Engineering College Council (ECC)
The Engineering College Council was created as an advisory board to the dean in the 1940s, during the administration of Solomon Cady Hollister. It was one of the first - perhaps the very first - of the college advisory councils at Cornell.
For some years, the president of the university served as chairman of the council. Through 1948-49, this was Edmund Ezra Day. The acting president, Cornelius W. deKiewiet, served for two years, and then President Deane Malott was chairman through 1955-56. Since then, the membership of the council has included people from industry and academia, both alumni and non-alumni. Their function was and is to advise the college administration on long-range planning and development in all aspects of the program, notably instruction, research, and, increasingly, cooperative ventures with industry.
ECC Members
Dean Lynden A. Archer
Ex Officio Member of the Council
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
Lisa L. Walker
Chair of the Council
(Cornell B.S. ChE ’86)
DHR International
Chicago, IL
Paul Hayre
Vice-Chair of the Council
(Cornell B.S.’91 EE)
Brixton Biosciences, Sano Diagnostics
Wellesley, MA
Amy Bunszel
(Cornell B.S. ’89 EE)
Autodesk
San Francisco, CA
Frank DeCosta
(Cornell B.S. ’85 EE, M.Eng. ’86 EE)
Finnegan, LLP
Washington, DC
Linda Schadler Feist
(Cornell B.S. ’85 MSE)
University of Vermont
Burlington, VT
Michele A. Fichtl-Kaliski
(Cornell B.S. ’85 ORIE)
Kaliski Fichtl Innovation Fund
New York, NY
Erin Fischell
(Cornell B.S. ’10 ME)
Acbotics Research, LLC
East Falmouth, MA
David M. Fried
(Cornell B.S. ’98, M.Eng. '99, M.S. '03, Ph.D. '04 ECE)
Lam Research Corporation
Fremont, CA
Frank Fu
(Cornell B.S. ’06 ORIE, M.Eng. '06 ORIE)
CaaS Capital Management
New York, NY
Peter F. Green
(Cornell M.S. ’83, Ph.D. '85 MSE)
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Lakewood, CO
Ken Goldman
(Cornell B.S. ’71 EE)
Hillspire
Menlo Park, CA
Priscilla C. Hung
(Cornell M.Eng. ’89 ORIE)
Guidewire Software, Inc.
San Mateo, CA
Kevin P.B. Johnson
(Cornell B.S. ’88 EE)
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP
Redwood City, CA
Debra Kemper
(Cornell B.S. ’88 CEE)
Golden Seeds Venture Fund
Boston, MA
Sara Kendall
(Cornell B.S. ’00 CEE)
Turner
New York, NY
Aref Lahham
(Cornell M.Eng. ’86 CEE)
Orion Capital Managers
London, UK
Yvonne Lee
(Cornell M.Eng. '94 ME)
Vega Management
New York, NY
James McCormick
(Cornell B.S. ’05, M.Eng. '06 CEE)
D&A Development Partners
New York, NY
Sudesh Mariappa
(Cornell B.S. ’82 ChE, MBA '86)
PIMCO
Newport Beach, CA
Douglas Merrill
(Cornell B.S. ’89 AEP, M.Eng. ’91 AEP, MBA ’91)
Semiprobe
Shelburne, VT
Stephen Mong
(Cornell B.S. ’92, M.Eng. '93 CEE, MBA '02)
Orien Capital Management LLC
New York, NY
Andreas Mustad
(Cornell B.S. ’94 CEE)
Nexwell Holdings
Coral Gables, FL
Christine Ortiz
(Cornell M.S. ’95, Ph.D. ’97 MSE)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Wakefield, MA
Raj Patel
(Cornell B.S. ORIE ’93)
Farallon Capital Management
San Francisco, CA
Marlene Quijano
(Cornell B.S. ’85 ChE)
Kraft Foods Group (Retired)
Harrington Park, NJ
Samuel Ramos
(Cornell B.S. ’82 EE)
Global Atlantic Financial Group
New York, NY
Fazeela Abdul Rashid
(Cornell B.S. ’01 CBE)
Revolution Growth
Washington, D.C.
Diego Rey
(Cornell Ph.D. ’10 BME)
EndPoint Health
Palo Alto, CA
Neil Robertson
(Cornell BS ’82 ChE)
Western Digital
San Francisco, CA
Rebecca "Beckie" Robertson
(Cornell BS ’82 ChE)
Versant Ventures
San Francisco, CA
Pat Sapinsley
NYU Urban Future Lab
New York, NY
Robert W. Selander
(Cornell B.S. ’72 ORIE)
Mastercard (Retired)
Greenwich, CT
Dmitri Shklovsky
(Cornell B.S. ’98 CS, M.Eng. ’02 ORIE)
GPS Investment Partners
New York, NY
Keith Shoates
(Cornell ’86 ECE ’87 MEng ECE)
Vice President, Office of the CEO, Vista Equity Partners
Austin, TX
Elaine Tam
(Cornell B.S. ’98 CBE)
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Wayne, NJ
Rick Tsai
(Cornell Ph.D. ’81 MSE)
MediaTek, Inc.
Taipei, Taiwan
Molly Tschang
(Cornell ’85 BS,ChE)
Say It Skillfully, Inc.
New York, NY
Brett Wood
(Cornell B.S. ’85 ME)
Toyota Material Handling
Columbus, IN