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Michael Panesis is an Executive Director and Professor of Practice at the Steven Dorfman Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship. He is also a Board Member of the Kingsmen Shakespeare Company, Elite Robotics Corp, the Society for Arts Entrepreneurship Education, Sensor Industries, RCMakes, as well as a former Board Member for Whistle Inc., West Ventura County Business Alliance, Santa Barbara Angel Alliance (founding member), and Tech Coast Angels (President of the Central Coast Network and Chairman Emeritus). He also holds more than 10 years of Management experience as a Manager at Deloitte & Touche, Director of Management Information Services at Church & Dwight Inc., and VP Division General Manager and CTO at DealerTrack. His experience also covers product development, as he was VP at Whitestone Research. He specializes in information technology with over 8 years of experience and has previously held positions like CIO at Superior Information Services, Senior Consultant at IMI Systems, Information Systems Associate at AT&T, and VP of Information Technology at Semtech. He has a B.Sc. in Computer Science for Business from DeVry University and an MBA in Marketing from Rutgers Business School.