Dr. Ike Nassi
is an Executive Vice President at SAP,
responsible for Research for the Americas and China. He and his group
explore advanced new enterprise technologies and applications for use
in multinational corporate environments. He is also responsible for
SAP's Global Business Incubator.
Prior to joining SAP, he founded Firetide
Inc, a wireless mesh networking company based in Los Gatos,
California. At Firetide he served as Executive Vice President and CTO,
and was a Chairman of Firetide’s Board of Directors.
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.
He has also been an industry consultant and entrepreneur specializing
in computer and networking technology and products. His
consulting assignments have been with several startup companies,
startup divisions within established companies, and venture capital
firms.
Before starting his consulting practice, he was with Cisco Systems. Prior to joining Cisco, he was Vice President of Product Development and Operations and Chief Technology Officer at InfoGear Technology Corporation, which was acquired by Cisco June 2000.
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Prior to joining
InfoGear, he was a Senior Vice President and a Corporate Officer at Apple Computer, where
he led its AppleSoft Division until November 1996. Prior to working at
Apple he helped start Encore
Computer Corporation, a pioneer in the design and development
of shared memory multiprocessors, and before that worked at Visual
Technology, Digital
Equipment Corporation and SofTech Inc.
He has also 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. He has also taught Computer Science at Boston University. He is currently on the advisory board of the College of Engineering at Peking University in Beijing China, and the advisory board of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of Northwestern University. He is currently a founding member of the Board of Trustees of the Computer History Museum, and is on the Board of Advisors of Alan Kay's non-profit Viewpoints Research Institute. He is also a member of the IEEE Computer Society's Advanced Technology Executive Forum. In the past, he has served on several boards. He has been a member of the Federal Networking Council Advisory Committee of the National Science Foundation, a member of the Council on Competitiveness Advisory Committee, the Board of Directors of Congregation Beth David, Saratoga, California and was a member of the Board of Overseers of the Computer Museum. |
He has served the Federal government in several capacities. He holds a Certificate for Distinguished Service from the U.S. Department of Defense for his design work on the programming language Ada. He served for six years as a member of Advanced Research Projects Agency's Information Systems and Technology group, which advised ARPA on information science research priorities. He also testified before Congress on the Emerging Telecommunications Act of 1991.
Check out some of his publications and speaking engagements. Here are recent interviews in ComputerWorld and Information Week.
Dr. Nassi holds an M.S. and PhD in Computer Science and a B.S. in Mathematics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and in 2008 completed a global leadership developement program at INSEAD.
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