Geof Lambert
Location:
USA
Geof Lambert, a graduate of the Walter J. Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University, began his first career in the food business. He held executive management positions as the head of both the product development and the foodservice divisions of one of the largest food companies in Northern California.
Presently Geof is a consultant with WorldBridge Partners, and a founder of Digital Native Studios an Internet platform company focused on revitalizing education of K-12 students via multi-user virtual environments. He is a leader with the global IPv6 Forum, and vice chair of the North American IPv6 Task Force. He is the founder and chair of the first sub-chapter of the North American IPv6 Task Force, the California IPv6 Task Force. He has played an active role in the formation of other North American IPv6 Task Force sub-chapters. He represented the North American IPv6 Task Force at the 2006 IPv6 Forum Global Congress, and assisted with the development of IPv6 Forum Roadmap and Vision 2010. He has co-chaired a number of North American and California IPv6 Task Force annual conferences. Geof was one of the founders of the Green Protocol Working Group and presently serves as its chair. In 2007 Geof was honored by being selected as an IPv6 Forum Pioneer by the global IPv6 Forum.
Mr. Lambert has been a member of the XMPP Standards Foundation, and has been professionally involved with many aspects of the XMPP protocol and was active with the advancement of the underlying technologies of XMPP throughout the world. Also, Mr. Lambert was one of the early pioneers in Internet based social networking.
He is presently on the board of the San Juan Education Foundation, and has been actively involved in various capacities with a wide range of non-profit organizations including the American Culinary Federation, Perishable Foods Council of Northern California, American Center for Wine Food and the Arts, California Restaurant Association, Sacramento Area Regional Technology Alliance, TechCoire, the Sacramento Angels, and SolarNetOne.
Mr. Lambert has been a Rotary Youth Exchange student, and a Cultural Scholar sponsored by Rotary International District 2090 in Perugia, Italy. He was a member of the Rotary Club of Fair Oaks for over 20 years. He served on the club board of directors for a number of terms and served on the board of the club’s non-profit foundation. He is a past president of the club. At the regional level of Rotary International he has served on the Rotary Foundation Scholarship, Rotary Youth Leadership Awards and Rotary Group Study Exchange Committees. He is past chair of the District Rotary Foundation Scholarship Committee. He was one of the original founders of the Interact Club at Bella Vista High School. He was a co-counselor for the Rotary Center for International Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution at the University of California at Berkeley, and he is past District 5180 peace scholar chair. The International Fellowship of Digital Technology Rotarians is an organization that he founded to help put affordable Internet access in the hands of everybody. Geof if the founder of www.MakeTheInternetFreeForEverybody.org . He speaks frequently about the Digital Divide and Internet technologies. Mr. Lambert is a Paul Harris Fellow. He has named his father, Gordon Lambert, a Paul Harris Fellow, and named Vint Cerf, chief Internet evangelist, Google, honorary chair, IPv6 Forum, and Jim Bound, senior fellow, Hewlett Packard, CTO, IPv6 Forum, chair, North American IPv6 Task Force as Rotary Foundation Paul Harris Fellows. Mr. Lambert is a Benefactor of the Rotary Foundation, and also a Rotary Foundation Bequest Society member.
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