Roy G. Perry, a Houston, Texas native, received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Prairie View A&M University in 1978. He is a Sloan Fellow and holds a master’s degree in management from Stanford University and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Iowa State University.
Perry served in executive managerial roles at IBM, Allied Signal, Dell and StorageTek. In addition to his corporate career, Mr. Perry has several entrepreneurial pursuits including product design, manufacturing and supply chain consulting, His most recent entrepreneurial role, he served as CEO of ThinIdentity Corporation, a start up focused on improving productivity, enhancement in the usage of electronic medical records and regulatory compliance in Healthcare.
Perry also serves as a Councilor with The Texas A&M Research Foundation ( http://rf-web.tamu.edu/). The Research Foundation’s mission is to facilitate research and development within The Texas A&M University System and selected other entities. In addition, he is a member of the Austin Science and Engineering Festival Advisory Board. The Austin Science and Engineering Festival (http://www.texassciencefestival.org) works to Inspire youth to pursue studies and careers in STEM ( Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics), educate families about the economic importance of and opportunities provided by the STEM fields and integrate the celebration of STEM into the culture of the community. Mr. Perry serves as a Board Member of Power Tagging (http://www.powertagging.com), a privately held energy technology company that has developed a technology for tagging or fingerprinting power on the grid. This technology turns the existing global grid into an electrically self aware network that in turn is the underpinning of a new generation of energy efficiency applications, cyber security and applications for the integration of distributed renewable energy and electric vehicles.
He has served as Chairman of the United Negro College Fund drive for Central Texas, Board Member of Junior Achievement – Denver and Chairman and founding president of the 100 Black Men of Austin and Central Texas.
As a distinguished alumnus of PVAMU, he served on the university’s capital campaign cabinet. He is an advisor on the PVAMU College of Engineering’s Dean’s Advisory Board and the College’s Steering Committee helping to developing strategic relationships with the engineering, technology and the business communities. In recognition for his contributions to the university, the college and the field of engineering, the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents recently approved the naming of the College, Roy G. Perry College of Engineering.
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