The 15th annual 2011 Webby Awards were held on June 13, 2011 in New York City, the Webby for lifetime achievement was awarded to which former American Motorola executive, and engineer?
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2011 Webby Awards The 15th annual 2011 Webby Awards were held on June 13, 2011 in New York City. The show was hosted by Lisa Kudrow and was streamed live via Facebook, The Huffington Post and Funny or Die. The Webby for lifetime achievement was awarded to former Motorola executive, Martin Cooper.
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Martin Cooper (inventor) Martin "Marty" Cooper (born December 26, 1928) is an American engineer. He is a pioneer and visionary in the wireless communications industry. With eleven patents in the field, he is recognized as an innovator in radio spectrum management.
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Robert F. Smith (investor) Robert Frederick Smith (born December 1, 1962) is an American businessman, investor and philanthropist. A former chemical engineer and investment banker, he is the founder, chairman and CEO of private equity firm Vista Equity Partners. Smith was ranked by "Forbes" in 2016 as the 274th richest person in America, the second wealthiest African American on the list after Oprah Winfrey. He was #688 on "Forbes" 2016 list of the world's billionaires, with a net worth of US$3 billion.. In 2017, Smith was named by "Forbes" as one of the 100 greatest living business minds.
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Thomas Reardon Thomas "TR" Reardon (born 1969) is an American computational neuroscientist and the CEO and co-founder of CTRL-Labs (formerly Cognescent Corporation). Formerly, he was a computer programmer and developer at Microsoft. He is credited with creating Microsoft's web browser, Internet Explorer, which is currently discontinued, but was the world's most used browser during its peak (2002/03).
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Jack Dorsey Jack Dorsey (born November 19, 1976) is an American computer programmer and internet entrepreneur widely known as a co-founder and CEO of Twitter, and as the founder and CEO of Square, a mobile payments company. In 2008, he was named to the "MIT Technology Review" TR35 as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35. For 2012, "The Wall Street Journal" gave him the "Innovator of the Year Award" for technology.
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Greg Calloway Greg Calloway is an American entrepreneur, artist and filmmaker from the Washington, D.C. area. In 2006, He won the AOL and Warner Music Group online reality show, "The Biz".
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Martin Eberhard Martin Eberhard (born May 15, 1960) is an American engineer and business executive. He co-founded Tesla, Inc. (then Tesla Motors) in 2003, serving as CEO until 2007. Eberhard was ranked among the top 24 innovators of 2007 by Fortune Magazine. Also in 2007, Business 2.0 Magazine ranked Eberhard number 32 of the 50 people "who matter now".
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36th Sports Emmy Awards The 36th Sports Emmy Awards was presented on May 5, 2015 at the Frederick P. Rose Hall at the Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City. George Bodenheimer, former ESPN president, was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award for Sports.
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James Billmaier James Billmaier (May 10, 1955) is an American technology businessman, inventor, and author. He is currently the co-founder and CEO of TurboPatent Corporation and author of his most recent book, "Beyond Innovation"..."INVENTIONEERING: The smartest CEOs will fuse engineering and invention to dominate the next decade."
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Alon Cohen Alon Cohen (born in Israel, 1962) is the co-founder of VocalTec Inc. (1989) and the co-inventor of the Audio Transceiver (U.S. Patent  ) that enabled the creation of Voice Over Networks products and eventually the VoIP industry, that changed the face of the telecommunication industry. Cohen holds 4 US patents on different communications technologies. He is currently Executive VP and CTO at Phone.com.
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President's Management Advisory Board The President's Management Advisory Board is a council of 17 corporate executives from leading American companies. Its purpose is to provide the administration of the executive branch advice and recommendations on effective strategies for the implementation of the best business practices on matters related to federal government's management and operations, with focus on productivity, the implementation of innovative methods, customer service, and technology. The board will be chaired by former Sirius/XM Satellite Radio Director Jeffrey Zients as part of the General Services Administration of the Executive Office. On March 10, 2011, board appointees were announced, including Greg Brown, president and chief executive officer of Motorola Solutions, Inc.; Sam Gilliland, Chairman and CEO of Sabre Holdings; Debra L. Lee, Chairman and CEO of BET Networks; Shantanu Narayen, president and CEO of Adobe Systems, Inc.; and Tim Solso, Chairman and CEO of Cummins, Inc.
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Edward Zander Edward J. Zander (born January 12, 1947 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American business executive. He was CEO and Chairman of the Board of Motorola from January 2004 until January 2008, remaining as chairman until May 2008. His work in the technology sector included management positions at Data General and Apollo Computer before joining Sun Microsystems in 1987, where he was later promoted to Chief Operating Officer and President.
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Chuck Sannipoli Charles Joseph "Chuck" Sannipoli (1945-2015) was an executive in the computer networking industry, having served for more than 3 decades in many roles.
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Michael Green (New York lawyer) Michael Charles Green (born 1961) is the executive commissioner of the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS). He is the former District Attorney for Monroe County, New York. During 2011, he was a federal judicial nominee for the United States District Court for the Western District of New York, and although he was reported out of committee to the floor of the United States Senate, Green never received a floor vote, and President Obama did not renominate him in the next session of Congress.
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60th Technology &amp; Engineering Emmy Awards The 60th Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards was held on January 8, 2009 at the 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. CEO of Verizon Communications, Ivan Seidenberg received the Lifetime Achievement Award
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Steve Wallach Steven "Steve" J. Wallach (born September 1945 in Brooklyn, New York) is an engineer, consultant and technology manager. He is a Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award recipient.
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Edmund C. Moy Edmund C. Moy (born September 12, 1957) is an American businessman and former government official. From 2006 to 2011 he served as the 38th Director of the United States Mint.
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Jeff Merritt Jeff Merritt (born May 16, 1978) is an internationally-recognized leader in the area of smart cities and government innovation. He currently serves as Director of Innovation for the City of New York as part of the Mayor's Office of Technology and Innovation. Merritt is also known for his work as founder of the New York City nonprofit organization, Grassroots Initiative, where he organized the first exclusively online public election in the United States.
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David Theodore Blaauw David Theodore Blaauw is a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2012 "for contributions to adaptive and low power circuit design".
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Kevin P. Chilton Kevin Patrick "Chilli" Chilton (born November 3, 1954) is an American mechanical engineer, and former United States Air Force four-star General and test pilot. His last assignment was as Commander, U.S. Strategic Command from October 3, 2007 to January 28, 2011. Prior to his appointment to general officer ranks, Chilton spent 11 years of his military career as a NASA astronaut. He retired from the Air Force on February 1, 2011, after having achieved the highest rank of any military astronaut. On January 30, 2012, General Chilton was named to the board of directors of Orbital Sciences Corporation.
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Ivy Ross Ivy Ross (1955) is an American business executive and jewelry designer. She was appointed Head of Google Glass at Google X on May 19, 2014. Ivy Ross’s metal work in jewelry design is in the permanent collections of 12 international museums, including the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. One of few recognized fine artists to successfully cross over into the business world, Ross is also a keynote speaker and a member of several boards, and has been hailed as a “creative visionary” by the art world.
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2016 Webby Awards The 20th annual Webby Awards for 2016 was held at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City on May 16, 2016, which was hosted by comedian and actor Nick Offerman. The awards ceremony was streamed live on the Webby Awards website. Judges from the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences picked the over one hundred winners, which may or may not match the people's choice.