Keith Bolton

KEITH BOLTON was appointed Vice President and Chief Technology
Officer of Applied Digital Solutions, Inc., in February 2000. He
is responsible for the technology development, implementation and
enhancements of front- and back-end technologies for all of
Applied Digital’s subsidiary companies. Initially, Dr. Bolton
joined Applied Digital as President iof its Internet Group in
January 1999. His primary responsibilites in this position
included general management, sales and P&L for this high-growth
business. Prior to joining Applied Digital Solutions, Dr. Bolton
was Electronic Commerce Manager for BellSouth Corporation and
Senior Technical Sales Engineer with Siemens Corporation. Before
that, he held a corporate staff position at AT&T. He began his
corporate executive career as President of CCI, a
telecommunications company in Dallas, Texas. Dr. Bolton earned a
Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Maryland in
1972 and an MBA with a specialization in Management Information
Systems from Nova University. He completed his doctoral research
and studies in the School of Computer and Information Science at
Nova Southeastern University and earned his PhD from Washington
International University with a specialization in Computer
Systems.