Future Map Advisors

William Halal

William Halal is Professor of Science, Technology, and Innovation at George Washington University, Washington, D.C. Prof. Halal is the founder of TechCast, a web-based system that pools the knowledge of experts to forecast breakthroughs in all technical fields - “A Virtual Think-Tank Tracking the Technology Revolution.” He also co-founded the Institute for Knowledge & Innovation as a collaborative effort between the GW School of Business and the School of Engineering.

An authority on emerging technology, strategic planning, knowledge, and institutional change, he has worked with General Motors, AT&T, SAIC, MCI, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, International Data Corporation, the DoD, the Asian Development Bank, foreign companies, and various government agencies.

Macmillan’s Encyclopedia of the Future ranked him among “The World’s 100 Most Influential Futurists,“ including H.G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, Alvin Toffler, and Daniel Bell. He serves on advisory boards of AMD Corporation, the World Future Society, and other organizations. He received a medal from the Freedom Foundation for Excellence in the Study of Enterprise. Previously, Bill Halal studied engineering, economics, and the social sciences at Purdue and Berkeley. He was a major in the U.S. Air Force, an aerospace engineer on the Apollo Program, and a Silicon Valley business manager.

Kent Summers

Kent Summers is a Partner with Practical Computer Applications, Inc., (PCA) a Boston-based database solutions design and development firm founded in 1992 out of MIT. Prior to PCA Kent was a Partner with Garofalo & Associates LLC, a Boston-based investment banking firm that provides strategic M&A advisory services to emerging growth high tech companies. Prior to PCA, Kent served as Chairman & CEO of Collego Corporation (acquired by MRO Software), founder and CEO of MyHelpdesk, Inc. (acquired by PC Support, Inc.), and VP of marketing at Electronic Book Technologies (acquired by INSO Corporation).

Prior to the software industry, Kent worked on Wall Street as a Senior Technology Analyst at EJV Partners LLC, and a Program Trader on the Options Program Trading desk at Bear Stearns & Co. A graduate from the University of Houston, Kent is a co-founding member of the World-Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Technical Advisory Board (MIT 1994), and served as a Director of the X Consortium and OASIS. Mr. Summers is currently an active Mentor with the MIT Venture Mentoring Services program, and advises a number of early-stage software companies in the Boston area.

Leon Fuerth

Leon Fuerth is the former national security adviser to Vice President Al Gore. In the early 1980s, Fuerth worked with then-Congressman Gore on issues of arms control and strategic stability. Fuerth served on the Principals' Committee of the National Security Council, alongside the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, and the President's own national security adviser.

As the vice president's national security advisor, Fuerth created and managed five bi-national commissions with Russia, South Africa, Egypt, Ukraine and Kazakhstan. These commissions turned the vice president's vision of forward engagement in America's foreign affairs into a practical reality. Among other important initiatives, Fuerth led efforts to develop the International Space Station; to marshal international support for sanctions against Slobodan Milosevic's regime; to raise awareness and take action to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa; to denuclearize former Soviet states; to win China's cooperation in protecting the environment and reducing pollution.

Before beginning his work on Capitol Hill in 1979, Fuerth spent eleven years as a foreign service officer. He holds a bachelor's degree in English and a master's degree in history from New York University, as well as a master's degree in public administration from Harvard University. In 2003 Leon Fuerth was appointed Research Professor at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University.

Jerome Clayton Glenn

Jerome Glenn is Executive Director of the American Council/United Nations University and Director of the Millennium Project. He works for over 30 years in futures research and consulting and lectures internationally for governments, international organizations, and private industry in Science & Technology Policy, Economics, Education, Defense, Space, and International Telecommunications.

Jerome Glenn has over 25 years Futures Research, Forecasting Methodology and Decision Support Systems with the Committee for the Future, Hudson Institute, and his own firm, the Future Options Room. Jerome Glenn invented "Futures Wheel" forecasting technique and Futuristic Curriculum Development; instrumental in SALT II section that banned first space weapon (Soviet FOBS); named by Saturday Review as among the most unusually gifted leaders of America for his pioneering work in Tropical Medicine, Future-Oriented Education, and Participatory Decision Making Systems in 1974; instrumental in naming first space shuttle the "Enterprise;" and is a leading boomerang stunt man.