faculty

UCLA Anderson School of Management
Summer Entrepreneurship Institute

July 7 - August 1, 2008

Entrepreneurship Faculty

Faculty

David Ravetch has been a UCLA faculty member for over twenty-five years. His courses include Principles of Accounting, Intermediate Accounting, Cost Accounting, Special Topics in Accounting, and Mathematics for Management. He also teaches intensive Mathematics, Excel, and Accounting workshops that prepare incoming MBA students for the rigorous quantitative challenges of the UCLA MBA Program. Mr. Ravetch has won numerous teaching awards including the 1995 Faculty Merit Award, which recognizes excellence in teaching, presented by the California Society of Certified Public Accountants, Committee on Accounting Education. He has also been named Favorite Accounting Instructor by UCLA accounting students, and Most Recommended Instructor by UCLA students campus-wide. In addition to his love of teaching, Mr. Ravetch has a passion for music. He plays the piano, guitar, and clarinet. He has written children's musicals and musicals about the public accounting profession which have been performed at the annual UCLA Accounting Awards banquets.

Gonzalo Freixes is a graduate of Loyola Law School, and has been an Attorney at Law for more than 23 years, with extensive experience in international, corporate transactional and litigated matters. He has been a professor of Business Law and Taxation at the UCLA Anderson School of Management for 13 years, and has taught courses in Corporate Law, Business Law and Litigation for the UCLA Extension program. Prof. Freixes is also the coach of the national championship UCLA Mock Trial Team. He has lectured extensively on legal and tax issues, most recently at the University of Valencia Law School in Valencia, Spain. In addition to this summer's Entrepreneurship Institute, Professor Freixes will also be leading UCLA Summer Session's Travel Study program on International Business Law.

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George Abe is a lecturer at UCLA Anderson School of Management. His teaching responsibilities include classes in entrepreneurship, business plan development and field study program advisories. Previously he was a venture partner with Palomar Ventures, a VC firm in Santa Monica, California. Before Palomar, he was with Cisco Systems in the office of the chief technical officer, supporting M&A transactions and strategic partnerships. Prior to that he was with Infonet Services Corporation (NYSE:IN, now BT) where he established Infonet’s IP data service and helped spin out the company from its parent, Computer Sciences Corp (NYSE: CSC).

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Eric Sussman has been a lecturer in accounting and real estate at UCLA’s Anderson Graduate School of Management since 1995, where he has been voted Teacher of the Year five times by Anderson’s MBA students and was awarded the Citibank Teaching Award, voted upon by a committee of faculty members, in 1998. He has also received recognition by Business Week as one of the Anderson School’s ‘Outstanding Faculty' each year since 1996.

Outside of campus, Mr. Sussman is president of Amber Capital, Inc., a real estate investment company, which has acquired, rehabilitated, developed, and managed over 1,000,000 square feet of commercial real estate since its founding in 1993. The firm’s portfolio consists of industrial, multi-family residential, and retail properties. He is also on the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Causeway Capital’s International Value Fund, which has nearly $2 billion in assets, and a newly started domestic value fund, the Presidio Fund. He received his MBA from Stanford, with honors, in 1993, after graduating Summa cum Laude from UCLA in 1987. He is a licensed CPA in the State of California.

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