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Ellen Hancock is a long-time technology manager, noted for her 29-year tenure at IBM where she rose to the position of senior vice president in charge of network hardware and software. During the heyday of the 1990’s and the Internet boon, the IBM networking division was able to produce double digit losses in market share year after year. The networking hardware division which she ran through this period was ultimately sold to Cisco in 1999. She was also a member of the IBM Corporate Executive Committee and the IBM Worldwide Management Council.

In September 1995 she started with National Semiconductor as Chief Operating Officer, after being lured from IBM by Gil Amelio. However it was not long after that Amelio left to take the CEO position at Apple Computer, and he soon hired her to join him there. At Apple she took over the Chief Technology Officer role in the midst of the floundering Copland project. She was largely responsible for the decision to cancel Copland and the eventual purchase of NeXT to replace it. With NeXT came Steve Jobs, who publicly lampooned her on several occasions. When the Apple board of directors fired Amelio, Jobs reorganized the company leaving her with a much reduced role in charge of quality assurance as former NeXT executives took over many positions in Apple. She soon resigned.

After Apple she took the CEO position with Exodus Communications in March 1998, and became chairman of the board in 2000. But in 2001 the company was rocked in the aftermath of the dot-com crash, and after the stock plummeted she stepped down in September 2001. The company soon filed for bankruptcy followed by an asset purchase by Cable & Wireless in February 2002. More recently, Savvis Communications purchased the related assets from C&W in November 2004. Hancock currently serves on the board of several companies, including Aetna, Colgate-Palmolive, Electronic Data Systems, Watchguard, Marist College and Santa Clara University.

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