Dean's Advocacy Council

The College of Engineering Dean’s Advocacy Council is comprised of business and alumni leaders who provide strategic assistance in advancing the priorities of the College, as well as serve as ambassadors of and active advocates for the College. The Council’s commitment and leadership help to assure that the mission and goals of the College are met. The Council plays a vital role in helping Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering continue its recognition as an elite engineering college. Current members are listed below:

Wayne Balta

Wayne Balta
Vice President, Corporate Environmental Affairs and Product Safety
IBM

John Bertucci

John Bertucci
Chairman of the Board
MKS Instruments, Inc.

Raymond Betler

Raymond Betler
President & CEO
Wabtec Corporation

Michele Blazek

Michele Blazek
Director of Environmental Health and Safety/Hospital Safety Officer
Stanford Health Care

Paul Browning

Paul Browning
President & CEO
Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Americas, Inc.

Michael Bruce

Michael Bruce
Chairman and CEO
InScope International, Inc.

Barbara Buck

Barbara Buck
Vice President, Marketing and Sales
Climax Molybdenum Company

Jon Cagan

Jonathan Cagan
Interim Dean
George Tallmann and Florence Barrett Ladd Professor of Mechanical Engineering
College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University

Aris Candris

Aris Candris
President and CEO
Westinghouse Electric Company, Retired

Russell Crockett

Russell Crockett
President
RTC Energy LLC

Shyam Dighe

Shyam Dighe
President & CEO
AquaSource Technologies

Phillip Dowd
Retired

Edward Frank

Edward Frank
Member, Board of Directors
Analog Devices (ADI), Cavium (CAVM) and Quantenna (QTNA)
Executive Director
Metallica’s All Within My Hands Foundation

Dirk Gates

Dirk Gates
CTO, Wireless Business Unit
Riverbed, Inc.

Deepak Gupta

Deepak Gupta
Founder and Chairman
The Denita Group of Companies

Steve Hoover

Steve Hoover
Corporate Senior Vice President and
Chief Technology Officer
Xerox Corporation

Matt Howard
Managing Partner
Norwest Venture Partners

Kathryn Jackson

Kathryn Jackson
Director, Energy & Technology Consulting
Keysource
Advisor and Consultant
Energy Impact Partners

Raj Kapoor

Raj Kapoor
Chief Strategy Officer
Lyft

John Kenny

John Kenny
Executive Vice President
Gannett Fleming, Inc.

Oleg Khaykin

Oleg Khaykin
President and CEO
Viavi Solutions, Inc.

John Kibarian

John Kibarian
President, Chief Executive Officer, Director and Co-Founder
PDF Solutions

Tom Klopack

Tom Klopack
US Managing Director
Centogene

Sanjay Kumar

Sanjay Kumar
Managing Director
Equs Holdings

Hillard Lazarus

Hillard Lazarus
Professor of Medicine
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

Roy Levin

Roy Levin
Former Director
Microsoft Research Silicon Valley

Frank Marshall

Frank Marshall
General Partner
Big Basin Partners LP

Tom Marchok

Horst Muenzel

Horst Muenzel
CEO and President
Akustica, Inc., a subsidiary of the Bosch Group

Drew Perkins

Drew Perkins
CEO
Stealthy Startup

Opal Perry

Opal Perry
Division Chief Informational Officer for Claims
Allstate Insurance

Ana Pinczuk

Ana Pinczuk
Senior Vice President & General Manager
HPE Pointnext

Kears Pollock

Matt Rogers

Matt Rogers
Founder and Chief Product Officer
Nest Labs

Shirish Sathaye

Shirish Sathaye
General Partner
Formation 8 Ventures

Hauke Schmidt

Hauke Schmidt
Vice President, Research and Technology Center North America
Robert Bosch LLC

Venkee Sharma

Venkee Sharma
Chairman & CEO
Aquatech

John Sontag

John Sontag
VP Systems Research
Hewlett Packard Labs, Retired

Johny Srouji

Johny Srouji
Senior Vice President, Hardware Technologies
Apple

Lip-Bu Tan

Lip-Bu Tan
President & Chief Executive Officer
Cadence Design Systems
Chairman
Walden International

Sin Min Yap

Sin Min Yap
Vice President
Global Corporate Strategic Initiatives
ANSYS, Inc.