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Sanford Forte
is COSTP's founder, and current Principal of Interactive Development Systems.
IDS is a strategic and business development consultancy that has served
many technology, academic publishing, music industry, and new media (including
Internet) enterprise groups. Sanford is currently a principal and consulting
partner with three Silicon Valley startups: PixCube (consumer imaging);
Snagg, Inc. (RFID-based supply chain and verification systems); and, TeloPhase
(a not-for-profit community wireless networking project).
Sanford's most recent corporate position was with United Business Media. At UBM he directed Business Development for UBM's American operation, and played a principal role in UBM's M&A group, including investment diligence and negotiation in publishing, entertainment and several technology-related sectors.
Sanford has also worked with Addison-Wesley, Benjamin-Cummings, Prentice-Hall, Holt-Rinehart-Winston (now part of the Thompson Publishing Group), Millimeter Magazine, Akai, Roland, Gibson/Oberheim, New Media Magazine, On Command Video, Radius, SuperMac, Springer-Verlag (GDR), Samsung, LG (Korea), Apple Computer, Clayton-Dubilier-Ross (Kinko's Corporate Document Solutions Group), Stanford University (Office of Technology and Licensing), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Starr Labs, and several others. Sanford holds a BA in Economics, and an MA in Cognitive Science.
Jay Schaefer is COSTP's Chief Technology Officer. Jay is former CTO for Miller Freeman Inc./CMP publishing. Currently, he is the co-founder of TeloPhase, a not-for-profit community telecommunications startup dedicated to providing cost-effective broadband solutions communities across America by employing a unique revenue-sharing model that returns the majority of broadband subscriber profits back to municipalities.
Jay's experience includes over twenty years of software development ranging from embedded systems to database applications to online systems. Since 1990, Jay has been developing information systems using Internet technologies; he has spent the last six years developing, maintaining, and managing the technology supporting 300 plus commercial web sites serving over 3,000,000 pages per day in a 7x24 online environment.
Jay has been the primary architect of highly redundant and scalable web systems that incorporate n-tier Perl and Java based applications connected to relational databases. He has managed both internally and externally hosted data centers and has experience with engineering and implementing Internet/Intranet/Extranet (EDI) applications, cost savings analysis and implementation, budget development and management, web site integration with back office functionality (Oracle financials, fulfillment, etc.), disaster recovery planning and business resumption, business analysis, 7x24 operations, mergers and acquisitions, business process re-engineering, and staff development.
During his ten years with Lockheed, Jay provided internal consulting and systems engineering services for hardware and software based land, air, and space systems. From 1986 thru 1989, he was one of three partners in Advanced Timing Systems, manufactures of drag strip timing equipment. During this time, Jay was responsible for systems engineering and embedded systems programming. Jay received a BS degree in Meteorology from San Jose State University in 1985.
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