Fisher Information Technology Center
Advisory Board for 2007-2008
Timothy Campos is the Chief Information Officer for KLA-Tencor where he is responsible for IT strategy and delivery for all of KLA-Tencor's Information Services. Mr. Campos's background includes 15 years of industry experience in both Information Technology and Software Engineering roles with an emphasis in global applications, multimedia, and distribution systems. Prior to KLA-Tencor he held management positions at Portera Systems and Silicon Graphics, as well as software engineering roles at both Silicon Graphics and Sybase. Mr. Campos holds a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.
Jack Grantham joined the Haas School of Business and U. C. Berkeley in July, 2005 as executive director of the Fisher IT Center, responsible for planning and launching the re-birth of the center in service to corporate executives, as well as to U. C. Berkeley faculty, researchers and students. Prior to his appointment at U. C. Berkeley, he was for 16 years the Chief Information Officer and Director of Customer and Operations Support at the Research Libraries Group (http://www.RLG.org ), a content and services firm to higher education, museums and archives. Previously, Grantham was founder and president of ATAC Business Services and general manager for Ikoss Corporation, implementing financial systems for the Union Bank of Switzerland’s Trust Bank in Tokyo, Japan. As vice president of Trust Systems at Bank of America in San Francisco and vice president of SunTrust Banks in Atlanta, Grantham’s extensive background in IT spanned positions from executive to manager, systems analyst and programmer. Named as outstanding student from his MBA graduating class, he holds an Executive MBA from St. Mary’s College, Moraga, California, and a BS degree in Organizational Behavior from the University of San Francisco.
Mark J. Grimse, Information Technology Director at Rambus, Inc., brings over 25 years of information systems management experience to the advisory board. Prior to Rambus, Grimse was the Director of IT at All Covered, the nation's largest provider of IT services to small businesses. At All Covered, he converted IT from an overhead department to a profit center and led the company's managed services delivery efforts. Previously, Grimse was the Vice President of Operations for an Internet medical imaging provider and a Director of Product Management at Kadiri Inc. He was at Apple Computer Inc. for 12 years in a variety of senior information systems management positions. Mark Grimse holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Mathematics from Ferris State University.
Terry Hendershott, Fisher IT Center Faculty Director, is an Assistant Professor in the Operations and Information Technology group at the Haas School of Business. His recent research involves the impact of technological innovation on traditional financial markets and has extensively addressed how electronic trading systems compete with stock exchanges. Dr. Hendershott spent 2005-06 as Visiting Economist with the New York Stock Exchange. He was recently appointed a Schwabacher Fellow, the highest honor bestowed upon assistant professors by the school, for his outstanding research and exceptional scholarly growth. Dr. Hendershott holds a Ph.D. in Operations, Information, and Technology from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University and a B.S. in Mathematics and Statistics from Miami University. To learn more about Dr. Hendershott, see: http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/faculty/hendershott.html.
Billy Hinners’ career in the software industry spans 24 years. Most recently, he was named Chief Information Officer at Autodesk Inc. to lead the transformation of the enterprise infrastructure to support “Autodesk 3.0,” the next generation of company growth. With seven million users, Autodesk is the world's leading software and services company for the manufacturing, infrastructure, building, media and entertainment, and wireless data services fields. Prior to joining IT, Hinners led the design, development, testing and publications teams that create and maintain Autodesk’s flagship AutoCAD line of products, used by architects and engineers worldwide to create designs and drawings on the PC. Hinners' diverse career has included positions in the US, Switzerland, and Australia. During the dot-com boom, he led engineering for Autodesk’s manufacturing supply-chain automation spin-off, RedSpark. Prior to Autodesk, he helped create a solids modeling application at a start-up which led to the company's acquisition by Autodesk. Hinners graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Science and Mechanics. He is based in San Rafael, California.
George Lin joined Advent Software, Inc., in September 2005 as Chief Information Officer. He is responsible for Advent's worldwide IT organization and leads global business process optimization, integration and automation efforts for the company. Prior to Advent, Lin was CIO of EMC Software, a $1.5B division of EMC Corporation. Before EMC, he was CIO of Documentum, a provider of enterprise content management solutions where he helped to build the company from a small startup to a global leader. Lin was named a top 100 CIO by Computerworld magazine in 2003 and a top 25 mid-market CIO by CIO Decisions magazine in 2006. He contributed to the Prentice Hall PTR book, "CIO Wisdom" and is currently working on its sequel, "Beyond Conventional Wisdom." Lin serves on the advisory board of several Silicon Valley software companies. George Lin graduated from University of California at Berkeley.
Note: Mr. Lin is now CIO at Dolby Labs. His bio will be updated shortly.
Dave McCandless, CISA, is Director, Information Technology for Navis LLC, responsible for strategic planning and worldwide delivery of all computing infrastructure resources. With 25 years of experience in IT, McCandless has held a variety of executive and advisory positions, most notably operations, security, systems programming, product development, governance, standards, architecture, strategy, and project management. Previously he led various IT initiatives for Bank of America, Chevron, Oracle, HedgeStreet, and AT&T Bell Labs. He has written numerous software industry articles and has presented at international industry conferences addressing areas of systems management, collaboration technologies, and open source. McCandless holds an MS in computer science from University of Wisconsin, and a BS in computer science from Washington State University.
John Morgan, Fisher IT Center Faculty Director, is a Professor at the Haas School of Business and the Department of Economics at Berkeley, and is also the Founding Director of Xlab, Berkeley's laboratory for economic experiments. Using the tools of game theory, econometrics, and information economics, together with one of the largest datasets ever assembled on pricing by firms selling products over the Internet, Dr. Morgan and his colleagues have studied issues ranging from the impact of fee structures at price comparison sites on the competitiveness of E-markets to the incentives of firms to price discriminate among online and off-line customers (see http://nash-equilibrium.com). Dr. Morgan has been the recipient of many awards and fellowships. He holds a Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University, a MA in Economics from Pennsylvania State University, and a BS in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. To learn more about Dr. Morgan, see: http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/faculty/morgan.html.
Abhishek Shukla is in the Master of Business Administration program at the Haas School of Business at UC-Berkeley. He is the also the Vice President of the Haas Technology Club and of the Asia Business Conference. Prior to Haas he was the sales manager for Agilent Technologies Inc., where he managed Wireless manufacturing customers across India. He has worked across Asia handling multiple market segments from Aerospace Defense to Education and Electronics R&D. Mr. Shukla holds a Bachelors of Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering, Delhi University.
David J. Teece co-founded LECG Corporation in 1988 and serves as its Chairman of the Board. Dr. Teece served as the Chairman of LECG, Inc., the predecessor company, from its founding until it was acquired by Navigant Consulting, Inc. in August 1998. Dr. Teece has performed economic, business and financial consulting services in the capacity of an expert for LECG since its inception, and he has been an economic, business and financial consultant for 30 years. Since 1982, Dr. Teece has been a Professor of Business Administration at the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley, where since 1994 he has directed the Institute of Management, Innovation and Organization. Dr. Teece has had teaching and research positions at Stanford University and Oxford University. He has authored over 150 publications in economics, business and technology strategy and has testified before Congress and government agencies on regulatory policy and competition policy. Dr. Teece has a PhD in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. He also serves on the board of directors of the Atlas Family of Mutual Funds, the Atlas Insurance Trusts, Canterbury Ltd. and several other private entities. To learn more about Dr. Teece, see: http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/faculty/teece.html.
Boaz Ur is in the Master of Business Administration program at the Haas School of Business at UC-Berkeley. He is an officer of the student Digital Media and Entertainment club and was an organizer of the 2007 >play digital media conference as Haas. Previously, he was product manager and team leader at Dune Networks, where he managed a ten engineer team in design and implementation of the company’s flagship product. He also served as research team leader in the Israel Defense Forces. Mr. Ur holds a BSEE from Tel Aviv University.
Shelton Waggener. Like many of today’s CIO’s, Shelton Waggener’s path to senior IT management wasn’t a direct one. After founding his own computer consulting practice in the early 80’s, Waggener spent several years abroad throughout Latin America and Asia before returning to Silicon Valley. Though out the last 15 years, he has served in many IT roles at both growth and large companies including Senior Director of Information Technology at Sybase, Director of IT Infrastructure at Octel Communications, and CIO of InterNetworking Systems, an $8B division of Lucent Technologies. In 2003, Waggener joined the staff of the one of the world’s top ranked institutions, the University of California at Berkeley, where he currently serves as Associate Vice Chancellor and Chief Information Officer. Waggener has served on numerous boards and advisory panels, including several not for profit concerns supporting the use of technology in public education. A past president of the IT Support Services Council, Waggener sits on the technical advisory boards of several Silicon Valley technology companies. A graduate of the University of California, Santa Cruz with double majors in American Studies and Latin American Studies, he is active in many industry groups that focus on solving business problems through technology. To learn more about Waggener, see http://ist.berkeley.edu/archive/bio.shtml
Bob Worrall. Appointed Chief Information Officer of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in July 2006, Bob Worrall is responsible for all aspects of Sun's global IT infrastructure and line-of-business application development, support and maintenance, including information service delivery and security. Previously, he served as Vice President of Information Technology, reporting directly to the CIO. In this role, he led Sun's IT Strategy, Architecture and Governance organization, and was responsible for defining the overall IT Architecture as well as managing all compliance and regulatory commitments for the IT organization. Worrall also served as Vice President of applications for Sun's Global Sales and E-Commerce organizations as well as Vice President of Worldwide IT Operations which included responsibility for Systems Administration as well as Data Center, HelpDesk, Voice and Network Services. Prior to his appointment as Sun's CIO, Worrall was honored by CIO Magazine as one of its “Ones to Watch” for 2006. This prestigious award was given to 20 people nationwide who are considered future CIO's. Prior to Sun, Worrall was with Worlds of Wonder where he was the head of the company's IT organization. Worrall currently enjoys serving as an advisor to several Engineering and Business Colleges throughout the Bay Area. Worrall holds an MBA from California State University Hayward.
Past Advisory Board Members
Cecilia Claudio joined Mercury in October 2005 as chief information officer. She is responsible for the company's use of information technology worldwide. Claudio has over 20 years experience in IT working for companies such as Xerox, Farmers Insurance, The Gap, and Olivetti. In 2003, Claudio was promoted to Executive VP and CIO of Zurich Financial Services, the parent company of Farmers Insurance Group, Inc., where she served as Senior VP and CIO from 1998 to 2003. Prior to joining Mercury, Claudio was the CIO and VP of Engineering for Align Technology, Inc. She has been responsible for a wide range of IT initiatives including development of business systems for customer operations, data center operations, technical services, voice/data communications, and office systems support. Cecilia Claudio graduated with a degree in Philosophy from the University of Lisbon in Portugal. She was recognized in 2001 as a Premier 100 IT Leader by Computerworld and in 1996 as one of the Top 100 Women in Computing by McGraw Hill.
Note: Ms. Claudio is now CIO at SanDisk Corporation. Her bio will be updated shortly.
Bruce Decock is vice president, Information Technology, and chief information officer of semiconductor supplier LSI Logic Corporation. Decock oversees LSI Logic’s worldwide Information Technology organization, covering areas from manufacturing and engineering to business operations. He is responsible for implementing an integrated, enterprise-wide system for the company and managing its primary business data center located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, as well as business and engineering data centers around the globe. He joined LSI Logic in 1998 following the company's acquisition of Symbios, Inc. Decock was previously acting chief information officer for LSI Logic. At Symbios, he served as director of information systems for four years. Decock received a bachelor of science degree in management information systems from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Lars Rabbe is Senior Vice President, Engineering and Chief Information Officer for Yahoo! He joined Yahoo! in 2003 as Chief Information Officer, responsible for the overall strategic direction and execution of Yahoo!'s global information technology infrastructure. Prior to joining the company, Rabbe served as senior vice president and CIO of Redback Networks, and held a variety of vice president and CIO positions within Lucent Technologies. Rabbe leads Yahoo!'s information technology professionals, overseeing the company's corporate enterprise applications, internal and external networks, global data centers, billing, advertising systems, and desktops. A seasoned IT executive with nearly 30 years of technology management experience in the financial services, retail and software/hardware sectors, Rabbe has held positions with Redback Networks, Lucent Technologies, Fidelity Investments and NeXT Computer, overseeing employees in 50 countries with budget responsibilities exceeding $1 billion. Rabbe holds both a Master of Science and Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.
AnnaLee Saxenian is Dean and Professor in the U.C. Berkeley School of Information and Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning. She is an internationally recognized expert on the social and institutional foundations of economic development, and she has written extensively on Silicon Valley and other technology regions around the world. Her most recent book The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in a Global Economy (Harvard University Press, 2006) explores how immigrant engineers and scientists have transferred the institutions of technology entrepreneurship to emerging regions in China, India, Taiwan, and Israel. Prior publications include Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 (Harvard, 1994), Silicon Valley’s New Immigrant Entrepreneurs (Public Policy Institute of California, 1999), and Local and Global Networks of Immigrant Professionals in Silicon Valley (PPIC, 2002.) Dean Saxenian holds a Doctorate in Political Science from MIT, a Master's in Regional Planning from the University of California at Berkeley, and a BA in Economics from Williams College. To learn more about Dean Saxenian, see: http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~anno.
