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Tue Mar 2, 2010 5:30 PM
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MIT Enterprise Forum of NYC Presents:
Unleashing Business and Technology Growth Through Change Transformation
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Ever wonder what successful companies like Apple, Starbucks, Facebook and Amazon have in common?
Technological growth can only sustain a company`s growth and evolution so far in this global market. Even a start up or early stage company must consider Change Transformation in order to reach the break points and/or next levels of growth. The level of consciousness an organization has about change will impact the viability of the company. There are two choices:
• The world will make a company change at a point of crisis.
• The company can make a conscious choice for change that it wants to make happen.
Successful companies define and initiate change before the change happens to them. This includes questioning and testing all assumptions/premises that are fundamental to the business, which helped them get to this point in their evolution. MITEF-NYC has organized a panel to discuss what successful companies have in common, and how they`ve utilized change transformation to continually reinvent themselves. Our moderator will ask the panelists how change transformation may be implemented from a variety of angles, including Technology, Business Development, and Venture Capitalist/Investor perspectives; as well as how `leadership` and `management` can play a role in building the right teams at various stages of development to assure successful outcomes.
Panel Moderator:
- Lori Smith, Partner, Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP
Panel Speakers:
- Richard Fox, Managing Director, Cross Atlantic
- Harold Hambrose, CEO and Founder, Electronic Ink
- Meryl Miller, Organizational Strategist, Transformational Change
- Barbara Schwartz, PhD, New Business Development, Consultant
Thanks to Eisner LLP for hosting and sponsoring this event!
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DATE:
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
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TIME:
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5:30pm - 6:00pm: Reception
6:00pm - 7:30pm: Panel Discussion
7:30pm - 8:30pm: Networking
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PLACE:
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Eisner Accountants and Advisors - MAP
750 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10017
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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 Moderator Biography
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Lori Smith
Partner
Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP
Lori Smith, a partner with the firm`s Corporate Practice Group, represents foreign and domestic companies in various industries, including technology, media, financial services, food and beverage, sports, textile, fashion, specialty chemicals, and drug and medical device. She has more than 25 years of experience acting as outside counsel with regard to all aspects of corporate and commercial transactional work, corporate governance matters and negotiation of commercial agreements. Ms. Smith has significant experience representing emerging technology companies and investors, and advising companies at all stages of development ranging from start-ups to public companies. In addition, she has significant experience advising clients with respect to matters relating to arrangements with employees, consultants and advisors, including, without limitation indemnification agreements, proprietary information, non-solicitation and noncompetition matters.
Ms. Smith has represented public and private companies in the structuring, negotiation and implementation of equity and debt financings and private equity transactions; private placements; acquisitions and mergers; strategic alliances; joint ventures; and licensing, manufacturing and distribution arrangements. She also advises companies with respect to the various issues that need to be addressed in anticipation of and planning for a public offering, sale or merger.
Prior to joining Sedgwick, Ms. Smith was a partner with Goodwin Procter LLP. In addition, she previously practiced law at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP and Proskauer Rose LLP.
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Panel Speaker Biographies
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Richard Fox
Managing Director
Cross Atlantic
Richard oversees the activities of a dedicated fund that Cross Atlantic manages, the Co-Investment 2000 Fund, and actively works with several portfolio companies, including: Broadbeam, Eduction, Ikimbo, Interactive Enterprises, First Service Network, Kanbay, Netsuite, Nomadix, and Saqqara. Richard has over 20 years of investment experience in venture capital, institutional investing, and commercial banking, and will address change transformation in the context of the VC/investment community.
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Harold Hambrose
CEO and Founder
Electronic Ink
Harold is the CEO and founder of Electronic Ink, a design consultancy he established in 1990. His company transformed the operations of many fortune 500 companies by showing them new ways to collaborate, innovate, and design low-cost solutions to their most expensive technological problems. Harold`s recent book, Wrench in the System, addresses how an organization can transform itself through its business software and release the power to innovate.
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Meryl Miller
Organizational Strategist
Transformational Change
Meryl is an Organizational Strategist as CEO of Business Execution with over twenty years experience in Transformational Change. She has led business units of Fortune 100 companies, such as Johnson and Johnson, DuPont, Schering-Plough, and Bristol-Myers Squibb through business reinventions, acquisitions/mergers, and turnaround strategies. Works with start ups to take them to the next level of growth for their next round of funding by implementing and sustaining transformational organizational change and growth to drive business results.
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Barbara Schwartz
New Business Development
Consultant
Barbara spent over thirty years with Johnson & Johnson, leading global organizations and medical device businesses. She led the transformation of several Worldwide organizations, and achieved breakthrough sales results for several businesses that were on the brink of failure. She is presently consulting with groups on Transition Leadership, insuring that Management teams understand the change in leadership skill sets required to take them to the next level of growth and position them for success.
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This is a service of the MIT Enterprise Forum of New York City.
Copyright 2010 All rights reserved
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Contact: Eddie Quiroz
Phone: 888-639-9321
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