DR. JERROLD M. GROCHOW

Vice President for Information Services and Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Dr. Jerrold M. Grochow joined MIT as Vice President for Information Services and Technology in November, 2003. He had most recently been Chief Technology Officer at FOLIOfn, Inc., a start-up providing innovative Internet-based financial services. He has also been a consultant to the MITRE Corporation working with the Department of Treasury’s Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection focusing on issues of the banking and financial industry.

From 1992 until 1999, Dr. Grochow was Chief Technology Officer at American Management Systems, an international consulting and systems development firm, and Director of the AMS Center for Advanced Technologies, which he founded. Prior to becoming CTO, his work with AMS involved designing, developing and managing information systems for a wide variety of large-scale government and corporate applications.

While working at MIT from 1968-1972, he was a member of the team developing the Multics Time-Sharing System (the predecessor of UNIX) and MIT’s first use of the ARPANET (the predecessor of the Internet).

In addition to two books, he has written over 50 articles on topics related to information systems management and development that have appeared in numerous industry and general publications, including eWeek, Computerworld, Information Week, and The New York Times.

Dr. Grochow received his B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering, and Ph.D. in Management from MIT.