Glastonbury, Conn., USA - November 30, 2009, Glastonbury, Conn., USA - TopCoder, Inc., a software company, announced that Nicholas M. Donofrio has been named to the company's Board of Directors, effective immediately.
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Mr. Donofrio spent 44 years at IBM Corp. starting as a logic and memory chip designer and rising to lead the company's technology strategy as executive vice president of innovation and technology. He is also an IBM Fellow Emeritus, the highest honor a scientist, engineer or programmer at IBM can achieve.
Mr. Donofrio also serves as a board member for The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Liberty Mutual. He is on the board of trustees for the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and is co-chair of the New York Hall of Science Board of Trustees.
Mr. Donofrio was the leader of IBM's technology strategy and a champion for innovation across IBM and its global ecosystem. His responsibilities included IBM Research, the Personal Systems Group, the Integrated Supply Chain and Integrated Product Development teams, Governmental Programs, Environmental Health and Product Safety, Quality, and IBM's enterprise on-demand transformation team. He also headed the IBM Technology Team, was a member of IBM's Strategy Team, and was chairman of the board of governors for the IBM Academy of Technology.
Mr. Donofrio joined IBM in 1964 and spent the early part of his career in integrated circuit and chip development as a designer of logic and memory chips. He held numerous technical management positions and, later, executive positions in several of IBM's product divisions. He led many of IBM's major development and manufacturing teams from semiconductor and storage technologies, to microprocessors and personal computers, to IBM's entire family of servers.
Mr. Donofrio earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1967 and a Master of Science in the same discipline from Syracuse University in 1971. In 1999 he was awarded an honorary doctorate in Engineering from Polytechnic University and in 2002 he received an honorary doctorate in Sciences from the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom.
Mr. Donofrio is the holder of seven technology patents and is a member of numerous technical and science honor societies. He is a Fellow of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Fellow of the UK-based Royal Academy of Engineering, a member of the Board of Directors for the Bank of New York, and he serves on the Board of Trustees at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Mr. Donofrio is a member of the U.S.-based National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. ■