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Mailing address:

University of California
Lester Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Walter A. Haas School of Business #1930
Berkeley, CA 94720-1930
Room F450

Driving Instructions

TEL: (510) 642-4255
FAX: (510) 643-4110
e-mail: lester@haas.berkeley.edu

Faculty Director:
Jerome S. Engel
e-mail: engel@haas.berkeley.edu

Executive Director (acting):
David E. Charron
e-mail: charron@haas.berkeley.edu

Sr. Program Manager:
Jill Erbland
e-mail: erbland@haas.berkeley.edu

Program Manager:
Kirsten Berzon
e-mail: berzon@haas.berkeley.edu

Executive Assistant:
Victoria Fowler
e-mail: fowler@haas.berkeley.edu

Technology Coordinator/Webmaster:
Richard Henderson
e-mail: richard@haas.berkeley.edu

Student Program Assistant:
Richard Nguyen
e-mail: rnguyen@haas.berkeley.edu

Student Program Assistant:
Catherine Start
e-mail: catherine_start@haas.berkeley.edu

 

Student Program Assistant:
Ivan Rodriguez
e-mail: ivan_rodriguez@haas.berkeley.edu

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"Working with entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, business leaders, policy makers, scholars and students, the Lester Center focuses the resources of UC Berkeley to stimulate the formation, management and growth of new enterprises; to encourage innovation in new and established companies; and to teach the process of successful entrepreneurship and business innovation."