Leadership

Founder

Dean L. Kamen - President, DEKA Research and Development Corporation

Board of Directors

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

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

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

Jon W. Dudas - FIRST Secretary; President, FIRST

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

Glenn Britt - Chairman & CEO, Time Warner Cable

Ursula M. Burns - Chairman & CEO, Xerox Corporation

Francois J. Castaing - President, Castaing & Associates

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

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

Sheri S. McCoy - Chief Executive Officer, Avon Products

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

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

Thomas G. Stephens - Vice Chairman, Global Chief Technology Officer, General Motors Company

Myron E. (Mike) Ullman, III - Executive Chairman, Retired, jcpenney

James R. Utaski - Partner, Whitestone Capital, LLC

Honorary Directors

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

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

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

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

Executive Advisory Board

Dr. Woodie Flowers, FIRST Executive Advisory Board Chairman; Pappalardo Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ray Almgren - Vice President, Marketing Core Platforms, National Instruments

Joe Astroth, Ph.D. - Educational Consultant

Dr. Dennis Berkey - President & CEO, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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

Mark Breadner - Executive Director, FIRST Robotics Canada

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

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

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

Greg Hale - Chief Safety Officer & VP, Worldwide Standards and Auditing, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts

Erik Halleus - President & CEO, EuroScandia Enterprises

Michael A. Heffron - President & CEO, DeLorme

James E. Heppelmann - President & CEO, PTC

Marc Hodosh - Host, Partner and Co-Creator, TEDMED

Kent H. Hughes - Director, Program on 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, Inc.

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

Cecilia Neumann - Attorney

Dr. Roland Schmitt - President Emeritus, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Hon. Jeanne Shaheen - U.S. Senator, New Hampshire

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

Vincent Wilczynski, Ph.D. - Deputy Dean, School of Engineering & Applied Science, Yale University

FIRST Leadership Team

Jon Dudas - President

Virginia Szymanowski - Chief of Staff

Steve R. Chism - Vice President, Programs

Terry Durkin - Vice President, Finance

Roseann Stevens - Vice President, Field Operations

Becky Alseth - Chief Marketing & Development Officer

Cheryl Walsh - Senior Director, Marketing & Media Relations

Ken Johnson - Director, FIRST Tech Challenge

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

Bill Miller - Director, FIRST Robotics Competition

Dia Stolnitz - Director, Strategic Projects