Telle Whitney has served as President and CEO of the Anita Borg Institute for Women & Technology (ABI) since 2003. She has 20 years' experience in semiconductor and telecommunications industries. She has held senior technical management positions with Malleable Technologies (now PMC-Sierra) and Actel Corporation, and is a co-founder of the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference. Telle served as ACM Secretary/Treasurer from 2003-2004, and is currently Co-chair of the ACM Distinguished Member Committee. She was a member of the National Science Foundation Committee for Equal Opportunity in Science and Engineering (CEOSE) and is a co-founder of the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT). She serves on the advisory boards of MentorNet and the Professional Business Women’s Conference, and is a member of CRA-W.  She received her Ph.D. from Caltech, and her bachelor’s degree at the University of Utah, both in computer science.

Telle weaves her professional life with her personal passions. She is runner, and loves to hike, including occasionally in the Himalayas. She and her husband Bill live in the Los Gatos Mountains. She creates her own jewelry, in her not so spare time.