Dean's Advisory Board Members 2006-2009

Krzysztof Burhardt
(EE Ph.D. ’71)*
Partner, Clotho & Associates

Doug Cameron
Managing Director and Chief Science Advisor,
Piper Jaffray & Co.

Ronald L. Christenson, Chair
(ME ’72)*
Corporate Vice President and Chief Technology Officer,
Cargill Inc.

Alex Cirillo Jr.
Staff Vice President, 3M Community Affairs

Fred Colen
Chief Technology Officer &
Executive Vice President of Operations and Technology, CRM,
Boston Scientific

John Dexheimer
President, Lightwave Advisors

Sundararajan Dhamotharan
(CivE Ph.D. ’79)*
Executive Vice President, URS Corporation

Drew Flaada
(MOT M.S. ’96)*
Director, Mayo Collaboration, Life Sciences & Blue Gene SW, IBM

Donald Gerhardt
President and CEO, LifeScience Alley

Jeffrey Harvey
Department of Physics, Enrico Fermi Institute
University of Chicago

Roger Haxby
(ME '58)*
Tiger Development

James Heppelmann
(ME ’87)*
Executive Vice President, Software Products, & Chief Product Officer
Parametric Technology Corporation

Byron Hill
Director, Technology- Electronic Sensing
Sensing & Control
Honeywell

Bonnie Holub
(CSci M.S. ’87, Ph.D. ’92)*
CEO, Adventium Labs

Eric Jolly
President, Science Museum of Minnesota

R.M. (Rich) Kruger
(ME ’81)*
Executive Vice President, ExxonMobil Production Company

Douglas (Doug) Lauffenburger
Head, Department of Biological Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Regent Emeritus Cynthia Lesher
Retired Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer, Excel Energy

William (Bill) Mularie
President & CEO, Telework Consortium

Gary J. Obermiller
(ME '72)*
Operating Partner and Managing Director
Goldner Hawn Johnson & Morrison

Darrell Rinerson
(Physics ’69, EE M.S. ’77)*
CEO, Unity Semiconductor

Kate Rubin
President, Minnesota High Tech Association

Gerald Timm
(EE ’63, M.S. ’65, Ph.D. ’67)*
President, GT Urological, LLC

Todd Zarfos
(EE ’85)*
Vice President of Product Development, Boeing Commercial Airplanes
The Boeing Company

* University of Minnesota alumnus