IBM Fellow Emerita and 2006 Turing Award Winner
Fran Allen first met Anita Borg in the early 1970’s as a student in Fran’s graduate course on Compilers at NYU. Anita later observed that: “Fran was the only woman professor I had in graduate school.” Anita Borg went on to change the role of women in computing and in the process became an inspiring role model and friend for Fran and many others.
Widely known for her work on compilers, compiler optimization, parallelism, and high performance systems, Fran Allen became IBM’s first woman Fellow - the company’s highest technical honor. Fran is also well known for her work as a mentor and advocate for women in computing. Active professionally, she has served on multiple boards including NSF’s CISE Board, the National Research Council’s Computer Sciences and Telecommunications Board (CSTB), CRA, and the ACM Council.
Now retired after 45 years in computing, Fran Allen is a Fellow Emerita at IBM’s T. J. Watson Research Laboratory and continues her active involvement in professional, technical, and women’s advocacy projects. Current activities include serving on the IWT Advisory Board and the IWT Leadership Workshop committee. Helping to fulfill Anita Borg’s dream of having many women contributing to all aspects of IT continues to inspire Fran’s work.
Allen is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a Fellow of the ACM, the IEEE, and the Computer History Museum and has two honorary doctorate degrees as well as several awards for her work for women in computing. She has been inducted into the WITI (Women in Technology International) Hall of Fame and, last year, received the Augusta Ada Lovelace Award from the Association for Women in Computing. For her work on behalf of women in IBM, the company established the Frances E. Allen IBM Women in Technology Mentoring Award in 2000 and made Fran the first recipient.
Officers
- Telle Whitney, - President and CEO
- James Beck, CPA & CMA, Managing Director & CFO, Mayfield Fund - Treasurer & Vice President
- Deanna Kosaraju, Corporate Secretary
Corporate Counsel
- Allison Spinner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Staff
- Telle Whitney, President and CEO
- Deanna Kosaraju, Vice President Programs
- Jody Mahoney, VP of Business Development
- Jerri Barrett, VP of Marketing
- Kirk Ross, Director of Finance
- Caroline Simard, VP of Research and Executive Programs
- Kathy Gee, IT Project Specialist
- Kim McLeod, Leadership Development & Academic Initiatives Program Manager
- Rachelle Siskin, Program Logistics Manager
- BJ Wishinsky, Communities Program Manager
- Christine Chiu, Program Content Manager
- TBD, Office Manager
Our Founder
Board of Trustees
- William Wulf, Ph.D., Former President, National Academy of Engineering, Board Chair
- Bill Unger, Partner Emeritus, Mayfield Fund - Vice-Chair
- Robin Abrams, Investor
- Prith Banerjee, Senior Vice President, Research, and Director, HP Labs, HP
- James Beck, CPA & CMA, Managing Director & CFO, Mayfield Fund - Treasurer & Vice President
- Francine Berman, Vice President of Research and Professor of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Mark Bregman, CTO, Symantec
- Debi Coleman, Managing Partner, SmartForest Ventures
- Nora Denzel, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Payroll, Intuit
- Alan Eustace, Senior Vice President, Research and Systems Engineering, Google
- Shanna-Shaye Forbes, graduate student, UC Berkeley
- Eugenia Gabrielova, student, Northwestern
- Penny Herscher, President & CEO, firstRain
- Kathy Hill, Senior Vice President, Development Strategy & Operations, Cisco Systems Inc.
- Leah Jamieson, John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering, and Ramsburg Distinguished Professor, Purdue University
- Maria Klawe, President, Harvey Mudd College
- Ike Nassi, Executive Vice President and Chief Scientist, SAP
- Brian Pawlowski, CTO, and Senior Vice President, NetApp
- Richard Rashid, Senior VP and VP Research, Microsoft
- Justin Rattner, Senior Fellow & CTO, Intel
- Telle Whitney, President & CEO, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
- Linda Bernardi, Emeritus (Term: 1996 -2006)
- Greg Papadopoulos, Emeritus (Term: 1996 -2006)
Individual and Organizations
Board of Advisors
- Rebecca Norlander, Partner Engineering Manager, Microsoft Online Advertising Platform, Microsoft Corporation - Co-Chair of Advisory Board
- Ann Redelfs, Redelfs LLC - Co-Chair of Advisory Board
- Frances Allen, IBM Fellow Emerita, IBM
- Pamela Arya, VP, Business Development, Harris Crucial Security Programs
- Nina Bhatti, Principle Scientist, HP Labs
- Anne Condon, Professor of Computer Science, University of British Columbia
- Katy Dickinson, Director, Business Process Architecture, Sun Microsystems
- Catherine Didion, Senior Program Officer, National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
- Carole Dulong, Google
- Allan Fisher, Vice President, Laureate Education
- Mark Guzdial, Professor in the School of Interactive Computing,
Georgia Institute of Technology - Robin Jeffries, Google
- Chandra Krintz, Associate Professor, UC Santa Barbara
- Ellen Lapham, Entrepreneur & Designer, Innovation Ventures
- Sarah Loos, PhD Student, Carnegie Mellon University
- Carol Muller, Former CEO, Mentornet
- Elisa Camahort Page, co-founder & COO, BlogHer
- Tracy Prentiss, Vice President, SAP
- Nancy Ramsey, Author, The Futures of Women: Scenarios for the 21st Century
- Kathy Richardson, Consultant
- Ruth Stergiou, Principal, Planning Dynamics, Inc.
- Sarah Revi Sterling, Faculty, University of Colorado, Boulder