He has also taught marketing, consumer behaviour, communications, marketing research & sales at the university level.

Craig earned an MBA in Design Management from the University of Westminster, London, U.K., where his research focused on knowledge management & networking, organizational storytelling, the Digital Divide, media literacy and professional service firm management.

He has written on diverse topcis including:
1. management storytelling at http://tinyurl.com/4lqr4z
2. knowledge networking at http://tinyurl.com/44lj8c
3. pharma/healthcare social media at http://tinyurl.com/4z229p
4. pharma/healthcare virtual worlds at http://tinyurl.com/543ofh

You can find out more about Craig’s professional background on LinkedIn

He is also a life & career coach helping clients with career strategy, personal planning, network strategy, and talents & strengths inventorying. You can find out more about this on his blog www.wiseworking.com.

Iggy Pintado is an accomplished and experienced business leader, executive, coach, speaker and author. He is an internationally recognized connection technology expert and a dedicated observer of societal and business models and patterns.

Over the last 22 years, he has held professional, management and executive positions in marketing, sales, channels, operations and online management at both technology giant IBM (1986-2006) and until recently, at Telstra. In 2008, he co-founded a business networking consulting, marketing, coaching and mentoring business based in Sydney, Australia called ConnectGen, where he is CEO and CNO (Chief Networking Officer). As a “super-connected” networker on LinkedIn, Plaxo, Facebook and Twitter, he has earned his place in the Top 25 list of the most connected business networkers in Australia.

Iggy has written his first book, Connection Generation, a fascinating study of how connectedness affects our place in society and business and the challenges and opportunities this compelling development presents.

John R. Haight

“Most of my professional career has been spent teaching at the University of Tasmania Medical School, specifically neurobiology, histology and anatomy. Starting in 1971 as a lecturer, I was promoted through the ranks to Sr. Lecturer (1975) and Reader (1980). Three years (1980-1982) were spent on secondment to the Research School of Biological Sciences at ANU.

I also spent a year as a UNESCO sponsored Professorial Fellow at the Semmelweis Medical University in Budapest, Hungary in 1988. I served for a number of years as head of the anatomy department at the University of Tasmania.

In 1991 I took early retirement from academia to try my hand in the business world providing training and consultancy services in the ICT industry, something in which I had always had a serious interest. I returned to academia in 1999 and finally ‘retired’ at the end of 2006. Retirement didn’t really suit, so in a moment of alcohol fuelled bravado I ‘volunteered’ to take on the duties of Tasmanian Branch Administrator for the Australian Computer Society on a part-time basis, the post I currently occupy.

My research interests, mostly arcane and impenetrable for the non-specialist, mainly centre around comparing structure and function in marsupial brains to those of our better known placental relatives. My most intelligible exposition of these interests can be found in Elvesier’s Encyclopedia of Neuroscience in the article: Marsupial Brains.”

Academic
BA – North Central College, Naperville, Illinois, USA. Engineering Physics, 1964 (Interrupted by 3 yrs in the US Armed Forces)
MSc – Michigan State University, E. Lansing, Michigan, USA. Biophysics, 1968
PhD – Michigan State University, E. Lansing, Michigan, USA. Zoology, Evolutionary Neurobiology, 1971

Jack is currently working on a book on social media and networking for the corporate crowd.

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