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Technology Leaders Of The Year Archive

Each December since 1993 IndustryWeek's Technology and Innovation Awards Program celebrates the primary drivers of the world's economic progress -- innovators and technologies. The awards are given in the spirit of Josef Schumpeter, the distinguished Harvard economist and social theorist who posited more than 50 years ago that the mission of both organizations and societies should be to accelerate the pace of innovation.

The following individuals have been named IndustryWeek Technology Leaders of the Year.

2006
Charles O. Holliday Jr.
Chairman and CEO
E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Co.

2005
Jeffrey R. Immelt
Chairman and CEO
General Electric Co.

2004
G. Gil Cloyd
Chief Technology Officer
Procter & Gamble

2003
Nicholas M. Donofrio
Senior Vice President, Technology and Manufacturing
IBM Corp.

2002
Jeff Bleustein
Chairman and CEO
Harley-Davidson Inc.

2001
Ralph J. Szygenda
Group Vice President and Chief Information Officer
General Motors Corp.

2000
Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D.
Director
National Human Genome Research Institute

J. Craig Venter, Ph.D.
President and Chief Scientific Officer
Celera Genomics Corp.

1999
Louis V. Gerstner Jr.
Chairman and CEO
IBM

1998
Hasso Plattner
Cochairman and cofounder
SAP AG

1997
Andrew S. Grove
Chairman and CEO
Intel Corp.

1996
Bill Gates
Chairman and CEO
Microsoft Corp.

1995
Jim Clark
Chairman
Netscape Communications Corp.

1994
Lew Platt
Chairman and CEO
Hewlett-Packard Co.

1993
George H. Heilmeier
President and CEO
Bellcore