yes he can,

copy from ptsc hp

Harry (Nick) L. Tredennick, III., Director
Nick Tredennick has been a Director of the Company since August 2007. Since 1989, Dr. Tredennick has been the Chief Technical Officer of Tredennick, Inc., a technology consulting firm. Dr. Tredennick was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for contributions to microprocessor design. While at Motorola (now Freescale), he designed the microprocessor that became the central processor for the original Apple Macintosh. Dr. Tredennick also designed a System/370 microprocessor as a research staff member at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center. Dr. Tredennick was chief scientist at Altera, a programmable-logic company and has taught at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Tredennick has been on the editorial advisory board for several technical publications including IEEE Spectrum and Microprocessor Report. He has been a founder and director of several companies, including Pacific Fiberoptics and NexGen Microsystems (later acquired by AMD) and Tredennick, Inc. Dr. Tredennick has written a textbook and more than sixty technical papers and has nine patents. Dr. Tredennick has a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Texas and was a registered professional engineer for many years.