The Center for Management of Emerging Companies was founded by Dr. Alan S. Gutterman, who currently serves as the Director of the CMEC. Dr. Gutterman has published numerous books and articles on a diverse range of legal and business topics, including the popular Thomson Reuters/Westlaw publications Business Transactions Solutions (available on Westlaw and as West Forms - ProDoc Business Transactions Solution Library); California Transactions Forms, Going Global: A Guide to Building an International Business; Corporate Counsel’s Guide to Strategic Alliances, Corporate Counsel’s Guide to Technology Management and Transactions; Organizational Management and Administration: A Guide for Managers and Professionals; the Business Counselor’s Law and Compliance Practice Manual and Legal Compliance Checkups: Business Clients. He is the founder and principal of Gutterman Law & Business (http://www.alangutterman.com), a leading provider of timely and practical legal and business information for attorneys, other professionals and executives in the form of books, online content, newsletters, programs and consulting services. He also writes and publishes the Business Counselor Blog (www.businesscounselorblog.com) and serves as the director of the GL&B Institute for Management Training and Studies, which houses and supports several research centers and programs engaged in activities relating to organizational design and management, comparative management studies, management of emerging companies, management in developing countries, global law and business strategies and country and regional management studies.
Dr. Gutterman has over three decades of experience as a partner and senior counsel with internationally recognized law firms counseling small and large business enterprises in the areas of general corporate and securities matters, venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, international law and transactions, strategic business alliances, technology transfers and intellectual property, and has also held senior management positions with several technology-based businesses including service as the chief legal officer of a leading international distributor of IT products headquartered in Silicon Valley and as the chief operating officer of an emerging broadband media company. He has served in a number of capacities with various sections of the American Bar Association, including chairmanship or vice-chairmanship of the Asia-Pacific, Europe, International Commercial Transactions and International Investment and Development committees of the Section of International Law. He has also been a member of the Executive Committees of the Sections of Business Law and International Law of the State Bar of California. In addition, Dr. Gutterman has been an adjunct faculty member at several colleges and universities, including Boalt Hall, Golden Gate University, Santa Clara University and the University of San Francisco, teaching classes on a diverse range of topics including corporate finance, venture capital, corporate law, Japanese business law and law and economic development. He received his A.B., M.B.A., and J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, a D.B.A. from Golden Gate University, and a Ph. D. from the University of Cambridge. Please feel free to contact Dr. Gutterman directly at agutterman@alangutterman.com.
