INSTRUCTOR: Debbie Abbott, MBA
Debbie Abbott has over twenty years of experience in high technology finance and marketing. She has consulted and worked for leading Silicon Valley companies, and is currently engaged on a long-term consulting project with Cisco. In addition to her consulting work, Debbie teaches Finance at San Jose State University.
After receiving her MBA in Finance from UCLA, she worked as a financial manager for Xerox. She held marketing management positions at Xerox, Plantronics and Proxim and consulted for companies such as Charles Schwab, Symantec, Yahoo, Intuit and more.
In the Spring 2008 semester, Ms. Abbott will be teaching two Bus 170 Finance classes. Ms. Abbott brings to her classes a solid understanding of finance fundamentals and its real world applications in corporate financial planning and reporting, pricing, market research, new product introductions, and more. Plus, she views teaching one of the things she does for the "fun of it."