Frank L Lederman

Frank Lederman joined Cray's Board in 2004. From 1995 until his retirement in 2002, he served as Vice President and Chief Technical Officer of Alcoa, Inc., a world leader in the production and management of aluminum (primary, fabricated and alumina), where he had overall responsibility for global research, development and engineering, including the 950-member Alcoa Technical Center. From 1988 to 1995, Dr. Lederman served as Senior Vice President of Technology for Toronto-based Noranda Inc., formerly a diversified natural resources conglomerate. His responsibilities included directing the Noranda Technology Center in Montreal. Dr. Lederman was with General Electric Company from 1976 to 1988, beginning as a physicist, where he led the development of GE’s first medical ultrasound system. He also held a number of management positions, including manager of electronics research programs and resources at the Corporate R&D Center in Schenectady, NY. Dr. Lederman received a B.S. in Mathematics and an M.S. in Physics from Carnegie-Mellon University, an M.S. and Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Illinois, and he was a post-doctoral fellow in Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. Over the past 20 years, he has served on numerous advisory boards and panels at universities and government laboratories.