Meet Ken Pickar, angel investor and Caltech professor. He teaches product design, with projects like making wheelchairs from bicycles which can be built in Guatemala. The class combines students from Guatemala, the Pasadena Design School and his students at Caltech.

He's a Tech Coast Angel and sits on private and public boards, like telecom NeuStar which went public in 2005. He sits on the board of the LA Regional Food Bank which feeds several hundred thousand people each week. All these experiences are a way of keeping himself contemporary; his students aren't hearing old war stories.

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Events
Pitch at Fast Pitch at UCLA, Feb 24th

The SW Regional Angel Summit in Tucson March 22-23.

The Anaheim Center for New Energy Technologies is hosting the Clean Tech Business Plan Competition. They're giving away $40,000 in cash prizes for the best clean water and energy innovations. Deadline for entries is March 16th.

Attend the Angel Capital Association's Annual Summit in Atlanta April 15-17.

Join me; I'll be moderating 2 panel discussions in Madrid April 27-28 at the
9th Annual EBAN Congress.