Gardner Hendrie

Who is Gardner Hendrie?

Gardner joined Sigma in 1985. Prior to joining Sigma, he was in the

computer systems business for 30 years. Gardner fostered the strong

belief in operational fundamentals as an essential part of the Sigma

culture. He has helped many Sigma portfolio companies refine their

business fundamentals in order to avoid common mistakes on their road

to success. Gardner is also a trustee of the Computer History Museum in

Mountain View, CA and the Boston Lyric Opera.

Background

In

1980, he was one of the three founders of Stratus Computer, Inc., where

he was responsible for hardware development on the first commercial

fault tolerant computer system that did not rely on complex software

for fault detection and recovery. Prior to founding Stratus, he was

with Data General, where he designed the first commercial single chip,

16-bit microprocessor, the microNova. He was also responsible for

hardware engineering relating to all small and intermediate processors,

communications subsystems, digital/analog input/output subsystems,

terminals, memories, and power supplies. Earlier in his career, he

worked at Computer Control Company, and after it was acquired, at

Honeywell, Inc. At Computer Control, he was responsible for the

conception and design of the world's first 16-bit minicomputer, the DDP

116. His responsibilities included engineering as well as product

management for the minicomputer product line. Previous experience also

includes working in engineering, advanced development, and product

planning positions at Foxboro Corp. and RCA.

Education

He received degrees in physics from Harvard (A.B.) and the University of Pennsylvania (M.S.).