Charles Baecker is a 35 year veteran of the Southern California electronics and software industries, with 20 years in executive management roles. He has worked for industry leaders Beckman Instruments, JD
Edwards, Wonderware Corporation, Delphi Communications Corp, Prime Computer and for a number of
smaller companies, in management roles including founder, President, Sales & Marketing and Product
Development. As an executive in the Los Angeles management consulting practice of Ernst & Young, Mr. Baecker provided consulting services in the areas of manufacturing operations and IT for both mid-cap companies and Fortune 500 divisions across the Western US.

A serial entrepreneur, he has been instrumental in the creation of seven start-ups including Assembly
Technologies Corporation, of which he served as President and has served on boards of various start-ups as a member and an observer. In 1993 Mr. Baecker was part of the team that took Wonderware Corp. public, helping create a market capitalization over $300 million. Currently, he is both Director of the Orange County Business Incubation Network (OCBIN) and Administrative Director of the Don Beall Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship at the Paul Merage School of Business at UC Irvine which provides thought leadership in business startup principles and practice to entrepreneurs in Orange County and throughout the wider Southern California area. In addition to his OCBIN and the Beall Center administrative responsibilities, Mr. Baecker is a Lecturer within the Merage School of Business in Entrepreneurship, a frequent presenter on campus and at entrepreneurship conferences and a mentor to young entrepreneurs in new venture development.

Academic Appointments

• 2010 The Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine Irvine-CA, Lecturer

Certifications

• 1979 American Production and Inventory Control Society; Certified in Inventory and Production Control (CPIM)
• 2007 University of California; Business Officers Institute
• 2009 University of California, Irvine; University of California, Irvine Leadership Academy; Community and Professional

Publications and Presentations

• "CAD/CAM Market Overview", Featured Speaker, Chapter Meeting, American Production and Inventory Control Society, Newport Beach, California, October, 1983
• "CAD System Selection", Featured Speaker, Chapter Meeting, American Institute of Architects, Newport Beach, California, August, 1984
• "Factory Integration through Packet Switched Networks", Networking Sections, Integrated Systems Architecture Conference, AUTOFACT 6, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Anaheim, California, October, 1984.
• "Robotic Systems Project Management", Interobot '84, International Robot Conference and Exhibition, Long Beach, California, October, 1984.
• "Robotic Systems Project Management", Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Torrance, California, November, 1984.
• Interview: "Computer Integrated Manufacturing System Implementation" with Tom Franklin, Business Editor, Executive report, KFAC FM Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, February, 1985.
• “Managing Factory Automation”, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Seattle, Washington 1986
• "Integration in Factory Automation: Where We Are Now", Computer Integrated Manufacturing Workshop Series, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Pomona, California, January, 1987.
• Using Factory Integration as a Competitive Weapon, pp 1., 15., Orange County Business Journal, February, 1987.
• "Contract Manufacturing”, Speaker, Chapter Meeting, American Electronics Society, Newport Beach, California, February, 1989.
• "Real-time Symbolic Processing for Demanding Applications", Featured Speaker, Chapter Meeting, Artificial Intelligence Special Interest Group, Association for Computing Machinery, October, 1989.
• "NetDDE for Distributed Applications", Featured Speaker, DECUS, Las Vegas, NV, November, 1993.
• "NetDDE for Distributed Applications", Featured Speaker, DECUS, Las Vegas, NV, November, 1994.
• Editorial: In My View, Managing Automation Magazine, February 1995
• “Planning for Effective Web Marketing”, American Electronics Association Annual Web Marketing Conference, Costa Mesa, California, May 1999
• “Current Trends in Process Manufacturing”, Best Software Visions Conference, Palm Springs, California, May 2002
• “How to Write a Concept Paper”, UC Irvine Business Plan Competition, Spring, 2005-09
• “Financial Projections”, UC Irvine Business Plan Competition, Spring, 2007-08
• “How to Prepare Your Medical Device Company for Acquisition”, The Don Beall Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Students to Start-ups Workshop #1, UC Irvine, February 17, 2009
• “Entrepreneurship”, Monthly Chapter Meeting, the UC Irvine Entrepreneurs Society, April 30,
• 2009