David Charron is Associate Director for the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. He is also a lecturer in entrepreneurship at the MBA level at the Haas School. He has been working in the field of technology commercialization and entrepreneurship for 18 years. Mr. Charron has held positions in technology licensing and commercialization with Xerox PARC, MIT and Stanford University. In 1995, he co-founded Scientific Learning Corporation, a publicly -traded neuroscience company based on innovations from USCS and Rutgers. He has also worked with Technology Ventures Corporation, a non-profit organization, fostering the commercialization of technologies emerging fro the national lab system through direct assistance to entrepreneurs and startups. Mr. Charron is also the Executive Director of the Berkeley Entrepreneurship Laboratory, a non-profit incubator with the goal of increasing entrepreneurial activity at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. At Haas, Mr. Charron t4eaches Case Studies in Entrepreneurship, Workshop for Startups and Entrepreneurship. He has also been a principal member of the faculty team for the Intel curriculum project teaching other faculty members how to teach entrepreneurship in Budapest, Madrid, Sofia, Mumbai, Dublin, Cairo, Istanbul, Moscow, and Beijing. He holds a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from the Haas School.

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• ENTREPRENEURSHIP

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