Jerome S. Engel

Executive Director
Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Phone: (510) 642-8096
Fax: (510) 643-4110
e-mail: engel@haas.berkeley.edu
Curriculum vitae

The Lester Center is attached to
The Walter A. Haas School of Business at the
University of California, Berkeley

F455 Haas School of Business #1930
Berkeley CA 94720-1930

Mr. Engel joined the University of California at Berkeley in 1991 to found the Lester Center. He serves as both the Center's Executive Director and the Director of the Haas School's Entrepreneurship Program. He is responsible for the creation of an institution that coordinates all of the university's activities in the areas of entrepreneurship and innovation. Mr. Engel is an adjunct professor at the Haas School in Entrepreneurship and instructs in both the School's MBA and Executive Education programs specializing in Entrepreneurship, New Venture Finance, Corporate Innovation, Venture Capital and Private Equity (see schedule below). Together with Prof. John Freeman, he developed the Venture Capital Executive Program (VCEP), which is taught through the Haas Center for Executive Development. He is also the faculty co-director of various exec ed programs based on VCEP. Mr. Engel is also Co-Founder and General Partner of Monitor Ventures, LLC, a venture capital firm organized in collaboration with the Monitor Group, a global strategic consulting and private equity management firm founded by Prof. Michael Porter of Harvard. From 1979 through 1990, Mr. Engel was the San Francisco Bay Area Director of Entrepreneurial Services for Ernst & Young. Promoted to Partner in 1982, Mr. Engel specialized in consulting on capital formation, corporate strategy and management organization of entrepreneurial ventures, with an emphasis in software and biotechnology. In 1990, Mr. Engel was appointed Ernst & Young's National Director of Capital Resources, where he directed the firms efforts in raising capital for its emerging business clients nationwide. During his career, Mr. Engel helped a number of entrepreneurial firms go public, including AutoDesk and Fair Isaac Companies. From 1992-1995, Mr. Engel served as a member of the Board of Directors of Maxis Corporation, and oversaw the company's financing activities, which included venture capital and a successful initial public offering. In 1995, Mr. Engel was a founding General Partner of Kline Hawkes Capital, a venture capital firm based in Los Angeles. In 1998, Mr. Engel co-founded AllBusiness.com, which he grew to over 150 employees and successfully sold to NBCi in March 2000. Current Board Positions include Adaptive Planning, Jupiter Systems, MedAmerica, ElectraScan and the Berkeley Entrepreneurship Laboratory. In addition to Mr. Engel's current positions, he has served on the Boards of a number of emerging companies including MicroNet Technology (recently acquired by Ampex), Transoft Inc., a rapidly growing provider of FiberChannel networking solutions, and Centric Software, a leader in 3-D visualization and virtual product prototyping. Mr. Engel serves as Faculty Co-Chair of the Global Social Venture Competition, The UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition, the International Berkeley-Intel Technology Challenge, on the Faculty Advisory Board of the Kauffman Fellows Program, on the editorial Board of the International Journal of Technoentrepreneurship, and previously served as Faculty Director of the Kauffman Foundation Lifelong Learning for Entrepreneurship Educators Program. He is a CPA and received his undergraduate degree at Penn State and his masters at the Wharton school. In 2002 Mr. Engel was presented the Edwin M. and Gloria W. Appel Prize by Babson College at the Symposium for Entrepreneurial Education at Babson. The Appel Prize is presented to those individuals who bring "entrepreneurial vitality to academe in true spirit of the Price-Babson College Fellows Program."

Class schedule for Spring 2008:

Entrepreneurship

MBA295A
Thurs 8:00 - 11:00 AM
Room C135

Office Hours by appointment only