Audrey MacLean (born 1952) is an American businesswoman and entrepreneur. She has been featured on Forbes’ Midas Touch List, ''Fortune''’s Most Powerful Women and ''Business Week''’s Top 50 Business Women in America.

Early life and career

A native of

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, she attended

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before heading to the West coast and earning a B.S. in mathematics from the

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. In the summer of 1982, she left

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and co-founded Network Equipment Technologies. Later, she was the founder and CEO of Adaptive Corp., a maker of high-speed switches. She has provided seed financing to numerous successful start-ups including

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, StarMaker Interactive and Selectica. Today, she is an active investor and currently serves on the board or advisory board of almost a dozen other start-ups, including
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, Finesse, Followanalytics,

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, Luxe, mOasis, Queplix, Skybox, SolumTech, and StarMaker. Working with the new generation of entrepreneurs, she is often called on for her advice. MacLean is an advisor to

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and serves on the faculty at

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's Graduate School of Engineering.Faculty Profile
Stanford University In May 2011, she received the thir

given annually b
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to honor successful women entrepreneurs in technology.

References

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