George T. Geis teaches at UCLA Anderson in the areas of mergers & acquisitions, financial modeling, entrepreneurship, and accounting. He has been voted Outstanding Teacher of the Year at UCLA Anderson five times. Geis has also served as Associate Dean and Faculty Director of UCLA Anderson's Executive MBA program. He is currently Faculty Director of Anderson's Mergers and Acquisitions Executive program.Geis has taught mergers and acquisitions at the Haas School, UC Berkeley. He has been a visiting professor at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy as well as at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia.Dr. Geis is an expert on M&A activity in technology, communications and media markets. His latest book, Semi-Organic Growth, provides an in-depth analysis of Google's innovative approach to M&A. Geis' research interests include market modeling for M&A-related strategies as well as venture initiation and growth processes.A National Science Foundation and Woodrow Wilson Honorary Fellow, Dr. Geis has extensive consulting experience and has published dozens of professional articles and six books. He is the recipient of the Financial Executives Institute Award for outstanding achievement in finance. In 2013, Geis was a Batten Fellow at the Darden School, University of Virginia.Dr. Geis taught in the LEAD Summer Institute for minority youth for more than 10 years. He has provided management education for directors of Head Start programs nationwide as well as for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans in UCLA's Entrepreneurs' Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities. His 16- tape lecture series on "Statistical Analysis in Business" appeared as part of the Teaching Company's Super Star Teacher series.Geis is editor of trivergence.com, a web site that provides a visual analysis of M&A deals in technology, media and communications markets. He also writes a blog entitled M&A Professor.Geis received a B.S. "summa cum laude" and with "honors in mathematics" from Purdue University , an M.B.A. from University of California, Los Angeles, and a Ph.D. from University of Southern California.