BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION:

Jesse M. Fried is a Professor of Law at the University of California , Berkeley , and Faculty Co-Director of the Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy (BCLBE). He holds an A.B. and A.M in Economics from Harvard University , and a J.D. from Harvard Law School . Fried joined the Berkeley faculty in 1997 following two years in practice and a two-year Olin Fellowship at Harvard Law School .

Fried's main areas of research are executive compensation, corporate governance, corporate bankruptcy and venture capital. Fried's recent writings include Pay without Performance: the Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation (Harvard University Press, 2004, co-authored with Lucian Bebchuk), “Agency Costs of Venture Capitalist Control of Startups,” ( NYU Law Review, 2006 ) (co-authored with Mira Ganor), and “ Informed Trading and False Signaling with Open Market Repurchases” ( California Law Review, 2005)