Professor Christopher J. Collins, PhD
Assistant Professor of Human Resource Management in the
School of Industrial Labor Relations at Cornell University
Professor Christopher J. Collins, PhD, brings to Terakeet a wide range of expertise in working with software companies, including the development of high technology human resources strategies and advanced hiring strategies developed for some of the world's largest, most respected technology companies.

Dr. Collins is an Assistant Professor of Human Resource Management in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. He earned his PhD in Organizational Behavior and Human Resources from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. In addition, he holds an M.B.A. from the University of Buffalo in Human Resource Management.

Dr. Collins' research interests include strategic human resource management, firm innovation and knowledge creation, employee recruitment and employment brand equity. His research has appeared in the Academy of Management Proceedings and Human Resource Management. In addition, he has presented his research at several conferences, including the Academy of Management, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and the Strategic Management Society annual meetings. Dr. Collins has worked as a private consultant to Fortune 500 organizations and several entrepreneurial organizations. His consulting work has primarily focused on staffing issues and strategic HR planning.


Professor Jerome Friedman, PhD
High energy physicist at MIT, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1990
Professor Jerome Friedman, PhD, a high energy physicist at MIT, received the Nobel Prize in physics in 1990. Dr. Friedman brings to Terakeet a wealth of experience and intelligence that enables him to guide the company in the space of voice application technology.

Dr. Friedman earned his PhD in physics from the University of Chicago in 1956, where he continued working as a post-doctoral student at Chicago's Nuclear Emulsion Laboratory. In 1957, he joined Robert Hofstadter's group at the High Energy Physics Laboratory at Stanford University.

In 1980, Dr. Friedman became Director of the Laboratory for Nuclear Science at MIT and then served as head of the Physics Department from 1983 to 1988. Over the years, he has served on a number of program and scientific policy advisory committees at various accelerators. Dr. Friedman also was a member of the Board of the University Research Association for six years, serving as Vice President for three years. He is currently a member of the High Energy Advisory Panel for the U.S. Department of Energy.


Randy S. Segal
Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Hughes Network Systems
Randy S. Segal is Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Hughes Network Systems (HNS), a subsidiary of Hughes Electronics Corporation, the world's largest provider of broadband satellite network solutions for businesses and consumers, with over 500,000 systems installed in more than 85 countries. Ms. Segal currently serves on the Board of Directors of Hughes Network Systems international subsidiaries, located throughout Europe and in Hong Kong. Ms. Segal also served on the Board of Directors of XM Satellite Radio (NASDAQ: XMSR) and Mobile Satellite Ventures.

Prior to May 2001, Ms. Segal was Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Motient Corporation (NASDAQ: MTNT), a mobile Internet and satellite communications company, with responsibility for strategic oversight of its merger, acquisition and financing activities, as well as all legal matters. Ms. Segal led Motient's spin-off of two new ventures: XM Satellite Radio and Mobile Satellite Ventures.

Ms. Segal is a graduate of Columbia Law School (1981) where she was a Kent Scholar. She received her Bachelor's (1977) and Master's (1978) degrees from Cornell University, where she was a Ford Foundation Research Grant recipient and National Honor Scholar.

Ms. Segal practiced with the New York corporate law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton prior to joining Motient in 1992. She also served as a federal law clerk in the U.S. District Court, the Southern District of New York, to the Hon. Edmund L. Palmieri, as well as in the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, to the Hon. Jerre S. Williams. Ms. Segal is an adjunct law professor at George Mason Law School and is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors, the President's Council of Cornell Women, the Northern Virginia Technology Council and the American Corporate Counsel Association.


Dr. Nick Tredennick
Designer of the Motorola MC68000 microprocessor and founder of Nexgen
Dr. Nick Tredennick works with computer- and semiconductor-based startup companies and is a member of the Army Science Board (a federal advisory committee). For two and a half years, he was Chief Scientist at Altera, a programmable logic company. He has extensive experience in MEMS (Micro Electrical Mechanical Systems) and microprocessor design, with nine patents in microprocessor logic design and re-configurable computing. He was named a fellow of the IEEE for his contributions to microprocessor design. At Motorola he designed the MC68000, the microprocessor that powered the original Macintosh computers. At IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center he designed the Micro/370 microprocessor. He has founded several Silicon Valley startups including Nexgen, which went public and was bought by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). At Nexgen, he hired and managed the team that designed the microprocessor that became the AMD K-6.

Dr. Tredennick has taught at the University of California, Berkeley and at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author of a textbook, Microprocessor Logic Design and almost fifty technical papers and is frequently a featured speaker at technical conferences. Dr. Tredennick is on the editorial boards of Microprocessors and Microsystems, Microprocessor Report and Embedded Developers Journal. He is currently the author of DynamicSilicon, a newsletter published by Gilder Publishing.

Dr. Tredennick holds MSEE and BSEE degrees from Texas Tech University, where he was named a distinguished engineering graduate. He earned a PhD in electrical engineering at the University of Texas. Dr. Tredennick was recently nominated as an IEEE representative to the Engineering Accreditation Commission.