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 George Lauro,
Partner.
George has
25 years of experience as a technology entrepreneur, operating executive, and
venture capitalist. He holds 23 patents in
inertial guidance, avionics, wireless technologies and GPS. Has been a member of
the Board of Directors of 18 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 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. Before Wasserstein, Mr. Lauro was
Director of Rapid Commercialization at IBM Headquarters 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 including GPS and wireless RF ICs. At Motorola, he conceived
the world's first consumer handheld Global Positioning Product (Traxar GPS),
invented new classes of RFID 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 is
currently Chairman and Interim CEO of SheerFlex (transparent polymers for
printed RF electronics), a Board Member of Illuminex (nanomaterials for thermal,
battery and photovoltaics) and a Board Observer at Peregrine Semiconductor
(Silicon on Sapphire RF semiconductors). He is a member of the Band of Angels
Deal Screening Committee.
George has served
as a Director on several company boards, including:
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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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Peregrine Semiconductor
(silicon-on-sapphire mixed-signal ICs)
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HotRail (terabit switch fabric
silicon acquired by Conexant)
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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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