October 27, 2022 -  Joe Pinzeron, Technology Transfer and Manufacturing Consultant

Our speaker was Joe Pinzeron, a Coastsider now retired from a varied and interesting career that morphed from electronic and computer-based music to assisting U.S. and European technology companies with "tech transfer" projects, mainly setting up and launching manufacturing in Asia and in China specifically.  Joe's early career on the music faculty of University of Illinois in the 1980's would have been interesting all by itself, as he was on the cutting edge of development of electronically based music and went on to compose and perform.   

 

Time and tide were running in Joe's direction, however, and the pull of the technology tide was irresistable.  He went to China on a sabbatical 1986-7 to build a computer music studio and his vistas began to change. He began working for Logitec (mouse manufacturer) and for 10 years helped run the company's efforts in moving suppply chains and factories from the Western world into (first) Taiwan and then a China which at the time, under Deng Xiao-PIng,  seemed open and friendly to partnerships with the West.  HIs involvement with China was both technical and, because of his background, cultural.