Doing Business Globally
Vitaly M. Golomb of Sputnik Ecommerce Systems
Vivian Deutsch of IAIA Consulting
When: Tuesday, September 9th, 6:30 - 9:00 pm
Where: Fenwick & West, 801 California St., Mountain View, CA
RSVP: http://www.jhtc.org
Regular Admission: $10
Student Admission: $5 (ID required)
Members Admission: Included
A light meal and soft drinks will be served
About the Speakers
Vitaly M. Golomb is currently President & CEO of Sputnik Ecommerce Systems,
an award winning web and software development firm in San Francisco. During
his tenure, Sputnikšs business has grown 260% year-over-year while serving
clients including eLoan, Look Smart, the Multiple Sclerosis Society, Datran
Media, Namco and Stanford University. From 2003-2005, Mr.Golomb lead a
turnaround of All Digital Printing & Graphics, a boutique digital printing
facility, before selling the firm. Prior to that, Mr.Golomb ran the User
Interface Team at SpinCircuit, an enterprise software company in the
electronics manufacturing industry backed by HP, Solectron, Flextronics and
Cadence.
Escaping anti-semitism and looking for better opportunities, the Golomb
family traveled from Odessa, Ukraine through Austria and Italy to San
Francisco in 1990. A natural entrepreneur and leader, Vitaly started his
first company at 16 and was managing technical departments in established
companies by 18.
He has extensive experience in marketing with several design awards to his
credit, as well as a technical background as an information architect,
design and marketing consultant to startups and enterprises. Vitaly has been
a founding member of a dozen startups and has been a featured speaker on the
Business Radio Network as well as at Northwestern Polytechnic University,
Cal State Hayward, and UC Berkeley. Mr.Golomb is a frequent advisor on
ecommerce strategy. He earned a cum laude bachelors degree at Cogswell
College in Computer & Video Imaging
Vivian Deutsch is a principal in IAIA Consulting, the Israeli-American
Intercultural Advantage, which assists organizations with an
Israeli-American interface to strengthen their cross-cultural management,
teamwork and communication. She has over 20 years experience in
organizational development, consulting, coaching, training, facilitation and
communications, working in Israeli and American divisions of a Fortune 500
high tech company, specifically focused on the requirements for working
together across the cultural divide. As an internal organizational
consultant, she supported diversity initiatives for US internal
organizations and for company sites outside the US in Malaysia, Ireland,
Israel, Japan and Europe.
Vivian designed, developed, delivered, facilitated and trained instructors
for a wide variety of training, and did extensive work on new hire
integration, management development, team effectiveness and workplace
skills. She addressed sensitive employee relations issues, and authored key
culture-related documents and articles. Vivian holds a Masters Degree from
Haifa University in Israel as well as advanced certifications from Columbia
University and the Technion.
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