Laina Raveendran Greene

Business mentor, Connector, Consultant, Environmentalist, Global soul, Idea generator, Producer, Project manager, Social entrepreneur, World traveler

25 years work experience, which include: Working for organizations such as: International Telecommunications Union (Geneva), INTELSAT (Washington DC), Singapore Telecom (Singapore), Asia Pacific Internet Association, Asia Pacific Network Information Centre, GetIT Multimedia (Singapore) and GetIT (Silicon Valley) . Organizations I have worked for as a consultant include: Verisign, Juniper Networks, Cisco Systems, Pacific Internet, Telecom Italia, UNDP, UNESCAP, ITU, UNCTAD, IDRC, CommunicAsia, ADB, South Pacific Forum, etc. Skills include: - Strategic Business Planning -Strategic marketing and sales -Networking/Communications and Negotiations -Public Speaking Key Strengths: Values Driven, Articulate, Analytical, Business Acumen and World-embracing Current Work Goal: Would also like to be involved in connecting funding, business skills with innovative solutions for energy and communications globally. Truly believes that "Necessity (and scarcity) is the mother of invention" hence innovation often exists where you least expect it. Inspired by Baha'i writings: "The wellbeing of mankind, its peace and security, are unattainable, unless and until its unity is firmly established" “Let your vision be world embracing, rather than confined to your own self"

Unity in Diversity, Green ICT, the ocean, beach and warm weather (love snorkeling and parasailing), love to travel, and deeply interested in the empowerment of women and disadvantaged minorities.

I am currently working on a project with WWF to explore how we can support Selco in India to "opensource" their 15 year experience in bringing energy to the rural poor. We are also exploring the setting up of a "Seed Fund/Incubator" (bringing money, knowhow, innovative technologies and passionate entrepreneurs together to help replicate this model elsewhere in India and around the world. Talk to me if you are interested to support this endeavor.

Board Governance, Business Entrepreneurship, green technologies, Intercultural Communications, Not For Profit Management, sales and marketing, Strategic Planning, telecommunications

I learnt about TED through Kamran Elahian and got very intrigued with the amazing people on the network. Having recently sold my own business, gone through 2 major 4 hour surgeries each, turning 45, totally thrilled that Obama is the new President of the US (I actually stood in the mall with the 2 million people for the Inauguration), I now value time more than ever and have made a commitment to myself to only seek out enlightened and commited doers in the world. We are at a very critical juncture in humanity where there is great propensity for us to move either forward or backwards. I want to be connected to people committed to making a better world. I am confident that TED is a great network to meet such people. "So powerful is the light of unity that is can illuminate the whole earth" and TED looks to me as a gathering of people committed to unity. I am so excited to be a part of this network.

dealing with children with high functioning autism ,sensing/reading people, choir singing, Indian classical dance or that I have travelled to 47 countries/over 250 cities around the world.