David Nagel
David Nagel is currently a General Partner of Forte Ventures, Inc. Nagel is the former president and CEO of PalmSource, now Access Systems America. Before coming to PalmSource, Nagel held executive leadership positions at AT&T (CTO and President, AT&T Labs) and Apple Computer (SVP, R&D). He has also served on national and international advisory committees including President Clinton's first Advisory Committee on High Performance Computing, Communications, and the Next Generation Internet. Nagel also served as a member of the National Research Council Study Group on IT R&D Infrastructure and on the Federal Communications Commission’s Technological Advisory Council
Work Experience
- General Partner, Forte Ventures
- President and CEO, PalmSource
- CTO, AT&T
- President, AT&T Labs
- Senior Vice President, Apple Computer
- Head of NASA Human Factors Research, Ames Research Center
Education
- PhD, Perception and Mathematical Psychology, UC Los Angeles
- MS, Engineering, UC Los Angeles
- BS, Engineering, UC Los Angeles
Awards, Honors, and Significant Achievements
- Emeritus Member, Board of Trustees, the SETI Institute
- Former Member, National Research Council Study Group on IT R&D Infrastructure
- Former Member, Board of Directors, Palm Computing
- Former Member, Board of Directors, Vonage Holdings
- Former Member, Board of Directors, Tessera Technologies
- Former Member, Board of Directors, Openwave Systems
- Former Member, Board of Directors, Align Technologies
- Former Member, Board of Directors, Nuance
- Former Member, Board of Directors, Leapfrog Technologies
- Former Member, Board of Visitors, UCLA
- Emeritus Member, Board of the Tech Museum in San Jose, California
- Former Member, President Clinton's first Advisory Committee on High Performance Computing, Communication, and the Next Generation Internet, 1997
- Former Member, Federal Communications Commission's Technological Advisory Council, 1999