Carnegie Mellon University

Leadership & Staff

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Daryl Weinert VP of Operations at CMU

• VP of Operations

Farnam Jahanian 2022 Global Clean Energy Action Forum Host Committee Member

• President

Jared Simmer Esq Pittsburgh-area lawyer, CMU Faculty, Chair of Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee (ACBA)

• Adjunct Professor, Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy

Dr. Farnam Jahanian President of Carnegie Mellon University

• President (Mar '18→?)* [+1]

• President

Stan Caldwell CMU transportation policy expert

• Director of State Relations, Office of Government Relations (Sep 14 '10→?)*

Ken Koedinger

• Professor of human computer interaction psychology

Christopher Atkeson Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

• Professor, Robotics Institute and Human-Computer Interaction Institute ('00→?)

Mahadev Satyanarayanan Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

• Professor of Computer Science

Marvin Goodfriend Carnegie Mellon University; Trump nominee to be Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

• Professor of economics

David Dzombak Engineering professor, Carnegie Mellon University

• Department Head, Civil & Environmental Engineering

Board Members

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Teresa Heinz Widow of Senator John Heinz; wife of John Kerry and chairman of The Howard Heinz Endowment and the Heinz Family Philanthropies.

• Trustee

Ira J Gumberg Pittsburgh real estate developer

• Life Trustee

Dina Dublon Former EVP and CFO of JP Morgan Chase

• Life Trustee

Bruce Kraus District 3 representative to Pittsburgh City Council

• Board Member

Edward H Frank

• Vice Chair ('00→?)

Tod Johnson Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The NPD Group, Inc.

• Vice Chair

Ray Lane Partner - Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

• Chairman, Board of Trustees

David Tepper "highest paid hedge fund manager in America"

• Trustee

Arthur H Aronson

• Life Trustee

James E Rohr Former Chairman and CEO of PNC

• Chair of the Board [+1]

• Chairman

Donors

David Tepper "highest paid hedge fund manager in America"

• Donation · 55,000,000 USD ('04)

Goldman Sachs Gives Goldman's donor-advised charitable fund

• Donation · 2,000,000 USD (Oct '10)

ExxonMobil Foundation ExxonMobil's charity giving foundation

• Donation · 132,555 USD ('11)

Sarah Scaife Foundation Conservative funding juggernaut

• Grant · 125,000 USD ('09) [+1]

• Grant · 75,000 USD ('09)

Holdings

Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Institute nonprofit robotics institute in Pittsburgh, PA

• Owner

iCarnegie learning technology company

• Owner

MPC Corporation joint venture between Carnegie Mellon and University of Pittsburgh

• Owner

Carnegie Innovations, LLC Investment fund for Ed Tech

• Owner

LearnSphere education data repository project of Carnegie Mellon U

• Owner

Child Organizations

Scott Institute for Energy Innovation at Carnegie Mellon

• Child Org

Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy Part of Carnegie Mellon University

• college

Carnegie Mellon University CyLab cybersecurity research center

• Child Org

Tepper School of Business Carnegie Mellon's business school

• Child Org

Graduate School of Industrial Administration

• Child Org

Digital Vaccine Project Gamification and Behavior Modification Out of Carnegie Mellon

• Child Org*

Human Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) Carnegie Mellon University

• Child Org ('93→?)*

Entertainment Technology Center Graduate Program for Interactive Entertainment at Carnegie Mellon University

• Child Org ('98→?)*

Risk and Regulatory Services Innovation Center Carnegie Mellon research center

• Research Center

Memberships

Pittsburgh Robotics Network The Pittsburgh Robotics Network (PRN) represents the companies and leaders who make up the Pittsburgh robotics ecosystem, which is anchored by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)

• Founding Member

Greater Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce

• Board Member

Team Pennsylvania Foundation "Team Pennsylvania Foundation is a dynamic, public/private partnership that initiates and supports innovative programs to improve Pennsylvania’s competitiveness and economic prosperity."

• Member

New Cities Foundation

• Member

Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN) Collaboration of Universities and New American in "Tech for Good"

• Member*

The American Shale & Manufacturing Partnership a diverse group of organizations and industries united in a singular goal of fostering an American manufacturing renaissance

• steering group member

Services & Transactions

WG Trading Investors Stock Brokers/Investment Advisors

• Money manager · 49,000,000 USD (past)

National Energy Technology Laboratory Owned and operated by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

• Partner

Project Tesserae IARPA-Funded Project Focused on Using Wearable Tech to Predict Workplace Peformance

• Project ('18→?)*

David Dzombak Engineering professor, Carnegie Mellon University

• Consultancy

Westridge Capital Management Inc. Investment management firm

• Money manager (past)

Students

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Glen De Vries Co founder Medidata Solutions - acquitter by Dassault Systèmes in 2019 for $5.8 billion

• BS, Molecular biology

H Christopher Frey Nominee for Assistant Administrator for the Office and Research and Development at the Environmental Protection Agency

• PhD, Engineering and Public Policy [+1]

• ME, Mechanical Engineering

Joseph F. DeCarolis Professor, Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering at North Carolina State University.

• PhD, Engineering and Public Policy

Jonathan Eric Kaplan Chairperson of the EducationSuperHighway; Biden Nominee for Ambassador to the Republic of Singapore

• BS, Industrial Management

George Stranahan Eccentric heir to family which owned the Champion Spark Plug Company

• PhD, Physics (?→'61)

Philip Wadler American, Chair of Theoretical Computer Science University of Edinburgh

• PhD, Computer Science (?→'84)*

Justin Bertram Senior Partner, Incline Equity Partners

• MBA

Charles M Geschke Co founder of Adobe Systems

• PhD, Computer Science (?→'72)

Kimberly Ellison-Taylor Executive Director, Finance Thought Leadership, ERP EPM Product Marketing

• Graduate (past)

Brian Olsavsky Amazon SVP and CFO

• MBA

Miscellaneous Relationships

EQT Corporation Pittsburgh-based oil and gas driller

• Pennsylvania Center for Excellence for Decarbonizing Manufacturing Operations

Allegheny Conference on Community Development Conference and its Affiliates work in collaboration with public and private sector partners to stimulate economic growth and enhance the quality of life in southwestern Pennsylvania.

• Affiliation

Global Clean Energy Action Forum

• Affiliation

Jody Underwood Senior Management Learning Scientist, Intelligent Automation

• Did Research*

Circinus Virginia-based defense contracting company

• Teaming Partner