High-tech industry mourns crash victims
By David Lammers and Jerry Ascierto
EE Times
(09/14/01 16:57 p.m. EST)
The toll from this week's terrorist attacks was keenly felt at technology companies. Among those killed in the crashes of the four hijacked airliners were more than two dozen men and women associated with the high-tech industry, including a Cisco Systems marketing manager, three top executives at a German CAD company, two Boeing propulsion engineers and the founder of an Internet-services firm. Raytheon lost four employees, three in one of the planes that hit the World Trade Center and one in the Pentagon crash.
Among those killed when American Airlines Flight 11 from Boston rammed into the Twin Towers were Daniel Lewin, 31, a co-founder and the chief technology officer of Akamai Technologies Inc.; Edmund Glazer, 41, chief financial officer at optical-components and networking company MRV Communications Inc. (Chatsworth, Calif.); and Philip Rosenzweig, 47, director of Sun Microsystems' newly formed horizontal-scaling team in Burlington, Mass.
Also on board were three from Raytheon: Peter Gay, 54, Tewksbury, Mass., a vice president of operations for electronic systems; David P. Kovalcin, 42, Hudson, N.H., senior mechanical engineer for electronic systems; and Kenneth E. Waldie, 46, Methuen, Mass., senior quality control engineer for electronic systems.
Other casualties of Flight 11 included Anna Williams Allison, 48, Stoneham, Mass., founder of A2 Software Solutions; Jeffrey Coombs, 42, Abington, Mass., computer security analyst for Compaq; Charles Jones, 48, a Bedford, Mass., computer programmer; Judy Larocque, 50, Framingham, Mass., founder and chief executive officer of research firm Market Perspectives; Jeff Mladenik, 43, Hinsdale, Ill., the interim president at E-Logic; Jane Orth, 49, Haverhill, Mass., who was retired from Lucent Technologies; and Christopher Zarba, 47, Hopkinton, Mass., a software engineer at Concord Communications.
Lewin, who co-founded Akamai in 1998, leaves a wife and two sons. MRV's Glazer is survived by his wife and a 4-year-old son. Sun's Rosenzweig hailed from Acton, Mass., and is survived by his wife, Lauren, and sons Jeremy and Max.
Aboard the second plane to hit the WTC, United Flight 175 out of Boston, were three BTC Technology AG executives. The German 3-D-CAD company lost chief executive Heinrich Kimmig, 43; its development director, Klaus Bothe, 31; and human resources director Wolfgang Menzel, 50. Other victims were Graham Berkeley, 37, Wellesley, Mass., of Xerox; Christoffer Carstanjen, 33, Turner Falls, Mass., a computer research specialist at the University of Massachusetts; and James E. Hayden, 47, Westford, Mass., chief financial officer of Netegrity Inc.
Steven D. Jacoby, 43, the chief operating officer of wireless messaging-service provider Metrocall (Alexandria, Va.), died in the plane that crashed into the Pentagon. He is survived by his wife, Kim, and children Nicholas, Jesse and Jenna. Also on board American Flight 77 out of Dulles, Va., were Stanley Hall, 68, of Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., director of program management for Raytheon in Arlington, Va.; and Boeing propulsion engineers Chandler Keller, 29, El Segundo, Calif.; and Ruben Ornedo, 39, Los Angeles.
Other victims were Suzanne Calley, 42, a strategic marketing manager at Cisco; Charles S. Falkenberg, 45, University Park, Md., director of research at ECOlogic Corp.; Dora Menchaca, 45, Santa Monica, Calif., associate director of clinical research for a biotech company; Robert Penniger, 63, Poway, Calif., electrical engineer with BAE Systems; and Lisa Raines, 42, senior vice president of a biotech company.
Mark Bingham, 31, of San Francisco, who owned a public relations firm, and Thomas E. Burnett Jr., 38, San Ramon, Calif., senior executive of a medical R&D company, left Newark on United Flight 93. It crashed near Pittsburgh. |
