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Robert Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet, founder of 3Com Corp., and partner at Polaris Venture Partners, addresses the crowd of approximately 300 as he received his Distinguished Achievement Award at last night's 2008 Mass High Tech All-Star Awards ceremony.

Friday, October 31, 2008

Metcalfe, 14 others honored as 2008 Mass High Tech All-Stars

By Mass High Tech Staff

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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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Posted by: jconnolly@m... / Monday, November 3rd, 2008 - 8:38 am EST

As one of the editors who worked on the All-Stars project I must point out that you may have interpreted the comment the wrong way. The reference was to one of the honorees who in his own words had told us that, coming from the technical side, one of the important lessons he had learned was of the value that sales and marketing provide to a company and how the technical and sales sides have to work together. Please understand that there was no criticism of sales and marketing professionals. He meant it as praise. Thank you for airing your concern-- Jim Connolly, Associate Editor.

Posted by: brittany.hudson@r... / Friday, October 31st, 2008 - 11:13 am EDT

Thank you to the gentleman presenting who made it an effort to publically express his contempt for Sales and Marketing professionals during his portion of the award presentation. Considering the Distinguished All-Star awardee wrote the paper, The Zen of Selling and a past All-Star is an expert salesman who sits on the board for the MIT Sales Club, he insulted no only the sea of sales and marketing professional in the room but two of the most accomplished and brightest men to come out of MIT. If not for Sales, "Al" wouldn't have had an opportunity to present any awards to anyone. No one would have bought a ticket to the event, bought Mass High Tech subscriptions, Boston Business Journals or any other publication. Nice going, Al.

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Metcalfe, 14 others honored as 2008 Mass High Tech All-Stars

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