Who We Are: Ike Nassi

Executive Vice President and Chief Scientist, SAP

Ike Nassi
Dr. Ike Nassi and his Research groups in the US, Canada and China explore advanced enterprise technologies and applications for use in domestic and multinational corporate environments. He is also responsible for SAP’s Global Business Incubator.

Prior to joining SAP, Dr. Nassi has helped to start three companies: Encore Computer, InfoGear Technology, and Firetide. Firetide Inc. is a wireless mesh networking company Dr. Nassi co-founded and then served as its Executive Vice President, CTO and Chairman of the Board. He was the CTO and head of all product operations at InfoGear prior to its acquisition by Cisco. He also helped start Encore Computer Corporation, a pioneer in symmetric multiprocessors, forerunners of today’s multicore processors.

He also helped start the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, where he currently serves as an active member of the Board of Trustees, and before that was a member of the Board of Overseers at the Computer Museum in Boston.

In addition to his startup experience, Ike has held executive positions at Cisco Systems, Apple Computer, where he served in several capacities leading to his position as Senior Vice President of Software and Corporate Officer. He also worked at Visual Technology, where he was VP Software Engineering, Digital Equipment Corporation, where he worked on the DEC VAX, was a manager in the Corporate Research Group and was a Consulting Engineer, and at SofTech where he worked on avionics support software. He has been responsible for the shipment of several successful products and has made many original technical contributions to the field.

On the academic side, he has been a visiting scholar Stanford University, a research affiliate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a visiting scholar in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley and has also taught graduate courses at Boston University. He is a member of the Advisory Boards of Viewpoints Research, and the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at Northwestern University.

Ike holds a Certificate for Distinguished Service from the Department of Defense for his work on the design of the Ada programming language and was a member of the Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Information Systems and Technology group. He testified before Congress on the Emerging Telecommunications Act of 1991.

He holds memberships in the IEEE and ACM, and graduated with a B.S. in Mathematics, and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stony Brook University.

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

Our Founder

Board of Trustees

  • Leah Jamieson, John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering and Ramsburg Distinguished Professor, Purdue University, Board Chair
  • Francine Berman, Vice President of Research and Professor of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute – Vice Chair
  • Robin Abrams, Investor
  • Anushka Anand, Ph.D Candidate, University of Illinois at Chicago
  • 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
  • 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, Senior Vice President, Big Data, Social Design and Marketing, Intuit
  • Alan Eustace, Senior Vice President of Knowledge, Google
  • Penny Herscher, President and CEO, firstRain
  • Kathy Hill, Senior Vice President, Development Strategy and Operations, Cisco Systems Inc.
  • Tracy S. Keogh, Executive Vice President, Human Resources, HP
  • Sarah Loos, Ph.D Candidate, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Brian Pawlowski, CTO and Senior Vice President, NetApp
  • Richard Rashid, Chief Research Officer, Microsoft
  • Justin Rattner, Senior Fellow and CTO, Intel
  • Mike Schroepfer, VP of Engineering, Facebook
  • Bill Unger, Partner Emeritus, Mayfield Fund
  • 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)

Individual and Organizations

Board of Advisors