FIRST Leadership

Board of Directors
John E. Abele - FIRST Chairman; Founder Chairman, Retired, Boston Scientific Corporation

James R. Utaski - FIRST Vice Chairman; Partner, Whitestone Capital, LLC

Robert M. Tuttle - FIRST Treasurer; General Partner, 1848 Associates

Paul R. Gudonis - FIRST Secretary; President, FIRST

Paul A. Allaire - FIRST Chairman Emeritus; Former Chairman & CEO, Xerox Corporation

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

Douglas L. Becker - Chairman & CEO, Laureate Education, Inc.

Ursula Burns - Senior Vice President & President, Business Group Operations,
Xerox Corporation

Francois J. Castaing - President, Castaing & Associates

Walter P. Havenstein - President & CEO, BAE Systems, Inc., COO, BAE Systems plc

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

Vernon R. Loucks, Jr. - Chairman, The Aethena Group, LLC

Susie Mathieu - Partner, Spirit Hockey, LLC

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

Curt M. Selquist - Company Group Chairman, J&J Health Care Systems, Inc.

Thomas G. Stephens - Group Vice President, GM Powertrain

Ronald L. Zarrella - Chairman & CEO, Bausch & Lomb, Inc.

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Executive Advisory Board
Dean L. Kamen, Chairman - President, DEKA Research and Development

Dr. Woodie Flowers, Vice Chairman - Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering, MIT

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

Gwen M. Campbell - Senior Vice President, Private Wealth Management, UBS Financial Services, Inc.

Nick Caporella - Chairman & CEO, National Beverage Corp.

Dr. John F. Cassidy, Jr. - Senior Vice President Science & Technology, United Technologies Corporation

Robert E. Couhig - Principal, Couhig Partners, LLP

Cosema Crawford - Senior Vice President & Chief Engineer, MTA New York City Transit

Peter Eio - President, retired, LEGO Systems, Inc.

Deborah L. Grubbe, P.E., Vice President - Group Safety, BP Plc

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

Erik Halleus - EuroScandia Enterprises

Fred Hubacker - Executive Consultant, Apollo Management, L.P.

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

Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson - President, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Trevor O. Jones - Chairman, CEO & Founder, BIOMEC, Inc.

Gordon Lankton - Chairman, Nypro Inc.

David Lavery - Program Executive for Solar System Exploration, NASA

Rey Moré - Chief Quality Officer, Motorola

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

Cecilia Neumann - Attorney

Dr. Edward A. Parrish - President, Retired, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tom Pirelli - Executive Director, The Arial Foundation

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

Dr. Roland Schmitt - President Emeritus, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Jeanne Shaheen - Former Governor of New Hampshire

Cheryl L. Shavers, Ph.D. - Chairman & CEO, Global Smarts, Inc.

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

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

William A. Wulf - President, National Academy of Engineering

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Honorary Directors
Carol Bartz - Chairman & CEO, Autodesk, Inc.

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

Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen - Owner & Deputy Chairman, LEGO Group

John E. Pepper - Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors, The Procter & Gamble Company

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

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