Karen Bartleson, Senior Director of Corporate Programs and Initiatives, Synopsys, Mountain View California, USA has been selected as the 2016 IEEE President-Elect.
Pending acceptance of the IEEE Teller's Committee report by the IEEE Board of Directors on 22-23 November, Bartleson will begin serving as IEEE President on January 1, 2017. She will succeed 2016 IEEE President Barry L. Shoop, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York, USA.
The other candidate for 2016 IEEE President-Elect was Frederick "Fred" Mintzer, IBM (retired), Yorktown Heights, New York, USA (nominated by IEEE Board of Directors). Of the members who voted, 22,367 selected Karen Bartleson, 17,887 selected Frederick "Fred" C. Mintzer.
Brought to you by Scope e-Knowledge Center, a world-leading provider of abstraction, indexing, entity extraction and knowledge organisation models (Taxonomies, Thesauri and Ontologies).