Founder and Executive Director of Gov2u. He holds a B.A. in Economics and a B.A. in Political Science (International Relations). He continued his Graduate work in Economics (Economic Development) at Indiana University and completed several courses in Computer Science at Purdue University. His past experience includes among others, Chairman and CEO of Pythia Corp - developer of legislative information systems, Economic Advisor at Indiana Legislature and Transportation Planner at the Indiana Transportation Planning Board. He was a finalist in the 1996 Entrepreneur of the Year Award, Indiana Growth 100, and received the Highest Impacting Partner Award from Microsoft. He has been featured in several books and publications including "Business@the speed of thought" by Bill Gates. He has participated in various international conferences and working meeting of eDemocracy (WSIS, Council of Europe, EU , EU Parliament etc) and he is contributing to various publications on e-democracy, the Internet and politics etc. Founder and Executive Director of Gov2u. His past experience includes among others, Chairman and CEO of Pythia Corp - developer of legislative information systems, Economic Advisor at Indiana Legislature and Transportation Planner at the Indiana Transportation Planning Board. He was a finalist in the 1996 Entrepreneur of the Year Award, Indiana Growth 100, and received the Highest Impacting Partner Award from Microsoft. He has been featured in several books and publications including "Business@the speed of thought" by Bill Gates. Currently he is an evaluator in the DG Information Society.