Cynthia McIntyre
Senior Vice President
Cynthia McIntyre, Ph.D., is a senior vice president at the Council on Competitiveness. She oversees strategic operations, planning and development. McIntyre is also leading the Council’s High Performance Computing Initiative.
Prior to joining the Council, she served as chief of staff to the president, associate vice president for policy and planning at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the nation’s oldest technological research university. Her leadership and oversight of intellectual property, technology transfer and new ventures guided this portfolio to become a successful enterprise for Rensselaer. Additionally, McIntyre co-led the program and architectural design and development of a new research and performance platform, EMPAC, at Rensselaer. She managed the institutional performance planning process, monitored campus-wide progress on the university’s strategic plan, and managed the budget for the Office of the President.
McIntyre is a theoretical condensed matter physicist and holds a Bachelor of Science in physics from the University of Texas at Austin, a Master of Arts in physics from Brandeis University and a doctorate in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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cmcIntyre@compete.org