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Financial Markets: Outlook 2007
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Thu Jan 25, 2007 5:00 PM
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Financial Markets: Outlook 2007
A live panel featuring experts from NY, followed by a broadcast from the
MIT Campus Event sponsored by Goodwin Procter LLP
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Money...You need it. They have it. How do you get it?
For a company, this is the elemental nature of capital markets, but at a global level, investors drive opportunities. It's the successful entrepreneur who knows the forces that shape investment decisions.
At "Financial Markets: Outlook 2007," our world-class panel will examine at a macro level the flow of money for the coming year, answering such questions as:
•What are the outlooks for the VC, public and M&A markets?
•What is the general outlook for the economy local, national, and global for 2007?
•What structural and regulatory issues will pull and shape the capital markets over the coming year?
•How will all of these affect a company's financial strategies?
Register for this can't-miss program and learn the forces at play on the financial markets for 2007 and how it affects the welfare of your business.
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DATE:
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Thursday, January 25, 2007
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TIME:
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5:15pm - 6:00pm: Reception
6:00pm - 7:00pm: New York Panel
7:00pm - 8:30pm: Broadcast Panel
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PLACE:
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Goodwin Procter LLP - MAP
599 Lexington Avenue, 37th Floor
New York, NY 10022
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REGISTRATION:
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Free to members of MIT Enterprise Forum
$50 non-members, $10 extra at door
All members and guests are welcome
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Panel Speaker Biographies
Bob Greene, Co-Founder, Contour Venture Partners. Bob Greene has been a venture capitalist for the past 18 years. He has invested in all stages of venture capital across several industry sectors. Prior to launching Contour, Bob was one of the three managing partners of Flatiron Partners, a leading venture capital firm focused on the information technology sector. Bob has also been an active private investor, where he has invested his own capital in emerging technology companies in the northeast United States.
Prior to joining Flatiron full time in 1999, Bob was a General Partner at Chase Capital Partners (also known as JPMorgan Partners). Bob joined Chase Capital in 1994 when it was known as Chemical Venture Partners. In the ensuing five years he started, built and led Chase Capitals Technology and Internet practice, which included building the technology team and portfolio within Chase Capital, launching Flatiron in New York City in 1996, backing Pitango Venture Capital in Israel in 1996, and launching Techfund Capital in Silicon Valley in 1997.
Bob is the President of the Venture Investors Association of New York and has been on the VIANY Board since 1994. Bob has been a guest lecturer at The MIT Sloan School of Management since 2000, is on the Undergraduate Financial Aid Committee of the Board of Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, and serves as a Trustee for the Exploration Summer Program in Westwood, MA. Bob received a BS from the Wharton School of Business and an MBA from The MIT Sloan School of Management.
John C. MacDonald, Partner, Updata Capital, Inc. John MacDonald joined Updata Capital as a Partner in 2002 after 15 years as a technology banker at various Wall Street firms. John focuses on a number of key areas within Updatas core market and brings particular experience to the IT services sector, where he has spent much of his career. During his 20 years of investment banking service, John has completed over 75 transactions with aggregate deal value of more than $17 billion.
Prior to Updata, John was a Managing Director of Lehman Brothers and headed its Information Services investment banking practice and prior to that, held senior technology investment banking positions at Bear Stearns and Salomon Brothers. He has completed transactions with numerous leading technology companies including IBM, Accenture, First Data, Deluxe, Lucent, AT&T, Unisys, Ceridian, Galileo International, and EDS as well as many middle market technology and technology services companies. John received an M.B.A. from the University of Rochester and a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Cornell University.
Joseph Sanborn, Managing Director, Software, Internet and Services Group, SVB Alliant
Joseph Sanborn co-heads SVB Alliants Software, Internet and Services Group. He joined SVB Alliants Boston office in 2004, bringing extensive strategic advisory and transaction structuring experience to the firm. He has completed over 40 strategic advisory and capital raising transactions for clients with an aggregate value in excess of $5 billion including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, equity and debt placements, and recapitalizations on both a domestic and cross-border basis.
Joseph has advised a variety of emerging growth companies with a focus on the financial technology, software, transaction processing, Internet, and technology services sectors. Prior to joining SVB Alliant, he was at both Robertson Stephens and Jefferies & Company, where he led each firms technology services mergers and acquisitions practice. He also co-founded the Boston investment banking office for Jefferies & Company. In addition, Joseph worked in the healthcare investment banking group at J.P. Morgan, where he worked with pharmaceutical and services companies.
Before beginning his investment banking career, Joseph served in The White House and the United States Senate. He received a bachelors degree of science in business administration from Georgetown University and a masters degree in public policy from Harvard University.
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Daniel Schultz, Co-Founder and Managing Director, DFJ Gotham Ventures. Danny has worked closely with private early-stage and mature public companies in the communications, media and technology industries for over two decades. He has been active investing in and helping guide several successful entrepreneurial start-ups prior to co-founding Atlantic Venture Partners, the predecessor to DFJ Gotham Ventures.
Danny focuses on investments in financial services, digital media, network infrastructure and mobile technologies. Currently, he is a member of the Board of Directors of Pivot Solutions (IM for Wall Street) and Magnolia Broadband (RF smart antenna chipsets) and is a board observer with NanoOpto (nano-scale optical components) and ViVOtech (contactless hardware and software solutions).
Danny led Gothams successful investment in XOsoft (disaster recovery software) sold to CA in 2006 and was a member of the Board of Massive (in-video game advertising) helping to steer it to a successful acquisition by Microsoft also in 2006. Additionally, he sat on the board of Pantero (data integration middleware) guiding it through its sale to Progress Software and is a board member of SMART System Technologies (contactless payment and CRM platform).
Danny is a member of the High Tech Evaluation Committee of the Yissum Fund, a seed fund affiliated with the technology transfer unit of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Yissum. He is a frequent speaker at entrepreneurial and technology-related conferences and has guest-lectured at both Columbia Universitys Engineering and Business schools. He is a member of the board of the Venture Industry Association of New York and is a member of the Israel Venture Association.
Prior to co-founding DFJ Gotham, Danny was a senior banker with Lehman Brothers in the Equity Capital Markets groups in both New York and London focused on technology and emerging growth companies based in the US and Israel. He is a member of the Investment Committee of the endowment fund of the American Friends of The Hebrew University and is the Assistant Treasurer and a member of the National Board of Governors of AFHU.
Danny is a graduate of Columbia University where he received his bachelors degree in Economics. He and his family reside in Westchester, New York. Outside of his entrepreneurial, VC and family-related activities, he can frequently be found at roughly 10pm somewhere in Westchester playing ice hockey.
Alain Sherter (moderator), Editor, Tech Confidential and Assistant Managing Editor, The Deal LLC. Alain Sherter is editor of Tech Confidential, The Deal LLCs editorial brand focusing on the business of technology and innovation. He is also assistant managing editor of at The Deal, overseeing the San Francisco news bureau and the media companys technology coverage. Previously Alain managed the Washington news bureau, editing regulatory coverage that appears across the companys publications, including The Deal, The Daily Deal and TheDeal.com.
Before coming to The Deal, Alain was editor-in-chief of Bank Technology News, a monthly trade magazine published by Thomson Financial Media, and editor of ElectronicBanker.com, a Thomson financial news Web site. Prior to that he was a senior editor covering technology at Health Management Magazine, a monthly trade magazine published by Faulker & #6C6C6C, and was editor of Health Reform, a weekly health care newsletter published by Charles D. Spencer LLC. He started his career as a business reporter at The DeKalb Daily Chronicle in DeKalb, Ill.
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Broadcast Speaker Biographies
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Liz Claman is co-anchor of CNBC's Morning Call (Monday through Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. ET), and anchor of CNBC's primetime program Cover to Cover. Liz is an award-winning journalist, having joined CNBC in April 1998, after spending three years as an anchor/reporter for NBC affiliate WHDH-TV, Boston. During that time, she also served as contributing correspondent for the NBC-syndicated daytime show, RealLife.
Prior to that, Liz was an anchor at WEWS-TV (ABC) in Cleveland, where she won an Emmy Award for Best Morning Anchor for her work on the two-hour morning show, Morning Exchange. Claman began her on-camera career at the ABC affiliate WSYX-TV in Columbus, Ohio, first as a reporter and then as weekend anchor.
Since joining CNBC, she has anchored shows ranging from Today's Business, Wake Up Call, Morning Call, and MarketWrap. Her first book, "The Best Investment Advice I Ever Received" (Warner) is due out November 2006.
Liz holds a bachelor's degree in French language from the University of California at Berkeley, as well as a Certificat Superieur from the Universite' de Paris, La Sorbonne. An avid runner, she completed the New York City Marathon in November 2005.
Axel Bichara '88 is a senior partner in the technology sector at Atlas Venture focusing on software and services technology.
Before coming to Atlas Venture in 1993, he was vice president of product development at Premise, a venture-backed software company, which he co-founded in 1987. Premise was acquired by Computervision in 1991. Axel was lead investor in SolidWorks, a mechanical design automation software company that was acquired in 1997 by Dassault Systemes. Axel also participated as a first-round lead investor in SpeechWorks and, as a board member, helped build the company through an IPO in 2000 and its later sale to ScanSoft in 2003. He continues to serve on the board of Phase Forward (IPO in July 2004) where he was also the first-round lead investor.
Between 1997 and 1999, Axel spent 18 months in Munich to build up Atlas Venture's business activity in Germany. He currently sits on the boards of portfolio companies BlueShift, Bluespec, CLK Design Automation, Liquid Machines, Marathon Technologies, NaviMedix, and Phase Forward. Axel holds an MBA from INSEAD, a master of science from MIT, and a master's degree in mechanical engineering from Technical University in Berlin.
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Benjamin Howe is chief executive officer of America's Growth Capital. In 20 years as an investment banker, Ben has completed more than 250 transactions. He began his investment banking career in the mid-'80s in New York City with First Boston and Smith Barney.
In the mid-'90s, Ben was the head of Technology Investment Banking for the East Coast and Europe for Montgomery Securities. Prior to founding America's, Ben served as managing director, head of Mergers & Acquisitions, and Executive Committee member at SG Cowen Securities.
A certified public accountant, Ben worked at Coopers & Lybrand prior to joining Smith Barney. He holds a bachelor's in economics from Trinity College and a master's in accounting from The Stern School of Business at New York University. Ben is a member of the Board of Regents of Portsmouth Abbey School in Rhode Island, a member of the Young Presidents Organization, and a board member of Wellesley (MA) Little League.
Deborah Kuenstner is managing director of research for Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMRCo), the investment management organization of Fidelity Investments. Deborah oversees the specialized research function at FMRCo.
Before joining Fidelity Investments, she was the chief investment officer, Global Value, at Putnam Investments from 2000 to 2004. Her other roles at Putnam included chief investment officer, International Value, and senior portfolio manager, International Equities. Prior, she worked in International Equities at DuPont Pension Fund Investment, as an International Investment strategist at Merrill Lynch, and an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Deborah received a bachelor's degree in economics summa cum laude from Wellesley College. She was also a Durant Scholar and received the Natalie Bolton Prize in Economics. Deborah did graduate studies in statistics at Columbia University before earning her MBA with distinction from New York University.
Frederick Lane is chairman, CEO, and a founding partner of Lane, Berry & Co. International. Previously, he was a managing director of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, as well as of Credit Suisse First Boston upon CSFB's acquisition of DLJ in 2000. When he joined DLJ in 1976, Frederick was one of only eight investment bankers at the firm. He was instrumental in the growth of DLJ's investment banking business as reflected in his installation to DLJ's Hall of Fame.
Frederick was founder of DLJ's first regional investment banking office in Boston, and served on the firm's Equity Underwriting, Banking Review, and Fairness and Valuation Committees. From 1989 to 1995, he was co-head of DLJ's Mergers and Acquisitions Department. His experience encompasses a broad range of industries, including conglomerates, consumer products, retail, distribution, telecommunications, media, and electronics.
An active private equity investor, Frederick was a founding investor of Staples. He received his bachelor's, cum laude, from Harvard College, and his MBA, with distinction, from Harvard Business School.
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Lori Smith
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