David Teece

Dr. Teece co-founded and is Chairman of the Berkley Research Group (BRG). He has been an active consultant on applied economic and management issues to corporations and governments around the world for over 25 years. As Founder and Chairman, David Teece provides overall leadership for Optimal Auctions' strategic, financial, and organizational development. Dr. Teece is a leading authority on knowledge, innovation, and organizational design particularly as they relate to competition policy and intellectual property. He is author or co-author of over 150 books and articles on topics in innovation, strategy, and management and is the editor of Industrial & Corporate Change (Oxford University Press). He has testified before Congress on regulatory policy and competition policy and before judges, juries, arbitrators, and tribunals in the U.S. and abroad, both on liability and complex valuation and damage issues.

Dr. Teece is also the Mitsubishi Bank Professor of International Business and Finance at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley where he also directs the Institute of Management, Innovation and Organization, and is Chairman of the Consortium for Research on Telecommunications Policy. He is also a Director of the Atlas Family of Mutual Funds. He has held appointments at Stanford University, Oxford University, and the University of Canterbury. Dr. Teece earned a BA from the University of Canterbury and a MA and PhD in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.