Wilson F. Zehr
Associate Professor, School of Management
Education
- BS, Finance, Portland State University
- MBA, Portland State University
- Ph.D (ABD), Systems Science, Portland State University
Background
Wilson has more than 25 years marketing, software, engineering and management experience in high technology and telecom industries.
He has created numerous new products and brands and successfully brought them to market and has crafted and managed strategic alliances with many of the largest technology and communications firms in the world, including: Oracle, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Intel and Cisco.
Wilson is also a serial entrepreneur who has raised over $60 million from investors; returned over $160 million; and bought/sold a number of enterprises. He was co-founder and CEO of Zairmail/Launchpoint, which invented the concept of hybrid mail for short run direct mail campaigns. He currently is the CEO and founder of Cendix, the leading provider of web-to-print solutions that automate on-demand one-to-one marketing.
Previously, he led Marketing and then Business Development at eFusion, and Sequent Computer Systems, where he developed and managed the global relationship with Oracle Corporation, which represented 65% of Sequent's revenue.
Wilson received a BS in Finance (Computer Science minor) and an MBA from Portland State University. He completed all of the coursework required for his PhD in Systems Science. He has served on the Boards of the Software Association of Oregon, The Oregon Advanced Computing Institute, The American Advertising Museum, The Program Management Forum, and on the national Small Business Advisory Council of the American Electronics Association (AeA). He has taught classes on venture finance at Portland State University and the Oregon Entrepreneur's Network.