FEATURED SPEAKER FOR AUGUST 6, 2008
Homaira Akbari, President & CEO, Skybitz

ABOUT OUR FEATURED SPEAKER
Dr. Akbari has more than 17 years of strategic, sales & marketing, product development and operational experience across many critical high-technology industries including software applications, IT services, security systems for homeland defense, telematics and location-based services, and telecom. Dr. Akbari holds a Ph.D. with honors in particle physics from Tufts University and an MBA with distinction from Carnegie Mellon University. She is the author of more than 50 scientific articles in international journals and a frequent speaker in industry conferences and tradeshows. She serves as a judge at MIT $100K Business Plan Competition.

FEATURED COMPANY
Skybitz was the fastest growing business in Virginia in 2007 and was recognized by Deloitte & Touche with a fast 50 award. Based in Sterling, Virginia, SkyBitz was founded by Matthew Schor in the early 1990s, and was known at the time as Eagle Eye Technologies. Today, Skybitz is a leading provider of GPS for the trucking industry.