George
Abe is the Manager of Business Development in the Office
of Research Administration, and a lecturer in the Anderson School
of Management, both at UCLA. His administrative functions include
providing commercial assessment of university research and assisting
faculty and graduate students in starting companies. His teaching
responsibilities include classes in high-technology entrepreneurship,
business plan writing and field study programs.
Previously
he was a venture partner with Palomar Ventures, a VC firm in
Santa Monica, California. Before Palomar, he was with Cisco
Systems in the office of the chief technical officer, supporting
M&A transactions and strategic partnerships. Prior to that
he was with Infonet Services Corporation (NYSE:IN) where he
established Infonet's IP data service and helped spin out the
company from its parent, Computer Sciences Corp (NYSE: CSC).
Since 1998
he has been a member of the board of directors of Switchcore
AB, a publicly traded fabless semiconductor designer in Sweden.
He has previously held numerous other board of directors and
board of advisors positions.
He is the
author of Residential Broadband, which presents an analysis
of high-speed residential networking, published by Cisco Press.
The book is in its second edition and has been translated into
Japanese and Mandarin. He received a B.A. in mathematics and
an M.S. in business (quantitative methods), both from UCLA.
Dan Schecter
is a litigation partner in the firm's Los Angeles office and
Chair of the Los Angeles Litigation Department, overseeing all
aspects of the local department. Mr. Schecter's practice focuses
primarily on intellectual property, technology, and entertainment
litigation and complex business disputes. Mr. Schecter's litigation
experience includes trying jury and bench trials to verdict
in federal and state courts, and several substantial matters
before a variety of arbitration tribunals.
Mr. Schecter has extensive experience representing vendors and
purchasers of sophisticated enterprise software, systems integrators
and consultants who implement software, and developers and distributors
of productivity and entertainment software and other high technology
products. Mr. Schecter also has represented clients in a wide
range of matters involving intellectual property, technology,
and entertainment related disputes, including: trademark, trade
dress, copyright, and patent infringement; trade secret misappropriation;
false advertising; motion picture and television distribution;
unfair competition; motion picture distribution; appropriation
of advertising ideas; defamation; and violation of rights of
publicity. Representative clients include: Apple Computer; AutoZone;
America Online; the Directors Guild of America; Ernst &
Young LLP; Nissan Motor Co.; M&M/Mars; Miramax Film Corp.;
Nintendo of America; and Sony Pictures Entertainment.
Mr. Schecter has written and presented on numerous intellectual
property and technology issues, and Mr. Schecter was featured
by the Daily Journal Extra as one of ten up and coming young
litigators in California. Mr. Schecter has served as a Director
of a youth outreach organization and has handled a number of
pro bono matters, including his successful representation of
more than 100 low-income individuals in an action against the
owners of a collapsed apartment building.
Satish
Ramakrishnan - CTO
Satish has 16 years of experience managing large technology
teams and delivering enterprise software products. Satish has
worked at large companies like Wipro and BEA and has helped
build companies from the ground floor, including PointCast (acquired
by AOL), KnowNow Inc., Good Technologies and Women.com (acquired
by iVillage) – the last of which he helped take public.
He has successfully raised capital, been instrumental in key
sales and partnership opportunities, and built large and small
teams from scratch both in the U.S. and off-shore. Immediately
before coming to CoreObjects, Satish was the head of Weblogic
Integration at BEA. Satish was the original VP of Engineering
at KnowNow Inc. where he launched the company, championed new
product development, acted as the primary contact for prominent
clients such as Morgan Stanley, PeopleSoft, and others and managed
the release of five cutting-edge products. At PointCast, Satish
was the VP of Engineering where he led over 140 engineers and
spearheaded the company’s first web portal effort while
managing a scalable system that distributed more than 400 million
pages daily. Satish earned a BS in Computer Science from Mysore
University where he graduated fourth in his class.
