Executive Biography: Linda Capuano, Ph.D.	Back to Previous Page  Download Adobe Reader

California ISO Board of Governors Dr. Linda Capuano was appointed to the Independent System Operator Governing Board by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on February 2, 2007. Since 2005, she has served as Senior Vice President of Design and Engineering at Solectron Corporation, a leading provider of complete product life cycle services, including product design, new product introduction, supply chain management, manufacturing and aftermarket services. In this global role, vice presidents of design and engineering in the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe report to her directly.  Dr. Capuano joined Solectron from Advanced Energy Industries, a global leader in the development and support of technologies critical to high-technology manufacturing processes especially in the area of semiconductors, where she was an executive vice president and officer of the company, responsible for leading corporate marketing and global sales and services. Prior to Advanced Energy Industries, Dr. Capuano held the position of Corporate Vice President, Technology Strategy at Honeywell where she led worldwide engineering strategy. She came to Honeywell through its merger with AlliedSignal.  At Allied Signal, Dr. Capuano’s positions included general manager of commercial air transport auxiliary power unit products, and vice president of strategic marketing and business development.  She was the vice president of operations and business development, and chief financial officer of Conductus, a telecommunications superconductive electronics business in Sunnyvale, California. Dr. Capuano has also held product management positions in magnetic memory recording at IBM. Dr. Capuano has served on numerous committees advising the federal government on its technical planning exercises, including the National Academies Committee for Review of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program Strategic Plan, and the Department of Energy Task Force on Alternative Futures for the DOE National Laboratories, and the Advisory Board for the NASA Technology Transfer center..  She has also worked as an independent consultant in business and technology strategy, with experience in global strategic planning and in developing roadmaps to realize those strategic plans. Dr. Capuano holds a B.S. in chemistry from State University of New York at Stony Brook, a B.S. in chemical engineering and an M.S. in chemistry from the University of Colorado, and an M.S. in engineering management and Ph.D. in materials science from Stanford University.