Bandgap CTO recognized as Mass High Tech ‘Woman to Watch’
Woburn, MA – February 8, 2010 – Mass High Tech has announced that Dr. Marcie Black, Bandgap Engineering’s Chief Technology Officer and co-founder, along with ten other women from the New England tech community, will be recognized in March as the 2010 MHT Women to Watch. This year’s honorees will be profiled in the March 17 issue of Mass High Tech and will be recognized at a special event on March 19.
“I am honored to be recognized by MHT and to be included in such an impressive group of women leaders,” said Dr. Black. “The previous recipients of this award have made significant contributions to science and society, and I hope to follow in their footsteps.”
Before co-founding Bandgap, Dr. Black was a technical staff member in the applied electromagnetics group at Los Alamos National Laboratory and worked on a variety of nanotechnology and optical systems. She earned her BS, Masters and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has published over 30 articles in peer-reviewed journals and three book sections and has two patents issued and numerous patents pending.
This is the seventh year that Mass High Tech has honored the Women to Watch. The honorees are being recognized for their work in helping to build new companies and drive established tech companies in new directions. As inventors, entrepreneurs, mentors and community leaders, they are viewed as future leaders in their respective fields, including biotech, robotics, software and cleantech.
“Certain parts of the technology community continue to struggle when it comes to advancing women engineers and entrepreneurs. So we continue to shine a spotlight on those women in technology who stand out as examples of the very high level of talent New England has been able to foster,” said E. Douglas Banks, editor of Mass High Tech. “Hopefully, someday, it won’t be news that women are successful in technology, engineering and the sciences.”
The 2010 honorees, their titles, industries and locations are:
Marcie Black, Chief technology officer, Bandgap Engineering Inc., Photovoltaic systems, Woburn
A.G. Breitenstein, Vice president and general manager for provider markets, Humedica Inc., Healthcare IT, Boston
Catherine Crawford, Senior technical staff member, IBM Corp., Supercomputers, Bedford, N.H.
Lauren Crews, Technology coordinator, Raytheon Co., Defense, Andover
Elizabet de los Pinos, Chief executive officer, Aura Biosciences Inc., Biotechnology, Cambridge
Michelle Dipp, Vice president and head of the U.S. Centre for External Drug Discovery, GlaxoSmithKline plc, Biotechnology, Cambridge
Jill Drury, Associate department head, The Mitre Corp., Robotics, Bedford
Candace Fleming, Chief executive officer, Crimson Hexagon Inc., Social networking, Cambridge
Katie Hall, Chief technology officer, Witricity Corp., Electronics, Cambridge
Dava Newman, Professor of aeronautics, astronomics and engineering systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Aerospace, Cambridge
Livia Racz, Division leader for advanced hardware development, Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc., Electronics, Cambridge
About Bandgap Engineering, Inc.
Bandgap has pioneered the development of highly tunable and inexpensive methods for nanostructuring silicon and is applying this technology to high efficiency silicon-based photovoltaic cells and high capacity Li-ion batteries. Founded in 2007, the company is venture-backed by New Enterprise Associates, Sumitomo Corporation and the Massachusetts Green Energy Fund and based in Woburn, MA. For more information, visit the Bandgap web site at www.bandgap.com.
For additional information please contact:
Chris Hobson
Bandgap Engineering, Inc.
781.902.0310
Bandgap Engineering, Inc.
