Gil Taran is iCarnegie’s chief executive officer and also an associate teaching professor at Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science Master of Software Engineering program (MSE). Having served as the associate director for corporate development at MSE, he has spent the past eight years helping set up international academic collaborations in Korea, India and Portugal. He has also been involved in working closely in Russia and other former Eastern European countries.

As an international speaker in areas of software project management, software risk management and managing technical people, he has trained thousands of engineers around the world from companies such as Bombardier, PNC Bank, Deutsche Bank, Intel, Motorola, IBM, Hyundai, LG Electronic, Samsung and others. Taran has more than fifteen years of business experience dealing with sales, marketing and operations. In the past he has held managing positions in three international companies in the Netherlands, Israel and Russia. He is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University.