Geof Lambert

Current

Consultant at WorldBridge Partners
Founder at Digital Native Studios
Founder at MakeTheInternetFreeForEverybody.org

Founder & Chairman at California IPv6 Task Force

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Past

Member at XMPP Standards Foundation
Chief Internet Evangelist & VP Business Development at Coversant
Partner at Maxson Group

Partner at Solaris Group

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Education

Syracuse University

Recommended

37 people have recommended Geof

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

Geof Lambert’s Summary

Geof Lambert, a graduate of the Walter J. Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University, began his first career in the food business working in sales and marketing for food companies.

Geof then entered the executive search profession in 1999 working for various firms in Sacramento, before being a co-founder of his own retained executive search firm, the Maxson Group which he led for four years until merging it with WorldBridge Partners. Geof's focus is CEO and other senior level positions within early stage to mid-cap companies in Northern California.

Along with two others Geof is a founder of Digital Native Studios.

As an avocation Geof is a leader with the global IPv6 Forum, and vice chair of the North American IPv6 Task Force. IPv6 is the next generation Internet Protocol. In 2007 Geof was honored by being selected by his peers as an IPv6 Forum Pioneer for the global IPv6 Forum.

Geof was one of the early pioneers in Internet based social networking.

Geof 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 professional organizations including the American Culinary Federation, California Grocers Association, Sacramento Area Regional Technology Alliance, TechCoire, and the Sacramento Angels.

Geof has always been active globally with various philanthropic and humanitarian causes. He is a past president of the Rotary Club of Fair Oaks. He is an active member of the Rotary Club of Sacramento. Geof 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. Geof is a Benefactor of the Rotary Foundation, and also a Rotary Foundation Bequest Society member.

Geof Lambert’s Specialties:

Team Building, Internet, Internet based communications, XMPP, IPv6, social networking, marketing, product development, Digital Divide, DMT, Digital Mental Telepathy, MetroNet6 network, recruiting, advisory board development, organizational development

Geof Lambert’s Experience

Consultant

WorldBridge Partners

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

February 2008 — Present (9 months)

Team Building - Senior Level Retained Executive Search

WorldBridge Partners focuses on building the highest performing teams in the shortest amount of time at the lowest overall cost.

WorldBridge Partners is a global executive recruiting firm dedicated to corporations that demand high performance people…there is a difference between a candidate that fills a slot and that special talent that drives corporate goals.

Within WorldBridge Partners Geof specializes in the placement of top performing CEO's who immediately add value and leadership to client organizations.

Evolution and Innovation - custom, creative, and comprehensive solutions – exceptional talent delivered at every level. WorldBridge Partners has a history of extraordinary success. Whether you require a U.S. or International CEO, CFO, Regional Manager or a 200 person sales team, our nine U.S. offices, 100+ recruiting staff, and global network are here to assist.
Founder

Digital Native Studios

(Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2008 — Present (10 months)
Founder

MakeTheInternetFreeForEverybody.org

(Internet industry)

December 2007 — Present (11 months)

Developing a practical and workable plan to bring free basic Internet to everybody in the world.
Founder & Chairman

California IPv6 Task Force

(Internet industry)

December 2003 — Present (4 years 11 months)

Chairman and Founder of the sub-chapter of the North American IPv6 Task Force.

Played instrumental role in putting together a Steering Committee of over 25 individuals throughout the world to oversee annual projects, monthly events, and the Annual California IPv6 Technology Conferences.

The California IPv6 Task Force is focused on overseeing
the introduction of the new Internet, IPv6, throughout California in both public and private sectors. It is responsible for the development of the MetroNet6 network, which seamlessly links emergency services throughout metropolitan areas by using an IPv6 platform running on land and wireless networks.

The Task Force is overseeing development of the MetroNet6 network, one of the most technologically advanced, secure and robust Internet-based networks in the world. It has an architecture designed to withstand major metropolitan-wide disasters.

Chair of the Green Protocol Working Group.
Member

XMPP Standards Foundation

(Internet industry)

August 2007 — August 2008 (1 year 1 month)

MISSION OF XMPP STANDARDS FOUNDATION: To build an open, standardized, secure, feature-rich, widely-deployed, decentralized infrastructure for real-time communication and collaboration over the Internet.

We seek to achieve that goal by developing the world's best open protocols for instant messaging, presence, and other forms of near-real-time communication, based on the IETF's Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP). By "best" we mean simplest, most extensible, most powerful, most secure. We continually judge our work by these criteria, and invite others to do the same.

The XSF's product is protocols; the XSF's market is developers. We do not write code; instead, we make it possible for others to write code. We listen to developers, service providers, and end users. regarding the kinds of problems they want to solve, and we work with them to create protocols that solve those problems.
Chief Internet Evangelist & VP Business Development

Coversant

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

November 2006 — February 2008 (1 year 4 months)
Partner

Maxson Group

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)

January 2004 — December 2007 (4 years)

Senior level executive search, management consulting, and advisory board development in the following areas:
* Health Care
* Food & Hospitality
* Technology
* Development, Design, Engineering & Construction
* Banking & Finance
Partner

Solaris Group

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)

December 2002 — December 2003 (1 year 1 month)

Senior level executive search, management consulting, and advisory board development in the following areas:
* Health Care
* Food & Hospitality
* Technology
* Development, Design, Engineering & Construction
* Banking & Finance

Additional Information

Geof Lambert’s Websites:

Geof Lambert’s Interests:

Sailing, skiing, running, biking, food, music, www.MakeTheInternetFreeForEverybody.org, and travel.

Geof Lambert’s Groups:

Member of Internet Society, Green Protocol Working Group, XMPP Foundation. I am past chair of the Rotary District Foundation Ambassadorial Scholarship Committee, I was one of the original founders of the Interact Club at Bella Vista High School, Green Protocol Working group, www.MakeTheInternetFreeForEverybody.com, and the Tuesday Group focused on culinary and wine events throughout Northern California. I have assisted with fund raising and events conducted by the Sacramento Angels, Techcoire, the Sacramento Area Regional Technology Alliance, the Sacramento Entrepreneurship Academy, the Susan G. Komen Foundation Sacramento Affiliate’s annual Race for the Cure for Breast Cancer, the University of Pacific Dental School Alumni Association, and Rotaplast International. I have been instrumental in forging joint projects between Rotary International, Lions International, & Kiwanis International to increase productivity and effectiveness of community services organizations around the world.

Internet Society
International Association of Software Architects
On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
Innovation People Expert Innovators Creative Network
GamesProducers
Rotary
Association of Virtual Worlds
Rotary Club International
Rotarians
RIPE community
Google Group
NANOG - The North American Network Operators' Group
Syracuse University Alumni Network
eRecruiting
Linking Northern California
World Green Business Association
North American IPv6 Task Force (www.nav6tf.org)
CXO (CEO, COO, CKO, CFO, CMO, CAO, CVO, CDO, CRO, CLO, CSO & CTO) Community
LinkedICANN
Recruitment Consultants (15.000+)
Facebook network
Startup Specialists
Club CEO
Game Developers
World Gaming Executives - 3500+ Members
Rotary - Members, Alumni & Supporters
Rotary Youth Exchange
Recruitment Process Outsourcing
Paul Harris Fellow
Rotary Club Presidents
Rotary Clubs
IETF - The Internet Engineering Task Force
Rocky Mountain IPv6 Task Force
The Chief Executive Officers' Club
Syracuse University Silicon Valley Alumni
IPv6
CEO/ CIO/COE/COO/CFO/Head/VP/ Director/President Level - Senior Leadership Group
Alumni of the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University
Internet Researchers / Sourcers - MRI
Northern California Association of Entrepreneurs
IPv6 Enthusiasts
SARTA
IPv6 Forum
RPO-Recruiters
Green Protocol Working Group