Ed Zschau founded and held the position of CEO at System Industries beginning in 1968. Following his success with System Industries, Dr. Zschau was elected to the US House of Representatives in 1982, where he represented Silicon Valley in Congress for two full terms. Dr. Zschau then became a General Partner at the venture capital firm Brentwood Associates. In 1988, he was elected Chairman and CEO of Censtor, a position he held until becoming General Manager of the IBM Storage Systems Division from April 1993 until July 1995. Dr. Zschau has been a Professor of Management at Harvard University since 1996 and a Visiting Professor at Princeton University in the Department of Electrical Engineering since 1997. He is a graduate of Princeton University and received his M.B.A., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University. In addition, he is the Founding Chairman, Emeritus and a member of the National Advisory Board of the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, California. He is on the Board of Scholar of the ACCF Center for Policy Research in Washington, DC, a Fellow of the California Council on Science and Technology, in Sacramento, California, and on the Advisory Board of the Center for Economic Policy Studies at Princeton University. |