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Departmental Advisory Boards

The history of the WPI Advisory Boards is a distinguished one. With the first board established in 1980 and significant growth through the 80s, the boards have provided a vital and vibrant link between the university and industry, fostering a mutually beneficial exchange of ideas, advice, and resources-both human and capital-for nearly three decades. Today, the WPI Advisory Boards comprise a remarkable group of over 200 women and men who are leaders in their respective fields. Advisory Board members hail from across the United States and around the world. And they lend their invaluable expertise to 20 WPI departments and programs.

Biology and Biotechnology
David F. Albertini Hall Professor of Molecular Medicine
Kansas University Medical Center 		Kansas City, KS
M. Sawkat Anwer Professor and Associate Dean for Research
Department of Biomedical Sciences
Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine 		North Grafton, MA
Raymond M. Dunn '78 Professor and Chair of Plastic Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery, UMass Memorial Medical Center Worcester, MA
Daniel A. Funk '77 Orthopedic Surgeon Cincinnati, OH
Eric W. Overstrom, ex-officio Department Head and Professor Biology and Biotechnology, Director of Life Sciences, WPI Worcester, MA
Mitchell C. Sanders MS '88, PhD '92 Executive Vice President and Founder, ECI Biotech Worcester, MA
Biomedical Engineering
Clinton T. Rubin, chair Distinguished Professor and Chair Biomedical Engineering Department, SUNY at Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY
Raymond M. Dunn '78 Professor and Chair of Plastic Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery, UMass Memorial Medical Center Worcester, MA
William C. Hunter Professor, Biomedical Department, New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark, NJ
Yitzhak Mendelson, ex-officio Interim Department Head and Associate Professor Biomedical Engineering, WPI Worcester, MA
Mark A. Norige President and Chief Executive Officer, Celeros Separations Wrentham, MA
Michael B. Smith '92 Executive Director and Head of Global Imaging,
Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Inc. 		Cambridge, MA
Chemical Engineering
Rakesh Agrawal W.E. Stone Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University School of Chemical Engineering West Lafayette, IN
David DiBiasio, ex-officio Professor and Department Head Chemical Engineering, WPI Worcester, MA
Lise W. Jorgensen '87 Estee Lauder Companies, Inc. New York, NY
Arthur T. Katsaros '69   Center Valley, PA
Stephen J. Kmiotek '80, MS '82, PhD '86 Environmental Engineering Manager, Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials, LLC Marlborough, MA
Joseph A. Senecal '69 UTC Fire/Security Senior Fellow, Kidde-Fenwal, Inc. Holliston, MA
Robert A. Sinuc '66 Managing Director, Cyclics Europe Schenectady, NY
Richard D. Willett '91 President and CEO, NewPage Corporation Miamisburg, OH
Gary E. Wnek '77 Chair, Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH
B. Erik Ydstie Professor Department of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Mark A. Ashwell Vice President, Medicinal Chemistry Head Drug Discovery, ArQule, Inc. Woburn, MA
Lila M. Gierasch Professor Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA
Edward J.J. Grabowski   Westfield, NJ
Anabella Villalobos Vice President, Antibacterials and Neuroscience Chemistry, Pfizer, Inc. Groton, CT
Kristin K. Wobbe, ex-officio Department Head and Professor Chemistry and Biochemistry Department, WPI Worcester, MA
Marc Zimmer '88 Professor of Chemistry, Connecticut College New London, CT
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Peter W. Tunnicliffe '74, chair Senior Vice President, Camp Dresser & McKee, Inc. Cambridge, MA
Richard K. Allen '76 Senior Vice President, Stantec, Inc. Boston, MA
Bruce E. Beverly '73 President and Chief Executive Officer, Haley & Aldrich, Inc. Boston, MA
William F. Callahan, emeritus   Ipswich, MA
Sergio F. Cherenzia '04 Project Manager, Cherenzia & Associates, LTD Pawcatuck, CT
Tahar El-Korchi, ex-officio Department Head and Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering, WPI Worcester, MA
John J. Fitzgibbons, Jr. '75 Vice President, H. Carr & Sons Inc. Boston, MA
Michael E. Grilli '66 Chairman/CEO, BETA Group, Inc. Lincoln, RI
Robert E. Hart '79 President/CEO, Kennedy-Wilwon Beverly Hill, CA
Steven T. Johnson Senior Vice President, Metcalf & Eddy, Inc. Wakefield, MA
H. Earl Jones SVPresident and General Manager eHealth, GE Healthcare Boston, MA
Terese M. Kwiatkowski '83 Senior Vice President and Principal, GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc. Norwood, MA
Stanley Lucks Consultant, Stone – Stone & Webster, Inc. Stoughton, MA
Francis W. Madigan, III '79 President and Chief Executive Officer, F. W. Madigan Co., Inc. Worcester, MA
Daniel Maguire '66, emeritus President and Chief Executive Officer, Executive Construction, Inc. Hillside, IL
Francesca Maltese Development Manager, O'Connell Development Group Holyoke, MA
Maureen A. McDonough, emeritus Director of Program Administration, Allston Development Group, Harvard University Cambridge, MA
Frederic H. Mulligan '71, MS '79, emeritus Chairman, Cutler Associates Inc Worcester, MA
John W. Powers '61 Past President and Special Consultant, Tighe & Bond, Inc. Westfield, MA
Tarek M.A. Shawaf '55, emeritus Chairman of the Board and President, Sandconsult SAUDI ARABIA
Lisa T. Sorgini '98 Manager, Global Brand Management, Siemens Water Technologies Westfield, MA
Philip A. Wild '50, emeritus Consultant Walpole, MA
Computer Science
Mark J. Freitas '78, chair Retired, Access Group East Walpole, MA
Stephanos D. Bacon '88 Vice President, Product Development, Progress Software Corporation. Bedford, MA
James P. Baum '86 President and Chief Operating Officer, Netezza Corporation Framingham, MA
Michael A. Gennert, ex-officio Department Head and Professor Computer Science, WPI Worcester, MA
Maureen Sexton Horgan '83 Boston Office Managing Director, Accenture Boston, MA
Fritz Knabe   Boston, MA
Peter L. Levin CTO, U.S. Veterans Affairs Department Roanoke, VA
Robert H. Mason '94 Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Brightcove, Inc. Cambridge, MA
James S. Miller Partner Architect, Microsoft Corporation Redmond, WA
Leon J. Osterweil Professor and Former Dean, Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA
Donald P. Zereski, Jr. '87 Chief Technology Officer, BusRadio, Inc. Needham, MA
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Matthew Adiletta Intel Fellow, Intel Corporation Hudson, MA
Bruce A. Bowman, PhD Dean, David Crawford School of Engineering, Norwich University Norwich, VT
Thomas J. Daly '04 President and Chief Technology Officer, Dynamic Network Services, Inc. Manchester, NH
Wayne N. Fabricius '68, ex-officio Retired Green Brook, NJ
Thomas E. Fitzpatrick '68, ex-officio Vice President and Deputy General Manager, BAE Systems Nashua, NH
H. Richard Freeman '61, ex-officio Principal Engineer, Spacecraft Systems Engineering
NPOESS Integrated Program Office, NOAA/DOD/NASA 		Silver Spring, MD
Jeffrey W. Gwynne '84 Partner, Image Architects, LLC West Boxford, MA
Patrick M. Hogan Senior Vice President, Network Strategy, National Grid Westborough, MA
Kathleen A. Kramer Director of Engineering Programs Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of San Diego San Diego, CA
Allen H. Levesque '59, emeritus President, GPL Communications, Inc. Chelmsford, MA
Fred J. Looft, ex-officio Professor and Department Head Electrical and Computer Engineering, WPI Worcester, MA
Stephan A. Mezak '78 Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Accelerance, Inc. Redwood City, CA
Donald P. Orofino II, PhD '92 Director of Engineering, The MathWorks, Inc. Natick, MA
Christopher Roche '84 Hardware Director, Electronic Combat Solutions, BAE Systems Nashua, NH
J. Scott Stadler '87 Division Head, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Lexington, MA
Scott J. Whatmough Vice President Engineering Technology and Quality Network Centric Systems, Raytheon Company McKinney, TX
Fire Protection Engineering
George E. Toth, chair Chief Operating Officer, The RJA Group, Inc. Chicago, IL
April L. Hammond Berkol '85, MS '88 Director, Environmental Health, Fire and Life, Starwood Hotels and Resorts White Plains, NY
Douglas J. Carpenter '97 Vice President and Principal Engineer
Combustion Science & Engineerring, Inc. 		Columbia, MD
Pete G. Clark Vice President of Marketing, Honeywell Fire Systems Group Northford, CT
David Douglas Drysdale, emeritus Emeritus Professor of Fire Safety Engineering, School of Engineering Edinburgh and Electronics, University of Edinburgh UNITED KINGDOM
Ofodike A. Ezekoye Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX
Louis Gritzo Vice President and Research Manager, FM Global Norwood, MA
Anthony Hamins, PhD Chief, Fire Research Div, National Institute of Standards &  Technology Gaithersburg, MD
David J. LeBlanc '97 Director, Engineering Systems, Tyco Fire and Building Products Cranston, RI
Frederick W. Mowrer Associate Professor Emeritus, Fire Protection Engineering, University of Maryland University Park, MD
Kathy A. Notarianni '86, MA '88, ex-officio Department Head and Associate Professor Fire Protection Engineering, WPI Worcester, MA
James Quiter Principal, Arup Fire San Francisco, CA
Jose L. Torero Chair, Fire Safety Institute, University of Edinburgh UNITED KINGDOM
Peter J. Gore Willse, PE Vice President-Director of Research, XL Global Asset Protection Services Hartford, CT
Management Executive Council
Michael E. Aspinwall '75, co-chair Managing Partner, CCP Equity Partners Hartford, CT
Paul R. Beswick '57, co-chair President and Chief Executive Officer, Beswick Engineering Company, Inc. Greenland, NH
Michael J. Aghajanian '80   Laguna Niguel, CA
McRae C. Banks II, ex-officio Professor/Department Head Department of Management, WPI Worcester, MA
Leonard R. Devanna '84, emeritus Chief Executive Officer, Jadoo Power Systems, Inc. Folsom, CA
Robert L. Diamond '56 Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Xanboo Inc. New York, NY
Denise C. Gorski '75 IBM Certified Senior Project Manager, IBM Corporation Poughkeepsie, NY
Jeremy P. Hitchcock '04 Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, Dynamic Network Services, Inc. Manchester, NH
Frank Hoy, ex-officio Beswick Professor of Entrepreneurship, WPI Worcester, MA
Benjamin H. Katcoff '71, emeritus Director, Compensation and Benefits, Comptroller of the Currency Washington, DC
Paul S. Kennedy '67, emeritus President, Kennedy Affiliated Industries, LLC Worcester, MA
Vijay R. Kirloskar '74 Chairman and Managing Director, Kirloskar Electric Co., LTD INDIA 
William A. Krein '62, emeritus Owner/President, CREDO, LLC Quechee, VT
Marshall S. Levine '55 Chairman, Alpha Scientific Corporation Malvern, PA
John H. McCabe '68 Vice President, M&A/Divestitures, Nypro Inc. Clinton, MA
Susan P. Loconto Penta '86 Partner and Co-Founder, Midior Consulting Cambridge, MA
Don Perrin Principal, Cambridge Business Advisors Newton, MA
Stephen M. Pytka '68 Chief Executive Officer, VIGIX, Inc. Cambridge, MA
Ronald P. Ranauro President and Chief Executive Officer, GenomeQuest, Inc. Westborough, MA
Mitchell C. Sanders MS '88, PhD '92 Chief Executive Officer, ECI Biotech Worcester, MA
Henry M. Strage '54 Chairman, H.M. Strage & Associates UNITED KINGDOM
Bruce M. Szypot '72 Vice President, Human Resources, Staples, Inc. Framingham, MA
Karen M. Tegan Padir '90 Vice President, Software Infrastructure, Sun Microsystems, Inc. Burlington, VT
Gregory D. Tranter COO, SVP, and CIO, The Hanover Insurance Group Worcester, MA
John J. West, Jr. '88   Boston, MA
Norman D. Wilkinson, ex-officio Director of Graduate Management Programs, WPI Worcester, MA
Gordon G. Woodfall '74 President and Principal, Snowden Associates Portsmouth, NH
Thomas P. Zgambo '98 Ombudsman, The World Bank Group Washington, DC
Mathematical Sciences
Kirk Jordan, chair Emerging Solutions Executive, IBM Corporation Cambridge, MA
L. Pamela Cook Professor of Mathematics, Associate Dean of Engineering, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Delaware Newark, DE
Lawrence Cox National Center for Health Statistics, Center for Disease Control Hyattsville, MD
Keith D. Hartt Director of Research, Bogle Investment Management Newton, MA
Robert LaBarre Principal Mathematician, United Technologies Research Center East Hartford, CT
Peter P. Perrotti '89 Executive Vice President, Hartford Investment Management Hartford, CT
Samuel M. Rankin, III Associate Executive Director, American Mathematical Society Washington, DC
Gilbert Strang Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, MIT Cambridge, MA
Bogdan M. Vernescu, ex-officio Department Head and Professor Mathematical Sciences, WPI Worcester, MA
Mechanical Engineering
Richard Fair '78, chair Vice President, Customer Service, Pratt & Whitney East Hartford, CT
Al Barry '77 Director, Wuxi REM Company, LTD CHINA
William J. Cass '85 Partner, Cantor Colburn, LLP Hartford, CT
Thomas A. Davenport '68, emeritus   Vernon Rockville, CT
Michael A. DiPierro '68, emeritus Principal, Trident Consulting Group Shrewsbury, MA
Mark W. Fuller Vice President, The Benefit Development Group Worcester, MA
Howard Greis President, KINEFAC Corporation Worcester, MA
John Healy Director of Operations, MassMEP Worcester, MA
Richard E. Morley President, R. Morley Inc. Milford, NH
Richard E. Schneider '79 Vice President and Group General Manager, IT and Communications Products Group, Amphenol TCS Nashua, NH
Lawrence F. Scinto '51, ex-officio Senior Partner, Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto New York, NY
K (Subba) Subramanian Director, Surface Preparation Technologies HPM Sector, Saint-Gobain Company Worcester, MA
Gretar Tryggvason, ex-officio Department Head and Professor Mechanical Engineering, WPI Worcester, MA
Gregory R. Tucker '92 CEO, Thermal Solutions, Inc. North Hampton, NH
Diversity and Women's Programs
Dorothea Carraway Wong '92, chair Director, Aerospace Supply Management, United Technologies Corporation Farmington, CT
Emily P. Anesta '05 Assistant Technical Staff, Air Defense Techniques, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Lexington, MA
Brock Arnold Software Engineer, IBM Corporation Westford, MA
Aimee Dion Crisanti '89 Principal Industrial Engineer, Lego Systems, Inc. Enfield, CT
Rachel M. Delisle '96 Six Sigma Engineer, Karl Storz Endovision, Inc. Charlton, MA
Fal A. Diabate Senior Technology Marketing Engineer, Intel Americas, Inc. Hudson, MA
Jean King Fray Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School Worcester, MA
Audra Gaul, ex-officio Director, Women's Programs, WPI Worcester, MA
Meenakshi Honcharik Engineering Manager, Logic/Verification, Intel Corporation Hudson, MA
Heidi E. Kvinge Software Engineering AManager, Intel Massachusetts, Inc. Hudson, MA
Shangari B. Meleschi '02 GE Aviation Lynn, MA
Nitza M. Rivera Manager of Workforce Diversity, Pratt & Whitney East Hartford, CT
Angela Iatrou Simon '88 Project Engineer, Perini Management Services, Inc. Framingham, MA
Teresa B. Tucchio '88 Software Engineering Specialist, Electric Boat Corporation Groton, CT
Helen G. Vassallo '82 Professor of Management, Management Department, WPI Worcester, MA
Caleb A. Warner '88 Senior Principal Software Engineer, Raytheon IDS Tewksbury, MA
Environmental Engineering
Peter J. Grabowski '93, chair Vice President, Tighe & Bond, Inc. Westfield, MA
Sarita S. Croce Bristol-Myers Squibb Company Devens, MA
Robert F. Ferrari '74 President, Ferrari Engineering Warwick, RI
Russell Ford CH2M Hill, Inc. Somerset, NJ
Domenico Grasso '77 Dean and Professor, College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, University of Vermont Burlington, VT
George W. Harding '77 Environmental Engineer, U.S. EPA Region 1 Boston, MA
Joel S. Loitherstein '73 President, Loitherstein Environmental Engineering Inc. Framingham, MA
Jeanine D. Plummer, ex-officio Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Environmental Engineering Program Civil and Environmental Engineering, WPI Worcester, MA
Susan E. Powers Professor and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, Clarkson University Potsdam, NY
David M. Schwaber '65   Fallston, MD
Chi Ho Sham Vice President, The Cadmus Group Watertown, MA
Industrial Engineering
Keith M. Kelble '91, chair Manufacturing Operations Manager, 3M Company Indianapolis, IN
Ronald V. Alciati Supply Chain Manager - Pan China, Nypro China CHINA
Mervyn P. Chung-Fat '99 Director, of Product Management Europe, Saint-Gobain Abrasives, Inc. FRANCE
Scott Cooper Vice President of New Business Development, TIGHITCO, Inc. Atlanta, GA
Kathryn Dawson-Townsend Vice President, Service Operation Core System Replacement Service Division, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of MA, Inc. Quincy, MA
Claudio M. Gelman '95 Plant Manager, New Balance Athletic Shoe Lawrence, MA
Joseph M. Mazzulo Vice President, Business Processes, Staples, Inc. Framingham, MA
Kristen McCloskey Dexter Engineer, FedEx Ground Coraopolis, PA
Deborah A. McManus '97 Product Manager, Morpho Detection Wilmington, MA
Laura A. Gregory Roberts '93 Manager, Hospital Information Systems, St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center Hartford, CT
Lawrence M. Seiford Chair and Professor Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI
Amy Z. Zeng, ex-officio Associate Professor/Director, Industrial Engineering Program, WPI Worcester, MA
Interactive Media and Game Development (IMGD)
Kevin Burns Principal Engineer, The MITRE Corporation Bedford, MA
Mark L. Claypool, ex-officio Director IMGD and Associate Professor, WPI Worcester, MA
Ian Davis Founder, RockStar New England Andover, MA
Christopher J. Dyl '95 Chief Technology Officer, Turbine, Inc. Westwood, MA
Darius F. Kazemi '05 President, Orbus Gameworks Somerville, MA
Donald I. Lambe '98 Founder and Principal Designer, Dejobaan Games, LLC Northborough, MA
Callan McInally Senior Manager, GPU Developer Tools, AMD Boxboro, MA
Dean M. O'Donnell '86, ex-officio Administrator Instructor of Humanity IMGD, WPI Worcester, MA
Kent Quirk Manager, Sustaining Engineering, Linden Lab Cambridge, MA
Jon Radoff Chief Executive Officer, GamerDNA, Inc. Cambridge, MA
Allison Rynak Vice President, Corporate Communications, WorldWinner Newton, MA
Curt Schilling Chief Executive Officer and Founder, 38 Studios, LLC Maynard, MA
Brian Sullivan Consultant, Iron Lore Entertainment Maynard, MA
Jim Zabek Director, Operations and Editor-in-Chief, The Wargamer Staten Island, NY
Robotics Engineering
David P. Kelly '82, chair President and Chief Executive Officer, Bluefin Robotics Corp. Cambridge, MA
Brian Abraham Director, Private Investments, Whitebox Advisors, LLC Minneapolis, MN
John J. Catrone, Jr. '80 Director, Systems Engineering NCS: NE Region
Raytheon NCS 		Marlborough, MA
Clark B. Freise VP/General Manager, Technology Solutions, BAE Systems Nashua, NH
Michael A. Gennert, ex-officio Department Head and Professor, Computer Science, WPI Worcester, MA
Michael D. Gerstenberger Senior Engineer, KUKA Robotics Corporation Clinton Township, MI
Edward Godere Senior Vice President and Group Director, Foster-Miller, Inc. Waltham, MA
Helen Greiner President and Chief Executive Officer, The Droid Works Wayland, MA
Brian T. Hart President, Black-I Robotics, Inc. Tyngsboro, MA
Dean L. Kamen '73 President and Owner, DEKA Research and Development Manchester, NH
Dan Kara President, Robotics Trends, Inc. Framingham, MA
Corinna E. Lathan Board Chair and CEO, AnthroTronix, Inc. Silver Spring, MD
Fred J. Looft, ex-officio Professor and Department Head, Electrical and Computer Engineering, WPI Worcester, MA
Scott D. Myers QinetiQ North America Waltham, MA
N. Douglas Powers Vice President and CIO, Allegro MicroSystems, Inc. Worcester, MA
Gretar Tryggvason, ex-officio Department Head and Professor Mechanical Engineering, WPI Worcester, MA
System Dynamics
John D. Sterman, chair Forrester Professor Director of System Dynamics, MIT Sloan School of Management Cambridge, MA
Todd K. BenDor '02 Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC
Allen Boorstein President, Amber Blocks, LTD New York, NY
Dan S. Compton Operations Analyst Seattle Studies and Analysis Strategic Development and Analysis, Boeing Phantom Works Olympia, WA
Glenn Cornett Chief Executive Officer, Metastrat.com, Inc. Palo Alto, CA
James F. Doyle, ex-officio Professor and Department Head Social Science and Policy Studies, WPI Worcester, MA
Jay W. Forrester Retired Professor, MIT Sloan School Concord, MA
Donald A. Seville '92 Co-Director, Sustainable Food Laboratory, Sustainability Institute Hartland, VT
Lees Stuntz Executive Director, Creative Learning Exchange Acton, MA
Imrana A. Umar President and Chief Executive Officer, Powerism Solutions, Inc. Herndon, VA
 
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