Professor Bill Bridges Memorial Symposium

Title: Best Practices I Have Learned from Bill and the CEOs of Successful Startup Companies

Speaker: Dr. Milton M. Chang (MS '65, PhD '69)

Join us in celebrating the life of Professor William Bridges. Milton Chang is a long-time colleague and distinguished entrepreneur; Milton's and Bill's relationship spans a period of time that saw the development of laser technologies and the meteoric rise in the applications of photonics. Milton will share his personal stories about Bill and also his insights from his lifelong journey as an entrepreneur.

Bio: Milton Chang is an angel investor mentoring entrepreneurs. He is the author of Toward Entrepreneurship (www.miltonchang.com), and president of Newport Corp and New Focus Inc. He runs Bonsai Heirloom and is an active advisor to several successful tech startup companies. Chang is past president of the IEEE Photonics Society and the Laser Institute of America (LIA), and is a fellow of IEEE, LIA, and OPTICA. He is a Caltech Trustee.