Howard Morgan

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Dr. Howard Morgan is a Co-Founder and serves as General Partner and Chairman at B Capital Group. He is an Angel Investor. He serves as a Board Member at Precision Neuroscience, Turntable.fm and Nanotronics. He serves as a Board Member at SchoolCare. He served as a Board Member at Axial. He served as a Board Observer at Truveris. He served as a Board Member at GumGum. He also serves as a Business Advisory Board Member at NeuroVigil. He serves as a Board Member at Gust. He was a Co-Founder of First Round Capital. He is a Board Observer of Seed-X and MemSQL. He is an Advisor, at Investments of Cachette Capital Management. He serves as an Advisory Board Member at ViziApps. He also serves as a Board Member at MyndYou and EeroQ. He also serves as a Managing Member at Morgan Family Common Investment Fund. He is an American venture capitalist, philanthropist, socialite, angel investor, author, and contributing writer for Business Insider. He also served as Senior Advisor and Investor at The Team Group. He has been a Visiting Professor at the California Institute of Technology and the Harvard Business School. During his academic career, he served as an editor of Communications of the ACM, Management Science, Transactions on Office Information Systems, and Transactions on Database Systems. His research on user interface technology and optimization of computer networks led to his bringing the ARPAnet to Philadelphia in 1974. As a result of this early participation on the internet, he advised many corporate and government agencies on the uses of electronic and voice mail, implementing it throughout the Wharton School in the mid-1970s. Since 1989, he has been President of the Arca Group, Inc., nurturing early-stage companies and taking them from the seed stage through initial public offerings. He also serves as a Board Member of Idealab. He has served on several public company Boards, including Franklin Electronic Publishers and Internet Brands, Inc. He is also Chairman or a member of the board of numerous private companies including Fab.com, AxialMarkets, PublicStuff, and such nonprofits as Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories and Math For America. He served as an Executive at Kentek and Franklin during various turnover or transitional periods. In 1997, he was named Delaware Valley Entrepreneur of the Year. He is a respected author and a frequent speaker at major industry conferences. He received a Ph.D. in Operations Research from Cornell University in 1968, and a B.S. in physics from City College of the City University of New York in 1965. He is also an angel investor. He is a Board Member of Dopamine.