Educated at Yale, Tufts, and MIT, Dr. Donovan has held careers in academia, government, and business. For over three decades he has taught at MIT, first in the Electrical Engineering Department and then as a tenured Professor of Management. Dr. John J. Donovan also received the first honorary Doctorate of Economics degree from Prague University in the Czech Republic.
At Tufts School of Medicine, Dr. Donovan served for ten years as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics part-time, where he co-founded the Center for Birth Defects Research. Dr. Donovan received four commendations as a Valued Member of the medical school faculty.
In government, Dr. Donovan served on several commissions, including the Presidential Commission on USSR/USA technology. In business and technology, he pioneered compiler design, operating systems, three-tiered computing architectures, strategic business models, and fixed-price/fixed-time development. Dr. Donovan has authored ten books, two of which have been translated into nine languages.
Dr. Donovan has recently been granted international patents in 128 countries, comprising of 50 claims.
Most recently, Dr. Donovan has formed three companies KD Secure Holdings, Global Innovation Center, and Cambridge BioSystems.
At the request of the president and the Joint Chiefs of Staff he co-chaired, with General Kellogg, a joint initiative, "Protect America," among the FBI, Department of Defense, Homeland Security, U.S. Coast Guard, White House, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Transportation Security Agency, CIA, U.S. Navy, U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, and Northern Command to improve security in the civilian and military sectors. For his work, Dr. Donovan received commendations from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), and Northern Command.
Dr. Donovan and his wife live in Hamilton, Massachusetts, where they are active in open land preservation.
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