Each year the UC Davis Graduate School of Management invites a prominent executive to teach a quarter-long MBA course that reflects their management expertise. The Robert A. Fox Executive-in-Residence Program gives students and faculty a unique opportunity to work closely with a top business leader. In addition to class lectures, the Executive-in-Residence invites other high-level executives to guest lecture in his or her class, meets with students and the GSM community informally.

Robert Fox, who led Foster Farms, Revlon International and Del Monte and other major public and private corporations over four decades, endowed the program with a $350,000 gift in April 2007. Fox, who is a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council, himself served as Executive-in-Residence at the School in 2001. Fox’s generous gift will help the Graduate School of Management continue to bring the know-how of other leading executives to the classroom.

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Executive-in-Residence Jim Olson

Jim Olson founded WestShore Management Group in April 2007, continuing a distinguished career after leading several high-technology businesses for two Fortune companies and serving for nine years as CEO of SkyStream Networks, the top rated IPTV video head-end provider worldwide. WestShore Management Group provides interim CEO, corporate consulting and executive development services for both public and private, venture-financed companies.

Most recently, Olson was executive vice president of video compression systems at TANDBERG Television.  He became part of the company’s senior management team in April 2006 following TANDBERG’s acquisition of SkyStream, where he was president and chief executive officer.  Olson left TANDBERG and founded WestShore Management Group in early 2007, when ERICSSON acquired TANDBERG for $1.4 billion.

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