George Kozmetsky is Chairman of the Advisory Board and a Senior Research Fellow of the IC2 Institute and Executive Associate for Economic Affairs with the University of Texas. He is a Professor in the Management and Computer Science Departments, holds the Murray S. Johnson Chair in Economics and the IC2 E.D. Walker Centennial Fellowship at the University of Texas at Austin. His expertise spans service, manufacturing and technology-based industries and venture capital. He is co-Founder and former Executive Vice President of Teledyne, Inc. He has assisted in developing over 100 technology-based companies and sits on the boards of many others. He has served state and federal governments as advisor, commissioner and task force panel member. He has received numerous awards, including first recipient of the Entrepreneurial Leadership Award from the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge, Inc.

Kozmentsky received his Doctor of Commercial Science from Harvard University.