Technology >> CEO Interviews >> July 9, 2004

MARINA HATSOPOULOS – Z CORPORATION

MARINA I. HATSOPOULOS, CEO, Director, and Co-Founder of Z Corporation, is Chair of the Committee of Finance and Investment of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, a 120,000-member organization for the technology community. She serves on the Advisory Board of the Nantucket Conference, an invitation-only technology event, and the Board of Overseers of the Boston Children's Museum. She received Mass. High Tech's All-Star Award for Hardware and is a two-time finalist for Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Her background was in corporate finance at Chase Manhattan Bank in New York, and held several operational roles at various Thermo Electron divisions. Profile
TWST: Can we start with a brief historical overview of Z Corp?

Ms. Hatsopoulos: Sure. We founded the company in December 1994, a bunch

of MIT engineers. So, myself, I have a masters in