Charlie Bass (engineer)

Charlie Bass,^[2] is an American electrical engineer, academic and entrepreneur. He was the co-founder of the networking company Ungermann-Bass in 1979. Led by Ralph Ungermann and staffed by several colleagues from Zilog,^[3] Ungermann-Bass helped commercialize ethernet, had a successful IPO, and then was purchased by Tandem Computers.

Dr. Charlie Bass
Born	1942 United States
Education	M.S.,University of Miami PhD, University of Hawaiʻi
Known for	Foundation of Ungermann-Bass
Scientific career
Fields	Electrical engineering Microprocessors Computer networking
Institutions	University of Berkeley (1972–1975) Zilog (1974–1978) Ungermann-Bass (1979–1985, 1986–1987) Bass Associates(1989)[1]

Bass was also co-founder of Parallan Computer in July 1986, a maker of high-specification, multi-processor servers,^[4][5] and Starlight Networks^[6] in late 1990, a software company involved in streaming media and Socket Mobile, Inc.^[7] in 1992.

In 1972, Bass received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Hawaii. He has taught at University of California, Berkeley; University of California, Santa Cruz; and Stanford University, and he worked for Zilog. In 1989, he formed his own venture capital company, Bass Associates. Bass is currently an advisor to Rising Tide, a venture capital partnership.^[8]