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The Dean's Leadership Council is an advisory board that helps advance the Bren School of ICS' research, teaching and public service goals by strengthening the school’s ties to industry and the community.
Council members provide invaluable input to the dean of the school from their industry and community perspective on industry trends, the ICS curriculum, and so forth.
Founded in 1998, the Leadership Council started under the leadership of then ICS Chair Mike Pazzani and Ted Smith.
Under Dean Debra Richardson, the Leadership Council has grown in membership to 20 members and has evolved into a board with six standing committees, four of which recently held their inaugural meeting.
Committees for the leadership council include Marketing, Fund-Raising, Entrepreneurship, Ambassadors, Outreach and Northern California.
The council meets three times per year as a full board.
The Leadership Council’s current focus is to assist in helping ICS form stronger ties with the community and build collaborative relationships with industry. The group is an invaluable resource to the dean of the Bren School.
If you are interested in getting involved in any of the committees listed above, please contact Lara Farhadi at lfarhadi@uci.edu or at (949) 824-8971.
MISSION
The mission of the Dean's Leadership Council is to:
- Serve as an advisory group to the dean of the Bren School of ICS;
- Serve as advocates for the Bren School of ICS and promote the interests of the school in the community;
- Assist in recruiting additional members to the council who fit the profile for membership and identify other support groups who can contribute to the advancement of the school; and
- Assist in fund-raising campaigns to help increase the financial resources of the school.
CURRENT COUNCIL MEMBERS
Robert Romney, M.S., Chair
Senior Director, Marvell Semiconductor
Bob is the founder of Irvine-based Zenographics, Inc. which developed and licensed high-performance imaging software. Zenographics was acquired by Marvell Technology Group Ltd. (MRVL) in December 2006.Gary Augusta
Executive Director, OCTANe Foundation for Innovation
Gary brings over 15 years experience to his role, with experience in early stage growth strategy, corporate venture, engineering, development, consulting, and M&A at technology start-ups, for- and non-profit corporations, and Fortune 500 companies.Paul Butterworth '74, M.S. '81
Chief Technical Officer, AmberPoint
Paul is responsible for setting the technical strategy for the company’s industry-leading SOA runtime governance software. Paul’s vision and leadership at AmberPoint were recognized with the InfoWorld CTO 25 award in 2007.Chris Callero
President and Chief Operating Officer, Experian
Chris was appointed President and Chief Operating Officer of Experian in April 2008. He previously served as Chief Executive Officer of Experian Americas, having joined the company in 2002. Prior to joining Experian, Chris spent 27 years at Bank of America, where his roles included Group Executive Vice President in retail banking.Kevin Daly, Ph.D.
CEO of iStor Networks, Inc.
Daly is an accomplished technology industry veteran with over 30 years of experience guiding innovative start-up organizations toward market leadership. He has a wealth of data storage expertise having played a pivotal role in the success of some of the industry’s most recognized companies.Rick Dutta
Chief Executive Officer, Nexvisionix, Inc.
Dutta is a serial entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience in high tech industry. He is currently the CEO and Chairman of Nexvisionix, a software holding company.Farshad Farhand ’94
President and CEO, GrpSys
Farhand is founder of GrpSys a web application design and development, multi-media design, e-commerce/shopping cart and database management and design consulting firm. He is also co-founder of SanFiore European Chocolates which sells chocolates manufactured in Belgium.Steven Joe ’80
President and CEO of D-Link Systems, Inc.
Steven Joe, president and CEO of D-Link Systems, Inc., for two decades has successfully driven revenue growth and channel expansion for the subsidiary of D-Link Corporation of Taiwan.David Key
Chairman, Zeacom, Inc.
Key, is chairman of Zeacom, Inc., which provides a unified communications platform—tying together faxing, phone operator console, messaging, presence, multimedia computing, call center, and computer-telephony integration (CTI).Maria Klawe, Ph.D.
President, Harvey Mudd College
Prior to joining Harvey Mudd College, Maria served as Dean of Engineering at Princeton University and in several positions at the University of British Columbia including Dean of Science and Head of Computer Science. Maria has also worked at IBM Research in California, and at the University of Toronto.Robert Kleist
President, Chief Executive Officer, Printronix
Kleist is a founder, President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director of Printronix, Inc. a California Corporation formed in 1974. Kleist holds seventeen patents for peripherals and control systems. He received a B.S.E.E. degree from the University of Kansas in 1951 and an M.S.E.E. degree from Stanford University in 1961.G.P. Li
Director, Cal(IT)2, Irvine
Li is interested in high-speed semiconductor technology, micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) technology, opto-electronic devices, and the design, fabrication and testing of integrated circuits.Hope Miller
Raytheon (retired)
Chair of the Leadership Council for Information and Computer Science at UCI. She retired from Raytheon where she was the California Engineering Director for Raytheon Network Centric Systems.Paul Mockapetris, Ph.D. ’81
Chief Scientist, Nominum
Mockapetris is an Internet advocate and investor, with interests
ranging from high speed switching systems to applications. At present, he is Chairman and Chief Scientist for Nominum. He is best known as the creator of the Domain Name System (DNS), and wrote the first implementation of SMTP.George Riviere, '74
VP Strategic Technologies, KoldCastTV
Riviere works with Irvine-based KoldCastTV to become the powerhouse in the fast-moving field of Internet-based television. He was a co-founder of the Irvine-based State of the Art business software company, which was acquired in 1999 by the Sage software company.Ali Shadman
Vice President and General Manager, Unisys Corporation
Shadman is responsible for marketing and product management of various Unisys software products including Server and Application Sentinel, J2EE-related technologies and Enterprise Application Environment (EAE).Larry Smarr, Ph.D.
Director, Cal(IT)2, San Diego
Smarr is director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology and Harry E. Gruber professor in the Jacobs School’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UCSD.Ted Smith
Chairman and CEO, MIND Research Institute
Smith has been in the computer industry since 1960. After founding FileNet Corporation in 1982, he led the company as chairman and CEO until 1998, after which he continued as a director. FileNet was acquired by IBM in 2006.Jon Teichrow ’86
President, Webreach
Teichrow is founder and president of WebReach, Inc. He works on on open source healthcare solutions such as the Mirth HL7 interface engine that simplifies Radiology Information System (RIS), Hospital Information System (HIS), and Picture Archive and Communication System (PACS) integration.
