Keith Lantz Email & Phone Number

Strategic planning, R&D, product management, business/corporate development and/or intellectual property consulting.CURRENT AREAS OF FOCUS: digital health, unified communication & collaborationOTHER AREAS OF PRACTICE: distributed systems, networking, operating systems, quality of service, touch technologies, user experienceREPRESENTATIVE CLIENTS (including.

• Expert witness in patent infringement suits involving UI and collaboration technologies (e.g. videoconferencing and web conferencing). Examples:
• Expert consultant for Microsoft in American Video Graphics v. Microsoft
• Expert consultant for Pragmatus in Pragmatus v. Yahoo!
• Testifying expert for Adobe in EdiSync Systems v. Adobe Systems
• Testifying expert for Zoho in Visible Connections v. Zoho Corporation

• Recruited by CEO to co-found this healthtech company, which is focused on accelerating the paradigm shift to patient-centric, value-based care via an open, cloud-based healthcare platform that harmonizes and.
• Co-led the initial management consulting engagement with Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center that funded the launch of the company.
• Co-invented Practive’s concept for a “clinically integrated network platform” that would enable the rapid creation of accountable care organizations comprised of disparate healthcare delivery organizations. The.
• Co-invented Practive’s original concept for “care circles” – patient-specific communities of care that enable and empower them to take responsibility for their health and wellbeing, change their behavior, and adhere to.
• Principal author of Practive’s original, care circles-centric business plan, investor pitches and executive summaries.
• Co-led financial forecasting efforts; internal lead on term sheets for both convertible debt and equity financing.

Los Altos, California, US

Evaluating, investing in and mentoring startups that leverage information technologies to deliver more cost-effective, patient-centric healthcare.

Calgary, AB, CA

• Recruited by CEO and Executive Chairman to build and lead this in-house incubator, whose mission was to conceive, build, field test and even sell prototypes of innovative, user-centered collaboration solutions, with.
• Next generation enterprise collaboration solutions, including the initial prototype of what became SMART Meeting Pro Connector for Lync and substantive contributions to the SMART Room System for Microsoft Lync
• Next generation learning environments, including early work on mobile device integration with SMART Notebook and other capabilities subsequently commercialized in SMART amp
• Use of persistent shared whiteboards in the cloud to support collaboration using any device, from anywhere, at any time – functionality subsequently commercialized in both SMART Meeting Pro and SMART amp
• Next generation touch technologies, including substantive contributions to the SMART Table 442i
• Use of proximity sensing to facilitate interaction, including the initial prototypes of the presence detection capabilities in the SMART Board 8055i interactive display and SMART Room System for Microsoft Lync

Calgary, AB, CA

Strategic planning and system engineering for SMART's initiative to expand its presence in the enterprise market. Among other things, this work laid the foundation for SMART's efforts to augment its interactive displays with audio & video capabilities and to integrate with Microsoft Lync – as exemplified by SMART Meeting Pro Connector for Lync and the.

Strategy, technical and patent advising for this UC&C start-up, which was acquired by Google before coming out of stealth mode.

San Jose, CA, US

• Top 1% of the engineering work force, requiring a balance of technical, strategic planning, marketing, product management and business/corporate development skills, as well as an ability to work across functions and.
• Led the development of the original business case for Cisco’s $3B acquisition of Tandberg.
• Led the Voice Technology Group's engagement with Cisco's "medianet" initiative, an end-to-end architecture for a network optimized for the delivery of rich-media experiences.
• Developed the overarching, cross-company strategic planning framework for "collaborative video", encompassing the medianet architecture and endpoints ranging from soft clients for smartphones & desktops to videophones.
• Provided strategic planning & requirements definition for the initial development of Cisco TelePresence.
• Identified and/or performed due diligence on numerous acquisitions and strategic partnerships, including Latitude Communications, WebEx and Tandberg.

San Jose, CA, US

• Recruited to lead Cisco’s entry into the videoconferencing/video telephony market, culminating in the November 1999 launch of the IP/VC 3500 product line.
• Wrote the original product requirements documents, evaluated potential partners, and constructed the build-buy-partner analysis.
• Through October 2001 led IP/VC engineering, as well as Cisco's broader video telephony strategic planning efforts, and acted as principal relationship manager with OEM partner Radvision.
• Spearheaded numerous enhancements to our mutual products, including improved performance, scalability, continuous presence, H.264 support, scheduling support, T.120 cascading, dial plan enhancements and network.
• Orchestrated the integration of the IP/VC product line with Cisco CallManager (and Cisco phones), thus enabling the evolution of Cisco's originally, voice-only IP telephony products to incorporating video capabilities.
• Subsequently built and led a system architecture team that designed and developed consistent approaches for quality of service, media synchronization, voice security, etc. across Cisco's unified communications portfolio.

Kanata, ON, US

Strategic planning and product management for ShoreTel's first product, the CrystaLAN LAN-PBX, with particular emphasis on system management, voice mail and wide area network architecture.

San Mateo, CA, US

• Recruited from its parent company (Vicor Inc.) to rebuild its strategic planning, product management & marketing functions.
• Managed efforts to replace many 3rd-party components with higher quality, lower cost alternatives, yielding significantly higher profit margins.
• Led initiative to develop a suite of stored video products to complement the existing real-time conferencing products.
• Led efforts to leverage traditional marcom vehicles rather than rely exclusively on consultative sales, resulting in significantly increased market exposure.
• Led competitive intelligence efforts.
• Managed the global demo infrastructure.

• Recruited by CEO as the first engineering leader for this boutique management consulting & systems engineering start-up. Responsibilities spanned strategic planning, requirements definition, system development, project.
• Developed the model for professional & organizational productivity that became the cornerstone for most of Vicor's and Avistar's efforts.
• Co-invented the enterprise video system that became the Avistar Enterprise Video Exchange and was a principal in the planning efforts that led to spinning out Avistar to productize that technology.
• Led multiple client-funded projects addressing corporate memory, business intelligence and information publishing that foreshadowed present day customer relationship management (CRM) systems and collaboration portals.
• Provided critical marketing, sales & relationship management support for clients, including Bank of America, Cargill, Chase Manhattan Bank, Johns Hopkins University, J.P. Morgan, Northern Trust, Seagram and the.
• Acted as the chief intelligence officer, including conducting the bulk of Avistar's competitive intelligence even before transitioning to Avistar.

• Recruited by Director to develop a world-class research program in collaborative multimedia technologies.
• Led the development of the Dialogo shared window system and the VOX Audio Server (a software server intended to do for audio what window systems do for graphics)
• Conceived and negotiated the VOX Consortium (intended to direct the future development of VOX in a neutral atmosphere inclusive of commercial and educational interests).
• Led recruiting efforts.

Stanford, CA, US

• Co-founder of the Stanford Distributed Systems Group and a principal architect of the V-System distributed operating system.
• Led projects that developed the Virtual Graphics Terminal Service (a revolutionary network window system with an object-oriented structured graphics interface that influenced both the X Window System and Sun’s.
• Overhauled the operating system curriculum and introduced courses in network architecture, distributed systems and concurrent programming.

Ph.D., Computer Science

M.S., Computer Science

B.S. (Summa Cum Laude), Computer Science