Faculty     Thomas Emerson, Ph.D S.Thomas Emerson is the director of the Donald H.Jones Center for Entrepreneurship program. He holds an S.B. in physics from Massachussetts Institute of Technology and an M.A. and Ph.D in physics from Rice University. Dr. Emerson was president and CEO of Arizona Technology Incubator (public -private partnership that mentors promising young technology companies) before joining Carnegie Mellon. He co-founded Periphonics Corporation (voice processing systems) in 1969 and served the company in various executive capacities for 14 years. He founded Syntellect,Inc. (interactive voice response technology company) in 1984 and worked as the chairman, president, and CEO until 1992. In 1992 Emerson founded Xantel Corporation (software products for computer telephone integration fields) and served as chairman, president and CEO from 1992-1998. Emerson holds four U.S.patents and a number of foreign patents, and he has authored more than 20 technical and scientific publications and numerous business articles. Emerson was named "Inventor of the Year" by the U.S.Patent Office in 1973,and he was honored as Arizona's "High-Technology Entrepreneur of the Year" in 1989 by Inc.magazine and Arthur Young & Company. Email: emerson@andrew.cmu.edu
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