Leslie A. Stevens appointed director of the Howe School's Center for Global Technology Management

The Wesley J. Howe School of Technology Management at Stevens Institute of Technology announced May 1 the appointment of Ms. Leslie A. Stevens as Director of the Center for Global Technology Management (CGTM). She comes to Stevens having occupied numerous high-level positions in the telecommunications management field.

"Leslie Stevens is a dynamic senior executive with over 20 years experience," says Jerry MacArthur Hultin, Dean of the Howe School. "We are truly pleased to add her leadership and expertise to what is shaping up to be the finest technology management program anywhere."

Ms. Stevens has led global businesses from start-up through all phases of development, collaborating across international borders and running teams with global members. From 1995-2000, she served as Network Vice President, Information Management, at AT&T's Network Services Division. Before that, Ms. Stevens was Assistant Vice President, Financial Systems Business Unit, at NCR Corporation.

In this capacity, she was charged with reinvigorating and growing a large global business providing solutions to the retail banking industry. In the early 1990s, Stevens served as President of Advanced Decision Support Systems at AT&T Venture Corp., a multimillion-dollar venture business providing decision support and software optimization to the airline industry around the world. She also served in a number of other high-level directorships and managerial positions at AT&T and Bell Labs.

"Leslie has a unique ability to create strategy and implement programs, with a great history of creating valuable technology applications," say Dr. Audrey Curtis, Director of Telecommunications Management at the Howe School and a former colleague of Ms. Stevens at AT&T. "Leslie has achieved major multiple successes directing operations, sales and marketing, R&D, finance, and strategic planning organizations. Her experience will be a great asset to the growth of global education at Stevens Institute."

Ms. Stevens holds a Master of Science degree in Advanced Management (1984) from Pace University, N.Y., and a Master of Science in Computer and Communication Science (1977) from the University of Michigan. She received her secondary education while living abroad in the United Kingdom and graduated with a B.Sc. degree (1975) in Mathematics with first-class honors from the University of Bristol, U.K. She also spent time abroad in Spain and has traveled the world extensively.

Ms. Stevens is the recipient of several major honors, including the Business Achievement Award and the Software Excellence Award from AT&T.

Residing in central New Jersey, Ms. Stevens has in recent years taken a great interest in the education of gifted and talented children. She is a key sponsor of the new Gifted & Talented K-5 program in the Bernards Township, N.J. schools. She has also acted as a team coach for the Destination Imagination New Jersey competitions, part of an international series of competitive events designed to challenge gifted young people.

About the Center for Global Technology Management

The Howe School opened the Center for Global Technology Management in October 2001. About its formation, Dean Jerry Hultin said, "Stevens Institute of Technology is located at the heart of one of the world's most important concentrations of global finance, pharmaceutical and telecommunications corporations. This center is an essential new initiative in the Howe School's strategic plan for incorporating global content and perspective in all of its education and research activities."

The center's key objectives will accomplish the following:

• Engage in research on issues related to global innovation practices and theory,
• Develop a number of globalization courses leading to a "global concentration" in one or more programs,
• Promote the inclusion of a globalization thread throughout all courses in the Howe School,
• Develop and promote executive education courses on global subjects,
• Create student exchange programs at the undergraduate and graduate level with global corporations and international business schools, and
• Create a global technology management alliance with key technology management and business schools throughout the world.

Funding of the center will come from a variety of sources including foundation grants, research grants and contracts, course fees and royalties, and governmental and corporate support.

About Stevens Institute of Technology

Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value.

Stevens offers baccalaureates, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science and management, in addition to a baccalaureate degree in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. The university has a total enrollment of 2,150 undergraduate and 3,500 graduate students, with about 250 full-time faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at www.stevens.edu.  

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