Jerome Swartz Our featured speaker is Dr. Jerome Swartz , the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Symbol Technologies. We should not forget he is also an adjunct professor of Electrical Engineering at SUNY Stony Brook. Our event takes place at Symbol s worldwide headquarters, which is a far cry from the garage where Jerry started the company nearly 25 years ago.
Symbol is the leading provider of bar code driven mobile data transaction systems.
Dr Swartz is a native New Yorker and received his undergraduate degree from City University of New York. He holds his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnic Institute of New York. In the early 60 s, Jerry served as a program manager on a key NASA Apollo project. He taught at Brooklyn Poly and City College and ran an independent consulting firm. He then co-founded Symbol in 1975.