Charlie Bass (engineer)

Charlie Bass,[1] was a co-founder of the networking company Ungermann-Bass in 1979. Led by Ralph Ungermann and staffed by several colleagues from Zilog,[2] Ungermann Bass helped commercialize ethernet, had a successful IPO, and then was purchased by Tandem Computers.

Bass was also co-founder of Starlight Networks[3] in late 1990, a software company involved in streaming media and Socket Mobile, Inc.[4] in 1992.

In 1972, Bass received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Hawaii. He has taught at University of California, Berkeley; University of California, Santa Cruz; and Stanford University, and he worked for Zilog. In 1989, he formed his own venture capital company, Bass Associates. Bass is currently an advisor to Horizon Ventures[5]

References

University of Hawaii COE Distinguished Lecture Series Charlie Bass: How To Maneuver Venture Capital

  1. Forbes-Charlie Bass
  2. Founding of UB Archived August 10, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  3. Starlight Networks
  4. Socket Mobile
  5. Horizon Ventures Archived March 19, 2011, at the Wayback Machine


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