About UChicago Argonne, LLC
Board of Governors
Kenan E. Sahin, Ph.D.
- Member, UChicago Argonne, LLC Board of Governors for Argonne National Laboratory
- Founder and President, TIAX LLC
Sahin is the founder and President of TIAX LLC, a leading technology development company that transforms emerging innovations into robust technology platforms for hand-off to industry. TIAX is a laboratory-based company with more than 50 laboratories and 200 engineers and scientists operating in Cambridge, Mass., and Cupertino, Calif.
Under Sahin's leadership, TIAX focuses on areas of great societal impact, such as clean energy, energy efficiency, health, safety, and security.
Sahin’s role as President of TIAX caps an already prolific career as academic, technologist and entrepreneur. He received his B.S. (1963) and Ph.D. (1968) both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and then served on the faculties of MIT, Harvard, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst until 1985. During his distinguished academic career, he received several teaching awards and obtained U.S. and international patents.
In 1982, Sahin founded Kenan Systems with a $1,000 personal investment and no outside funding. The company went on to become a world leader in telecommunications software, employing nearly 1,000 people and with offices in a dozen countries. Both Kenan Systems and Sahin received numerous awards, including the Ernst & Young New England Entrepreneur of the Year in 1998.
In early 1999, Kenan Systems was acquired by Lucent Technologies and Sahin became Vice President of Software Technology at Bell Labs and subsequently President of Lucent’s Software Products Group, serving in that position through 2000.
Sahin was chosen by the World Economic Forum as one of its 40 Technology Pioneers for 2003 and received the New England Business and Technology's first "Circle of Excellence" award in 2004. In 2006, he was given the Golden Door Award by the International Institute of Boston.
He serves on the Executive Committee of the Council on Competitiveness (COC), on the Steering Committee of the COC's Energy Security, Innovation & Sustainability Initiative, and on the on the External Advisory Board of MIT's Energy Initiative.
Sahin serves or has served on numerous non-profit boards, including those of MIT (where he serves as a life member), the Boston Museum of Science, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Symphony, and the American Field Service.
He is married and lives in Boston.
