Participate: Network with CTO’s
Applications for this event are no longer being accepted. Applicants who are selected will be notified before Sept 15. It is likely that everyone who submitted a valid application will be invited to participate.
Are you interested in finding out about technical careers in industry? The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is the pinnacle of an individual contributor technical career path. The CTO is the executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. Participants will have the opportunity to meet with some of the following CTO’s in small group discussions.
To participate, you must be a woman student or computing industry professional with 5 or fewer years work experience, and be registered for the Grace Hopper Celebration.
Sophie Vandebroek
Dr. Sophie Vandebroek is Xerox’s Chief Technology Officer and the President of the Xerox Innovation Group. She was named to this position January 2006, and became a Corporate Vice President in February 2006.
Vandebroek is responsible for overseeing Xerox’s worldwide research centers and for maximizing the company’s return on investments in research and technology.
Previously, she was Chief Engineer of Xerox Corporation and Vice President of the Xerox Engineering Center. As Chief Engineer Vandebroek was responsible for coordinating Xerox’s engineering efficiency and effectiveness, a period during which Xerox refreshed more than 95 percent of its product line and launched its flagship iGen3™ Digital Production Press. Prior to that, she served as Chief Technology Officer at Carrier Corp. From 1991 until 2000, Vandebroek held a number of increasingly responsible roles at Xerox including technical advisor to Xerox’s chief operating officer and director of the Xerox Research Centre of Canada.
Vandebroek is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers and served as an elected member on the IEEE Electron Devices Society Administrative Committee. She is also a Fulbright Fellow and a Fellow of the Belgian-American Educational Foundation. She holds 12 US patents.
Vandebroek has received awards from Xerox, IBM, HP, Monsanto, the Belgium National Science Foundation, Semiconductor Research Corporation, IEEE, and Cornell University. Vandebroek served as a judge for MIT’s Technology Review Young Innovators awards, the Wall Street Journal Innovation awards and the FIRST Lego and Robotics competition regional awards. Vandebroek is a member of the Board of Directors of Analogic Corporation, the director of PARC Inc., a trustee of Worchester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and serves on several university and professional advisory boards.
Vandebroek was born in Leuven, Belgium where she earned a master’s degree in electro-mechanical engineering from Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Cornell University.
Vandebroek lives in Lincoln, MA with her husband and their six teenage children.
Nan Mattai
Nan Mattai is Senior Vice President of Rockwell Collins Engineering & Technology. Additionally, she is a corporate officer of Rockwell Collins. Ms. Mattai is responsible for Rockwell Collins’ Engineering & Technology organization, including the Advanced Technology Center. In this role she is responsible for guiding the future technology direction, technology investment decisions and the development of advanced technologies to meet the needs of various parts of the business. She was appointed to the position in November 2004.
Previously, Ms. Mattai served as Vice President, Government Systems Engineering, a position to which she was appointed in 2001. She joined the company in 1993 and has held positions of increasing responsibility, including Senior Director of Tactical Communications, Government Systems.
Ms. Mattai is a member of the Advisory Board, Aviation Week Strategic Media & Conferences; an executive member of the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium; a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE); a member of Women in Engineering (WIE); and a member of the Iowa State University Institute for Physical Research and Technology (IPRT) Industrial Advisory Board. Nan graduated from the University of Windsor, Canada with a Master’s degree in Nuclear Physics and completed all graduate courses for a Doctorate in Physics.
Greg Papadopoulos
As Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Research and Development at Sun, Greg Papadopoulos directs the company’s approximate $2B in R&D portfolio with an eye toward innovation, simplicity, and eco-responsibility. His team leads Sun Labs, high performance computing systems programs, global engineering architecture and advanced development programs.
Before joining Sun in 1994, Papadopoulos was senior architect and director of product strategy for Thinking Machines and previously worked as a development engineer at Hewlett-Packard and Honeywell, designing flight-control systems for Boeing jetliners.
Papadopoulos’ professional associations include serves as a member of the Board of Trustees for the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, and as a member of the President’s Board on Science and Innovation at the University of California. Greg acts as a technical advisor for BP and Alien Technologies.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in systems science from the University of California at San Diego, as well as master’s and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT, where he later served as an associate professor.
Justin Rattner
Justin Rattner, 59, is vice president and chief technology officer (CTO) of Intel Corporation. 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. In December 1996, Rattner was featured as Person of the Week by ABC World News for his visionary work on the Department of Energy ASCI Red System, the first computer to sustain one trillion operations per second (one teraFLOPS) and the fastest computer in the world between 1996 and 2000. In 1997, Rattner was honored as one of the Computing 200, the 200 individuals having the greatest impact on the U.S. computer industry today, and subsequently profiled in the book Wizards and Their Wonders from ACM Press.
Rattner has received two Intel Achievement Awards for his work in high performance computing and advanced cluster communication architecture. He is a member of the executive committee of the Intel’s Research Council and serves as the Intel executive sponsor for Cornell University where he is a member of the External Advisory Board for the School of Engineering. Rattner is also a trustee of the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology.
Rattner joined Intel in 1973. He was named its first Principal Engineer in 1979 and its fourth Intel Fellow in 1988. Prior to joining Intel, Rattner held positions with Hewlett-Packard Company and Xerox Corporation. Rattner joined Intel in 1973. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees from Cornell University in electrical engineering and computer science.
OTHER PARTICIPATING CTO’S
Brian Pawlowski, CTO, Network Appliance
Rebecca Parsons, CTO, Thoughtworks
Mark Bregman, CTO, Symantec
Per-Kristian (Kris) Halvorsen, CTO, Intuit
Mary Lou Jepson, former CTO, One Laptop Per Child
Patrick Scaglia, CTO, Imaging and Printing Group, HP
Karen Catlin, Sr. Director, CTO Operations, Adobe Systems, Inc.
Karey Holland, CTO, NexPlanar Corporation
Alan F. Nugent, CTO, CA, Inc.
Kathy Hill, Sr VP, Access Networking and Services Group, Cisco
Fran Allen, Fellow Emerita, IBM