As Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Research and Development at Sun, Greg Papadopoulos directed the company’s approximate $2B in R&D portfolio with an eye toward innovation, simplicity, and eco-responsibility. With more than 20 years experience in the technology industry, Papadopoulos was responsible for managing Sun’s technology decisions and architecture. His team led Sun Labs, the DARPA High Performance Computing Systems program, global engineering architecture and advanced development programs.
Passionate about technology and its possibilities, Papadopoulos supports open development models that stimulate communication, creativity and innovation, which he promotes through his blog, Greg Matter, as well as numerous speaking engagements. He is also the author of the book Citizen Engineer.
Papadopoulos also held several positions at Sun, including vice president of technology and advanced development for the company’s systems business, chief scientist for server systems engineering, and chief scientist for enterprise servers and storage.
Before joining Sun in 1994, Papadopoulos was senior architect and director of product strategy for Thinking Machines, where he led the design of the CM6 massively parallel supercomputer. Papadopoulos was an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, where he conducted research in scalable systems, multi threaded/data flow processor architecture, functional and declarative languages, and fault-tolerant computing. Papadopoulos also worked as a development engineer at Hewlett-Packard and Honeywell, where he designed flight-control systems for Boeing jetliners. He co-founded three companies: PictureTel (video conferencing), Ergo (high-end PCs) and Exa Corporation (computational fluid dynamics).
Papadopoulos participates in several associations, including serving as chairman of the board for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), as a member of the Board of Trustees for the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, and as a member of the President’s Board on Science and Innovation at the University of California. Greg acts as a technical advisor for BP and Alien Technologies.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in systems science from the University of California at San Diego, as well as master’s and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT.
Officers
- Telle Whitney, – President and CEO
- James Beck, CPA & CMA, Managing Director & COO, Mayfield Fund – Treasurer, Vice President & Corporate Secretary
Corporate Counsel
- Allison Spinner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Staff
- Telle Whitney, President and CEO
- Jerri Barrett, VP of Marketing
- Barbara Gee, VP of Programs
- Deanna Kosaraju, VP of Strategic Initiatives
- Jody Mahoney, VP of Business Development
- Kirk Ross, VP of Finance
- Caroline Simard, VP of Research and Executive Programs
- Cara de Urioste, Director of Development
- Denise Gammal, Director of Corporate Partnerships
- Kathy Gee, Director of Operations
- Seema Gururaj, Director of the Grace Hopper Celebration
- Linda Bohn, Operations Manager and Executive Assistant
- Lilis Bumgardner, CMP, Meetings and Events Manager
- Christine Chiu, Manager of Research and Executive Programs
- Kim McLeod, Leadership Development & Academic Initiatives Program Manager
- Tina Pratt, Program Manager
- Rosario Robinson, Systers Program Manager
- Rachelle Siskin, Program Logistics Manager
- Carolyn Strobel, Marketing Manager
- BJ Wishinsky, Community Manager
Our Founder
Board of Trustees
- Leah Jamieson, John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering and Ramsburg Distinguished Professor, Purdue University, Board Chair
- Francine Berman, Vice President of Research and Professor of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute – Vice Chair
- Robin Abrams, Investor
- Anushka Anand, Ph.D Candidate, University of Illinois at Chicago
- James Beck, CPA & CMA, Managing Director and COO, Mayfield Fund – Treasurer, Vice President and Corporate Secretary
- Mark Bregman, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Neustar
- Debi Coleman, Managing Partner, SmartForest Ventures
- Nancy E. Cooper, Retired, EVP and Chief Financial Officer, CA Technologies
- Kelli Crane, Senior Vice President of Global Enterprise Information Solutions, LexisNexis
- Nora Denzel, Senior Vice President, Big Data, Social Design and Marketing, Intuit
- Alan Eustace, Senior Vice President of Knowledge, Google
- Penny Herscher, President and CEO, firstRain
- Kathy Hill, Senior Vice President, Development Strategy and Operations, Cisco Systems Inc.
- Tracy S. Keogh, Executive Vice President, Human Resources, HP
- Sarah Loos, Ph.D Candidate, Carnegie Mellon University
- Brian Pawlowski, CTO and Senior Vice President, NetApp
- Richard Rashid, Chief Research Officer, Microsoft
- Justin Rattner, Senior Fellow and CTO, Intel
- Mike Schroepfer, VP of Engineering, Facebook
- Bill Unger, Partner Emeritus, Mayfield Fund
- William Wulf, Former President, National Academy of Engineering
- Telle Whitney, President and CEO, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
- Margaret Ashida, Emerita (Term: 2003- 2009)
- Linda Bernardi, Emerita (Term: 1996 -2006)
- Wayne Johnson, Emeritus (Term: 2002-2008)
- Maria Klawe, Emerita (Term: 1996-2011)
- Greg Papadopoulos, Emeritus (Term: 1996 -2006)
Individual and Organizations
Board of Advisors
- Ann Redelfs, Redelfs LLC – Co-Chair of Advisory Board
- Frances Allen, IBM Fellow Emerita, IBM
- Linda Apsley, Principal Group Program Manager, Xbox Live Services, Microsoft Corporation
- Pamela Arya, Vice President of Intelligence Solutions, A-T Solutions
- Nina Bhatti, Senior Principal Scientist, HP Labs
- Gail Carmichael, PhD Student, Carleton University
- Krista Claude, Head of Product and Content Technology, Thomson Reuters Core Legal
- Anne Condon, Professor of Computer Science, University of British Columbia
- Katy Dickinson, Chief Analyst, Software Development Trends, Huawei Technologies
- Catherine Didion, Senior Program Officer, National Academy of Engineering
- Allan Fisher, Vice President, Laureate Education
- Gilda Garreton, Principal Engineer, Oracle Labs/Oracle
- Mark Guzdial, Professor, School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Anne Hardy, Vice President Developer Evangelism, SAP Labs
- Robin Jeffries, Google
- Allyson Kapin, Founder, Rad Campaign and Women Who Tech
- Chandra Krintz, Associate Professor, UC Santa Barbara
- Cindy Lain, Software Engineering Manager, Cisco
- Ellen Lapham, Entrepreneur and Designer, Innovation Ventures
- Wei Lin, Senior Director, Engineering Consumer Business Unit, Symantec
- Patty Lopez, Component Design Engineer, Intel
- Karin Meyer, Intuit
- Carol Muller, Senior Consultant, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University; President, Blue Sky Consulting
- Radha Nandkumar, Senior Research Scientist Director, ICARE – International and Campus Relations, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Sabina Nawaz, Nawaz Consulting, LLC
- Elisa Camahort Page, Co-Founder and COO, BlogHer
- Claudia Pearce, NSA
- Tracy Prentiss
- Mary Ramsey, Lockheed Martin
- Nancy Ramsey, Author, The Futures of Women: Scenarios for the 21st Century
- Kathy Richardson, Consultant
- Ruth Stergiou, Principal, Planning Dynamics, Inc.
- Audrey Van Belleghem, Director, Office of the CTO, NetApp
- Sheila Van Groningen, Vice President, Airborne ISR, Cyber Intelligence Division, Northrop Grumman Information Systems