Alex Lightman

Alex Lightman is an award-winning inventor, artist, entrepreneur, and government advisor. He is the author of the first book on 4G wireless, Brave New Unwired World, as well as Reconciliation: 78 Reasons to End the US Embargo of Cuba. His awards include the first Economist Reader's Award for the Innovation That Will Most Radically Change the World, SGI's Internet VR contest grand prize (out of 800 entries), and Avatars '97. He is the chairman of Witkit, Everblaze, and GINET, and director of a venture fund. He is a graduate of MIT and attended graduate school at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.