Gabriel Vizzard

Gabriel Vizzard



Business development executive with 24 years in information and communications (ICT) solutions and technology.  Mr Vizzard has had a broad range of experience with start-ups and mainline IT and telecommunications technology companies.

Through 11+ years at IBM Corporation, Gabriel, helped shape and form early Internet/Java ISV partner alliances, created new methods for managing software as a service (SaaS) and provide market breaking wireless broadband infrastructure solutions.  He was an early sponsor of the Wireless Internet Institute (W2i).  Before and after IBM, Mr Vizzard has served in a variety of business development, marketing and engineering strategy roles with start-ups involved in software and radio network products and services. Through his experience with start-ups and with IBM he has come to know and understand the IT investment community in the Silicon Valley, the United Kingdom and in France.

Today Gabriel is helping end customers realize greater benefit from their IT budgets through hosted business applications and utilizing telecommunications vendor partnerships.  Also, Mr Vizzard is working with a variety of semiconductor and mobile application developers to determine routes-to-market and leverage new business models for developing and delivering mobile industry devices and applications for consumers and enterprise markets. 


Mr Vizzard received his BA degree in Communications Studies from the University of California, San Diego, one of the highest ranked universities, public or private, in the United States.  He spent three years in a post graduate program in Communication Studies at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada, where he studied global telecommunications economics and policy.

Current Projects

Current Projects

Education

Education

  • BA with Honours, Communications Studies, University of California, San Diego

  • Graduate study, Telecommunications Policy and Communications Study, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada