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Cheryl Shavers
A 25-year veteran of the high-tech industry with Fortune 500 companies such as Intel,
Hewlett Packard, and Motorola, Dr. Cheryl L. Shavers continued her meteoric rise to be
named Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology in the Clinton Administration.
Serving as the point person for the United States Government, the Department of
Commerce and the high-tech industry in this era of unprecedented technological growth,
Dr. Shavers held a front row seat to the creation of the “digital economy.” A classic
Silicon Valley success story, as a dynamic African-American woman she beat the odds in
the highly competitive, fast paced high-tech industry to become the highest-ranking and
most influential woman in the world of technology.
Throughout her high-tech career, Dr. Shavers has had the unique opportunity to “walk-
the-talk,” having worked in the field and further at the Department of Commerce, where
she has had a commanding view of the dramatic era of technology growth. As senior
advisor to the Secretary of Commerce in forming new policies and program initiatives in
science and technology, Dr. Shavers was charged with working in partnership with
domestic and international industries to improve America’s commercial and industrial
innovation, productivity and economic growth.
Internationally, Dr. Shavers has become an authority on the complex issues involving the
globalization of technology and has many provocative views on the inter-relationship of
business, technology and policy issues in regions such as the Middle East & Africa, Israel,
China, Canada and Europe. She is also a frequently invited participant in high-level U.S.-
South Africa, U.S.-Russia and U.S.-Japan Science & Technology Forums.
She is an ardent advocate of commercial and industrial innovation and in her speeches
gives audiences a “big picture” overview plus a rich array of detailed insights accumulated
from over twenty-five years of hands-on experience in the high tech private sector.
The keynote speaker of choice at the recent Internet Commerce Expo, CAINET
Conference in Cairo, Egypt, Stanford Business School, Xerox, Hewlett-Packard, and
Software 2000 Conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Dr. Shavers is a polished and poised
spokesperson on issues relating to technology, e-commerce, the Internet and the
international business and economic opportunities in a connected world.
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