Emeka Akaezuwa

Dr. Emeka Akaezuwa is Founder and CEO of Gaviri Technologies. He has over 20 years of management and technical experience in building mission-critical, customer-facing information retrieval systems.

Prior to founding Gaviri Technologies, Dr. Akaezuwa worked as Director of Digital libraries at Elsevier where he was involved in developing the world's largest science, technology and medical online information retrieval system. While at Elsevier, he also was Director of the IT Consulting group that developed information systems worldwide for corporate, academic and government clients. Before joining Elsevier, Dr. Akaezuwa was Advanced Technology Manager for all of Dow Jones and Company’s information retrieval systems. In 1995, Dr. Akaezuwa became an Associate Professor of Management Information Systems at Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ, where he taught senior level courses in Management Information Systems at the School of Business.

Dr. Akaezuwa graduated with a Ph.D in Information Systems and Structures from Rutgers University, New Jersey. He has received numerous awards for his work in information retrieval and has two patent-pending applications on portable search technology and on search-based file management, synchronization and encryption protocols.

Dr. Akaezuwa is a founding Trustee of the Global Literacy Project - www.glpinc.org, a non-profit group dedicated to bringing literacy to underprivileged regions of the world.