Vid Beldavs - Corporate Strategist, Grant Specialist, Futurist
25 years experience in forecasting, business planning, business development, project management, international business, management consulting, government contracting, policy research, systems development, not for profit organization management, fund-raising, startup management and other activities for large business, small business, think tanks, not for profit organizations and government agencies.
Representative projects / activities:
Co-Founder of the US-Africa Writers Foundation – www.bowwave.org/AfricanWriters/
Business planning for AMERIDAC truck and trailer manufacturing joint venture in Romania.
$5.8 million defense conversion DOD contract in Kazakstan to convert biological warfare center to produce antibiotics. $15 million project in St. Petersburg, Russia, involving a consortium of firms and organizations, including McKinsey, the National Center for Manufacturing Science, International Equity Partners, Hewlett Packard and others to plan, train, organize, finance and launch a series of business ventures involving the Russian firm Leninetz starting with multilayer printed circuit board production, smart card systems and related software development.
Initiated and involved the participation of the prime ministers of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in the International Baltic Economic Commission organized by Hudson Institute. The Commission included Lawrence Summers then Chief Economist of the World Bank, Anders Aslund, and others of comparable stature. Prepared reports on privatization and a long range economic development strategy for the Baltics as a Hudson Institute consultant.
As Executive Director, Technology Transfer Society, tripled size including growth to 50 corporate and institutional members from 1, new programs including the landmark conference “Managing the Knowledge Asset” sponsored by Digital Equipment that brought together senior management from MCC, Sematech, NCMS, Digital, Hewlett Packard, Control Data (William C. Norris), and other high technology organizations. Broad domestic and international contacts in technology transfer.
Member of the peer review committee of the technology transfer processes of the National Center for Ecological Research. Invited speech on technology transfer at the Resources Technology International Conference.
Planning for various high tech ventures - CAD, advanced manufacturing, US-USSR science and technology collaboration, electronic commerce software, e-mail software, automotive electronics, hand-held computers, fine ceramics
Developed business concepts and strategies for electronics business, power systems, Stirling engines, licensing, joint ventures, acquisition, $21 million R&D partnership, franchising of occupational health care system, other ventures for Cummins.
Conceived, directed and prepared the final report for Indiana Teleconnect (Indiana public telecommunications Interconnect) project funded by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration that resulted in a State Telecommunications Commission and eventually in a statewide fiber-optic interconnect system of all public sector institutions and other spin-offs. This pioneering study addressed the community as the unit of analysis and sought to develop a strategy for the wired community linked to the wired state and wired nation. The project included technical studies as well as a large-scale two level Delphi-study involving university presidents, senior corporate management and other statewide leaders and 450 community leaders in Indiana as well as surveys of cable systems in the State.
Conceived and directed the Mid America Center project funded by the Indiana Department of Commerce aimed at developing an international trade center and policy institute serving the Great Lakes Region with headquarters in Indianapolis.
Inspiration and development of the Futuristics Study Group, a community-based futures group in Columbus, Indiana which fostered discussion of issues such as education, healthcare and economic development through community-wide forums attended by as many as 300 people over a period of nine years.
Plan for a NASA space commercialization center for Indiana involving Indiana University (Life sciences systems)and Purdue University (Life support systems) to commercialize technology emerging from long duration space mission development
Strategic competitive assessment of Daimler Benz in 1979 which anticipated the rise of the Japanese luxury car, globalization of automotive manufacturing and other competitive threats as well as a range of .strategic options
Long range energy economic forecasting, strategic overview for move into lower horsepower engines, initial strategy for power systems business for Cummins
Privatization planning for semi-conductor equipment manufacturer (Latvia), electrical utility (Latvia), livestock feeding and production (Latvia), power tools (Crimea), soft drinks (Crimea), tool & die (Latvia), fiberglass production (Latvia), audio equipment (Latvia), smart card systems (Russia and Latvia), business incubator (Latvia and Romania) coal briquette production, (Romania)
Developed and taught at Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Space Industrialization and National Priorities, a course aimed at teaching students public policy analysis and planning methods.
Inspiration for and organizer of FAMILIA, an international project aimed at reform of the mental health care systems in Romania and other former communist countries through family education, self-help and advocacy groups. Launch of FAMILIA is anticipated in the fall of 1997 with a group of Romanian-trained social workers and American volunteers working with the Mandel School of Applied Social Science at Case Western Reserve University, the Geneva Initiative, the World Schizophrenia Fellowship and other organizations.
First prize winning science fiction novel, Mâris un Mâra uz Marss in Latvian that addresses the future of ethnic identity in a distant future with conscious computer networks and solar system-wide civilization.
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