people
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 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.
Antonio Battro
Chief Education Officer
Considered a world leader in the new field of neuroeducation, Antonio Battro is an MD and PhD who specializes in the development of basic cognitive and perceptual processes in children and adolescents.
Walter Bender
President, Software and Content
Walter Bender is a founding member and former executive director of the Media Lab. He attended Harvard University, where he received his BA, before earning his MS from MIT.
Michail Bletsas
Chief Connectivity Officer
As former director of computing at the MIT Media Lab, Michail Bletsas designed and deployed most of their Internet network infrastructure systems. His research has since evolved to develop broadband Internet access to underserved areas.
David Cavallo
Director, Central and South America
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
Director of Finance
Robert Fadel is managing the administrative functions, and assisting in strategic planning and relations with partner organizations and governments.
Jim Gettys
Vice President, Software Engineering
With extensive knowledge and background in software engineering, Jim Gettys' interest in open-source systems for education on very inexpensive computers led him to One Laptop per Child.
Mary Lou Jepsen
Chief Technology Officer
Mary Lou Jepsen is a pioneer in display technologies. Previously she was an executive at Intel. At OLPC she is responsible for overall hardware management, as well as display and systems innovation. She is also a professor at the MIT Media Lab.
Charles Kane
Chief Financial Officer
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.
Habib Khan
Director of Education for South and Central Asia
Dr. Khan has three decades of rich experience in international education development. During that time, he has served in strategic positions within the ministry of education in Pakistan.
SJ Klein
Director of Community Content
Samuel Klein has worked closely with online learning communities and multilingual knowledge collaborations such as Wikipedia. He is now focused on grassroots creation of texts and media.
Ivan Krstić
Director of Security Architecture
An accomplished software architect and researcher, Ivan Krstić is currently on leave from Harvard University. Krstić is deeply involved with open-source and free software, and specializes in architecture and security of large distributed systems.
advisors
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, Mitchel Resnick, Ted Selker, Larry Weber, and Barry Vercoe
board of directors
Ethan Beard (Google); John Roese (Nortel); Dandy Hsu (Quanta); Marcelo Claure (Brightstar); Gary Dillabough (eBay); Gustavo Arenas (AMD); Mike Evans (Red Hat); Ed Horowitz (SES Astra); Jeremy Philips (NewsCorp); Scott Soong (Chi Lin); Sehat Sutardja (Marvell); Nicholas Negroponte (OLPC); Walter Bender (OLPC); Joe Jacobson (MIT Media Lab); Seymour Papert (MIT Media Lab); Steve Kaufman (Riverside); and Tom Meredith (MFI)