Dr. Ike R. Nassi

Dr. Ike Nassi and his team explore advanced enterprise technologies and applications for use in domestic and multinational corporate environments.  He is also responsible for SAP's Global Business Incubator, an internal SAP venture capital operation.

Prior to joining SAP, Dr. Nassi has helped to start three companies: Encore Computer, InfoGear Technology, and Firetide. Firetide Inc. is a wireless mesh networking company Dr. Nassi co-founded and then served as its Executive Vice President, CTO and Chairman of the Board. He was the CTO and head of all product operations at InfoGear prior to its acquisition by Cisco. He also helped start Encore Computer Corporation, a pioneer in symmetric multiprocessors, forerunners of today's multicore processors.  

He helped start the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, where he currently serves as an active member of the Board of Trustees, and before that was a member of the Board of Overseers at the Computer Museum in Boston. He also serves on the board of the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology.

In addition to his startup experience, Ike has held executive positions at Cisco Systems, Apple Computer, where he served in several capacities leading to his position as Senior Vice President of Software and Corporate Officer. He also worked at Visual Technology, where he was VP Software Engineering, Digital Equipment Corporation, where he worked on the DEC VAX, was a manager in the Corporate Research Group and was a Consulting Engineer, and at SofTech where he worked on avionics support software.

He has been a visiting scholar Stanford University, a research affiliate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a visiting scholar in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley and has also taught graduate courses at Boston University. He is a member of the Advisory Boards of Viewpoints Research, the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at Northwestern University, the Center of Excellence for Wireless and Information Technology at Stony Brook University, and finally the College of Software and Microelectronics at Peking University.  

Ike holds a Certificate for Distinguished Service from the Department of Defense for his work on the design of the Ada programming language and was a member of the Advanced Research Projects Agency's Information Systems and Technology group. He testified before Congress on the Emerging Telecommunications Act of 1991.

He holds memberships in the IEEE and ACM, and graduated with a B.S. in Mathematics, and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stony Brook University.