2009 Hall of Fame - Friday, October 23, 2009

The Annual Hall of Fame event honors individuals with Utah ties who have made global contributions to the information technology and life science industries through new technology, innovation and leadership.

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The Utah Technology Council (UTC) has announced Greg Butterfield, Peter D. Meldrum and Mark H. Skolnick will be inducted into the 2009 UTC Hall of Fame. >>read more<<

Greg Butterfield is the Managing Partner of SageCreek Partners, a consulting company that provides mentoring, strategy and coaching in the U.S., EMEA and Latin America to help technology companies drive critical business results. Prior to founding SageCreek, he was the Group President of the Altiris and Server and Storage business units for Symantec. Butterfield joined Symantec through the company's acquisition of Altiris in April 2007. At Altiris, he served as chairman of the board, president and CEO. After joining Altiris in February 2000, he guided the company to eight consecutive years of revenue growth and profitability overseeing growth in revenue from $3M to over $250M in seven years and continued growth within Symantec. Butterfield was the driving force behind eleven acquisitions and he successfully completed an IPO in 2002 in the face of a notable economic downturn. The IPO was followed in August of 2003 with a successful secondary offering.

Prior to joining Altiris, he served as executive vice president of worldwide sales at Vinca Corporation where he increased revenue from $1.7 million to $24 million in less than three years and positioned the company to be sold to Legato Systems for $92 million in 1999. He also held executive level positions at Legato, Novell and WordPerfect Corporation. Butterfield was invited to the 2006 World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer. He was winner of the 2002 Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year award and served as the chairman of the board of the Utah Information Technology Association (now Utah Technology Council) from 2003 to 2005. Butterfield received a bachelor of science degree in business administration, finance from Brigham Young University.

Peter D. Meldrum is co-founder of Myriad Genetics, Inc., and has served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Myriad since 1992. Prior to joining Myriad Genetics, Mr. Meldrum was President and Chief Executive Officer of Founders Fund, Inc., a venture capital group. He currently serves as Chair of the Pioneer Theater Board of Trustees, Chair-elect of the Ballet West Board of Trustees and is a Trustee at Westminster College. He previously served for 10 years as a member of the Board of Directors for the Golden Spike Chapter of the American Red Cross.

Meldrum was selected by Scientific American as one of the Top 50 Scientific Visionaries in the World. He was awarded the Governor’s Medal for Science and Technology in 1998 and the Mountain West Capital Network Award for Entrepreneur of the Year in 2001. In 2008, he received the Award of Distinction from the American Federation for Aging Research and was named CEO of the Year by BioWorld Today.
Peter Meldrum has been involved in the founding of several biotechnology companies including: Myriad Genetics, Sonix Innovations, Rosetta Inpharmatics (now part of Merck), Pique Therapeutics and Kylin Therapeutics. He received a Doctorate of Engineering (honorary) from the University of Utah in 2009, a Doctorate of Science (honorary) from Westminster College in 2004, an M.B.A. from the University of Utah in 1974 and a B.S. degree in chemical engineering in 1970.

Mark H. Skolnick, Ph.D., is co-founder, Chief Scientific Officer and a Director of Myriad Genetics since May 1991. Dr. Skolnick and several colleagues were the first to conceive of using restriction fragment length polymorphism technology as genetic markers, a breakthrough that underpins the Human Genome Project.
Over the course of his distinguished career, Mark Skolnick has received numerous awards, including the Governor’s Medal for Science and Technology and the American Cancer Society Distinguished Service Award both in 1995, the Katharine Berkan Judd Award in 1996 and the Legacy of Life Award from the Deseret Foundation’s Heart and Lung Research Foundation in 2001. In 1994, the New York Times acknowledged him as "leader of the team that successfully identified the gene for breast cancer." Said the NY Times: "No one is more surprised and gratified than Dr. Mark H. Skolnick of the University of Utah, whose team plucked the gene from a crowded stretch of chromosome 17 and out of the grasp of 12 other teams that had thrown hats and hopes into the ring.”

Dr. Skolnick received his Ph.D. in Genetics from Stanford University in 1975 and a B.A. degree in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1968.
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2009 Hall of Fame Keynote: Eric Schmidt

Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin recruited Eric Schmidt from Novell, where he led that company's strategic planning, management and technology development as chairman and CEO. Since coming to Google in 2001, Eric has focused on building the corporate infrastructure needed to maintain Google's rapid growth as a company and on ensuring that quality remains high while product development cycle times are kept to a minimum. Along with Larry and Sergey, Eric shares responsibility for Google's day-to-day operations.

Prior to his appointment at Novell, Eric was chief technology officer and corporate executive officer at Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he led the development of Java, Sun's platform-independent programming technology, and defined Sun's Internet software strategy. Before joining Sun in 1983, he was a member of the research staff at the Computer Science Lab at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), and held positions at Bell Laboratories and Zilog. Schmidt earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University and a master's and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.

The Hall of Fame celebration is the largest Utah technology gathering of the year. For information on sponsorships, tables or individual tickets, visit www.utahtech.org or contact Mark Lehnhof at (801) 568-3500 or mark@utahtechcouncil.org.

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WHEN:
Friday, October 23, 2009
General Networking Reception - 6 - 7 p.m.
Dinner & Program - 7 - 9 p.m.

COST:
$250 - Individual Seat: UTC Member
$400 - Individual Seat: Non-UTC Member
$2,500 - Table of 10: UTC Member
$4,000 - Table of 10: Non-UTC Member
$4,000 - Premier Table of 10: UTC Member
$2,000 - Platinum & Gold Investor

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WHERE:
The Grand America Hotel
555 South Main Street
Salt Lake City, UT 84111