Janina Mazierska
I
have known Fred since 2005 when he served as a Signal Processing Society
President (while having a very distinguished engineering career at IBM). We
also served together on the IEEE Board of Directors in 2008: Fred was a
Division IX Director and I - a Region 10 (Asia and Pacific) Director.
I attended many meetings where Fred showed his outstanding leadership and sharp problem grasping and solving abilities. He created unique visions and implementation strategies, found consensus on complex matters and utilized his great team building skills. I see Fred’s knowledge and understanding of the IEEE and diversity (age, geographics, gender, employment) of our profession worldwide as second to none. His input to the advancement and adaptation of the IEEE to the 21st century I consider massive so far. His current goal of advocating the support for industrial employees and young professionals around the globe I find very useful to many of us. That is why I enthusiastically support Fred to lead our volunteer driven organization as the IEEE President. And I recommend that you vote for him too J. |
Janina Mazierska Past Region 10 Director Past MTT-S R10 Coordinator IEEE Fellow |
Jozef Modelski
Fred and I served together on the IEEE Board of Directors twice, first time when he was Division IX Director and I was Region 8 Director (Europe, Middle East and Africa), and recently when he was VP of IEEE Technical Activities and I was Division IV Director.
In few Committees we worked together on many key issues facing the Board. I have been impressed by his leadership style, his ability to quickly understand difficult issues, build diverse teams to address the issues, and ultimately bring everyone to consensus for the good of the IEEE. He always refined his knowledge of the global IEEE, and this led to his very productive service. Particularly, I would like to underline his great role as a Chair of the IEEE TAB Strategic Planning Committee. He is one of the most effective leaders I know. I wholeheartedly support Fred's candidacy and recommend that you do so too! |
Jozef Modelski Region 8 Past Director Division IV Past Director IEEE Fellow, Member of Polish Academy of Sciences |
Marina Ruggieri
I met Fred when I was Executive VP of my home IEEE Society. He was Division IX Director at that time. I found immediately his approach, vision and strategy illuminating for my future Presidency of the Society and, later, for my position of Division IX Director. What I appreciate most in Fred’s vision of IEEE is the recognition of the key-role played by industry and young professionals. In my multi-decade academic career I have always worked with industry and young people to reach challenging results. I think Fred’s approach has a great potential for the future of IEEE.
- Marina Ruggieri, Division IX Director |
Enrique E. Alvarez
I know
Fred since we were
members of the Board of Directors and we worked together on the same
committees in that time: the Audit Committee (AC) and the Employee
Benefits and Compensation Committee (EBCC). I also had the chance to
observe his performance as the Vice President of the Technical
Activities Board (TAB), where his special skills let him get consensus
on difficult matters.
His ability to identify clearly the right objectives and then organize the work to achieve results, allows me to say that Fred Mintzer will be the President IEEE needs to adapt the Institute to the current environment, setting the goals and then finding the ways to achieve the best results. - Enrique A Alvarez, 2008-09 IEEE Region 9 Director, 2010-2011 IEEE EAB Treasurer, 2012 IEEE MGA Treasurer, and other service that includes: IEEE VOLT Ad Hoc Committee, 2013-2015; IEEE MGA Op Com, 2013-2014; IEEE MGA Treasurer, 2012; IEEE EAB Treasurer, 2010-2011; IEEE FinCom, 2010-2012; IEEE EAB Awards and Recognition Committee, 2010-2011; IEEE JANS Standing Committee, 2011-2012; Section Congress 2011 Track Chair, 2011; Section Congress 2011 Recommendations Review Ad-Hoc Committee, 2011; IEEE JANS Ad-Hoc Committee, 2010; IEEE Board Member, 2008-2009; IEEE MGA Board Member, 2008-2009; MGA Finance Committee, 2008-2009; IEEE Member Access to Board Documents Ad Hoc Committee, 2009-2010; IEEE Audit Committee Chair 2009; IEEE EBCC Chair, 2010-2012; IEEE EBCC, 2009-12; Insurance Committee, 2011-12; MGA |
Allocation and Expense Ad Hoc Committee, 2011; IEEE SPC, 2009; IEEE Advertising Ad Hoc Committee, 2009; IEEE Public Visibility Ad Hoc Committee, 2009 and 2011; EAB Committee On Global Accreditation Activities member-at-large, 2009-2013; IEEE Audit Committee, 2008-2009; IEEE Compensation Committee, 2008; IEEE 4958 Committee, 2008; IEEE Alternate Membership Model, 2008; RAB Finance Committee, 2007; IEEE Awards Board, 2006-20007; IEEE Medal of Honor Committee, 2006-2007; RAB Rejuvenating Subcommittee, 2006-2007; RAB Volunteering Subcommittee, 2006; RAB GOLD Committee, 2006-2008; RAB ARC Committee, 2005-06; Ethics and Member Conduct Hearing Panel, 2002-2003. |
Yu Yuan
Dr. Fred Mintzer is a
visionary leader and a prolific practitioner in IT industry and professional
communities. As his mentee, I have learned a lot from him during my IBM career
and afterwards. I am often impressed by Dr. Mintzer’s enthusiasm and considerateness
in helping young professionals grow. Dr. Mintzer is also dedicated to improving
the diversity in IEEE membership and leadership. I truly believe he would bring
IEEE to the next level of success if elected.
- Dr. Yu Yuan, Chair of China Operations at IEEE Consumer Electronics Society and Secretary of IEEE Transportation Electrification Community. As a veteran researcher and practitioner in the areas of Transportation, Consumer Electronics, and Internet of Things, he founded Cate Global, a multinational think tank focusing on bringing world-class expertise to clients and projects in China, and is serving as the president. Prior to this he had been working for IBM Research - China and was also a key contributor to IBM IoT Technology Center. He is a senior member of IEEE. |
Susan K. Land
"I wholeheartedly support Fred's candidacy for IEEE President.
Why? Because I know that Fred cares about the issues that are important
to me as a volunteer supporting IEEE Technical Activities. I have been
privileged to serve with Fred in support of a variety of IEEE volunteer roles
and he consistently works to ensure that IEEE remains current and
relevant. I know that Fred's commitment to IEEE and its membership is
unwavering. I have seen him consistently consider the diversity of IEEE
membership in his decision making and greatly admire his leadership style which
engenders the core concepts of trust, sharing, belonging and respect."
- Susan K. Land, IEEE Division V Director |
Jorge Sanz
IEEE needs some profound
changes. Technology has made enormous progress and we, in the engineering
profession, need to re-engineer IEEE to “eat our own food”. We need to renew
our learning capabilities and make IEEE a leading organization in instrumenting
the advances that we create ourselves around the world. Our own IEEE content
needs to be captured and delivered with technologies that have been around for
more than one decade. I know industry colleagues who do not get management support
for continued learning, young professionals living in regions not making income
comparable to those in highly-developed economies, retired colleagues who do
not earn enough to travel to distant places and mothers whose life-style do not
let her abandon their families in critical circumstances. I feel really very
sorry that they cannot participate in our IEEE Conferences remotely. In century
XXI our conference presentations are still not recorded and made available in
digital format. We do not support life-events for the needed or suffering from
life conditions or impairments. We need virtuality to be part of our IEEE world
much in the same way we conduct the rest of our work and personal life.
I have known Fred for over 25 years during our joint tenure in IBM Research and other responsibilities shared in IBM Corporation. I trust Fred has the vision, experience, and knowledge of our worked in an “outside-in” form, that is, from the people we serve to the core of our internal IEEE practices. This will allow us to promote the necessary transformation for IEEE to become essential to a much larger Engineering community, largely underserved today. |
Prof. Dr. Jorge Sanz has over 30 years of research and consulting experience in industry. He works in Operations Strategy and on the application of Information Technology for transforming organizations. He worked at different times in IBM, as Director of Business Development in the Telecom industry and also, for over 15 years in the Research Division of Silicon Valley, California. Jorge leads international academic and professional activities in Business Informatics and Service Engineering and has chaired a number conferences on the interplay of business and IT for IEEE and other associations. He is a frequent key-note speaker on the interplay between business and IT in international conferences. He has been the President of the University of St. Andrews, Professor in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Visiting Professor in University of California. Jorge works today as Director of the Business Analytics Centre at the National University of Singapore (NUS), holds a Visiting Professor position at the School of Computing and teaches Business Analytics for graduates in the NUS Business School as well. He is also the Chief Innovation Officer for Retail Banking in IBM Corporation. He actively consults for Asian organizations, American and European companies. Jorge is Fellow of the IEEE. |
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