Soma Gidugu has more than 20 years of experience in designing and deploying advanced software systems for major organizations such as Lucent Technologies, Bankers Trust, United Media, and Coopers & Lybrand. Before joining Instaknow, Soma was the visionary of two state-of-the-art learning and development software initiatives currently being readied for global deployment over the Internet. He holds a Masters degree in Computer Science.