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Biography: Greg Palmer

Greg has been in the communications industry since 1980 working first as a technician for companies such as Okidata. In 1988 he received a business degree in Operations Management from LaSalle University. In 1990, he collaborated with the Okidata Japanese parent company, OKI Electric, to build an international network that included Japan, Thailand, Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Following ten years of service with Okidata, Greg took the position of Director of Campus Computing at Drexel University in Philadelphia. At Drexel, he wrote, and received, a grant from the National Science Foundation for connection to the vBNS national backbone. Returning to the corporate world, he took a position as Director of Global Computing Operations at Christian Dalloz, Ltd, a French company that manufactured and distributed personal safety products. As Director, he was responsible for coordinating connectivity and local LAN support for 42 sites worldwide. He then chose to return to the academic community at the University of Pennsylvania as the Executive Director of MAGPI, the regional aggregation point for Internet2. MAGPI now connects the research and educational communities in PA, NJ, and DE to an advanced regional network and is dedicated to the proliferation of initiatives and applications requiring a high performance infrastructure