Many EECS alums have become innovators and industry leaders, significantly impacting the economy of the State and the nation; including (not an exhaustive list):

• Terry Heng, CEO of Gridline Communications Holdings; and retired Senior VP at Motorola
• Ed Schweitzer, President of his own company, SEL
• Sara Moss, CEO of her own company, The Code Works
• Gerri Martin-Flickinger, CIO Adobe
• Steve Seroshek, CEO of his own company, Avaunt Technologies, Inc.
• Clint Cole, CEO of his own company, Digilent, former owner of Heartstream sold to HP
• Harold Frank, founder of Applied Magnetics, gave $3M to CEA to establish The Frank Entrepreneurship program
• Gary Steele, CEO of ProofPoint
• Joe Jachinowski, CEO and co-founder of IMPAC Medical Systems, Inc.
• Gaymond Schultz, Founder and VP of Engineering of Stratacom (retried)
• Doug Allred, retired Senior VP at Cisco.
• Floyd and Judy Rogers, retired from Microsoft, gave two $1.5M endowments to the CS program
• Thor Culverhouse, President and CEO of Stratavia
• Ashok Dhawan, CEO of Mobius
• Debbie Gracio, Division Director, Computational & Statistical Analytics Division, PNNL