Robin Abrams brings a wealth of technology and senior management experience to her position on the Board of the the Anita Borg Institute. She has spent nearly 35 years in key leadership roles at numerous high-profile high-tech companies, building an impressive track record both in the U.S. and abroad. Most recently, she served as Interim CEO of ZiLOG, a provider of integrated microcontroller products. Previously, she was CEO of Firefly Mobile, a mobile products company for the youth market. Prior to Firefly Mobile, Abrams was president and CEO of BlueKite, a leading provider of bandwidth optimization software for wireless operators. Abrams was president and CEO of Palm Computing Inc., where she led the launches of the Palm V and Palm VII handheld devices. Prior to Palm, Abrams was president and CEO of VeriFone, the global leader in debit/credit card authorization solutions. She also held key executive positions at Apple, including managing director of Apple Asia and president of Apple Americas. Abrams’ international experience began with Unisys, where she was vice president and program general manager for retail delivery systems, vice president of Pacific marketing operations and general manager of Unisys Financial Centre, based in Hong Kong. Abrams entered the financial world of technology management with Norwest Banks (now Wells Fargo) after earning her B.A. and J.D. degrees from the University of Nebraska. Today, she also serves on the board of directors of HCL Technologies, Openwave Systems Inc. and ZiLOG.
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
- Jerri Barrett, VP of Marketing
- Barbara Gee, VP of Programs
- Deanna Kosaraju, VP of Strategic Initiatives
- Jody Mahoney, VP of Business Development
- Kirk Ross, VP of Finance
- Caroline Simard, VP of Research and Executive Programs
- Cara de Urioste, Director of Development
- Denise Gammal, Director of Corporate Partnerships
- Kathy Gee, Director of Operations
- Seema Gururaj, Director of the Grace Hopper Celebration
- Linda Bohn, Operations Manager and Executive Assistant
- Lilis Bumgardner, CMP, Meetings and Events Manager
- Christine Chiu, Manager of Research and Executive Programs
- Tina Pratt, Program Manager
- Rosario Robinson, Systers Program Manager
- Rachelle Siskin, Program Logistics Manager
- Carolyn Strobel, Marketing Manager
- BJ Wishinsky, Community Manager
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
- Ann Redelfs, Redelfs LLC – Co-Chair of Advisory Board
- Frances Allen, IBM Fellow Emerita, IBM
- Linda Apsley, Principal Group Program Manager, Xbox Live Services, Microsoft Corporation
- Pamela Arya, Vice President of Intelligence Solutions, A-T Solutions
- Nina Bhatti, Senior Principal Scientist, HP Labs
- Gail Carmichael, PhD Student, Carleton University
- Krista Claude, Head of Product and Content Technology, Thomson Reuters Core Legal
- Anne Condon, Professor of Computer Science, University of British Columbia
- Katy Dickinson, Chief Analyst, Software Development Trends, Huawei Technologies
- Catherine Didion, Senior Program Officer, National Academy of Engineering
- Allan Fisher, Vice President, Laureate Education
- 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
- Robin Jeffries, Google
- Allyson Kapin, Founder, Rad Campaign and Women Who Tech
- Chandra Krintz, Associate Professor, 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, Director, Platforms, Intuit
- Carol Muller, Senior Consultant, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University; President, Blue Sky Consulting
- Radha Nandkumar, Senior Research Scientist Director, ICARE – International and Campus Relations, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Sabina Nawaz, Nawaz Consulting, LLC
- Elisa Camahort Page, Co-Founder and COO, BlogHer
- Claudia Pearce, NSA
- Tracy Prentiss
- Mary Ramsey, 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
