John H. Marburger, III is the President's Science Advisor and Director of the Office of Science and Technology. Dr. Marburger is the former Director of the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and President of Brookhaven Science Associates. He is presently on a leave of absence from the State University of New York at Stony Brook where he served as President and Professor from 1980 to 1994 and as a University Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering from 1994 to 1997. Dr. Marburger served as the Dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California from 1976 to 1980. He has been a member of numerous professional, civic and philanthropic organizations including the Universities Research Association, the Advisory Committee to the New York State Senate Committee on Higher Education and the Board of Directors of the Museums at Stony Brook. He is a graduate of Princeton University and received a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Stanford University.
E. Floyd Kvamme is a Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a high technology venture capital firm. He is responsible for the development of high technology companies from early start-up to publicly traded phase. Mr. Kvamme currently serves on the boards of Brio Technology, Gemfire, Harmonic, National Semiconductor, Photon Dynamics, Power Integrations, and Silicon Genesis. Mr. Kvamme was one of five members of the team that began at National Semiconductor in 1967, serving as its General Manager of Semiconductor Operations and building it into a billion-dollar company. He served as President of the National Advanced Systems subsidiary, which designed, manufactured and marketed large computer systems. In 1982 he became Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Apple Computer. While at Apple, his responsibilities included worldwide sales, marketing, distribution and support. He holds two degrees in Engineering; a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley and an MSE specializing in Semiconductor Electronics from Syracuse University.
F. Duane Ackerman is Chairman and CEO of Atlanta-based BellSouth Corporation. Mr. Ackerman holds a Bachelor's degree in Physics and Master's degree from Rollins College in Winter Park, FL., and a Master's degree in Business from MIT. Mr. Ackerman is the past Chairman of the national Council on Competitiveness, Chairman of the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee, and a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council.
Paul M. Anderson is Chairman of the Board for Spectra Energy, one of North America’s premier natural gas midstream companies. Prior to the launch of Spectra Energy in January 2007, Anderson served as Chairman of the Board and CEO of Duke Energy. Mr. Anderson served in many leadership roles within Duke Energy and its predecessors since 1977, including Chairman, President, and CEO of PanEnergy, which merged with Duke Power to become Duke Energy in 1997. From 1998 to 2002 he served as Managing Director and CEO of BHP Billiton a resources company dual listed in Australia and the UK. Mr. Anderson holds an M.B.A. from Stanford University and a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Washington.
Charles J. Arntzen is the Regents' Professor and Florence Ely Nelson Presidential Chair The Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University, and serves as the Founding Director of the ArizonaBiomedical Institute. He is also the President/CEO Emeritus of the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Inc., a not-for-profit corporation that is affiliated with Cornell University. Dr. Arntzen held previous faculty positions at the University of Illinois and Michigan State University, and visiting professorships in the Laboratoire de Photosynthèse du CNRS in France, the Department of Applied Mathematics in Canberra, Australia, and the Academia Sinica in Beijing, China. Dr. Arntzen is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Sciences in India. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Minnesota and his Ph.D. in cell biology from Purdue University.
Norman R. Augustine is the former Chairman and CEO of the Lockheed Martin Corporation, and currently serves on the Board of Directors for Phillips Petroleum, Proctor & Gamble, Black and Decker, and Lockheed Martin. He has served ten years in the Federal Government, including a term as Under Secretary of the Army. After retiring from the industrial sector, he taught at Princeton University in the School of Engineering and Applied Science. He has been a trustee of Johns Hopkins, MIT, and Princeton, and holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Aeronautical Engineering from Princeton.
Carol Bartz is Executive Chairman of the Board Autodesk, Inc., the world's leading supplier of design software and one of the biggest PC software companies in the world. Since Bartz took the helm in 1992, the company has diversified its product line and grown revenues from $285 million to more than $936 million in FY01. Bartz previously held positions at Sun Microsystems, most recently serving as vice president of worldwide field operations and an executive officer of the company. Before joining Sun, she held product line and sales management positions at Digital Equipment Corporation and 3M Corporation. In 2001, Bartz received Ernst & Young's Northern California Master Entrepreneur of the Year award. The award recognizes industry leaders whose guidance has created and sustained a prosperous and innovative business. In addition, she was honored in 2000 with a Horatio Alger award and recognized by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) in 1994 with the Donald C. Burnham Manufacturing Management Award. A leader in Silicon Valley, Bartz serves on the boards of several other organizations including BEA Systems, Cisco Systems, Network Appliance, TechNet and the Foundation for the National Medals of Science and Technology. She is also honored in the Women in Technology International (WITI) Hall of Fame. Bartz holds an honors degree in computer science from the University of Wisconsin. She was granted an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from William Woods University.
M. Kathleen Behrens is a General Partner of RS and Company Venture Partners IV, L.P, an investment management firm based in San Francisco. She is responsible for investing venture capital in young biotechnology and healthcare companies. Previously, she worked at the firm of Robertson Stephens & Co. for 17 years where she served in a variety of positions in the medical, health care, and biotechnology groups as both a public market analyst and a venture capitalist. Dr. Behrens is a director of Abgenix, Inc. and HealthTrio and has been a board member of Protein Design Labs, Inc., Cell Genesys, InSite Vision, Inc. and COR Therapeutics. She holds a Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of California, Davis.
Erich Bloch is a founding Director of The Washington Advisory Group, a consulting firm that focuses primarily on science and technology issues, and a Distinguished Fellow at the Council on Competitiveness. He was the Director of the National Science Foundation from 1984–1990. Previously, Mr. Bloch was IBM Corporate Vice President for Technical Personnel Development. His earlier work at IBM included Engineering Manager of the stretch supercomputer system, Head of the Solid Logic Technology Program, Vice President of the Data Systems Division, and General Manager of the East Fishkill development and manufacturing facility. Mr. Bloch was awarded the National Medal of Technology for “developments that revolutionized the computer industry” and is a recipient of the IEEE Founders Medal and the National Science Board's Vannevar Bush award. Mr. Bloch received his education in electrical engineering at the Federal Polytechnic Institute of Zurich and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Buffalo in 1952.
Robert A. Brown is the president of Boston University and a Professor of Chemical Engineering. Dr. Brown earned a B.S. and M.S. in Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin and a Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Engineering. While at MIT, Dr. Brown served as co-director of the MIT Supercomputer Facility, Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering, and Dean of Engineering. He also led the creation of multi-disciplinary research centers at MIT, including the Ray and Maria Stata Center as a facility for teaching, research and student life focused on computer and intelligent sciences.
G. Wayne Clough is President of the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Clough received his B.S. and M.S. in civil engineering from Georgia Tech and his Ph.D. in civil engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Clough was a member of the faculty at Duke University, Stanford University, Virginia Tech and the University of Washington. He served as Dean of the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech and as Provost at the University of Washington. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, where he presently chairs the Engineer of 2020 project. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the U.S. Council on Competitiveness and the Board of Directors of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. He serves on the boards of the Noro-Moseley Venture Fund and the TSYS Corporation and is a special consultant to the Bechtel Corporation for the seismic retrofit of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System.
Michael S. Dell serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for Dell, the leading direct computer company in the world. Mr. Dell founded the company in 1984 with $1,000 and an unprecedented idea in the personal computer industry: bypass the middleman who adds little value to the products, and sell custom-built PCs directly to end-users. Mr. Dell is a member of the World Economic Forum, the Computerworld/Smithsonian Awards, the Business Council, and the Computer Systems Policy Project, an affiliation of CEOs of the top computer companies that advocates public policy positions on trade and technology affecting the computer industry and ultimately the United States. He also serves on the nominating committee for the National Technology Medal of Honor. Mr. Dell attended the University of Texas at Austin.
Nance K. Dicciani is President and CEO of Honeywell Specialty Materials, which produces a wide range of products including non-ozone-depleting refrigerants, advanced fibers and composites for armor protection, electronic materials and chemicals for semiconductor production, and technologies and materials for petroleum refining. Dicciani holds a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from Villanova University, an M.S. degree in chemical engineering from the University of Virginia, a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She currently serves on the Executive and Global Product Strategy Committees of the American Chemistry Council, and chairs the Board Research Committee. Dicciani is a vice president of the Society of Chemical Industry and serves on its executive committee
Raul J. Fernandez, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of ObjectVideo
Raul J. Fernandez is Chairman and CEO for ObjectVideo. Mr. Fernandez brings more than a decade of executive experience scaling innovative and rapidly growing technology companies. Mr. Fernandez is well known in the technology industry and the Washington , D.C. , area as the founder of Proxicom, which under his leadership evolved into a leading global provider of sophisticated e-business solutions for Fortune 500 companies. After taking Proxicom public in 1999 and growing the business to over $200 million in revenue, he sold it to Dimension Data (LSE:DDT) in a deal worth nearly $450 million. He has been profiled by The Wall Street Journal, Fortune , Forbes , CNBC , The Industry Standard, The Washington Post, and CNNfn. In addition to Fernandez's commercial experience, he has been active on the technology policy front. In 2001, Mr. Fernandez was appointed to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). He also led the Information Technology Analysis Team for Virginia Gov. Mark Warner's Commission on Efficiency and Effectiveness, which was chaired by former Gov. Douglas Wilder and submitted its final report in December 2002. Mr. Fernandez also acts as a special advisor to General Atlantic Partners, a leading private equity investment firm, and sits on the boards of Liz Claiborne (NYSE: LIZ) and Internosis, an award-winning IT consultancy and systems integrator. In January 2000, Mr. Fernandez became one of the owners of the NHL's Washington Capitals, the NBA's Washington Wizards, the WNBA's Washington Mystics and the MCI Center . A native Washingtonian, Mr. Fernandez holds a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Maryland.
Marye Anne Fox is Chancellor at the University of California - San Diego. She previously served as Chancellor and Distinguished Professor of chemistry at North Carolina State University, where she was responsible for collaborative research and economic development on NC State's Centennial Campus, a research park with more than 70 private companies, and as Vice President for Research and Waggoner Regents Chair in Chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin. Fox has served as a member and vice chair of the National Science Board as an appointee of President George H.W. Bush and as a member of the Texas Science and Technology Council as an appointee of George W. Bush. She serves as co-chair of the National Academies' Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable and as a memeber of the Committee on Science and Engineering Public Policy. She was chair of the Board of MCNC, the non-profit corporation responsible for microelectronics, networking, and supercomputing in North Carolina and is a board member of several public and not-for-profit companies. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. She was President of Sigma Xi, a national scientific honorary society. She graduated from Notre Dame College in 1969 and received her Ph.D. in chemistry from Dartmouth College in 1974.
Martha Gilliland is a Senior Fellow at the Council for Aid to Education, a subsidiary of the RAND Corporation in New York City. She was formerly Chancellor of University of Missouri-Kansas City and prior to that Provost at Tulane University. A native of Lancaster, Pa., she earned her bachelor's degree at Catawba College in Salisbury, North Carolina in geology and mathematics, her master's degree in geophysics from Rice University in Houston, Texas, and her doctoral degree in environmental engineering and systems ecology from the University of Florida, Gainesville, in 1973. Her research focus is energy alternatives, energy policy, and environmental engineering approaches to the mitigation of environmental problems. Her work in Kansas City, as Chancellor, was centered on partnerships that bring research outcomes to the commercial marketplace. She is currently working on policies to enhance the strength of public research universities.
Ralph Gomory has been President of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 1989. Previously, he was Senior Vice President for Science and Technology at the IBM Corporation. He served on PCAST under President George Bush, and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering. Dr. Gomory is also a Director of The Washington Post Company and of Lexmark. He is a recipient of the National Medal of Science, and received his B.A. from Williams College and Ph.D. from Princeton University.
Bernadine Healy is Health Editor and Columnist for U.S. News and World Report since 2002. She also serves as Chair of the Ohio Commission to Reform Medicaid and serves on many corporate boards. She was the former President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Red Cross. Prior to assuming the presidency, Dr. Healy had served as the Dean of the College of Medicine and Public Health and Professor of Medicine at the Ohio State University in Columbus Ohio. Additionally, she served as the Chairman of the Research Institute at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Under former President Bush, she was Vice-Chair of PCAST, and Director of the National Institutes of Health, and was the Deputy Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy at the White House under President Reagan. Dr. Healy also has been a Medical Contributor for CBS News, has written numerous scientific publications, and published a book entitled, A New Prescription for Women's Health. She spent over a decade at Johns Hopkins where she was Professor of Medicine and Cardiology. She received her bachelor's degree from Vassar College and her M.D. from Harvard Medical School.
Robert J. Herbold, joined Microsoft in November 1994 as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, retiring in Spring, 2001. From 2001 until June, 2003 Herbold worked part time for Microsoft as Executive Vice President assisting in the government, industry, and customer areas. Also in 2001, he launched the consulting firm Herbold Group, LLC, which is focused on profitability, and he is currently its Managing Director. Prior to joining Microsoft in 1994, Herbold spent 26 years at The Procter & Gamble Company. In his last 5 years with P&G, he served as senior vice president of marketing. Herbold serves on the Board of Directors of Weyerhaeuser Corporation, Agilent Technologies, ICOS Corporation, First Mutual Bank, and Cintas Corporation. Herbold authored an article in the January, 2002 issue of the Harvard Business Review entitled “Inside Microsoft: Balancing Discipline and Creativity”, which discusses how companies can improve their profitability and agility. Also, he recently authored a book (published by Doubleday) titled The Fiefdom Syndrome which focuses on the turf battles and bureaucracy that undermine careers and companies – and how to overcome them. Herbold has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Cincinnati and both a master's degree in mathematics and a Ph.D. in computer science from Case Western Reserve University.
Richard Herman is Chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He joined the campus in 1998 as Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and was appointed Interim Chancellor in June, 2004 and Chancellor in May, 2005. Before coming to Illinois, Dr. Herman served as Dean of the College of Computer, Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the University of Maryland, College Park, and prior to that he was chair of the Department of Mathematics at the Pennsylvania State University from 1986 to 1990. Dr. Herman's experience in science and education policy includes a major role with the National Science Foundation, serving four years, two as chair, on the National Science Foundation's Advisory Committee for the Directorate of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, and six years as Chair of the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics. He worked on the Council on Competitiveness National Innovation Initiative to execute its final report, Innovate America: Thriving in a World of Challenge and Change and presently serves on the Observatories Council of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA).
Martin C. Jischke is the President of Purdue University, and has held numerous national leadership roles in service to colleges and universities. He holds a Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT. Dr. Jischke has expertise in heat transfer, fluid mechanics, aerodynamics and problems related to high-speed aircraft and spacecraft. Dr. Jischke is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Fred Kavli is founder and Chairman of The Kavli Foundation, which he established to support scientific research that is aimed at improving the quality of life for people around the world. The Foundation has established research institutes at leading universities worldwide, including research institutes in neuroscience at Columbia, Yale and the University of California San Diego; in nanoscience at Caltech, Cornell, and Delft University of Technology in Holland; in astrophysics and cosmology at Stanford, the University of Chicago, MIT, and in theoretical physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). He is a member of the University of California President's Board on Science and Innovation, and is a Trustee of the UCSB Foundation and has endowed two chairs in engineering at UCSB—The Fred Kavli Chair in MEMS Technology and the Chair in Optoelectronics and Sensors. Through his Foundation, he has also endowed chairs in Earth Systems Sciences at the University of California, Irvine, in Nano-systems Sciences at UCLA, and in Cosmology at the California Institute of Technology. Previously, Mr. Kavli was founder and CEO of Kavlico, one of the world's largest suppliers of sensors for aeronautic, automotive, and industrial applications. Mr. Kavli received his education in Physics at the Norwegian Institute of Technology.
Bobbie Kilberg is President of the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC). Ms. Kilberg was a White House fellow during the Nixon Administration and joined the Ford Administration as Associate Counsel to the President. A former Vice President for Academic Affairs at Mount Vernon College in Washington, D.C., Ms. Kilberg rejoined the federal government as Deputy Assistant to the President for Public Liaison and Deputy Assistant for Intergovernmental Affairs for former President Bush. Ms. Kilberg received her bachelor's degree from Vassar College, a master's in Political Science from Columbia University, and a J.D. from Yale.
Walter E. Massey is the President of Morehouse College. Before coming to Morehouse, Dr. Massey held a range of administrative and academic positions, including Provost and Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs for the University of California. Dr. Massey served as the Director of the National Science Foundation, Vice President for Research at the University of Chicago and Director of the Argonne National Laboratory, Dean of the college and full Professor of Physics at Brown University, and Assistant Professor of physics at the University of Illinois. Dr. Massey was a member of President Bush's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Dr. Massey joined BP Amoco's Board of Directors in 1993 having previously been a member of Amoco Corporation's Board of Directors from 1983 to 1991. He is a non-executive Director of Motorola, Bank of America, McDonald's Corporation, the Mellon Foundation, and the Commonwealth Fund. Dr. Massey earned a Bachelor of Science in physics and mathematics from Morehouse and a master's and a doctorate in physics from Washington University, in St. Louis, Missouri.
E. Kenneth Nwabueze is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of SageMetrics Corporation. Mr. Nwabueze founded SageMetrics in 1996 and is responsible for overall company direction and growth. As founder and CEO of SageMetrics, a leading outsourced business intelligence provider, Nwabueze has a demonstrated reputation as a developer and entrepreneur of innovative technologies across various high-tech industries. Prior to SageMetrics, Nwabueze conducted advanced research for Lawrence Berkeley Lab, created patented software technology for The Walt Disney Company and developed business-critical software systems for Buena Vista Pictures and Television. Currently, his company, SageMetrics, is providing data mining, integration, and analysis for companies including Cox Interactive, Washingtonpost.com, Tesco, and Forbes.com. He served in 1998 as Chairman, Technical Committee for Internet Protocols Onboard Aircrafts for World Airline Entertainment Association and currently serves on the boards of SageMetrics and Novantus Corporation. Nwabueze holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from the School of Engineering and Computer Science at California State University, Northridge.
Steven G. Papermaster is Chairman of Powershift Ventures, a technology venture development company that focuses on building software and technology companies. Previously, Mr. Papermaster was the founder, chairman and CEO of BSG Corporation, a global software and systems integration company specializing in emerging technologies. He currently serves on the boards of directors for several public and private companies. Mr. Papermaster served as a co-chairman of the Information Technology Advisory Council for the Bush-Cheney 2000 campaign. He is also the co-founder and co-chairman of Technology Network Texas (TechNet), a national high-technology advocacy group for policy issues and is a member of the National Executive Committee. Mr. Papermaster received a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from the University of Texas at Austin.
Luis M. Proenza is President of The University of Akron. Prior to his January 1999 appointment at Akron, he was Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate School at Purdue University, and previously served as Vice President for Academic Affairs and Research, and as Vice Chancellor for Research and Dean of the Graduate School at the University of Alaska. Dr. Proenza has served on the NAS-NRC Committee on Vision; as a member of the National Biotechnology Policy Board; as a member of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission under former President George H.W. Bush; and as advisor for Science and Technology Policy to Alaska Governor Walter J. Hickel. Dr. Proenza holds a B.A. degree from Emory University (1965), an M.A. from The Ohio State University (1966) and the Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota (1971). He also chairs the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board Science and Mathematics Education Task Force. He joined the faculty of the University of Georgia in 1971, where his research was continuously supported by grants from the National Eye Institute, including a Research Career Development Award, and where he also served as Assistant to the President and University Liaison for Science and Technology Policy.
Daniel A. Reed is Microsoft's Scalable and Multicore Computing Strategist. Dr. Reed is also an expert on the design of very high-speed computers and the computational science they enable. He is the current chair of the Computing Research Association Board of Directors. At Illinois, he directed both the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the National Computational Science Alliance, a nationwide partnership of more than 50 institutions to advance scientific discovery via high performance computing. Dr. Reed served as principal investigator and chief architect for the National Science Foundation's TeraGrid project. Dr. Reed received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Purdue University, and a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Missouri at Rolla.
George Scalise is President of the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), the premier trade association representing the microchip industry. Mr. Scalise has had a long career in the semiconductor and related industries, bringing with him over 30 years of industry experience. Prior to joining the SIA in June 1997, he served as the executive vice president of operations and chief administrative officer at Apple Computer. Preceding Apple, he worked in numerous executive positions at National Semiconductor Corporation, Maxtor Corporation, Advanced Micro Devices, Fairchild Semiconductor, and Motorola Semiconductor. Mr. Scalise is active on many boards and advisory committees. In December 1999, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, the Twelfth Federal Reserve District, to represent non-banking interests in the District's nine states, where he currently serves as Chairman Mr. Scalise graduated from Purdue University with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering.
Stratton D. Sclavos is Chairman of the Board, President and CEO of VeriSign, a provider of intelligent infrastructure services for the Internet and telecommunications networks. He holds a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Davis. He also sits on the President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) and specializes in next-generation networks, cyber security, and converged telecommunications services. Mr. Sclavos also sits on the board of directors of several public information technology companies including Intuit, Juniper Networks, and Salesforce.com.
John Brooks Slaughter is the President and CEO of the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering. He has held several leadership roles in engineering and education, including Director of the National Science Foundation, President of Occidental College in Los Angeles, Chancellor at the University of Maryland, College Park, and Director of the Applied Physics Laboratory of the University of Washington. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and is a current member of the NAE Council. Dr. Slaughter is also a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Slaughter holds a Ph.D. in Engineering Science from the University of California, San Diego; an M.S. in Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and a B.S. in electrical engineering from Kansas State University. He holds honorary degrees from more than 25 institutions. Winner of the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Award in 1997 and UCLA's Medal of Excellence in 1989, Dr. Slaughter was also honored with the first “U.S. Black Engineer of the Year” award in 1987 and the Arthur M. Bueche Award from the NAE in 2004.
Joseph M. Tucci is Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of EMC Corporation, the world leader in information management and storage products, services, and solutions. He has held senior leadership positions in other information technology companies, including Wang Global and Unisys. Mr. Tucci holds a bachelor's degree from Manhattan College and an M.S. in Business Policy from Columbia University. He is one of 160 CEO members of the Business Roundtable and the former Chairman of its Task Force on Education and the Workforce. Under Mr. Tucci's leadership, the Task Force released "Tapping America's Potential: The Education for Innovation Initiative," a significant report on the U.S. talent pipeline in science, technology, engineering, and math. Mr. Tucci is also one of nine chief executives who steer The Technology CEO Council, the IT industry's leading public policy advocacy organization, and he is a member of the Executive Committee of TechNet, a network of CEOs who work to advance U.S. global leadership in innovation.
Charles M. Vest is President of the National Academy of Engineering. Dr. Vest is President Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Professor of Mechanical Engineering. He is a former Provost, Vice President for Academic Affairs, and Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan. His research interests are in the areas of heat transfer, fluid mechanics, and optics. Dr. Vest serves on the Board of Directors for IBM and the E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. He is a trustee of the New England Aquarium and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan.
Robert E. Witt is the President of the University of Alabama. Prior to joining the University, he served as the President of the University of Texas at Arlington, where he implemented significant technology enhancements, including establishing the Arlington Technology Incubator, creating a Nanotechnology Research and Teaching Facility, and laying the groundwork for a new Workforce Development and Continuing Education building. Witt received his Bachelor's degree in Economics from Bates College, his M.B.A. from Dartmouth College and his Ph.D. from Penn State University.
Tadataka Yamada is the President, Global Health Program for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. As president of the Global Health Program, Dr. Tadataka (Tachi) Yamada leads the foundation's efforts to help develop and deliver low-cost, life-saving health tools for the developing world. He oversees our global health grant portfolio and Global Health Advocacy. Before joining the foundation, Yamada served as Chairman of Research and Development and was a member of the Board of Directors at GlaxoSmithKline. Prior to that, he was chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School and Physician-in-Chief at the University of Michigan Medical Center. Yamada is a past President of the American Gastroenterological Association and the Association of American Physicians, a Master of the American College of Physicians, a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science in the United States, and the Academy of Medical Sciences in the United Kingdom.
