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Dr. Howard Lee Morgan
Howard Lee Morgan is President of Arca Group Inc.
in Villanova, PA and a Director of Idealab the Pasadena
, CA based creator and operator of internet companies,
where was a founding investor in 1996 and served
as President of idealab! New York. He received a
Ph.D. in Operations Research from Cornell University
in 1968, and a B.S. in physics from City College
of the City University of New York in 1965. In 2005,
he confounded First Round Capital, an early stage
venture fund based outside of Philadelphia, PA.
He is helping to nurture a number of Idealab companies,
including CarsDirect.com, the leading internet seller
of automobiles, Partsearch , providing back end
solutions for finding parts in the electronics field,
Evolution Robotics, Energy Innovations, Newbury
Networks,, Omnilux, and snap.com a new search engine.
Dr. Morgan served as Professor of Decision Sciences
at The Wharton School, and Professor of Computer
and Information Sciences at The Moore School of
the University of Pennsylvania from 1972 through
1985. He has been a Visiting Professor at the California
Institute of Technology and the Harvard Business
School. During his academic career he served as
an editor of Communications of the ACM, Management
Science, Transactions on Office Information Systems
and Transactions on Database Systems. His research
on user interface technology, and on optimization
of computer networks led to his bringing the ARPAnet
to Philadelphia in 1974. As a result of this early
participation in the internet, he advised many corporate
and government agencies on the uses of electronic
and voice mail, implementing it throughout the Wharton
School in the mid 1970s.
From 1983 to 1989, he served as President of Renaissance
Technologies Corp. in New York, where he supervised
venture capital investments in high technology companies.
He was a founding board member and technical advisor
of Franklin Electronic Publishers, one of the first
manufacturers of personal computers. He has been
an active consultant and speaker to users and vendors
in the information systems area for more than 30
years, and has worked with many of the Fortune 100
companies and numerous government agencies.
Since 1989, he has been President of the Arca Group,
Inc., a consulting and venture capital investment
management firm specializing in the area of computer
and communications technologies. Arca Group nurtures
ventures and has taken them from seed stage through
initial public offerings, including MetaCreations
Corporation (now Viewpoint Corporation), a computer
graphics software company, Infonautics Corporation(
now Tucows), which provides search products and
services on the internet and MyPoints.com, Inc.(now
part of United AirLines New ventures) – the
leading direct e-mail provider He has been involved
in more than two dozen startups and was a lead investor
in the formation of Bill Gross Idealab, a Pasadena
based incubator for internet companies.
Dr. Morgan serves on a number of public company
Boards, including Franklin Electronic Publishers,
Inc., Segue Software Corporation, and Unitronix
Corp.. He is also Chairman or a member of the board
of numerous private companies including CarsDirect.com,
Partsearch Technology, Energy Innovations, MagicWorks
LLC, and Planalytics, Inc. He has also served as
CEO of Kentek and Franklin during various turnover
or transitional periods. In 1997, he was named Delaware
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