Dr. Mann is the Chairman of EnCompass Knowledge Systems, Inc., a provider of a new generation of web-enabled systems for corporate governance and organizational performance management, and an Adjunct Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Southern California, where he developed and teaches a graduate course in the Strategic Management of Technology. He has been the C.E.O. and an outside director of public and closely held companies and has lead corporate restructures. He has also been an adviser to firms ranging from start-ups to major-multinational corporations, and government agencies around the globe on issues of business performance, organization, economic development, and technology management. He received B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Caltech, a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Physics from USC, and an Executive M.B.A. from UCLA.
Social/Volunteer Organizations
President's Circle, California Institute of Technology Board of Directors, Associates of the California Institute of Technology Forum for Corporate Directors Board of Examiners, Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award Advisory Boards for emerging companies National Science and Technology Policy Mobilization Working Group Army Science Board - Chair, Ballistic Missile Defense Subgroup & Directed Energy Study Panel Visiting Advisory Committee, and Adjunct Professor - Industrial & Systems Engineering Department, University of Southern California Chair's Advisory Council - Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology Instructor, National Technological University Adjunct Professor, Asia Pacific Institute Dean's Council, UCLA Graduate School of Management Hicks Fellow in Industrial Relations, California Institute of Technology Exchange Participant, National Academy of Sciences & U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences
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PUBLICATIONS AND PATENTS: Over a hundred publications and videos in technology, management, and policy. 12 patents. Contributing Editor, California High Tech Funding Journal
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS: Hughes Fellow Hewlett Packard Fellow Hicks Memorial Fellow in Industrial Relations Tau Beta Pi Sigma Xi Marquis' Who's Who in Finance and Industry, Who’s Who in Science and Engineering Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World Patriotic Civilian Service Commendation