2009

Technology, board meetings and babies

“I think women are natural logistical masterminds.” — Amy Cueva

When the volunteer panel of judges were reviewing the backgrounds of candidates for the 2009 Mass High Tech Women to Watch, the level of accomplishments displayed by the finalists was noteworthy. What also was striking was how many candidates led companies and achieved technical breakthroughs around childbirth and raising toddlers. Several judges noted that during their child-raising years their careers took an enforced break. Not so for most of this year’s Women to Watch, who are business leaders and hands-on moms.

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Alumni voices

Heidi Perry
Director, Independent Research & Development program, Draper Laboratory (2005)

Update: “I have moved on from my division leader responsibility to a position as the director of Draper’s Independent Research & Development program. I love this assignment not only because I am responsible for Draper’s ~$25 million investment in future technology, but because I have the opportunity to work with a diverse group of scientists and engineers at the lab and our collaborating universities. With my charter is to align short-term seedlings, mid-range projects and large scale corporate thrusts, I truly feel part of the managment team.”

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2011 Honorees
Claritza Abreu – Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, Boston
Kirk Arnold – Avid Technology Inc.
Katrine Bosley – Avila Therapeutics Inc.
Margaret Chu-Moyer – Amgen Inc.
Sharon Donald – Draper Laboratory Inc.
Nina Dudnik – Seeding Labs
Laura Fitton – Oneforty Inc.
Wendi Goldsmith – BioEngineering Group
Bettina Hein – Pixability Inc.
Jean Hoffman – Putney Inc.
Suzanne Livingston – IBM Corp.
Susan MacKay – Cerahelix Inc.
Nevine Nassif – Intel Massachusetts
Melissa Pickering – iCreate to Educate LLC
Elena Polyakova – Graphene Laboratories Inc.
Katie Rae – TechStars Boston
Lori Ribeiro – Nexamp Inc.
Ellen Rubin – CloudSwitch Inc.
Helen Sabzevari – EMD Serono Inc.
Mikell Taylor – Bluefin Robotics Corp.
Sue Wante – Comcast Corp.
Daphne Zohar – PureTech Ventures, Boston
2010 Honorees
Marcie Black – Bandgap Engineering Inc.
A.G. Breitenstein – Humedica Inc.
Catherine Crawford – IBM Corp.
Lauren Crews – Raytheon Corp.
Elizabet de los Pinos – Aura Biosciences Inc.
Michelle Dipp – GlaxoSmithKline PLC
Jill Drury – The Mitre Corp.
Candace Fleming – Crimson Hexagon Inc.
Katie Hall – WiTricity Corp.
Dava Newman – MIT
Livia Racz – Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc.
2009 Honorees
Jill Becker – Cambridge NanoTech Inc.
Sangeeta Bhatia – Hepregen Corp.
Amy Cueva – Mad*Pow Media Solutions LLC
Heather De Jesus – Azima DLI
Anna Mracek Dietrich – Terrafugia Inc.
Sandra Glucksmann – Cerulean Pharma Inc.
Susan Leschine – Qteros Inc.
Ronnie Maffa – IBM Corp.
Mondira Pant – Intel Corp.
Yvonne Spicer – National Center for Technological Literacy at the Museum of Science
2008 Honorees
Afsana Akhter – Medullan Inc.
Wendy Frey Caswell – Zink Imaging Inc.
Sylvie Grégoir – Shire Human Genetic Therapies
Sadiye Guler – intuVision Inc.
Heather Healy – EMC Corp.
Deborah Louis – Authoria Inc.
Beth Marcus – Zeemote Inc.
Christine Miska – BAE Systems Inc.
Amanda Parkes – Bodega Algae LLC
Ellen Piccioli – Massachusetts Microelectronic Design Center, Intel Corp.
2007 Honorees
Deya Corzo – Genzyme Corp.
Mary Lynne Hedley – MGI Pharma Inc.
Asa Kalavade – Tatara Systems Inc.
Christina Lampe-Önnerud – Boston-Power Inc.
Paula Long – EqualLogic Inc.
Rachel Meyers – Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Stefania Nappi – PreferredTime Inc.
Mira Sahney – Myomo Inc.
Karen Tegan Padir – Sun Microsystems Inc.
Angela Zapata – The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory
2006 Honorees
Susan Scheer Aoki – Cisco Systems Inc.
Janice Arcari – EMC Corp.
Heather Blease – Broadband Solutions Inc.
Suzette Braun – The Stop & Shop Supermarket Co., Ahold USA
Karen Donoghue – Motorola Inc.
Ellen Ferraro – Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems
Linda Fuhrman – Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc.
Susie Kim Riley – Camiant Inc.
Regina Valluzzi – Evolved Nanomaterial Sciences Inc.
Julianne Zimmerman – GreenFuel Technologies Corp.
2005 Honorees
Angela Belcher – MIT
Margrit Betke – Boston University Computer Science department
Anne Marie Biernacki – The Digiticians
Vicki Ann Frawley – Target Software Inc.
Heidi Perry – Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc.
Elizabeth Ricci – Authoria Inc.
Hollie Schmidt – Boston Cure Project for MS
Paula Soteropoulos – Genzyme Corp.
Lorraine Wheeler – Botzam Inc.
Lijun Wu – Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research Inc.
2004 Honorees
Susan Adams – Comcast Corp.
Amy Duwel – Charles Stark Draper Laboratory
Jana Eggers – Intuit Inc.
Dawn Fitzgerald – Chipwrights Inc.
Reema Gupta – EMC Corp.
Julie LeMoine – U C How
Fanny Mlinarsky – Azimuth Systems
Suja Ramnath – M/A-Com Inc. a division of Tyco International
Weng Tao – Neurotech USA
Mary Ellen Zurko – IBM Software Group

Advisory Committee

Mass High Tech, along with Trish Fleming, executive director of the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge, and James M. Connolly, associate editor of Mass High Tech – co-chairs of the Women to Watch advisory committee – and Michelle Lang, Mass High Tech associate editor – digital, would like to express their thanks to the committee members who helped in making the difficult decisions when faced with the large number of submissions for this year’s Women to Watch roster.

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