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Anthony J. Adducci was born in Chicago, Illinois on August 14th, 1937. He attended St. Mary's College in Winona, Minnesota receiving the BS degree in Physics in 1959. He did additional study in electrical engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, Illinois and in business administration at the University of Minnesota.
In 1960, he was employed as an acoustical engineer for the Jensen Manufacturing Company in Chicago, Illinois where he engaged in the design and development of loudspeakers and horns.
In 1961, he joined International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation in Chicago Illinois where, as a development engineer, he instructed numerous training courses on digital data communication systems and as a senior test engineer directed ITT personnel in electro-interference testing of the Boeing Minutemen Missile. While in Chicago, Mr. Adducci worked with a local physician developing an electronic ear thermometer used to detect the time of ovulation in the human female.
In August of 1964, he accepted a position with the Sperry Rand Corporation's UNIVAC Division in St. Paul Minnesota as a system design engineer engaged in the logic design of computer peripheral equipment.
In April of 1966, he joined Medtronic Inc. as a Sales Engineer. While at Medtronic he served in various technical and marking responsibilities including, sales administration manager, and pacemaker consulting specialist.
In February of 1972, he co-founded Cardiac Pacemakers Inc. (CPI) of St. Paul, Minnesota. CPI was a highly successful start up venture, going from zero sales in 1972 to over $47 million and highly profitable when it was acquired by Eli Lilly in 1978 for $127 million.
BOARDS Mr. Adducci has served on the board of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of St. Paul/Minneapolis and was a Trustee of St. Mary's University, Winona , Minnesota. He was on the Development Committee of the North American College of Rome and the Health Advisory Council of the college of St. Catherine in St. Paul, Minnesota.
CHARITY Mr. Adducci founded The Adducci Family Foundation. A Charitable foundation with special interest in child abuse, battered woman and special educational programs for the elderly.
HONORS Mr. Adducci was Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem and a Knight in the Order of Multa.
Mr. Adducci was a 3rd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do Karate and was a 2nd degree black belt in Aikido and founded the Minnesota Ki Society.
PUBLICATIONS "Transient Distortion in Loudspeakers" 1961 May-June, Issue IRE Tansactions on Audio, Volume AU-9, Number 3, pp. 79-85, 1961 IRE International Convention Record.
"Ovulation Detection by Internal Cranial Temperature Measurements", January, 1965, Issue IEEE Transactions on Bio-Medical Engineering, Volume BME-12, Number 1, pp. 2-7.
"Special Electrical Considerations in the Intensive Coronary Care Unit", 1970 September Issue, The Journal of Extra-Corporeal Technology.
