This is the personal web site of Robert Bismuth - an executive with over 25 years of experience in software, networking, computer systems, semiconductor technologies and material science. His activities have ranged from strategic management to running organizations and companies that have built various products and solutions, including :

• Transparent, conductive materials based on nano technology
• Low power, high performance microprocessors
• Large scale database applications
• Operating systems, compilers and tools
• Web-based platforms for broadband applications

Living in Seattle, Robert is a founder of NetExec, Inc. and has held leadership positions in various companies from startups to major multinationals. Several times he has served as the CEO of technology ventures.  His activities have spanned much of North America, Europe, Japan, Taiwan and Mainland China. From time to time he still consults to a variety of organizations and holds various positions on the boards of several high tech companies and volunteer organizations.

While he has been quite active in material science and semiconductor technologies, Robert also maintains his keen personal interest in highly distributed collaboration environments as a basis for improving and innovating processes between people working within a variety of different organizational and community structures. He is particularly interested in how applications that are similar in power/complexity to large scale enterprise solutions can be created and delivered as trustworthy infrastructures for small to medium scale user communities. Robert has spent years looking at architecting network-based services and solutions to be more easily delivered and used reliably within such large, but frequently difficult to reach, markets.

Outside of his professional activities, Robert has many diverse interests - check them out using the "Interests" menu button. Of particular note is his interest in aerobatic flight. An active aerobatic pilot, Robert has not only competed at the regional and national levels but was instrumental in securing the 2008 FAI Advanced World Aerobatic Championship event for the US. He served currently the President of the organization that hosted this international event during August 2008 in Pendleton, Oregon.

From his first competition, Robert has also been photographing the aerobatic events in the US. In 2005, 2006 and 2008 he acted as the official photographer for the National Championships. In 2007 Robert was en route to do so again when an unfortunate in-flight engine problem cut short his trip to the Championships. In addition to his organizational duties for the event, Robert served as the official photographer for the 2008 Advanced World Aerobatic Championship.

Robert's past photographs are available on this website and also in a series of wall calendars he has created, one for each event he has photographed. Past calendars included images taken at the US National Aerobatic Championship and at both the IAC Chapter 67 Apple Cup and the IAC Chapter 77 Beaver State Regional. These calendars are no longer available but the 2009 versions are currently in design and should be available from early December 2008.

The 2009 calendars will include one each covering the 2008 US National Aerobatic Championships, the 2008 Northwest Regional Aerobatic Competitions and the 2008 Advanced World Aerobatic Championship.

Please feel free to explore this site to learn more about Robert's activities.