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Thomas A. Saponas was until his retirement in 2003, the Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Agilent Technologies, the 1999 spinoff of Hewlett Packard Company. Mr. Saponas was responsible for establishing Agilent's long-term technology strategy and directly supervised its central research lab. Prior to this, Tom was Vice President and General Manager at Hewlett Packard where he led eight divisions and 5 operations. As a General Manager, he was also responsible for HP's world-wide R&D, marketing and manufacturing of oscilloscopes, logic analyzers and microprocessor development systems as well as having manufacturing responsibility for HP's thin and thick film microcircuits. In the mid-80's, Tom was a White House Fellow (Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Navy) and was awarded the Superior Civil Servant for a major cost saving initiative. He has also been selected to serve on the committee to evaluate the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) program of the National Academies. The U.S. Congress and the National Nanotechnology Coordination Office has tasked the committee to evaluate the progress and effectiveness of the multi-agency NNI program. Mr Saponas has a B.S. degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering and an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado. | 