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Governance
The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory,
Inc. was established as a non-profit corporation on July 1, 1973.
It is governed by a 13-member Board of Directors. The larger body
of the Members of the Corporation provides continuity for the Board
and elects the Directors at the Annual Meeting of the Corporation.
The Officers of the Corporation manage the day-to-day operations
of the Laboratory.
The
Board meets five times per year. It elects the Chairman of the Board
and Officers of the Corporation; monitors the Lab’s programs
and services to its sponsors; sets broad policies and objectives;
and formally evaluates the Corporation’s overall performance
each year through functional subcommittees. The Board ensures that
the Laboratory’s resources are managed effectively and in
a fiscally responsible way.
Officers of The Corporation |
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John A. Gordon
Chairman of the Board |
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James D. Shields
President and Chief Executive Officer |
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John R. Dowdle
Vice President for Engineering |
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Elizabeth Mora
Treasurer and Vice President
for Finance and Administration |
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Len Polizzotto
Vice President for Strategic Business Development & Marketing |
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Darryl G. Sargent
Vice President for Programs |
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John W. Stillwell
Vice President for Strategic Systems |
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Melinda J. Brown
Secretary and General Counsel |
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Helen M. Gillis
Assistant Secretary |
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| Board of Directors |
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William F. Ballhaus, Jr.
Retired President & CEO
The Aerospace Corporation |
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Delores M. Etter
Texas Instruments Distinguished Chair, Engineering Education;
Director, Caruth Institute for Engineering Education, Electrical Engineering Dept., Southern Methodist University |
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John A. Gordon
General, U.S. Air Force (Retired);
Former President's Homeland Security Advisor and Assistant to the President |
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Sherwin Greenblatt
Director
MIT Venture Mentoring Service |
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Miriam E. John
Vice President Emeritus, California Division, Sandia National Laboratories |
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Franklin C. Miller
Independent Consultant, and Senior Counselor, The Cohen Group; Former Special Assistant to the President |
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George M. Milne, Jr.
Venture Partner, Radius Ventures, LLC;
Former Executive Vice President of Research and Development, Pfizer Inc. |
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M. Elisabeth Paté-Cornell
Professor & Chair, Department of Management Science & Engineering, Stanford University |
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James D. Shields
President and CEO
Draper Laboratory |
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C. Bruce Tarter
Director Emeritus
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
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Peter B. Teets
Former Under Secretary of the Air Force;
Former Director of the National Reconnaissance Office |
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Richard D. White
Managing Director
Private Equity, Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. |
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