CIO Magazine Names Teresa Meng A 2002 Winner of the CIO 20/20 Vision Awards                                     

SUNNYVALE, Calif., October 11, 2002—CIO magazine names Teresa Meng, chief technology officer and founder of Atheros Communications, a winner of the 2002 CIO 20/20 Vision Awards. These awards maintain that technology’s impact on the world stems from the work of two different sets of people. The first set comprises the inventors, scientists and vendors who develop the technology and the second set includes the businesspeople, primarily chief information officers (CIOs), chief technology officers (CTOs) and CEOs, who apply it to a real business or organizational challenge. The CIO 20/20 Vision Awards honor 20 individuals from each camp for a total of 40 honorees.

“This recognition from CIO Magazine is a great honor not only for myself, but is representative of all the great work that has been done at Atheros to advance the wireless networking market,” said Teresa Meng, chief technology officer at Atheros. “We were first to commercialize 802.11a technology and first to market with a dual-band 802.11a/g/b wireless solution. I look forward to continuing to help Atheros develop new wireless innovations based on our high performance and low power radio architecture.”

“The CIO 20/20 Vision Awards mark the first award program we’ve done to honor individuals instead of organizations,” says Abbie Lundberg, CIO magazine’s editor-in-chief. “We want to recognize the executives responsible for major organization achievements. The honorees are leaders and pioneers who have the vision and drive to make a difference.”

Selection of honorees for the CIO 20/20 Vision Awards was a multi-tiered process. First, two sets of applications—one for the creators and marketers of technology and one for users and practitioners of technology—were made available online to anyone who wanted to nominate. In tandem with this process, CIO magazine convened a panel of leading business and technology gurus, industry experts and academics to also nominate candidates. Finally, CIO editors examined the 300 nominees and after much debate and research, selected a list of 40 individuals whose vision and execution made important changes for business and society.

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