Google Vice President, Alan Eustace Joins Anita Borg Institute Board of Trustees.

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology (ABI) today announced that Alan Eustace, vice president, Engineering and Research at Google, has joined the ABI Board of Trustees. The sixteen-member Board includes representatives from industry, academia and government, and provides broad policy leadership for the organization. Their role is critical to the continuing advancement of the Anita Borg Institute's mission to increase the impact of women on all aspects of technology and to increase the positive impact of technology on the lives of the world's women.

Dr. Telle Whitney, president and CEO of ABI commented, "Alan is a superb addition to our Board of Trustees, and we are proud to welcome him. He brings extraordinary vision, experience and a powerful voice of advocacy for technical women -- all of which complement our efforts to bolster the role of women in the creation and application of technology."

"As a longtime colleague of ABI's founder, Dr. Anita Borg, I was fortunate to experience early in my career the immense value that results when women participate in the development of technology," said Alan Eustace vice president of Engineering and Research, Google Inc. "The Anita Borg Institute plays a pivotal role in bringing women into the mainstream of technological innovation. I am delighted to lend a hand to this powerful Board in advancing the goals of the Anita Borg Institute."

Eustace joined Google in 2002, following 15 years with HP's Western Research Laboratory (WRL), which was formerly part of Digital Equipment Corporation and Compaq Computer. He served as Director of WRL from 1999 through 2002, and previously worked on a variety of chip design and architecture projects including the MicroTitan Floating Point unit, BIPS, and ATOM, a binary code instrumentation system that forms the basis for a wide variety of program analysis and computer architecture analysis tools. The author of 9 publications and 10 patents, he holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Central Florida.

Alan is joined on the ABI Board by existing members: Maria Klawe, Ph.D., Dean of Engineering, Princeton University -- Margaret Ashida, Director, University Talent Programs IBM -- James Beck, CFO, Mayfield -- Linda Bernardi, CEO and President, Connecterra, Inc. -- Penny Herscher, President and CEO, firstRain -- Wayne Johnson, VP University Relations, HP - Richard Newton, Ph.D., Dean of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley -- Greg Papadopoulos, Ph.D., Executive VP and CTO, Sun Microsystems -- Rick Rashid Ph.D., Senior VP and VP Research, Microsoft -- Cheryl Shavers, Ph.D., Former Undersecretary of Technology, Clinton Administration, & CEO of Global Smarts, Inc. -- Jayshree Ullal, Senior VP and GM, Security Technology Group, Cisco Systems Inc. -- Bill Unger, Partner Emeritus, Mayfield Fund -- Telle Whitney, Ph.D., President, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology and William Wulf, Ph.D., President, National Academy of Engineering.

About The Anita Borg Institute

Founded in 1997, the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology is a nationally recognized organization dedicated to changing the world for women and technology. The Institute accomplishes its goals through collaboration with industry, academic and government organizations. A growing list of leading corporations, including partners HP, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems and sponsors, IBM, Google and Cisco recognize that by investing in its programs to engage and develop technical women, they can achieve a more diverse, globally competitive workforce capable of producing higher levels of technology innovation and better financial performance. Partnering with these visionaries, as well as leading universities, government organizations and influential individual business and political leaders, the Institute is delivering programs that are changing the world for women and technology.

The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology is a not-for-profit 501 (c) (3) :: www.anitaborg.org.