Dr. Al Erisman commented, "I am pleased to be joining the Board at Gladiator Technologies and look forward to working with an exciting and entrepreneurial team of technology professionals. I am impressed with the enabling technology and advanced products being developed by the company."
Dr. Erisman, has a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and prior to his appointment at Gladiator enjoyed a 30-plus year successful career in technology leadership positions at the Boeing Company. He retired as Boeing's Director of Technology where he created and managed a group of 250-300 advanced degree computer scientists, mathematicians, statisticians, and engineers doing R&D for Boeing in the areas of information technology and mathematics. He reported to the President of the Phantom Works (the Boeing R&D Center) over the final three years and was a member of The Boeing Company CIO council.
Currently Erisman serves as the Executive-In-Residence at Seattle Pacific University, is the executive editor and co-founder of Ethix (www.ethix.org), and speaks on the subject of business ethics and technology in many parts of the world.
Erisman is the author of several books including:
Making IT Better: Expanding Information Technology Research to Meet Society's Needs; Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Research Council (NRC), 2000 (jointly with 15 other members of the Committee on Information Technology Research in a Competitive World).
Direct Methods for Sparse Matrices; Oxford University Press, 1986 (jointly with Iain S. Duff and John K. Reid).
Electric Power Problems: The Mathematical Challenge; Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 1980 (edited jointly with K. W. Neves and M. H. Dwarakaneth). |
