Zotera's Management... Jamal Shareef, Managing Partner Over 28 years experience providing business and technology transformation across several industry sectors including telecommunications, information technology and high tech manufacturing. Partial list of clients include Vodafone, IBM, GTE/Verizon, Intel, HP, Time Warner, Motorola, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed, Raytheon, Shell, and Bank of America  Industry expertise spans a broad spectrum of technical disciplines including High Performance Computing Architectures and Models, Multi-Media Service Delivery Platforms, Service Oriented Architectures, Virtualization, Identity Based Computing, and Open Systems   Managing Partner, Cambridge Technology Partners: Management Consultant to executive management of major telecommunications & High Tech manufacturing companies including  Vodafone, Verizon, & Hitachi Managing Director, Product Management & Product Marketing, Hitachi Data Systems; Responsible for a $3 Billion High Performance Computing product line Managing Director Decision Consultants Inc,  P&L responsibility for a 250 person Telecomm consulting practice As Consultant Systems Engineer for EMC Corp., and Candle Corp.: an industry pioneer of methodologies, tools, and techniques for performance measurement and tuning of enterprise operating systems and network infrastructures.  Many of these approaches have contributed to industry standards.     BA Howard University George Washington University School of Business: Continuing Education Program Global Business Management Commercial Contracts Management Oscar J. Williams, Partner Over 36 years of telecommunications experience with established companies including (ITT World Com), and management consulting experience with AUS Inc. in New Jersey  Spent the last 17 years investing and building competitive communications companies    Private equity experience as a founding partner in Intellysis Capital Partners Founding officer and President in Communications Holdings Inc Founding officer 2nd Century, the first US company which used a single transport technology for both voice and data As Vice-President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer of Intermedia Communications, Oscar built the company from $7.0 Million to over $800 Million in revenues and from 19 employees to over 5,000. During Oscar’s tenure as CFO, he helped Intermedia raise over $700 million in capital from both the public and private investment communities Experiences include assignments in the United States, South America, Central America and the Caribbean  BA Central State University and post graduate work at Cleveland State University Marek Kaszubski, Partner Over 20  years  counseling on project finance, mergers and acquisitions, export/import, and foreign investment issues  Practiced law for the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Wall Street law firm of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, a Washington, DC law firm of Mott & Associates Consulted Fortune 500 and  multinational companies on American business and corporate governance issues, foreign and domestic taxation, drafting and negotiations of international contracts, export licensing, transfer of technology, compliance with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Mergers and Acquisitions Advisor to the Polish Ministry of Privatization (Warsaw, Poland) Executive of American Satellite Television, Inc. (responsible for licensing and regulatory matters and securing financing to commence broadcasting of American television programming by satellite to and from Central and Eastern Europe) Conducted training programs worldwide on project management, contracting, corporate and business law issues for Cisco, AOL, AT&T, Capital One, Compaq, Dow Jones, Hewlett Packard, Digital Equipment Corporation, GTE, IBM, Motorola, Raytheon, SAIC, Sprint, Lucent Technologies, European Space Agency and the World Bank Earned a Master of Law degree LL.M.) with a specialty in international law from the University of Lodz, Poland and a Master of Comparative Law (M.C.L.) degree from The George Washington University Kwame Boakye Phd., Partner Dr. Boakye has spent over 30 years in the information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry serving in a variety of roles, ranging from research to executive management  President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Backbone Connectivity Network Limited (BCN), a start-up, neutral, wholesale telecommunications operator developing a nationwide, High Bandwidth Fiber Optic Network infrastructure in Ghana Vice-President and Chief Technology Officer for Harris Corporation in the U.S. where he provided technology leadership and management for the multi-billion dollar corporation, and served as the advisor to executive management on technology investments and the impact of technology on the business Vice-President of Technology Planning, Chief Technical Officer, Chief Architect, Director of Business Development and Technical Director to AT&T Paradyne where his role ranged from detailed technical design and development of telecommunications networks, products and services to being the executive focal point and technology "champion" for the corporation Headed  the University of Ghana Computer Science Department and served on a number of national committees and commissions Dr. Boakye received BS, MS, and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University.   Julius Kearney, Partner Former state Public Utility Commissioner  An experienced international consultant who has worked extensively on telecommunications sector reform and privatization in Africa, Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean and the United States Served as a legal and regulatory advisor to a number of international entities including the Lesotho Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, the Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority (RURA), the Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC), the telecommunications regulator of El Salvador—Superintendencia General de Electricidad y Telecommunicaciones (“SIGET”), the National Communications Commission in the Republic of Georgia; and the Agency for Telecommunications in Montenegro A graduate of Harvard Law School and Harvard University Prince Jenkins, Partner Managing Director of JPJ Group, an international management and ICT consulting firm  Telecommunications regulatory attorney who has extensive management experience with international and national telecommunications companies Project Director Lead for the Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) Privatization Initiative and BTC Reengineering Project Served as Legal and Policy Advisor to the telecommunications regulator of El Salvador—the Superintendencia General de Electricidad y Telecommunicaciones (“SIGET”), the Namibian Communications Commission (NCC) and the Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority where he helped to advise and establish a new regulatory agency in the Republic of Rwanda A graduate of Georgetown University Law School and Rutgers University Site Map  |  Contact