Douglas E. Van Houweling is President and CEO of the University Corporation for
Advanced Internet Development (UCAID), the formal organization supporting Internet2.
Before being named to the position on October 1, 1997, Van Houweling served as Vice
Chair of the Internet2 Steering Committee with responsibility for partner relations.
Dr. Van Houweling has played a major role in Internet development in the United States.
He was chairman of the Board of MERIT, Inc., a Michigan statewide computing network,
when the National Science Foundation awarded it responsibility for operation and
management of the NSFNET national backbone in partnership with IBM, MCI and the Michigan
Strategic Fund in 1987. Van Houweling was also chairman of the Board of Advanced Network
and Services Corporation, a not-for-profit organization that implemented and operated
the world's largest Internet backbone network from 1991 until 1995.
Van Houweling has also been active in inter-university initiatives, serving on the
EDUCOM Board and playing roles in establishing numerous initiatives to establish
cooperative information technology efforts among universities. He was a founder of
EDUCOM's Networking and Telecommunications Task Force and the Inter-university
Consortium for Educational Computing.
