2017 Committees Members

Thank you to all of our volunteers! They generously donate their time to select our ABIE Award winners.

Technical Leadership ABIE Award Nomination Committee

Chair

: Coco Brown
Founder and CEO, The Athena Alliance and Executive Kinections

Committee Members

: Beena Ammanath
Executive Director, Data Science, GE

: Colleen Berube
Executive In Residence, PricewaterhouseCoopers

: Tania Goldszmidt
Vice President and Head of Customer Success and Support, GE Power Digital
Market Advisory Board, Kaleo Software
President, Gunn Theatre Boosters

: Rashmi Kumar
VP, Enterprise Technology and Services, McKesson

: Merline Saintil
Head of Operations, CTO and Product and Technology Office, Intuit

Technical Leadership ABIE Award Selection Committee

Chair

: Dan Pitt
President, Palo Alto Innovation Advisors

Committee Members

: Laura Haas
Dean, CICS, University of Massachusetts – Amherst

: Lydia Kavraki
Noah Harding Professor, Computer Science and Bioengineering, Rice University

: Anna Patterson
Vice President of Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Google
Founder & Managing Partner, Gradient Ventures

: Ana Pinczuk
SVP and GM, HPE Pointnext
AnitaB.org Board Member

Social Impact ABIE Award Selection Committee

Chair

: Vicki Hanson
President, ACM
Distinguished Professor, B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology

Committee Members

: Mia Dand
CEO, Lighthouse3.com

: Dr. Mary Lou Jepsen
Executive Director of Engineering, Facebook
CEO and Founder, Openwater

: Paula Goldman
Vice President and Global Lead for Impact Investing, Omidyar Network

: Michal Segalov
Director of Engineering, Google

ABIE Award for Technology Entrepreneurship Nomination Committee

Chair

: Denise Brosseau
CEO, Thought Leadership Lab

Committee Members

: Loretta McCarthy
Managing Director, Golden Seeds LLC

: Amy Millman
President, Springboard Enterprises

: Marlene Williamson
CEO, Watermark

Not pictured: Monique Giggy – Impact Driver, Singularity University; Venture Accelerator, NASA Research Park

ABIE Award for Technical Entrepreneurship Selection Committee

Chair

: Johanna Wright
Vice President, Product Management, YouTube

Committee Members

: Brian Dixon
Partner, Kapor Capital

: Aileen Lee
Founder & Partner, Cowboy Ventures

: John Lilly
Partner, Greylock Partners

: Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan
Founder & CEO, Drawbridge

: Jacky Wright
Vice President, Strategic Enterprise Services IT, Microsoft

Change Agent ABIE Award Nomination Committee

Committee Members

: Peace Asukwo
CEO, Pesua Classical Engineering
Co-founder, JUSEngineering

: Ana Balica
Software Developer

: Roshni Chandrashekhar
Software Engineer, Google Identity Platform

: Silvia Stegaru
Co-founder, Codette

: Dr. Larissa Suzuki
Senior Project Manager, Office of the Mayor of London
Hon. Research Associate, University College London

Change Agent ABIE Award Selection Committee

Chair

: Evelyn Namara
Founder and CEO, Vouch Digital

Committee Members

: Ineke Aquarius
Managing Director, Mango Tree Education Enterprises Ltd.
Co-founder, Butterfly Works and Nairobits

: Dr. Supavadee Aramvith
Associate Professor, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

: Maria Dubovitskaya
Research staff member at the Cognitive Computing and Industry Solutions Department, IBM Research

: Joyce Mwangama
Lecturer, University of Cape Town, South Africa

: Daniela Raijman
Software Engineering Manager, Google
Mind the Gap

: Violette Uwamutara
Country Director, Digital Opportunity Trust (DOT) Rwanda

ABIE Award for Leadership Selection Committee

Chair

: Diana Bersohn
Managing Director, Accenture Strategy
Board Member, AnitaB.org

Committee Members

: Mary Lou Kelley
President of E-commerce, Best Buy Co., Inc.
AnitaB.org Board Member

: Dorothy Nicholls
Vice President of Amazon Web Services (AWS) User Experience, Amazon
AnitaB.org Board Member

: Lisa Schlosser
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, FindLaw, a Thomson Reuters business
AnitaB.org Board Member

Denice Denton Emerging Leader ABIE Award Selection Committee

Co-Chairs

: Rachel Pottinger Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, University of British Columbia

: Tiffani Williams
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University

Committee Members

: Naomi Chesler
Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Pediatrics and Educational Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison

: Thamar Solorio
Associate Professor. Department of Computer Science, University of Houston

A. Richard Newton Educator ABIE Award Selection Committee

Co-Chairs

: Ellen Walker
Professor, Computer Science Department, Hiram College
Associate Dean, Hiram College

: Robert Walker
Professor, Computer Science Department & School of Digital Sciences, Kent State University

Committee Members

: Ayanna Howard, Ph.D.
Professor and Linda J. and Mark C. Smith Chair, School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology