silicon Valley pioneers Ampex, Fairchild, Hewlett-Packard and Varian Associates.