Abe M. Zarem

Abe M. Zarem

Abe M. Zarem (1917-2023) was Founder and Managing Director, Frontier Associates, an advanced technological broad based consultancy serving the academic, governmental, defense, commercial, domestic and international communities. He was Distinguished Senior Advisor for Neuroscience Technology Transfer for the UCLA Brain Research Institute and a member of the Urology Advisory Board of the UCLA Geffen School of Medicine. Additionally, he served as Distinguished Visiting Executive in Science and Technology for the California Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Dr. Zarem was founder, chairman and CEO Emeritus of Electro-Optical Systems and the Xerox Development Corporation. He received his Master’s and Ph.D. Magna cum Laude from the California Institute of Technology.

His principal work was in entrepreneurial technology transfer, strategic business development, and in leadership management training. His activities covered a broad range from the impact of research and development and science and technology on regional economic development to a wide variety of technical and economic programs ranging from the regional and land development to advanced work in electronics and optics, telecommunications, night vision and infrared equipments, medical instrumentation, telemedicine and health care, and significant frontier and pioneering devices of importance to the nation’s space, satellite and defense activities. He was known for creating technical centers, which have served as nucleators and incubators for new advanced developments, components instruments, systems and devices for all manner of commercial applications.