Delon Dotson

Delon Dotson is a technologist and businessman who has worked in several businesses, including Netscape Communications and MP3.com.^[1]

Biography

Dotson is educated in technology, theater, music, and law. Dotson's career as a businessman began when he became founder and CEO of EOS, a technical outsourcing firm located in southern California. He then served as director of software engineering for Netscape Communications. While at Netscape he worked with encryption and cyber security issues, including the security systems for the US Navy. While at Netscape he managed as many as 5000 employees, helped identify and develop fundamental IP, helped develop the Java (swing) language and sold Enterprise Networking Solutions world-wide. Afterwards he was executive vice president and CTO of MP3.com in San Diego, California, where he helped pioneer music on the internet by personally raising $190 million. Furthermore, he helped steward the enterprise through one of the most valuable IPO's in American history. In 2000, after presenting the keynote speech at Cal-IT in London hosted by Governor Grey Davis of California, Delon Dotson was invited to relocate to the UK to help develop Internet cyber security solutions for mid-sized and large corporations through Europe and Asia. He also worked with Oxford, Cambridge, London School of Economics, and London Business School as a lecturer, adviser and professor to entrepreneurial business students. Dotson was honored by Oxford University, which established a technical scholarship in his name awarded to students called the Delon Dotson prize for technical business development. In 2002 he founded JitStream, a technical consulting firm in London operating in 22 countries which continues today in the United States under the brand name of DeloTek. He was a popular speaker and futurist around the world.

After settling in Southern France he founded Palm Tree Technology, a company providing high end security solutions in mobile banking, funded by the Close Brothers Group of London. Mr. Dotson then served as CEO to Passur, a publicly traded New York based firm offering technological solutions to the aerospace industry. Since 2010 he has been working as an independent international business development consultant as the Principal of Delotek. Dotson's name appears in the 2003 edition of International Who's Who and is a Registered IOD Director in London, UK.

He now serves as the CEO of DeloTek, a technical consulting firm in St, Louis, Missouri. The firm helps client companies increase revenues through innovative technologies. They are particularly adept with issues of cyber security. He has been lecturing the entrepreneurial students at Washington University under their director, Ken Harrington, as well as the students of St. Louis University under their director, Tim Hayden. He has served as a judge in various entrepreneurial contests, including Idea Bounce and the well-known Elevator Pitch. He will also be serving as principal mentor for Lab 1500 in St. Louis, Missouri, offering postgraduate practical studies in start-up and business development techniques.

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