Tom Gage is CEO & Managing Director and founder of Marconi Pacific. He has practiced as a management consultant with Fortune 100 corporations for over 25 years. He was formerly SVP and General Manager at VeriSign. Previous to that he was Vice-president and Managing Director of Gemini Consulting's C4 practice (Communications, Computing, Consumer Electronics and Content) responsible for 200 consultants in North America. He is a board member of The Yale Center for Customer Insights and of ATIS -The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions. He is the author and Editor of two editions of Energy Primer – Solar, Water, Wind and BioFuels and of numerous articles on telecommunications and technology business issues and vehicle automation. He holds an MPPM from the Yale School of Management and a BA in Economics from Cornell University.