Mr. Norden became Chairman of the Board of the College in 2006. He is a partner in the law firm of Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP in New York City and has extensive experience in legal matters related to trusts and estates and charitable organizations. He has been a Director of the F.W. Olin Foundation, Inc. since 1988 and has served as Secretary and Counsel to the Foundation since 1983. Mr. Norden also serves on the Board of the Samuel and Rae Eckman Charitable Foundation, Inc., the New York City Fire Museum and the Honor Emergency Fund of the Fire Department of the City of New York. He received his B.S. in economics from Brooklyn College in 1967 and his J.D. from the New York University Law School in 1969. Back to top
Mr. Berbeco is the President of The Devon Group, Inc., a commodity trading advisor, and General Partner of Devon Capital Partners, LP. He has founded several technical companies, including Charleswater Products, Xytest, Syon, Adhesivesmart.com, and successfully exited by sale to Armstrong World Industries and ITW, as well as private funds. Mr. Berbeco is the author of over twenty publications in technical journals relating to electronics, ESD control, adhesives, and industrial applications of ionizing radiation. He has made over fifty presentations, and is the author of fifteen U.S. and foreign patents. Mr. Berbeco is Chairman of Bay Colony Development Corporation, one the largest SBA 504 lenders in the country. He is an Overseer of WGBH Public Television, and on the board of the New Rep Theatre. His past affiliations have included chairman of the NE Chapter of the MS Society, International Board of Governors-Technion, Haifa, Israel. Mr. Berbeco is a graduate of M.I.T, M.S. and B.S. Chemical Engineering, National Merit Scholar, Sigma Xi Honorary. He is registered as a Commodity Trading Advisor, and Commodity Pool Operator. Back to top
Dr. Cotter retired in November 2005 as President of the Oak Foundation in Boston, MA, an international philanthropic organization focusing on social and environmental issues around the globe. He remains as Chair of the Oak Foundation's Advisory Board, and is a consultant to the Robertson Foundation in New York. He served from 1979-2000 as president of Colby College in Waterville, Maine, where he remains a life trustee. Prior to joining Colby, Dr. Cotter was president of the African-American Institute in New York. He has also served as assistant attorney general in northern Nigeria, as an associate with a law firm in New York, as Representative of the Ford Foundation for Colombia and Venezuela, and as a White House Fellow. He has received numerous honors and awards, including five honorary degrees. Dr. Cotter serves on the boards of several academic, philanthropic, and governmental organizations. His published writings concern the hisotry of the abolition of slavery in the United Kingdom an the U.S., foreign policy relating to Africa, and U.S. higher education. He is a graduate of Harvard College (A.B. 1958) and Harvard Law School (J.D. 1961). He and his wife Linda (Wellesley '58; Harvard Graduate School of Edication, '60) live in Concord, Massachusetts. Back to top
Tamara P. Davis is the Managing Director and leads the Corporate Governance Practice at Levin & Company, Inc. in Boston, where she consults with CEOs of entrepreneurial life science and technology companies relating to board composition, governance best practices, and building boards as strategic assets. Previously, Ms. Davis served as President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director of UST Leasing Corporation, an investment banking/financial services company in Boston. She was also formerly an Assistant Dean of Humanities at Santa Ana College in California and an educator within the Los Angeles City Schools System. Ms. Davis is Chairman of the Massachusetts State College Building Authority, a former Vice Chairman of the Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority, and a former board director of the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education. She also serves on several corporate, academic and nonprofit boards. Ms. Davis earned an M.A., summa cum laude, from California State University and a B.A from University of California, Los Angeles. Back to top
Mr. Gibson is CEO of Gibson Enterprises, a venture capital firm. He has spent more than a decade as an investor and serving as Chairman of Radisys Corporation and five other public companies, as well as a director of several nonprofits. Prior to founding Gibson Enterprises, Mr. Gibson was the co-founder and president of Sequent Computer Systems, which reached $800 million in annual sales before being sold to IBM. Previously, Mr. Gibson was employed for seven years by Intel Corporation, where he held various management positions, including General Manager of the Memory Components Operation and Marketing Manager for the Development Systems Operation. Mr. Gibson received his M.B.A. in Finance and his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois. He was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from Oregon Entrepreneurs Forum in 2001 and was recognized as American Electronics Association's Oregon High Tech Executive of the Year in 1990. Back to top
Mr. Greenblatt is Director of the MIT Venture Mentoring Service (VMS). This program supports innovation and entrepreneurial activity throughout the MIT community by matching prospective entrepreneurs with experienced volunteer mentors who, through their advice, guidance and contacts, can boost the chances of a start-up's success. He also serves as an outside advisor and Board member to a number of start-up companies. From 2005 to 2007, Mr. Greenblatt served as the Executive Vice president and Treasurer of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Mr. Greenblatt, retired from Bose Corporation, was the first employee of Dr. Amar Bose, his former professor at MIT. As a project engineer, he worked on the early development of Bose high fidelity loudspeakers and related electronic systems. As the company grew, he held the positions of Chief Engineer, Director of Engineering, Executive Vice President and, for 15 years, President. He is a community and professional leader having been a member of the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, served as Chair of the MetroWest Chamber of Commerce and as Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Framingham (Massachusetts) State College. He is also is a member of the Graduate Advisory Board of Babson College. Mr. Greenblatt received his B.S. and M.S. degrees, both in Electrical Engineering, from MIT. Back to top
Ms. Gude was Vice President of Technology, IBM Corporate Staff, Somers, NY. She is an experienced executive and information systems professional with 32 years of experience with IBM in a wide variety of management and executive positions for software product development, information technology and corporate technical strategy. In her many years with IBM she has served in various positions including Vice President of Systems Software, Director of Enterprise Workgroup Networking Software, Director of Process Support and Application Architecture, and Manager of Information Systems. She is a member of several non-profit health care Boards. Ms. Gude received her B.A. from Vassar College and her M.A. from Cornell University. Back to top
Professor Jennings received his B.S. degree in civil engineering from Colorado State University and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees, also in civil engineering, from the California Institute of Technology. After serving in the United States Air Force as a member of the faculty of the Air Force Academy, he joined the faculty of Caltech in 1966. He served as Chairman of the Division of Engineering and Applied Science from January 1985 to November 1989. He was Caltech’s Vice President and Provost from November 1989 to February 1995. Following that he became Acting Vice President for Business and Finance until September of 1995; he held this post again in 1998-1999. From 2004 to 2007 he again became Caltech’s Provost. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a past President of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, a past President of the Seismological Society of America, and a Fellow and past-chair of the California Council on Science and Technology. Professor Jennings is the author of numerous technical papers on earthquake engineering and dynamics of structures and has served as earthquake engineering consultant on the design of high-rise buildings, offshore drilling towers, nuclear power plants and other major projects. He was a member of the Board of Inquiry on the Loma Prieta earthquake appointed by California's Governor Deukmejian. He is the chair of Pasadena’s City Hall Restoration Oversight Committee and he has served on several committees of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Research Council, including chairing the Draper Prize Committee, chairing the Committee on Natural Disasters, and chairing the Committee on Criteria for the Management of Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories. His awards include the Newmark Medal and the Huber Prize of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Honor Alumnus and Achievement in Academia Awards from Colorado State University. He is a Fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Association for the Advancement of Science. Back to top
Dr. McBurney is Chief Scientific Officer and Senior VP, Research and Development, at BG Medicine, Inc., a biotechnology company focused on discovering novel molecular biomarkers and commercializing innovative molecular diagnostic products that improve healthcare. He has over 30 years of experience in biomedical research and management. His responsibilities have ranged from conducting independent, internationally-recognized medical research as an academic, to leading an emerging U.S. biopharmaceutical company, Cambridge NeuroScience, Inc., as its President and CEO. A biophysicist by training, Dr. McBurney served on the faculty of the Medical School of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (UK) for nine years and was Assistant Director of the Medical Research Council's Neuroendocrinology Unit at Newcastle General Hospital. He has also served on the research staff at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD (USA), the Physiological Laboratory of Cambridge University (UK) and the Medical School of the University of New South Wales (Australia). Dr. McBurney has initiated and managed multiple projects to discover and develop novel pharmaceutical treatments for disorders of the nervous system, including treatments to limit brain damage following stroke and head injury. He also has extensive experience in the formation and business development activities of start-up biotech companies and serves as Chairman of the Board of Differential Proteomics, Inc. He is former judge for the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition, the nation's premier business plan competition teaching students how to turn their ideas into companies. An author of many scientific papers, Dr. McBurney received his Ph.D. from the University of New South Wales in physiology. Back to top
Mr. Milas has been a Director of the F. W. Olin Foundation, Inc. since 1974 and has served as President since 1983. During his tenure the Foundation made more than $200 million in building grants to colleges and universities across the country. In 1993 Mr. Milas proposed the establishment of Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering to the Foundation Board. He has led the development effort since the Board approved the concept in 1997 and served as the Founding Chair of the College from 1999 thru 2006. He was a partner in the former New York City law firm of Baer Marks & Upham, where he specialized in tax and trusts and estate law.Currently, he is Of Counsel to Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP. Mr. Milas has received honorary degrees from Washington and Jefferson College, Whitman College, Roanoke College and the F. W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College. He is a recipient of the Babson Medal from Babson College and served several terms on Babson’s Board of Trustees. A 1958 graduate of Babson College (with distinction), he received his LL.B. degree from Columbia University in 1963. Back to top
Before joining Olin College as its first President, Dr. Miller served as Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Iowa from 1992-99. He spent the previous 17 years on the faculty of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has published extensively in the field of applied mechanics and has been recognized for teaching excellence. He serves on the board and advisory councils of several academic institutions and one corporation. He received the Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award from the College of Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he received a B.S. (with highest distinction) in 1971. He also received an M.S. from MIT in 1972 and a Ph.D. from Caltech in 1976. Dr. Miller received the Legacy of Iowa Engineering Award from the University of Iowa College of Engineering in 2006. Back to top
Dr. Prados is Vice President and University Professor Emeritus at The University of Tennessee, where he spent more than 50 years. He is a former editor of the Journal of Engineering Education of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and is a past President of ABET, Inc. (formerly, the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology). Dr. Prados has served as Director and Treasurer of AIChE; Executive Counselor of Tau Beta Pi; President and Treasurer of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society; Chair of the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET; Senior Education Associate at the NSF; and advisor and consultant to more than 30 universities and state education agencies in the U.S. and abroad. His awards and honors include the L.E. Grinter Distinguished Service Award of ABET; the James T. Rogers Award of the Commission on Colleges, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, for outstanding leadership in regional accreditation; and the Lifetime Achievement Award in Chemical Engineering Pedagogical Scholarship from ASEE. He received his B.S. at the University of Mississippi and his M.S. and Ph.D. at The University of Tennessee, all in chemical engineering, and is a registered professional engineer in Tennessee. Back to top
Mr. Glavin retired in 1997 as President of Babson College, where he served for eight years. As Babson's ninth President, he is credited with advancing the school's curriculum and national reputation. Mr. Glavin joined Babson after holding several leadership positions, including Vice Chairman, at the Xerox Corporation. Prior to joining Xerox in 1970, he held a number of senior executive positions with IBM. Mr. Glavin has received numerous honors and awards, including honorary Doctor of Laws degrees from The College of the Holy Cross and Babson College, as well as the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Pennsylvania. He has served on the board and advisory councils of several corporations and academic institutions. He received his B.S. from The College of the Holy Cross and his M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Back to top
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