Prof. George Abe

Lecturer and Faculty Director of the Applied Management  Research (AMR) Program,
UCLA Anderson School of Management

George Abe is a lecturer and Faculty Director of the Applied Management  Research (AMR) Program at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.  He was Business Development Manager for the UCLA Office of Intellectual Property, which is responsible for patent protection and commercialization of UCLA research.  Previously, George was a venture partner with Palomar Ventures, a VC firm in Santa Monica, California.  Before Palomar, he was with Cisco Systems and Infonet Services Corporation.  From 1998 until 2006, he was a member of the board of directors of Switchcore AB, a publicly traded fabless semiconductor designer in Sweden.   He has also held board of director positions with various startup companies and not-for-profit organizations.