George Conrades is the former chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Akamai Technologies . Prior to Akamai, Conrades eas CEO of BBN Technologies . Before joining BBN he spent 31 years at IBM , running its U.S. and Asia-Pacific businesses and heading two manufacturing and development groups. Conrades is an executive advisor to Akamai Technologies and on the board of directors of Oracle Corporation . He has been on the Boards of Ironwood Pharmaceuticals and Harley-Davidson .
11-619: Conrades was an executive producer of the 2013 documentary film 20 Feet from Stardom , which won the 2014 Academy award for Best Documentary. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . He is married to Patricia “Patsy” Belt Conrades. Conrades spent his childhood in Youngstown, Ohio , during the 1950s. In 1961, he received his B.S. degree in Physics and Mathematics from Ohio Wesleyan University , and received
22-511: A good career at IBM. He took top management positions at IBM for more than two decades. Conrades advanced to the rank of senor vice president and member of the Corporate Management Board. But by late 1980s, IBM faced contest in technological businesses. In 1992, Conrades left his top management position. Conrades formed a technology consulting firm in the advanced R&D company Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN). The company
33-410: Is an energetic tribute to the passion, talent, and hard work of backup singers." On Metacritic , the film has a weighted average score of 83 out of 100, based on 25 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". The Ithaca Times compared the film to the 2012 book The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret , which focuses on uncredited studio musicians from the same era as
44-796: The M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business in 1971. He was going to join a rock band after his graduation, but took the position of a sales representative in Big Blue , Columbus, Ohio . After 10 years at IBM, Conrades got a sales management position in Chicago and inherited the company's fifth largest account, Sears, Roebuck & Co . In 1971, he entered for the Executive MBA Program North America at Booth. The program provided broad perspectives of business. The MBA helped Conrades to make
55-517: The Shadow of the Stars (1991), a similar documentary that focused on the members of an opera chorus, won the same award. Lisa Fischer has said of backup singing: "I reject the notion that the job you excel at is somehow not enough to aspire to, that there has to be something more. I love supporting other artists." She added: "Some people will do anything to be famous. I just wanted to sing." In 2023,
66-686: The film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." It is the eighth film designated in its first year of eligibility, as well as the second most recently released film in the Registry. On January 17, 2013, 20 Feet from Stardom premiered at the Sundance Film Festival . It
77-469: The lives of background singers inspired the making of the film. Using archival footage and new interviews, it details the behind-the-scenes experiences of such backup singers as Darlene Love , Merry Clayton , Lisa Fischer , Judith Hill , Jo Lawry , Claudia Lennear , and Tata Vega . The film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 86th Academy Awards , 23 years after In
88-400: The one that features most prominently in the film. At the 86th Academy Awards ceremony, held on March 2, 2014, the film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature . It also won the award for Best Documentary Film at the 19th Critics' Choice Awards . At the 57th Grammy Awards , the film won the award for Best Music Film . True True most commonly refers to truth ,
99-438: Was a box office success, grossing $ 4,946,445 at the domestic box office, and $ 898,560 internationally, for a worldwide total of $ 5,845,005. 20 Feet from Stardom received critical acclaim. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , it has a 99% approval rating based on 129 reviews, with an average score of 8.0/10; the site's "critics consensus" reads: "Rich, insightful, and occasionally heartbreaking, 20 Feet From Stardom
110-726: Was acquired by Radius-The Weinstein Company at the festival and was released nationwide in the United States on June 14, 2013. The film was acquired for international distribution by Elle Driver / Wild Bunch. Some of the many other film festivals that screened the film in 2013 include South by Southwest Film Festival, True/False Film Festival , Full Frame Documentary Film Festival , Hawaii International Film Festival , Philadelphia Music Film Festival, RiverRun Film Festival , San Francisco Film Festival , Seattle International Film Festival , and Montclair Film Festival . The film
121-488: Was based in Cambridge, Massachusetts . BBN became an early internet service provider. This article about a chief executive from the United States is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . 20 Feet from Stardom 20 Feet from Stardom is a 2013 American documentary film directed by Morgan Neville and produced by Gil Friesen , a music industry executive whose curiosity to know more about
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