Ray Rund:  

What's my story? After ITHS I studied engineering at Yale, and graduated in 1972. I was on the Yale wrestling team for 2 years and also did intramural soccer, ice hockey, and crew. After graduation I worked as an engineer in Pittsburgh and northern Connecticut for 5 years designing systems that controlled steam turbines and nuclear power plants. During that time I went to school nights (mostly) and got a masters degree in electrical engineering. Around the time of Three-Mile Island, I saw the handwriting on the wall for nuclear energy, and decided to go back to school for an MBA. I spent two years in the Boston area going to business school, met my wife Jeanne (before school) and we got married after I was finished. We moved to Oregon where I worked for Intel for almost 4 years and Jeanne sold computers. It was an exciting time to be in the "chip" industry, and I was completely fascinated by the technology - so I decided to leave the marketing side and went into the factory to make them. For two years I was one of the guys who dressed up in a white suit with hood, face mask, goggles, gloves and boots. I made the tiny integrated circuits that were going i...Expand for more