iBuilding, Inc. Forms Board of Advisors; Includes Real Estate and Technology Innovators Stephen Hagan, John Seely Brown, Kenneth Rosen & Mahmoud Falaki.Business Editors/High Tech & Real Estate Writers SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 14, 2001 iBuilding, Inc. (www.ibuilding.com), the San Francisco-based application services See ASP and Web services. provider that has developed a building-centric work-flow system for the commercial real estate industry, has announced the formation of a Board of Advisors comprised of leading innovators in the fields of real estate and technology including Stephen Hagan, John Seely Brown John Seely Brown (also known as JSB) is a researcher who specializes in organizational studies with a particular bent towards the organizational implications of computer-supported activities. , Kenneth Rosen, and Mahmoud Falaki. "iBuilding has developed a superior product that will make an enduring impact on the commercial real estate industry," said Jacqueline D. Reses, chief executive officer of iBuilding, Inc. "The caliber of the individuals iBuilding has attracted to its advisory board indicates how revolutionary our product is." Board of Advisors iBuilding's Board of Advisors includes Stephen R. Hagan, a consultant and evangelist on information technology and the design and construction industry; John Seely Brown, chief innovation officer at 12 Entrepreneuring, Inc., the entrepreneurial operating company operating company A business that engages in transactions with outsiders. that led the company's funding, and former director of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center Palo Alto Research Center - XEROX PARC ; Dr. Kenneth T. Rosen, chairman of the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley is a public research university located in Berkeley, California, United States. Commonly referred to as UC Berkeley, Berkeley and Cal ; and Mahmoud Falaki, Ph.D., a principal technologist at 12 Entrepreneuring. Stephen R. Hagan Over the last 23 years, Stephen Hagan has worked extensively in the public sector to integrate information technology into programs and projects for multi-billion dollar capital construction programs. He serves on the aecXML project management working group; is a member of the Construction Industry Institute's Fully Integrated and Automated Project Process (FIAPP) Steering Team; and is a member of the Construction Industry Institute's team to develop an overall construction classification system. Hagan's initiatives include industry-wide conferences and symposia on information and the built environment for the American Institute of Architects' Center for Advanced Technology Facilities Design and the National Academy of Sciences. His projects include state-of-the-art laboratories at the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Standards and Technology National Institute of Standards and Technology, governmental agency within the U.S. Dept. of Commerce with the mission of "working with industry to develop and apply technology, measurements, and standards" in the national interest. . He has promoted and helped develop project integration and information technology tools that are being deployed in multi-billion-dollar capital programs to enable a community of project managers, design professionals, executives and strategic partners to execute projects and programs more effectively. John Seely Brown John Seely Brown is both the chief innovation officer at 12 Entrepreneuring and the chief scientist at Xerox. For 10 years he served as director of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC (Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, Palo Alto, CA, www.parc.com) Founded in 1970, PARC is a Xerox subsidiary involved in high-tech research and development. Although Xerox's headquarters are in Stamford, Connecticut, and manufacturing and marketing are in Rochester, New York, PARC is ), where he expanded the role of corporate research to include such topics as organizational learning Organizational learning is an area of knowledge within organizational theory that studies models and theories about the way an organization learns and adapts. In Organizational development (OD), learning is a characteristic of an adaptive organization, i.e. , sociological studies of the workplace, complex adaptive systems and micro electrical mechanical system (MEMS (MicroElectroMechanical Systems) Tiny mechanical devices that are built onto semiconductor chips and are measured in micrometers. In the research labs since the 1980s, MEMS devices began to materialize as commercial products in the mid-1990s. ). He was recently awarded the Industrial Research Institute Medal for outstanding accomplishments in technological innovation and is the co-author of a highly acclaimed book The Social Life of Information, published by Harvard Business School Harvard Business School, officially named the Harvard Business School: George F. Baker Foundation, and also known as HBS, is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. Press. Brown, who sits on numerous boards of directors and advisory boards, is a member of the National Academy of Education and a Fellow of the American Association American Association refers to one of the following professional baseball leagues:
Kenneth T. Rosen Kenneth Rosen has 30 years of real estate research experience, focused on quantitatively-based, regional, economic, and property market forecasts. Rosen is Chairman of the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Previously, he was a Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Princeton University Princeton University, at Princeton, N.J.; coeducational; chartered 1746, opened 1747, rechartered 1748, called the College of New Jersey until 1896. Schools and Research Facilities , and a senior research associate at the Joint Center for Urban Studies at Harvard and M.I.T. Rosen established and managed Salomon Brothers' real estate research program from 1985 to 1990. Mahmoud Falaki, Ph.D. Mahmoud Falaki has more than 20 years of experience in building, consulting, teaching and research in information technology. Prior to arriving at 12 Entrepreneuring to serve as a principal technologist, he was a senior vice president and principal systems engineer in Bank of America's enterprise architecture and technology consulting division. He led the infrastructure design group in the management, architecture, design and deployment of infrastructure technical services for customer and financial transaction processing. Previously, Falaki served as technical lead and chief scientist in the Internet Service Provider Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. business unit of Cisco Systems. He has also worked as a systems architect and strategic planner for Pacific Bell Internet where he built eight major products. As a chairman and professor of computer science he taught computer information systems and software engineering, and he has published 28 articles. In addition to forming the advisory board, iBuilding has appointed its Board of Directors, which includes Geoffrey P. Wharton, a senior managing director at Tishman Speyer Properties Tishman Speyer Properties is a leading real estate building and operating company set up in 1978 by two founding partners, Jerry Speyer and Robert Tishman. Overview ; Jacqueline D. Reses, chief executive officer of iBuilding; and Patrick Pohlen, chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. of 12 Entrepreneuring. About iBuilding, Inc. iBuilding has developed an enterprise class, Internet-based, building-centric control system that standardizes work-flow and process management for the commercial real estate industry. The iBuilding system allows building owners, managers, tenants, and vendors to connect online to more efficiently manage day-to-day operations including work order processing, task assignment, status monitoring, shared resource scheduling, and data storage and reporting. The company was founded in March 2000 and is led by a team of executives with extensive experience in real estate and technology. It is backed by funding from 12 Entrepreneuring, Inc., Benchmark Capital, Tishman Speyer Properties, and other strategic investors. |
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