Edgar Auslander

Columbia Business School MBA

Cornell University MEEng EE

American and French. Married. 

2 daughters in College 

Edgar Auslander has more than 35 years of experience serving on various Boards of Directors, working at startups, a Venture Capital firm, and Fortune100 companies such as Facebook and Qualcomm. As the Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships at Meta, he has focused on XR, AI, and Wearables, and is Founding Board Member at The AR Alliance. He initiated and drove the partnership with EssilorLuxottica and originated products like Ray-Ban Meta. He is the Founding Managing Partner at Menlo Business Partners, a consulting firm based in Menlo Park and Paris. Edgar was one of the founders of Texas Instruments' Wireless Business Unit, bringing it from scratch to $5B in annual revenue. As a former Faculty Member at Stanford University and the EDHEC Business School, he authored and taught classes on Management of Change and Business Negotiation classes at UC Berkeley Extension.  Edgar started his career licensing inventions from Columbia University and has since demonstrated expertise in product management, engineering and marketing team leadership, venture capital, consulting, business development, and mergers and acquisitions. A Senior Member of IEEE, he is co-author of "The Applications of Programmable DSPs in Mobile Communications" (Wiley), published numerous articles, and has delivered several keynotes at industry conferences worldwide. Edgar holds an MBA from Columbia University, and an MEEng. from Cornell University.

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Specialties: #Consulting, #Board Member, #Mergers and Acquisitions, #Venture Capital, #Marketing, #Strategy, #Business Development, #Product Management, #Teaching, #high-tech