Lillian Goleniewski is Founder and President of the LIDO Organization, Inc., an internationally acclaimed provider of education, information, and advisory services in the area of telecommunications technologies, services and networks.

Ms. Goleniewski lectures extensively on telecommunications technology and management topics throughout the world. She is the author and creator of LIDO Telecommunications Essentials ® www.telecomessentials.com. Ms. Goleniewski's seminars and eLearning series have been conducted on an international basis since 1984, and are offered throughout Asia, Australia/New Zealand, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, North America and South America. Ms. Goleniewski is also the author of Telecommunications Essentials: 2nd Edition - The Complete Global Source on Communications Fundamentals, Data Networking and the Internet, Next-Generation Networks and Wireless Communications. (Published by Addison Wesley, October 2006, ISBN: 0321427610).

Ms. Goleniewski's diverse industry participation has included serving as an Industry Advisory Board Member for numerous conferences and awards programs, including Comdex, ComNet, and EJ Krause Expocomm. She has served as a judge for the Global Information Infrastructure Awards (GII Awards), as well as being a Founding Member for the Standard for Internet Commerce. Ms. Goleniewski has served as a member of the MIN (Michigan Information Network) technical committee, as well as a reviewer for the CommerceNet/State of California Next Generation Internet grant program. She has also served as an instructor for the San Francisco State University College of Extended Learning. She is currently serving as a judge for the Baltic Challenge Awards program. She is a member of the Technology Empowerment Network (TEN), the IEEE and the IEEE Computer Society.

Prior to forming the LIDO Organization, Ms. Goleniewski held the position of Telecommunications Operations Manager at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), the research and development arm of the U.S. utility industry. Before joining EPRI, Ms. Goleniewski was Vice-President of Operations of a San Francisco-based telecommunications consulting firm.

Ms. Goleniewski graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. She holds a B.A. in Psychology and has completed numerous post-graduate studies in information technologies as well as psychology. Ms. Goleniewski was the recipient of a NSF Award to conduct research in the area of human perception and information processing.

Ms. Goleniewski is fluent in Polish and has conversational skills in both Russian and French.

About the LIDO Organization:
The LIDO Organization is internationally recognized for providing expert educational and advisory services. Since its inception in 1984, LIDO's focus has been on the development and delivery of high-quality telecommunications education, LIDO's educational programmes include seminars offered on a global basis, over 30 hours of dynamic multimedia e-Learning curriculum, and the Telecommunications Essentials textbooks utilized by universities and enterprises worldwide. Recognizing that learning is life-long, LIDO's educational programs are web-powered via the LIDO Telecom Essentials Learning Center, www.telecomessentials.com and LIDO Telecom WebCentral ® a globally recognized telecom knowledge portal offering thousands resources to help enforce and build telecom knowledge.