Telle Whitney

Telle Whitney, born on 5 June 1956 in Salt Lake City, Utah, is the former CEO and President of the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology and a computer scientist by training. She received a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Utah in 1978 and a PhD in computer science from Caltech in 1985, then worked in Silicon Valley's chip industry creating chips and the software that supports them, holding senior technical management positions at Actel and Malleable Technologies. In 1994 she and Anita Borg founded the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, the largest gathering of women in computing in the world, whose first meeting in Washington, D.C. brought together 500 technical women. She became president and CEO of the Anita Borg Institute in 2002 and retired from AnitaB.org on 30 September 2017. In 2004 she co-founded the National Center for Women and Information Technology with Lucy Sanders and Robert Schnabel, and she has served as Secretary/Treasurer of the Association for Computing Machinery.