Before revision: Those given the award include: Irwin Jacobs, co-founder, board member and former chairman and CEO, Qualcomm Incorporated; Walter Zable, co-founder, chairman and CEO of Cubic Corporation; Robert Beyster, founder and former chairman and CEO of SAIC and chairman of The Foundation for Enterprise Development; Ivor Royston, co-founder of Hybritech (San Diego's first biotechnology company) and managing member of Forward Ventures; Bill Rastetter, former president and CEO of IDEC Pharmaceuticals (merged with Biogen to become Biogen Idec, the third largest biotechnology company in the world); and Neal Blue, chairman and CEO of General Atomics (GA), Linden Blue, vice chairman of GA and chairman of Spectrum Aeronautical, and Peter Preuss, founder of ISSCO.
After revision: Those given the award include: Irwin Jacobs, co-founder, board member and former chairman and CEO, Qualcomm Incorporated; Walter Zable, co-founder, chairman and CEO of Cubic Corporation; Robert Beyster, founder and former chairman and CEO of SAIC and chairman of The Foundation for Enterprise Development; Ivor Royston, co-founder of Hybritech (San Diego's first biotechnology company) and managing member of Forward Ventures; William Rastetter, former president and CEO of IDEC Pharmaceuticals (merged with Biogen to become Biogen Idec, the third largest biotechnology company in the world); and Neal Blue, chairman and CEO of General Atomics (GA), Linden Blue, vice chairman of GA and chairman of Spectrum Aeronautical, and Peter Preuss, founder of ISSCO.