President's Biography

Modesto A. Maidique, president and professor of Florida International University, is a world renowned authority on the management of high technology enterprises. For more than two decades -- for institutions including the White House, Harvard and IBM -- Dr. Maidique has provided counsel on critical management and educational issues impacting our nation.

Throughout his career in both the corporate and academic worlds, Dr. Maidique has been involved with high technology firms in a variety of capacities: as an executive in established and entrepreneurial high technology firms; as a consultant, lecturer and director for multinational high technology giants; and as professor and lecturer at leading universities in the U.S. and abroad.

In 1970, Dr. Maidique co-founded a semiconductor company that later merged with Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI), a manufacturer of integrated circuits. This business now accounts for most of the sales of the $800 million Fortune 500 company. He also served as president and CEO of Collaborative Research, Inc., a genetic engineering company, and as a general partner of Hambrecht & Quist, a venture capital firm. He has consulted and lectured for major American firms including IBM, Rockwell International, Honeywell, and Texas Instruments.

Dr. Maidique's ideas on the management of technology have been widely published. He is the author of numerous articles in academic journals, a contributing author to ten books, and a co-author of Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation, a textbook now in its second edition, which is used at more than 100 colleges and universities. An article he co-authored, "The Art of High-Technology Management," is one of the best selling articles ever published by the Sloan Management Review. He is also the co-author of Energy Future, a New York Times best seller on energy policy.

A graduate of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Harvard Business School's PMD program, Dr. Maidique has taught at both of his alma maters and at Stanford University. In 1986, Dr. Maidique became president of Florida International University.

Dr. Maidique's expertise in education and management has been sought at the highest levels. In 1989, President Bush appointed Dr. Maidique to the President's Educational Policy Advisory Committee. He also serves on the boards of National Semiconductor, the nation's fourth largest semiconductor manufacturer, and the Carnival Corporation, the world's largest cruise line company, and is past chairman of The Beacon Council, Miami's economic development authority.