William Guttman, Ph.D.
Dr. William Guttman is Special Advisor to the Provost of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), and Chairman of iCarnegie, CMU's for-profit education company. Earlier, he co-founded CMU's Cylab, one of the world's largest university-based research initiatives focused on dependability and security in software and networked systems. Dr.Guttman has also played an instrumental role in a number of tech transfers at CMU. He most recently co-founded and serves as chairman of Panopto, a video-search software company.
Dr. Guttman is also Investment Partner and leads the financial technology practice at Philadelphia-based TL Ventures. In addition to his investing activities on behalf of TL, he has founded, co-founded, or held other leadership roles in more than a dozen institutionally backed ventures. He served as chief executive at several of these companies, including Printcafe (NASDAQ: PCAF), a 500-person software developer acquired by Electronics for Imaging (NASDAQ: EFII).
Earlier in his career, Dr. Guttman served in advisory capacities to the United States, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the OECD. He is the author of Pacific-Asian Capital Markets (OECD/Oxford & IBH), Between Bailout and Breakdown: A Modular Approach to the Latin American Debt Crisis (Center for Strategic and International Studies), Telecommunications Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa (U.S. Agency for International Development), along with other publications and patents. He completed his master's and doctoral degrees at Balliol College, Oxford University, where he was a British Council Scholar.
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