President and CEO, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
Dr. Telle Whitney has served as President and CEO of ABI since 2003. Whitney has 20 years experience in semiconductor and telecommunications industries. She has held senior technical management positions with Malleable Technologies (now PMC-Sierra) and Actel Corporation, and is a co-founder of the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference. Dr. Whitney served as ACM Secretary/Treasurer in 2003-2004, and is currently co-chair of the ACM Distinguished member committee. She was a member of the National Science Foundation Committee for Equal Opportunity in Science and Engineering (CEOSE) and is a co-founder of the National Center for Women and Information Technology. She serves on the advisory boards of MentorNet and the Professional Business Women’s Conference, and is a member of CRA-W
Dr. Whitney received her Ph.D. from Caltech, and her bachelor’s degree at the University of Utah both in computer science.
Telle weaves her professional life with her personal passions. She is runner, and loves to hike, including occasionally in the Himalayas. She and her husband Bill live in the Los Gatos Mountains. She creates her own jewelry, in her not so spare time.
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