Norman Winarsky
Vice President, Ventures and Strategic Programs

Dr. Norman D. Winarsky joined SRI in 2001 after more than 20 years with Sarnoff Corporation, formerly RCA Laboratories and now an SRI subsidiary. At Sarnoff, Winarsky served as Vice President of the Information Technology Division and later as Senior Vice President of Information Technology Ventures and Licenses.

At SRI, Winarsky leads Ventures and Strategic Programs, which includes venture development, SRI's internal Commercialization Board, and nVention, a partnership with the venture capital community that develops early-stage investment opportunities. Winarsky also works with SRI's business units to identify and develop market opportunities and value propositions for clients, and he leads the development of high-leverage strategic programs to realize those opportunities.

Winarsky has helped found more than ten ventures, has published more than 50 papers, holds three patents, and has given hundreds of invited talks, lectures and presentations worldwide. He is a cofounder of the National Information Display Laboratory (NIDL), a center of excellence for the government in information processing and display technologies. The NIDL grew to become the National Technology Alliance, which is run by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in partnership with Rosettex, a joint venture of Sarnoff and SRI International.

Winarsky is on the board of directors of PacketHop (an SRI spin-off company) and is Chairman of the University of Chicago Visiting Committee for the Physical Sciences Division. Winarsky received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from the University of Chicago. He graduated Summa Cum Laude and was awarded the Paul R. Cohen Award for the highest achieving student in the mathematics department. He was a National Science Foundation Fellow and an invited member of the mathematics department of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, and was an Assistant Professor at SUNY at Albany.

Winarsky has received more than ten RCA awards, including RCA's highest honor, the Sarnoff Award. Winarsky and his team received an Emmy Award in 2000 for outstanding achievement in technological advancement. He is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi.