Faculty
Venture Capital Executive Program
Jerome S. Engel is Faculty Director of the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, Chair of the New Venture Creation and Venture Capital program and Adjunct Professor. He also serves as General Partner at Monitor Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, and focuses on investments in high technology companies.
Mr. Engel has extensive corporate experience with entrepreneurship and venture capital, both as an investor and as an entrepreneur. He has mentored many of the Bay Area's leading venture-funded technology companies. He was a Founding General Partner in a Southern California based venture fund backed by CalPERS. He was a founder and CFO of AllBusiness.com which was sold to NBC, and sits on the boards of several technology-based companies. He began his career as a CPA and established the Entrepreneurial Services Group at Ernst & Young.
He is Faculty Chair of The UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition, the International Berkeley-Intel Technology Challenge, and Faculty Co-Chair of the Global Social Venture Competition. He is the Faculty Director of Intel/U.C. Berkeley International Entrepreneurship Initiative and serves on the Faculty Advisory Board of the Kauffman Fellows Program, the editorial Board of the International Journal of Technoentrepreneurship, and previously served as Faculty Director of the Kauffman Foundation Lifelong Learning for Entrepreneurship Educators Program. He is a frequent speaker and guest lecturer in the US and internationally.
Mr. Engel holds a B.S. from Pennsylvania State University and a Master's degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Terry Opdendyk has specialized in working with technology based start-ups for more than 30 years. He founded ONSET Ventures, a premier Silicon Valley venture capital firm, in 1984. He is Managing Director and General Partner at ONSET. Prior to launching the firm, Terry was president of VisiCorp, guiding the software publishing company from inception into an industry leader. Early in his career, Terry worked as a technical manager for Hewlett-Packard as a part of the original group of individuals that started HP’s computer business. He later headed Intel Corporation's microcomputer systems business, microprocessor architecture activities, several international ventures and human resources.
At ONSET Ventures, Terry maintains a broad spectrum of investment interests including software, communications and new drug delivery technologies. He serves on the boards of both public and private companies, such as Adaptive Planning , Amalgamated Insight, Arcot Systems, Blue Vector, Nextance and Syndera.
One of Terry’s passions is teaching. He works with students each year at the leading business schools, focusing on the fundamentals of building successful businesses. He currently is a Fellow at the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Haas School of Business, University of California.
Terry received a B.S. from the Michigan State University Honors College and a M.S. from Stanford University.
David Charron is Acting Executive Director of the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. He has worked in the field of technology commercialization and entrepreneurship for the past 18 years and held positions with Xerox PARC, MIT and Stanford University. In 1995, he co-founded Scientific Learning Corporation, a publicly traded neuroscience company based on inventions from UCSF and Rutgers University. He has started two other companies and consults to startups, inventors and entrepreneurs. He has worked with Technology Ventures Corporation, a non-profit organization, fostering the commercialization of technologies emerging from the US Government's National Laboratories through direct assistance to entrepreneurs and startups.
He is Executive Director of the Berkeley Entrepreneurship Laboratory, a non-profit incubator with the goal of increasing entrepreneurial activity at Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He teaches several courses to MBA students including 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 training faculty members on teaching entrepreneurship in Budapest, Madrid, Sofia, Mumbai, Dublin, Cairo, Istanbul, Moscow and Beijing.
He holds a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from the Haas School.
