Keynote Speaker

Lemuel Lasher is chief innovation officer and president for Computer Sciences Corporation's Office of Innovation, which includes: The Leading Edge Forum, The Research Network, Global Solutions Organization, Corporate Alliances, and Knowledge Management & Enablement. Prior to this assignment, he has held numerous managing director positions within CSC's European Group, including: BAE Systems Global Account; European Consulting; CSC Belgium & Luxembourg and Industry Practices for Benelux.

Lasher joined the CSC European Group in 1992 as director of Network Integration Europe, where he was responsible for CSC's network and telecommunications activities in Europe. He joined CSC in 1990 as director, Commercial Programme Development for the Network Integration Division in Herndon, Va.

From 1984 until joining CSC, Lasher was vice president for Integrated Software Resources, Inc, a software consulting and engineering firm in the airline telecommunications industry. Prior to this, he held the following executive positions: president, Deca Group, Inc; executive vice president, Aitta, Inc; director, Investment Seminars, Inc; and director, North American Operations, Elan Vital, Inc.

Lasher attended Baldwin Wallace College, in Berea, Ohio, and Friedrich Wilhelms University, in Bonn, Germany, where he studied German literature and philosophy. He speaks German, French, Dutch, and Spanish.