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Department Advisory Council

Dr. James E. Carnes *70 *67
President and CEO of Sarnoff Corporation, Retired
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He became president of Sarnoff in 1990. His professional experience includes more than 32 years of combined service with Sarnoff and its predecessor, the RCA Laboratories. He is an expert in the field of charge-coupled devices and has played a major role in the development of High Definition Television (HDTV). Carnes has been issued nine patents and is the author of more than 100 papers and presentations. He has received numerous awards including the David Sarnoff Outstanding Technical Achievement Award. He is an IEEE Fellow and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
 
Dr. Kevin Daly *70 *67 *68
Chief Executive Officer of AvamarTechnologies.
Kevin C. Daly is chief executive officer of Avamar Technologies Inc in Irvine, CA. He was previously chief technical officer of Quantum Corporation's Storage Solutions Group and, prior to that, he was chief executive officer of ATL Products, Inc. from its foundation in 1993 until 2001. Kevin also served as chief technical officer of Odetics, Inc. from 1985 until ATL's separation from Odetics in an IPO in 1997. Prior to Odetics, Kevin was Director of the Control and Dynamics Division of the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory at MIT from 1974 through 1985. Kevin is a member of the board of directors of Odetics, Inc., Danka Business Systems, PLC, Ascolta LLC, and iStor Networks, Inc. Kevin is also an ambassador of the UCI Foundation, the chairman of the Industrial Advisory Board of the Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations at UCI and a board member of Project Tomorrow, an organization dedicated to furthering science education. Kevin earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering for the University of Notre Dame and a master of science, a master of arts and doctorate in engineering from Princeton University.
 
Christopher Fine '80
Vice President and Chief Technology Strategist, High Technology Investment Banking Group, Goldman, Sachs & Company, New York. 
Mr. Fine has worked at Goldman Sachs for 15 years as an IT manager and investment banker.  Before joining Goldman Sachs, Mr. Fine served as Vice President and IT specialist for Mendik Realty Corporation and Jones Lang Wootton.  Mr. Fine was also an electrical engineer and Member of Technical Staff for IBM and Exxon Office Systems.  He is a member of the IEEE and ACM.  Chris holds a BSEE/CS degree from Princeton and an MBA in Finance from New York University.
 
Dr. Leah H. Jamieson *77 *74
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University.
Leah Jamieson joined the faculty of Purdue University in 1976. Since joining Purdue she has authored over 150 technical papers and edited two books in the areas of signal processing and parallel computation. She is a Fellow of the IEEE and the recipient of numerous awards including: the National Science Foundation Director's Award for Distinguished Teaching Scholars, the Harriet B. Rigas "Outstanding Woman Engineering Educator" Award from the IEEE Education Society, the Chester F. Carlson Award for Innovation in Engineering Education from the American Society for Engineering Education, and an IEEE Third Millennium Medal. She has served as an associate editor of several IEEE journals, is a past President of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, and has been elected to the office of 2003 IEEE Vice President for Technical Activities.
 
Stephen Johnson '64
Managing Partner of The Slingshot Group.
Mr. Johnson was founder of Komag Incorporated where he served as President and Chief Executive Officer from September 1983 to August 1999. He was also President and Chief Executive Officer of Boschert, Incorporated from 1981 to 1983. Mr. Johnson holds a B.S. degree in Engineering from Princeton University, an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Mexico, and an MBA degree from Harvard Business School. Mr. Johnson is currently a director of Glimmerglass Networks Incorporated, Intransa Incorporated, Rapport Inc., SideStep Inc and San Jose Systems. He has served on the boards of 3Com Corporation, Exabyte Corporation., Uniphase Corporation, Rasna Incorporated, Komag Incorporated, and Asahi Komag Company, Ltd.
 
Dr. Tarun Khanna '88
Professor, Harvard Business School.
Tarun Khanna holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) degree, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Princeton University, and a Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University. He is currently co-course-head for the required Competition and Strategy course in the MBA program, and teaches in HBS executive education programs worldwide. He has also taught the Corporate Strategy and the Global Strategy and Management electives at HBS. Professor Khanna's current research focuses on understanding how company strategy should be tailored to suit country context. He is particularly interested in studying the drivers of entrepreneurship in emerging markets. He serves as a consultant to several multinationals as well as to companies domiciled in emerging markets, serves on the advisory boards of startups in emerging markets, and has taught in custom executive education programs worldwide.
 
Kamran Rafieyan '89
Co-Founder and CIO, Lava Trading Inc.

Kamran Rafieyan received his B.S.E. from Princeton University in 1989 and an M.S. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1990. Prior to Lava Trading, a technology firm providing equity trading solutions to the financial community, Mr. Rafieyan worked in the Applied Research group at Bellcore. He has also held technology posts and completed consulting projects with a number of leading financial firms, including Dow Jones/Telerate, Reuters, Nomura Securities, and institutional broker GFI Group.
 
Dr. Jennifer Rexford '91
AT&T Laboratories.
Jennifer Rexford is a Technology Consultant in the IP Network
Management Department at AT&T Labs-Research, in Florham Park, NJ,
where her work focuses on Internet routing protocols and traffic
measurement. She has four patents in the area of data networking
and several of her ideas have been used to improve the operation
of AT&T's commercial IP backbone. Jennifer is a member of the
editorial board of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and is 
coauthor of the book "Web Protocols and Practice" (Addison-Wesley, 
2001) with Balachander Krishnamurthy. She received her BSE degree 
in electrical engineering from Princeton University in 1991 with 
highest honors, and her MSE and PhD degrees in computer science and 
electrical engineering from the University of Michigan in 1993 and 
1996, respectively. Jennifer's publications are available via the 
Web at http://www.research.att.com/~jrex.
 
Dr. Laurence G. Walker '70
CEO, President, and Founder of C-Port Corporation
A Motorola Company.

Before joining C-Port, Larry Walker was CEO of CertCo, an Internet security systems vendor, based in New York. Prior to CertCo, he was Vice President and General Manager of Digital Equipment Corporation's Network Product Business Group. Previously at Digital, Walker ran the engineering department that developed the Alpha chip, the industry's first 64-bit microprocessor. He is on the boards of the Massachusetts Telecommunications Council, the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, McData Corporation and the Hopkins School. He has a B.S. from Princeton and a M.S. and Ph.D. from MIT.
 
Dr. Stuart Wolff *90
Founder and President, Scinovate Corporation
Stuart Wolff earned his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1990 in the area of semiconductor materials and devices. He has worked at various leading research facilities, including Bell Labs in New Jersey, the IBM Research Station in New York, the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in Silicon Valley and Densoken in Japan. He has authored papers on solid-state physics for such publications as Applied Physics Letters. In addition, while working on a development team at IBM, he was awarded a patent for the creation of a more efficient semi-conductor technology process. Stuart was Vice President of Business Development at TCI Interactive, and he also founded and served as CEO and Chairman of Homestore.com.
 
Dr. Eugene Wong *59 '55
Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley.
Eugene Wong received his BA and PhD (electrical engineering) from Princeton. He worked for IBM Research Center in Yorktown, NY, from 1960 - 1962 before joining the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, in 1962. He later served as chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at Berkeley. As a pioneering researcher in database management systems, Wong co-designed INGRES, one of the first modern database systems, and then co-founded INGRES Corp., a leading provider of commercial database software. From 1990 to 1993, Wong served as associate director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and from 1998 to 2000 he served as head of the engineering directorate of the National Science Foundation. He is currently the CEO and a member of the board of directors of Versata, Inc., an Oakland-based company that produces software products for automating business applications, and the Chairman of the Council of Advisors on Innovation and Technology to the Government of Hong Kong. He is a member and former Councilor of the National Academy of Engineering, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

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