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Lester is an entrepreneur who holds a number of patents for inventions in what he and Peter Keen have named PCC Personal Consumer Communications. Lester graduated with a BSEE (Electronic and Electrical Engineering) degree from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Since immigrating to the U.S.A., Lester has worked in the full life-cycle of systems and software development for numerous small and large companies such as MCI, PRC (now part of Northrop Grumann) and Intelsat. At MCI, Mr. Sussman was one of the primary systems architects that successfully implemented a modernization of MCI's telephony network management system. He played a leading management role in positioning INTELSAT for the era of digital satellite communications and the Internet. In 2000, Lester founded ceBerg, anchored on a number of his granted patents. He has acquired various patent license fees from a number of multinational companies. Lester continues to actively file patents.As part of his commitment to encouraging and supporting entrepreneurs in their building of their own IP innovations, Mr. Sussman regularly provides seminars to universities and business groups on how to develop, file and problem-solve in their own patent applications | 