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This document about deans advisory board board member biographies.
Mr. Barach has over 20 years of entrepreneurial and senior management
experience in business guidance – both startup and later stages – assessment,
strategy, execution, and turn-around. He is a member of the San Diego Tech
Coast Angels, where he serves on the board as Vice President and leads new deal
flow screening. Currently, he consults to small and medium-sized businesses in
new venture startup, financing, positioning, strategic and financial turn-around
and exit planning. He serves, or has served, on the boards of several for-profit and
not-for-profit organizations. He is affiliated as a business plan judge and coach at
the Social Enterprise Institute, the UCSD Rady School of Business and Venture
Roundtable. He also serves as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at CONNECT’s
Springboard program and as an advisor to the Woman in Technology board. .
His career started in the technology community, including hardware and software,
IC design and design automation, and later, medical and health sciences, energy
and systems integration; having held roles in general management, engineering
leadership, strategy, business development, and marketing and sales. He has led
organizations and/or advised management teams, both growth and distressed
company situations, in telecommunications, wireless, healthcare IT, SaaS,
medical devices, consumer products and services, design automation and energy.
He was CEO of Instromedix, a San Diego medical device company, brand
recognized in the cardiac device space. Mr. Barach was instrumental in the
company’s movement from a wireline trans-telephonic reporting platform to
wireless, that fueled a dramatic turn-around. He led the company to a remarkable
financial turnaround of 24% top line growth and 375% operating income growth,
following several declining years. Prior to that, he held the roles of President and
CEO, respectively, at WiFi and Bluetooth startups, Extricom and Brightcom; the
latter of which was sold to Flextronix in 2002. He founded and headed cellular
chip startup, COM-Solutions, developer of the first GSM chipset and core CMDA
technology, and led it to profitable growth before its sale to LSI Logic. Mr.
Barach held various general management roles, including leadership of a
successful financial turnaround at Global Microwave in 1999, later sold to a large
public firm. At CommQuest, he held engineering, technical marketing and
business development roles, and was involved in that company’s strategic
turnaround and financing before its sale to IBM in 1997.
Mr. Barach earned a Bachelor of Science degree in EE from the University of
California at San Diego, and is a graduate of San Diego State University’s MBA
for Executives program (EMBA). He resides in San Diego with his wife and three
children.
DAVID BARACH
CONTACT INFO:
Phone: 760-224-1556
E-mail: [email protected]
Dean’s Advisory Board
Board Member Biographies
Vice President
San Diego Tech Coast Angles
Education:
B.S., Electrical Engineering
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA
Executive MBA
San Diego State University
San Diego, CA
Other Affiliations:
Judge and Coach
The Social Enterprise Institute
UCSD Rady School of Business
and Venture Roundtable
Entrepreneur-in-Residence
CONNECT’s Springboard Program
Advisor
Women in Technology Board
doc_838819089.pdf
This document about deans advisory board board member biographies.
Mr. Barach has over 20 years of entrepreneurial and senior management
experience in business guidance – both startup and later stages – assessment,
strategy, execution, and turn-around. He is a member of the San Diego Tech
Coast Angels, where he serves on the board as Vice President and leads new deal
flow screening. Currently, he consults to small and medium-sized businesses in
new venture startup, financing, positioning, strategic and financial turn-around
and exit planning. He serves, or has served, on the boards of several for-profit and
not-for-profit organizations. He is affiliated as a business plan judge and coach at
the Social Enterprise Institute, the UCSD Rady School of Business and Venture
Roundtable. He also serves as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at CONNECT’s
Springboard program and as an advisor to the Woman in Technology board. .
His career started in the technology community, including hardware and software,
IC design and design automation, and later, medical and health sciences, energy
and systems integration; having held roles in general management, engineering
leadership, strategy, business development, and marketing and sales. He has led
organizations and/or advised management teams, both growth and distressed
company situations, in telecommunications, wireless, healthcare IT, SaaS,
medical devices, consumer products and services, design automation and energy.
He was CEO of Instromedix, a San Diego medical device company, brand
recognized in the cardiac device space. Mr. Barach was instrumental in the
company’s movement from a wireline trans-telephonic reporting platform to
wireless, that fueled a dramatic turn-around. He led the company to a remarkable
financial turnaround of 24% top line growth and 375% operating income growth,
following several declining years. Prior to that, he held the roles of President and
CEO, respectively, at WiFi and Bluetooth startups, Extricom and Brightcom; the
latter of which was sold to Flextronix in 2002. He founded and headed cellular
chip startup, COM-Solutions, developer of the first GSM chipset and core CMDA
technology, and led it to profitable growth before its sale to LSI Logic. Mr.
Barach held various general management roles, including leadership of a
successful financial turnaround at Global Microwave in 1999, later sold to a large
public firm. At CommQuest, he held engineering, technical marketing and
business development roles, and was involved in that company’s strategic
turnaround and financing before its sale to IBM in 1997.
Mr. Barach earned a Bachelor of Science degree in EE from the University of
California at San Diego, and is a graduate of San Diego State University’s MBA
for Executives program (EMBA). He resides in San Diego with his wife and three
children.
DAVID BARACH
CONTACT INFO:
Phone: 760-224-1556
E-mail: [email protected]
Dean’s Advisory Board
Board Member Biographies
Vice President
San Diego Tech Coast Angles
Education:
B.S., Electrical Engineering
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA
Executive MBA
San Diego State University
San Diego, CA
Other Affiliations:
Judge and Coach
The Social Enterprise Institute
UCSD Rady School of Business
and Venture Roundtable
Entrepreneur-in-Residence
CONNECT’s Springboard Program
Advisor
Women in Technology Board
doc_838819089.pdf