Key Players
| Alex
d'Arbeloff [5]
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Alex
d’Arbeloff
graduated from MIT with an SB Management Degree in 1949. D'Arbeloff co-founded Teradyne in 1960 and was the
former Chairman and CEO. He has since left Teradyne and is now
Chairman of the MIT corporation.
Chairman and CEO, Alex d’Arbeloff played one of the most influential roles in Teradyne management history. Like Charles Draper, as presented in Donald MacKenzie’s Inventing Accuracy, Alex d’Arbeloff certainly fit the role of the heterogeneous engineer with his ability to “engineer the social as well as the physical world.” He used his vision, networking ability, business acumen, and eagerness to experiment to encourage entrepreneurship within the confines of Teradyne.
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| Marc Levine | Marc Levine was d'Arbeloff appointed product manager of the Aurora Project. He is currently serving as the Vice President and General Manager of the Integra Test Division (ITD). Previously, Levine had served as software engineering manager for Teradyne’s Industrial Consumer Division (ICD) and as manager of corporate Total Quality Management (TQM). |
| Hap Walker | Hap Walker joined the Aurora Project from the Industrial Consumer Division (ICD) in its early stages as the lead hardware engineer. He was personally recruited by Marc Levine. His background in hardware, software, and tester design would prove essential in the development of the Aurora Project |
| Tom Newman | Tom Newman was the project manager for the J401 tester. He is currently the Vice President of Corporate Relations. |
“It may be that you need a CEO like Alex d’Arbeloff as part of the formula [for solving the Innovator’s Dilemma]. He’s a very bright, very persistent person and he understood entrepreneurial startups.”
-Marc Levine