Edgar Auslander has more than 30 years of experience serving at company Boards and working at startups, a Venture Capital firm, and Fortune100 companies such as Facebook, Qualcomm and Intel. Throughout his career, Auslander has demonstrated expertise in product management, engineering and marketing team leadership, venture capital, consulting, business development, and mergers and acquisitions. As Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships at Meta, he has focused on XR, AI, and wearables and is Founding Board Member at The AR Alliance. He initiated and drove the partnership with EssilorLuxottica and redefined Meta AR roadmap with products like Ray-Ban Meta. He is the Founding Managing Partner at Menlo Business Partners, a consulting firm based in Menlo Park and Paris. He was one of the founders of Texas Instruments' Wireless Business Unit, bringing it from scratch to $5B in annual revenue.

A former Faculty Member at Stanford University and the EDHEC Business School, he teaches Management of Change and Business Negotiation classes at UC Berkeley Extension. He started his career while studying for his MBA by licensing inventions from Columbia University. A Senior Member of IEEE, Mr. Auslander is co-author of "The Applications of Programmable DSPs in Mobile Communications" (Wiley), published numerous articles, and has delivered several keynotes at industry conferences worldwide. He holds an MBA from Columbia University, and an MEEng. from Cornell University.