Dr. George Abe, UCLA Anderson School of Management

Education

• B.A. in mathematics from UCLA
• M.S. in business (quantitative methods) from UCLA
 
 

Intellectual Contributions

George Abe is the manager of business development in the Office of Research Administration, and a lecturer in the Anderson School of Management, both at UCLA. His administrative functions include providing commercial assessment of university research and assisting faculty and graduate students in starting companies. His teaching responsibilities include classes in high-technology entrepreneurship and field study program advisories.

Author of Residential Broadband, which presents an analysis of high-speed residential networking, published by Cisco Press. 
†The book is in its second edition and has been translated into Japanese and Mandarin.

Corporate Experience

• Previously he was a venture partner with Palomar Ventures, a VC firm in Santa Monica, California.
• Before Palomar, he was with Cisco Systems in the office of the chief technical officer, supporting M&A transactions and strategic partnerships.
• Prior to that he was with Infonet Services Corporation (NYSE:IN) where he established Infonet’s IP data service and helped spin out the company from its parent, Computer Sciences Corp (NYSE: CSC).

Awards and National Honors/Memberships

• Member since 1998 of the board of directors of Switchcore AB, a publicly traded fabless semiconductor designer in Sweden
• Member of the board of advisors for the Pepperdine Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology Law (CETL)
• Member of the board of advisors for uMachines Inc., a MEMS developer in Pasadena, California
• Member of the board of advisors for iTact Ventures, Lund, Sweden
• Has previously held other board of directors and board of advisors positions

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