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SGI and its products, solutions, services, and employees rank at the top in reputation, leadership, and innovation. SGI continues its long tradition as an influential mover and shaker in the community, in the industry, and globally.
SGI's vision is to provide technology that enables the most significant scientific and creative breakthroughs of the 21st century. While delivering mission-critical solutions to specific markets--government and defense, sciences, manufacturing, energy, and media--SGI and SGI personnel continue to achieve numerous distinguished awards and honors.
2007 HPCWire Awards
HPC Community Recognition Award: Dr. Eng Lim Goh, CTO, SGI
HPCwire readers honored Dr. Goh with an HPC Community Recognition Award at Supercomputing 2007 (SC07).
Infoworld Names SGI's Dr. Eng Lim Goh One of the World's 25 Most Influential CTOs
After searching for visionary technologists who "scan the horizon for promising new technologies and find singularly effective ways to implement them," InfoWorld Media Group has named Dr. Eng Lim Goh, chief technology officer of Silicon Graphics, as one of its 2005 CTO 25 Awards recipients.
InfoWorld singled out SGI’s CTO after learning of the company’s groundbreaking work on Project Ultraviolet, which has produced a series of innovations that resulted in history-making achievements in computing.
Each year, InfoWorld honors IT executives who have shown leadership both inside and outside of their companies.
Professional BusinessWomen of California
PBWC Pacesetter Awards
For the third year in a row, the Professional BusinessWomen of California (PBWC) has selected SGI to receive the 2005 PBWC Pacesetter Award, which honors the top 14 San Francisco Bay Area companies that embody the mission of PBWC and that work to advance women on an ongoing basis.
The PBWC Pacesetter Award winners were selected from 53 of the largest public companies from nine Bay Area counties that promote women into the highest ranks of their organizations and encourage women to take leadership roles on an ongoing basis.
State Senator Jackie Speier, founder of PBWC, presented the 2005 Pacesetter Awards during the keynote luncheon at the 16th Annual PBWC Conference on May 3, at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco.
Silicon Valley YWCA
TWIN Awards
Silicon Valley YWCA, has, for the fifth consecutive year, selected SGI employees as recipients. The SGI TWIN award winners are finance director Tracy Hanson and marketing director Susan Tellep.
Forty-four outstanding women from Silicon Valley were honored by the YWCA of Silicon Valley, at the 21st Annual Tribute to Women and Industry (TWIN) Awards Program at the San Jose Fairmont. The 2005 TWIN Honorees reflect top leadership in their companies. Selection criteria include having senior-level functional management responsibility, possessing outstanding leadership qualities and serving as a successful role model for other women transitioning into executive positions. The YWCA of Silicon Valley's TWIN Awards Program honors not only women who demonstrate excellence, but also the companies that employ these women.
HR Symposium
HR Innovators Award
SGI's human resources global benefits manager Ginny Schimmel has received the 2005 HR Innovators Award
Ginny Schimmel, SGI's human resources global benefits manager, has received the 2005 HR Innovators Award, which was presented at the 19th annual HR Symposium on May 11, in Santa Clara, Calif. This Innovators Award recognizes professionals who have championed an innovative Human Resource program, idea or system that has produced positive, fundamental change; or, whose ideals have lead to a major business impact within their organization.
SGI nominated Schimmel for this award based on her work in leading the Wellness Connection task force, an interdisciplinary "grass roots" team of Human Resources and Facilities & Services employees.
INPUT Federal IT 150 List
Silicon Graphics will be honored on May 11, 2005, in Reston VA, for ranking 106 on this year's INPUT Federal IT 150 list. This marks SGI as one of the top information technology contractors/companies in the federal market based on fiscal year 2004 IT contract spending.
2004 SGI Awarded U.S. Department of Commerce Export Achievement Certificate
The United States Department of Commerce (DOC) has recognized Silicon Graphics for its outstanding export market expansion by awarding the company the DOC Export Achievement Certificate. The award was presented in a ceremony held in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, the site of SGI's global manufacturing facility on October 25, 2004. The company has been given the award as an example of how U.S. firms can "in-source" their high-value manufacturing and successfully compete throughout the world while manufacturing their products solely in the United States.
SGI Global Field Logistics Manager Receives "Next Generation of Minority Business Leaders" Award for 2004 from Minority MBA Magazine
Minority MBA, a multicultural career development magazine, has recently recognized one of SGI's exceptional leaders as a model for other minorities. Jorge Torres, Global Field Logistics Manager, was recently honored by the publication as part of the "Next Generation of Minority Business Leaders" for 2004. The award is given out to business men and women who are believed to possess the skills and potential to become key players in the business world and significant role models for those who follow them.
Minority MBA is distributed through the MBA programs of the top business schools around the country. This is the 7th year they have recognized future minority business leaders. Torres was nominated by SGI as a result of his consistent display of key leadership skills and appreciation for cultural diversity. An SGI employee for five years, Torres is also a 2002 SGI Exemplary Spirit Award winner (annual SGI award of peer-recognition for employees who are exceptional leaders and who embody the Spirit and Culture of SGI).
2004 Tribute to Women and Industry (TWIN) Award
The YWCA of Santa Clara Valley recently honored two SGI employees with their prestigious Tribute to Women and Industry (TWIN) award at their annual awards ceremony and fundraiser at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose.
Ann K. LaGrone, director of Applications and Engineering and Benchmarking, and Joan E. Roy, director of marketing, were among 50 women selected to receive this award. Its purpose is to identify and honor executive women who have made significant differences in their corporate environment. As well as recognizing women throughout the U.S. for their achievements, the YWCA also acknowledges the companies they work for. The recognition of SGI employees demonstrates SGI's commitment to a work environment that, through their executive leadership and corporate culture, has created a workplace that values equal opportunities for women and their advancement in industry. This is the fourth consecutive year employees from SGI have been selected to receive a TWIN award.
VARBusiness Top 100 Channel Executives
In the March 15, 2004 issue of VARBusiness, Nancy Pierce, director, North America Channel Sales and Marketing at SGI, was named as one of "The Top 100 Executives," in an article subtitled "a who's who of the women and men minding the channels."
The VARBusiness' "Top 100 Execs" article noted, "Pierce came to SGI in September 2000 from Intergraph Computer Systems. With more than 15 years of technology-channel experience, she has been instrumental in building SGI's partner program." Asked her top priority for 2004, Pierce listed, "To increase channel business revenue in SGI's core competencies, and to maintain and grow the company's visualization solutions business." For her top challenge for 2004, Pierce stated, "Growing high-potential channel partners to support those business initiatives and position SGI for strong revenue growth in fiscal year 2005."
VARBusiness Awards Five-Star Rating to SGI's Solution Provider Program
VARBusiness Partner Program SGI was recognized by VARBusiness magazine as one of North America's top vendors by virtue of the support it provides to the value-added resellers (VARs) of its products. SGI garnered the magazine's coveted five-star rating, the highest possible, for the third consecutive year. Read by solution providers throughout the United States, the VARBusiness "Tenth Annual Partner Programs Guide 2004" recognized the SGI Channel Program with five-star ratings in four distinct categories: systems, storage, peripherals, and software.
Winning top honors reflects SGI's continued commitment to its Solution Providers: Of the more than 280 vendor programs reviewed in six categories, 120 entries (87 individual companies) received the coveted five-star rating in the magazine's tenth annual survey. VARBusiness's categories include carrier services, mobile systems, peripherals, software, storage, systems, voice and data networking hardware, and wireless. The Partner Program Guide appears in the March 15, 2004, issue.
2004 Professional BusinessWomen of California, Pacesetter Award
The Professional BusinessWomen of California recently awarded SGI a Pacesetter Award for their continuing efforts to encourage women in their pursuit of leadership roles. The PBWC is an organization whose mission is to inspire women to pursue their personal and professional dreams and goals. Each year the PBWC recognizes 25 Bay Area companies who embody that spirit with the Pacesetter Award.
This is the second year the PBWC has given out the award, and the second consecutive year SGI has been honored. Jackie McNab, PBWC President said, "We congratulate SGI for their continued advancement and support of women in key leadership roles." SGI was one of the top 25 companies selected out of 57 of the largest public companies in the Bay Area. Among speakers at the award ceremony was SGI's Kathy Lanterman, vice president and corporate controller, as well as winner of a 2003 YWCA TWIN award. Kathy Lanterman accepted the Pacesetter award on behalf of SGI.
2003 Tribute to Women and Industry (TWIN) Award
SGI's commitment to equal opportunity and the advancement of women in the workplace has been
recognized by the YWCA of Santa Clara Valley, which honored 50 outstanding executive women
from Silicon Valley at its 19th annual Tribute to Women and Industry (TWIN) Award ceremony.
Three SGI executives received TWIN awards: Anneke Dempsey, director of global alliances;
Kathy Lanterman vice president, corporate controller; and Marty Coleman, director, public
relations and analyst relations.
SGI women executives have won TWIN Awards three years in a row. Last year, TWIN awards were
given to two SGI executives: Larissa DeCarlo, director, investor relations, and Janet
Matsuda, senior director of marketing for North America. The previous year, TWIN Awards were
also given to two SGI executives: Sandra M. Escher, senior vice president and general
counsel, and Christie Hardwick Vianson, vice president of change management.
SGI ranked 39th in "The Silicon Valley 150"
The San Jose Mercury News (April 14, 2003) ranked SGI as number 39 in "The Silicon Valley 150," a highly prestigious annual ranking of the area's top 150 companies. In order to qualify for the top 150, according to the Valley's most influential newspaper, a company needed sales of $94.8 million over the last four quarters.
While sales are certainly an indicator of a company's financial strength and growth, SGI has proved influential not only locally, but also nationally and globally.
Supplier Diversity Award from Northern California Supplier Development Council
Charles Shepherd, SGI supplier diversity manager for two and a half years, received the
Corporate Coordinator of the Year Award from the Northern California Supplier Development
Council (NCSDC) on April 4, 2003. The NCSDC is the local affiliate of the National Minority
Supplier Development Council, a network of 40 councils linking more than 3,000 corporations
and 15,000 minority-owned businesses across the country and promoting diversity in the
marketplace.
SGI ranked 34th in FORTUNE magazine's annual survey of "Top 100 Companies To Work For"
In FORTUNE's January 20, 2003, cover story, the Great Place to Work Institute in San Francisco, which created and compiles the annual list, considered more than 1,000 firms. They narrowed the list down and then surveyed a random sample of employees from 269 candidate companies to get their opinions about their workplaces. The survey questions covered everything from benefits, pay, diversity, perks, opportunities, and training to volunteer programs and community involvement. More than 200 SGI employees answered the Web-based survey, catapulting SGI into the 34th slot--tops for a computer vendor.
Executive Director's Program Development Award from Northern California Supplier Development Council
SGI also received the special NCSDC Executive Director's Program Development Award in recognition of the outstanding success of its Supplier Diversity Program. Brad Erickson, the executive director of the NCSDC, presented SGI with this award for the exceptional progress SGI has made in purchasing from small disadvantaged businesses and for demonstrating increased support of the program by all levels of management at SGI.
SGI executive appointed to the National Medal of Technology Nomination Evaluation Committee
SGI senior vice president and general counsel, Sandra M. Escher, has been appointed by the U.S. secretary of commerce to the National Medal of Technology Nomination Evaluation Committee. Escher joined SGI in 1993. She is responsible for its global legal organization and its public policy activities and also serves as SGI's corporate secretary. The Nomination Evaluation Committee is composed of distinguished experts in the fields of science, technology, business, and patent law. Its primary function is to review and evaluate all nominations for the Medal of Technology and to recommend medal candidates to the secretary of commerce, who in turn makes recommendations to the president for final selection.
The Computing Awards for Excellence 2002 — U.K.
2002 is Computing magazine's 29th anniversary year, and the Computing Awards for Excellence are considered the "Oscars" of the U.K. IT industry. The Computing Awards for Excellence recognize the highest standards of individual and collective achievement and are the most renowned and sought-after awards in the U.K. IT calendar. They are recognized as the benchmark for excellence throughout the computing industry.
Professor David Hughes, manager of advanced visualization, SGI EMEA, was named "IT Professional of the Year"--the IT professional who has significantly affected the way his or her company or department works and who has shown outstanding ability in terms of technical knowledge, vision, and people management skills.
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