Who We Are: Ike Nassi

Executive Vice President SAP, Head of Research Americas and China and Head of Global Business Incubation

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

General Counsel

  • Allison Spinner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Staff

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
  • Margaret Ashida, Director, Diversity and Workforce Programs - IBM Software Group
  • 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, Professor, Dept of Computer Science and Engineering, UC San Diego and Fellow, ACM
  • 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
  • Penny Herscher, President & CEO, firstRain
  • Kathy Hill, Senior VP Ethernet and Wireless Systems Technology Group, Cisco Systems Inc.
  • Leah Jamieson, John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering, and Ramsburg Distinguished Professor, Purdue University
  • Wayne Johnson, Vice President, University Relations, Hewlett-Packard
  • Maria Klawe, President, Harvey Mudd College
  • Ike Nassi, Executive Vice President, and Head of Research, Americas and China, and Head of Global Business Incubation, SAP
  • Brian Pawlowski, CTO, and Senior Vice President, NetApp
  • Richard Rashid, Senior VP and VP Research, Microsoft
  • Justin Rattner, Senior Fellow & CTO, Intel
  • Cheryl Shavers, Former Undersecretary of Technology, Clinton Administration, & CEO of Global Smarts, Inc.
  • Telle Whitney, President & CEO, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
  • Linda Bernardi, Emeritus (Term: 1996 -2006)
  • Greg Papadopoulos, Emeritus (Term: 1996 -2006)

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