Key Note Speaker Member Event – featuring Dr. Ike Nassi, Exec. Vice President of SAP

RMVCA invites all of its members to join us for an evening of networking and a chance to hear from Dr. Ike Nassi, Exec. Vice President at SAP. 

Join us at the Westin in Westminster from 5 – 7pm.   Cocktails and light fare will be served.  Please RSVP with your guest names to Nanette Schunk, RMVCA Exec. Director via email at Nanette@rockymountainvca.com

 

 More about Dr. Ike Nassi:

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 the emerging multinational corporate environment of the 21st century. 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. A sample of his recent clients include Palm Source, Allegis Capital, Vanguard Ventures, and Replicus.

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 on June 5, 2000.  

Prior to joining InfoGear, he was a Senior Vice President 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 was recently appointed to 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 is currently a founding member of the Board of Trustees of the Computer History Museum, and the Board of Advisors of Teja Technologies, Bpath, Inc., the Saratoga Technology Group, and Venture Navigation. He was recently appointed to the Board of Advisors of Alan Kay’s non-profit Viewpoints Research Institute.

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