ABOUT OKON

Mr. Okokon Bassey Okon III of Chicago, IL, and Ellenwood, GA, eldest son of Dr. Okokon B. Okon II and Mrs. Alsena B. Okon, passed March 29, 2004. He was the victim of a senseless crime.

Okon was born on January 23, 1968 in Albany, NY. He graduated from Stone Mountain High School in Atlanta, Georgia and went on to earn his B.S. (1989) and M.S. (1991) in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in Stanford, California. Okokon was a software engineering and consultant by trade and he loved ideas and innovation. Motorola employed him from 1992 to 1997, after which he co-founded the software-consulting firm CoPresence LLC in 1997. He next co-founded the case-based communication software firm Kenvio LLC in 2003. At the time of this death, he was a consultant with Elemental Interactive, Atlanta.

Okokon loved technology and art. He embraced the rigor of science and the nuance of history and sought the subtle truths borne from their commingling. Okokon especially prized the art of systems design, its entrepreneurial applications, and equally important, its societal implications within a clearly constructed morality without which he could not abide.

O.B., as his family knew him--or simply O', as his friends knew him--had a wide palette, enjoying the good food and good music and good company of the people of many nations. He traveled extensively within the United States and outside of the country to Nigeria, UK, France, Spain, Netherlands, Brazil, and Canada to name a few places. He was a devout contrarian who loved heady discourse almost as much as a heart-felt laugh. He was self-assured, yet humble. He was a critical thinker who loved heady debate, almost as much as a heartfelt laugh. So wordly, yet so very grounded.

Okokon is survived by mother Alsena B. Okon and father Okokon B. Okon II; sister Iquo Okon and nephew Jiano Okon Wilson-Briggs; paternal siblings Uduak, Songobong, Afiong Okon, and niece Fantasia Smith; uncle Alfonso Smith and aunt Valerie Ebe; Grandmothers Alsena Smith and Patricia Okon; a large extended international family in the United States and in Nigeria, and many many friends around the world. We loved him. We will honor him by embracing and amplifying the beauty and love he created in his all too short time with us.

IMPORTANT LINKS

Education Stanford University
Stanford University Electrical Engineering Department
Stone Mountain High School

Family Ancestral Legacy (http://wikis.dyndns.org:8888/okon/Ancestry) Nigeria

Professional Life Kenvio LLC
Elemental Interactive