Roger A. Strauch

Roger Strauch is chairman of The Roda Group, a venture development company, based in Berkeley, California. His firm provides entrepreneurs the environment, resources, and guidance to launch and grow their high technology businesses.

Mr. Strauch is on the board of directors of all eight Roda Group companies. He is the former CEO of Symmetricom in San Jose and the former chairman, CEO, and co-founder of TCSI in Alameda.

With his Roda Group partner, Dan Miller, he helped establish the Ask Jeeves Planetarium at the Chabot Space and Science Center, in Oakland, California. Mr. Strauch is an executive member of the Board of Trustees of the Mathematics Science Research Institute in Berkeley and the Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Mr. Strauch has endowed the Roger A. Strauch Chair in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and co-founded the William Saroyan Endowment for Armenian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Life Trustee of the Armenian Assembly of America.

Mr. Strauch earned a Bachelor of Science degree, with distinction, from Cornell University and a Master of Science degree from Stanford University, both in electrical engineering. His wife, Julie Kulhanjian is an attending physician at Oakland Children's Hospital. They have three children.

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