EVENT DETAILS

8:00am

Breakfast, Registration & Networking

8:50am

Welcome & Greetings

9:00am

Panel Session

10:00am

Adjourn

Peter Holden, Partner, Coller Capital (Moderator)
Prior to joining Coller Capital in 2006, Peter spent 17 years leveraging research and technology assets from corporations, research centres and universities worldwide. His experience has included senior positions at: Panasonic (in Osaka, Japan); IPVALUE Management (in Palo Alto, CA); University Patents (in Westport, CT); and Invisible Hand LLC ( New York, NY) – a $50 million seed fund that he founded and led. During this time, he managed over 150 spin-outs, start-ups and licensing programmes.

Peter has a GEC-sponsored PhD from Cranfield Institute of Technology and a first class honors degree in Engineering & Management from Bradford University. He holds a Senior Industry Fellowship in corporate venturing at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and was awarded a Honda Fellowship in technology innovation by Tokyo University. Peter has dual US-UK citizenship and speaks conversational Japanese.

W. Brennan Carley, Managing Principal, Proton Advisors
W. Brennan Carley, had the vision of building Radianz from a Reuters spinout, which was later sold to British Telecom. Brennan is Managing Principal of Proton Advisors, an independent consulting firm providing expertise in financial services technology and telecommunications services businesses.

Brennan has extensive strategic and operational experience at leading financial technology and telecommunications firms, including Radianz, nstinet, Reuters, NYFIX, IBM, Yipes, and Marketcetera. Brennan has advised companies and served as an executive with both operating and strategic responsibility. He has worked closely with many leading venture capital and private equity firms, as an executive in portfolio companies, as an independent board member of portfolio companies, and in an independent advisory capacity.

Brennan is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of New York University, with a degree in Economics.

Masaaki Maeda, President & CEO, NTT DOCOMO USA
NTT DOCOMO USA, established in November 1999 as a wholly owned subsidiary of Japan’s NTT DOCOMO. In 2004, Mr. Maeda launched NTT DOCOMO USA’s first service in North America, called “namikiteru®,” which is a Public Wireless LAN Access service for Japanese-speaking residents of the USA. It was followed in October 2005 by the introduction of “namimail®”, a software application which allows users to read and write Japanese and displays simplified and traditional Chinese, Hangul (Korean) and Japanese characters on BlackBerry® handheld devices. This has contributed tremendously to the global mobility of bilingual business people.

Mr. Maeda holds both a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering and a Master of Electrical Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology. In addition, he earned an MBA at MIT’s Sloan School of Management in June 2002.

Seth Jacobs Assistant General Counsel, Pfizer Inc.
Seth currently oversees the company’s patent support for licensing and acquisitions. He previously had lead roles at the company involved with biotherapeutics and other areas. Prior to working at Pfizer, Mr. Jacobs was in private practice where he represented clients in the life science area, particularly those conducting patent diligence with respect to venture capital investments. He is a graduate of Cornell Law School and Binghamton University. Mr. Jacobs has presented at a number of venues on issues relating to patent due diligence and life science patenting.

Andrew R. Garman, Managing Partner/Founder, New Venture Partners
Andrew R. Garman, Managing Partner, was a founder of New Venture Partners. He has successfully spun out several internally generated companies out of Lucent, BT and Xerox.

Today, he attends to the needs of the firm’s limited partners and investors, developing partnerships with major technology corporations, collaborating with the team on creating and investing in new ventures, and overseeing strategy and operations with his fellow managing partners.

Andy has twenty years of investment and management experience in the formation of new ventures and the commercialization of technology from corporations and institutional labs. He has worked closely with senior R&D management at many of the world’s top technology companies, including IBM, Philips, British Telecom, Siemens, Lucent,SRI, and Xerox.

Previously he was a Vice President at Lucent Technologies, charged with developing ventures from Bell Labs; the Managing Director of BT Ventures at Bankers Trust Company, where he managed a portfolio of internally generated spin-outs in information technology; and Vice President of Strategy and Business Development for Xerox’s New Enterprise Group, commercializing the technology of Xerox, including that of the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC).