Engineering Technology and Business Development

* Started up 5 companies; 2 of which are still in operation

* Mentored over 20 companies in all manner of technology; green energy, distance learning, water filtration, energy efficient motors, advanced circuit board materials, enterprise architecture products, information security and many more

* Started up 17 businesses worldwide

* Read and Write any Cyrillic-based languages as well as Greek

* Advised several VC firms on investment strategy, market surveys, market strategy, competitive analysis, & technical assessments

* BSEE, MSEE, PhD, MBA, Registered Professional Engineer

In his corporate career, Clyde served on the Strategic Development Staff at GTE (now Verizon). He held the post of Chief Technology Officer for Efficient Networks (now part of Siemens). He worked as Director of Corporate Development for Sarnoff Labs, helping one of Sarnoff?s biometric spinoffs, IriScan, achieve early commercialization of practical iris identification. Clyde also served as Director of Systems Engineering at General Electric.

At Efficient Networks, a pioneer in xDSL for business and residential broadband communications, he helped position the company for its acquisition by Siemens for $1.2 billion. He was Vice President and General Manager of a software business and had P&L responsibility for 50+ people, and annual revenues of $25 million per year.

A highlight of Clyde?s public sector career was his service with Vint Cerf and others on the ARPANET Executive Committee in the late 1970?s, when the standards for the Internet Protocol (IP) were being defined. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in three states, and was twice awarded the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, which is bestowed on members of the U.S. Armed Forces who have distinguished themselves by meritorious service or achievement while assigned to a joint activity.

Dr. Clyde holds eleven U.S. patents in the fields of secure electronic transactions, digital watermarking in video/images, digital certificates, and biometrics and has patents pending in the areas of xDSL, a transaction model for telecomm services, electric power utilities, non-traditional financial services, passport/visa fraud protection, and others

Patents:

7,318,050

 Biometric certifying authorities

7,031,465

 Network interface device and method

6,377,699

 Telephone security module and method

6,310,966

 Digital Certificates

6,208,746

 Digital Watermarks

6,202,151

 Authenticating electronic transactions using digital certificates

6,105,010

 Transaction Certifying Authorities

6,037,984

 Embedding a watermark into a digital image or image sequence

6,424,727

 System & Method for Animal Identification

6,505,193

 System and method of fast biometric database searching using digital certificates

6,483,930

 Iris imaging telephone security module and method

 

Impact Factors:

v IEEE

  • Impact Factor: Broadcast on Television
  • Topic: Consultants Showcase: Developing Your Own Practice?
  • Speakers: Ron Fluegge, Dr. Clyde Musgrave, Chuck Sobey
  • Location: Dallas, Texas
  • Program: Three successful entrepreneurs and consultants discuss the growth and development of their businesses. They answer questions about rationale for starting a consulting practice and how they developed their services to become recognized and sought after. They describe the administrative and financial aspects of making a new consulting business a success.

v Setting International Standards

  • Impact Factor:
    • Commercialized the very first xDSL modems for home use in over 25 million homes
    • HDTV affects the lives of billions of people
    • Helped identify people worldwide (border crossings, immigration)
  • Set three (3) international standards
    • xDSL? as CTO of Efficient Networks ? sold to Siemens in 2002 for $1.2 Billion USD
    • High Definition Television (HDTV) ? part of the Sarnoff & Grand Alliance team that set the HDTV standard used today worldwide
    • Iris Recognition ? Iriscan & Iridian ? set the standard for pure identity of humans at levels of 10-100 times more real-time accuracy than any other biometric except DNA

v Patents

  • Impact Factors: Microsoft has directly referenced my patents
    • 7,509,489? Format-agnostic system and method for issuing certificates
    • 7,500,097? Extendable data-driven system and method for issuing certificates

v DrClyde?s patents

  • Impact Factor
    • Invented new forms of electronic identity, authentication and personal identity for all e-Commerce transactions
    • Invented Biometric Certificates
    • Invented Digital Watermarking of Digital Video
    • One of my patents has 44 direct references

    v Board of Advisors/Directors

    v Entrepreneurship

    • Impact Factors: Helped a lot of companies worldwide
    • Mentored over 60 high technology start-up companies for the National Science Foundation
    • USAID; e-Biz Skopje; mentored seven e-Commerce companies including the national tourism website
    • USAID; Macedonian Innovation Fund; Skopje; placed just under $1 Million USD plus attracted funding sources to a new energy conversion company

    v Educational Experience:

    • Adjunct Professor of Engineering & Business University of North Texas 2006-2007
    • Instructor; Northern Virginia Community College; 1979-1983
    • Instructor; Montgomery County Community College; 1984-1987
    • Professor, Engineering, Computer Science, Entrepreneurship www.UIST.edu.mk; 2010-2011
    • SMU University Board of Advisors; 2002-2007; www.smu.edu
    • University of Texas (Dallas); Advisory Board 2000-2004; www.utdallas.edu