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March 9, 2010
Time: 6:00p.m.– 6:30p.m. Registration
6:30p.m. – 8:30p.m. Program begins
Venue:
Fenwick & West LLP, Silicon Valley Center
801 California Street, Room 101, Mountain View, CA. 94041
General Event Information:
FREE for CCICE Members (join CCICE)
Member Register at ccice-event@ccice.org
$25 Members of Affiliate Organizations
$30 Non-Members
$10 Live webcast - (if you can not attend watch the program live)
$40 At the door
The Venture Capital community has been rocked by turbulent times and
changes in the industry. Venture funds are available yet diminishing and
focus by the venture community has been on existing ventures with more
investments made in later-stage ventures. The funding gap for
opportunities that range from seed stage funding ($500 K and less) and
startup's ($2M and less) has been filled by Angel Investors.
Organized Angel Investors either a managed group, an angel fund or a
formal or informal network has sprouted in recent years. The classic
sense of an Angel investment has turned into a fund. With this in mind,
we invite you to learn more from a renown panel:
Introduction: Lois Wong, Business Development VP, CCICE
Moderator:
Rebecca Fannin, Writer, Forbes and Author, Silicon Dragon
Investors:
Darrell Kong, Director of Venture Capital Services, Fenwick & West LLP.
Kuldip Sethi, Chairman & CEO, SV Green Tech
Co-chair Clean Tech Angel investor Group, Keiretsu Forum
Dean Sirovica, Chair Clean Tech SIG, Band of Angels
Sherman Ting, Board Member, Sand Hill Angels
Henry Wong, Venture Partner, Garage Technology Venture
Bio's
Rebecca Fannin is an internationally recognized author and journalist.
Her book, Silicon Dragon, was published by McGraw-Hill in 2008,
translated into several languages and favorably reviewed by The Wall
Street Journal and Financial Times.
Rebecca has developed an expertise on entrepreneurship, innovation
and venture capital in emerging markets, and she also writes about
global business strategies, marketing and digital media. Currently, she is
a columnist for Forbes.com and a writer at Forbes Asia and Chief
Executive. Ms. Fannin served as editor-in-chief of International Business
(1990-1994) and deputy editor at Ad Age International (1996-1999).
During the height of the dotcom boom, she moved to Silicon Valley to
become international news editor at Red Herring (2000-2002), later
joining the Asian Venture Capital Journal in Hong Kong and Beijing as
international editor, blogging for Huffington Post and developing the
Silicon Dragon brand with newsletters and events. Her work has
appeared in Inc., Worth, Fast Company, Wired, AsiaWeek, Asia Inc., and
The Deal as well as in custom magazines published by NASDAQ and
Merrill Lynch. In addition, she is the author of “A New Dawn,” a white
paper on China for KPMG’s Thought Leadership Series.
Rebecca is a graduate of the Ohio University Scripps School of
Journalism and a recipient of an Asian studies fellowship from the
Freedom Forum. Combining her love of travel and passion for
international reporting, Rebecca has been on assignment in many of the
world’s capitals. She is a frequent moderator, panelist and presenter at
industry events in Asia, Europe and the U.S., and has been featured as a
guest expert on Fox Business News, Sky TV, CCTV, and several radio
news programs.
Darrell Kong focuses on strengthening Fenwick's relationships with both
venture capital investors and the entrepreneur community. He has
worked with emerging technology companies in a variety of roles. Prior to
joining Fenwick and West, he managed Gray Cary's Venture Pipeline
group. His investment experience includes positions with Ex'tent (a
private Dutch investment fund) and Sylvan Ventures where he worked on
capital deployments totaling more than $40M into early stage companies.
In addition to his investment experience Darrell launched myBschool.
com, an on-line affinity marketing company targeting professional school
students, while completing his graduate studies.
Darrell graduated from UCLA with a BA in Economics and holds an MBA
from Columbia Business School.
Kuldip Sethi Kuldip is Chairman and CEO of SV Green Tech Corp., a
company dedicated to pursuing green technologies, particularly in
renewable energy and creating green jobs. He has an extensive
experience of more than 38 years in semiconductor industry. As a serial
entrepreneur, he has founded four companies and was the CEO of one
of them. For the last 5 years, he has devoted his time to global warming
issues. He has mentored clean tech start-up companies at Clean Tech
Open. He is a co-chair of clean tech angel investors’ group at Keiretsu
Forum, an active member of Environmental Entrepreneurs, NRDC, Indo-
American Chamber of commerce, a member of TiE, SIPA, former
member of AAMA and former chair of Green Challenge as member of
board of directors at Volunteer Center of Silicon Valley, a non-profit
organization. He holds two masters degrees one in Electrical Power
Engineering and the other in Solid State Electronics. He has lived in the
Silicon Valley since 1971.
Dean Sirovica is an entrepreneur and consultant with 20 years of
experience in the wireless space.
Most recently Dean was Managing Director of Vodafone Group Research
and Development USA. The department bridged technology and
business strategy. It supported Vodafone Group on strategic initiatives
including absorbing innovation from the Venture Capital ecosystem
through Vodafone Ventures. Dean was founding President and Chairman
of the Mobile Wireless Internet Forum. MWIF had 100 member
companies working to converge mobile, fixed and internet networks.
MWIF merged with OMA. Prior to Vodafone, Dean was one of four
cofounders of Malibu Networks responsible for product strategy and
business development. Prior to Malibu Dean was Director with Sprint
PCS where he deployed the CDMA network for Sprint in Southern
California and Nevada. Prior to Sprint PCS Dean was a Director at
USWEST Technologies where he was responsible for wireless strategy
and its integration with fixed access.
Dean spent several years in academic research on communications and
distributed systems. He is involved with a number of startups. Current
and past Advisory Boards: Tatara Systems, Telesoft Partners, Radar
Corp. Boards: MWIF, Center for Telecom Management – USC Marshall.
Dean holds BSEE and PhD from the University of Sussex, UK, and MBA
from Golden Gate University, San Francisco.
Sherman Ting is a Board Director of Sand Hill Angels. He also serves as
Co-Chair of the Membership and External Relationships Committees.
Sherman has over 25 years of experience in the high technology industry,
in engineering, executive management and as an entrepreneur. He is an
active angel investor in start-up ventures. Most recently, Sherman was
Founder and CEO of Century A Technologies, a company which
built a marketing/sales/support infrastructure in China, for new breeds of
Internet-based enterprise software products designed in the US.
Previously, Sherman was Vice President at Oracle Corporation, where he
founded the HP Products Division and grew the business into the
number one product line, with over $300M in product license revenue.
While at Oracle, he also established the Asia Products Division to
spearhead the cultivation of business in the Asia Pacific region, which
later became the fastest growing market for Oracle. As a result, Oracle's
Japanese subsidiary experienced one of the most successful high tech
IPOs in Japanese history. In addition, Sherman was on the Oracle
CEO's hand-picked team to start up a Network Computer business, to
revolutionize how people and businesses use the Internet. Prior to
Oracle, Sherman held engineering positions at Hewlett Packard,
developing relational database systems for HP's cutting edge RISC
computer servers, and at Intel, developing computer language
processors for Intel's advanced chip architecture.
Sherman received an MSE in Computer Science from the University of
Pennsylvania.
Henry Wong Henry H. Wong found Diamond TechVentures and a Venture
Partner at GarageTechnology Ventures has resided in China & Silicon
Valley for the last 25 years. From being a Serial Entrepreneur to a
Venture Capitalist, Wong is in a unique position where he can fully utilize
his operational experience, and investment talent to help build
companies with a global vision and encourage entrepreneurship.
In his prior Fund, Crystal Ventures, Wong was active with portfolio
companies including SMIC, LGC Wireless, Infinera, and Exavio. A
seasoned investor and entrepreneur, Wong has succeeded as the
founder, chairman & CEO of SS8 Networks Inc., IP Communications,
XaQti Semiconductor, CNet Technology Inc., and Combinet (ISDN
Systems). His success, experience and leadership are invaluable in his
role as an Investor, Serial Entrepreneur and mentor in Silicon Valley.
In 2002, Wong was the finalist to receive the “Entrepreneur of the Year
Award”. Wong is an Advisor to 6 non-profit organizations and is active
with community events. In education, Mr. Wong received a B.Sc. degree
in Business Administration (Major in Finance and Minor in Marketing)
from University of Utah 1980, and a MBA in Telecom Management from
Golden Gate University 1983. He is also a Mentor in the Stanford
Graduate School of Business GSB S-356 MBA Program, and a Team
Mentor in the Technology Venture Formation course MS&E 273 at
Stanford's School of Engineering.
6:30p.m. – 8:30p.m. Program begins
Venue:
Fenwick & West LLP, Silicon Valley Center
801 California Street, Room 101, Mountain View, CA. 94041
General Event Information:
FREE for CCICE Members (join CCICE)
Member Register at ccice-event@ccice.org
$25 Members of Affiliate Organizations
$30 Non-Members
$10 Live webcast - (if you can not attend watch the program live)
$40 At the door
The Venture Capital community has been rocked by turbulent times and
changes in the industry. Venture funds are available yet diminishing and
focus by the venture community has been on existing ventures with more
investments made in later-stage ventures. The funding gap for
opportunities that range from seed stage funding ($500 K and less) and
startup's ($2M and less) has been filled by Angel Investors.
Organized Angel Investors either a managed group, an angel fund or a
formal or informal network has sprouted in recent years. The classic
sense of an Angel investment has turned into a fund. With this in mind,
we invite you to learn more from a renown panel:
- What is in store for Entrepreneurs?
- What support network and systems are in place in the Angel
community? - How do you reach out to an Angel Investor (i.e. business plan)?
- How do Angels invest and in what industries/sectors?
- How do you work with an Angel in comparison to the VC?
- What is the impact on later stage investment and company
expansion?
Introduction: Lois Wong, Business Development VP, CCICE
Moderator:
Rebecca Fannin, Writer, Forbes and Author, Silicon Dragon
Investors:
Darrell Kong, Director of Venture Capital Services, Fenwick & West LLP.
Kuldip Sethi, Chairman & CEO, SV Green Tech
Co-chair Clean Tech Angel investor Group, Keiretsu Forum
Dean Sirovica, Chair Clean Tech SIG, Band of Angels
Sherman Ting, Board Member, Sand Hill Angels
Henry Wong, Venture Partner, Garage Technology Venture
Bio's
Rebecca Fannin is an internationally recognized author and journalist.
Her book, Silicon Dragon, was published by McGraw-Hill in 2008,
translated into several languages and favorably reviewed by The Wall
Street Journal and Financial Times.
Rebecca has developed an expertise on entrepreneurship, innovation
and venture capital in emerging markets, and she also writes about
global business strategies, marketing and digital media. Currently, she is
a columnist for Forbes.com and a writer at Forbes Asia and Chief
Executive. Ms. Fannin served as editor-in-chief of International Business
(1990-1994) and deputy editor at Ad Age International (1996-1999).
During the height of the dotcom boom, she moved to Silicon Valley to
become international news editor at Red Herring (2000-2002), later
joining the Asian Venture Capital Journal in Hong Kong and Beijing as
international editor, blogging for Huffington Post and developing the
Silicon Dragon brand with newsletters and events. Her work has
appeared in Inc., Worth, Fast Company, Wired, AsiaWeek, Asia Inc., and
The Deal as well as in custom magazines published by NASDAQ and
Merrill Lynch. In addition, she is the author of “A New Dawn,” a white
paper on China for KPMG’s Thought Leadership Series.
Rebecca is a graduate of the Ohio University Scripps School of
Journalism and a recipient of an Asian studies fellowship from the
Freedom Forum. Combining her love of travel and passion for
international reporting, Rebecca has been on assignment in many of the
world’s capitals. She is a frequent moderator, panelist and presenter at
industry events in Asia, Europe and the U.S., and has been featured as a
guest expert on Fox Business News, Sky TV, CCTV, and several radio
news programs.
Darrell Kong focuses on strengthening Fenwick's relationships with both
venture capital investors and the entrepreneur community. He has
worked with emerging technology companies in a variety of roles. Prior to
joining Fenwick and West, he managed Gray Cary's Venture Pipeline
group. His investment experience includes positions with Ex'tent (a
private Dutch investment fund) and Sylvan Ventures where he worked on
capital deployments totaling more than $40M into early stage companies.
In addition to his investment experience Darrell launched myBschool.
com, an on-line affinity marketing company targeting professional school
students, while completing his graduate studies.
Darrell graduated from UCLA with a BA in Economics and holds an MBA
from Columbia Business School.
Kuldip Sethi Kuldip is Chairman and CEO of SV Green Tech Corp., a
company dedicated to pursuing green technologies, particularly in
renewable energy and creating green jobs. He has an extensive
experience of more than 38 years in semiconductor industry. As a serial
entrepreneur, he has founded four companies and was the CEO of one
of them. For the last 5 years, he has devoted his time to global warming
issues. He has mentored clean tech start-up companies at Clean Tech
Open. He is a co-chair of clean tech angel investors’ group at Keiretsu
Forum, an active member of Environmental Entrepreneurs, NRDC, Indo-
American Chamber of commerce, a member of TiE, SIPA, former
member of AAMA and former chair of Green Challenge as member of
board of directors at Volunteer Center of Silicon Valley, a non-profit
organization. He holds two masters degrees one in Electrical Power
Engineering and the other in Solid State Electronics. He has lived in the
Silicon Valley since 1971.
Dean Sirovica is an entrepreneur and consultant with 20 years of
experience in the wireless space.
Most recently Dean was Managing Director of Vodafone Group Research
and Development USA. The department bridged technology and
business strategy. It supported Vodafone Group on strategic initiatives
including absorbing innovation from the Venture Capital ecosystem
through Vodafone Ventures. Dean was founding President and Chairman
of the Mobile Wireless Internet Forum. MWIF had 100 member
companies working to converge mobile, fixed and internet networks.
MWIF merged with OMA. Prior to Vodafone, Dean was one of four
cofounders of Malibu Networks responsible for product strategy and
business development. Prior to Malibu Dean was Director with Sprint
PCS where he deployed the CDMA network for Sprint in Southern
California and Nevada. Prior to Sprint PCS Dean was a Director at
USWEST Technologies where he was responsible for wireless strategy
and its integration with fixed access.
Dean spent several years in academic research on communications and
distributed systems. He is involved with a number of startups. Current
and past Advisory Boards: Tatara Systems, Telesoft Partners, Radar
Corp. Boards: MWIF, Center for Telecom Management – USC Marshall.
Dean holds BSEE and PhD from the University of Sussex, UK, and MBA
from Golden Gate University, San Francisco.
Sherman Ting is a Board Director of Sand Hill Angels. He also serves as
Co-Chair of the Membership and External Relationships Committees.
Sherman has over 25 years of experience in the high technology industry,
in engineering, executive management and as an entrepreneur. He is an
active angel investor in start-up ventures. Most recently, Sherman was
Founder and CEO of Century A Technologies, a company which
built a marketing/sales/support infrastructure in China, for new breeds of
Internet-based enterprise software products designed in the US.
Previously, Sherman was Vice President at Oracle Corporation, where he
founded the HP Products Division and grew the business into the
number one product line, with over $300M in product license revenue.
While at Oracle, he also established the Asia Products Division to
spearhead the cultivation of business in the Asia Pacific region, which
later became the fastest growing market for Oracle. As a result, Oracle's
Japanese subsidiary experienced one of the most successful high tech
IPOs in Japanese history. In addition, Sherman was on the Oracle
CEO's hand-picked team to start up a Network Computer business, to
revolutionize how people and businesses use the Internet. Prior to
Oracle, Sherman held engineering positions at Hewlett Packard,
developing relational database systems for HP's cutting edge RISC
computer servers, and at Intel, developing computer language
processors for Intel's advanced chip architecture.
Sherman received an MSE in Computer Science from the University of
Pennsylvania.
Henry Wong Henry H. Wong found Diamond TechVentures and a Venture
Partner at GarageTechnology Ventures has resided in China & Silicon
Valley for the last 25 years. From being a Serial Entrepreneur to a
Venture Capitalist, Wong is in a unique position where he can fully utilize
his operational experience, and investment talent to help build
companies with a global vision and encourage entrepreneurship.
In his prior Fund, Crystal Ventures, Wong was active with portfolio
companies including SMIC, LGC Wireless, Infinera, and Exavio. A
seasoned investor and entrepreneur, Wong has succeeded as the
founder, chairman & CEO of SS8 Networks Inc., IP Communications,
XaQti Semiconductor, CNet Technology Inc., and Combinet (ISDN
Systems). His success, experience and leadership are invaluable in his
role as an Investor, Serial Entrepreneur and mentor in Silicon Valley.
In 2002, Wong was the finalist to receive the “Entrepreneur of the Year
Award”. Wong is an Advisor to 6 non-profit organizations and is active
with community events. In education, Mr. Wong received a B.Sc. degree
in Business Administration (Major in Finance and Minor in Marketing)
from University of Utah 1980, and a MBA in Telecom Management from
Golden Gate University 1983. He is also a Mentor in the Stanford
Graduate School of Business GSB S-356 MBA Program, and a Team
Mentor in the Technology Venture Formation course MS&E 273 at
Stanford's School of Engineering.
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