Ellen Mooney Hancock (April 15, 1943 – April 19, 2022) was a technology manager from the United States who worked for IBM and Apple, among others.
Early life and education
Hancock was born April 15, 1943, in the Bronx, New York City, and raised in New York's Westchester County. She graduated from the College of New Rochelle and earned a master's degree in mathematics from Fordham University.
Career
IBM
Hancock spent 29 years at IBM, where she rose to senior vice president in charge of network hardware and software. She ran the networking hardware division through the first half of the 1990s, at a time when it saw double-digit losses in market share year after year. (The division was ultimately sold to Cisco in 1999.) She was also a member of the IBM Corporate Executive Committee and the IBM Worldwide Management Council.
National Semiconductor
In September 1995, she was hired away from IBM by Gil Amelio to become National Semiconductor's Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer (COO). She worked closely with Amelio to move National Semiconductor to profitability. During that time, Hancock worked with National's CompactRISC architecture, which was a forerunner to the successful ARM7 architecture.[1] Not long after that, Gil Amelio left National Semiconductor to become CEO at Apple Computer, and in July 1996 Gil Amelio hired Hancock to join him there.
Apple
Memberships
Hancock was a member on the boards of several companies and academic and nonprofit institutions, including Aetna, Colgate-Palmolive, Electronic Data Systems, Ripcord Networks, Marist College, Santa Clara University, and the Pacific Council on International Policy.
References
- Ellen Hancock with Aquicor Acquires Jazz Semiconductor^
- Ellen Hancock Joins Apple as Executive VP, R&D and CTO 1999-02-02, retrieved 2023-12-25^
- Walter Isaacson. Steve Jobs Simon & Schuster, 2011^