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| Tonight we present a panel of
venture capitalists, angels, and entrepreneurs to talk about the types of
investment deals being done in today's weakened investment and business
climates. They will guide the audience who seeks to raise money to understand
what is important to investors now and appeal to them on that basis. Our
panelists will address issues of valuation, provide insight about investor
perspectives, talk about due diligence, how to position your company to be
attractive, and identify critical milestones to gain entree to the capital
market providers. They will identify where investments are being made and why
and share their opinions on what the capital markets may look like in the next
year. |
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| Speakers: |
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| Moderator: |
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Lorin Scott, Manager, Deloitte & Touche
Tech-Venture Center |
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Larry Grumer, Managing Director, Technology
Associates & Alliances (TAA) |
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Speakers:
Sheryl
Marshall, Co-founder and Managing Director of Axxon Capital, a Venture
Capital Firm that is dedicated to investing in women and minority owned
businesses in the New Economy. Axxon Capital is the fourth women owned, women
targeted SBIC in the country and is currently the largest. Prior to this,
Ms.Marshall spent 22 years as a stockbroker at various New York Stock Exchange
firms, most recently, Donaldson, Lufkin, and Jenrette. In February of 1995,
President Clinton appointed Ms. Marshall to the Federal Retirement Thrift
Investment Board that oversees $100 billion of 401(k) money for Federal
employees. Ms. Marshall serves on the boards of many organizations and is on
the board of the International Women's Forum, the Massachusetts Women's' Forum,
the Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Institute of Contemporary Art. Ms.
Marshall received her B.A. from Emerson College and her M.B.A from Simmons
College. She is a frequent speaker on issues relating to women and money..
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Lucinda
Linde, Managing Director, First Light Capital, an early stage venture
capital fund investing in exceptional entrepreneurs who have the talent and
drive to build successful, high growth companies in rapidly expanding markets.
First Light focuses on early stage product and service companies in enterprise
software and integration. Portfolio companies include Aberdeen Group,
Metatomix, The Reference, HubX, BuzzPad. Lucinda co-authored an in-depth study
on angel investors, VSS Project: Report on Angel Investors, for Prof. Howard
Stevenson at HBS and Ken Morse of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center. Lucinda
helped build a management-consulting firm focused on the telecommunications
industry, COBA Boston, which was acquired by Renaissance Worldwide. Start-up
experience includes operations and marketing positions at Molten Metal
Technology and Ceramics Process Systems. Lucinda is a board member and
past-president of the Harvard Business School Association of Boston; and is
President of the MIT Class of 1982. She holds an SB and an SM in Materials
Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from the
Harvard Business School. |
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Jill Card,
President & CTO, IBEX Process Technology, innovative supplier of
neural-network based advanced process control for the semiconductor industry to
improve process control while lowering the cost of semiconductor processing. In
January, IBEX received a significant investment from Battery Ventures and
Compass Technology Partners. Jill has worked for over 20 years as a
statistician and applied mathematician in a variety of fields, including
reliability analysis, quality control analysis, and neural network analysis for
the semiconductor, pharmaceutical, and biotech industries. Formerly a principal
engineer at Wang Labs, member of the technical staff at Bell Labs, and
consulting engineer at Digital, Jill founded NeuMath, a successful mathematical
consulting company in 1998. She founded IBEX in 2000 for the applications of
neural network technology and evolutionary computing strategies for the
semiconductor industry. She has published many papers in professional and
scientific journals. Jill received a BS in Biology/Natural Resources from
Cornell and an MS in Theoretical and Applied Statistics from Florida State
University. |
Lorin
Scott, Manager, Deloitte & Touche, Technology & Communications
Practice-Tech-Venture Center. Lorin focuses on serving early-stage technology
companies and entrepreneurs in the high technology industry. She has extensive
experience with registration statements, public company reporting, and
reporting issues predominant in the high technology industry. Lorin serves on
the board of the Boston Chapter of WITI, Women In Technology International.
Deloitte's Technology and Communications practice focuses on providing
strategic, financial, operational, and information technology assistance to
software, telecommunications, and biotechnology companies. In New England,
Deloitte & Touche has added more than 100 early stage companies to its
roster within the past 18 months. Deloitte & Touche is part of Deloitte
Touche Tohmatsu, one of the world's leading professional services firms,
providing assurance and advisory, tax, and management consulting services with
more than 92,000 people in over 135 countries. |
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| Moderator: |
Lorin Scott,
Manager,
Deloitte & Touche, Technology & Communications Practice-Tech-Venture
Center. |
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