Board of Directors
- Mr. Reid Ashe
- Dr. Allan Bufferd
- Professor Jerome Friedman
- Elizabeth A. Garvin
- Professor Alice P Gast
- Dr. Robert Metcalfe
- Mr. DuWayne Peterson
- Ms. Ann Wolpert
Mr. Reid Ashe
CEO, Media General, Inc.
As chief operating officer of Media General, Inc., Reid Ashe supervises the company's three operating divisions, Publishing, Broadcasting and Interactive Media. Media General operates 26 network-affiliated television stations, which reach more than 30 percent of Southeast households. Interactive media services include more than 50 online enterprises.
He previously served as publisher of The Tampa ( Florida) Tribune, Media General's largest daily newspaper. Before that he held positions as publisher of The Wichita ( Kansas) Eagle, and as editor and publisher of The Jackson ( Tennessee) Sun.
Ashe began his career in journalism as assistant editor of Technology Review, the MIT alumni magazine. He subsequently worked as a reporter at The Washington (N.C.) Daily News and The Jackson Sun.
He graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with an S.B. in electrical engineering in 1971. He also completed the Harvard Business School Program for Management Development in 1978.
Dr. Allan Bufferd
Treasurer, MIT
Allan Bufferd is Treasurer of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he supervises investment management of assets, formulation and implementation of investment policy for endowment and retirement fund assets which total $9 billion.
He joined MIT in 1972. He is also a member of advisory boards of diverse investment funds including the Investment Sub-Committee of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts PRIM; investment advisor to the Board of Trustees of the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation; chairman, board of directors, Harvard Cooperative Society; director, MassBank (NASDAQ). Dr. Bufferd is also a director of the Board of Advisers of Private Equity AG in Zurich.
Professor Jerome Friedman
Institute Professor, MIT
Jerome Friedman was born in Chicago in 1930. He received his A.B., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago in 1950, 1953, and 1956, respectively. After spending a year as a research associate at the University of Chicago, he went on to a three year appointment as a research associate at Stanford University. In 1960, he was hired at MIT as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Professor in 1967. At MIT he has served as Director of the Laboratory for Nuclear Science and Head of the Physics Department. In 1991, he was appointed as Institute Professor. He is an experimental particle physicist whose research has included studies of particle structure and interactions with high energy electrons, neutrinos, and hadrons.
He received, jointly with Henry Kendall and Richard Taylor, the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1990 and the W.H.K. Panofsky Prize in 1989 for the experimental discovery of quarks. He also received the Alumni Medal of the University of Chicago. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
He has been a member of numerous advisory committees for the DOE and various laboratories, including the Cambridge Electron Accelerator, Princeton-Penn Accelerator, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Fermilab, Wilson Laboratory, MIT-Bates Linear Accelerator, the Superconducting Super Collider, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. He also served as Vice-Chairman of the Board of the University Research Association and as a member of the Board of Physics and Astronomy of the National Research Council. He was President of the American Physical Society in 1999 and Chair of the Council of Scientific Society Presidents in 2001. He was also a member of the Scientific Policy Committee of CERN and is currently serving on the Council of the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization of Japan.
Elizabeth A. Garvin
Vice President and CEO, MIT Alumni Association
Beth Garvin is executive vice president and CEO of the MIT Alumni Association. Beth joined MIT over 18 years ago, and has held a number of key positions for the Alumni Association during that time, including director of reunion giving, director of class programs, alumni fund director, and managing director. Beth holds a Masters in Education from Stanford University, and a B.A. in English from the University of Cincinnati. In 2002, the MIT Alumni Board bestowed upon Beth its highest distinction, making her an Honorary Member of the MIT alumni.
Professor Alice P Gast
Vice President for Research and Associate Provost, MIT
Alice P. Gast is currently the Vice President for Research and Associate Provost at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as the Robert T. Haslam Professor of Chemical Engineering. Prior to beginning at M.I.T. in November 2001, Alice was Professor of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University, where she taught for sixteen years. She received her Ph.D. and M.A. in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University, where she was a Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Fellow, and her B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering at the University of Southern California, where she was valedictorian of her senior class. She is currently a member of, among others, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Chemical Society, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and the American Physical Society. Her current areas of research interest include the physics of complex fluids, colloidal suspensions, micelles and emulsions.
Dr. Robert Metcalfe
General Partner, Polaris Venture Partners
Dr. Robert M. ("Bob") Metcalfe is a general partner at Polaris Venture Partners in Waltham, MA, where he works with Boston-based information technology start-ups.
Metcalfe had three careers before becoming a venture capitalist on 1/1/1.
While an engineer-scientist (1965-1979), Metcalfe helped build the early Internet. In 1973, at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, he invented Ethernet, the international local-area networking standard on which he shares four patents.
While an entrepreneur-executive (1979-1990), Metcalfe founded 3Com Corporation, the billion-dollar networking company where at various times he was Chairman, CEO, division general manager, and vice president of engineering, marketing, and sales.
While a publisher-pundit (1990-2000), Metcalfe was CEO of IDG's InfoWorld Publishing Company (1992-1995). For eight years, he wrote an Internet column read weekly by 629,000 information technology professionals. He also wrote for American Spectator, Forbes, Technology Review, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Wired.
In 1995, Metcalfe was elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1996, he received the IEEE's Medal of Honor. In 1997, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. And in 1999, he was elected fellow of the International Engineering Consortium.
Mr. DuWayne Peterson
President, DuWayne Peterson Associates
DuWayne Peterson is President of DuWayne Peterson Associates, a consulting firm that provides advisory services to major corporations in the area of information technology management and to early stage technology companies in all aspects of their business. He is also Chairman of the Pasadena Angels, a group of individual investors that invest in early stage technology companies in the San Gabriel Valley. Prior to forming his firm in 1991, Peterson was Executive Vice President, Operations, Systems and Telecommunications of Merrill Lynch. He has also held senior information technology positions with Security Pacific, RCA, and Citibank. Peterson holds a BS from MIT and a MBA from the University of California at Los Angeles.
Peterson serves as Chairman of the Technology Advisory Council for Nasdaq and on the Board of Technology Review, Inc. He is a Life Member of the Board of Trustees for MIT and is also on the Board of Trustees for Claremont Graduate University. Peterson holds a B.S. from MIT and a MBA from the University of California at Los Angeles.
Ms. Ann Wolpert
Director of Libraries, MIT
Ann Wolpert became Director of Libraries for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in January 1996. Recently, Wolpert also assumed oversight of Technology Review magazine. Wolpert's Institute responsibilities include membership on the Committee on Copyright and Patents, the Council on Educational Technology, the Campus Plan Steering Committee, the Deans' Committee, and the President's Academic Council. She chairs the Management Board of the MIT Press, serves on the Open Courseware Interim Management Board, and is Co-chair of the Internal Review Committee for Financial Systems Services and Information Systems.
Prior to joining MIT, Wolpert was Executive Director of Library and Information Services at the Harvard Business School. Her experience also includes management of the Information Center of Arthur D. Little, Inc., where she additionally engaged in consulting assignments. More recent consulting assignments have taken her to Adelphi University in New York, to the campuses of INCAE in Costa Rica and Nicaragua, and to the Malaysia University of Science and Technology, Selangor, Malaysia.
