Mr. McGeady is the Managing Director of Drumlin Holdings, a private investment and management consulting firm. Until June of 2000, Mr. McGeady was Vice President of the New Business Group at Intel Corporation. During his 15 years at Intel, Mr. McGeady led numerous software, marketing, and investment initiatives for the company, including the Intel i960 RISC microprocessor software architecture and software, multimedia algorithms, applications, and tools, Internet infrastructure and applications, and Internet-based healthcare delivery.
Prior to Intel, Mr. McGeady was a software engineer and manager at Ann Arbor Terminals and Tektronix. Mr. McGeady was Vice-President of Intel's Multimedia, Communications, and Internet activities from 1991 through 1996, where he led the development of the first desktop video-compression software for the PC, Intel's early implementations of multimedia network broadcast protocols, the first products to combine television and web pages, online virtual communities, the Java language, and data security infrastructure. Mr. McGeady was a founder of Intel's Architecture Lab (IAL) which developed many of the innovations that became part of the PC platform in the 1990s, and Mr. McGeady was a key developer of Intel's overall software strategy.
Mr. McGeady was, from 1991-2000, the leader of Intel's Research Council committee on multimedia, user-interface, and applications, Intel's academic research grant-giving organization, funding leading-edge research at over 50 institutions. During the 1996/97 academic year, Mr. McGeady was a visiting researcher at the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, were he pursued research on emergent and self-organizing behavior in computer networks, and was a keynote speaker at the first Harvard Conference on the Internet and Society. His speech from the event, "The Digital Reformation: Freedom, Risk, Responsibility" was reprinted in the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology. During 1997 and 1998, Mr. McGeady was a member of the National Science and Technology Board committee on Information Systems Trustworthiness, and is a co-author of its book on the subject.
In 1998, Mr. McGeady was a witness for the US Department of Justice in the U.S. vs. Microsoft anti-trust case, where he testified about Microsoft's attempts to control Intel's software efforts, as well as their behavior toward Netscape and Sun's Javasoft. He was the only executive from a Microsoft "ally" to testify for the government. In 2002, Mr. McGeady was again called to testify in the Remedy phase of the trial.
From 1997 through 2000, Mr. McGeady ran Intel's Internet Health Division, which was focused on accelerating the deployment of computing and the Internet in the healthcare industry. Through industry marketing, investment, and business creation, Intel was influential in the establishment of e-health as the fastest-growing Internet business segment. IHD created the Internet Authentication Services business, allowing secure, credentialed online health information transactions. Mr. McGeady is now a well-known commentator on the role of technology in Health.
Mr. McGeady is on the Boards of several small companies, including Webcriteria, an Internet user-experience metrics company, myHealthBank, a developer of software for online health plan enrollment and defined-contribution health plan administration, and Kryptik, a developer of secure email solutions for the healthcare market. He is also on several non-profit Boards, including the Reed College Board of Trustees, Ecotrust, the ALS Association of Oregon, the Oregon Medical Laser Center, and the Providence St. Vincent Medical Foundation. Mr. McGeady is also a member of the International Advisory Board for the National University of Singapore's Kent Ridge Digital Lab, and a member of the Technology Advisory Board for Mercy Corps, an international aid organization. Mr. McGeady attended Reed College from 1977-1980, and studied Physics and Philosophy.