People: Discover persons who bring their personal passion to OLPC project

advisors

Dilip Cherian
Milind Deora
Jyoti Sagar
Nitish Sengupta
Supriya Sule
Vijay Mathur

international advisory board

Rebecca Allen
Howard Anderson
José María Aznar
V. Michael Bove, Jr.
Benjamin Mako Hill
William Kolb
Alan Kay
Ayo Kusamotu
Rodrigo Mesquita
Eben Moglen
Seymour Papert
Bruce Parker
Ted Selker
Barry Vercoe
Larry Weber


board of directors

Jorge Castañeda
Marcelo Claure (Brightstar) Gary Dillabough (eBay)
Mike Evans (Red Hat)
Mary Himinkool (Google)
Dandy Hsu (Quanta) Joe Jacobson (MIT)
Charles Kane (OLPC)
Steve Kaufman (Riverside)
Tom Meredith (MFI)
Nicholas Negroponte (OLPC)
Jeremy Philips (NewsCorp)
Clyde Rodriquez (AMD)
John Roese (Nortel)
Scott Soong (Chi Lin)
Sehat Sutardja (Marvell)

 

people

 

Corporate

OLPC was founded by Nicholas Negroponte with a core of Media Lab veterans, but quickly expanded to include a wide range of exceptionally talented and dedicated people from academia, industry, the arts, business, and the open-source community. Each individual involved brings a unique skill set, and a deep personal passion, to the project.

Nicholas Negroponte

Chairman

Nicholas Negroponte

Nicholas Negroponte is founder and chairman of the One Laptop per Child non-profit organization. He is currently on leave from MIT, where he was co-founder and director of the MIT Media Laboratory, and the Jerome B. Wiesner Professor of Media Technology.

Charles Kane

President, Chief Operating Officer

Charles Kane

Chuck Kane has acquired a wealth of experience at a number of respected organizations, including Aspen Technology, Corechange, Inc., Open Text, Inc. and Deloitte and Touche.

David Cavallo

VP Learning

David Cavallo

David Cavallo is the co-head of the Media Lab's Future of Learning research group, which focuses on the design and implementation of new learning environments and on the design of new technologies to change the way we think about “learning” and “school”.

Robert Fadel

VP International Operations

Robert Fadel

Robert Fadel is managing the administrative functions, and assisting in strategic planning and relations with partner organizations and governments.

 

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The Global Team

Rodrigo Arboleda H.

President and CEO, Ibero-America & The Caribbean

Roderigo Arboleda

Rodrigo Arboleda Halaby is currently President and CEO, Ibero-America and The Caribbean for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Association. Born in Medellin, Colombia, he completed his Bachelor's Degree in Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1965, and was elected president of the Colombian Society of Architects in Medellín in 1975.

Satish Jha

President and CEO, OLPC India

Satish Jha

Satish Jha has worked at the intersection of technology and management both in global markets and the social space. He has served as a global information management executive with two of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies and as CEO of a consulting firm.

Anthony Wong, S.B.S., J.P.

President, China and South East Asia

Anthony Wong

Anthony Wong has three decades of experience in the telecommunications and technology sectors. He is now helping OLPC to promote and develop its mission in China and South East Asia.

Walter De Brouwer

President and CEO, OLPC Europe

Walter De Brouwer

OLPC Europe is an NGO, which cooperates with Fondation Roi Baudouin. The Foundation assists in the funding and setting up of investment syndicates for LDCs (Least Developed Countries), NICs (Newly Industrialized Countries) and failed states, and serves as liaison between EU Development Agencies, the International Development Organizations present in Brussels and the CSR departments of corporations worldwide.

 

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India

Satish Jha

President and CEO, OLPC India

Satish Jha

Satish Jha has worked at the intersection of technology and management both in global markets and the social space. He has served as a global information management executive with two of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies and as CEO of a consulting firm.

Sujay

Adviser, Business Development, OLPC India

Walter De Brouwer

Sujay brings in expertise in strategic planning, market plan execution, account management in varied industries including Office Automation and Logistics and an extensive experience with government, corporate and education sectors in India.

 

Prajakt Raut

Special Spokesperson for OLPC India

Walter De Brouwer

Prajakt Raut believes in the power of education to transform lives. As a volunteer and special spokesperson for OLPC India, Prajakt is enabling stakeholders to understand and champion the
cause of education via innovation.

Team India

- Juhi Sahai
- Kanchan Gupta
- Manish Sharma
- Mona Chawla
- Nathan Curry
- Nilu Paul
- Paarul Chand
- Prajakt Raut
- Padmini Pandya
- Prajakt Raut
- Satyaakam
  Goswami
- S N Chaturvedi
- Samiran Gupta
- Satish Jha
- Shantha Raju
- Sujay Jha
- Sunil Nayar
- Vivek Sharma