The UTCS Advisory Council is an external community of friends and alumni who support, advise, and assist the chair in accomplishing the department's academic and societal missions.
Forest Baskett, PhD, joined New Enterprise Associates in 1999 and has been a General Partner since 2004. Baskett focuses on information technology investments and serves on the board of directors for several private and public companies.
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Nawaf Bitar is a Senior Advisor for Citadel Securities, where he is responsible for helping drive the firm’s efforts to continue attracting exceptional technology talent, managing external relationships and other initiatives.
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Ross A. Buhrdorf joined ZenBusiness in 2016 and serves as the CEO. Prior to joining ZenBusiness, Mr. Buhrdorf served as the Chief Technology Officer of HomeAway. In his more than 30 years as a technology leader, entrepreneur and corporate executive, Ross helps transform the way consumers interact with technology. He is passionate about the consumer Internet, security, mobile technology and how to apply innovation to build better products and a better world.
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Arjun Chopra is a Partner at Floodgate. He leads the firm’s investments in opportunities that transform the “IT stack” in ways that help companies change the way they do business and compete.
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Tara Estlin is Deputy Chief Technologist for Mission Systems and Operations at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. She is also the Supervisor of the JPL Machine Learning and Instrument Autonomy group.
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Ashish Gupta is an Engineering Fellow, and Vice President of Engineering at Google. Since Feb 2019, Ashish leads Engineering for the YouTube Ads platform, responsible for advertiser-facing video-ads products, ad-serving and quality.
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Deepak Hathiramani is Non-Executive Chairman of the Vistronix Board of Directors. The founder and former CEO of Vistronix, he has more than 25 years of management and technical experience with privately-funded and venture-funded high-tech start-ups.
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Robert Hormuth is the Corporate Vice President, Architecture and Strategy of the Data Center and Embedded Solutions (Server, Data Center GPUs, and Embedded product lines) at AMD. Robert has 33+ years in the computer industry.
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As Chief Platform Officer for National Instruments, Duncan G. Hudson III is responsible for guiding the evolution of NI’s product platform and leading the R&D fellows.
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Amir Husain is a serial entrepreneur and inventor based in Austin, Texas. He is the Founder & CEO of SparkCognition, Inc. an award-winning Machine Learning/AI driven Cognitive Analytics Company, and serves on the Board of Advisors for IBM Watson.
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Irfan serves as chief operating and strategy officer for Engineering for Goldman Sachs. In this role, he partners with leadership across the firm to define and advance the engineering strategy and deliver best-in-class technology solutions to our clients.
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Nagraj Kashyap joined SoftBank Investment Advisors in early 2021 as a Managing Partner. Prior to SBIA, he founded M12, Microsoft’s venture fund, in 2016 to invest in early stage enterprise software startups.
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Robert LeBlanc is the former Senior Vice President, IBM Cloud. In this role, he had global responsibility for IBM’s industry leading cloud portfolio of technology and services, including strategy, product design, offering development, marketing, sales, and service.
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Pierre Malko founded Dante in 1998 and serves as Dante's CEO and President. He is responsibe for overall strategy of the firm, the architecture direction of the Allegory Platform, and the day-to-day operations of Dante.
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Adriane McFetridge joined Netflix as the Director of Engineering in May 2017 and leads the Subscription Platform engineering team. Prior to joining Netflix, Adriane served as the VP of Payment Software Services for Verifone.
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Tarun Nimmagadda is a co-founder of Mutual Mobile, the product development and innovation agency he co-founded at the age of 22. A tinkerer and creative thinker, Tarun was an early believer in the promise of connected devices.
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Dheeraj is the Founder, CEO & Chairman of Nutanix. He brings a wealth of experience of working at high growth enterprise software companies.
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DeWayne Quinn joined Apple Inc. in 1999 and currently leads Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) teams in the U.S., Latin America and Canada.
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Raghu Ramakrishnan is CTO for Data and a Technical Fellow in the Cloud and Enterprise (C&E) division at Microsoft.
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Jennifer Gill Roberts is a Bay Area native, technologist, repeat entrepreneur and seasoned venture capitalist. She co-founded her current venture fund, Grit Ventures to focus on early stage investments in AI, Robotics and Advanced Energy. Grit Labs is an Affiliate Sponsor of Texas Robotics.
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As the first Chief Product Officer at PagerDuty, Sean Scott is responsible for PagerDuty’s multi-product digital operations management platform, leading product management, product marketing, design, user experience and pricing teams.
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Rajat Shroff is the Vice President and Head of Product Management and Design at DoorDash, where he oversees the product design, product management and product operations teams. He is responsible for leading the product development efforts to make DoorDash a daily utility for consumers, a trusted partner for merchants, and a flexible source of reliable income for Dashers.
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Brian Skiba is part of the Babylon Health team in the US focused on Products, Engineering & Solutions for the Americas market.
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Dr. Kay Stepper is senior vice president of ADAS and Automated Driving - Bosch in North America. Since joining Bosch in 1996, Dr. Stepper has held a series of business leadership and management positions in engineering, research, product development and marketing in both the U.S. and in Germany. He is frequently turned to as an expert by leading media outlets and industry associations on topics such as automated driving, advanced driver assistance systems, crash avoidance systems and consumer education on vehicle safety. He has also provided expert testimony to government entities including the U.S. Congress.
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Justin Taylor is Vice President of Artificial Intelligence for Lockheed Martin within Corporate Engineering. He is responsible for leading the corporation’s development and implementation of an artificial intelligence / machine learning technology strategy, as well as leading the Lockheed Martin AI Center (LAIC).
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Gregg Zeitlin co-founded Reservoir Capital Group in 1998 and serves as a Senior Managing Director and a member of the firm’s Investment Committees. He currently serves on the boards of many of Reservoir’s portfolio companies, including ContourGlobal, Voyager Aviation, and ClearCaptions.
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