The Innovation + Design Hub powered by Blackstone Launchpad is pleased to host its Speaker Series with Dr. Steven Seltzer, founder of American Trash Management and SmartTrash. This entrepreneurship Speaker Series provides an opportunity to learn from Steven’s real-life experience of becoming an entrepreneur, he will share his journey and then answer questions from the event attendees.

About the Speaker:

Steven Seltzer graduated from UC Berkeley in 1973 with BA in history. He spent most of the 1970s in graduate school at Berkeley in their history department before joining a small advertising and PR agency in 1979.  In two years, he became the agency’s top account manager and copywriter.  In 1981 he joined the world’s largest equipment leasing company, US Leasing, where he worked until 1989, becoming Division Manager of the 80-person, $50,000,000 Telelease division.  In 1990 he and another individual founded American Trash Management, where he worked as an owner/executive until 2023. In the late 1990s, he began the slow process of learning economics, taking introductory courses at various community colleges. He eventually earned an MA in economics from Cal State University East Bay (2006) and a Ph.D. from UC Merced (2011). Since 2012 he has been a lecturer (now Continuing Lecturer) in UC Merced’s ECON Department.   

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Food will be provided and free T-Shirts for the first attendees - Don't forget to RSVP! See you there 😃

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