Most Important
Blacks in Technology
for 2007
Rodney Adkins Adkins ran the lab where Mark Dean de-
Vice President, Development veloped the architecture for the first PC,
Rodney Adkins
IBM Systems and Technology Group and ran the development of UNIX-based Vice President, Development
IBM is a $90 billion a year powerhouse systems until IBM claimed more than a
IBM Systems and Technology
Group
whose technological prowess is deter- third of the worldwide market. On his
mined by the continuing developments way up, he worked on the development
from 30 laboratories, staffed by 15,000 of “pervasive computing”, the technology
engineers and computer scientists in 17 which enables cell phones, Blackberries,
countries. Running this international OnStar, and other multi-tasking port-
trove of brainpower is Rodney Adkins, able systems to handle a variety of chores.
physicist and electrical engineer, who has From there, Adkins helped develop ‘intel-
Paget L. Alves
worked his way up through the develop- ligent’ vending machines and tagging
President, South Region
Sprint Sales and
ment ranks to manage the engineering systems which recognize store customers,
Distribution
development network. and customize their shopping experiences.
The labs under Adkins designed and built And, in an industry with a dearth of
all the leading gaming consoles – Sony minority professionals, he follows a policy
Play Station, Nintendo Game Cube and of “reaching back and pulling through. It
Microsoft X-Box – as well as the micro- is the responsibility of each generation to
processors running the Mars Rover, the help prepare the next generation, because
3D CAD/CAM design systems for Toyota the environment changes and becomes
Edward Anderson
CIO
and other car companies, super comput- much more competitive.”
Peace Corps
ers and mainframe operating systems, to
name a few, and produce half the 3,000 Paget L. Alves
patents IBM earns annually. President, South Region
Sprint Sales and Distribution
When Sprint decided last year to re-
structure into four, vertically integrated,
regional divisions, it did not have to look
far within its ranks to find the individual
James R. Andrade,
to handle all business, government and
Ph.D.
consumer groups, wired and mobile Vice President R&D
broadband for the 11-state southern re-
Asia Pacific
Kraft Foods, Inc.
gion stretching from Oklahoma and Texas
to the eastern seaboard.
The company tagged Paget Alves, the
former president of its Business Services
Group – which served the company’s 100
largest customers and brought in $4.5
billion – to be president of the new South
Kevin Apperson
Chief Information Officer
Region. In this capacity, Alves, who has
Allegis Group
20 years’ management experience in tech-
nology companies, took over an operation
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