Software Engineering Manager, Cisco
Cindy is a technology leader who finds the edges and is always pushing the boundaries of the box finding creative solutions to problems often left unexplored. Her leadership expertise and organizational change methodologies bring her opportunities such as her current role as a Software Engineering Manager with Cisco Systems Inc. where she leads a dynamic fast paced engineering service business supporting Cisco’s enterprise collaboration platform. A technology leader with cross-functional and global experience in driving vision, technology strategy and delivery of medium to large scale software solutions.
She has over 15 years of experience in engineering leadership within system, embedded and application software development. She has a natural aptitude for creating and evangelizing a product vision and architecture with proven delivery. She is energetic and self-motivated with a penchant for continued accomplishment. Previous to Cisco she held the Director of Software Engineering post at Foveon a disruptive imaging technology company. Multiple Engineering Leadership roles with PMC-Sierra, Malleable, and eCompany Network.
Officers
- Telle Whitney, – President and CEO
- James Beck, CPA & CMA, Managing Director & COO, Mayfield Fund – Treasurer, Vice President & Corporate Secretary
Corporate Counsel
- Allison Spinner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Staff
- Telle Whitney, President and CEO
- Elizabeth Ames, VP of Strategic Marketing and Alliances
- Barbara Gee, VP of Programs
- Jody Mahoney, VP of Business Development
- Richard Mora, VP of Finance
- Suzanne Andrews, Director of Systems and Tools
- Kristine Bell, Marketing Manager
- Jagruti Bhikha, Director, Grace Hopper Celebration India
- Cara de Urioste, Director of Development
- Denise Gammal, Director of Research and Corporate Partnerships
- Kathy Gee, Director of Operations
- Seema Gururaj, Director of the Grace Hopper Celebration
- Gail Locke, Director of Finance
- Linda Bohn, Operations Manager and Executive Assistant
- Lilis Bumgardner, CMP, Meetings and Events Manager
- Christine Chiu, Research and Executive Programs Manager
- Tina Pratt, Program Manager and GHC Academic Liaison
- Bénédicte Richardson, Program Manager
- Rosario Robinson, Systers Program Manager
- Rachelle Siskin, Program Logistics Manager
Our Founder
Board of Trustees
- Leah Jamieson, John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering and Ramsburg Distinguished Professor, Purdue University, Board Chair
- Francine Berman, Professor of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute – Vice Chair
- Robin Abrams, Investor
- Anushka Anand, Researcher, Tableau Software
- James Beck, CPA & CMA, Managing Director and COO, Mayfield Fund – Treasurer, Vice President and Corporate Secretary
- Mark Bregman, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Neustar
- Krista Claude, SVP and Global Head, Technology Site Strategy Thomson Reuters
- Debi Coleman, Managing Partner, SmartForest Ventures
- Nancy E. Cooper, Retired, EVP and Chief Financial Officer, CA Technologies
- Kelli Crane, Senior Vice President of Global Enterprise Information Solutions, LexisNexis
- Nora Denzel, Chief Marketing Officer and SVP of Big Data Intuit (Retired)
- Alan Eustace, Senior Vice President of Knowledge, Google
- Peter JL Griffiths, Executive Vice President and Group Executive, Enterprise Solutions and Technology Group, CA Technologies
- Penny Herscher, President and CEO, FirstRain
- Kathy Hill, Former SVP Cisco Systems
- Barbara Holzapfel, Managing Director, SAP Labs
- Tracy S. Keogh, Executive Vice President, Human Resources, HP
- Sarah Loos, Ph.D Candidate, Carnegie Mellon University
- Brian Pawlowski, Senior Vice President, NetApp
- Ana Pinczuk, Senior Vice President, Services Transformation, Cisco Systems
- Richard Rashid, Chief Research Officer, Microsoft
- Justin Rattner, Senior Fellow and CTO, Intel
- Mike Schroepfer, Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering, Facebook
- Angela Tucci, Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer, Symantec
- Marie Wieck, General Manager of Application Integration Middleware (AIM), IBM
- William Wulf, Former President, National Academy of Engineering
- Telle Whitney, President and CEO, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
- Margaret Ashida, Emerita (Term: 2003- 2009)
- Linda Bernardi, Emerita (Term: 1996 -2006)
- Wayne Johnson, Emeritus (Term: 2002-2008)
- Maria Klawe, Emerita (Term: 1996-2011)
- Greg Papadopoulos, Emeritus (Term: 1996 -2006)
- Bill Unger, Emeritus (Term: 2003 – 2012)
Individual and Organizations
Advisory Board
- Nina Bhatti, Founder of startup in stealth mode
- Ann Redelfs, Redelfs LLC
- Frances Allen, IBM Fellow Emerita, IBM
- Linda Apsley, Sr. Technical Program Manager, Program Management, Amazon.com – Co-Chair of Advisory Board
- Pamela Arya, Vice President of Intelligence Solutions, A-T Solutions
- Cynthia Atherton, Program Director for Science, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
- Gail Carmichael, PhD Student, Carleton University
- Anne Condon, Professor of Computer Science, University of British Columbia
- Danielle Cummings, PhD student, Texas A&M University
- Katy Dickinson, Vice President, MentorCloud
- Catherine Didion, Senior Program Officer, National Academy of Engineering
- Gilda Garreton, Principal Engineer, Oracle Labs/Oracle
- Mark Guzdial, Professor, School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Anne Hardy, Vice President Developer Evangelism, SAP Labs
- Nanditha Iyer, Student, Georgia Tech
- Allyson Kapin, Founder, Rad Campaign and Women Who Tech
- Chandra Krintz, Professor of Computer Science, UC Santa Barbara
- Cindy Lain, Software Engineering Manager, Cisco
- Ellen Lapham, Entrepreneur and Designer, Innovation Ventures
- Wei Lin, Senior Director, Engineering Consumer Business Unit, Symantec
- Patty Lopez, Component Design Engineer, Intel
- Karin Meyer, Consultant
- Carol Muller, Executive Director of Stanford WISE Ventures, Stanford University and Founder of MentorNet
- Radha Nandkumar, Independent Research Consultant
- Sabina Nawaz, Nawaz Consulting, LLC
- Rebecca Norlander, Executive in Residence, Illuminate Ventrues
- Elisa Camahort Page, Co-Founder and COO, BlogHer
- Claudia Pearce, NSA
- Mary Ramsey, Campus Relations Manager, Lockheed Martin
- Nancy Ramsey, Author, The Futures of Women: Scenarios for the 21st Century
- Kathy Richardson, Consultant
- Ruth Stergiou, Principal, Planning Dynamics, Inc.
- Audrey Van Belleghem, Director, Office of the CTO, NetApp
- Sheila Van Groningen, Vice President, Airborne ISR, Cyber Intelligence Division, Northrop Grumman Information Systems