Timothy  E. Guertin, President and Chief Executive Officer of Varian Medical Systems. He joined Varian in 1976 and has served in several key management positions during his 31-year tenure with the company including president and chief operating officer as well as the general manager and president of Varian's Oncology Systems business, the company's largest business and the world's leading supplier of linear accelerators for radiation therapy for cancer, from 1990 to 2005.  He holds a BS in electrical engineering & computer sciences from the University of California at Berkeley. 

"The AeA/Stanford Executive Institute provided very valuable insights into general management and leadership early in my management career. These insights gave me an important foundation that I continue to utilize, even today. By focusing on the high technology industry, the Institute provided me with very relevant and immediately useful information."  

Ned Barnholt
Chairman Emeritus
Agilent Technologies
1975 Alumnus of Inaugural Institute

"We send senior leaders to the AeA/Stanford Executive Institute each year because it provides a unique multinational, multi business and cross functional environment in which the learning is enhanced and enriched by the environment itself. All Boeing's senior leaders complete an internal Boeing leadership development program which is great, but while we bring in outstanding faculty to teach it, its completely homogeneous and insular meaning everyone who attends talks only about Boeing for two weeks. The AeA/Stanford Executive Institute provides our leaders with a vital cross industry perspective on how to play and advance in competitive international technology markets."