LES OTTOLENGHI
CEO, INTENT MediaWorks (owner of iPeer)
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Mr. Ottolenghi has more than 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur in
start-ups and as an executive in management with Fortune 500 companies. As
co-founder of INTENT, Mr. Ottolenghi has led the company to become one of
the leaders entertainment media distribution through file sharing networks.
Mr. Ottolenghi has most recently, March, 2005, advised the Bush White House
on new business models for authorized files-haring via P2P. Mr. Ottolenghi
is widely recognized as a leader in the field of media distribution and
technology and as a result has testified before the U.S. Senate, testified
before the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, and has been appointed as an
adjunct professor at Emory University teaching technology and business
strategy. Mr. Ottolenghi is completing a book on the subject of media
distribution for publication later in 2005.
Prior to co-founding INTENT, Mr, Ottolenghi co-founded and was CEO of
AgentWare, Inc., aa company recognized as the leader in Travel Search
technologies with clients that include: Orbitz, Travelocity, SABRE, Galileo,
AAA, and American Express. AgentWare is most widely used Internet based
travel search engine in the travel industry.
Before AgentWare, Ottolenghi served as Vice President of Information
Technology and Electronic Commerce for Carlson Wagonlit Travel where he led
a team that built the ground-breaking Mercavia network tying more than 5,000
travel agents directly to travel suppliers via the Internet. Mr. Ottolenghi
also enjoyed a successful career at Holiday Inn Worldwide, where he led the
launch of the first Internet-based reservations system in the travel
industry. In 1998, Information Week and Microsoft nominated Ottolenghi for
CIO of the Year.
In the past Mr. Ottolenghi has served as the chief strategist for the
Greater 15 Nations of the United Nations, and was on the board of directors
for the Berkeley Center for Marketing and Technology. Mr. Ottolenghi earned
his Bachelor’s degree from Duke University and his M.B.A. from Emory
University's Goizueta School of Business, where he received a Woodruff
Fellowship and graduated Beta Gamma Sigma.
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