"Entrepreneurship isn't about starting companies.
Entrepreneurship is an approach to life." — Ed Zschau
Ed Zschau is the Interim President of Sierra Nevada College, and
he brings to the college 17 years of leading technology
companies. He founded System Industries in Palo Alto, California
in 1969, and as its CEO led it to a successful IPO in 1980. In
the 1990s, he was the General Manager of the IBM Storage Systems
Division headquartered in San Jose, California. Ed has a total of
10 years of teaching experience as a professor in the graduate
business schools at Stanford University and Harvard University,
and he has taught high tech entrepreneurship courses for a total
of 22 years in the engineering schools at Princeton University,
Caltech, and University of Nevada, Reno. In addition to serving
on the boards of major public companies such as Reader's Digest
and StarTek, Ed has helped to start and build several technology
companies during the past 20 years, some of which were founded
and led by his former students.
In the 1980s, Ed represented the Silicon Valley area of
California for two terms in the US House of Representatives,
serving on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Also, during the
1980s, he was a General Partner of Brentwood Associates, a
venture capital firm, and he was the Founding Chairman of The
Tech Interactive, (formerly The Tech Museum of Innovation), a
non-profit educational institution in San Jose, California.
Ed holds an A.B. degree (cum laude) in Philosophy (bridging with
Physics) from Princeton University, as well as M.B.A., M.S.
(Statistics), and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University and a
Doctor of Laws degree (Honoris Causa) from the University of San
Francisco. Currently, he is a Senior Fellow of the California
Council on Science and Technology.
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