Who We Are: Margaret E. Ashida

Project Manager, Empire State STEM Education Initiative – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Margaret-AshidaMargaret Ashida joined Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in April, 2009 as the project manager for the Empire State STEM Education Initiative, supported by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Previously an executive at IBM, her experience includes leadership in global diversity and workforce programs, global equal opportunity, enterprise-wide performance management, workforce management strategy and execution, university relations and recruiting, e-business transformation, marketing operations, customer support operations, financial planning and pricing, and operational analysis. She began her career at the Xerox Corporation, moving to ROLM coincident with its acquisition by IBM.

Margaret is the Chair of the Board of Directors of LEAP (Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics Inc.), and a graduate of LEAP’s Leadership Development Program. She was recognized with a Corporate Leadership Award at the OCA 2005 National Meeting for her career achievements and work on behalf of the Asian community. Margaret is also a Trustee and past Executive Committee member of the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, past co-chair of the National Center for Women and IT (NCWIT) Workforce Alliance, and past chair of the MentorNet Advisory Board.

Margaret holds a B.A. from the University of Rochester and is a charter member of the George Eastman Circle. She is an honorary member of the University’s Trustees’ Council and currently serves on the Libraries Advisory Council. She also holds an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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

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