加载中…白宫嘉奖11名移民创新者
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华盛顿——白宫授予11名美国发明家和企业家“移民创新者变革先锋”（Immigrant Innovator Champions of Change）的称号。
美国国家首席技术官（U.S. Chief Technology Officer）托德·帕克（Todd Park）在5月29日的颁奖典礼上说：“长期以来移民使美国变得更加繁荣、更具创新力。我们为表彰其中的领军人物感到自豪。他们每天都致力于促进经济增长、发展科技以及支持他们所在的社区。”
在美国最大的500家公司中，有超过40%是由移民或移民子女创建的。据白宫统计，在2011年，美国所有新企业中有28%是由移民创办的。
帕克表示：“我们今天表彰的领军人物展现了领导力、创业精神以及公共服务的典范。”
“移民创新者变革先锋”的获奖者名单如下：
施拉德哈·阿加瓦尔（Shradha Agarwal）来自印度，在伊利诺伊州（Illinois）西北大学（Northwestern University）获新闻学学位。随后她创建了一家医疗卫生媒体公司——康泰斯特媒体（ContextMedia），并将其定位为“营益企业”，即有着明确的社会效益的营利性企业。公司以每年翻一番的速度迅速成长。阿加瓦尔往返工作于纽约和芝加哥。在2012年，她入选全市40位40岁以下（40 Under 40）的成功青年。
芮迪曼·达斯（Riddhiman Das）2008年从印度来到美国，在密苏里大学堪萨斯城分校（University of Missouri at Kansas City）学习计算机科学、数学和创业。当他还是一名在校本科生时，便参与创办了皮特博士软件有限责任公司（Dr. Peet's Software LLC）、人才螺旋公司（TalentHelix）以及帆船实验室有限责任公司（Galleon Labs LLC）。他还帮助堪萨斯一家新兴企业“眼睛验证有限责任公司”（EyeVerify LLC）开发了一项技术，该公司使用移动生物识别技术验证身份，是一种取代在智能手机上输入密码进行验证的安全方式。达斯随后继续在密苏里大学攻读研究生学位，同时参与企业运营。
来自加纳的阿什夫·勾构（Ashifi Gogo）是斯普洛斯尔公司（Sproxil）的首席执行官。这是一家推广旨在打击数百亿美元假药市场的移动产品认证（Mobile Product Authentication）技术的社会企业。用户可以利用此项技术验证其所购药品的真伪。包括汽车产品在内的全球诸多产业均使用斯普洛斯尔技术。勾构拥有新罕布什州（New Hampshire）达特茅斯学院（Dartmouth College）电气工程博士学位以及华盛顿州（Washington）惠特曼学院（Whitman College）数学和物理学本科学位。他现在马萨诸塞州（Massachusetts）剑桥市（Cambridge）居住。
美国国家首席技术官托德•帕克
奥尔加﹒科博（Olga Koper）出生于波兰，现就职于俄亥俄州（Ohio）哥伦布市（Columbus）巴特尔纪念研究所（Battelle Memorial Institute）的一个创新团队。她拥有30多项使用小尺度材料完成的专利。科博于2007年担任从堪萨斯州立大学（Kansas State University）分出去的纳米尺度公司（NanoScale Corporation）的第一位首席技术官，被评选为管道公司（Pipeline Inc.）“2013年度创新者”（2013 Innovator of the Year），并被《美国企业家》（Entrepreneur）杂志评选为“最受关注的女企业家”（Entrepreneurial Woman to Watch）。科博拥有波兰西里西亚大学（University of Silesia）化学硕士学位以及堪萨斯州立大学博士学位。她现居住于俄亥俄州都柏林市（Dublin）。
加利福尼亚州（California）纽瓦克市（Newark）的乔纳斯﹒克拉克（Jonas Korlach）是太平洋生物科学公司（Pacific Biosciences）的首席科学官。当他还是纽约州（New York）康奈尔大学（Cornell University）一名在读研究生时，便与其他人共同发明了公司的SMRT技术，该项技术可显著提高基因排序的精确性和速度。克拉克拥有33项专利，撰写了许多有关此项技术的科学文章。他拥有康奈尔大学生物化学、分子和细胞生物学的硕士和博士学位，以及德国柏林（Berlin）洪堡大学（Humboldt University）的生物科学本科和硕士学位。
来自俄罗斯的安娜﹒孟盖（Anna Mongayt）是新创公司（Upstart）的创始人之一。这是一个众筹平台（crowdfunding platform），让年轻人以今后部分收入偿还的方式来筹集资金。新创公司通过让客户预测他们的未来收入潜力，并将他们与相信其职业目标的支持者配对，来帮助他们减轻诸如学生贷款等财务负担。
加利福尼亚州门罗帕克（Menlo Park）的维多利亚﹒兰桑姆（ Victoria Ransom）出生在新西兰，是野火公司（Wildfire）的创始人。她仅用一年时间就使公司开始盈利，客户数量达到数十万，并且在全球设立了八个办事处。（野火公司后来被谷歌公司（Google）收购。）2012年, 她入选《财富》杂志（Fortune）“最具影响力的女企业家” （Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs）。
加利福尼亚州红木海岸（Redwood Shores）的扎克﹒瑞纳特（Zack Rinat）于1999年创建了收入管理公司“N模式”（Model N）。在此之前，他与其他人共同创建了应用服务器公司“网络动态”（NetDynamics）（后被太阳微系统公司（Sun Microsystems Inc.）收购），并担任电子商务网站“交易动态公司”（TradingDynamics Inc.）及“通道有限公司”（Conduit Ltd.）的董事。他曾在硅谷图形公司（Silicon Graphics Inc.）以及以色列先进技术公司（Advanced Technology Israel）中担任运营、营销及工程方面的高级主管职位。瑞纳特拥有哈佛大学（Harvard）的工商管理硕士学位以及以色列理工大学（Israel Institute of Technology）的计算机科学本科学位。
阿玛尔﹒萨尼（Amar Sawhney）是一名发明家和企业家，他拥有120多项医疗设备专利，帮助了世界各地上百万名患者。他的六家公司总计创收超过15亿美元。萨尼现住在马萨诸塞州贝德福市（Bedford），他也是青年创新者的导师。他出生在印度。
出生于斯里兰卡的物理学家、企业家斯瓦林戈姆﹒斯瓦纳森（Sivalingam Sivananthan）是伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校（University of Illinois at Chicago）微物理实验室主任。他在伊利诺伊州（Illinois）波林布鲁克市（Bolingbrook）成立了斯瓦纳森实验室公司（Sivananthan Laboratories Inc.），开发出作为新一代太阳能电池平台的先进的军用红外夜视技术。他还帮助成立了非营利性太阳能光伏创新、研究及教育培训研究所（Institute for Solar Photovoltaic Innovation, Research, and Edu-training，或简称InSPRIRE），帮助伊利诺州的劳动大军以及有兴趣的学生做好准备为该州建造可再生能源及太阳能生态系统。
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White House Honors 11 Immigrant Innovators
Ashifi Gogo
Washington — The White House has named 11 American inventors and entrepreneurs as Immigrant Innovator Champions of Change.
“Immigrants have long made America more prosperous and innovative,” U.S. Chief Technology Officer Todd Park said in announcing the honors May 29. “We are proud to recognize these leaders who work every day to grow our economy, advance science and technology, and support their home communities.”
More than 40 percent of the 500 biggest U.S. companies were founded by immigrants or children of immigrants. In 2011, immigrants started 28 percent of all new businesses in the United States, according to the White House.
“The champions we are celebrating today represent the very best in leadership, entrepreneurship and public service,” Park said.
These are the Immigrant Innovator Champions of Change:
India native Shradha Agarwal earned a degree in journalism at Northwestern University in Illinois. She then founded ContextMedia, a health care media company, and positioned it as a “for-benefit” venture — a profitable enterprise with clear social benefits. The company’s growth has doubled annually. Agarwal splits her time between New York and Chicago, where in 2012 she was inducted into the the city’s 40 Under 40 list of young achievers.
In 2008 Riddhiman Das came to the United States from India to study computer science, mathematics and entrepreneurship at the University of Missouri at Kansas City. While still an undergraduate, he co-founded Dr. Peet's Software LLC; TalentHelix; and Galleon Labs LLC. He also helped develop technology used in EyeVerify LLC, a Kansas City startup that uses mobile biometric technology to authenticate identity and is a safe alternative to entering passwords on smartphones. Das went on to pursue a graduate degree at the University of Missouri and remains engaged with the businesses.
Ashifi Gogo of Ghana is the chief executive officer of Sproxil, a social enterprise that markets Mobile Product Authentication, a technology used to combat the multibillion-dollar fake drug market. Users can use the technology to verify the authenticity of their medication. Sproxil is used in many industries worldwide, including automotive goods. Gogo holds a doctorate in electrical engineering from Dartmouth College in New Hampshire and a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and physics from Whitman College in Washington state. He resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
U.S. Chief Technology Officer Todd Park
Poland-born Olga Koper works in an innovation group at Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio. She holds more than 30 patents involving the use of small-scale materials. The first chief technology officer of Kansas State University spinoff NanoScale Corporation in 2007, Koper was selected as Pipeline Inc.’s 2013 Innovator of the Year and Entrepreneur magazine chose her as an “Entrepreneurial Woman to Watch.” Koper received a master’s degree in chemistry from the University of Silesia in Poland and a doctorate from Kansas State University. She resides in Dublin, Ohio.
Jonas Korlach of Newark, California, is chief scientific officer at Pacific Biosciences. While a graduate student at Cornell University in New York, Korlach co-invented the company’s SMRT technology that dramatically improves the accuracy and speed of DNA sequencing. The holder of 33 patents, Korlach has authored numerous scientific articles about the technology. He received his master’s and doctorate degrees in biochemistry, molecular and cell biology from Cornell, and master’s and bachelor’s degrees in biological sciences from Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany.
Russia native Anna Mongayt co-founded Upstart, a crowdfunding platform that lets young people raise money in exchange for a portion of their future income. Upstart enables users to alleviate financial burdens like student loans by predicting their future earning potential and matching them with backers who believe in their career goals.
A native of New Zealand, Wildfire founder Victoria Ransom of Menlo Park, California, led the company to profitability in just one year and built it to tens of thousands of customers and eight offices worldwide. (Wildfire was later acquired by Google.) Fortune magazine in 2012 named her one of its "Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs."
Zack Rinat of Redwood Shores, California, founded the revenue management company Model N in 1999. Before that, he co-founded NetDynamics Inc., an application server company (later acquired by Sun Microsystems Inc.), and served on the boards of e-commerce sites TradingDynamics Inc. and Conduit Ltd. He has held senior management positions in operations, marketing and engineering at Silicon Graphics Inc. and Advanced Technology Israel. Rinat holds a master’s in business from Harvard and a bachelor’s in computer science from the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology).
Amar Sawhney is an inventor and entrepreneur with more than 120 patents for medical devices that have helped millions of patients worldwide. His six companies have earned more than $1.5 billion in revenue. Sawhney, who lives in Bedford, Massachusetts, also mentors young innovators. He was born in India.
Sri Lanka–born Sivalingam Sivananthan, a physicist and entrepreneur, is director of the microphysics laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the founder of Sivananthan Laboratories Inc. in Bolingbrook, Illinois, and created advanced military infrared night vision technology, a platform for next-generation solar cells. He also helped found the nonprofit Institute for Solar Photovoltaic Innovation, Research, and Edu-training, or InSPIRE, to prepare the Illinois workforce and interested students to build a renewable energy and solar ecosystem for the state.
Read more: http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/english/article/2013/05/20130531148229.html#ixzz2VOUCBrdY
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