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Dean's Advisory Board Members 2006-2009

Bonnie Holte Bennett
(CSci M.S. ’87, Ph.D. ’92)
CEO, Adventium Labs

Krzysztof Burhardt
(EE Ph.D. ’71)
Partner, Clotho & Associates

Ronald L. Christenson, Chair
(ME ’72)
Corporate Vice President and Chief Technology Officer,
Cargill Inc.

Alex Cirillo Jr.
Staff Vice President, 3M Community Affairs

Fred Colen
Chief Technology Officer & Executive Vice President of Operations Technology, Boston Scientific

Sundararajan Dhamotharan
(CivE Ph.D. ’79)
Executive Vice President, URS Corporation

Drew Flaada
(MOT M.S. ’96)
Director, Mayo Collaboration, Life Sciences & Blue Gene SW, IBM

Donald Gerhardt
President and CEO, LifeScience Alley

Jeffrey Harvey
Department of Physics, Enrico Fermi Institute
University of Chicago

James Heppelmann
(ME ’87)
Executive Vice President, Software Products, & Chief Product Officer, Parametric Technology Corporation

Byron Hill
Director, Six Sigma
ACS Technology
Honeywell

Eric Jolly
President, Science Museum of Minnesota

R.M. (Rich) Kruger
(ME ’81)
Executive Vice President, ExxonMobil Production Company

Gary J. Obermiller
(ME '72)
Operating Partner and Managing Director
Goldner Hawn Johnson & Morrison

Darrell Rinerson
(Physics ’69, EE M.S. ’77)
CEO, Unity Semiconductor

Kate Rubin
President, Minnesota High Tech Association

Gerald Timm
(EE ’63, M.S. ’65, Ph.D. ’67)
President, GT Urological, LLC

Todd Zarfos
(EE ’85)
Vice President of Product Development, Boeing Commercial Airplanes, The Boeing Company