Leadership
Founder
Dean Kamen - President, DEKA Research & Development Corporation
Board of Directors
Kelly Ortberg - Co-Chair; Special Advisor to the Office of the CEO, United Technologies Corporation
Robert M. Tuttle - Co-Chair, General Partner, 1848 Associates
Dr. Laurie Leshin - Vice Chair; President, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Dr. Vincent Wilczynski - Treasurer; Deputy Dean, Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science & James S. Tyler Director of the Center for Engineering Innovation & Design
Lawrence Cohen - Secretary; President, FIRST
Dean Kamen - Founder; President, DEKA Research & Development Corporation
John E. Abele - Founding Chairman, Retired, Boston Scientific Corporation
Virginia Addicott - Former President & Chief Executive Officer, FedEx Custom Critical
Dr. Robin N. Coger - Dean, College of Engineering, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (A&T)
Walter P. Havenstein - Chief Executive Officer, Retired, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)
Karen Horting - Executive Director & CEO, Society of Women Engineers
Dr. Paul E. Jacobs - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, XCOM Labs, Inc.
Lonnie Johnson - President & Founder, Johnson Research & Development Corporation
Scott McKay - Former Executive Vice President & Chief Strategy Officer, Genworth Financial
Blake Moret - Chairman & CEO, Rockwell Automation
Dennis A. Muilenburg - Former President & Chief Executive Officer, The Boeing Company
David Siegel, Co-Chairman, Two Sigma
Honorary Directors
J.T. Battenberg III - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Retired, Delphi Corporation
Francois Castaing - Executive Vice President, Retired, Chrysler Corporation
L. John Doerr III - Chairman, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Gary L. Tooker - Chairman of the Board, Retired, Motorola, Inc.
James R. Utaski - FIRST Chairman: 2000-2002; Corporate Mergers & Acquisitions Officer, Retired, Johnson & Johnson
Senior Advisors
Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson - President, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen - Deputy Chairman of the Board, LEGO Foundation & KIRKBI A/S
Dr. William P. Murphy, Jr. - Founder, Cordis Corporation
Steve Sanghi - Chairman of the Board, President & Chief Executive Officer, Microchip Technology, Inc.
The Honorable Jeanne Shaheen - United States Senator, New Hampshire
Josh Weston - Honorary Chairman, Automatic Data Processing, Inc.
Executive Advisory Board
Dr. Woodie Flowers - Co-Chair & Distinguished Advisor; Pappalardo Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kevin Ross - Co-Chair, Founder, FIRST Washington
Ray Almgren - Chief Operating Officer, Swift Sensors, Inc.
Gail Alpert - President, FIRST in Michigan
Susie Armstrong - Senior Vice President of Engineering, Qualcomm
Mark Breadner - President, FIRST Robotics Canada
Sujeet Chand - Chief Technology Officer & Senior Vice President, Rockwell Automation, Inc.
Cosema (Connie) Crawford, P.E. - Senior Vice President, WSP
Michael Dubno - Head of Global Markets & Research Technology, Retired, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Greg Hale - Vice President & Chief Safety Officer, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts
Luan Heimlich - Manager, Technology-based Outreach, Department of Engineering, Macquarie University
James E. Heppelmann - President & Chief Executive Officer, PTC
Marc Hodosh - Co-Creator, TEDMED
Kent H. Hughes - Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Esben Staerk Jørgensen - President, LEGO® Education
David Lavery - Program Executive for Solar System Exploration, NASA
Paul Lazarus - President, White Dwarf Productions
Susie Mathieu - Partner, Spirit Hockey, LLC
Ceci Neumann - Independent Law Practice Professional
Nancy Quan - SVP, Chief Technical Officer, The Coca-Cola Company
Heidi Sipe - Superintendent, Umatilla Public Schools
Robert Sobolewski - Chair, President, ingenuityNE
Dave Wilson - Business and Technology Fellow, Marketing, National Instruments
FIRST Leadership Team
Lawrence Cohen - President
Erica Fessia - Vice President, Field Operations
Mark Giordono - Vice President, Development
Chris Rake - Vice President, Programs