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George Lauro has 22 years of experience working with information technology companies in various roles including operating management, venture capital, private equity and investment banking. Since 2005, Mr. Lauro has been Managing Director at Techfarm Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm that invests in early stage semiconductor and information technology companies. From 1999 to 2005, Mr. Lauro was Managing Director at Wasserstein Venture Capital where he was one of two partners managing $320 million across multiple venture funds. His investment domains included semiconductors, software, communications solutions, and military/aerospace devices.
Before joining Wasserstein, Mr. Lauro was Director of Rapid Commercialization at IBM where he launched new technology startups in areas such as radio frequency integrated circuits and pervasive computing. Prior to IBM, Mr. Lauro worked at Motorola, where he conceived the world's first consumer handheld global positioning product (Traxar GPS), invented new classes of RFID transponders and launched Motorola's businesses in these spaces. Earlier in his career, Mr. Lauro designed inertial guidance systems for missiles and spacecraft at Draper Lab at MIT. He holds a BSEE from Brown University and an MBA from the Wharton School. He holds 23 patents issued for inventions in RFID, GPS, wireless devices and missile guidance systems | 