Santa Clara University

Gordon Stitt

Chair

Gordon Stitt is President and Chief Executive Officer of Extreme Networks. One of the co-founders of Extreme Networks, Stitt has served as president and CEO since the company’s inception in 1996, and was named Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year for 2001 for Technology and Communication, Northern California. Prior to Extreme Networks, Stitt co-founded Network Peripherals and served as vice president of marketing and vice president and general manager of the OEM Business Unit. He also held executive positions in corporate marketing at Sun Microsystems and was director of marketing and sales at Ven-Tel. Stitt holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley and a BSEECS degree from Santa Clara University.

Jeff Ullman

Jeff Ullman is the Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Computer Science (Emeritus) at Stanford University. His interests include database theory, database integration, data mining, and education using the information infrastructure. Ullman is the author or coauthor of 16 books and 170 technical publications. He has served as chair of the computer science program at Stanford, on the editorial boards of several journals, the National Academy of Engineering, the NSF advisory panel on Computer Science, the NSF advisory panel on Information, Robotics, and Intelligent Systems, the Computing Research Association Board, and numerous technical advisory boards of companies and research institutes around the world.

Doug Terry

Doug Terry is a Principal Researcher in the Microsoft Research Silicon Valley lab. His research focuses on the design and implementation of novel distributed systems and addresses issues such as information management, fault-tolerance, and mobility. He is currently leading a research project on Community Information Management that is developing a platform for sharing data within weakly connected communities of people using cloud-based storage and mobile devices. He also serves as Chair of ACM’s Special Interest Group on Operating Systems (SIGOPS). Prior to joining Microsoft, Doug was the co-founder and CTO of a start-up company named Cogenia, Chief Scientist of the Computer Science Laboratory at Xerox PARC, and an Adjunct Professor in the Computer Science Division at U. C. Berkeley, where he regularly teaches a graduate course on distributed systems. Doug has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from U. C. Berkeley and was recently named an ACM Fellow.

Victoria Stavridou-Coleman

Victoria Coleman has more than 25 years experience in advanced R&D. She is an accomplished researcher and experienced research executive with a broad background of university, defense and industrial R&D in the United States, Europe and Asia. She is a Vice President within the Corporate Technology Organization of Samsung Electronics, a 160,000 person company headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. Dr Coleman is in charge of disruptive innovation and advanced R&D for Samsung Electronics in North America. She is Samsung’s first and only female and non-Korean technical executive.

In her current position as Vice President of Samsung Electronics, Dr Coleman has broad responsibilities for identifying, formulating and executing Samsung’s innovation strategy in all markets, ranging from semiconductors, to software, to digital media and telecommunications. Her lab, Samsung’s Computer Science Laboratory in San Jose, CA, is the flagship of the company’s disruptive innovation efforts with a mission to identify emerging trends, conduct advanced R&D, build links and collaborations with local industry and academic partners, and role model these competencies for the Korea-based labs.

Phil Zimmerman

Phil Zimmerman is the creator of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) which has become the most widely used email encryption software in the world. Zimmermann founded PGP Inc. He has received numerous technical and humanitarian awards for his pioneering work in cryptography. In 2001 Zimmermann was inducted into the CRN Industry Hall of Fame. In 2000 InfoWorld named him one of the Top 10 Innovators in E-business. In 1999 he received the Louis Brandeis Award from Privacy International, in 1998 a Lifetime Achievement Award from Secure Computing Magazine, and in 1996 the Norbert Wiener Award from Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility for promoting the responsible use of technology. He also received the 1995 Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design, the 1995 Pioneer Award from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the 1996 PC Week IT Excellence Award, and the 1996 Network Computing Well-Connected Award for "Best Security Product." Newsweek also named Zimmermann one of the "Net 50", the 50 most influential people on the Internet in 1995.

Wesley Higaki

Wesley Higaki is Director for University Research at Symantec Corporation. His responsibilities include developing and supporting university research and education programs in the area of computer security. Higaki has over 25 years of technical and managerial experience in the software industry including research and product development experience. He has been with Symantec since the December 2000 acquisition of Axent Technologies where he was an engineering director. Prior to Axent, Higaki worked for various divisions at Hewlett-Packard Company including 7 years at HP Labs. His technical experience includes development in computer networking, analytical chemistry, manufacturing applications and computer security. Higaki received a BS in mathematics from the University of California, Davis and an MSCS degree from Santa Clara University.

Dan O'Neill

Dan O'Neill is the Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Trusonic, Inc. the leader in networked music and message delivery to business locations around the world. Prior to founding Trusonic, O'Neill was the CTO of VU Net USA, a division of Vivendi Universal responsible for the technical direction of MP3.com, MP4.com, Pressplay (now Roxio/Napster), Rollingstone.com and eMusic. From 1999 to 2003 O'Neill was the VP of Engineering at MP3.com where he assisted in a $370m IPO and lead the engineering effort to design scaleable systems for media delivery and data management. The Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business named O'Neill to its IPO Hall of Fame in 2000. Previously O'Neill was a senior member of the consulting staff at Cadence Design Systems, Inc. O'Neill holds both a BSME and an MSCS degree from Santa Clara University.

Jeff Krenek

Jeff Krenek is a Senior Consultant at Hewlett-Packard. He has 16 years of experience in software engineering and engineering management, having held positions in manufacturing, customer support, software product development, and partner management. Krenek is currently responsible for managing the technical relationships with some of HP’s key Unix partners, who develop software products for HP’s server product line. Previously, Krenek was a senior technical contributor in HP’s Unix operating system lab, where he managed the development of new products and features. He also volunteers as HP’s recruiting manager at Santa Clara University, where his team has successfully mentored and hired a number of students and helped HP become a preferred industry partner. Krenek holds a BSCSE degree from Santa Clara University and an MSCS from California State University, Chico.

Robin Jeffries

Robin Jeffries is a Sun Microsystems Distinguished Engineer and is currently the User Experience Architect in Sun’s Chief Technologist’s Office, where she works on company-wide issues in product design and usability. Her charter is to significantly improve Sun’s ability to provide products that delight customers. Dr. Jeffries spent 15 years as a researcher at the University of Colorado, Carnegie-Mellon University, and Hewlett-Packard Laboratories before coming to Sun. She is the author of over 30 papers in the areas of human-computer interaction and cognitive science and holds 4 user interface patents. Dr. Jeffries is also Sun’s representative to the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, where she moderates systers, an international electronic community of 2500 women in IT.

Patrick Mantey

Patrick Mantey is the Jack Baskin Professor of Computer Engineering, and was founding Dean of the Baskin School of Engineering, at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is one of the founders of CITRIS, and is director of CITRIS at UC Santa Cruz. His education is in electrical engineering, and he received his BS (magna cum laude) from the University of Notre Dame, was a Bacon fellow at the University of Wisconsin, where he received his MS, and an NSF fellow at Stanford University, where he received his Ph.D. Dr. Mantey has several patents and numerous publications in his areas of research. In addition, he has extensive experience in the applications of computers in advanced applications in space-craft instrumentation, medicine, transportation, government, utilities, education, and science. He received awards from IBM for his pioneering work on Geographic Information Systems, Computer Applications in Power System Control, Image Processing Workstations, and Image and Record Management.

Karim Mahrous

Karim graduated with a Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Davis in 2006. He was a member of the Institute of Data Analysis and Visualization working on vector field topology with an emphasis on identification of topological structures.

Karim worked for several years at Electronic Arts in Redwood City, CA. He recently left Electronic Arts to join the Systems Modeling group at Sandia National Laboratory.