Executive Vice President and Chief Scientist, SAP
Dr. Ike Nassi and his Research groups in the US, Canada and China explore advanced enterprise technologies and applications for use in domestic and multinational corporate environments. He is also responsible for SAP’s Global Business Incubator.
Prior to joining SAP, Dr. Nassi has helped to start three companies: Encore Computer, InfoGear Technology, and Firetide. Firetide Inc. is a wireless mesh networking company Dr. Nassi co-founded and then served as its Executive Vice President, CTO and Chairman of the Board. He was the CTO and head of all product operations at InfoGear prior to its acquisition by Cisco. He also helped start Encore Computer Corporation, a pioneer in symmetric multiprocessors, forerunners of today’s multicore processors.
He also helped start the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, where he currently serves as an active member of the Board of Trustees, and before that was a member of the Board of Overseers at the Computer Museum in Boston.
In addition to his startup experience, Ike has held executive positions at Cisco Systems, Apple Computer, where he served in several capacities leading to his position as Senior Vice President of Software and Corporate Officer. He also worked at Visual Technology, where he was VP Software Engineering, Digital Equipment Corporation, where he worked on the DEC VAX, was a manager in the Corporate Research Group and was a Consulting Engineer, and at SofTech where he worked on avionics support software. He has been responsible for the shipment of several successful products and has made many original technical contributions to the field.
On the academic side, he has been a visiting scholar Stanford University, a research affiliate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a visiting scholar in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley and has also taught graduate courses at Boston University. He is a member of the Advisory Boards of Viewpoints Research, and the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at Northwestern University.
Ike holds a Certificate for Distinguished Service from the Department of Defense for his work on the design of the Ada programming language and was a member of the Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Information Systems and Technology group. He testified before Congress on the Emerging Telecommunications Act of 1991.
He holds memberships in the IEEE and ACM, and graduated with a B.S. in Mathematics, and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stony Brook University.
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