Leadership Council
The Dean’s Leadership Council is an advisory board of executive-level leaders who help advance our research, teaching and public service goals by strengthening the School’s ties to industry and the community.
Current Members
Mohamed Alkady
President, Hart Inc.
Roger Andelin, B.S. ’87
Associate Partner, AKF Partners
Ilie Ardelean, B.S. ’96
Chief Product Officer, Exactuals
Mohammed Attar
VP, Software Engineering, Twilio
Gerald Bortis, Ph.D. ’16, M.S. ’07, B.S. ’05
VP Software Development, NextGen
Paul Butterworth, M.S. ’81, B.S. ’74
CTO, Vantiq
Bob Carroll, B.S. ’87
CTO, Dash
David Cheng, B.S. ’91
CEO, Pathfynders Corp.
Glenn Coles
CIO, Yamaha Motor Corp. USA
Rick Dutta
CEO, CloudAnalytics
David Fitzsimmons, B.S. ’00
Global Process Lead, Ingram Micro Inc.
Bob Frosell
CIO, CoreLogic
Dave Goff
Senior VP & CIO, ECMC Group
Prakash Grama
CEO, EVRY USA Corp.
Jon Hahn, B.S. ’81
CIO, FFF Enterprises
Pat Helland ’76
Software Architect, Salesforce
Arthur Hitomi, Ph.D. ’10, M.S. ’04, B.S. ’96
CTO & Co-Founder, Numecent
Zack Ji, B.S. ’07
Cloud Director, Oracle
Dinesh Khaladkar
President & CEO, eQ Technologic
Robert Kleist
Founder & Chairman, Printronix
Hiq Lee
President, Business Information Systems, Experian
Joel Manfredo
CIO, Motion Picture Industry Pension & Health Plans
Srinivas Mantripragada, Ph.D. ’00
VP & CTO, Cloud Infrastructure Services, IBM
Robert Mark, B.S. ’89
Manager/Mission Lead, Naval Surface Warfare Center
Kevin Mun
VP, Operations, AccuSpeechMobile
Carlos Oliveira, Ph.D. ’03, M.S. ’95
VP, H5 Data Centers
Al Pedroza
Director, Boeing Test & Evaluation, The Boeing Co.
Dinesh Ramanathan, Ph.D. ’00, M.S. ’95
President and CEO, NexGen Power Systems Inc.
Jack Ringquist, B.S. ’82
Principal, Deloitte Consulting
Robert Romney, B.S. ’83
Founder, Zenographics Inc.
Larry Rowe, Ph.D. ’76, B.S. ’70
Chairman & CEO, FX Palo Alto Laboratory
Sandy Smart-Ashburn, B.S. ’87
VP, IT Development, AT&T
Ted Smith
Emeritus Chairman & CEO, MIND Research Institute
Julie Sokol
Senior VP, Information Technology Services, The Irvine Co.
Richard Sudek, B.S. ’81
Executive Director, UCI Beall Applied Innovation
Ian Suttle
Director, Software Development, Amazon Alexa
Jack Tam
VP of Product Development, Consumer Group, Intuit
Michael Wong, B.S. ’03
Principal Software Engineer, Google Irvine
David Wood, B.S. ’85
CEO, Eventene