Fotios Skouzes

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Fotios Skouzes is an experienced Information Technology leader with over 30 years of management experience in Telecommunications, Transportation, Aerospace and Government services. Areas of expertise include Artificial Intelligence, Strategic Planning, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Infrastructure Management. He has lobbied for technology issues focusing on privacy, public access, broadband communications and equal access for rural communities.

Serving as Executive Director of the Mid-Atlantic Institute for Space and Technology (MIST), a nonprofit organization dedicated to growing the aerospace industry in the Delmarva region’s vision of low cost, rapid response space access. Funded through a cooperative agreement with the Wallops Flight Facility, MIST undertakes projects that contribute to its goals in technology development, workforce development and regional economic development. Active with STEM initiatives, MIST has won awards from NASA for both its “Reach for the Stars” program targeting middle school students, and the STEP-UP (Science, Technology and Engineering Pipeline for Underserved Populations) intern program for local high school and college students.

He held executive positions with Unisys, as Engagement Director for the Mega Deals team focused on Global Outsourcing opportunities over $100 million in total contract value; AT&T Consulting, leading the Call Center and Data Center Consulting organizations; Sprint, leading the Toll Fraud and Production Management groups; and MCI, as Manager of IT Quality Assurance.

As an entrepreneur, he founded FS Associates, an information technology consultancy where he helped the US Navy develop their IT Strategic Plan, Enterprise IT Portfolio Management Plan and the Office of Innovation’s Software Rationalization Plan. He worked with Neustar to roll out the .biz internet registry and later founded two startup companies including WRenewable, a renewable energy company and Interactive Catalogs, a business-to-business ecommerce company.

Fotios Skouzes was an early member of MIT’s CISR (Center of Information Science Research) and the Association for Competitive Technology. He studied at the George Washington University School of Engineering and American University. He was a member of Old Dominion University’s Research Foundation and served on the Cabinet of the president of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.