- Justin Rattner
Justin Rattner , 59, is vice president and chief technology officer (CTO). He is also an Intel Senior Fellow and head of the Corporate Technology Group. In the latter role, he directs Intel's global research efforts in microprocessors, systems, and communications including the company's disruptive research activity. In 1989, Rattner was named Scientist of the Year by R&D Magazine for his leadership in parallel and distributed computer architecture.
- Nathan Myhrvold
Nathan Myhrvold is chief executive officer and founder of Intellectual Ventures, a private firm focused on the funding, creation and commercialization of inventions. Before Intellectual Ventures, Myhrvold spent 14 years at Microsoft Corporation where he retired in May 2000 from his position as chief technology officer.
- Mary Lou Jepsen
- Padmasree Warrior
Padmasree Warrior is Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT) Warrior joined Motorola in 1984 and was appointed its CTO in 2003. Warrior is responsible for the Motorola’s $4.0 billion research and development investment and the efforts of 25,000 engineers. She is an external director on the Board of Corning Corporation (NYSE:GLW). She is one of the most elevated Indian women in the US technology sector.
- Greg Papadopoulos
Greg Papadopoulos, Ph.D. is the current Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Sun Microsystems. He is the creator and lead proponent for Redshift, a theory on whether technology markets are over or under-served by Moore's Law. Papadopoulos achieved a B.A. in systems science from the University of California, San Diego, …
- Steve Chen
Steve Shih Chen (born August 1978 in Taiwan) is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of the popular video sharing website YouTube. Chen grew up in Taiwan until the age of 8, when his family emigrated to the United States. He attended high school at John Hersey High School as well as the Illinois Math and Science Academy and college from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was an early employee at PayPal, where he met Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim.
- Farzad Nazem
Farzad Nazem (born in 1962) also known as Zod Nazem, was Yahoo!'s chief technology officer and one of its longest-serving executives. He announced that he would leave the company on June 8, 2007 after 11 years at Yahoo. He will receive a golden parachute worth about $6.9 million. He holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science from the California Polytechnic State University.
- Werner Vogels
Dr. Werner Vogels is the Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Amazon.com in Seattle, Washington. In charge of driving technology innovation within the company Vogels has broad internal and external responsibilities. He is the only executive next to Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos to speak publicly on behalf of Amazon.com. He joined Amazon in September of 2004 as the Director of Systems Research.
- Henry Samueli
Henry Samueli (born September 20, 1954 in Buffalo, New York) is co-founder, chairman, and chief technology officer of the Broadcom Corporation and a philanthropist in the Orange County, California community. The schools of engineering at UC Irvine and UCLA, where he is a professor, were renamed after him after he donated $20 million and $30 million, respectively, to each in 1999. In 1991, while still working as a professor at UCLA, Samueli co-founded his company, …
- Jeremy Allaire
Jeremy founded Brightcove in early 2004 with a vision for the transformation of television with the Internet. As President of Brightcove, Jeremy leads the company's technology, marketing and business development strategy.
- Brendan Eich
Brendan Eich (born 1961) is a computer programmer and creator of the JavaScript programming language. He is the Chief Technology Officer at the Mozilla Corporation.
- Dan Bricklin
Daniel S. Bricklin (born 16 July 1951) is the co-creator, with Bob Frankston, of the VisiCalc spreadsheet program. He also founded Software Garden, Inc., of which he is currently president, and Trellix Corporation, which is currently owned by Web.com. Bricklin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, where he attended Akiba Hebrew Academy during his High School years.
- Håkon Wium Lie
Håkon Wium Lie is, as of 2006, Chief Technology Officer of Opera Software, where he has worked since 1999. He attended Østfold College, West Georgia College and MIT Media Lab receiving an MS in Visual Studies in 1991. On February 17th, 2006 he successfully defended his PhD thesis at University of Oslo. He is best known for proposing the concept of Cascading Style Sheets in 1994. He has worked for, among others, the W3C, INRIA, CERN, …
- Max Levchin
Max Levchin (b. 1975) is a Russian-born American computer scientist and entrepreneur widely known as co-founder (with Peter Thiel) and former Chief technology officer of PayPal. Originally from Kiev, Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union), he moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1991. He received his bachelor's degree in computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1997 and co-founded two companies that made Internet-tools, …
- Dan Geer
Dan Geer , co-author of this report , was CTO of @stake Inc. , a vendor that happened to work for Microsoft.
- Mark Spencer
Mark Spencer (born April 8, 1977) is a computer engineer and is the original author of the GTK+-based instant messaging client Gaim, the L2TP daemon l2tpd and the Cheops Network User Interface. Mark Spencer is also the creator of Asterisk, a Linux-based open-sourced PBX in software. He is the founder, chairman and CTO of Digium, an open-source telecommunications supplier most notable for its development and sponsorship of Asterisk.
- Rael Dornfest
Rael Dornfest is Founder and CEO of Portland, Oregon-based Values of n. Rael leads the Values of n charge with passion, unearthly creativity, and a repertoire of puns and jokes - some of which are actually good.
- Tim Howes
Tim Howes is the co-inventor of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), the Internet standard for accessing directory servers. The main purpose was to handle situations that the X.500 protocol suite could not address. X.500 directories list network resources to make finding them and using them easier for network administrators and users. Unfortunately, accessing X.500 records has required a full-blown X.500 server; there was no such thing as an X.500 client.
- Paul Vixie
Paul Vixie is the author of several RFCs and well known UNIX system programs, among them SENDS, proxynet, rtty and Vixie cron. While he was employed by DEC, in 1988 he started working on the popular internet domain name server BIND, of which he was the primary author and architect, until release 8. After he left DEC, in 1994 he founded Internet Software Consortium (ISC) together with Rick Adams and Carl Malamud to support BIND and other software for the Internet.
- Carl Malamud
Carl Malamud (Born: 1959) is a leading force in getting government data online and in creating public works for the Internet. He was the founder of the Internet Multicasting Service, the nonprofit group known for creating the first Internet radio station, for putting the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's EDGAR database on-line, and for creating the Internet 1996 World Exposition.
- Jack Smith
Jack Smith, along with Sabeer Bhatia, founded the web-based free e-mail service Hotmail, in 1995. Before founding Hotmail, where his role was Chief Technology Officer, he worked at FirePower Systems Inc., where he designed integrated circuits for use in high performance PowerPC workstations, and at Apple Computer, where he worked on several of Apple's early PowerBook Computers. Hotmail was sold to Microsoft in 1998 for a reported $400 million.
- Stu Maschwitz
Stuart T. Maschwitz, commonly known as Stu Maschwitz, is the co-founder and chief technology officer of The Orphanage, a visual effects company in California. He has worked as senior visual effects supervisor on several films. He previously worked at Industrial Light and Magic. Maschwitz was writer, director, cinematographer, and editor for the film "The Last Birthday Card" (2000).
- Pantas Sutardja
Dr. Pantas Sutardja, co-founder of Marvell Technology Group Ltd., has served as Vice President and a Director since its inception. Dr. Sutardja also serves as a Director of Marvell Semiconductor, Inc and as Vice President of Engineering of Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. from its inception until 1999, when he was appointed Chief Technology Officer. Previously, Dr. Sutardja served as Research Staff Member at IBM Almaden Research Center from 1988 to 1994. Dr.
- Arun Netravali
Arun N. Netravali (b. May 26, 1946 in Bombay) is an Indian-American engineer and businessman who is a pioneer of digital technology including HDTV. He conducted seminal research in digital compression, signal processing and other fields, including important collaborative work with Thomas S. Huang. Netravali has been President of Bell Laboratories and Chief Scientist for Lucent Technologies. He received his undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, …
- Graham Spencer
Mr. Spencer was a co-founder of Excite.com, where he worked as chief technology officer until the company was sold to @Home in 1999. After leaving Excite, Graham founded DigitalConsumer, a non-profit political lobbying group dedicated to preserving
- Bradley M. Kuhn
Bradley M. Kuhn (born in 1973) is a free software activist from the United States. Kuhn is currently the CTO of Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) and president of the Software Freedom Conservancy. He previously served the Executive Director of Free Software Foundation (FSF) from 2001 until March 2005.
- Tony Fadell
Tony Fadell is Apple Inc.'s Senior Vice President of the iPod Division, having succeeded Jon Rubinstein in 2006. Fadell graduated from University of Michigan with a BS in Computer Engineering in 1991. While still at Michigan, he was CEO of Constructive Instruments, which marketed MediaText, multimedia composition software for children. He worked for Apple spinoff General Magic for three years, …
- Michael Wertheimer
Michael Wertheimer(전 NSA 신호정보본부 데이타 획득국 기술관 Technical Director for the Data Acquisition Office in the NSA’s Signals Intelligence Directorate) Analytic Ombudsman/Assistant Deputy Director for Analytic Integrity and Standards
- James Seng
Seng Ching Hong (commonly referred to as James Seng) is one of the Internet pioneers in Singapore and is recognized as an international expert in the Internet arena. He gave regular speeches at various forums on several Internet issues such as IDN, VoIP, IPv6, spam, OSS and Internet governance issues.
- Gernot Heiser
Gernot Heiser (born 1957) is professor for operating systems at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). He is also leader of the Embedded, Real-Time and Operating Systems (ERTOS) research program at NICTA. Recently he has founded a company called Open Kernel Labs (OK) where he serves as Chief Technology Officer. His research focuses on microkernels and microkernel-based systems as well as virtual machines.
- John Witchel
John Witchel currently serves as Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Prosper.com, a peer-to-peer lending company. John previously worked on a concept called flash mob computing, a massive computing collaboration designed to make supercomputing available to the masses. He holds an M.S. from the University of San Francisco and a B.A. in political science from Stanford University. He is a former American record holder and NCAA champion in swimming.
- Michael Luby
Michael George Luby is a mathematician and computer scientist, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Digital Fountain. In coding theory he is known for leading the invention of the Tornado codes and the invention of the LT codes. In cryptography he is known for his contributions showing that any one-way function can be used as the basis for private cryptography, and for his analysis, in collaboration with Charles Rackoff, of the Feistel cipher construction.
- Wayne Horkan
Wayne T. Horkan (born 1970) is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the UK and Ireland at Sun Microsystems (Sun). Horkan lives in Castle Bromwich, Birmingham, UK with his wife and three children. Outside of working for Sun he is also involved with local charities, including Street UK a Community development financial institution (CDFI). He also works with local universities (notably the University of Central England (UCE)) to promote "skills for Life", …
- Rick Hayes-Roth
Rick Hayes-Roth (born 1947) is currently a professor in the Information Sciences Department at the United States Navy's Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. At NPS he teaches the "capstone" course on strategy and policy in exploiting information technology. Prior to joining the NPS faculty, he was the Chief Technology Officer for Software at Hewlett-Packard. Before that he was Chairman and Chief Executive of two Silicon Valley companies which he co-founded.
- Karl Lehenbauer
Karl Lehenbauer (born April 5, 1958) was the founder of NeoSoft in the early 1990s, which was the first Internet Service Provider in the southern United States as well as the first to offer cable modem service in Houston, Texas, among other technological milestones. NeoSoft was later sold to Internet America in 1998. Lehenbauer also wrote the Internet (socket) capabilities of the Tcl programming language.
- David P. Anderson
David Pope Anderson (born 1955) is a scientist at the Space Sciences Laboratory, at the University of California, Berkeley, and an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of Houston. Anderson leads the SETI@home and BOINC projects. SETI@home is a large volunteer computing project and BOINC is an open-source software system for creating volunteer computing projects. Anderson received a BA in Mathematics from Wesleyan University, …
- Shai Agassi
Shai Agassi used to be the CEO of SAP. Today he is planning to rebuild the automobile industry from the ground up. With Better Place , he has a business model that may make electric cars real, tomorrow. He began when he was asked a simple question at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland: How do you make the world a better place by 2020? Being an engineer, he took that question seriously and began thinking about moving transportation off oil, completely.
- Raj Vaswani
Raj Vaswani was born in India and moved to the United States at the age of 12. He holds aM.S. in Computer Science from the University of Washington, and a B.S. in EECS from the University of California at Berkeley. Raj Vaswani is currently the Chief Technology Officer with Silver Spring Networks. Before joining Silver Spring Networks, Raj was an Entrepreneur in Residence with Foundation Capital. Raj has served as Vice President of Engineering at Epinions.com, …
- Chuck Ahner
Chuck Ahner is the Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at PNC Bank and was the Republican candidate for U.S. Congress in Kansas' 3rd congressional district. Ahner unsuccessfully challenged incumbent Democrat Dennis Moore in the 2006 mid-term election. Ahner had won his party's nomination for Congress on August 1, 2006 defeating State Rep. Scott Schwab, disability rights activist Thomas Scherer, and retired construction worker Paul Showen.
- Patrick Charles
Patrick Charles (b. 1970) is a computer programmer best known for his research in fractal geometry and for his work on open source projects. In 1992, Charles earned a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. From 1992 to 1994, he worked as a senior hardware engineer for Digital Equipment Corporation designing logic for the SFB+ graphics chip, the heart of the ZLX-E series workstation graphics adapters, …