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As Senior Consultant with Ramius Corporation, Simon helps clients to design and deploy the company’s online community and social networking solutions. During his six years at Ramius, Simon has helped launch knowledge, customer and partner networks for organizations like the American Marketing Association, Compuware, the IEEE, Juniper Networks, NASA and SAP.

A spokesperson for Ramius and active contributor to the social computing community, Simon is interested in how social technologies can help people connect and communicate to work, learn and innovate.

Simon is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario’s Administrative Commercial Studies Program, specializing in Finance and Economics. He remains active with the university’s Alumni Board of Directors and is a former president of the alumni’s Ottawa branch.

In his spare time, Simon tries to travel more, take better photos, ski tougher runs and hit a tennis ball around more often.

Victoria G. Axelrod is an organization strategist and management consultant with extensive global experience developing, integrating and executing company strategy and transformation. She is former Senior Vice President and Head of Global Best Practices for the American Management Association International.  

As principal of Axelrod Becker Consulting she creates sustainable growth and identifies new revenue opportunities based on the power of stakeholder networks.  

Her clients range from startups to Fortune 500s, nonprofits and government agencies.

Victoria co-founded the 21^st Century Organization Group and blog http://c21org.typepad.com in 2005 to address emerging business issues and trends in today’s interconnected global business environment. 

Her latest writing appears in Inside Knowledge on open innovation networks, prediction markets and online virtual business environments; The Sustainable Enterprise Fieldbook July, 2008 chapters on transorganizational collaboration, sustainable networks and sustainable globalization.

She is a frequent presenter to groups such as the U. S. National Security Agency (on “Aligning Human Systems and Business Strategy”), Bausch & Lomb, Baruch College MBA Program, New School, the Lawyers Alliance of New York, Human Resource Planning Society, IIRUSA, US Chamber Institute and Management Centre Europe.  Her BA is from the University of Michigan and an MA from Columbia University. 

She serves as a current board member of eSight and the Organization Development Network of Greater New York. You can reach her at www.axelrodbecker.com or vaxelrod@axelrodbecker.com.

Jenny Ambrozek is Founder of SageNet LLC, a consulting practice helping

businesses create value by understanding and operating their organizations as networks, and putting collaborative tools to work to connect intelligence in, across and beyond their walls.

Her work in online interaction began in the mid 1980s with Edutel, an Australian Caption Center supported educational content service delivered on Prestel standard Videotex. Jenny authored The Edutel Book: A Guide to Videotex in Education. Coming to the United States in the 1980’s, Jenny joined PRODIGY, the pioneering online service where she served as Director, Community Development.

In eight years at PRODIGY, she brought together a wide range of interactive components in content areas ranging from entertainment to technology to parenting, and learned firsthand about the importance of day-to-day operating practices to minimize the cost of supporting customer engagement.

Since 1996 Jenny has helped clients in publishing, learning, and commerce implement successful online network and collaboration efforts. With Joe Cothrel she conducted the //Online Communities in Business 2004// study and contributed to the communities of practice organizational network survey instrument for the //Network Roundtable//, University of Virginia. Her most recent article co-authored with Victoria Axelrod and Kiki Mulliner is “Learning through participation and connecting intelligence: experimenting with a wiki to co-create an article”. Jenny is a co-founder and author of the //21st Century Organization// blog and provides her participatory media expertise to the University of Warwick //Knowledge Innovation Network//.