Industry
The Industrial Advisory Board is an important and crucial role as part of the greater process designed to strengthen the research and educational efforts of CIS, and to achieve our long-term goals. Our distinguished, engaging and committed Board will produce significant impact on our program design and execution, student training and placement, research collaboration and funding, and visibility. More specifically, we look to the Board's support and insights in the following areas:
- Serve as advocate for the CIS programs to FIU administration, industry, and funding
agencies; and help to enhance CIS/FIU visibility to industry in national and local venues.
- Help to advance CIS research programs by identifying or providing opportunities of
collaboration and funding in basic research, technology development and technology
transfer through industry and government agencies.
- Provide industry feedback and insights on the direction, design and execution of our
research and education programs.
- Promote opportunities for the School's students to become exposed to industry. Provide
practical training to our students by creating co-op programs, mentoring programs and
internships. Help to identify and/or provide employment opportunities for our students.
- Help to identify, solicit and/or provide financial sponsorship to CIS faculty endowment,
research/teaching laboratories, and student scholarships.
Meetings
Board members meet quarterly in South Florida, where they will discuss program development activities with the CIS Dean and FIU Administrators, and interact with CIS faculty and students.
Members
For membership information please contact Steve Luis: luiss@cis.fiu.edu or 305-348-6215.
- Pete Martinez,
IAB Chair, Senior Vice President for Technology Development and Board Chairman, Palm Beach Medical College
- Dr. Roy Gerber,
IAB Vice-Chair, Managing Member, L3W, LLC
- Jaime Borras,
CEO, Wireless Silicon Group and Senior Fellow at Motorola Mobile Devices
- Harald Braun,
CEO, Director and Executive Vice President Big Bang Networks, Inc. and Former IAB Chair
- Ruben Bravo,
Consultant at Kennetropy, LLC and former Director, Microsoft LatAm
- Michael Buchenhorner,
P. A., Patent Law
- Christopher Fleck,
V.P., Platform Development, Citrix Systems, Inc.,
- Jorge Rey,
Director of Information Security and Compliance, Kaufman, Rossin & Co., P.A.
- Dr. Hanafy Meleis,
President of Palmetto Capital Fund, LLC and Former CEO, Trendium, Inc.
- John Nygard III,
CIO, Lennar Corp.
- Steven Reid,
Vice President of Software Engineering, Ultimate Software
- Dr. Marek Rusinkiewicz,
V.P. Research, Telcordia Technologies
- Daisy Santana,
Program Director, Industry Enablement, SWG, IBM
- Michael Shen,
MD, MS, FACC, FASNC, Head of the Section of Cardiac Imaging and a staff physician, Department of Cardiology, Cleveland Clinic Florida
- Bert Silvestre,
IBM General Business Leader - Florida, Georgia and Puerto Rico, Senior Location Executive
- Ravi M. Ugale,
Managing Director, Catalyst Financial
