Lumineer Communications
Management Team

Karl Wong
Managing Partner, Strategic Marketing

Nic Pearce
Managing Director, Branding

Samantha Block
Managing Associate, Brand Marketing

 

Karl Wong
Managing Partner, Strategic Marketing

Karl Wong is the founder and managing partner of Lumineer Communications. His focus includes a broad range of business and technology areas, specializing in enterprise and consumer software, group communications and Internet networking. Lumineer's clients include Cisco Systems, Sun Microsystems, AOL/Netscape, Hitachi, Jetform, iVillage/Women.com, Earthlink and Kontiki among others.

Prior to founding Lumineer Communications (formerly "etalk communications"), Mr. Wong was Vice President of Marketing at Infosquare, a leading provider of Content Management Systems (CMS) and Sr. Director of Product Marketing at Whistle Communications, an award winning provider of Internet appliance for the Small-Medium Business (SMB) markets. (later sold to IBM).

Mr. Wong was also the Director and Principal Analyst of WorldWide Software, at Gartner Group/Dataquest. At Gartner, he led a team responsible for research and consulting to industry leaders in the personal computing and workgroup software markets, including Microsoft, IBM, Novell, Corel, Symantec and Autodesk.

Prior to Gartner Group , Mr. Wong was the Sr. Group Product Manager for User Agents Technologies at Lotus Development's messaging group, cc:Mail. At cc:Mail, Mr. Wong was responsible for the development, implementation and marketing of several of Lotus cc:Mail's award winning products, including cc:Mail for Windows.

Mr. Wong has over 20 years of experience in the software industry along with an extensive technical background in PCs and networking gained through his previous management positions at Businessland, Inc. (now Siemens).

Additionally, Mr Wong is a co-author of "GroupWare: Technology and Applications" published by Prentice Hall (ISBN# 013-305194-3).