Kaarli Tasso

Current

• Practice Leader (New York) at Adobe Consulting

Past

• Lead, Performance Lab at Merrill Lynch
• Lead, Emerging Technologies/ Interactive at Mizuho
• Director, Strategy and Engagement Management at Organic

• Lead, 3D Virtual Trading Floor at New York Stock Exchange (SIAC)
• Chair, Technology Audit Practice at KTI Consultants
• Senior Project Manager, New Technologies at CSFB

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Education

• Harvard University
• IBM Fellow, Yale University

Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Kaarli Tasso’s Summary

Kaarli began her career as a physicist in the Theoretical Physics Research Department at Bell Labs, where she discovered a new type of chemsorptive bond that changed the theory of corrosion. Since then, her work has focused on emerging and disruptive technologies, and the new economic and social opportunities they offer. Her specialty is the visualization and communication of large amounts of complex data.

Kaarli has used these technologies to create a competitive advantage for clients as diverse as the Japanese firm Mizuho, CS First Boston, Lucent, General Electric, The Nature Conservancy, and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). For the latter, Kaarli led the team that created the 3D Virtual Trading Floor (3DTF), a virtual world displayed on a 7 foot video wall in the heart of the Exchange. The 3DTF is a live, interactive decision support system allowing NYSE staff to analyze complex events and respond to them in real time.

Currently, Kaarli is Practice Lead for Adobe Consulting in New York, developing custom solutions which revolutionize the way people engage with ideas and information.

Kaarli received an A.B. cum laude in Physics from Harvard and was IBM Fellow in the Yale Department of Engineering and Applied Physics.

In addition to her interest in technology, Kaarli paints landscapes in watercolor and sculpts in clay. Her work has been displayed in many group exhibits in the extended New York metropolitan area. She has a rotating show at Bleu Evolution in New York City.

Kaarli Tasso’s Specialties:

Building businesses.
Routinely succeeding at "Mission Impossible" projects.
Developing long-term, profitable client relationships
Building excited, productive teams.
Seeing future opportunities and making them happen.

Kaarli Tasso’s Experience

• Practice Leader (New York)

  Adobe Consulting

  (Computer Software industry)

  May 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)

  Lead the development of custom solutions which revolutionize the way people engage with ideas and information.

• Lead, Performance Lab

  Merrill Lynch

  (Public Company; Financial Services industry)

  May 2005 — May 2007 (2 years 1 month)

  Grow the Performance Lab into a Center of Excellence, leading the firm to realize business opportunities from high performance applications.

• Lead, Emerging Technologies/ Interactive

  Mizuho

  (Financial Services industry)

  2002 — May 2005 (3 years )

• Director, Strategy and Engagement Management

  Organic

  (Public Company; Internet industry)

  1999 — 2002 (3 years )

• Lead, 3D Virtual Trading Floor

  New York Stock Exchange (SIAC)

  (Computer Software industry)

  1997 — 1999 (2 years )

  Led the team of 20 over 6 countries to develop the 3D Virtual Trading Floor, an evolutionary milestone in virtual reality technology.
  Used daily by NYSE Chairman and senior staff to ensure orderly operation of the market.

• Chair, Technology Audit Practice

  KTI Consultants

  (Management Consulting industry)

  1996 — 1997 (1 year )

  Created and led the Technology Audit Practice, specializing in foreign banks subject to US regulatory oversight. In one year, the Audit practice grew from $0 to over $8 million in revenue, the most profitable business unit in the firm.

• Senior Project Manager, New Technologies

  CSFB

  (Public Company; Financial Services industry)

  1994 — 1996 (2 years )

Kaarli Tasso’s Education

• Harvard University

  A.B. cum laude in Physics ,

• IBM Fellow, Yale University

  Department of Engineering and Applied Physics , Superconducting Solids

Additional Information

Kaarli Tasso’s Groups:

•    Supernova
•    Adobe Alumni
•    NetSquared
•    Innovation People Expert Innovators Creative Network
•    Organic Inc.
•    Harvard University Alumni
•    Innovative New Product & Service Innovators & Inventors
•    NY:MIEG
•    Semantic Web
•    TED
•    Brand 3.0
•    Communication Arts
•    Social Media Today
•    Media Professionals Worldwide
•    INTERACTIVE & DIGITAL MEDIA GROUP
•    Rich Internet Applications (RIA)
•    onewebday
•    Metaverse Meetup
•    Social Network Solutions
•    twitter innovators Innovation & Creativity Network of Tweeters
•    Securities Industry Automation Corporation (SIAC)
•    Ultra Light Startups
•    VirtualWorlds
•    Virtual Worlds Roadmap
•    Ivy Referral Network (IRN)
•    National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation (NCDD)
•    3D Training, Learning and Collaboration
•    Social Media Analytics
•    Transforming Transformation
•    Sweat Equity Group
•    Structured Visual Thinking™
•    FirstMile.US
•    Harvard Referral Network (HRN)
•    WebVisions
•    Learning and Entertainment Evolution
•    Digital Storytellers
•    Social Entertainment Professionals
•    Web TV Business Model Unleashed
•    IVY GROUPS - The Professional Network for Ivy League Alumni
•    From Traditional2Digital Media
•    iBreakfast

Kaarli Tasso’s Honors:

PUBLICATIONS

Appelbaum, J.A., Hamman, D.R., and Tasso, K.H., “The Interaction of H with a Si (1x1) Substrate.” Presented to the American Physical Society, March, 1977

Appelbaum, J.A., Hamman, D.R., and Tasso, K.H., “Hydrogen Chemisorption on Si: A New Type of Chemisorptive Bond.” Phys. Rev. Lett., Dec.5, 1977

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