Nick Donofrio

Nick Donofrio in November 2015

Nicholas M. Donofrio (born 1945) was the Executive Vice President of Innovation and Technology at the IBM Corporation until 2008.

Biography

Donofrio was born in Beacon, New York in 1945. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1967 and a Master of Science in the same discipline from Syracuse University in 1971. He has also received an honorary doctorate in Engineering from the Polytechnic University of New York, and an honorary doctorate in Science from the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. He joined IBM in 1967 as an engineer, but moved into management positions which led him to his most recent position.

He serves on the Board of the National Commission on the Future of Higher Education^[1] and is a Director at Liberty Mutual Group.^[2]

Industry Week magazine's Technology Leader of the Year (2003)
University of Arizona's Technical Executive of the Year
Rodney D. Chipp Memorial Award from the Society of Women Engineers
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art Urban Visionaries Award for Engineering
Business Week magazine’s 25 Top Innovation Champions
Fellow, Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Fellow, U.K-based Royal Academy of Engineering
Commencement Keynote Speaker, esteemed Advisor,Neumont University
Contributor, US Department of Education Commission on Higher Education, 2006
Member of the US-based National Academy of Engineering
Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Member of the Board of Directors for the Bank of New York Mellon Corporation
Member of the Board of Directors for Wigix, Inc.
Member of the Board of Trustees at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Co-chair of the New York Hall of Science
Member of the Board of Directors for The Council for the United States and Italy
IBM Fellow *Honorary
2010 recipient of the IRI Medal from the Industrial Research Institute
Member of the Board of Trustees for the MITRE Corporation
Member of the Board of Directors for TopCoder, Inc.
Member of the Board of Directors for Sproxil^[3]
Chair of the Connecticut Board of Regents for Higher Education^[4]

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