Engineering College Council (ECC)
The Engineering College Council was created as an advisory board to the dean in the 1940s, during the administration of Solomon Cady Hollister. It was one of the first - perhaps the very first - of the college advisory councils at Cornell.
For some years, the president of the university served as chairman of the council. Through 1948-49, this was Edmund Ezra Day. The acting president, Cornelius W. deKiewiet, served for two years, and then President Deane Malott was chairman through 1955-56. Since then, the membership of the council has included people from industry and academia, both alumni and non-alumni. Their function was and is to advise the college administration on long-range planning and development in all aspects of the program, notably instruction, research, and, increasingly, cooperative ventures with industry.
ECC Members
Lynden A. Archer
(Ex Officio Member of the Council)
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
John V. Balen
(Cornell B.S. ’82 EE, MBA ’86)
Canaan Partners
Menlo Park, CA
Frank DeCosta
(Cornell B.S. ’85 EE, M.Eng. ’86 EE)
Finnegan, LLP
Washington, DC
Erin Fischell
(Cornell B.S. ’10 ME)
Acbotics Research, LLC
East Falmouth, MA
Ken Goldman
(Cornell B.S. ’71 EE)
Hillspire
Menlo Park, CA
Paul Hayre
(Cornell B.S.’91 EE)
Brixton Biosciences, Sano Diagnostics
Wellesley, MA
Debra Kemper
(Cornell B.S. ’88 CEE)
Golden Seeds Venture Fund
Boston, MA
Soojin Kim
(Cornell B.S. ’88 ChE)
Hanmi Pharmaceutical Co.
Pyeongtaek-si, SK
William R. LaFontaine, Jr.
(Cornell M.S. ’88, Ph.D. ’90 MSE)
International Business Machines
Yorktown Heights, NY
Kapil Mathur
(Cornell M.Eng. ’87, Ph.D. ’88 ME)
Cubist Systematic Strategies
New York, NY
Avinash Mehrotra
(Cornell B.S. ’91 EE)
Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC
New York, NY
Douglas Merrill
(Cornell B.S. ’89 AEP, M.Eng. ’91 AEP, MBA ’91)
Semiprobe
Shelburne, VT
Andreas Mustad
(Cornell B.S. ’94 CEE)
Nexwell Holdings
Coral Gables, FL
Christine Ortiz
(Cornell M.S. ’95, Ph.D. ’97 MSE)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Wakefield, MA
Raj Patel
(Cornell B.S. ORIE ’93)
Farallon Capital Management
San Francisco, CA
David Perez
(Cornell, M.Eng. ’91)
Avance Investment Management, LLC
New York, NY
Marlene Quijano
(Cornell B.S. ’85 ChE)
Kraft Foods Group (Retired)
Harrington Park, NJ
Samuel Ramos
(Cornell B.S. ’82 EE)
Global Atlantic Financial Group
New York, NY
Beckie Robertson
(Cornell BS ’82 ChE)
Versant Ventures
San Francisco, CA
Tony Satterthwaite
(Cornell B.S. ’82 CEE)
Cummins, Inc.
Columbus, IN
Linda Schadler
(Cornell B.S. ’85 MSE)
University of Vermont
Burlington, VT
Robert W. Selander
(Cornell B.S. ’72 ORIE)
Mastercard (Retired)
Greenwich, CT
Dmitri Shklovsky
(Cornell B.S. ’98 CS, M.Eng. ’02 ORIE)
GPS Investment Partners
New York, NY
Keith Shoates
(Cornell ’86 ECE ’87 MEng ECE)
Vice President, Office of the CEO, Vista Equity Partners
Austin, TX
Daniel S. Simpkins
(Cornell B.S. ’80 EE, M.Eng ’81)
Domusys, Inc.
Rockville, MD
Rick Tsai
(Cornell Ph.D. ’81 MSE)
MediaTek, Inc.
Taipei, Taiwan
Lisa L. Walker
(Cornell B.S. ChE ’86)
DHR International
Chicago, IL
Craig A. Wheeler
(Cornell ’82 MS, ’84 ChemE)
Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
Brett Wood
(Cornell B.S. ’85 ME)
Toyota Material Handling
Columbus, IN