Technology >> CEO Interviews >> August 3, 2000

Stephen Andriole – Safeguard Scientifics Inc (sfe)

STEPHEN J. ANDRIOLE, PhD is Senior Vice-President and Chief Technology Officer at Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. Dr. Andriole is formerly the Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President for Technology Strategy at CIGNA Corporation, a $20 billion global insurance and financial services company. Dr. Andriole began his career at Decisions & Designs, Inc., a company that designed and developed interactive computer-based resource allocation, forecasting and decision-making systems. He has directed large R&D programs in government, industry and academia. Dr. Andriole was the Director of the Cybernetics Technology Office of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). Dr. Andriole founded International Information Systems (IIS), Inc. IIS specializes in requirement analysis and prototyping, the design of user-computer interfaces, and software systems evaluation. Dr. Andriole is formerly a Professor of Information Systems and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Drexel University, where he founded and directed the Center for Multidisciplinary Information Systems Engineering. He is also formerly a George Mason Institute Professor of Information Technology and Chairman of the Department of Information Systems and Systems Engineering at George Mason University. Dr. Andriole received his BA from LaSalle University and his Masters and Doctorate degrees from the University of Maryland. Profile
TWST: Would you provide our readers with an overview of Safeguard

Scientifics? That would include your market, your position within the

market and customers.

Dr. Andriole: Our customers are