Technology Visionaries the World Lost in 2011
By siliconindia   |   Saturday, 31 December 2011, 19:30 IST
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Robert Galvin, Motorola(1922-2011)

He was noted as one of Americas most visionary entreprenaurs. He was the CEO of Motorola and at his more than three decades of leadership from 1956, the company’s  sales grew from $216.6 million to $6.7 billion. He was the one who broke  AT&T's monopoly on mobile-phone service in the U.S. by demonstrating a Motorola phone at the White House in 1981. He died at the age of 89.

 

Kenneth Olsen, DEC (1926-2011)

Kenneth Olsen was the CEO of Digital Equipment Corporation. In 1957, Olsen andHarlan Anderson started DEC, which was once the second largest computer company after IBM. He was considered as one of the person who shaped computer industry. He died at the age of 84.
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