On July 1, 2005, Jerry M. Hultin was appointed Polytechnic Institute of NYU’s 10th president in its 150-year history.

Before joining Polytechnic, he was the dean of the Wesley J. Howe School of Technology Management and professor of management at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J. As dean, he was responsible for the leadership of the institute’s newest academic school, formed in 1997.

From 1997 to 2000, he served as under secretary of the U.S. Navy, the department’s No. 2 civilian leader. In this position, he led numerous programs that supported innovation in strategic vision, war fighting and business operations to meet the evolving needs of the Navy and Marine Corps in the 21st century. He helped direct a department composed of two military services, the U.S. Navy and the U. S. Marine Corps.

Mr. Hultin’s major accomplishments as under secretary included taking a leadership role in the Department of the Navy’s Revolution in Business Affairs, which brought private-sector business acumen to both the Navy and Marine Corps. He was one of the creators of the Navy-Marine Corps corporate Intranet and introduced a major program of Enterprise Resource Planning systems into the Navy acquisition commands.

Also as under secretary, he led a study of the impact of globalization on national security and naval forces conducted by the National Defense University. The results of this analysis were published in a two-volume report, The Global Century: Globalization and National Security. In 2003, Mr. Hultin served as the on-air military analyst for WNBC-TV in New York City during the Iraq War.

While under secretary of the Navy, he met frequently with sailors and Marines to hear their views of life on the “deck plates” and with “Main Street” Americans to discuss the link between their lives and the role of forward-deployed sailors and Marines around the world.

Over the course of his career, he has helped create and support a number of national, non-profit programs that provide leadership, community development and job skills to young people from all walks of life.

A 1964 graduate of Ohio State University, where he also received his commission as a naval officer, and a 1972 graduate of Yale University Law School, he spent more than 25 years in the private sector in Ohio and Washington, D.C. His work included the practice of law, management of small businesses and business consulting in areas including technology, defense, health care, finance and the environment.

Mr. Hultin is an honorary fellow of the Foreign Policy Association, a member of the New York/London Transatlantic Council, a director of BABI, the founding chairman of the Technology Management Education Association and an adviser to senior military and defense leaders.

He is married to Jill Foreman Hultin, a management consultant, and they have two grown sons. One serves on the faculty of Yale Divinity School and the other teaches in the inner-city of Columbus, Ohio.