Stephen Hoover

Stephen Hoover is CEO of PARC, a Xerox company. Hoover joins PARC in 2011, shortly after the company celebrated 40 years of pioneering technological change and as it approaches a decade of working across a broader set of clients and industries since its incorporation in 2002. With a track record that combines business leadership, research, and engineering, Hoover specializes in integrating technology, market, customer, and business opportunities -- from fundamental R&D, to commercial scale-up.

Motivated by his passion for establishing strong cultures of innovation, Hoover has developed strategies for understanding potential markets, customers, and business models; exploring and incubating very early stage ideas through seed funds; improving IP generation practices; empowering individual researchers; and bridging functional silos.

Hoover has led research and long-term technology investments that span grid and cloud computing, cleantech, nanotech, mobile, and the Future of Work, as well as advanced printing and mass customization technologies. As vice president of the Xerox Research Center of Webster (NY), he supported core and next-generation R&D for products and services, and later led the global organization responsible for the company's software and electronics development. In these roles, Hoover was responsible for multi-million R&D investments and product strategy encompassing several platforms and numerous market offerings.

Dr. Stephen Hoover obtained Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, received his bachelor's degree from Cornell University, and earned 1of 10 national fellowships at AT&T Bell Labs. He has 7 patents issued and pending.