- Michael Capellas
Michael D. Capellas , president and CEO of MCI, recently confirmed his participation as speakers at WCIT 2006. Capellas is a 30-year veteran of the information technology business and an established thought leader in areas ranging from information technology, telecommunications and homeland security to the next generation of consumer electronics. Prior to joining MCI in December 2002, he was president of Hewlett-Packard Company. Previously, he was the chairman and CEO of Compaq.
- Eckhard Pfeiffer
Eckhard Pfeiffer is a business executive of German ancestry, and a former CEO of Compaq from 1991-1998. He joined Compaq from Texas Instruments, and established operations from scratch in both Europe and Asia. He was named as one of TIME's "Cyber Elite Top 50" for 1998. His leadership in the early 1990s was successful. At the same time as Compaq began to dominate the server market, …
- Rod Canion
Rod Canion has been a leading figure in the technology industry since co-founding Compaq Computer Corporation in 1982 and serving as its Chief Executive Officer through a decade of unprecedented growth. During his tenure as CEO, Compaq set records for the largest first-year sales in the history of American business and reached the Fortune 500 and the $1 billion revenue mark faster than any other company in history.
- John Doerr
L. John Doerr (born June 29, 1951 in St. Louis, Missouri) is a successful venture capitalist at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers in Menlo Park, California, in the Silicon Valley. Doerr obtained a Bachelor of Science and master's degree in electrical engineering from Rice University and an MBA from Harvard University in 1976. Doerr joined Intel Corporation in 1974 just as the firm was developing the 8080 8-bit microprocessor.
- Michael D. Capellas
Michael D. Capellas was the President and CEO of MCI Inc.. He grew up in Warren, Ohio, and obtained his Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Kent State University in 1976. Before joining MCI, he was the CEO of Compaq. His business career has also covered management positions at Schlumberger Limited, SAP, and Oracle. Michael has accepted the position of CEO of First Data Corporation. He officially starts once the KKR deal is closed with First Data.
- Bill Murto
Bill Murto co-founded Compaq with Jim Harris and Rod Canion in 1982, investing $1000 in the company. Before co-founding Compaq, Murto worked at Texas Instruments.
- Leslie Lamport
Dr. Leslie Lamport (born 1941) is an American computer scientist. A graduate of the Bronx High School of Science, he received a B.S. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1960, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from Brandeis University, respectively in 1963 and 1972. His dissertation was about singularities in analytic partial differential equations.
- Roel Pieper
Roland ("Roel") Pieper (1956 -) is a Dutch IT-entrepreneur. Pieper was born in Vlaardingen, son of an engineer at a car manufacturer. His father died when Pieper was 12, and on his 18th birthday he was subject to a motoring accident which destroyed his sporting career as a player of the Juventus Schiedam basketball team. According to himself, both of these experiences gave him a certain hardness. Pieper obtained his engineer's degree from the Delft University of Technology, …
- Terry Shannon
Terry Craig (T.C.) Shannon was an information technology consultant, journalist and author. For over 30 years, he was involved in implementing PDP, VAX, and Alpha computers with their respective operating systems RSX, VAX/VMS; and OpenVMS & Windows NT. He was a respected journalist and analyst, paying particular attention to HP/Compaq and the high-performance computing space, writing a series of newsletters.
- Regis McKenna
Regis McKenna is best known for helping start several Silicon Valley firms during the 1970s and 1980s with his own marketing firm, Regis McKenna, Inc. founded in 1970. McKenna retired from consulting in 2000 and is concentrating his efforts on high tech entrepreneurial seed-ventures. McKenna and his firm worked with a number of start-ups during their formation years including America Online, Apple Computer, Compaq, Electronic Arts, Genentech, Intel, Lotus Software, …
- Mark V. Hurd
Mark V. Hurd is the chairman, chief executive officer, and president of Hewlett-Packard. He replaced Carly Fiorina, who left at the advice of HP's board of directors after the difficult merger with Compaq and a struggle with the HP board after reports of disappointing earnings. Hurd succeeded CFO Robert Wayman who had served as interim CEO from February 10, 2005-March 28, 2005.
- Timothy D. Cook
Timothy D. Cook is the Chief Operating Officer of Apple Inc. and he reports to the CEO, Steve Jobs. Before joining Apple, he worked at Compaq as the VP for Corporate Materials and spent twelve years in IBM's personal computer business as the director of North American Fulfillment. He earned his M.B.A. from Duke University and B.S. in industrial engineering from Auburn University. Cook briefly filled in as Apple CEO when Steve Jobs had pancreatic cancer surgery in 2004.
- Beny Alagem
Beny Alagem (born 1953) is a former Israeli tank driver and the founder of Packard Bell Electronics, a leading American computer manufacturer during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Packard Bell was the name of a manufacturer of televisions and radios in the United States for several decades in the 20th century, but the name largely disappeared from the marketplace after 1968. Hoping to cash in on old name recognition, …
- Alex Vieux
Alex Serge Vieux is publisher of Red Herring and CEO of Red Herring Inc. Drawing on his extensive expertise as a high-tech journalist, entrepreneur, professor, and advisor to the French government, Mr. Vieux is responsible for steering the growth of the organization and guiding the publication's vision. He is also chairman, CEO, and founder of DASAR, an international organization producing exclusive international IT conferences.
- Alexander Stepanov
Alexander Stepanov is a Principal Scientist at Adobe Systems. Prior to joining Adobe, Alex was Vice President and Chief Scientist at Compaq Computer Corporation where he led the development of the top-level corporate technology roadmap and was also responsible for initiating strategic relationships with some major software partners.
- Mark Kilgard
Mark J. Kilgard is a graphics software engineer working at NVIDIA. Mark has written two books "OpenGL for the X Window System" (1996) and "The Cg Tutorial" (2003), co-authored with Randima Fernando. While at Silicon Graphics Inc. Mark authored the OpenGL Utility Toolkit, better known as GLUT, to make it easy to write OpenGL-based 3D examples and demos, the primary reason for this was the lack of a windowing and input API with OpenGL using GLX.
- Lawrence Brakmo
Lawrence Brakmo is currently a member of technical staff at Google. Previously Brakmo was a researcher and project manager at NTT DoCoMo USA Labs. Before that he was affiliated with the Western Research Lab of Digital Equipment Corporation/Compaq/Hewlett-Packard. Brakmo received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from The University of Arizona, where he worked on computer systems and computer networks research that included x-Sim and TCP Vegas. His adviser was Larry L. Peterson.
- Berny Goodheart
Berny Goodheart is a computer scientist and author. He is best known for his books about the Unix operating system. He has also worked extensively with the Unix kernel, particularly porting it to new hardware platforms. He started working with Unix in 1977. He emigrated to Australia in 1987 and initially worked for NEC before moving to Tandem Computers, which became part of Compaq and is now part of Hewlett-Packard. He returned to Britain in 1996.
- Nicholas Wayman-Harris
Nicholas Wayman-Harris is a British film editor based in Santa Monica, California. Wayman-Harris has worked on music videos with some of the biggest artists in the music world, including U2, Puff Daddy, The Spice Girls, Björk, Blur, Depeche Mode, George Michael, The Verve, Oasis, Kylie Minogue and OK Go. His vast body of commercial work includes major campaigns for Ford Motor Company, Bacardi, Toyota, Nike, AT&T, Audi and Compaq to name but a few.
- C. Kyle Ranson
C. Kyle Ranson is currently the President and CEO of InFocus headquartered in Wilsonville, Oregon. Kyle has been with InFocus since April 2003 originally hired as the Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing, the same title he held at Compaq/Hewlett Packard just months before. Ranson also held executive and other positions at Newberry Data, and Vickers Defense.
- Scott McCullough
Scott McCullough is an award winning director/cinematographer/editor. He has worked on over two hundred filmed commercial projects (35 mm/16 mm/70 mm). Scott was discovered by musician/singer Prince (artist). After collaborating on 24 projects with Prince (artist), Carmen Electra and other artists like The Time (band), Mavis Staples and Tevin Campbell, (6 of them awarded a RIAA rating of Gold for over $1 Million sold), …
- Deborah Blumer
Deborah D. Blumer was a Democratic member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from Framingham. She served in the House from 2001 until her death. Blumer was graduated magna cum laude from Framingham State College, and subsequently earned an MBA with distinctions from the Simmons College Graduate School of Management. Prior to her election to the House in 2000, she worked for several businesses, including Compaq.
- Derk Jan Eppink
Derk Jan Eppink (born November 7, 1958 in Steenderen, Gelderland) is a Dutch journalist and former cabinet secretary for European Commissioners Bolkestein and Kallas. Eppink worked for the Dutch newspaper "NRC Handelsblad" before moving to Belgium in 1995, where he obtained work with "De Standaard" newspaper. In 1999, he received position in the cabinet of European Commissioner Frits Bolkestein.
- Jill Sweeney
Over seventeen years of successful marketing, go-to-market and business development experience in a range of market segments. Results oriented and collaborative leader maximizing performance in cross-functional and diverse teams in the following areas: employee engagement, brand championship, business blogging, entertainment, mobility, business and market development, ecommerce and internet marketing programs, alliance and partnership management and sales management operations.
- Mark Vena
Mark Vena Vice President of Notebook Business Mark Vena has been the Vice President of Synaptics' Notebook Business Unit since April 2007. He has over 20 years of sales and marketing experience with many of the technology industry's premiere companies. Most recently, Mr. Vena served as the Vice President of Marketing for Alienware Corporation.
- Ed Cotter
Ed Cotter is the senior vice president, Human Resources, for Sony Electronics. Cotter's responsibilities include development of SEL's overall human resources strategy in the areas of organizational culture, talent management/acquisition, rewards and recognition and diversity. As a member of Sony's Global Human Resources team, Cotter is active in forming the company's worldwide human resources development strategies.
- Kenny Kurtzman
Kenny, a partner of Katzenbach Partners, was formerly the CEO of a publicly-traded Internet company. Previously, he worked at Compaq as Vice President and General Manager of several businesses. Before joining Compaq, Kenny was a principal in the Texas office of McKinsey & Company where he was a founding member of the Organization Performance Practice and worked with Jon Katzenbach on his first book, The Wisdom of Teams.
- Ed Olkkola
Ed Olkkola, General Partner, Hardware, Austin Ventures Ed Olkkola joined Austin Ventures in 1998 and focuses on hardware investing. Prior to joining the firm, he was with Compaq Computer Corp, serving as vice president and general manager of the communications division. Prior to his operating role, he was vice president of business development and strategic technology planning at Compaq.
- Michael Kielsky JD
Michael Kielsky is a member of the State Bars of Arizona and California, licensed to practice in both states, as well as before Arizona's U.S. District Court.
- Paul Compaq!
I'm one of Paul's only friends. He has no friends except for me, my brothers, and physics even though physics can't really be freidns with anyone.
- John W. White
John W. White Mr. White is a board member of a number of growing and influential technology firms, including Siebel, NetNumber.com, MetaSolv, Citrix Systems, Fuego and WebEx. He has been named one of the country's top 100 chief information officers by CIO magazine. Mr. White served as Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Compaq Computer Corporation, a computer company and supplier of computer systems.
- Fred White
Husband of the most wonderful woman in the world, father of the greatest daughter in the world, and a total geek. That about sums it up.
- Otto de Voogd
IT consultant, Open Source enthusiast
- Malcolm Wicks
Summary; Over the past four years my consulting assignments have been in two main categories. 1) Helping clients grow their revenues by creating a short, concise strategy and implementing it thoughout the organisation with appropriate goals and measurements. 2) Helping clients understand and implement customer focused marketing plans inside their whole organisation as well as to their customers and prospects. Many assignments have elements of both as I am particularly interested in . . .
- Chong Soon Cheong
Chong Soon Cheong Marketing Director Sun Microsystems, Asia South Chong Soon Cheong is the Director of Marketing for the Asia South region. In this capacity, he is responsible for all marketing efforts across Asia South. These include demand generation activities for Sun’s four Practices (Systems, Storage, Software and Services), public relations, advertising, internal and external communications, eMarketing initiatives as well as Marketing Operations and Intelligence.
- Roy Patching
- Dan Patel
I am an Executive Search, Recruiter working in the high tech industry (10+ years) in Silicon Valley for companies like Apple, Nvidia, Inktomi, Compaq, Tandem. I believe I am the best at what I do. I am heavily into direct recruiting, and finding you exactly what you need. Related Experience & Accomplishments: - Recruited Hardware and Software engineers, Architects and Managers, Directors and VP's.
- Jim Harris
Jim Harris was one of the founders of Compaq Computer Corporation.
- Bill Gurley
Bill Gurley joined Benchmark Capital in 1999 after spending two years as a partner with Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. Before entering the venture capital business, Bill spent four years on Wall Street as a top-ranked research analyst, including three years at CS First Boston focusing on personal computer hardware and software. His research coverage included such companies as Dell, Compaq, and Microsoft, and he was the lead analyst on the Amazon IPO.
- Rod Endo
Rod Endo , Vice President, Research & Development Rod Endo is a co-founder of Idera. Prior to Idera, he was a co-founder of PointSecure, Inc. where he performed various roles within the company's business, including CEO and COO. Prior to PointSecure, Mr. Endo worked as a senior financial analyst for Compaq Computer Corporation and was responsible for the management and oversight of the Compaq's OEM relationships.