May 20, 1999 presentation of:

The Soft Side of New Enterprise

 

Local Speaker: Pat Antaki: "Texas, the Silicon Prairie"

The current state of the Texas semiconductor industry, and an interactive discussion on entrepreneurship and how business is being changed by the Internet, featuring Pat Antaki, President, Willow Technology

DownLink Speaker

Ray Stata, Chairman of the Board of Analog Devices

DownLink Moderator

Paul P. Brountas, Senior Partner at Hale and Dorr LLP

Profile

Mr. Stata's keynote entitled "The Soft Side of New Enterprise" and an interactive session involving downlinked sites across the country. According to Mr. Stata, his presentation will explore "the assertion that your purpose in forming a new enterprise should not focus primarily on creating new products and technologies ... but rather on new and better ways to satisfy the needs of people -- employees, customers, stockholders, and suppliers." "From the beginning," he said, "you should consciously create an environment and culture in which trustful, high quality relationships are encouraged and in which mutual respect and understanding of differences in background, beliefs, and points of view are valued."

Ray Stata was one of the founders of Analog Devices in 1965, and served as President and CEO before becoming Chairman of the Board of Directors in 1973. He is active in the high technology industry and in public service. He was a founder and first president of the Massachusetts High Technology Council and is currently a member of its board of directors. He was also a founder of the Center for Quality of Management in 1989 and serves as its chairman, and has served on the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award board of overseers. He also served as a member of the Massachusetts Board of Regents of Higher Education, and since 1987 on the Executive Committee of the Council on Competitiveness. He holds a BSEE and MSEE from MIT, is chairman of the Visiting Committee of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and serves on the Advisory Board of the Center for Technology, Policy and Industrial Development as well as the Organization Learning Center. In 1984 he was elected a member of the MIT Corporation and has served as the 1987-88 President of the MIT Alumni/ae Association. He is also a member of MIT's Executive Committee. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering. In 1996, he was named Foreign Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering. He is the co-author of Global Stakes (Ballinger Press, 1982) and The Innovators (Harper & Rowe, 1984). His honorary degrees include Doctor of Engineering, Northeastern University; Doctor of Business Administration, Curry College; Doctor of Humane Letters, University of Lowell; and Doctor of Engineering, University of Limerick.

Program Moderator Paul P. Brountas Paul Brountas joined Hale and Dorr LLP in 1960 and became a Senior Partner in 1968. He has spent most of his professional life practicing business law and has earned a reputation as one of the nation's leading high technology lawyers. He was selected in 1997 by The National Law Journal as one of the "100 Most Influential Lawyers in America" and is listed in the latest edition of The Best Lawyers in America. His clients include computer, software, biotech, Internet, retail, manufacturing, and consulting companies as well as venture capital companies and investment banking firms. He has counseled many companies from their start-up stage through their growth as public companies. He has represented several public and private companies ranging from manufacturers of massive parallel computer systems to companies engaged in a wide range of biotech and healthcare products, and many of these companies have become national and international leaders. Mr. Brountas is a summa cum laude graduate of Bowdoin college and a 1954 recipient of a Marshall Scholarship for study at Oxford University. He received both a BA and an MA from Oxford University (honors school of jurisprudence) and received an LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1960.

Satellite Broadcast Series: The Ray Stata program will be the seventh presentation in the MIT Enterprise Forum Satellite Broadcast Series. Past presenters include Michael Dertouzos, Alex d'Arbeloff, Ed Roberts, Bob Langer, Bob Metcalfe, and Tim Berners-Lee. The broadcasts are presented before a live audience at MIT's Kresge Auditorium and downlinked to participating MIT Enterprise Forum Chapters, MIT Alumni/ae Clubs, and Sloan Clubs.

Following the Stata program will be a live program featuring a speaker on the state of the semiconductor industry in Texas.