F. PETER BOER is President and CEO of Tiger Scientific, Inc. and a professor of management and engineering at Yale University. He is a former executive vice president and CTO of W. R. Grace & Co. He has also held business management and technical positions at the Dow Chemical Company and the American Can Company. Boer holds an AB in physics from Princeton University and a PhD in chemical physics from Harvard University, and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He has created and presented the seminar "The Financial Impact of Technology" to business managers across the nation.