In addition to the Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Awards, a new awards program has been established to recognize companies that support technical women, the Anita Borg Top Company for Technical Women Award. Telle Whitney retired as President and CEO of AnitaB.org on 9/30/17 and Brenda Darden Wilkerson became the President and CEO on October 1, 2017. Other activities In 2004, Telle Whitney co-founded the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) with Lucy Sanders and Robert Schnabel. She has served as Secretary/Treasurer of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and is co-chair of the ACM Distinguished member committee. She was a member of the National Science Foundation CEOSE and CISE advisory committees, and she serves on the advisory boards of Caltech’s Information Science and Technology (IST), California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, and Illuminate Ventures. She is also a member of the Forbes Executive Women’s Board. Awards 2008: Telle Whitney received the Women’s Venture Fund Highest Leaf Award. 2009: Telle Whitney received the ACM Distinguished Service Award in 2009. 2009: She received the Marie Pistilli Women in Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Achievement Award in 2009. 2009: She was named one of San Jose Business Journal’s Top 100 Women of Influence. 2011: She was named to Fast Company’s Most Influential Women in Technology list. October 2017: She received the lifetime achievement award at the Annual Grace Hopper Celebration. 2019: IEEE Honorary Membership 2022: She was elected to the National Academy of Engineering "For contributions to structured silicon design and for increasing the participation of women in computing careers." References American women computer scientists Living people Women nonprofit executives University of Utah alumni California Institute of Technology alumni Scientists from Salt Lake City Businesspeople from Salt Lake City American Latter Day Saints American computer scientists Richards–Young family Year of birth missing (living people) Electronic engineering award winners