Donald Dittberner is the Chairman of the Board of Directors and Founder of DAI. He was Chief Executive Officer of DAI from 1966-2003. He has been involved in several hundred consulting projects to both world-class operators and their telecom suppliers over the past 30 years. He has visited with national telecommunication operators in over 110 countries of the world and has met with the telecommunication ministers of some 42 countries. Additionally, he has personally interviewed top telecom management of over 400 of the Fortune 500 Companies. This personal relationship with many world telecom leaders gives him unique insight and in-depth understanding of network technology trends. Mr. Dittberner is a Life Member of IEEE.

Mr. Dittberner has a strong technical and analytical background, with a Masters Degree in Physics from the University of Heidelberg, Germany and a B.S. Degree in Physics from Washington State University. Additionally, he has taken graduate studies in Mathematics at UCLA, John Hopkins and has completed the IBM Executive Management School.

Mr. Dittberner began his career at IBM in technical marketing of large-scale computer systems. He gained the position of Director of Market Planning for the IBM Federal Systems Development. He then joined the Diebold Group, an EDP consulting group, as head of the Washington Office and of the Diebold research program.