Avie Tevanian
Avadis "Avie" Tevanian is currently the Senior Vice President of Software Engineering at Apple Computer. He received his B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Rochester, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Carnegie-Mellon University. Tevanian was an important figure in the development of the Mach kernel while at Carnegie-Mellon; he later worked for NeXT Computer and later at Apple, where he is the primary figure in the development of Mac OS X.A brief biography can be found at http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/tevanian.html