Steve Andriole

Steve Andriole’s career has focused on the development, application and management of information technology and analytical methodology to complex business problems. These problems have been in government and industry; Dr. Andriole has addressed them from academia, government, a global insurance and financial services company, and from the unique perspective of a venture capitalist. Dr. Andriole’s government experience began at Decisions & Designs, Inc., a company that designed and developed interactive computer-based resource allocation, forecasting and decision-making systems for the federal government. It was at Decisions & Designs that Dr, Andriole implemented an interactive system for monitoring the interactions among nations, a system that was originally funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as part of Dr. Andriole’s dissertation research, and whose output was published in President Reagan’s daily briefing book.

Dr. Andriole was the Director of the Cybernetics Technology Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) where he managed a $25M program of research and development that led to a number of important scientific and technological advances in the broad-based information, decision and computing sciences. While at DARPA, Dr. Andriole supported the development of spatial data management and multimedia systems, decision support systems, computer-aided simulation and training systems, and intelligent technology-based command & control systems. Dr. Andriole’s research program at DARPA seeded MIT’s Architecture Machine Group, which evolved into the internationally-known Media Lab. The program also contributed to the development of the ARPANET (which became today’s Internet & World Wide Web), interactive training simulations, such as SIMNET, and a whole host of artificial intelligence-based advances.

Dr. Andriole has consulted with the National Academy of Sciences, the National Science Foundation, and various offices and agencies of the US Department of Defense. He has consulted with the following private and public organizations during his career: Advanced Technology Corporation, AScI Corporation, Batelle Memorial Institute, BDM Corporation, Booz-Allen and Hamilton, Inc., Carlow Associates, Inc., CIGNA Systems, Computer Sciences Corporation, Computer Systems Management, Inc., Decisions and Designs, Inc., Decision Science Consortium, Inc., Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Defense Systems, Inc., Electronic Imagery, Inc., Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), ePrivacy Group, Inc., ESL, Inc., Essex Corporation, General Electric (Space Systems division), General Services Administration (GSA), Grumman Data Systems , Inc., International Information Systems, Inc., Institute for the Study of Intelligent Systems, LB&M, Inc., LiquidHub, Inc., Magnavox, Electronic Systems Company, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lincoln Laboratory (MIT/LL), Merck, Inc., MIT/Lincoln Labs, National Academy of Sciences, National Defense University/ Information Resources Management College, Naval Air Development Center (NADC), Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWC), Norden Systems, Inc., Pacer Systems, Inc., PAR Technology Corporation, Perceptronics, Inc., Performance Communications, Inc., Planning Research Corporation (PRC), Rome Laboratory, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), The Sloan Foundation, The Sycamore Group, Dunbar Armored, Zebra technologies, PJM Interconnection, Rohm and Haas, Prudential Fox Roach/Trident, the Software Productivity Consortium (SPC), Soza & Co., University of Illinois and the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM).

Dr. Andriole’s career in industry has taken several forms. He’s been a Chief Technology Officer at a Fortune 50 company, a CTO at a public venture capital company and private equity venture fund, and an entrepreneur. Dr. Andriole was the Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. where he was responsible for identifying technology trends, translating that insight into the Safeguard investment strategy, and leveraging trends analyses with the Safeguard partner companies to help them develop business and marketing strategies. Dr. Andriole was also a Principal at TL Ventures, one of the Philadelphia region’s largest private equity funds. While at Safeguard, Dr. Andriole worked closely with many companies at all stages of their development; he was also the primary Wall Street contact for Safeguard, frequently interacting with the analysts that covered SFE. While at Safeguard, Dr Andriole participated in the public offering of seven Internet companies. Dr. Andriole was the Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President for Technology Strategy at CIGNA Corporation, a $20B global insurance and financial services company, where he was responsible for the enterprise information architecture, computing standards, the technology research & development program, and data security, as well as the overall alignment of enterprise information technology investments with CIGNA's multiple lines of business.

Dr. Andriole is a prolific author and speaker. Some of his 30 books include Interactive Computer-Based Systems Design and Development (Petrocelli Books, Inc., 1983), Microcomputer Decision Support Systems (QED Information Sciences, Inc., 1985), Applications in Artificial Intelligence (Petrocelli Books, Inc., 1986), Information System Design Principles for the 90s (AFCEA International Press, 1990), the Sourcebook of Applied Artificial Intelligence (McGraw-Hill, 1992), a (co-authored with Len Adelman) book on user interface technology for Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. entitled Cognitive Systems Engineering (1995) and a book for McGraw-Hill entitled Managing Systems Requirements: Methods, Tools & Cases (1996). He has recently published articles in Software Development, IEEE Software and the Cutter IT Journal. Overall, he has published over 500 articles and papers. He is also a columnist for Datamation on business/technology alignment. His most recent books were published by IGI Publishing in August 2008 on Technology Due Diligence and Auerbach Publishing on Best Practices in Business Technology Management in September 2008.

Dr. Andriole received his BA from LaSalle University in 1971 and his Masters and Doctorate degrees from the University of Maryland in 1973 and 1974. His Masters and doctoral work was supported by a National Defense Education Act fellowship. His Ph.D. dissertation was funded by DARPA.