Tech 2006 Panel

Technologies That Are Changing the World

Moderator:

• Victoria Haynes, Ph.D., President & CEO, RTI International

Panelists:

• Bob Henn, CTO, Liquidia
• Howard Locker, Director of New Technology, Desktop and Mobile Systems, Lenovo
• Michael Tiemann, Vice President of Open Source Affairs, Red Hat, Inc.

 

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Victoria Haynes, Ph.D.
President & CEO
RTI International

Victoria Franchetti Haynes, Ph.D., became RTI International’s third president in 1999, following a 22-year career of research leadership, management and new business development. She got her start at Monsanto Research Corp. in 1977 and secured four promotions before her departure in 1992 as Director of Technology in the company’s plastics division. Prior to joining RTI, she worked for seven years at BFGoodrich Company, where she served as vice president of research and development and later as Chief Technical Officer and Vice President of the company’s advanced technology group. Victoria currently serves as a corporate board member on behalf of Lubrizol Corp.; Nucor Corp.; PPG Industries, Inc.; and Ziptronix, Inc.

 

 

 

 

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Bob Henn
CTO
Liquidia

Bob is Chief Technology Officer for Liquidia Technologies in Research Triangle Park, N.C. For the first time, shape specific nanoparticles can be precision engineered independent of their composition and surface properties through the use of Liquidia’s technology. Bob’s expertise is in transforming technology into profits. He has 28 years of technical and general management experience, 26 of which are with Gore & Associates. In his last years there he contributed as the Global R&D Leader, served on the Executive Operations committee, and was an executive of the intellectual property holdings enterprise. He had oversight for the technical staff of nearly 1,000, which produced over 30 breakthrough or next-generation projects and hundreds of derivative product offerings. He led a culture of innovation and new product development through application of technical systems, invention, human capital development, corporate and intellectual property strategy and disciplines. In the years between Gore and Liquidia, Bob was the general manager of his own company, which assisted others, such as Angiotech Pharmaceutical in turning their technology into a full Create-Make & Sell profit generating enterprise. Bob’s greatest joy is in seeing others grow to become heroes in this “technology into profits” transformation.

 

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Howard Locker
Director of New Technology, Desktop and Mobile Systems
Lenovo

Howard is the chief architect for Lenovo’s Desktop and Mobile development responsible for managing Lenovo’s client technology and solutions portfolio.  He joined IBM in 1980 as a Development Engineer in Boca Raton, Florida.  He has worked on desktop personal computers since 1984. Howard has held numerous development and management positions in personal computers.  In 1984, he became development manager for hard drive adapter cards for IBM’s XT and AT programs. In January 1987 he became development manager for IBM’s initial desktop multimedia efforts.  In June of 1992, Howard was named architectural manager for IBM’s commercial desktop portfolio. IBM named Howard a Senior Technical Staff Member in 1996 in recognition of his outstanding development efforts on IBM desktops. In 2001 Howard’s architectural responsibilities were broaden to include IBM’s ThinkPad products. Howard became part of Lenovo as a result of the acquisition by the Lenovo Group of the IBM Personal Computing.  He is an active member of the PCI Express Steering Committee and has been active in the development and promotion of many personal computing standards, including PCI, AGP, ATA, Express Card, and Gigabit Ethernet.  Howard holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and has over 60 Patents granted in Personal Computing technology and is a Lenovo Master Inventor.

 

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Michael Tiemann
Vice President of Open Source Affairs
Red Hat, Inc.

Michael is a true open source software pioneer.  His first major open source contributions included ports of and enhancements to GCC and GDB as well as the original authorship of the GNU C++ compiler, the world's first native-code C++ compiler.  In 1989, Michael's technical successes and entrepreneurial spirit led him to co-found Cygnus Solutions, the first company to provide commercial support for open source software.  During his ten years at Cygnus, Michael contributed in a number of roles from President to hacker, helping to lead the company from a fledgling start-up to an admired open source leader.  Michael is now Red Hat's Vice President of Open Source Affairs.  In this role, Michael integrates and informs technology and open source strategies for Red Hat and its strategic partners and customers in the public and private sectors.  In addition to his responsibilities at Red Hat, Michael serves on a number of boards, including the Open Source Initiative (where he is also President), the eclipse.org project, and the GNOME Foundation.  Michael also provides support to organizations that further the goals of software freedom, including the Free Software Foundation and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.