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Talk to an Angel: Crucial Connections to Early Stage Capital

Wed Jun 7, 2006 6:15 PM

 


Talk to an Angel:
Crucial Connections to Early Stage Capital

A live panel in NY followed by a broadcast from the MIT Campus

 

Event sponsored by Goodwin Procter LLP

 

 

 

There will always be entrepreneurs with new ideas and new ventures. And there will always be people ready to help finance these startup companies. It's one of the engines that drives the US economy. And an increasingly larger component of the financing picture is angel investors.

 

The open discussion will address practices and principles of angel investing, including:

• how to find angels;
• what is, and isn't, a good fit;
• when to work with VC instead, or with both angels and VCs combined; and
• how to work together after funding.

 

NY Panelists:

• Charlie Federman, Venture Partner, BRM Capital
• Ira Feinberg, CEO, Spotlight Data
• Parker Gilbert, Managing Partner, Brand Building Ventures
• Scott Kurnit, Founder, Chairman and CEO, About, Inc.
• David S. Rose, Founder and Chairman, New York Angels [Moderator]
• Lori S. Smith, Partner, Goodwin Procter

 

Broadcast Panelists:
• Cynthia Fisher, Co-Founder, ViaCell, Inc.
• David Friend, CEO and President, Carbonite
• James Geshwiler
, Chairman, Angel Capital Education Foundation [Moderator]

• Bob Greene, Managing Partner, Contour Venture Partners
• John May, Managing Partner, New Vantage Group


 

DATE:

Wednesday, June 7, 2006

TIME:

5:15pm - 6:00pm: Reception
6:00pm - 7:00pm: NY Panel
7:00pm - 8:30pm: Broadcast Panel

PLACE:

Goodwin Procter LLP
599 Lexington Avenue, 37th Floor
New York, NY 10022

REGISTRATION:

Free to members of MIT Enterprise Forum
$50 non-members, $10 extra at door
All members and guests are welcome

 

 

NY Panel Speaker Biographies

Charlie Federman joined the BRM team in 1998 and heads BRM Capital's US office. Charlie's domain focuses on Software and Internet based applications. Before joining BRM Capital, Charlie was the Chairman of Broadview, a Mergers and Acquisitions boutique for the information technology industry. Charlie has handled over 100 acquisitions and investments during his 25-year career in IT. Charlie is a member of the board of Pando Networks, Gigaspaces and is Chairman of the Board of Prosight. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.


Ira Feinberg is CEO of Spotlight Data, a software company providing an innovative business process data collection & analysis solution to Fortune 500 firms. He has a long background in management consulting, running major practices for KPMG Consulting (Bearingpoint) and at other large firms. He also previously led global systems development for Morgan Stanley and was CIO of the transaction business unit at Bankers Trust. He holds an Industrial Engineering degree from Lehigh University.


Parker Gilbert is the Managing Partner of Brand Building Ventures, based in Westchester County, New York. Brand Building Ventures, founded in September 2004, is committed to investing in emerging consumer goods and services companies that possess unique selling propositions. To date, Brand Building Ventures has invested in a medical device and a personal loan facilitator company. Parker has thirteen years of classic consumer packaged goods marketing experience across a range of product categories. Over the course of his career, Parker has won two sales awards and one national advertising award. He has a track record for building consumer brands that deliver top and bottom line growth. Most recently, he was Vice President of Marketing on Banana Boat Suncare at Playtex Products, Inc., located in Westport, Connecticut. His experience ranges from health and beauty aids, frozen food, medical devices, suncare, baby care and household cleaning. Prior to Playtex, Parker held marketing positions at Pepperidge Farm and Wyeth. He received his MBA in marketing from the Stern School of Business at NYU and an undergraduate degree in history from Middlebury College in Vermont.

Scott Kurnit is an investor and strategic advisor to technology and media companies. As Founder, Chairman and CEO of About, Inc. (currently owned by the New York Times Co.) he grew the company to a public market value exceeding $1.5 billion and the 5th most visited of all Internet sites. Kurnit has been involved in many firsts, including four patents. He led the team that put the first Web browser into an online service, started the first Pay Per View cable network, and co-led the team that implemented the first use of national caller ID. He currently sits on the Boards of Brightcove, Dotomi, Goodmail Systems and advises Black Arrow, Critical Mention, Digital RailRoad, Flock, Found Value, Sphere, Verid and Wink. He is also a trustee of the Mianus River Gorge Preserve, the founding land project of the Nature Conservancy and the first National Natural History Landmark.


David S. Rose [Moderator], the founder and Chairman of New York Angels, is an entrepreneurial executive and investor named by Inc. magazine to the 1998 Inc 500 list as CEO of one of America's fastest growing private companies. Red Herring magazine has described him as "a patriarch of New York's Silicon Alley" and Crain's New York Business named him one of the City's 25 most influential technology executives. New York Angels is the leading angel investment consortium in the greater New York region, and its members have invested over $15 million in over two dozen companies in the past three years.


Lori Smith is partner at Goodwin Procter with an emphasis on emerging technologies. She has over 20 years experience representing private equity investors, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and companies in the structuring, negotiation and implementation of equity and debt financings and private equity transactions, private placements, M&A, joint ventures, and licensing, manufacturing and distribution. She has a J.D. from Duke University School of Law and holds a B.A. from the University of Rochester.


 

Broadcast Panel Speaker Biographies

Cynthia Fisher was a co-founder and President of ViaCell, Inc., a cellular medicines company developing pharmaceutical grade cord blood stem cell products and human cellular therapies to treat diseases. Today, ViaCell is a publicly held biotechnology company with 250 employees. Cynthia also founded Viacord, Inc., now part of ViaCell, and served as President and CEO for eight years. Viacord, established in 1993, provides umbilical cord blood stem cell banking services for expectant families. In 2002, Cynthia founded and serves as CEO of BioMed 20/20 Technologies, Inc., a healthcare and medical information products company focused on enabling on-line, comprehensive patient profiling technologies and services to insurers and hospitals.


David Friend has been a successful technology entrepreneur for over 25 years, and is currently CEO and President of Carbonite, an Internet-based data backup solution for mainstream PC users. He previously co-founded five companies: Sonexis, FaxNet, Pilot Software, Computer Pictures Corporation and ARP Instruments. He has been featured in numerous national magazines and newspapers, and Tom Peter's best-selling management book, "The Pursuit of Wow!"


 

James Geshwiler [moderator], chairman of the Angel Capital Education Foundation, works with angel investors, venture capitalists, academic leaders and entrepreneurs around the country to foster better understanding of patterns and practices in angel investing. He is the former chairman of ACEF's sister organization, the Angel Capital Association, a trade group formed to promote angel groups and their best practices. He is a contributing author to "Cutting-Edge Practices in American Angel Investing," has written papers on angel investment processes published by the Kauffman Foundation, and regularly speaks on entrepreneurship and private investing.

Bob Greene is Managing Partner of Contour Venture Partners and has been a venture capitalist for the past 18 years. Some of Bob's notable investments over the past 17 years include 3Dfx Interactive, Acurian, Agamatrix, Cobalt Networks, EXIT41, FundQuest, Kinkos.com, Kozmo.com, Multex, Nextec, NuRide, Resonate, SeamlessWeb, Stamps.com, and Vindigo. Prior to launching Contour Venture Partners, Greene was an active private investor, investing his own capital in emerging technology companies in the northeast United States . Since early 1999, he has also been one of the three Managing Partners of Flatiron Partners. Flatiron focused on the information technology sector and backed 59 companies with over $550 million of capital. Before joining Flatiron in 1999, Bob was a General Partner at Chase Capital Partners (now known as JPMorgan Partners). In his five years there, he started, built and led their Technology and Internet practice, which included launching Flatiron, backing Pitango Venture Capital in Israel , and launching TechFund Capital in Silicon Valley.


John May is the managing partner of New Vantage Group, a Vienna, VA firm that innovatively mobilizes private equity into early-stage companies and provides advisory services to both funds and private investors. John's experience in private equity capital over the last 15 years ranges from VC fund management to angel investing. John has been at the forefront of the angel investor movement. In 1991, he co-founded the Investors' Circle, a national non-profit group of 125 family and institutional investors working to grow the social venture capital industry. Additionally in 1996, he co-founded and became executive director of the Private Investors Network, an angel network sponsored by the Mid-Atlantic Venture Association, which he led until 2002. John is now Chairman of the Angel Capital Association, is a lead instructor for their "Power of Angel Investing" seminars, and is co-author of two books, "Every Business Needs an Angel" and "State of the Art."


 

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