Introduction - Charlie Jackson

Charlie Jackson is the CEO of Acceleros, a Texas-based company that focuses on business and marketing Technology.  Mr. Jackson has led a variety of business ventures during the past twenty years including serving as founder of three technology-related startups and currently provides IT consulting for Global-500 companies.  

In addition to his work, Charlie has been very active in peace and social justice issues.  He is the founder of Texans for Peace and has been involved in projects in Bosnia, Guatemala and Iraq (he has made three trips during the war).  His current project is providing support and workable economic development in Iraq via the Women's Business Center of Baghdad http://acceleros.com/WBCB/ in addition to ongoing advocacy to end the war http://texansforpeace.org/endthewar .

Mr. Jackson holds a B.A. in Government and an M.S. in Science and Technology Commercialization from the University of Texas, IC2 Institute. He has traveled extensively throughout the world and serves on a variety of boards and professional organizations including the Technology Indus Entreprenuers http://www.tie-aus.org/ . His publications include: “Process to Product: Creating Tools for Knowledge Management”, in Knowledge Management and Business Model Innovation, Yogesh Malhotra, ed. (2001) and “Technology Innovation, Transfer, and Commercialization: Need for a Nonlinear Approach”, in Proceedings of the 3rd Annual International Conference on Technology Policy and Innovation. (1999).