Tom Bruggere
American politician
Tom Bruggere (born February 18, 1946, in Berkeley, California) is an American entrepreneur and politician from Oregon. He founded the company Mentor Graphics and has been involved with several other startup companies.2
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Born Feb 18, 1946.1
About
He was the Democratic party nominee for the 1996 United States Senate election in Oregon.
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Companies
- Mentor GraphicsFounder10
Early life and education
- Date not recordedUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison3
- Date not recordedPepperdine University3
- Date not recordedUniversity of California, Santa Barbara3
Tom Bruggere was born in Berkeley, California. He stated of his early life that he "grew up with a picture of Jack and Bobby Kennedy over [his] bed."
He has a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, a Masters of Science in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, and a Masters of Business Administration from Pepperdine University. He served in the Army in the Vietnam War, from 1968 to 1970. Prior to running for office, he served on several government boards, including the Oregon State Board of Higher Education.
Bruggere was an engineer with Burroughs Corporation Medium Systems Plant in Pasadena, California, in the early to mid-1970s, then with Tektronix, Inc. in the late 1970s.
He is Protestant.
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Career
Occupation: engineer, politician, entrepreneur.6
- 1981 to 1993Worked at Mentor Graphics4
- Date not recordedWorked at Tektronix4
- Date not recordedWorked at Burroughs Corporation4
- Date not recordedFounded Mentor Graphics5
Bruggere was the founding Chairman of Stamps.com and Sensoria. He resigned from the Stamps.com board in October 2000.
He has also served on the boards of Will Vinton Studios, OpenMarket, and Sirigen and on the advisory boards of Mercy Corps and of the Technology Management Program at UCSB.
As of 2011, he was part of the management team of 13therapeutics, a biotech spin-off of the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU).
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Personal life
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- 1WikidataTom Bruggere on Wikidata
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- 10WikidataMentor Graphics, Founder