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Founder

Dean L. Kamen - President, DEKA Research and Development


Board of Directors

Walter P. Havenstein - FIRST Chairman of the Board; CEO, Science Applications and International Corporation (SAIC)

John E. Abele - FIRST Vice Chairman; Founding Chairman, Retired, Boston Scientific Corporation

Robert M. Tuttle - FIRST Vice Chairman/Treasurer of the Board; General Partner, 1848 Associates

Dean L. Kamen - FIRST Founder; President, DEKA Research and Development 

Ursula Burns - CEO, Xerox Corporation

Francois J. Castaing - President, Castaing & Associates

Deborah L. Grubbe - P.E. C Eng - Owner, Operations & Safety Solutions, LLC

Gordon J. Homer - President, Gordon J. Homer Advisory Services

Elliott Masie - Chair, The Learning CONSORTIUM at the MASIE Center

Susie Mathieu - Partner, Spirit Hockey, LLC

Sheri S. McCoy - Worldwide Chairman Pharmaceuticals, Johnson & Johnson

Robert L. Parkinson, Jr. - Chairman & CEO, Baxter International Inc.

Dennis A. Roberson - Vice Provost, New Initiatives, Illinois Institute of Technology

Steve Sanghi - President, CEO, Chairman of the Board, Microchip Technology, Inc.

Thomas G. Stephens - Vice Chairman Global Product Development, General Motors

Myron E. (Mike) Ullman, III - Chairman & CEO, JCPenney

James R. Utaski - Partner, Whitestone Capital, LLC

Ronald L. Zarrella - Chairman Emeritus, Bausch & Lomb Incorporated

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Executive Advisory Board

Dr. Woodie FlowersFIRST Executive Advisory Board Chairman - Pappalardo Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ray Almgren - Vice President of Product Marketing and Academic Relations, National Instruments

Carl Bass - President & CEO, Autodesk, Inc.

Dr. Dennis Berkey - President, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Michael "Micky" Bly - Executive Director Global Electric Systems, Hybrids, Electric Vehicles and Batteries, General Motors Company

Mark Breadner - Vice Principal, East York Collegiate Institute

Sujeet Chand - Senior Vice President, Advanced Technology Chief Technology Officer, Rockwell Automation

Cosema Crawford - Senior Vice President, US Engineering, The Louis Berger Group, Inc.

Michael Dubno - Global Markets and Research Technology, Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Peter Gould - Vice President Engineering and Chief Engineer, Space and Airborne Systems, Raytheon Company

Greg Hale - Chief Safety Officer, VP, Safety, Accessibility & Advanced Technology, Walt Disney Parks & Resorts

Erik Halleus - President & CEO, EuroScandia Enterprises

Michael Heffron - President of Electronics, Intelligence & Support, BAE Systems, Inc.

James E. Heppelmann - President & COO, Parametric Technology Corporation

Marc Hodosh - President, TEDMED

Kent H. Hughes - Director of Science, Technology, America and the Global Economy, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson - President, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen - Owner and Vice Chairman, LEGO Group

Gordon Lankton - Chairman, Nypro Inc.

David Lavery - Program Executive for Solar System Exploration, NASA

Paul Lazarus - President, White Dwarf Productions

Rey Moré - Senior Vice President, Chief Quality Officer, Retired, Motorola

Dr. William P. Murphy, Jr. - Founder, Cordis Corporation

Cecilia Neumann - Attorney

Dr. Roland Schmitt - President Emeritus, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Jeanne Shaheen - U.S. Senator & Former Governor, New Hampshire

Josh Weston - Honorary Chairman, Automatic Data Processing, Inc.

Captain Vincent Wilczynski - Ph.D., Dean of Engineering, U.S. Coast Guard Academy

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Honorary Directors

Paul A. Allaire - FIRST Chairman: 1995-2000, Chairman & CEO, Retired, Xerox Corporation

J.T. Battenberg III - Chariman & CEO, Retired, Delphi Corporation

L. John Doerr III - Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

Gary L. Tooker - Chairman of the Board, Retired, Motorola

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FIRST Leadership Team

Jon Dudas - President

Steve R. Chism - Vice President, Programs

Terry Durkin - Vice President, Finance

Roseann Stevens - Vice President, Field Operations

Roy Temper - Vice President, Development

Cheryl Walsh - Senior Director, Marketing & Media Relations

Ken Johnson - Director, FIRST Tech Challenge

Anna Maenhout - Director, FIRST LEGO League and Junior FIRST LEGO League

Deborah McKinstry - Director, Human Resources

Bill Miller - Director, FIRST Robotics Competition

Dia Stolnitz - Director, Strategic Projects