Lee
Olsen is an internationally recognized eBusiness pioneer and visionary
credited with coining the phrase "Multimedia Computing" during
his impressive 22-year career at IBM. This worldwide recognition has
helped Mr. Olsen establish business relationships globally. Considered
one of the world’s top eBusiness consultants, he is known for his
work in the development of Internet and eBusiness applications for national
and regional governments and corporations.
Most
recently as CEO of Meta4 Group, Mr. Olsen reorganized Magnus Global
Consulting to focus on more international eBusiness. Clients include
Aventis AG, a German, French and US company that is now the 3rd largest
pharmaceutical company in the world. After consulting for Aventis’s
CIO on corporate strategy, he became the overall project director for
building the highly visible $20M www.aventis.com
while overseeing four consulting companies, running the project at the
Swedish based company IconMedia Labs.
While
VP of Business Development at CoreCommerce, Mr. Olsen worked closely
with Granger Whitelaw to author partnership strategies and build strategic
relationships between CoreCommerce and Hewlett Packard, Sun, Sapient,
Lante, NexGenix, Expedior as well as others to develop sales channels
for CoreCommerce’s million-dollar Business-to-Business software.
As
COO and a founder of EOCnet.com, Mr. Olsen, again in partnership with
Mr. Whitelaw, successfully licensed the assets of this electronic offshore
commerce company to London Telecom doing eBusiness as www.oeBusiness.com.
He has been interviewed by multiple publications regarding the success
of EOCnet.com, including Business 2.0, Wired, Financial Times and CFO
magazine. He continues as CEO of the holding company, EBS Ltd., managing
the ongoing relationship with oeBusiness.
Mr.
Olsen formed EBS Ltd. in 1998 with two partners, and built the business
into an innovative eCommerce holding company. He and Mr. Whitelaw were
the driving forces behind the EBS Act of 1999, the first eCommerce Law
in Bermuda, which included legal opinions from the USA, Europe and Japan.
It is considered to be the most advanced eCommerce law in the world
today and its legal structure is trademarked as “eSuites.”
This law has been the benchmark for many countries trying to build an
eBusiness infrastructure.
During
this time, Mr. Olsen helped form partnerships with PriceWaterhouseCoopers,
Visa, Sterling Commerce, Bank of Bermuda and Midi Corp. He promoted
EBS and EOCnet.com through numerous speeches and interviews in North
America, South America, Europe, Japan, Australia and Caribbean countries.
Mr.
Olsen previously formed Magnus Global Consulting, Inc., considered to
be world experts implementing Multimedia and eBusiness applications.
Projects included Web strategy for Europe’s second largest retailer,
the German-based Karstadt and their eMall website www.my-world.de;
strategy development and project management of software training courses
for Dupont’s Automotive Refinishing Division; eBusiness software
evaluation for National TechTeam call centers. He also acted as President
and CEO of WorldGlobe, a payment processing company funded from Canada
doing business in Bermuda, and has managed numerous research studies
for several international clients on eBusiness trends and user demographics.
In
his decidedly untraditional executive tenure at IBM, Mr. Olsen moved
from marketing to project management to development to consulting for
IBM’s roster of Fortune 500 clients. From the earliest days when
he headed up the IBM interactive video think-tank to addressing IBM’s
advanced systems and process training requirements and later eBusiness
website development, applications and processes that Mr. Olsen created
in the 1980s and early 1990s remain un-eclipsed today.
Mr.
Olsen is an experienced public speaker having presented in over 60 countries.
He has shared expert panels with recognizable CEO’s such as Barry
Diller (USA Networks, QVC, and the Home Shopping Network), Edgar Bronfman
Jr. (Seagram’s, MGM Studios and MCA Music) and Lou Gerstner (IBM).
He has also authored white papers regarding the effectiveness of multimedia
and presented these to over 400 organizations, conventions and meetings
around the world. His work has become the basis for many corporate programs.
He has also consulted on multimedia application development to over
20 companies.