George Lauro

George Lauro

Mr. Lauro is the founding partner of Alteon Capital Partners, a Silicon Valley-based firm that provides direct venture investment, equity fundraising and M&A advisory to companies in the electronics and information technology industries. He also is Senior Advisor to Needham & Company, a technology investment bank.

George has served on the Board of Directors of 15 public and private companies since 1997. He has also been awarded 23 patents on inertial guidance, GPS, RFIC's and radio identification products. Earlier in his career, Lauro was Managing Director of two venture capital funds, Techfarm Ventures, a venture capital fund that invests in early-to-mid-stage technology companies, and Wasserstein Perella Ventures, a technology venture capital and leveraged buyout fund. He opened and managed Wasserstein's west coast office in Palo Alto.

Before becoming a venture capitalist, Mr. Lauro was Director of Rapid Commercialization for IBM where he led a group responsible for bringing advanced technologies from IBM's development labs to market. He also was Director of New Business Development for Motorola where he conceived the world's first handheld GPS navigation product (Traxar GPS) and launched Motorola's RFIC and GPS businesses.

George holds an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and a BSEE from Brown University, and completed extensive graduate work at MIT in Digital Control and Aeronautics.