Background
Zschau, Ed was born on January 6, 1940 in Omaha. Son of Ernest and Alice Fay Zschau.
United States representative politician
Zschau, Ed was born on January 6, 1940 in Omaha. Son of Ernest and Alice Fay Zschau.
AB cum laude in Philosophy, Princeton University, 1961. Master of Business Administration, Stanford University, 1963. Master of Science in Statistics, Stanford University, 1964.
Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration, Stanford University, 1967.
In 1986 he ran as the Republican candidate for a seat in the United States Senate. He defeated conservative Bruce Herschensohn and Congresswoman Bobbi Fiedler in the primary but then lost to incumbent Democrat Alan Cranston by a narrow margin. Zschau briefly re-entered the political arena as the vice presidential running mate to former Colorado Governor Dick Lamm, a Democrat, who challenged Ross Perot for the Reform Party presidential nomination in 1996.
Zschau is currently a visiting lecturer with rank of professor at Princeton University in the Departments of Electrical Engineering, Operations Research and Financial Engineering, and in the Center for Innovation in Engineering Education.
Prior to his current post at Princeton, from 1997 to 2000, he was professor of management at the Harvard Business School and a visiting professor at Princeton University. Zschau"s business experience is extensive.
He founded and served from 1968 to 1981 as Chief Executive Officer of System Industries, a computer products company. During the 1960s, Zschau was for five years an assistant professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, teaching courses in computer systems, management science, and business policy.
In 1967-1968 he was a visiting assistant professor at the Harvard Business School, where he taught the required first year Master of Business Administration course in managerial economics.
He has an Bachelor of Arts degree (cum laude) in philosophy from Princeton University and Master of Business Administration, Master of Surgery (statistics), and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Stanford University. He was recruited to be chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Adstar, the International Business Machines Corporation Storage Systems Division in 1993. He serves as chairman of the board of NanoOpto Corporation, Princeton Power Systems, and StarTek, Incorporated.
(New York Stock Exchange), President of Polyera Corporation, as a director of The Reader"s Digest Association, Incorporated.
(New York Stock Exchange), and Washington Live, Incorporated.
Co-chairman President Reagan's Business Advisory Panel, 1980. Member President Reagan's Task Force on Entrepreneurship and Innovation, 1980. Delegate White House Conference on Small Business, 1980.
Chairman board San Francisco Bay Area High Technology Science Center, 1983. Member American Electronics Association (director 1974-1979), American Council Capital Formation (director 1979-1980).
Married JoAnn Weidmann.