John E. Kelly III '76, senior vice president and group
executive of the IBM Technology Group, has been named to “Tech
Valley's Hot 10” list by the
Albany-Colonie Regional Chamber of Commerce.
The list, published for the first time, recognizes 10
people who have been very influential in the region's increased focus as a
high-tech center.
Kelly, a member of the College's Board of Trustees, has
been a leader in a collaboration in which IBM is assisting the College with its
Converging Technologies initiative. Kelly received a bachelor of science degree in physics from Union in 1976. For more about Kelly's involvement with Union,
read the press release about his joining the Board of Trustees: http://www.union.edu/N/DS/s.php?s=3455
The “Tech Valley's
Hot 10” list was compiled from responses to an e-mail sent to about 15
radio, television and newspaper reporters in the region, according to the
chamber. The list is to appear in the chamber's December issue of
the monthly magazine Visions.
“Dr. Kelly has championed IBM's presence in, and support of, the Capital Region,” the Chamber said in a press release. “In particular, he has encouraged the company to invest in technology-based educational initiatives at the University at Albany, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Union College, among others, to help prepare the future work force for the opportunities fostered by the region's increasingly high-tech economy.”
To read the press release from the Chamber, visit: http://www.ac-chamber.org/news/show_article.cfm?article=303
Other names on the list are: New York state Senate
Majority Leader Joseph Bruno; Thomas D'Ambra, the chairman, CEO and co-founder
of Albany Molecular Research Inc.; outgoing president of the state University
at Albany Karen Hitchcock; General Electric Co. Chairman and CEO Jeffrey
Immelt; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute President Shirley Ann Jackson; Albany
NanoTech Executive Director Alain Kaloyeros; Center for Economic Growth
President Kelly Lovell; Michael Polcari, the president of International
Sematech, an Austin, Texas-based consortium of microchip manufacturers; and Lyn
Taylor, the president of the Albany-Colonie Regional Chamber of Commerce.