Dr. Telle Whitney is the Interim President of the Institute for Women and Technology. She has 20 years of experience in the semiconductor and telecommunications industries a long commitment to women and technology issues. Telle has spent a great deal of her professional career involved in programs aimed at increasing the presence and impact of women in the field. As President, Telle oversees management of the Institute's Boards, programs and staff, coordinates fundraising efforts and is leading the search for a new Institute President.

Dr. Whitney co-founded the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) conference in 1994 along with Dr. Anita Borg. The GHC conference is the largest technical conference for women in computing and results in collaborative proposals, networking and mentoring for junior women and increased visibility for the contributions of women in computing. She served as program chair of the 1994 GHC conference, workshop chair of the 1997 conference, general chair of the 2000 conference, and fundraising chair for Grace Hopper 2002. Dr. Whitney was recently elected as the 2002-2004 Secretary/Treasurer of the ACM.

Before accepting the position with the Institute she was part of the founding management team at Malleable Technologies, a startup in the programmable communication area. Malleable was acquired by PMC-Sierra in June 2000. She served as Vice President of Engineering at Malleable until its acquisition.

Prior to joining Malleable, Telle was Director of Software at Actel Corporation. She held a number of diverse positions at Actel in the software engineering and chip design. Her contributions included silicon design project management, design methodology development, and management of synthesis and timing tools.

Telle received her Ph.D. from Caltech in 1985, and her BS at the University of Utah, both in Computer Science. She served on the CICC program committee in 1993-1997, and the DAC program committee in 1999-2000. She is a member of both ACM and IEEE.