Benjamin M. Rosen is chairman emeritus of Compaq Computer Corporation and of the Caltech board of trustees, as well as a cofounder of Sevin Rosen Funds, a venture-capital firm that has invested in dozens of start-up technology companies that have grown to represent a collective market value in excess of a hundred billion dollars. He was also a principal investor in Lotus Development Corporation. Prior to forming Sevin Rosen, he served as vice president and senior electronics analyst at Morgan Stanley & Co., and during the 1950s he worked as an electronics engineer at Raytheon and Sperry Gyroscope. He served as chairman of Compaq, in which he was also a principal investor, from 1983 to 2000, and of the Caltech board from 2001 to 2004. He has also served as an overseer of Columbia University's Graduate School of Business and as a member of Tulane University's School of Business Advisory Board. After graduating from Caltech, Rosen received an MS in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1955 and an MBA from Columbia University's Graduate School of Business in 1961. His professional affiliations include the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers, from which he has received the Founders Medal; the New York Society of Security Analysts; and Sigma Xi. He has served in a number of board and committee leadership positions with the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He is a trustee with the Benjamin M. Rosen Family Foundation, and has served on the boards of directors of numerous corporations.