LEADERSHIP IN TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT AWARDS

 

Norman R. Augustine
Vice Chairman and CEO
Lockheed Martin Corporation-USA

Norman R. Augustine is currently a member of the faculty of Princeton University. He served and Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lockheed Martin Corporation until his retirement. He had previously served as President of the Corporation, a position he assumed upon the merger of Lockheed and Martin Marietta in 1995. Before the merger, Mr. Augustine served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Martin Marietta Corporation from 1988-1995.

Mr. Augustine joined Martin Marietta in 1977 as Vice President of Aerospace Technical Operations. In 1980, he was appointed Vice President of Aerospace Operations with responsibility for engineering, production, quality, strategic planning, capital expenditures, and international programs. In 1982 he was elected a corporate Vice President and President of Martin Marietta Denver Aerospace. Mr. Augstine was named Senior Vice President of the Corporation in 1985, with primary responsibility for two major operating companies, Martin Marietta Information and Communications Systems and Martin Marietta Data Systems. Later in 1985 he was named Executive Vice President, and in January 1986 he became President and Chief Operating Officer and was elected a director of the Corporation. Mr. Augustine was elected Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer in 1987 and became Chairman and Chief Executive Officer in 1988.

Prior to joining Martin Marietta, Mr. Augustine served as Under Secretary of the Army from 1975—1977. Previously, he served as Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research and Development in 1973 and 1974, and from 1965 to 1970 served in the research and engineering organization of the Office of the Secretary of Defense. He was Vice President of Advanced Programs for the Vought Missiles and Space Company, a unit of the LTV Corporation, from 1970 to 1973, and earlier in his career was an engineering executive with Douglas Aircraft Company from 1958 to 1965.

Mr. Augustine received a bachelor’s degree in aeronautical engineering (magna cum laude) in 1957 and a master’s degree in 1959, both from Princeton University.

Mr. Augustine has served as chairman of organizations such as the American Red Cross, the National Academy of Engineering, the Defense Policy Advisory Committee on Trade, and the Defense Science Board. He has received honorary degrees from 17 colleges and universities. He received the National Medal of Technology, the Distinguished Service Medal from the Department of Defense on five different occasions, the Army Distinguished Service Medal, the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal, and the Department of Treasury Medal of Merit, among others.

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GURUDUTH BANAVAR
Chief Technical Officer, VIOME, USA

Dr. Guru Banavar believes in applying deep technology innovations to solve major problems that humanity faces, especially in healthcare and education. He is known for his work on Watson AI, Smarter Cities, Services Innovation, Mobile Computing, and Distributed Systems.

He is currently developing AI systems at Viome, a wellness company that offers unprecedented visibility into the biological ecosystem inside each of us and delivers ongoing recommendations to improve wellness with a personalized diet and lifestyle plan. Until recently, he was a senior technology executive at IBM responsible for advancing Watson AI technologies and solutions, and was a member of CEO Ginni Rometty's top executive team.

Dr. Banavar is a recognized thought leader who has spoken on the Nobel, Aspen, Milken, and Turing stages. His work has been featured in major international media including the New York Times, Economist, Wall Street Journal, and NPR. He received a national innovation award from the President of India, and has served on NY Governor Cuomo's commission for state resiliency. Dr. Banavar has served on various industry and academic boards, and was an elected member of the IBM Academy of Technology. He has published extensively and holds more than 25 US patents.

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DANIEL BERG
Distinguished Research Professor of Engineering, the University of Miami, USA

Dr. Daniel Berg is a Distinguished Research Professor of Engineering at the University of Miami. Previously, he was Dean and Provost at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) as well as Provost and President at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and Institute Professor of Science and Technology.

He received his B.S. in Chemistry and Physics from the City College of New York and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Yale. He was employed by Westinghouse Electric in a variety of technical/managerial positions including Technical Director.

Dr. Berg serves as the American Editor of the International Journal of Services Technology and Management. He is the author of four books, five book chapters and over 80 refereed journal articles.

He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), a Fellow of INFORMS, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Dr. Berg's many awards and honors include the IEEE Engineering Management Section Educator of the Year Award; the IAMOT Award for Distinguished Achievement in Management of Technology; the IEEE Educational Activities Board Meritorious Achievement Award in Continuing Education; the National Academy of Engineering Service Award; the Townsend Harris Medal, City College of New York; the Wilbur Cross Medal, Yale University; and the Belden Prize for Mathematics.

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JOSEPH BORDOGNA
Deputy Director, NSF-USA

Dr. Bordogna is Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer of the National Science Foundation. Complementing his NSF duties, he has chaired committees on Manufacturing and Environmental Technologies within the President’s National Science and Technology Council, he was a member of the Federal Government’s Technology Reinvestment Project Team (TRP), and he serves on the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles Committee (PNGV) and the U.S.-Japan Joint Optoelectronics Project.

Dr. Bordogna received the BSEE and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and the S.M. degree from M.I.T. His career includes experience as a line officer in the U.S. Navy, a practicing engineer in industry, a professor at the university, a president of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), and a leader in science and technology policy in the government.

Prior to his appointment at NSF, he served at the University of Pennsylvania as the Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Engineering, Director of the Moore School of Electrical Engineering, and the Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. It was during his tenure at the University of Pennsylvania that the highly acclaimed “Management and Technology Program” was created by combining the strengths of the School of Engineering and the Wharton School of Management for a unique undergraduate degree.

At NSF, Dr. Bordogna continued with his innovative ideas and creative leadership by leading the development of new programs focused on expanding research horizons into connecting the frontier of science and engineering with service to society, producing a world-class engineering and science workforce, and making sure that every student from kindergarten up through the highest level of education has math and science capabilities.

Among the many honors Dr. Bordogna has received are his Fellow Awards in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

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KLAUS BROCKHOFF
Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany

Dr. Klaus Brockhoff, in a teaching career spanning more than 40 years, has held business faculty positions at six universities, including the University of Bonn (Germany), University of Kiel (Germany), University of Lund (Sweden), New Jersey Institute of Technology (United States), and currently, since 1999, WHU—Otto Beisheim School of Management (Germany). A graduate of the University of Bonn and the University of Münster, and a former research fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Brockhoff has documented his research in the areas of technology management, innovation management, business strategy, and business policy in 21 books and more than 280 articles, many of which were published in leading international research journals, such as Management Science, Journal of Product Innovation Management, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management and Research Policy. He has consulted for numerous government and business organizations and has received two noteworthy awards, the Max Planck Research Award and Karl Heinz Beckurts Award. Dr. Brockhoff is also an elected member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (Berlin) and the Academy of Technology (Berlin); he sat on the board of six journals (including Research Policy, R&D Management and Technology Analysis & Strategic Management), two corporations (Steuler Industriewerke, Metro Group), and three foundations (VolkswagenStiftung, Pro Futura Stiftungen, and WHU Foundation). He holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Berne (Switzerland).

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HANS-JOERG BULLINGER
Senator of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Germany

Dr. Hans-Joerg Bullinger was born in Stuttgart. He began his career working as a manufacturer for the Daimler-Benz company in Stuttgart, after which he obtained a degree at the University of Stuttgart, graduating with a master's degree and Ph.D. in manufacturing. After two years of lecturing at the University of Hagen, Dr. Bullinger was asked to become a full-time lecturer at the University of Stuttgart. Besides his role as chairman of the University, Dr. Bullinger was also the head of the Institute for Human Factors and Technology Management (IAT) and the Fraunhofer-Institute for Industrial Engineering (IAO). From October 2002 until October 2012, he was president of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Corporate Management and Research, and alternated afterwards to the Senate of Fraunhofer.

Dr. Bullinger received several honorary doctorates and awards such as the Knight Commander´s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany from the Federal President of Germany; he was awarded "Manager of the Year" by the German manager magazine in 2009; and he was honored with the Grashof Denkmunze by VDI (The Association of German Engineers) in 2011. Dr. Bullinger received the Leonardo - European Corporate Learning Award in 2012.

Dr. Bullinger is a member of several councils such as the Industry-Science Research Alliance of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the European Research and Innovation Area Board (ERIAB) of the European Commission. Dr. Bullinger is a Fellow of the UK´s Royal Academy of Engineering.

At present, the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft maintains more than 80 research units in Germany, including 67 institutes and research units. The majority of the 23,000 staff are qualified scientists and engineers. With its clearly defined mission of application-oriented research and its focus on key technologies of relevance to the future, the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft plays a prominent role in the German and European innovation process.

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ROBERT A. BURGELMAN
Edmund W. Littlefield Professor of Management, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, USA

Dr. Robert A. Burgelman is the Edmund W. Littlefield Professor of Management of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business where he has taught since 1981. He obtained a Licenciate degree in Applied Economics from Antwerp University (Belgium), and an MA in Sociology and a Ph.D. in Management of Organizations from Columbia University, where he studied with doctoral fellowships from the Ford Foundation (US) and ICM (Belgium). His research has focused on the role of strategy-making in firm evolution. In particular, he has studied the strategy-making processes involved in how companies enter into new businesses and exit from existing ones to secure continued adaptation. In 2003 he received an honorary doctorate from the Copenhagen Business School for his contributions to the study of corporate innovation and entrepreneurship. Dr. Burgelman has been on the faculty of Antwerp University, New York University, Harvard Business School (as a Marvin Bower Fellow), and Cambridge University (as a Visiting Professor of Marketing Strategy and Innovation at the Judge Business School). He has been elected a Fellow of the Strategic Management Society and a Fellow of the Academy of Management.

He has published many articles in leading academic and professional journals, as well as some 150 case studies of companies and organizations in many different industries. His books include Inside Corporate Innovation: Strategy, Structure, and Managerial Skills (Free Press, 1986), Research of Technological Innovation, Management and Policy (JIA Press, Elsevier; Volume 4, 1989; Volume 5, 1993; Volume 6, 1997; and Volume 7, 2001), Strategy is Destiny: How Strategy-Making Shapes a Company's Future (Free Press, 2002), Strategic Dynamics: Concepts and Cases (McGraw-Hill, 2006), Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation (5th edition, McGraw-Hill-Irwin, 2009), and Becoming Hewlett Packard: Why Strategic Leadership Matters (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). Dr. Burgelman has served as an Associate Editor of the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 2007-2014. He has served as the Executive Director of the Stanford Executive Program (SEP) during 1996-2015, and has taught executive programs and led senior and top management seminars for major companies worldwide. He has also served on boards of directors and boards of advisors of several private companies.

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CHUN-YEN CHANG
President, National Chiao Tung University-Taiwan

Dr. Chun-Yen Chang is the President of National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. He received his BSEE degree from the National Chenk Kung University (NCKU), and MS and Ph.D. degrees from the National Chiao Tung University (NCTU). Prior to his current position, he served as a research fellow at Bell Labs, a professor at NCKU, the dean of research, dean of engineering and dean of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at NCTU. He also was the founding Director of National Nano-Device Labs in Taiwan.

In addition to his presidency at NCTU, Dr. Chang holds several other positions and affiliations including Foreign Associate of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, member of Academia Sinica of the Republic of China, National Chair Professor, National Policy Advisor to the Office of the President of the Republic of China, and Science and Technology Advisor to the Executive Yuan of the Republic of China.

Dr. Chang started his research on semiconductors in 1960, and established the first Semiconductor Research Center in the R.O.C. in 1964. Later, he also established the National Nano-Device Research Laboratory for leading-edge research on nano devices.

His research in semiconductor devices and key inventions have made significant contributions to the field. Among his major inventions are the method of low pressure MOCVD using triethyl Gallium, Zn incorporation, boron penetration and nitridation in silicon dioxide, and modulation doped-based transistor.
Dr. Chang has received 26 patents in the U.S. and in Taiwan and has published over 300 papers. He is the author of the book Made by Taiwan, promoting the idea of innovation and creativity for the future of Taiwan as a world leader in technology.

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MORRIS CHANG
 Founding Chairman, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. (TSMC)—Taiwan

Morris Chang has been the founding Chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. (TSMC) since 1987. TSMC pioneered the “dedicated silicon foundry” industry and is the largest silicon foundry in the world.

Prior to his career in Taiwan, Dr. Chang’s career was in the United States. He was the President and Chief Operating Officer of General Instrument Corporation from 1984-1985, and prior to that, he was at Texas Instruments for 25 years (1958-1983), where he was responsible for TI’s worldwide semiconductor business for six years.

Dr. Chang received his B. S. and M. S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. in 1952 and 1953, and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford in 1964. He received honorary doctorates from Chiao-Tung University, Ching-Hua University, and Central University in Taiwan, and the Polytechnic University in the U.S.

Dr. Chang was selected by Fortune Magazine as Asia’s Power 25 in 2003; by Time Magazine and CNN as Top 25 of the Most Influential CEOs in 2001; by Investor Relations Magazine as the Best IR Officer in 2001. He was the recipient of the 2005 Nikkei Asia Prize, the IEEE Robert N. Noyce Award in 2000 for exceptional contributions to the microelectronics industry, and the “Exemplary Leadership Award” of the Fabless Semiconductor Association (FSA) in 1999. He was selected by Business Week as one of the “Top 25 Managers of the year” and “Stars of Asia” in 1998; by Common Wealth Magazine as one of “The Most Admired Entrepreneurs” since 1999, and by BancAmerica Robertson Stephens as “One of The Most Significant Contributors in the 50 years of Semiconductor Industry” in 1998.

Dr. Chang is a member of MIT Corporation and the National Academy of Engineering (US); he is on the advisory boards of NYSE, Stanford University, and University of California at Berkeley.

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TAO-MING CHENG
President, Chaoyang University of Technology (CYUT), Taiwan

Dr. Tao-ming Cheng currently is the President of Chaoyang University of Technology (CYUT), Taiwan, and a Professor at the Department of Construction Engineering. He received his Ph.D. in 1996 from the School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University, USA. His research interests include construction ergonomics, construction operations modeling and higher education management. Professor Cheng is the Arbitrator of the Republic of China (ROC). He serves as a Chairman of Accreditation in IEET and is a member of several committees such as Engineering Education Certification; TAC Accreditation; and Higher Education Accreditation and Supervision. Professor Cheng has published more than 100 research articles in indexed journals and conferences in the last decade. He mentors the International Journal of Applied Science and Technology (Scopus) and also reviews papers for several SCI journals.

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HENRY W. CHESBROUGH
Professor and Faculty Director, Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation, UC Berkeley-Haas School of Business, USA

Dr. Henry Chesbrough is best known as "the father of Open Innovation". He is Professor and Faculty Director at Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation and teaches at the Haas School of Business at the University of California-Berkeley. He is also a professor of Information Systems at Esade Business School.

Dr. Chesbrough has written books such as Open Innovation (Harvard Business School Press, 2003), Open Business Models (Harvard Business School Press, 2006), and Open Services Innovation (Jossey-Bass, 2011). He has been recognized as one of the leading business thinkers by Thinkers50. He received an Innovation Luminary award from the European Commission and Intel in 2014. He also received the Industrial Research Institute Medal of Achievement in 2017 and has two honorary doctorates.

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YOUNGRAK CHOI
Chairman, Korea Research Council of Public Science & Technology (KORP)-South Korea

Dr. Youngrak Choi is Chairman of the Korea Research Council of Public Science & Technology (KORP). From 2002-2005 he was the president of STEPI (Science & Technology Policy Institute) in South Korea. He was the president of the Korean Society for Technology Management and Economics (KOSTME) from 2002-2003, and from 1999-200 he was the Vice President of STEPI. From 1997-1998 he was the head of the Dept. of Policy and Planning at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST). Dr. Choi received a B.S. in Forestry from Seoul National University; an M.A. in Public Administration from Seoul National University; and a Ph.D. in Public Administration from Roskilde University in Denmark. He is the President of the Korean Society for Technology Management & Economics and a member of the Presidential Advisory Council for Science & Technology.

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Richard M. Cyert
Professor of Management and Economics
Carnegie Mellon University-USA

Richard M. Cyert became Carnegie Mellon University's (CMU) sixth president in 1972 and retired from this presidency in June 1990. He then became president of the Carnegie-Bosch Institute to study and improve international management.

Through his leadership, CMU became financially solvent, strengthened its educational programs and significantly expanded its research and enhanced its reputation as one of the nation's leading educational and research institutions. After three years as President, he was described by the New York Times as "the archetype of the new breed of leaders in American universities...an economist and management theorist"

A director and consultant for numerous businesses, state and federal governments, and nonprofit associations, he was head of a statewide group selected to review Pennsylvania's tax laws and was honored frequently for his leadership role in the economic revitalization of western Pennsylvania.

He joined the CMU faculty as an instructor of economics in 1948; rose through the ranks to professor of economics and industrial administration; and was appointed Dean of the Business School in 1962. Under his direction, the "management game" for business education was developed and expanded. It is now a model for other schools and used extensively throughout the USA, Europe and Middle East. He was appointed the University's president after 10 years as Dean of CMU’s Graduate School of Industrial Administration.

Dr. Cyert received a B.S. from the University of Minnesota in 1943 before joining the U.S. Navy during World War II. He did his graduate work in economics at Columbia University following the War, but while he was there he studied statistics with many of the best statisticians who were on the faculty at the time, and thus became a specialist in statistics as well as economics. When he came to the then Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1948, it was to teach statistics in accounting and auditing. Cyert pioneered the application of statistical methods in this area and in addition to several research articles on the topic, he co-authored books with R.M. Trueblood (1957) and H.J. Davidson (1962) on the topic. He was elected as a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1973, largely for this work.

Dr. Cyert was a consultant in economics and management science in Belgium, Germany and Australia. He received honorary doctorates from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, the University of Leuven, Belgium, and from several colleges in the USA.

In 1990 Dr. Cyert was elected and inducted into the World Level of the Hall of Fame for Engineering, Science and Technology. He was the author or co-author of 12 books and wrote more than 100 articles for professional journals and books. He died on October 7, 1998, at the age of 77.

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Gideon de Wet
Professor Emeritus, University of Pretoria - South Africa

Dr Gideon de Wet’s formal academic qualifications are the degrees BSc B.Eng (Electron) and PhD Eng., awarded by the University Stellenbosch in South Africa. Post-graduate studies include the Diploma in Digital Electronics, Philips International Institute for Technological Studies, Eindhoven, Netherlands; Advanced Course in Control Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK; Advanced Executive Programme, University of South Africa; MOT Summer School, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He has published a number of professional papers and presented papers at several international conferences.

He has been involved in the management of technology for many years. He was the founder manager of the Institute for Maritime Technology (IMT) in Simon’s Town. As General Manager: Research at Armscor, he played a significant part in the creation and operation of the technology development and management system of the defense community during the 1980s. He was the first incumbent of the Chair for Engineering Management at the University of Pretoria, where he taught management of technology and entrepreneurship at postgraduate level for more than 10 years. As a director of LGI and Technotron Pty Ltd., he participated in the establishment of a number of high-tech ventures. He was also the first Director: Intellectual Capital of DataFusion (Pty) Ltd. He has served on the boards of directors of several high-tech companies, several times as chairperson.

He started the Policy Studies Unit at CSIR, and expanded his field of interest to the level of the national innovation system and science and technology policy. This included participation in activities in countries like Chile, Mauritius and New Zealand and consultation for the United Nations’ Economic Commission for Africa.

Although he is officially retired, he still undertakes consulting work and teaching. He was invited to teach at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch as Visiting Erskine Fellow on two occasions, the most recent being August to December 2006.

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KATHLEEN EISENHARDT
W. Ascherman Professor, Stanford University, and Co-Director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, Stanford University, USA

Dr. Kathleen M. Eisenhardt is the Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Strategy and Organization at Stanford University and co-director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. Her recent best-selling book (with Don Sull) is Strategy as Simple Rules, named a ’top 10 summer read’ by the Wall Street Journal. Dr. Eisenhardt’s research sits at the nexus of strategy and organization theory where she focuses on high-velocity markets and technology-based firms. She is now studying strategy in distinct economic ’games’ and strategy as simple rules, particularly using multi-case methods. Her PhD is from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.

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CARLETON S. (CARLY) FIORINA
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Hewlett-Packard Company-USA
 

Carleton S. (Carly) Fiorina is chairman and chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard Company. HP is a leading global provider of computing and imaging solutions and services and is focused on making technology and its benefits accessible to all.

Since joining HP in July 1999, Fiorina has led HP’s reinvention as a company that makes the Internet work for businesses and consumers. Under her leadership, HP has returned to its roots of innovation and inventiveness and is focused on delivering the best total customer experience.

Prior to joining HP, Fiorina spent nearly 20 years at AT&T and Lucent Technologies, where she held a number of senior leadership positions in sales and marketing. As president of Lucent’s Global Service Provider Business, she expanded the company’s international business and spearheaded the planning and execution of its initial public offering and subsequent spin-off from AT&T.

Fiorina holds a bachelor’s degree in medieval history and philosophy from Stanford University; a master’s degree in business administration from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland at College Park, Md.; and a master’s of science degree from MIT’s Sloan School.

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Andrew S. Grove
Chairman of the Board
INTEL CORPORATION-USA

Andrew S. Grove was named Chairman of the Board of Intel Corporation in May 1997. From 1987 to 1998 he served as the company's CEO, and from 1979 to 1997 he served as President. Prior to participating in the founding of Intel in 1968 with Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, he worked as the Assistant Director of Research and Development for Fairchild Semiconductor.

Andrew S. Grove was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1936. He graduated from the City College of New York in 1960 with a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering degree and received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1963. Upon graduation, he joined the Research and Development Laboratory of Fairchild Semiconductor and became Assistant Director of Research and Development in 1967.

Dr. Grove has written over 40 technical papers and holds several patents on semiconductor devices and technology. For six years he taught a graduate course in semiconductor device physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He currently is a lecturer at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, teaching a course entitled "Strategy and Action in the Information Processing Industry."

Dr. Grove has received many honorary academic degrees, including an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the City College of New York (1985), an honorary Doctor of Engineering degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (1989) and an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Harvard University (2000).

His first book, Physics and Technology of Semiconductor Devices (John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1967), has been used at many leading universities in the United States. His book High Output Management (Random House, 1983 and Vintage, 1985) has been translated into eleven languages, and has recently been updated and reissued by Vintage Books. His book titled One-on-One With Andy Grove, was published by G.P. Putnam's Sons in June, 1987 and Penguin in 1989. His book Only the Paranoid Survive was published by Doubleday in 1996. His latest book, Swimming Across, was published in November, 2001 by Time Warner Books. An author of articles in Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times, he has written a weekly column on management which was carried by several newspapers, and a column on management for Working Woman magazine.

Dr. Grove has been elected a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He is the recipient of many industry awards, including the IEEE Engineering Leadership Recognition award (1987), and the AEA Medal of Achievement award (1993). In 1997 he received the "Technology Leader of the Year" award from Industry Week, the "CEO of the Year" award from CEO magazine, and "Man of the Year" award from Time magazine. In 1998 Dr. Grove was named "Distinguished Executive of the Year" by the Academy of Management, and received the IEEE 2000 Medal of Honor award. In 2001, he was named as the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Strategic Management Society.

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BACHARUDDIN JUSUF HABIBIE
 Former President, Indonesia; Founder and Chairman, The Habibie Center—Indonesia

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. Sc. h.c. Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie was born in 1936 in Pare-pare (South Sulawesi) Indonesia. On March 11, 1998, the People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR) elected and installed B. J. Habibie as the seventh Vice President of the Republic of Indonesia. On May 21, l998, he took the oath of office as third President of The Republic of Indonesia. Under his leadership, Indonesia succeeded not only in conducting the first free and fair General Elections in 1999 but also succeeded in bringing about significant changes towards democratizing and reforming Indonesia.

In 1955 B.J.Habibie studied at the Technische Hochscule, Aachen, Germany. In 1960 he earned his Diplom-Ingenieur with cum laude at the Department of Aircraft Design and Construction, and earned his Doctor Ingenieur with summa cum laude at the same institution in 1965. He started his career in Germany by becoming the Head of Research and Development of Structure Analysis in the Hamburger Flugzeugbau Gmbh, Hamburg, Germany (1965 - 1969); Vice President and Technology Director MBB Gmbh, Hamburg and Munchen (1973 - 1978), and Technology Senior Advisor to the MBB Board of Directors (1978).

In 1978 he was appointed Minister of State for Research and Technology and, concurrently, head of the Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT). He maintained this job for five terms of office during Development Cabinet, until 1998. He was appointed as Chairman of the Indonesian Moslem Intellectuals Association (ICMI) in 1990. He is president of the Islamic International Forum for Science, Technology and Human Resources Development (IIFTIHAR) since 1997; founder and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of The Habibie Center (THC) since 1999. In 2001, he became a member of the Board of Founders of the Muslim World League (Rabithah ‘Alam Islami) and in 2000 he became a member of InterAction Council (IAC) since 2000. B.J Habibie has 17 National and 16 International medals and decorations.

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GUNNAR HAMBREAUS
Member, Swedish Royal Academy of Science; Former President and Chairman, Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences—Sweden

Dr. Gunnar Hambreaus was born in 1919. He received his MSc. from Uppsala University, M.Eng. S from Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and Dr.Eng.S, hon. from Chalmers Technical University in Gothenburg. He served as secretary in the Swedish Technical Research Council from 1946 to 1953, as editor in chief of the leading technical periodical in Sweden (Teknisk Tidskrift) from 1953 to 1970, as the president of Swedish Technical Press AB and finally as the president and chairman of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences from 1971 to 1985. He worked for Swedish industry as a member and in some cases chairman in the Board of Directors of some 20 leading Swedish companies e.g Volvo, Bofors, Pharmacia, Hasselblad and others. Presently Dr. Hambreaus chairs the Scandinavia-Japan Sasakawa Foundation and the Sweden-Algeria Mixed Commission as well as several Price Juries. As a member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Science he takes part in the election of Nobel Laureates in Physics, Chemistry and Economics. He is a member of many learned societies and academies inside and outside Sweden. He is proud to carry decorations from the Swedish King and his Parliament as well as orders from Sweden, France, Germany, Japan, Spain and Australia.

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SHINJIRO IWATA
Advisor to Hitachi Ltd., Japan

Mr. Shinjiro Iwata Advisor to Hitachi Ltd. He retired in April after serving as the Representative Executive Officer, Executive Vice President, Executive Officer, and Chief Transformation Officer. Mr. Iwata began his career with Hitachi Ltd. in 1972, when he joined the Overseas Business Department. Working his way up through various positions, in 1996 he became manager of Business Planning Department for the Information Systems Group. He joined Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) in 1997 as Executive Vice President. After improving the performance of HDS, he became CEO of the company in 2001. In 2006 he became CMO of the newly established Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, where he oversaw everything from manufacturing to front-line sales. Later acting as EVP, he implemented sweeping management reforms, putting HGST's business firmly back on track. In 2009, he returned to Hitachi Ltd. as Vice President and Executive Officer, CEO of Service & Global Business, Information & Telecommunication Systems. In the following years, Mr. Iwata strengthened the overseas divisions of ICT, later becoming Senior Vice President, and further contributing to the expansion of business. In 2013 he became Representative Executive Officer, and worked on management reform of the entire Hitachi Group. Mr. Iwata's firmly believes in nimble management making use of data, and efficient waste-free management. In order to implement this policy, Mr. Iwata also acted as CIO for integration of Hitachi's internal ICT systems and a leader of the End-to-End Supply Chain Project. Most recently, Mr. Iwata served as Director of the Hitachi Smart Transformation Project Initiatives Division, which is reforming the structures of the entire Hitachi Group. Since 2012, he has also been a visiting professor at Tsukuba University.

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MICHAEL JOSEPH
Director of Mobile Money, Vodafone Group Services Limited, UK; and Fellow, the World Bank

Michael Joseph is employed by Vodafone Group Services Limited as the director of Mobile Money and is responsible for leading the strategic growth and development of the successful M-Pesa proposition. Michael is also Vodafone's Strategic Advisor appointed to the Boards of Vodacom Group South Africa, Vodacom Tanzania, Vodacom Mozambique and Safaricom Limited. He was appointed in March 2011 as the first World Bank Fellow to advise governments, regulators and other institutions on Mobile Money and other ICT initiatives. Previously, Michael was the CEO of Safaricom Limited, steering the company from a subscriber base of less than 20,000 to over 16.71 million subscribers at his retirement in November 2010. This phenomenal growth straddling nearly a decade was motored by the launch of many innovative products and services such as M-PESA. He has extensive international experience in company start-ups and the implementation and operation of large wireless and wire-line networks.

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HAROLD A. LINSTONE
Editor-in-chief, Technological Forecasting and Social Change; University Professor Emeritus, Systems Science, Portland State University, USA

Dr. Harold A. Linstone earned his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Mathematics from Columbia University and the University of Southern California, respectively. He now holds the rank of University Professor Emeritus of Systems Science at Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, USA. From 1970 to 1977 he served as director of its Systems Science Ph.D. Program. His 22 years of industrial experience include positions at Hughes Aircraft Company and Lockheed Corporation, where he was Associate Director of Corporate Planning—Systems Analysis. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Rome, the University of Washington, and Kiel University. In 1993-94 he served as president of the International Society for the Systems Sciences, and in 2003 he won the World Future Society’s Distinguished Service Award.
Dr. Linstone is editor-in-chief of the professional journal Technological Forecasting and Social Change, which he founded in 1969, and which is now in its 38th year. He is author or co-author of the books The Delphi Method (1975), Futures Research: New Directions (1976), Technological Substitution (1977), Multiple Perspectives for Decision Making (1984), The Unbounded Mind (1993), The Challenge of the 21st Century (1994), and Decision Making for Technology Executives (1999).

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JOHN R. MCDOUGALL
President of National Research Council, Canada

Mr. John R. McDougall President of National Research Council, Canada Mr. John McDougall, born and raised in Edmonton, Canada, was appointed as NRC's President in April 2010 following 12 years as President and CEO of the Alberta Research Council when he also founded and chaired Innoventures Canada, bringing together Canada's leading research and technology organizations. His career began as a petroleum engineer, and then quickly evolved into the ownership and management of an international engineering consulting firm and subsequently a private merchant bank. From 1991 to 1997, he was the first Poole Chair in Management for Engineers, a leadership position within the University of Alberta. He has held leadership positions with some of Canada's most innovative research and manufacturing businesses, research consortia and not-for-profit organizations and with numerous professional and business organizations. He has served on advisory boards and committees at provincial, federal and international levels. Mr. McDougall has been recognized by organizations including the Canadian Academy of Engineers, Engineers Canada, Mexican College of Civil Engineers and PICMET. He has a B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from the University of Alberta, and completed several postgraduate courses in Environmental Engineering.

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THOMAS L. MAGNANTI
President, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore; and Institute Professor and former Dean of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA

Thomas Magnanti is the founding President of the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), and Institute Professor and former Dean of Engineering at MIT. He has devoted much of his professional career to education that combines engineering and management, and to teaching and research in applied and theoretical aspects of large-scale optimization. Professor Magnanti has a long association with programs in technology and in the management of technology.

At SUTD, he has led the development of a university whose mission is to advance knowledge and nurture technically grounded leaders and innovators to serve societal needs through a focus on design and an integrated multidisciplinary curriculum and multi-disciplinary research.

At MIT he was the founding co-director of MIT's Leaders for Manufacturing and System Design and Management Programs, and founding director of the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART). As Dean, he was instrumental in creating the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation and was a strong advocate and supporter of programs in entrepreneurship such as the MIT 100K competition. He also headed one third of the Sloan School of Management for several years.

He has served as president of three major professional societies and as editor of the journal Operations Research. He has also served on a number of university, corporate and government boards and councils.

Professor Magnanti has received numerous educational and research awards including four honorary degrees. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has an undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from Syracuse University, and masters' degrees in Statistics and in Mathematics as well as a Ph.D. in Operations Research, all from Stanford University.

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MODESTO A. MAIDIQUE
President, Florida International University-USA

Modesto A. Maidique is the 4th president of Florida International University (FIU), a member of the State University System of Florida and the fastest growing research university in the United States. The university, known for its strong engineering and business programs, offers more than 200 degree programs from the baccalaureate to the doctoral level and has been cited seven times in U.S. News & World Report's annual ranking of “America's Best Colleges.”

During his tenure at FIU, Dr. Maidique has presided over the establishment of the Schools of Architecture and Law, initiated the football program, and doubled enrollment to over 32,000 students today. In addition, sponsored research has increased more than seven-fold to $58.8 million, while endowment quintupled. In the year 2000, the university achieved the highest research rank given by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and was granted the third Phi Beta Kappa chapter for a public university in Florida.

A graduate of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D.) and the Harvard Business School (PMD) program, Dr. Maidique has taught at both of his alma maters and at Stanford University. He is a world renowned authority on the management of high technology enterprises. For more than two decades -- for institutions including the White House, Harvard and IBM -- Dr. Maidique has provided counsel on critical management and educational issues impacting our nation.

Throughout his career in both the corporate and academic worlds, Dr. Maidique has been involved with high technology firms in a variety of capacities: as an executive in established and entrepreneurial high technology firms; as a consultant, lecturer, and director for multinational high technology giants; and as professor and lecturer at leading universities in the U.S. and abroad.

In 1970, Dr. Maidique co-founded a semiconductor company now accounts for most of the sales of Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI), a $1.2 billion manufacturer of integrated circuits. He also served as president and CEO of Genome Therapeutics, a genetic engineering company, and as a general partner of Hambrecht & Quist, a venture capital firm. He has consulted and lectured for major American firms including IBM, Rockwell International, Honeywell, and Texas Instruments.

Dr. Maidique is the author of numerous articles in academic journals, a contributing author to ten books, and a co-author of Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation, a textbook now in its third edition, which is used at more than 100 colleges and universities. An article he co-authored, “The Art of HighTechnology Management,” is one of the best selling articles published in the Sloan Management Review. He is also the co-author of Energy Future, a New York Times best seller on energy policy.

In 1989, former President George H. W. Bush appointed Dr. Maidique to the President's Educational Policy Advisory Committee. He also serves on the boards of National Semiconductor and Carnival Corporation, is Vice Chairman of the Miami Business Forum, and is past chairman of The Beacon Council, Miami's economic development authority. In 2000, President-elect George W. Bush appointed Dr. Maidique to the President’s Education Advisory Committee.

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MANDY J. MOCK
VP Information Technology Group (former), Intel Corporation, USA

Ms. Mandy J. Mock is the vice president in the Information Technology group and served as the general manager of product engineering solutions at Intel Corporation. She leads the product engineering solutions IT team, which provides Intel's product development teams with innovative IT solutions and support for greater efficiency and faster design and production cycles. Ms. Mock has held leadership positions in Intel's IT group since 2010, capping a two-decade career at the company. Before assuming her current role in 2016, she spent two years as director of financial information systems, leading the team charged with providing IT solutions for Intel's Finance organization. She joined the IT group as director of flex services, a business unit that provides burst capacity resources for software development to Intel's product teams. She joined Intel in 1995 after receiving her bachelor's degree in electrical and computer engineering and French from Carnegie Mellon University. She went on to earn a master's degree in computer science from the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology and her MBA degree from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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ROBERT JT MORRIS
VP Global Labs, IBM Research, USA

Dr. Robert JT Morris is Vice President, Global Labs, IBM Research, where he is responsible for IBM Research Laboratories in China, India, Japan, Brazil, Australia and Africa. He leads these labs from the IBM Growth Market headquarters in Shanghai. From 2006-2011 he led Services Research across IBM from the TJ Watson Research Center in New York, and from 2004-2006 he led the transformation of IBM's services business to become technology-asset or IP-based.

From 1999-2004, he was the director of the IBM Almaden Research Center, a hub of applied research in computer, physical and behavioral sciences. Dr. Morris was also concurrently vice president for Personal Systems and Storage Research at IBM. During this period the field of "services science" was initiated by IBM Research and developed working closely with university, industry and government partners. Earlier, he was a director at the IBM TJ Watson Research lab in New York, where he led teams in systems research. Originally from Australia, he began his career at Bell Laboratories where he was involved in developing a number of networking and computing technologies.

Dr. Morris was chairman of the Bay Area Science and Innovation Consortium (BASIC) from 2002-2005, an organization consisting of the heads of major research institutions in Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area. He has been a member of the National Academies' Government University Industry Research Roundtable, an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Computers, he has published more than 50 articles on computer science, electrical engineering, and mathematics, and he has received 11 patents. He is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology, a Fellow of the IEEE, and is on a number of advisory boards for leading universities and governments labs.

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TSUNEO NAKAHARA
Adviser to CEO (past Vice Chairman) of Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.-Japan

Since joining Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., in 1953, Dr. Tsuneo Nakahara has been a major force in the conception, design and manufacturing of optical fiber and cables. Under his guidance, the company developed the vapor phase axial deposition optical fiber manufacturing technology, which has become the standard in Japan and is one of the top three fiber manufacturing processes worldwide. His team also designed extremely low-Ioss optical fiber with pure silica as the core and fluorine in the clad. This technology was widely used for undersea long-distance cables. He also has been a leader of important research into multi-count optical fiber, leaky coaxial cable, milliwave and beam waveguide, and more. An executive advisor to the CEO of Sumitomo Electric Industries. Ltd., Dr. Nakahara holds nearly 300 patents in the United States and Japan combined, and has published over 100 papers. He has received numerous awards, including an IEEE Third Millennium Medal, the Okabe Memorial Award from the Institute of Electronics and Communications Engineers of Japan, and the Blue Ribbon Medal from the Emperor of Japan. Dr. Nakahara won the 2002 IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal “For pioneering work on the design and development of manufacturing systems for optical fibers.” In recognition of his contribution to relations between the United Kingdom and Japan, Dr Nakahara was appointed an Honorary Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, by her majesty Queen Elizabeth II. He has been the CEO of the Nakahara Research Institute, Ltd. since 2006.

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YOSHIO NISHI
Director of Research of the Stanford Center for Integrated Systems; Director of the Stanford Nanofabrication Facility; and Research Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, USA

Dr. Yoshio Nishi is Director of Research of the Stanford Center for Integrated Systems, Director of the Stanford Nanofabrication Facility, and a Research Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University.

He received his B.S. degree in metallurgy from Waseda University in 1962 and his Ph.D. degree in electronics engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1973. In 1962 he joined Toshiba Corporation, where he worked on silicon process research and development. From 1968 to 1969 he was a visiting Research Associate at the Stanford Electronics Laboratories, working on high-field transport in semiconductors and materials characterization of GaAs. In 1969 he returned to Toshiba and supervised the nonvolatile memory R&D activity, working on the development of the world's first MNOS nonvolatile static memories. In 1976 he was responsible for theoretical and experimental studies of short-channel MOSFETs in the MITI VLSI project, as well as management of the SOS technology group at Toshiba, developing the 16bitSOS processor for medical information processing. In 1979 he directed work on VLSI process technology R&D for both memory and logic VLSI, where his team developed the world’s first 1Mbit CMOS DRAM, 256kbit CMOS SRAM and 1M/4Mbit EEPROM, predecessor of Flash memory, which led Toshiba to become the leading manufacturer of DRAM and EEPROM in that era.

In 1986 Dr. Nishi joined HP Labs as Director of the Silicon Process Laboratory, where he led the team to build HP's first converged CMOS technology at 0.8 micron geometry used in HP RISC Processor, PA-RISC chip sets. In 1994 he established and became Director of the ULSI Research Laboratory. Dr. Nishi joined Texas Instruments in 1995 as Vice President and Director of Research and Development for the Semiconductor Group. In 1996, he was appointed Senior VP, responsible for R&D activities for digital signal processing solutions, semiconductor processes and devices, memory, as well as components and materials. His contributions throughout his tenure in industry cover not only leading-edge technology development, but also an R&D model and strategy for consecutive developments of technologies of multiple nodes with co-located R&D and manufacturing with two staggering teams and broad deployment of “precompetitive collaboration and benchmarking,” which is now commonly accepted world-wide.

In 2002 Dr. Nishi joined Stanford University as a faculty member in Electrical Engineering, and, by courtesy, in Material Science and Engineering. His research and teaching interest at Stanford covers nanoelectronic materials and devices such as metal gate/high k/high mobility channel MISFETs, resistance change nonvolatile memory, nanowires and nanotube-based devices with his Ph.D. students. He serves several companies as either board member or technical advisory board member, and he is also guest professor of several universities such as Tsinghua University and Peking University.

Professor Nishi has published over 200 papers in international technical journals and conferences and has co-authored 12 books. He has been awarded more than 50 patents in the U.S. and Japan. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, and he is a member of the Japan Society of Applied Physics; Institute of Electronics, Communication Engineers of Japan; and the Electrochemical Society. He received the IECE Japan Award in 1972, and IR100 awards in 1982 and 1986 for nonvolatile memory productization. In 1995, he received the IEEE Jack A. Morton Award. He is also the 2002 Robert Noyce Medal recipient.

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MEHMET NIMET OZDAS
Dept. of Mechanical and Control Engineering, Istanbul Technical University-Turkey

Prof. Dr. Ozdas served as the Founding Director of the Computer Centre in 1961; Founding Secretary General of the Turkish Scientific Council (TUBITAK) from 1964-1966; Science Board Member of TUBITAK from 1968-1972; Founding Director of Marmara Scientific and Industrial Research; President of the NATO Science Committee from 1973-1979; Board Member of Von Karman Institute and steering Committee Member of AGARD in 1973; Minister of State for Science and Technology from 1980-1983; and Professor at Istanbul Technical University, Department of Mechanical and Control Engineering, since then. He graduated from the Mechanical Engineering Faculty, Technical University, in 1946, with a Diploma in Engineering, then obtained the Diploma of the Imperial College, 1950; and Ph.D. from London University in 1951. He conducted a project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1953 and served as an MIT Research Fellow from 1955-1956; then as a visiting Professor at Case Western Reserve University from 1953-1959; and became a professor at Istanbul Technical University in 1961. Prof. Ozdas is a member of Sigma Xi; President of the Turkish Organization for Automatic Control; and the author of several articles and books in various languages.

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Dr. M. Elisabeth Paté-Cornell
Department of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University, USA

Dr. Marie-Elisabeth Paté-Cornell is the Burt and Deedee McMurtry Professor in the School of Engineering and a Senior Fellow (by courtesy) of the Stanford Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies. Her specialty is engineering risk analysis, with applications to complex systems (space, medical, offshore oil platforms, cyber security, etc.). Her work has been based on probabilistic and stochastic models and on Artificial Intelligence. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the French Académie des Technologies, the NASA Advisory Council, and a Distinguished Visiting Scientist of the Jet Propulsion Lab. She was a member of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (2001 to 2008). She holds a BS in Mathematics and Physics, Marseille (France), an Engineering degree (Applied Math/CS) from the Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble (France), an MS in Operations Research (OR) and a PhD in Engineering-Economic Systems (EES), both from Stanford University. She is the author or coauthor of numerous publications including several Best Paper awards. She was awarded the 2002 Distinguished Achievement Award of the Society for Risk Analysis (of which she is a Fellow), the INFORMS Ramsey Medal of Decision Analysis (2010), an Honorary PhD from the University of Strathclyde (2016), and the IEEE Ramo medal for Systems Engineering and Science in 2021.

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KWAN RIM
Chairman, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)-South Korea

Dr. Kwan Rim is the Chairman of Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT), the central research laboratory of the Samsung Group. He received his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 1958 and Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics in 1960, both from Northwestern University in the USA.

In 1960 he joined the Department of Mechanics and Hydraulics of the University of Iowa and was an engineering faculty member there until 1995. At the University of Iowa he was Chairman of the Department of Mechanics and Hydraulics (1971-74), Associate Dean of Engineering (1974-79), Chairman of the Division of Materials Engineering (1978-84), and Chairman of the Department of Biomedical Engineering (1984-90). He is the founder of the Biomedical Engineering Program at Iowa as well as the Iowa Institute of Biomedical Engineering.

Dr. Rim held the U.S. National Science Foundation’s SEED (Scientists and Engineers for Economic Development) Professorship in 1976-77, served as the President of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) from 1982 to 1984, and as a visiting professor in Japan in 1992. He has also served on the boards of directors of numerous educational and research institutes. He was the 1992 recipient of the Outstanding Biomedical Engineering Educator Award from the American Society for Engineering Education. He also served on the President’s Council on Science and Technology of the Republic of Korea.

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EDWARD B. ROBERTS
David Sarnoff Professor of the Management of Technology; Chair, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Entrepreneurship Center-USA

A long-time expert on entrepreneurial endeavors, Edward Roberts has literally written the book on high-tech business creation and growth. His Entrepreneurs in High-Technology: Lessons from MIT and Beyond (Oxford University Press, 1991) won the Association of American Publishers Award for Outstanding Book in Business and Management. Roberts is Founder and Chair of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center, and for over 30 years chaired the Sloan School’s Management of Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group. He co-founded and co-chaired for nearly 20 years the mid-career MIT Management of Technology (MOT) Program. Over the past 40 years, Dr. Roberts has become internationally known for his research, teaching and active involvement in many aspects of technology management, including technology strategy, corporate venturing, product innovation management, and technology-based entrepreneurship. He served as co-director of the MIT International Center for Research on the Management of Technology. When not occupied with his MIT responsibilities, Roberts is actively involved as a co-founder, board member and angel investor in many high-tech start-ups. Dr. Roberts co-founded and was CEO of Pugh-Roberts Associates, an international management consulting firm specializing in system dynamics, strategic planning and technology management, now a division of PA Consulting Group. He co-founded and is a director of Medical Information Technology, Inc., a leading producer of healthcare information systems, and also co-founded and is a director of Sohu.com, Inc., a leading Chinese internet firm. In addition, Roberts co-founded and was for 20 years a General Partner of the Zero Stage Capital and First Stage Capital Equity Funds, a group of venture capital funds investing in early-stage technology-based firms. He has been a co-founder and/or director of numerous emerging technology companies, including at present Advanced Magnetics, Pegasystems, PR Restaurants and Interactive Super Computers. Professor Roberts has authored 160 articles and 11 books, the most recent being Innovation: Driving Product, Process and Market Change (Jossey-Bass/Wiley, 2002). Roberts has four degrees from MIT in electrical engineering (B.S. and M.S.), management (M.S.), and economics (Ph.D.).

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MELISSA SCHILLING
Professor, Stern School of Business, New York University, New York, USA

Dr. Melissa Schilling is John Herzog Family Professor of Management at New York University Stern School of Management. She specializes in Strategic Management, Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Her B.S. degree in Business Administration with majors in Finance, Marketing and Biology is from the University of Colorado, Boulder; her PhD in Strategic Management is from the University of Washington. She is the winner of the Best Paper Award for her paper in Management Science and Organization Science, and the recipient of numerous research grants from Kauffman Foundation, National Science Foundation and other funding agencies. Dr. Schilling is the author of more than 200 papers, book chapters, cases and conference presentations. Her most recent book, Quirky: The remarkable story of the traits, foibles, and genius of breakthrough innovators that changed the world, is a deep dive into the lives of Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Marie Curie, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein and Dean Kamen. It shows the unusual things they had in common, how these characteristics led to innovation, and how we can nurture our own breakthrough innovation potential.

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DONNA SHIRLEY
Assistant Dean of Engineering for Advanced Program Development,
University of Oklahoma
Former Manager, Mars Exploration Program-USA

Donna Shirley is currently Assistant Dean of Engineering for Advanced Program Development at the University of Oklahoma, where she is participating in strategic planning and the development of new educational initiatives. She is also the official Spokesperson for the Mars Millennium Project, an international, K through 12 educational initiative sponsored by the White House MillenNium Council, the Department of Education, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the J. Paul Getty Trust.

In addition to three honorary doctorates, Ms. Shirley has a BS (University of Oklahoma) and MS (University of Southern California) in Aerospace Engineering, and a BA in Journalism (University of Oklahoma). She has over 35 years of experience in the aerospace industry, including more than 25 years in management. Her honors include the NASA Exceptional Leadership Medal; The American Society Of Mechanical Engineers Holley Award; and membership in the American Academy of Achievement, the Women In Technology International Hall Of Fame, and the Oklahoma Aviation and Space Hall Of Fame. She retired in 1998 from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory where she was manager of the Mars Exploration Program.

The Mars Exploration Program - which was begun in 1994 with the highly successful Mars Global Surveyor and Mars Pathfinder missions - is sending orbiters, landers and/or rovers to Mars in every opportunity (every 26 months) through at least 2005, despite the loss of two missions in 1999. Prior to becoming manager of the program, Ms. Shirley managed the team which designed and built "Sojourner Truth,” the Microrover which was landed by the Mars Pathfinder project on the surface of Mars on July 4, 1997. Sojourner investigated the Martian surface for nearly three months - more than ten times its expected lifetime. In her 32-year career at JPL Ms. Shirley's positions included: Project Engineer for the Cassini mission to Saturn, Manager of Exploration Initiative Studies, Manager of Automation and Robotics, Manager of JPL's Space Station

Program, Manager of the Mission Design Section, and Project Engineer for the Mariner 10 mission to Venus and Mercury in 1974.

Between 1990 and 93, as a part-time assignment, she established and led a NASA-wide Systems Engineering Working Group which developed and documented a standard systems engineering process for NASA Projects. As an outgrowth of this, in the summer of 1991 she led another NASA-wide team on Program/Project Management which developed recommendations subsequently incorporated into the NASA Management Instruction for project management.

In addition to over 50 technical publications, she has written a book on Managing Creativity and has developed a class on that subject which is now offered at and through the University of Oklahoma in a variety of formats. She continues to be a widely sought-after speaker on subjects including Mars Exploration and Management, and has appeared in many national television news programs and documentaries. Broadway Books published her autobiography, titled Managing Martians, in 1998 and 1999.

Raised in Wynnewood, Oklahoma, Ms. Shirley now lives in Norman, Oklahoma. She has one daughter, Laura, who is a graduate student in psychology.

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