TechJournal South selected 25 of the most influential people in Southeast tech in its Nov. print edition and their bios will be appearing online for the next few days. Today: Bobbie Greene Kilberg, CEO, Northern Virginia Tech Council; and Christopher Klaus, CEO and founder of Atlanta’s Kaneva.
Bobbie Greene Kilberg, president, CEO, Northern Virginia Technology Council
Bobbie Kilberg leads and manages the largest technology council in the nation with about 1,100 member companies employing 185,000 people.
NVTC is recognized as the nation’s leader in providing its technology community with networking and educational events, specialized services and benefits, public policy advocacy, branding of its region as a major global technology center, initiatives in targeted business sectors and in the international, entrepreneurship, workforce and education arenas, and a Foundation focusing on venture philanthropy and public/private partnerships.
Kilberg, a graduate of Yale University Law School, serves as a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and played several other important roles in the G.W. Bush White House.
Her experience includes a stint with DC law firm Arnold & Porter, VP of Academic Affairs at Mount Vernon College, and as Associate Counsel to President Ford. She directed a project on the future of private philanthropy for the Aspen Institute.
She was VP and General Counsel of the Roosevelt Center for American Policy Studies. Among her projects at the Center was management of a high tech working group that studied the use of information technology in political campaigns.
In Virginia, Kilberg’s board memberships and community involvements are too numerous to list here.
Her most recent awards are the 2001 Anti-Defamation League’s Women of Achievement Award, Volunteer Fairfax’s 2003 Community Champion Award, the 2003 Girls Inc. D.C. Celebration Honoree Award, the 2004 Lifetime Achievement Award from Women in Technology, a 2005 Women Who Mean Business Award from the Washington Business Journal, a 2007 BRAVO! Women Business Achievement Award from SmartCEO and a 2007 150 Most Powerful People Award from Washingtonian magazine.
Christopher W. Klaus, founder, CEO, Kaneva
ATLANTA– Christopher W. Klaus is the founder and CEO of Kaneva, a rapidly growing social entertainment world. Klaus is also highly regarded as an Internet pioneer as well as a philanthropist and community leader.
Klaus also founded and served as the Chief Security Advisor of Internet Security Systems, Inc. (ISS), a company he created in 1994 and sold to IBM at a total value of over one billion dollars in 2006.
Klaus was one of the first people to recognize the emerging need for Internet security and developed the first vulnerability scanning technology.
While at ISS, Klaus testified at several U.S. Senate and House of Representative Hearings on issues surrounding cyber security and was selected to co-chair the Technical Standards and Common Criteria Task Force for the Department of Homeland Security National Cyber Security Summit – a private sector sponsored task force within the President’s National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace.
Klaus donated $15 million in 1999 for the construction of a new building on the Georgia Tech campus —the Klaus Advanced Computing Building–representing the largest personal donation from anyone of his generation according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy.
Opened in 2006, the building was designed to inspire students to also give back, as well as accelerate future technology innovation, making a positive, direct impact to our digital lifestyle and the global online community.
Klaus currently sits on the Georgia Film, Video, and Music Advisory Commission where he plays an active role in helping define legislation to support the number of films and games made in Georgia.
In addition to sitting on the boards of VerticalOne, the Georgia Game Developers Association (GGDA), Georgia Tech Advisory Board (GTAB), and the Georgia Tech College of Computing, Klaus Christopher is involved at a high level in groups such as: The Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, Hands on Atlanta, Hands on Network, C.A.R.E., the Technology Association of Georgia and The Georgia Tech Alumni Association.
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