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 George Lauro,
Partner.
George has
25 years of experience as a technology entrepreneur, operating executive, and
venture capitalist. He attended Brown, Wharton, and MIT. He holds 23 patents in
inertial guidance, avionics, wireless technologies and GPS. Has been a member of
the Board of Directors of 15 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 PE 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. 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).
George has served
as a Director on 15 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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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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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)
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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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