California Lutheran University

Mike Panesis is the Executive Director the Cal Lutheran Center for Entrepreneurship. He previously was Technology Management Program (TMP) Manager for UC Santa Barbara’s College of Engineering. Mike is Chairman Emeritus of Tech Coast Angels (TCA), the largest accredited angel investor group in the country. He heads TCA’s Central Coast Investor Network.Mike’s career spans a diverse range of industries and roles, including executive management, tech start-ups, information technology management and management consulting for companies like Semtech, Whitestone Research, DealerTrack, Church & Dwight, Deloitte & Touche and AT&T.Mike has an MBA Marketing from Rutgers University and a BS in Computer Science for Business from the DeVry Institute of Technology.