George T. Haber

Mr. George T. Haber is a Visionary and successful Serial Entrepreneur, Marketing Guru and Strategist, with proven track record to vision, implement and manage High Tech companies from StartUp inception to M&A or IPO.
Active Angel Investor in serious, innovative, disruptive technologies in Chairman or Board role working with the entrepreneurs to improve the world, George is a dynamic example of that special breed of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who are powering the technology revolution.
George is frequently quoted by the press, speaker at national and international conferences, and one of the key people of the Xbox story as told By Dean Takahasi in the book “Opening the Xbox: Inside Microsoft's Plan to Unleash an Entertainment Revolution”. ISBN-10: 0761537082
http://www.amazon.com/Opening-Xbox-Microsofts-Entertainment-Revolution/dp/0761537082

George T. Haber’s Specialties:

Starting StartUps and helping Private / Public Companies with Strategy and Tactics to gain and sustain long term growth and financial success :)
Expert in Marketing, Competitive Analysis, financing, mergers and acquisition.
Angel Investor serving on the Boards of a few select Public / Private Companies: Zoran (Nasdaq: ZRAN), 3Dfx (Nasdaq: TDFX), Intervideo (Nasdaq: IVII), Class Data Systems acquired by Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO), Lucid, InterAKT acquired by ADOBE (Nasdaq:ADBE) , BitDefender, NoBug.

George T. Haber’s Experience

Board Of Directors

SiftIn

(Internet industry)

March 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)
Board of Directors

Avangate BV

(Computer Software industry)

2007 — Present (2 years)
Chairman and CEO

CrestaTech

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Semiconductors industry)

December 2005 — Present (3 years 8 months)

http://www.CrestaTech.com
Chairman of the Board

Lucid Logix

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Semiconductors industry)

January 2005 — Present (4 years 7 months)
Executive Chairman USA & Special Adviser

BitDefender

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

January 2005 — January 2008 (3 years 1 month)
Board of Directors

Ethernity Networks

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Semiconductors industry)

May 2005 — January 2007 (1 year 9 months)
Board of Directors

InterVideo

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; IVII; Computer Software industry)

March 2002 — December 2006 (4 years 10 months)

(Acquired by Corel) http://www.corel.com/
Board of Directors of InterVideo
Chairman of the Board

InterAKT

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; ADBE; Computer Software industry)

April 2004 — October 2006 (2 years 7 months)

(Acquired by Adobe) http://www.adobe.com/
Chairman and CEO

Adimos

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

September 2005 — April 2006 (8 months)
Board of Directors

Mobilygen

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Semiconductors industry)

August 2000 — March 2006 (5 years 8 months)

(Acquired by Maxim Integrated Products)http:// www.maxim.com

Co-founder Ex ,Chairman President and CEO of Mobilygen H264 MPEG-4 AVC Low Power Video Corporation backed by KPCB, Redpoint, Cardinal Ventures and Angel Investors
Board of Directors

3Dfx

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; TDFX; Semiconductors industry)

June 2000 — December 2000 (7 months)

(Acquired by nVidia) www.nvidia.com
Board of Directors of 3Dfx following the acquisition of GigaPixel
Founder, Chairman, President and CEO

GigaPixel

(Semiconductors industry)

January 1997 — June 2000 (3 years 6 months)

(Acquired by 3dfx) http://www.3dfx.com

Founder, Chairman, President, and CEO of GigaPixel the developer of high performance and superb visual quality 3D graphics processors. Licensed the technology to NeoMagic, Creative Labs and Microsoft.
Read the Book Opening the X-Box by Dean Takahasi
Board of Directors and Executive Vice President

Zoran

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; ZRAN; Semiconductors industry)

October 1996 — January 1999 (2 years 4 months)

Board of Directors and Executive Vice President.
I managed all Engineering and Strategic Marketing.
Created the first fully functional reference design for DVD players that was sold in China.
Board of Directors

Class Data Systems

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; CSCO; Computer Networking industry)

February 1996 — May 1998 (2 years 4 months)

(Acquired by Cisco)
Founder, Chairman, President and CEO

CompCore

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; ZRAN; Semiconductors industry)

January 1993 — October 1996 (3 years 10 months)

(Acquired by Zoran) www.Zoran.com
Founder, Chairman, President, and CEO of CompCore Multimedia. CompCore was the first company to implemented the DVD standard in software and to license MPEG IP to Hardware manufacturers
Floating Point Expert and Consultant

Silicon Graphics

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; SGI; Computer Hardware industry)

June 1992 — January 1993 (8 months)

Managed the design of the INDY Workstation's Graphic Engine
FPU Design Manager

SUN Microsystems

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; SUNW; Computer Hardware industry)

February 1989 — August 1992 (3 years 7 months)

Lead designer for the VIS Video Instruction Set and the first FPU Floating Point unit for the SPARC CPU
Hardware project Manager

Daisy Systems

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; DAISY; Computer Hardware industry)

January 1988 — January 1990 (2 years 1 month)

Designed the first Hardware Accelerator ASIC for DAISY

George T. Haber’s Education

Technion-Machon Technologi Le' Israel

B.S.E,E , Computer Science and Electrical Engineering , 1980 — 1984

while student I worked as Disc Jokey to earn some money and have lot of FUN

Activities and Societies:

Student CS & EE

Additional Information

George T. Haber’s Websites:

CrestaTech

George T. Haber’s Interests:

The Human creativity, organizational development, strategic planning, corporate financing and M&A

George T. Haber’s Groups:

IEEE, CEO

Sun Alumni
The DEMO Conference
Venture Capital
Start-Up Phase Forum
Technion Alumni
M & A advisors
Startup Specialists
Israeli Hi Tech Entrepreneurs Wherever
Hi-Tech Ventures & Startups
Siftin.com: Classifieds/Job Search Service
Serial Entrepreneurs
Jewish High Tech Community
Venture Capital Group
Ex-SGI
Mobile start-ups - 5000+ members and growing!
Zoran Alumni
Churchill Club
Business Review
Silicon Valley Israeli Entrepeneurs and Founders Forum
Alumni of the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Living in North America