Entretech was founded in 2000 through a partnership between the City of Pasadena and the California Institute of Technology to grow the high-tech industry along the 134/2010 corridor. Entretech is focused on serving as a facilitator in helping to establish and develop high-tech businesses in the Pasadena area.
Entretech is a non-profit 501 c3 organization whose revenues come from financial contributions from business sponsors and individual donors, municipal support, membership fees and events.
The Board of Directors would like to acknowledge the contributions of Entretech’s founding Executive Director, Stephanie C. Yanchinski, who served the organization from 2000-2008.
Stephanie C. Yanchinski – Founding Executive Director
Stephanie C. Yanchinski served as the Executive Director of Entretech from its inception in 2000 through 2008. During her tenure the organization raised over $1 million in support funding, launched signature events including the Entretech PwC Entrepreneurship Awards and the GreenTech Conferences, and grew to over 250 members in 30 cities and 8 industry sectors across Greater Los Angeles. Entretech also built an extensive supportive network of over 8,000 contacts of leading service providers, academics, government officials, investors and angels, large corporations and successful tech entrepreneurs. Ms. Yanchinski played an integral role in enabling Entretech to provide hundreds of entrepreneurs with practical support in finding finance, real estate and big corporation customers and partners.
Homepage photo of Pasadena is taken from near Lake and Cordova. Original image by Ross Berteig.