Technology Innovators: Top 50

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Accenture
James Hall
Managing partner of the Accenture Technology, Alliance & Solutions service line
Hall has responsibility for Accenture's technology vision and strategy, investments and capabilities in IT architectures and platforms, and research and development activities. He also oversees Accenture's alliances program.
Top technology innovation in 2004: Put in place effective systems for measuring, managing and reporting IT performance, offered comprehensive identity and access management architecture, and created a highly utilized and flexible infrastructure.
% of products less than 2 years old:Every one of our services offerings has been overhauled or updated during the past two years.

Actuate
Nico Nierenberg
Chairman and chief architect
Nierenberg has been a software entrepreneur and innovator for more than 20 years. He founded Actuate in 1993 and served as CEO until August 2000. In his current role, Nierenberg guides Actuate's technology direction. Prior to Actuate, he co-founded Unify and was systems software chief for Rogers, Kirkham and Associates.
Top technology innovation in 2004: Initiated the open-source Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) project with the Eclipse Foundation. BIRT will result in the industry's first open-source BI and reporting platform by early 2005.
Amount Spent on R&D: Approximately $5 million per quarter--that's historically about 18% to 20% of revenue.

Altiris
Dwain Kinghorn
CTO
Kinghorn founded Computing Edge in 1994. He merged the company with Altiris in October 2000 and became CTO. Previously, Kinghorn served on the original three-person development team that created Microsoft's Systems Management Server. Computing Edge has been the leading provider of SMS add-on tools.
Top technology innovation in 2004: Natively integrating client, server and IT asset-management capabilities to enable true IT life-cycle management. The integrated functionality has resulted in attractive ROI for customers.
% of products less than 2 years old: About 40% are new, while all products were migrated to the .Net platform in the past two years.

AMD
Dirk Meyer
Executive vice president of computational products group
Meyer is responsible for all product development, manufacturing, operations and marketing for the Computational Products Group. He joined AMD in 1996 as director of engineering for the AMD-K7 microprocessor development program. Meyer came to AMD from Digital, where he was co-architect of the Alpha 21064 and 21264 microprocessors.
Top technology innovation in 2004: Extended AMD's architectural leadership by demonstrating the industry's first x86 dual-core processor for 32- and 64-bit computing. Dual-core AMD Opteron processors for servers and workstations are expected to launch in mid-2005, followed by versions for the client market in late 2005.
% of products less than 2 years old: Nearly 100%.

Apple
Avadis "Avie" Tevanian, Jr.
Chief software technology officer
Tevanian joined Apple in 1997 and focuses on setting companywide software technology directions for Apple. He is a recognized pioneer in creating cross-platform development environments used worldwide. Before joining Apple, Tevanian was vice president of engineering at NeXT, responsible for managing NeXT's engineering department. He started his professional career at Carnegie Mellon University, where he was a principal designer and engineer of the Mach operating system.

Avaya
Ravi Sethi
President of Avaya Labs
Sethi oversees a 2,500-person R&D team at Avaya focused on converged voice and data communication, CRM and unified communications. He came to Avaya in 2000 from Bell Labs, where he was senior vice president for communications sciences research.
Top technology innovation in 2004: Getting research results and innovation into the company's enterprise communications products and services.
% of products less than 2 years old: Refreshed entire product line in past two to three years.

BEA Systems
Mark Carges
CTO
In his more than eight years with BEA, Carges has been instrumental in leading the strategy, development and integration of several BEA products. He focuses on ensuring innovation inside BEA and adherence to open standards. He is one of the original architects of the Tuxedo transaction processing server, designed when working at AT&T Bell Labs, Unix System Laboratories and Novell.
Top technology innovation in 2004: Launched Apache Beehive, an open-source foundation for building service-oriented architectures that help companies more easily port Java and service-based applications to any server.
% of products less than 2 years old: 100%.

BMC Software
Dan Barnea
Senior vice president of research and development
Barnea came to BMC in 1999 and is responsible for all product and technology-related functions. Prior to BMC, he was CEO at New Dimension Software, where he was credited with turning the company's fortunes around. New Dimension was acquired by BMC in 1999.
Top technology innovation in 2004: Developing and acquiring technologies needed to complete BMC Software's Business Service Management (BSM) strategy and product portfolio. Those areas included service-level management, IT discovery, a common management database and configuration management capabilities.
% of products less than 2 years old: During the past two years, BMC Software has acquired solutions from Remedy, Magic and Marimba, while at the same time developing new products. The integration of the two results in new solutions that are less than 2 years old.

Borland
Patrick Kerpan
CTO
Kerpan directs the company's technology strategy and oversees Borland's team of chief scientists. He has more than 20 years of software development experience, joining Borland in 2000 through the acquisition of Bedouin, a company he founded. Before that, he was managing director of derivatives technology for Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.
Top technology innovation in 2004: Developed significant advances in the domain of integrated application life-cycle management, including a petabyte-scalable file vault, asset distribution for decentralized development teams and a search engine for structured and unstructured data.
% of products less than 2 years old: Approximately 80%.

Check Point Software
Gil Shwed
Founder, chairman and CEO
Shwed is a well-known figure in the Internet security industry, having co-founded Check Point and developed a number of evolutionary technologies, including the original FireWall-1. He also invented Stateful Inspection, now de facto standard technology.
Top technology innovation in 2004: Introduction of the company's internal and Web security product lines, including InterSpect internal security gateway appliance, Connectra, SSL Network Extender and Web Intelligence systems, and the Network Extender technology.
% of products less than 2 years old: Approximately 43%.

Cisco Systems
Charles Giancarlo
CTO
Giancarlo plays a key role in developing and implementing Cisco's technology strategy and vision. In addition, he holds the senior leadership role for two groups, voice technology and global government solutions, and is president of Cisco-Linksys, an independent division of Cisco that provides wired and wireless products for the consumer and SOHO networking market. Giancarlo joined Cisco in 1994 and holds multiple patents in the areas of ATM and voice technologies.
Top technology innovation in 2004: The launch of the self-defending network (Cisco's vision for security systems) and the development of the Cisco-sponsored industry initiative Network Admission Control, along with the delivery of Video Telephony Advantage, the first completely intuitive video telephony capability.
% of products less than 2 years old: An estimated 40%.

Computer Associates
Mark Barrenechea
Executive vice president of product development
Barrenechea is responsible for the majority of CA's worldwide R&D activities, including all technology, worldwide support, product marketing and IT within the company. Prior to joining CA, he held a number of posts at Oracle, including senior vice president of applications development, and was a member of the executive management committee.
Top technology innovation in 2004: Designing a common architecture that enables integration between all of CA's management software solutions, including Unicenter operations management and service management, BrightStor storage management, eTrust security management and AllFusion application life-cycle management.
AMOUNT SPENT ON R&D: Approximately 20% of CA's $3.2 billion in revenue.

Corel
Graham Brown
Executive vice president of software development
Brown is responsible for the development of Corel solutions for homes and small businesses, creative professionals and the enterprise, and leads the team responsible for quality assurance of those product groups. Prior to joining Corel, he served as developer and project lead at ACDS, where he produced Geographic Information Systems.
Top technology innovation in 2004: Since going private last year, Corel's development efforts have focused exclusively on graphics and office productivity business lines. The releases of CorelDraw Graphics Suite 12, WordPerfect Office 12 and Corel Painter IX emphasize a top priority around productivity and compatibility.
AMOUNT SPENT ON R&D: During the past five years, Corel's investments in R&D have been approximately 20% of annual revenue.

D-Link Systems
Steven Joe
President and CEO
Joe has held a leading position in virtually every department of D-Link North America, contributing to the company's growth since its inception in 1986. He has led several key initiatives, including development of Internet-based consumer connectivity products. Joe spearheaded the push to bring wireless connectivity to the masses when he introduced the industry's first complete line of wireless products at retail in 1999.
Top technology innovation in 2004: Introduced an affordable series of business-class entry and midlevel SMB products in both the wired and wireless arenas called the xStack family of switches and AirPremier family of wireless connectivity systems.
% of products less than 2 years old: 95%.

EMC
David A. Donatelli
Executive vice president of storage platforms operations
Donatelli joined EMC in 1987 and currently oversees development of the EMC Symmetrix and CLARiiON families of networked-storage systems and EMC Celerra network-attached storage systems. He is credited with driving EMC into the open-standards systems market in 1995, and evolving the company from a single-product mainframe vendor to one that sells systems ranging from $5,000 to $300,000 today.
Top technology innovation in 2004: In February, EMC updated every storage platform in its portfolio, broadening the range and functionality of everything from the high-end Symmetrix DMX family to the Celerra NAS.
% of products less than 2 years old: 100%.

Exabyte
Juan A. Rodriguez
Chairman and CTO
Rodriguez has pioneered advanced computer data storage technologies across four decades. He designed IBM's earliest tape-storage products and developed the world's highest performance tape-storage products at StorageTek in the 1970s. He also designed the world's first 8-mm helical scan data tape drive at Exabyte in the 1980s, and the groundbreaking VXA Packet Technology for tape drives at Ecrix in the 1990s. Rodriguez founded Exabyte in 1985, then Ecrix in 1996, merging the two in 2001.
Top technology innovation in 2004: Release of tape-automation product VXA-2 PacketLoader 1x10 1U, an ultracompact 1U rack-mountable automated backup and restore product built with VXA Packet Technology and Exabyte's world-renowned robotics.
% of products less than 2 years old: 60% of company revenue is generated from products that are 2 years old or less.

Fujitsu Computer Products of America
Chuck Nielsen
chief technologist, disk drive division
Nielsen is responsible for emerging HDD technologies and hardware implementations, and development and product strategies. Prior to joining Fujitsu, he held storage development and executive management positions at IBM and Conner Peripherals. Nielsen has been responsible for ASIC, recording channel, and firmware and printed circuit-board development, and has managed numerous disk-drive development programs.
Top technology innovation in 2004: Delivering the industry's first Serial-interface mobile and enterprise hard disk drives: the 2.5-inch Serial ATA mobile hard disk drive and the 2.5-inch small form factor Serial-Attached-SCSI enterprise hard disk drive.
% of products less than 2 years old: 100%.

Groove Networks
Ray Ozzie
Founder and CEO
Ozzie founded Groove Networks in October 1997, driving the peer-to-peer collaborative networking phenomenon. Previously, he was a founder and president of Iris Associates, where he created and led the development of Lotus Notes, the defining groupware product used by more than 100 million people worldwide.
Top technology innovation in 2004: The shipment of Groove Virtual Office v3.0 in July. This product is the result of direct customer feedback and includes a new forms capability that allows VARs to develop customized applications.
% of products less than 2 years old: 100%.

Hewlett-Packard
Shane V. Robison
Executive vice president and chief strategy and technology officer
Robison is responsible for shaping the company's overall technology agenda and for leading the company's strategy and corporate development efforts. He leads the technology and strategy councils as well as the development of future technology road maps, working closely with HP's business units and HP Labs. Robison's background includes high-level stints at Compaq, AT&T Labs and Apple.
Top technology innovation in 2004: Building out HP's management software capabilities through a series of software company acquisitions. Creating a dashboard for OpenView that lets CIOs manage and control their own data centers.
AMOUNT SPENT ON R&D: 5%, or $3.6 billion, invested on revenue of $73 billion.

Hitachi Data Systems
Nahoya Takahashi
Vice president and CTO
Takahashi is responsible for leading the company's storage systems and solutions business. He joined Hitachi in 1973; under his leadership, the company developed the first generation and beyond of the revolutionary Lightning and Thunder storage systems.
Top technology innovation in 2004: Delivered storage virtualization, enabling users to virtualize multiple tiers of storage and multiple storage products into one storage pool that presents a single image to all attached servers.
% of products less than 2 years old: 100%.

IBM
Nicholas M. Donofrio
Senior vice president of technology and manufacturing
Donofrio, a 30-plus year IBM veteran, leads the company's technology strategy. His responsibilities range from IBM Research to the Personal Systems Group to IBM's enterprise on-demand transformation team. He also heads the IBM Technology Team and is chairman of the board of governors for the IBM Academy of Technology. He has led many of IBM's major development and manufacturing teams, from semiconductor and storage technologies to microprocessors and PCs.

**Top technology innovation in 2004: IBM initiated the Global Innovation Outlook project to glean new insights about the forces that will shape and change business and society in the coming decade. Donofrio also led the new National Innovation Initiative to formulate a strategy to advance innovation across a broad range of industries.
% of products less than 2 years old: Approximately 75% of our total set of hardware products and nearly 80% of our software products.

Intel
Pat Gelsinger
Senior vice president and CTO
Gelsinger has been with Intel since 1979. He leads Intel's Corporate Technology Group, which encompasses many Intel research activities, driving industry alignment with these technologies and initiatives. As CTO, he coordinates Intel's long-term research efforts and helps ensure consistency from Intel's emerging computing, networking and communications products and technologies.
Top technology innovation in 2004: Intel began delivering power-optimized technology products into the marketplace, which include power technologies at the process, logic, architecture, software and platform levels.
% of products less than 2 years old: $4.4 billion of Intel's revenue in 2003 came from products less than 2 years old.

IONA Technologies
Eric Newcomer
CTO
Newcomer is responsible for Iona's technology road map and direction of the Orbix E2A e-Business Platforms as they relate to standards adoption, architecture and product design. He joined Iona in November 1999 and has been instrumental in Iona's embrace of Web services and XML. Prior to Iona, he held posts at Digital and Sages American Group.
Top technology innovation in 2004: Delivered Mobile Orchestrator, a new mobile product line that adapts classic store-and-forward middleware concepts to Internet protocols, creating a reliable infrastructure for mobile applications.
% of products less than 2 years old: Approximately 65%.

Jboss
Marc Fleury
President and CEO
Fleury has been at the forefront of the open-source movement, founding JBoss in 2001 to provide services, including development and production support, training, consulting and documentation, for users of the open-source JBoss Application Server. Fleury, who was previously with Sun, founded the JBoss project and developed the first release of JBoss AS in 1999 while working as an independent consultant.
Top technology innovation in 2004: Delivered JBoss Application Server 4.0, the enterprise production version of JBoss AS 4.0, that is both a milestone product release for the company and the first open-source app server to be certified compatible with the J2EE 1.4 specification.
% of products less than 2 years old: 70%.

Juniper
Pradeep Sindhu
CTO
Sindhu recognized in the mid-'90s that a new networking design paradigm was required to handle Internet growth, so he left his post as principal scientist at the Computer Science Lab at Xerox PARC and founded Juniper Networks. Sindhu is currently responsible for the company's technical road map and plays an active role in day-to-day design and development of future products. At PARC, Sindhu worked on technologies that led to the commercial development of Sun's first high-performance multiprocessor system family.
Top technology innovation in 2004: Rallied key industry players from both the telecom and IT worlds behind the Infranet Initiative. The "infranet" vision outlines a blueprint for a business-class infrastructure that moves IP networking beyond the limitations of today's Internet, enabling businesses to seamlessly operate applications, such as IP telephony, telepresence (e.g. peer-to-peer collaboration), and utility and grid computing.

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