Eric Haseltine


Eric Haseltine is chairman of the Board of the US Technology Leadership Council. He is a technologist who has worked in senior-executive positions in both industry and the United States intelligence community. Haseltine also is CEO of the startup Discovery Democracy LLC that manufactures industrial safety sensors.

Academics

Haseltine received a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, and a PhD in physiological psychology from Indiana University. He also has a certificate in Executive Management from UCLA's Anderson School of Management. He accomplished post-doctoral work in brain research at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.

Career

Haseltine spent 13 years at Hughes Aircraft, where he rose to the position of Director of Engineering. He then left for Walt Disney Imagineering in 1992, where he joined the research and development group, working on large-scale virtual-reality projects. In 1998, he was promoted to senior vice president responsible for all technology projects. In 2000, he was made Executive Vice President. Haseltine was head of research and development for Walt Disney Imagineering by the time he left in 2002 to join the National Security Agency as Director of Research. From 2005 to 2007, Haseltine was associate director for Science and Technology, Office of the Director of National Intelligence —that organization's first—a position he described in a 2006 U.S. News & World Report interview by stating: "You can think of me as the CTO of the intelligence community".
Haseltine currently specializes in cyber security, personal protection and privacy. He frequently collaborates with his wife, , writing, speaking and performing basic research in Mind-Body medicine and Prediction Science.

Patents/Publications

"Eric has 70 patents in optics, special effects and electronic media, and more than 300 publications in science and technical journals, the web, and Discover Magazine."