During His Career, He

During his career, he has spearheaded the raising of hundreds of
millions in investment capital. He has served as chairman of the Hoover
Institution’s Council on Economic Development and as a strategic advisor
to the Russian government on the transition to capitalism. In 1993, he
received the San Jose State University ‘Alumni Award of Distinction’ and
is the recipient of the Santa Clara University 1994 ‘Distinguished
Engineering Alumni Award.’ He received a BSEE Cum Laude from California
State University, an MSEE from Santa Clara University and an MBA from
the University of San Francisco. He later became an alumnus of
Stanford’s Graduate School of Business through their Executive Program.
He has been the subject of articles in ‘Forbes,’ ‘Business Week,’
‘Venture,’ ‘Wall Street Journal,’ ‘Computer Marketing’ and ‘Electronic
Week.’ He has appeared on ‘Venture Point’ and ‘Window on Wall Street’
television programs. He is listed in ‘The International Directory of
Distinguished Leadership’, ‘Men of Achievement’ and ‘Who’s Who’ in: ‘the
Computer Industry’, ‘California’, ‘Finance and Industry’, ‘Science and
Engineering’, ‘American Business Leaders’ and ‘Worldwide.’ Mr. LaPine’s
accomplishments have been chronicled in numerous business books
including ‘The Third Century,’ ‘High Technology Start-Ups’ and ‘Overseas
Business.’