Ivan Labra is a technologist and business person with over 20 years applying strategy to solution and product development in environments ranging from startups to fortune 500, corporate, and government.

His career began at IBM in the early days of the commercialization of the Internet, globalization and offshoring, working on complex distributed systems with distributed international teams. In California, Ivan worked on product architecture teams in bringing together engineering and product development to deliver products the early days of SaaS development. While working for working for SPAWAR (Space and Naval Warfare Command) he served as the lead architect for the Multinational Interoperability Group defining a new approach for the government to build technical capability, for next generation multimodal command and control systems focused on supporting complex decentralized operations such as tsunami and earthquake relief.

Working for the U.S. government Ivan created an incubation and adoption model for open source technologies and small open source based expert companies, bringing together the first FLOSS SaaS services deployed inside the DoD.

Ivan was a member of the research faculty at the Cebrowski Institute for Information Superiority (now Dominance) at the Naval Postgraduate School under Dr. Peter Denning researching “generative networks” - value graphs, such as open source communities that exhibit self-propagating behaviors across a variety of dimensions.

Leaving academia to rejoin industry, Ivan worked as the lead strategist and chief technologist for the International Division of DRS Technologies, defining opportunities markets and services necessary to meet DRS goals including the Cyber Product/Services strategy and $2B in addressable market.

Ivan joins Digital Mind, Inc. (a wholly owned subsidiary of Global Strategic Analysis, LLC) as a Principal responsible for all aspects of Business Architecture, from strategy to execution. He is a U.S. citizen and resides in Stuttgart, Germany.