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 George Lauro,
Founding
Partner.
George has
25 years of experience as a technology entrepreneur, operating executive, and
venture capitalist. He has been a member of
the Board of Directors of 17 public and private companies and has been Chairman
of board-level Compensation, Budget and Audit Committees.
George was Managing Director at Techfarm Ventures, a
Silicon Valley venture-capital firm, and was a Wasserstein Perella Partner and
head of West Coast VC operations. He led and syndicated 15 private equity
financing rounds and LBO control deals. As a VC, he served as Interim CEO, raised
over $100M equity financing for portfolio companies, and was involved in M&A
transactions exceeding $1B in combined value. He was VP of Corporate Development
at Acquicor (NASDAQ: ACQ), a publicly traded SPAC that acquired Jazz
Semiconductor in 2007. At IBM, Mr. Lauro was
Director of Rapid Commercialization and ran a team
responsible for bringing advanced technology from IBM central research labs to
market. He was Director of IBM's Wireless IC, Silicon Germanium (SiGe), and RF
BICMOS Businesses. At Motorola, he conceived
the world's first consumer handheld Global Positioning Product (Traxar GPS),
invented new classes of RF transponders, and launched Motorola's businesses in
these sectors. He began his career at MIT/Draper Laboratory designing inertial
guidance systems for missiles and spacecraft. He led the development of
spacecraft guidance systems at Astronautics Corporation. He attended Brown (BSEE),
Wharton (MBA) and MIT (graduate studies in Aeronautical Engineering).
He holds 23
patents in inertial guidance, avionics, wireless technologies, and GPS.
George has served
as a Director on 17 company boards, including:
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Peregrine Semiconductor
(silicon-on-sapphire mixed-signal ICs)
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Publicly traded Akeena Solar,
Inc. (NASDAQ: AKNS)
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Publicly traded Software
Publishing Corp. (NASDAQ: SPCO)
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Publicly traded World Energy
Solutions, Inc. (OTCBB: WEGY)
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SMaL Camera (CMOS imagers
acquired by Cypress Semiconductor)
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HotRail (terabit switch fabric
silicon acquired by Conexant)
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Adant (metamaterial-based
configurable antennas)
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Illuminex (silicon nanomaterials
for PV and Li ion battery applications)
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Stego Systems (crytpo technology
for protection of executables and runtime code)
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SandCraft (MIPS-based
superscalar control plane processors acquired by Raza Micro)
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Triscend (configurable embedded
processors acquired by Xilinx)
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ChipX (structured ASICs acquired
by Gigoptix)
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Pinyon (low-cost
phased-array/smart-antenna solutions)
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Cognigine (OC768 network packet
processors acquired by Huawei)
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TEAC Aerospace (digital image
recorders acquired by Goodrich)
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Blaze Networks (optical
transceivers acquired by Omron)
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Qusion (40G Indium Phosphide
modulators)
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Band of Angels Deal Screening
Committee member
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