Jim Prendergast

Current

• Executive Director & COO at IEEE

Past

• Corporate Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, Electronic & Communications Technology at DuPont
• Vice President & Director, Physical Sciences Research Laboratories at Motorola
• Supervisor at Bell Laboratories

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Education

• University of Cambridge
• University of Sydney
• University of Sydney

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Connections

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Industry

Non-Profit Organization Management

Jim Prendergast’s Summary

Proven track record within multiple Fortune 100 companies, distinctive business cultures and international cultures. Adept at forging highly productive teams comprised of contributors with diverse backgrounds, skills and styles.

Jim Prendergast’s Specialties:

Leader of large global technology organizations. Expertise in semiconductor fabrication and modeling, circuits and components, flat-panel displays, photovoltaic technology, fuel cells, and photonics. P&L experience. Board experience with DPMI, a $0.5 billion photomask company.

Jim Prendergast’s Experience

• Executive Director & COO

  IEEE

  (Non-Profit; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  April 2009 — Present (8 months)

  Leader of the IEEE staff organization, which consists of approximately 1000 employees in several U.S. and overseas locations. With more than 375,000 members in over 150 countries, the IEEE is the world's largest professional society dedicated to the advancement of technology. Through its members, the IEEE is a leading authority on areas ranging from aerospace systems, computers and telecommunications to biomedicine, electric power and consumer electronics. The IEEE produces 30 percent of the world's literature in the electrical and electronics engineering and computer science fields, and has developed more than 900 active industry standards. The organization also sponsors or cosponsors more than 300 international technical conferences each year. Additional information is available at www.ieee.org.

• Corporate Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, Electronic & Communications Technology

  DuPont

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; DD; Chemicals industry)

  2002 — 2008 (6 years )

  Led the execution of R&D and Strategy within this global $4 billion dollar business producing semiconductor fabrication and packaging materials, circuit and component materials, flat-panel display materials, wire & cable materials, ink-jet technology, photovoltaic technology, fluorine based materials and fuel cell modules.

• Vice President & Director, Physical Sciences Research Laboratories

  Motorola

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MOT; Telecommunications industry)

  1992 — 2002 (10 years )

  Spearheaded long-range research in future integrated systems (memory, nanostructures, molecular electronics, advanced lithography, etc.), materials (crystalline oxides and compound semiconductors on silicon, thermoelectric materials, etc.), lab-on-a-chip (microfluidics, DNA analyses, etc.), fuel cells, and other ‘white-space’ initiatives.
  
  Other roles held at Motorola include the director of the Wireless Research & Development Laboratory, the director of the Microcontroller and Mixed-Mode Technology Center and, chief technologist and director of Strategy, all within Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector (now Freescale Semiconductor).

• Supervisor

  Bell Laboratories

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; T; Telecommunications industry)

  1980 — 1992 (12 years )

  Led development, importation, installation and support of process and device modeling tools for silicon and GaAs technologies. Provided accurate and comprehensive databases for compact model development and parameter extraction of active and passive components in all major silicon/GaAs technologies at AT&T.

Jim Prendergast’s Education

• University of Cambridge

  Ph.D. , Electrical Engineering , 1977 — 1980

• University of Sydney

  BEng , Electrical Engineering (Hons) , 1974 — 1975

• University of Sydney

  BSc , Physics/Mathematics , 1971 — 1973

Additional Information

Jim Prendergast’s Groups:

•    Motorola Alumni
•    The Official IEEE Group
•    DuPont Alumni
•    Cambridge University Alumni Group

Jim Prendergast’s Contact Settings

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• new ventures
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