Over Half SEEDs Matched

I set a personal goal to match more than half of the 49 SEED Engineering mentoring
program participants in our current Established Staff term before the start of
Sun’s winter break next week. (trumpet sounds!) Already today, we have reached 26
out of 49 matched (that’s 53%)!

So far, we have 6 Vice Presidents plus 13 Directors or Distinguished Engineers who
have generously agreed to spend six months mentoring program participants. All of
the senior executives working on Sun’s Beijing campus (the Sun China Engineering
Research Institute in Tsinghua Science Park) have signed up as mentors this
term.

I expect some slow down in the pace of matching as this week progresses and people
take off on vacations. However, I will continue monitoring the conversations in email
to see how many more connections I can make despite the holiday week. Progress is
good for getting everyone matched before the term formally starts on 15 January 2007.