Global Innovation Forum: Silicon Valley
"Innovation and the Digital Generation"
Menlo Park, California June 16th, 2011
Keynote Speech
Stephen Ciesinski
VP, SRI International
Stephen Ciesinski leads SRI's strategic business development in the private sector and international regions, as well as SRI’s innovation partnership programs. Ciesinski’s professional experience includes a variety of industries and products, semiconductor capital equipment, telecommunications, mobile/wireless, applications software, Web 2.0, open source, medical devices, and others. As a corporate officer, board member, advisor and investor, he has participated in or managed new business formations, major product launches, private financings, IPOs, M&A transactions, and leveraged buy-outs. Ciesinski held executive management positions with Applied Materials, Octel Communications, Resumix, Inc., and Laszlo Systems. He started his career at Procter & Gamble, was a consultant with Booz, Allen & Hamilton, and served as a venture partner with Earlybird Ventures. Ciesinski is Chairman of The President’s Cabinet at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly), and a member of three boards at Stanford University. He is currently teaching Entrepreneurial Studies at Stanford’s Business School and is an advisor to several Silicon Valley-based ventures. Ciesinski is a graduate of Union College with a double major in Electrical Engineering and Modern Languages, and holds an MBA from Stanford University.
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