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The Mountain View Chamber of Commerce has selected former tech executive Peter Katz as its new CEO. Katz replaces Bruce Humphrey, who announced his departure in September.
A fourth-generation Bay Area native, Katz comes with more than 30 years of experience spread between private business and nonprofits. Most recently, he worked as a consultant on strategy and social equity for the California Community Colleges. Prior to that, he was the first executive director of Genesys Works, a nonprofit that helps low-income high school seniors get into college. Katz has also held managerial positions at Xerox and Apple, along with a variety of other startups.
His education includes a history degree from the University of California at Berkeley and an MBA from Golden Gate University.
“Katz has also held managerial positions at Xerox and Apple, along with a variety of other startups.”
To Mark Noack: If you were unaware of this, Apple Computer became a publicly-traded company in 1980; Xerox some two decades earlier (in the form it’s now known; its origins are older still). So neither was generally considered a “startup” even 30 years ago (indicated above as the beginning of Mr. Katz’s work career). Perhaps you meant “other firms,” or “and a variety of startups,” rather than naming two already-mature companies as “startups.”
Anyway, the best of luck to the new executive of a very constructive and widely respected organization!