James C McGroddy

James C. McGroddy, Chair, retired from IBM as a senior vice president, research at the end of 1996, after leading its research laboratories from 1989 to 1995. During his tenure, which spanned the period of IBM’s most difficult challenges, he led a major restructuring of its research efforts, building a model and management system that is now widely emulated. One of the measures of success was the creation during this period of two new laboratories, one in Beijing and one in Austin, Texas. He is currently an advisor to several government agencies, is a participant in a number of National Research Council groups, and serves as an advisor and a visitor at a number of universities in the United States and Europe. McGroddy is the chairman of the board of MIQS, a company providing clinical information systems and electronic medical record capability aimed at improving the quality and cost-effectiveness of the care of the chronically ill. As chairman of the board of the Stellaris Healthcare Network in 2000 and 2001 and as former chairman of the board of Phelps Memorial Hospital Center, he has been heavily involved in the restructuring of the local health care delivery system in Westchester County. He is a director of Paxar, Inc., and of Advanced Networks and Services, Inc. He is also a trustee of his alma mater, St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, as well as a member of the advisory boards of a number of start-up firms and university departments. McGroddy originally joined IBM in its Research Division in 1965 after receiving a PhD in physics from the University of Maryland. He earned his BS in physics from St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia in 1958.