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Friday, October 31, 2008
Metcalfe, 14 others honored as 2008 Mass High Tech All-Stars
By Mass High Tech Staff
Flash Slideshow: Mass High Tech All-Stars Thought Leadership Roundtable
Mass High Tech, The Journal of New England Technology, presented its 2008 All Star Awards on Thursday to 14 dynamic and influential leaders of Massachusetts’ innovation economy. Mass High Tech also presented the 2008 Distinguished Achievement Award to Robert M. Metcalfe of Polaris Venture Partners, and inventor of Ethernet local area networking. This is the 13th year that Mass High Tech has been presenting these awards.
“Massachusetts’ reputation as a leader in the innovation economy is sustained by the cutting edge work and research being done in our high tech and life science companies and institutions of higher learning,” said Michael Olivieri, publisher Mass High Tech and the Boston Business Journal. “We honor these rising stars in the technology and business sectors to recognize their innovation and hard work while also making our readers aware of the amazing talent we have in Massachusetts.”
“This year’s All-Stars award winners once again show that Massachusetts and the surrounding region is a powerful center of the innovation economy and that we are lucky to have some of the brightest minds in the high tech and biomedical industries,” said E. Douglas Banks, editor of Mass High Tech. “This year’s pool of nominations was one of the strongest in the history of the project.”
The honorees represent a wide range of the technology and business sectors and will be profiled in a special supplement in this week’s edition of Mass High Tech.
An awards celebration and networking reception was held this morning at which the following people were honored as the 2008 Mass High Tech All Stars:
Distinguished Achievement Award: Robert M. Metcalfe, General Partner, Polaris Venture Partners
Telecom: Justin Aborn, Chief Scientist, General Compression Inc.
Education: Abigail A. Barrow, Director MA Technology Transfer Center, University of Massachusetts
Social Media: Chris Brogan, Vice President Strategy and Technology, CrossTech Media
Legal: Karen F. Copenhaver, Partner, Choate Hall & Stewart LLP
Hardware: Alexei Erchak, Founder and CTO, Luminus Devices Inc.
Community: Trish Fleming, Executive Director, MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge
Internet: David Friend, Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder, Carbonite Inc.
Electronics: Peter L. Gammel, CTO and Vice President Engineering, SiGe Semiconductor Inc.
Information Systems: Foster Hinshaw, President and CEO, Dataupia Corp.
Venture: Paul Maeder, General Partner, Highland Capital Partners LLC
Networking: G. Robert Malan, Founder and CTO, Arbor Networks Inc.
Software: Michael Stonebraker, CTO and Co-Founder, Vertica Systems Inc.
Energy: Mitchell G. Tyson, CEO and Director, Advanced Electron Beams Inc.
Life Sciences: Susan Windham-Bannister, President and CEO, Massachusetts Life Sciences Center
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