Michael Lissack

Current

Realtor at www.buy-in-naples.com
CEO at Knowledge Ventures
Director at ISCE

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Past

Candidate at Collier County Commission
Visiting Professor at CEU Business School
Editor at Emergence

Whistleblower -- Qui Tam Relator at Qui-Tam Whistleblower (Self-employed)
Managing Director at Smith Barney

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2 more...

Education

Henley Management College
Yale
Williams College

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Recommended

16 people have recommended Michael

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

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Michael Lissack’s Summary

Michael Lissack is an entrepreneur, academic, and realtor. He is the director of the Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence (ISCE) as well as the founding editor emeritus of ISCE's journal, Emergence. Dr. Lissack is also the founder and chairman of Knowledge Ventures Inc.

Dr. Lissack is the founder of several Internet start-ups and has been an active angel investor in several more. His original involvement with the Internet came as an investor and advisor to Tripod, a site aimed at university students, which became part of Lycos (now Terra/Lycos) in 1998. Dr. Lissack was the acting CFO (1998-99) and a board member of WebMind, Inc., a start-up technology company whose aim was to utilize the Internet to duplicate the human reasoning processes. In 1999, Dr. Lissack founded Collectively Sharper, an artificial intelligence business intelligence firm. Collectively Sharper was sold to Topical Net, Inc. in 2000. In 2000, Dr. Lissack founded Knowledge Ventures Inc. Knowledge Ventures, Inc. is an educational tools software company which published the Learners Library – a research tool for academics.

Prior to 1995, Dr. Lissack was an investment banker where he assisted state and local governments in the United States with debt financings.

Worth magazine recognized Dr. Lissack in 1999 as one of "Wall Street's 25 Smartest Players" and again in 2001 as on of the 100 Americans who have most influenced “how we think about money.” He was Smith Barney's senior banker with overall responsibility for new product development, municipal derivatives, and the technical work produced by the firm's Public Finance Division. He is the author of a half dozen books, director of a research institute, and a frequent lecturer on business ethics.

Michael Lissack’s Specialties:

see http://lissack.com to learn more about me

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Michael Lissack’s Experience

Realtor

www.buy-in-naples.com

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Real Estate industry)

September 2002 — Present (6 years 11 months)

Naples/Bonita/Estero -- GUARANTEED SAVINGS!

You will save at least as much as my commission or I will rebate you up to half of my earnings. Save 1% or more on the cost of your new home.

My focus is on giving you personal attention and the best service. I'll make your deal as seamless as possible. And I'll save you money.
CEO

Knowledge Ventures

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Higher Education industry)

January 2000 — Present (9 years 7 months)

see http://www.browse4research.com
Director

ISCE

(Educational Institution; 1-10 employees; Higher Education industry)

January 1999 — Present (10 years 7 months)

The Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence is a non-profit research institution located in Boston, Naples, Florida and Utrecht, Netherlands. Our mission is to promote pragmatic dialogue concerning the areas of networking, emergence, and complexity studies with the aim of assisting practicing managers in the complex task of managing. We are assisted by a consortium of professionals drawn from industry, academia, management consulting, and the non-profit sector. We publish a journal, Emergence. See http://isce.edu and http://emergence.org
Candidate

Collier County Commission

(Government Agency; 5001-10,000 employees; Government Administration industry)

March 2006 — November 2006 (9 months)

I am a candidate for Collier County Commission District 2 running as a NPA (no party affiliation). Please see http://pelicancounty.com for more infromation on my campaign
Visiting Professor

CEU Business School

(Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Higher Education industry)

October 2005 — February 2006 (5 months)

I lectured on business and public policy and gave a public lecture series entitled "provocative talks."
Editor

Emergence

(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Publishing industry)

January 1998 — January 2004 (6 years 1 month)

Emergence publishes articles of a qualitative nature that relate complex systems, sensemaking, psychology, philosophy, semiotics, and cognitive science to the management of organizations both public and private. Emergence readers are managers, academics, consultants, and others interested in applying the insights of the science of complex systems to day-to-day management and leadership problems.

Emergence will be relaunched in 2004 as Emergence: Complexity & Organization - A Journal of Research, Theory and Practice on Organizations as Complex Systems. ECO will represent the collaboration of four organizations: Palgrave Macmillan (publisher), The Complexity Society (TCS), the Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence (ISCE), and the IBM Cynefin Centre for Organizational Complexity.

see http://emergence.org
Whistleblower -- Qui Tam Relator
Qui-Tam Whistleblower (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Investment Banking industry)

February 1995 — October 2000 (5 years 9 months)

"Relator" and lead witness in fraud case against more than 4 dozen Wall Street firms. Led team which recovered more than $200 million for the United States.

Two chapters in Henry Scammell's book Giant Killers describe what occured.

pdf link is http://lissack.com/yieldb.pdf

Henry's book is at http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/087113909X/lissackoncomplex/
Managing Director

Smith Barney

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Investment Banking industry)

September 1981 — February 1995 (13 years 6 months)

Smith Barney's senior banker with overall responsibility for new product development, municipal derivatives, and the technical work produced by the firm's Public Finance Division. He trained more than 300 bankers who can be found at firms throughout the industry. He served as a senior banker or financial advisor in more than thirty of the fifty American states, and has financed more than $35 billion of infrastructure projects for these clients. As the senior banker for these governmental entities, Dr. Lissack directed more than $25 billion of investments, supervised their financial reporting, assisted in the design of their risk management and investment operations, and coordinated public education programs. He spent more than 13 years with Smith Barney, including eight as a managing director. Worth magazine recognized Dr. Lissack in 1999 as one of "Wall Street's 25 Smartest Players" and again in 2001 as on of the 100 Americans who have most influenced “how we think about money.”

Michael Lissack’s Education

Henley Management College

DBA , Complexity and Management , 1995 — 2000

Activities and Societies:

Henley Management College, Brunel University, UK

Have taught at Williams, Henley, and Rotterdam School of Management
Yale

MBA , Business , August 1979 — May 1981
Williams College

BA , American Civilization and Political Economy , 1976 — 1979