Isaac R. Nassi

Dr. Ike Nassi and his groups in the US, Canada and China explore advanced enterprise technologies and applications for use in the multinational corporate environment.

Prior to joining SAP, Dr. Nassi co-founded Firetide Inc., a wireless mesh networking company and served as its Executive Vice President, CTO and Chairman of the Board. Ike also helped start the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, where he currently serves as an active member of the Board of Trustees.

Ike held executive positions at Cisco Systems, InfoGear Technology Corporation (acquired by Cisco), and Apple Computer. He also helped start Encore Computer Corporation, a symmetric multiprocessing pioneer, and before that worked at Visual Technology, Digital Equipment Corporation and SofTech Inc.

He has also 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. He has also taught Computer Science at Boston University. He is a member of the Advisory Board of Viewpoints Research, the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona, and the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at Northwestern University.

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