Tom Bruggere

Tom Bruggere

Tom Bruggere is a businessman and politician in the U.S. state of Oregon.

Bruggere was an engineer with Tektronix, Inc. in the late 1970s, and founded Mentor Graphics in 1981. He ran unsuccessfully for the United States Senate seat vacated by the retiring Mark Hatfield in 1996. Bruggere, a Democrat, lost to Gordon Smith.

Mr. Bruggere was also the founding Chairman of Stamps.com. He has been involved with numerous companies including [http://www.sirigen.com Sirigen, Inc.] (founded by Professor Guillermo C. Bazan, Mr. Patrick J. Dietzen, and Dr. Brent S. Gaylord) of which he was a key investor and joined the company's board of directors in 1996. Sirigen's technology was based on research done in collaboration with Nobel laureate Alan J. Heeger.

See also

* United States Senate elections, 1996

References


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