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Pedro A. Ray IEEE President and CEO (email)	Moshe Kam IEEE President-Elect (email)	John R. Vig IEEE Past President (email)	E. James (Jim) Prendergast IEEE Executive Director (email)

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2010 IEEE President and CEO

Pedro A. Ray successfully completed the Harvard Business School OPM program, class of 2001. He received his BSEE and MSEE degrees from Georgia Tech.  He is a licensed professional engineer.

He is President of Ray Engineers, a professional services corporation with over 90 employees.

He is also Owner and President of various corporations dedicated to the development of commercial and residential real estate projects.

He was Chief Examiner in charge of revision to the Puerto Rico Electricity Pricing Structure (2000), and was named Puerto Rico’s Electrical Engineer of the Year 2000. He was awarded 2005 IEEE PES Chapter Outstanding Engineer Award.

Mr. Ray is also a member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO), a group of 10,000 young leaders from around the world.

 2010 IEEE President-Elect

Moshe Kam (Ph.D., P.E.) is Department Head and Robert Quinn Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Drexel University.  He leads Drexel’s Center for Excellence in Information Assurance Education, and directs the Data Fusion Laboratory – a research laboratory founded 20 years ago to investigate radar target classification.

Kam's professional interests are in wireless communications, robotics and navigation, detection and estimation, and engineering education. His research has been supported by the US National Science Foundation (NSF), DARPA, ONR, CERDEC, Lockheed Martin and GlaxoSmithKline. 

Kam received his B.Sc. degree in 1977 (Tel Aviv University), and his M.S. (1985) and Ph.D. (1987) degrees from Drexel University, all in electrical engineering.  He is an IEEE Fellow "for contributions to the theory of decision fusion and distributed detection" (2001) and a recipient of an IEEE Third Millennium Medal. He served as an NSF Presidential Young Investigator (1990-1995) and is a Professional Engineer licensed in Pennsylvania.

IEEE Activities– (S’75-M’77-S’83-S’85-M’86-SM’92-F’01) OFFICES: Board of Directors, Member, 2010, 2003-07; IEEE President-Elect 2010; Educational Activities, Vice President, 2005-07.  Region 2, Director, 2003-04. 

COMMITTEES/BOARDS: Educational Activities Board: Member, 2008-09; Vice President, 2005-07.  New Initiatives Committee, Chair, 2009.  Standards Education Committee, Vice Chair, 2008-09.  IEEE Finance Committee, 2008-09.  Committee on Global Accreditation Activities, Chair, 2008-09.   AdHoc Committee on Relationships with Eta Kappa Nu, Chair, 2007-09.  IEEE Strategic Planning Committee, 2006-07.  RAB Strategic Planning Committee, 2006-07.  Membership Development Committee, Chair, 2005.  IEEE Audit Committee: Consultant, 2005; Chair, 2004; Member, 2003.  Regional Activities Board, 2003-04.  IEEE-USA Board, 2003-04.  Compensation Committee, 2004.  AdHoc Committee on Executive Director Review, Chair, 2004.  AdHoc Committee on Petition Candidacy Requirements, Chair, 2003.  RAB Awards Committee, 2001-02.  RAB Chapter Rejuvenation Committee, 2001-02.  Graduates of the Last Decade (GOLD) Committee, 1998-99.  IEEE Paper Prize Committee, 1994-97.

REGION: Region 2: Past Director, 2005-06; Director, 2003-04; Director-Elect, 2001-02; Nominations and Appointments Committee, Chair, 2008, 2006; GOLD Chair, 1998-99. 

SECTION: Philadelphia Section: Section Chair, 1998; Section Vice Chair, 1997; Treasurer, 1996; Secretary, 1994-95; Awards Committee, Chair, 1994-2004; Member, 1992-94. 

CHAPTERS: Philadelphia Section Vehicular Technology Society Chapter, Chair, 2008-09.  Philadelphia Section Joint Circuit and Systems Society, Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, and Control Systems Society Chapter, Chair, 1987­-2009.  Philadelphia Section Joint Communications Society and Information Theory Society Chapter: Chair, 1997-2007; Vice Chair, 1990-96. 

STUDENT BRANCH: Drexel University IEEE Student Chapter, Advisor, 1995-2006. 

SOCIETIES: IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Associate Editor, 1999-2004.  Pattern Recognition, Associate Editor, 1999-2005.  IEEE Neural Network Council, Awards Committee, 1992-93. 

CONFERENCES:  Transforming Engineering Education (Dublin, Ireland), Program Chair, 2009.  Engineering Education Accreditation Training Conference (Beijing, China), Session Organizer and Lecturer, 2008.  Meeting the Growing Demand for Engineers and Their Educators 2010-2020 International Conference (Munich, Germany), Planning Committee Member, 2007.  Secure Agent Workshop (Philadelphia, PA), General Chair, 2005.  Secure Agent Workshop (Philadelphia, PA), Organizer, 2004.  All-day Educational Seminar on Advances in Wireless Communications, IEEE Philadelphia Section, Organizer and Moderator, 1998.  Full-day Tutorial Workshop, Neural Networks and Their Applications in Control and Power Systems, International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (Singapore), Organizer and Lecturer, 1991.  IFAC International Symposium on Distributed Intelligence Systems, Member of the Program Committee, 1991.  Full-day Tutorial Workshop, Neural Networks for Control, The American Control Conference, Organizer and Lecturer, 1990.  American Control Conference, Member of the Program Committee, 1990.  Intelligent Control Conference, Member of the Program Committee, 1990.  Full-day Tutorial, Control with Neural Networks, The Decision and Control Conference, Lecturer, 1990.  Neural Networks for Power System Applications, IEEE PES, Panel Member, 1990.  IEEE Philadelphia Section Educational Seminar on Neural Networks and Their Applications, Organizer and Moderator, 1987.  Optimization and Control with Neural Networks, American Control Conference, Organizer, Invited Session, 1989.  Panel Member, Trends in Sensor Fusion, SPIE Conference on Advances in Intelligent Robotics Systems, 1989.  Invited Session, Neural Networks and Their Applications, the American Control Conference, Organizer, 1988.  Half-day Tutorial, Neural Networks for Control, International Symposium on Intelligent Control, Co-Lecturer, 1988. The Relations Between Information Theory and Control, American Control Conference, Organizer, Invited Session, 1987. 

REPRESENTATIVES: IEEE to the Board of Directors of ABET: Representative, 2008-09; Alternate Representative, 2005-08. 

AWARDS:  Benjamin Franklin Key Award, IEEE Philadelphia Section, 2008.  Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference in Autonomic Systems, 2008 (with S. Mancoridis).  IEEE Fellow, 2001.  IEEE Third Millennium Medal, 2000.  Past Chair Award, IEEE Philadelphia Section, 1999.  Excellence in Teaching Award, IEEE Student Chapter, Drexel University, 1988.

 2010 IEEE Past President

John R. Vig received the B.S. degree from CCNY, in 1964; and the Ph.D. in Physics from Rutgers - The State University, in 1969.  He joined the Electronic Components Laboratory at Fort Monmouth, NJ, USA, in 1969. Throughout his professional career, working as an electronics engineer and program manager, he performed and led research aimed at developing precision clocks, sensors and low-noise oscillators.  In 1988, he was elected Fellow of the IEEE "for contributions to the technology of quartz crystals for precision frequency control and timing."  He retired in 2006 and is now working as a consultant.

He has been awarded 55 patents, and has published more than 100 papers and nine book chapters.  He serves as a volunteer in his home town - as an Environmental Commissioner and trustee of the Friends of the Library.  In his spare time, he and his wife of 45 years enjoy ballroom dancing.

IEEE Activities – (M’72-SM’84-F’89) OFFICES:  Board of Directors, 2008-10, 2005, 2002-03; IEEE Past-President, 2010; IEEE President, 2009; IEEE President-Elect, 2008; Vice President, Technical Activities, 2005; Director, Division IX, 2002-2003. 

COMMITTEES/BOARDS:  Investment AdHoc Committee, 2003; Investment Committee, 2002-03; Marketing and Sales Committee, 2005-07; Trust & Communications Working Group, 2003; Technical Activities Board (TAB), 1998-2005; TAB Chair, 2005; SPARC Chair, 2004; Ethics & Conflict Resolution Committee, 2006; TAB Representative to Investment Committee, 2004; Chair, Investment Advisory Ad Hoc Committee, 2003-04; Nominations & Appointments Committee, 2002-03; Finance Committee, 2001; Electronic Products & Services Committee, 2002; Business Simplification Team, 2002-03; New Technology Directions Committee, 1998-2002; Ad Hoc Committee on Globalization, 1999; Focus Group on Public Image of Engineers, 1999; New Financial Model, 1999; Membership Development Committee, 1999; Chair, Ad Hoc Committee on Sensors, 1998-99.  Standards Coordinating Committee 27 on Time & Frequency: Chair, 1995-99; Vice-chair, 2000-07. 

SOCIETIES/COUNCILS:  Sensors Council:  Main proponent, 1998-99; Founding President, 2000-01; Associate Editor, Sensors Journal, 2003-05; Senior Editor, Sensors Journal, 2006-08; Special Issue Guest Editor, 2005; AdCom member representing the UFFC-S, 2006-07; VP, Conferences, 2002; Publicity Chair, 2001-08; Exhibits Chair, 2002-03; Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society (UFFC-S):  President, 1998-99; AdCom (elected twice), 1995-97, 1986-89; Transactions on UFFC, Associate Editor, 2002-07; Special Issues Guest Editor, 1998, 1987-88; Publicity Chair, 2006-07; Constitution & Bylaws Review Committee, 2005-08, 1995-98; Founding Web Editor-in-Chief, 1996-2004; Nominating Committee, 1986-92; Publications Committee, 1997-2003; Frequency Control Standing Committee, 1983-2006; Standards Committee Vice-chair, 1998-2007; Time and Frequency Standards Subcommittee, Chair, 1988-99; History Committee, 2006;  Instrumentation & Measurement Society:  Committee on Time and Frequency (TC-3): Chair, 1999-2001; Vice-chair, 1979-99. 

CONFERENCES: Int’l Frequency Control Symposium: General Chair, 1996-97, 1983-88; Technical Program Committee (TPC), 1972-2007; TPC Chair, 2002; Editorial, Chair, 1989-2003; Ultrasonics Symposium, Technical Program Committee, 1986-2006; Sensors Council VP for Conferences, 2002; IEEE SENSORS 2003: TPC and Publicity Chair, 2003; IEEE-NANO TPC, 2001-02.

REPRESENTATIVE: Hoover Medal Board of Award, 1991-2005. 

IEEE Executive Director

Prior to joining IEEE, Jim served as Corporate Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for DuPont Electronic & Communication Technologies, a four-billion dollar global enterprise. His broad technical background leveraged DuPont's strong materials and technology base to accelerate growth in the 'high-tech' markets of electronics and communications. In this capacity, he led the research and development functions, coordinating long-term applied research efforts in corporate R&D centers and searching out new opportunities for growth. New business ventures emerging from this work, in flat-panel displays, PV, fuel cells and photonics, were incubated under Jim’s guidance. In February 2003, he was elected to the DuPont Photomasks (DPMI) Board of Directors and remained through the successful acquisition of DPMI by Toppan in April 2005.

Previously, Jim was Vice President and Director of Motorola’s Physical Sciences Research Laboratories. During his tenure he directed long-range research in future integrated systems (memory, semiconductor materials, nanostructures, quantum devices, etc.), energy (thermoelectrics, fuel cells, etc.), lab-on-a-chip (microfluidics, DNA analyses, etc), and various speculative 'reach-out' initiatives. Other assignments at Motorola included directing the Wireless Research & Development Laboratory, leading the Microcontroller and Mixed-Mode Technology Center and serving as Chief Technologist and Director of Strategy, all within Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector (now Freescale Semiconductor).

Jim’s first role following his doctorate was leading the development, importation, installation and support of process and device modeling tools for silicon and GaAs technologies for AT&T Bell Laboratories.

An IEEE Senior Member, Jim earned a Bachelor's degree in science and a Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, both from Sydney University in Australia. He received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Cambridge University.