Officers
President - Melinda Pillsbury-Foster
Melinda Pillsbury-Foster is a columnist for the Iconoclast in Texas and has been involved in many organizations dedicated to enacting positive change for most of her life. How the NeoCons Stole Freedom – and how we can take it back, is the title of her blog. Most of her articles are available there. Pillsbury-Foster was an early member of the Libertarian Party, serving as Southern California Vice Chairman for six terms and on their National Committee. Her first book, a lightly fictionalized autobiography, is GREED: The NeoConning of America and was published in 2004, the same year her second book, Tour of Old Yosemite, now on sale in Yosemite Valley, was published. Her other books are collections of her poetry, which is also available on her poetry site, Shards of Verse.
Pillsbury-Foster is the grand-daughter of Arthur C. Pillsbury and is now working on a formal biography chronicling his life, inventions and work.
The mother of six children, one deceased, she is dedicated to leaving a better world for all children.
Vice President - Alan McConnell
Secretary - Melody Gillespie
Treasurer - Justin Foster
Board of Directors
Jim Condit, Jr.
Gina de Miranda
Helen Garland
Chris Lawton
Steve Meyer
Paul Pugh
Mary Ruwart
Mary J. Ruwart, Ph.D. (E-Mail) is a
former pharmaceutical research scientist and Assistant Professor of
Surgery. She has worked extensively with the disadvantaged in
low-income housing and was a contender for the 1992 Libertarian Party
Vice-Presidential nomination. Her scientific, political, and community
activities have been profiled in several prestigious biographical
works, including
American Men and Women of Sciences, World's Who's Who of Women, International Leaders in Achievement, and Community Leaders of America.
Dr. Ruwart is the author of HEALING OUR WORLD: THE OTHER PIECE OF THE PUZZLE, hailed by Visions Magazine as "what may be the most important book of the decade." HEALING applies win-win strategies to
the
political realm, "bridging the gap between conservatives and liberals,
Christians and New Agers, special interests and the common good with practical solutions to our economic, environmental, and societal woes" (Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman (R-TX) and 1988 Libertarian Party Presidential Nominee).
Alan Weiss
Professionally, Weiss is Founder and CEO of Synchromesh Computing, LLC in Austin, Texas. In March 2006, ECL was sold to Synchromesh Computing.
Weiss helped develop the benchmark source code for EEMBC, and was the Project Manager for EEMBC's Technical Advisory Group, the main team chartered with the technical direction of EEMBC. EEMBC is an industry-standard consortium of 60 semiconductor and compiler companies.
Before starting ECL, Weiss worked for Motorola (now Freescale Semiconductor) for 6 years, rising from a software developer to Manager of Software Technologies and Principal Systems Software Architect for Intelligent Transportation Systems. He was, for a time, software architect for corporate-wide Speech Recognition technologies inside of Motorola (now Freescale Semiconductor).
He was a co-founder and was the Motorola Voting Board Member of the EDN Embedded Benchmark Consortium EEMBC. He served as the first Chairperson of that consortium's Automotive/Industrial Subcommittee. Before that, he helped found and served as the first Vice-Chairman of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation SPEC Graphics Performance Committee Multimedia Benchmark Committee (SPEC Media). He is a recognized industry expert in microprocessor performance analysis, benchmarking, software engineering, and Software development tools. He has spoken at Cool Chips, DesignCon, Embedded Systems Conference, Microprocessor Forum, and other computer industry conferences.
