Stuart Abrams:
CLASS OF 1976
Woodside High SchoolClass of 1976
Woodside, CA
University of North Carolina - BusinessClass of 1987
Chapel hill, NC
University of CaliforniaClass of 1981
Santa barbara, CA
Stuart's Story
Life
Feeling open today. Ok...UCSB grad, '81 (4 yrs was not enough for this piece of heaven!) Bus Econ...joined Syntex in Palo Alto. Sent me to Bermuda for a year...and back to Palo Alto in '84...off to UNC-Chapel Hill for MBA in '85...internship at Pfizer in NYC...but...no place like home. Back to the bay area, w/girlfriend-fiancee in tow. Joined Tandem Computers...became...disengaged. Joined Synopsys in MV in '92, went public. Great 4+ year run there, got engaged again. Left SNPS for Int'l Network Svs, went public, great 3 years before being swallowed by Lucent. Had son with Lori - Trevor. Still didn't figure out how to get married!! Left Lucent for VP job at startup...right before tech meltdown...joined Veritas Software in 2001. Spent 4+ years there before getting acquired by Symantec. Left SYMC to travel through Eastern Europe. Fell in love with Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Kyiv. Met the CEO of a software outsourcer in Kyiv, accepted CFO role at his company. Spent the first half of 2007 in Kyiv, before being diagnosed with multiple myeloma in May. Ukraine's not the place you want to be when diagnosed with cancer, so...friends stuck me on a plane for London. Spent 9 weeks in an oncology center there, before coming back hom...Expand for more
e. Fighting the good fight here in Los Altos, and trying to help my son be the best he can be.
May '09 update: I survived chemo, radiation, and a stem cell transplant at Stanford Feb-May '08. Wow. That which doesn't kill you... I am now in a "VGPR" - very good partial remission. My kappa free light chains (don't ask) are above normal - but stable. As long as that is the case, I'll be fine.
Actually went back to work last October, taking the CFO job for a software outsourcing company in San Bruno. I was concerned about my stamina, but as it turns out, getting back to work has been therapeutic.
Thankful for each day....
7/11/20 brief update...11 years later....: 1) I'm still here! Surfing the waves of novel multiple myeloma drugs that have come along over the past 13 years. As "the terrorist cells" (as I call them) figure out how to get around a drug, the next ones have proven effective. Thank you, Kaiser and Stanford Cancer Center; 2) FINALLY....in 2010 (10/10/10!), I got married, at the beautiful court house in Santa Barbara. I met my wife while traveling back and forth to Ukraine for work in 2009. Only took what....51 years? Never settle. I continue to work part-time finance roles for tech startups here in the valley.
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