2010

Honor top New England innovators, entrepreneurs and leaders

Mass High Tech honors leaders of the New England technology sector with its annual All-Star Awards gala event. Award winners are chosen from such sectors as advanced energy, biotech, medical devices, electronics, hardware, Internet, software and telecommunications. The top innovators and entrepreneurs in New England are then treated to a dedicated Mass High Tech print issue, profiling each All-Star honoree, and a fall evening event of networking with the heavy hitters of New England technology and hearing about their experiences and inspirations.

In 2010, Mass High Tech celebrated its 15th annual All-Star Awards event by honoring 16 leaders in New England technology, including two Distinguished Achievement Award winners.

Read the profiles of the 2010 All-Star Award winners.

The 2010 MHT All-Stars honorees are:

Bernard M. Gordon, founder of Analogic Corp. and NeuroLogica Corp. (Distinguished Achievement Award)
Ray Stata, chairman of Analog Devices Inc. and founder of Stata Venture Partners (Distinguished Achievement Award)
Aron J. Ain, CEO of Kronos Inc. (Software)
Shawn Broderick, executive director of TechStars Boston (Entrepreneurship)
Abbie Celniker, CEO of Taligen Therapeutics (Biotech)
Frederic Chereau, President and CEO of Pervasis Therapeutics (Med Devices)
George M. Church, co-founder of Knome and Harvard Medical School professor (Genetics)
Neal Creighton, CEO of RatePoint Inc. (Web)
Donna C. Cupelo, region president of Verizon Communications (Telecommunications)
Walt Doyle, chairman and CEO of Where Inc. (Mobile)
Tim Healy, co-founder and CEO of EnerNOC Inc. (Energy)
Robert LeFort, CEO of Ember Corp. (Semiconductors)
Kiki Mills, president of MITX, the Massachusetts Innovation and Technology Exchange (Community)
Girish Kumar Navani, co-founder and CEO of eClinicalWorks (Health IT)
Panos Panay, founder and CEO of Sonicbids Corp. (Internet)
Richard Scannell, co-founder and senior vice president of Glasshouse Technologies Inc. (Storage)

Help us identify these leading players with proven track records in building or shaping companies and tech sectors, whether they are entrepreneurs, top technologists, financiers or advisors. Nominate a potential All-Star.

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2010 Honorees: Bernard M. Gordon – Analogic Corp. and NeuroLogica Corp.; Ray Stata – Analog Devices Inc. and Stata Venture Partners; Aron J. Ain – Kronos Inc.; Shawn Broderick – TechStars Boston; Abbie Celniker – Taligen Therapeutics; Frederic Chereau – Pervasis Therapeutics; George M. Church – Knome and Harvard Medical School professor; Neal Creighton – RatePoint Inc.; Donna C. Cupelo – Verizon Communications; Walt Doyle – Where Inc.; Tim Healy – EnerNOC Inc.; Robert LeFort – Ember Corp.; Kiki Mills – MITX; Girish Kumar Navani – eClinicalWorks; Panos Panay – Sonicbids Corp.; Richard Scannell – Glasshouse Technologies Inc.

2009 Honorees: Rodney Brooks – Heartland Robotics Inc.; Peter Antoinette – Nanocomp Technologies Inc.; Maura Banta – IBM Corp.; David Beisel – Venrock; Omid Farokhzad – Brigham and Women’s Hospital & BIND Biosciences Inc.; Eric Giler – Witricity Corp.; Gail Goodman – Constant Contact Inc.; Scott Griffith – Zipcar Inc.; Scott Kirsner – Future Forward Events; Joseph Kvedar – Partners Healthcare Center for Connected Health; Patrick Larkin – John Adams Innovation Institute; Stephen Orenberg – Kaspersky Lab Americas; Dharmesh Shah – HubSpot Inc.; Roger Tung – Concert Pharmaceuticals Inc.; Russell Wilcox – E Ink Corp.

2008 Honorees: Robert M. Metcalfe – Polaris Venture Partners; Justin Aborn – General Compression Inc.; Abigail A. Barrow – Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center at the University of Massachusetts; Chris Brogan – CrossTech Media; Karen Copenhaver – Choate Hall & Stewart LLP; Alexei Erchak – Luminus Devices Inc.; Trish Fleming – MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge; David Friend – Carbonite Inc.; Peter Gammel – SiGe Semiconductor Inc.; Foster Hinshaw – Dataupia Corp.; Paul Maeder – Highland Capital Partners LLC; G. Robert Malan – Arbor Networks Inc.; Michael Stonebraker – Vertica Systems Inc.; Mitchell Tyson – Advanced Electron Beams Inc.; Susan Windham-Bannister – Mass. Life Science Center

2007 Honorees: Gururaj Deshpande – Sycamore Networks Inc.; Jeremy Allaire – Brightcove Inc.; Thomas Burgess – Third Screen Media, Inc.; Joe Chung – Allurent Inc.; Meredith Flynn-Ripley – Integra5 Inc.; Michael Greeley – IDG Ventures Boston; Colin Angle – iRobot Corp.; Helen Greiner – iRobot Corp.; Dev Ittycheria – BladeLogic Inc.; Yael Maguire – ThingMagic Inc.; Andy Ory – Acme Packet Inc.; Amar Sawhney – I-Therapeutix Inc.; Jit Saxena – Netezza Corp.; David Vieau – A123Systems Inc.; Bill Warner – Warner Research LLC; Christoph Westphal – Sirtris Pharmaceuticals Inc.; Elizabeth Wilson – Raytheon Co.

2006 Honorees: Vin Bisceglia – Motorola Inc.; Ray Cronin – Azimuth Systems Inc.; Kedar Gupta – GT Solar Inc.; John Landry – Adesso Systems Inc.; Robert Lanza – Advanced Cell Technology Inc.; Joseph McIsaac – Reflexion Network Solutions Inc.; Richard Miller – Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Lita Nelsen – Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Richard Packer – Zoll Medical Corp.; Pamela Reeve – Boston Wireless Task Force; Nina Saberi – Castile Ventures; James D. Shields – Charles Stark Draper Laboratory

2005 Honorees: Howard Berke – Konarka Technologies Inc.; James “Jay” Bertelli – Mercury Computer Systems Inc.; Chuck Digate – Convoq Inc.; Stephen J. Killeen – WorldWinner Inc.; Dr. Daniel B. Kopans – Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School; David Mahoney – Applix Inc.; J.C. Murphy – Excel Switching Corp.; Vinit Nijhawan – TiE Boston; Sherri C. Oberg – Acusphere Inc.; Hilmi Ozguc – Maven Networks Inc.; Tracy Emerton Williams – State of Rhode Island; Elliot T. Williams – Mirus Capital Advisors Inc.; Jack M. Wilson – University of Massachusetts

2004 Honorees: Joseph Alsop – Progress Software Corp.; Ralph Folz – Molecular Inc.; Mark Galvin – Cedar Point Communications Inc.; James Geshwiler – CommonAngels; Michael Goldstein – Media and Technology Charter High School; Radha Jalan – ElectroChem Inc.; Joseph Kumiszcza – Maine Software Developers Association; Robert Langer – MIT; Joanna Lau – Lau Technologies; Ihor Lys – Color Kinetics Inc.; George McMillan – CMGI Corp.; Jonathan Rosen – Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology; Una Ryan – Avant Immunotherapeutics Inc.; Mark Shirman – GlassHouse Technologies Inc.

2003 Honorees: Maurizio Arienzo – SMal Camera Technologies; Vanu Bose – Vanu Inc.; Michelle Chambers – New Tilt Inc.; M. Jacqueline Eastwood – TissueLink Medical Inc.; John C.C. Fan – Kopin Corp.; Robert Kispert – Mass. Technology Collaborative; Hansraj C. Maru – FuellCell Energy Inc.; Karen Panetta – Tufts University; Joan Parsons – Silicon Valley Bank; Joyce L. Plotkin – Mass Software Council; Ron Sege – Ellacoya Networks Inc.; Jean-Pierre Sommadossi – Idenix Pharmaceuticals Inc.; Andrew Updegrove – Lucash, Gesmer and Updegrove LLP

2002 Honorees: John Chory – Hale and Dorr LLP; Christopher Dyl – Turbine Entertainment Software; David Ellis – Museum of Science; Roy Hirshland – T3 Realty Advisors LLC; Richard Kivel – MolecularWare Inc.; Terry McGuire – Polaris Venture Partners; Jeff Setrin – Imaging Automation Inc.; Louis Soares – RITEC; Ron Sparks – Smith & Nephew Endoscopy; John St. Amand – Telica Inc.; Robert Therrien – Brooks–PRI Automation Inc.; Michael Thompson – Egenera Inc.; Jeremy Wertheimer – ITA Software Inc.

2001 Honorees: Hassan Ahmed – Sonus Networks; Janice Bourque – Mass. Biotechnology Council; Mayank Bulsara – AmberWave; Maria Cirino – Guardent; Robert Crowley – Mass. Tech. Dev. Corp.; Ofer Gneezy – iBasis; Roger Greene – Ipswitch Inc.; Julia Greenstein – Immerge Biotherapeutics; Joe Hammang – R.I. Economic Policy Council; Marina Hatsopoulos – Z Corp.; Tripp Jones – Mass. Inst. for a New Commonwealth; David Lederman – Abiomed; Michael Mazzu – Viisage; Leon Navickas – Centra Software; Leigh Powell – I–Many; Shiv Tasker – Phase Forward Inc.; Krishna Vedula – UMass–Lowell

2000 Honorees: Chris Allen – University of Vermont; Leo Carey – Charlestown High School; Nassib Chamoun – Aspect Medical Systems Inc.; John Connolly – Mainspring Inc.; Todd Dagres – Battery Ventures; Donald Dubendorf – Berkshire Connect; Cynthia Fisher – ViaCell Inc.; JoAnn Hodgdon – eCoast Technologies Inc.; Tom Leighton – Akamai Technologies Inc.; Jeanne Lewis – Staples.com; Tod Loofbourrow – Authoria Inc.; Frank Manning – Zoom Telephonics; Kirk Pond – Fairchild Semiconductor Inc.; Charles Stuckey – RSA Security; Rob Utzschneider – Torrent Systems Inc.; Tony Zona – Quantum Bridge Communications

1999 Honorees: John Chuang – Aquent; Carole Cowan – Middlesex Community College; Desh Deshpande – Sycamore Networks; David Ellenbogen – Hologic; Peter Feinstein – Feinstein Kean Partners; Howard Foley – Mass High Tech Council; Jon Hirschtick – SolidWorks Corp.; Sally Khudairi – ZOT Group; Stephen Kiely – Stratus Computer; Frank Lee – Millennium Pharmaceuticals; Arthur Mabbett – Mabbett & Associates; Joseph McGuirl – University of Massachusetts; Win Treese – Open Market; David Westenberg – Hale and Dorr LLP

1998 Honorees: James Cabot – Environmental Protection Agency; Robert Davis – Lycos; Richard Egan – EMC; Fred Engel – Concord Communications; David Fleming – Genzyme Corp.; Peter Gyenes – Ardent Software; Jeff Kleiser & Diana Walczak – Kleiser Walczak Construction; Kenneth Morse – MIT Entrepreneurship Center; Alison Taunton-Rigby – Aquila Biopharmaceuticals; Christopher Anderson – Mass High Tech Council; George Colony – Forrester Research; Shayne Gilbert – Cyber District Assoc.; Betty Kadis – MIT Tech Capital Network; John Keane – Keane Inc.; Mary Makela – Cape Cod Tech Council; Daniel Roach – Coopers & Lybrand

1997 Honorees: Mary Cahill – Software Council Fellowship Program; Thomas Chmura – STEP; Nick Grouf – Firefly; Rod Kunz – Lincoln Lab; Eric Lander – Whitehead Institute; Steve Meretzky – Boffo Games; Peter Nicholas – Boston Scientific; Pamela Reeve – Lightbridge; John Reno – Dynatech; Paul Brountas – Hale and Dorr LLP; Jack Derby – MIT Enterprise Forum; Lida Harkins – State Representative; Thomas Sommer – MassMedic; Julie Townsend – Barrett Communications

1996 Honorees: Joe Alviani – Mass Tech Collaborative; Jack Archer – UMass–Amherst; Dan Bruns – Delphi Internet Services; Gregg Carr – International Wireless; Paul Drouihet – MIT Lincoln Lab; Eno Jackson – Netdiva; Edward Koepfler – Interleaf; Pattie Maes – MIT Media Lab; Sean O’Sullivan – NetCentric; Robert Palmer – Digital Equipment Corp.; Jim Vincent – Biogen; Randy Ziffer – Mack Technologies; Maura Fitzgerald – Fitzgerald Communications; Chris Lee – Virtually Wired; Leigh Michal – Pioneer Capitol