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Howard Morgan has more than 25 years of experience serving as a mentor, advisor and investor in entrepreneurial ventures.
Howard was Professor of Decision Sciences at the Wharton
School of the University of Pennsylvania and Professor
of Computer Science at the Moore School at the University
of Pennsylvania from 1972 through 1985. He has been a
Visiting Professor at the California Institute of Technology
and the Harvard Business School. During his academic career
he served as an editor of Communications of the ACM, Management
Science, Transactions on Office Information Systems and
Transactions on Database Systems. His research on user
interface technology, and on optimization of computer
networks led to his bringing the ARPAnet to Philadelphia
in 1974. As a result of this early participation in the
internet, he advised many corporate and government agencies
on the uses of electronic and voice mail, implementing
it throughout the Wharton School in the mid 1970s.
From 1983 to 1989, he served as President of Renaissance
Technologies Corp. in New York, where he supervised
venture capital investments in high technology companies.
He was a founding board member and technical advisor
of Franklin Electronic Publishers, one of the first
manufacturers of personal computers. He has been
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vendors in the information systems
area for more than 30 years, and has worked with
many of the Fortune 100 companies and numerous government
agencies.
Since 1989, he has been President of the Arca Group, Inc., nurturing early stage companies and taking them from seed stage through initial public offerings. He also serves as a Director of Idealab, where he was a founding investor in 1996.
Dr. Morgan serves on a number of public company Boards, including Franklin Electronic Publishers and Internet Brands, Inc.
He is also Chairman or a member of the board of numerous private companies including Energy Innovations, Evolution Robotics Retail, snap.com, MagicWorks LLC and Math For America.
He has also served as CEO of Kentek and Franklin during various turnover or transitional periods. In 1997, he was named Delaware Valley Entrepreneur of the Year. Howard is a respected author and a frequent speaker at major industry conferences.
He received a Ph.D. in Operations Research from
Cornell University in 1968, and a B.S. in physics
from City College of the City University of New
York in 1965.
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