Charlie Bass (engineer)
Charlie Bass,[2] is an American electrical engineer, academician and entrepreneur. He was the co-founder of the networking company Ungermann-Bass in 1979. Led by Ralph Ungermann and staffed by several colleagues from Zilog,[3] Ungermann-Bass helped commercialize ethernet, had a successful IPO, and then was purchased by Tandem Computers.
Charlie Bass
1942
M.S.,University of Miami
PhD, University of Hawaiʻi
Foundation of Ungermann-Bass
University of Berkeley (1972-1975)
Zilog (1974-1978)
Ungermann-Bass (1979-1985, 1986-1987)
Bass Associates(1989)[1]
Bass was also co-founder of Parallan Computer in July 1986, a maker of high-specification, multi-processor servers,[4][5] and Starlight Networks[6] in late 1990, a software company involved in streaming media and Socket Mobile, Inc.[7] in 1992.
In 1972, Bass received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Hawaii. He has taught at University of California, Berkeley; University of California, Santa Cruz; and Stanford University, and he worked for Zilog. In 1989, he formed his own venture capital company, Bass Associates. Bass is currently an advisor to Rising Tide, a venture capital partnership.[8]