Edgar Auslander

Edgar Auslander has more than 25 years of experience in venture capital, M&A, product management, and general management at startups and Fortune 100 companies. He work at Facebook-Oculus Research with the Chief Scientist, researchers, and business development on the 3-5 year VR and AR (virtual reality and augmented reality) roadmaps. Mr. Auslander has held several executive positions at Qualcomm, Intel, ST-Ericsson, Audience (a company he helped sell to Knowles), Texas Instruments, VantagePoint Venture Partners and IXI-Mobile. He was one of the founders of Texas Instruments’​ Wireless Business Unit ($0 to $5B/yr, 21% PFO) won more than $500M business and acquired several companies. He also served as SVP Marketing at IXI Mobile Inc., a Silicon Valley start-up that pioneered wearables and services similar to Instagram in 2001. A guest lecturer at universities and business schools, he started his career by licensing inventions from Columbia University. A Senior Member of IEEE, Mr. Auslander is co-author of “The Applications of Programmable DSPs in Mobile Communications” (Wiley). He holds an MBA from Columbia University, and an MEEng from Cornell University.