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Consulting Professors 
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Rob Weber
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Rob Weber has held a variety of executive positions for emerging technology companies. He is a Managing Director for Antiphony Partners, a strategic consulting firm that helps entrepreneurial companies create sustainable value.
Most recently, he served as President of Knoa, an e-learning software company, where he successfully redefined the corporate product strategy and repositioned the company to capitalize on new market opportunities.
Additionally, he served as President of Elastomeric Technologies, a leading electronic connector manufacturer. Rob is a founder of Robin Hood Ventures, an angel investment fund focused on emerging growth companies. Additionally, he serves as a senior faculty fellow in the Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology and lecturer at the Wharton School where he teaches business planning and entrepreneurial management. Rob earned Bachelor of Science in Economics (B.S.E.) and Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.S.) degrees from The Wharton School and School of Engineering at The University of Pennsylvania.
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Keith Weigelt
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Keith Weigelt is professor of strategy at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He has published in numerous economics and strategy journals.
His research interests lie in game theory, compensation, and sustainable business advantages.
Professor Weigelt helped develop Wharton's Field Application Program, which offers students the opportunity to work with host firms. He also teaches in the joint Wharton-Engineering technology management program.
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Susan S. Margulies
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Susan S. Margulies, Ph.D. is a Professor of Bioengineering. A Summa cum Laude graduate of Princeton, she obtained her Ph.D. in Bioengineering from Penn and joined the Mayo Clinic in 1987.
She was recruited to Penn's faculty in 1993. Dr. Margulies is a recipient of the prestigious Whitaker Young Investigator and NSF CAREER Awards, and is funded by NIH, NSF, Dept of Transportation, and Centers for Disease Control for her research in ventilator-induced lung injury and head injuries in adults and children.
She published over 70 publications in biomechanics on her work using computational and experimental techniques to determine injury tolerances and mechanisms.
She serves on advisory panels for NIH, NSF, and CDC. Dr. Margulies is an outstanding teacher with great commitment to Bioengineering education. She was recognized for her teaching with the S.Reid Warren Jr. Award for stimulating and guiding the intellectual development of the undergraduate students in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
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Jan Van der Spiegel
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Jan Van der Spiegel (Fellow IEEE) is a Professor and Interim chair of the Electrical and Systems Engineering Department, and the Director of the Center for Sensor Technologies at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr Van der Spiegel received his Master's and PhD from the University of Leuven, Belgium.
His primary research interests are in high-speed, low-power analog and mixed-mode VLSI design, biologically based sensors and sensory information processing systems, micro-sensor technology, and analog-to-digital converters. He is the author of over 150 journals and conference papers and holds 4 patents. Dr. Van der Spiegel co-founded Corticon, Inc, a company that aims to produce biologically inspired sensors and systems. His earlier work on chemical sensors led to the formation of Integrated Ionics, that was later renamed I-Stat. The company focuses on the development and manufacturing of sensors for medical diagnostics for blood analysis.
He was the recipient of the IEEE Third Millenium Medal, the UPS Foundation Distinguished Education Chair and the Bicentennial Class of 1940 Term Chair. He received the Christian and Mary Lindback Foundation, and the S.Reid Warren Award for Distinguished Teaching, and the Presidential Young Investigator Award. Dr Van der Spiegel is currently the Program secretary of the International Solid-State Circuit Conference (ISSCC), Chapters Chairs coordinator of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) and the editor of Sensors and Actuators A for North and South America. He is also a member of Phi Beta Delta and Tau Beta Pi.
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Adjunct Professors
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Douglas Abrams
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Douglas Abrams is a Managing Director at Parallax Capital Management in Singapore, where he co-manages the private equity business. Prior to joining Parallax, Mr. Abrams managed information technology at J.P.Morgan for 13 years.
From 1997 to 1999, he was Global Markets Head of Internet Marketing, and from 1991 to 1997, he was VP and Manager of Investment Banking Technology . He is an Adjunct Associate Professor at NUS Entrepreneurship Centre, where he lectures on New Venture Creation and Technopreneurship. Mr. Abrams graduated from the Annenberg School, University of Pennsylvania with a BAs in Communications and received an MBA from The Wharton School.
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