Jorge Zavala is the CEO of TechBA, The Mexico- Silicon Valley Technology Business Accelerator based in San Jose, California. He is actually involved in supporting high innovative technology start-ups in their initial and turn around stages.  He joined the TechBA Program in December, 2004 to bring Small and Medium Mexican companies to the Silicon Valley area to expand their business in the USA and to open opportunities to American Entrepreneurs in IT and technology industries in Mexico.  Jorge has been a unique high tech entrepreneur combining the better of two worlds: the technical support in computer and innovation related areas, with his experience as a venture capitalist in the executive business management field. 

With more than 28 years of management experience, he has been the CEO of seven companies and prior to joining TechBA he worked as an Associated Partner and CTO of Visionaria, a Venture Capital Group that provides funding, consulting and coaching capabilities to IT companies.  Jorge received a BS in Electrical Engineering from Universidad La Salle, Mexico in 1979, and a MS in Mathematics from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 1984. He has been a Guest Speaker at the prestigious Graduate Business School IPADE (www.ipade.mx) in Mexico City, for several years (from 2002 to 2003) in the areas of creating virtual communities for business environments, enabling innovation within the organizations, Deployment strategy: the knowing and doing gap and Collaborative Learning