Paul M. Cook

Director

Paul Cook has served as a member of ERI’s board since its initial public offering in 2008. His wealth of experience includes a 33-year career as founder and CEO of Raychem Corporation, a leading material science company that Mr. Cook helped grow into a $1.6 billion organization by developing innovative industry-leading products and creating entire markets for their application. Mr. Cook’s strategic and organizational business acumen and leadership experience in high-growth technology make him a deeply synergistic fit on ERI’s board of directors. 

Mr. Cook is currently the chairman and founder of Promptu Systems Corporation, a private company that develops a speech recognition system that enables the mobile phone user or the television viewer to control programming choices and services using voice commands. He is also a member of the board with Sarnoff Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of SRI International that provides vision, video and semiconductor technology innovations.

Mr. Cook’s renowned career includes receiving the Gibson Achievement Award, Stanford Research Institute’s highest tribute, for his seminal research on micro-algae that was fundamental to today’s research on carbon dioxide capture and bio-fuels. He was also a recipient of the National Medal of Technology as a visionary and entrepreneur in radiation chemistry, and he has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Science and the Bay Area Business Hall of Fame.

Mr. Cook earned a degree in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.