Mass High Tech: Women to Watch 2009
Ten bright and dynamic women who excel in technological innovation, entrepreneurship and community involvement were honored on March 12 during the sixth-annual “Women to Watch” Awards by Mass High Tech: The Journal of New England Technology.
Several hundred entrepreneurs, educators, professionals, family members and friends assembled at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge to honor 10 bright and dynamic female leaders in technology, at the sixth-annual “Women to Watch” Awards by Mass High Tech: The Journal of New England Technology. The honorees included company founders, accomplished researchers and educators, scientists and web innovators.
View photos from the event below. And watch this space for more information about the Women to Watch 2010 program and event, to be held next March. However, if you know a woman in the tech sector who has already recorded achievements in research or entrepreneurship and is poised to be a leader in her industry, nominate her today by completing an online nomination form.
Lisa Adams, left, of Nutter, McClennen & Fish talks with Debra Skelley.
Honoree Anna Mracek Dietrich, left, of TerraFugia with Ann Mracek.
Jodi Doyle, left, talks with Beth Alvarez, center, and Stefanie Fullerton, all of Seaport Graphics.
Meghan Murray of Dell talks with Jeff Sharp of Qteros, the company founded by honoree Susan Laschine.
David Gluck, left, talks with Roger Coutu of sponsor Cambridge Nanotech, the company founded by honoree Jill Becker.
- 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.
- Christine Cunningham, vice president of Research and Educator Resource Development, Museum of Science, Boston
- Frances Grigsby, CEO, Next Level International
- Jean Hammond, founder and principal of JPH Associates
- John Hodgman, Howard Foley professor for high tech workforce development at the University of Massachusetts Lowell
- June Rokoff, co-founder and vice-chair, The Commonwealth Institute
- Larisa K. Schelkin, CEO and president of the Diversity and Outreach in Math and Engineering (DOME) Foundation Inc.
- Vanita Shastri, executive director of TiE-Boston
- Alison Taunton-Rigby, CEO, RiboNovix Inc.
- Amy Fredrick, director of MassMEDIC’s MedTech Ignite program
- Shelley Errington Nicholson, director of Women’s Programs at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- Julianne Zimmerman, vice president communications, General Compression
- Ellen Piccioli, senior engineering manager, Intel Corp.’s Massachusetts Microelectronic Design Center
- Susan J. Goldberg, president of Northeast Training Group Inc. and board member of The Boston Club
