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The Entrepreneur At the Table meetings provide a unique opportunity for entrepreneurially-oriented students to sit and have a casual lunch and conversation with an interesting and influential entrepreneur or executive. Within this intimate setting, mentors share advise and anecdotes from their own experience.
Want to sign up for an upcoming EAT?
Contact Bill Grant, Program Manager, TMP
For more information:
grant@engineering.ucsb.edu
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All EAT events take place at Noon in
the Dean's Conference Room.
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Featuring: Matt Vlasach
CEO, Pacific Swell Networks, (TMP Alum)
El Segundo, CA
http://www.pacificswell.com
 Pacific Swell Networks is a company set out to innovate and redefine
telephony technologies.
With the emergence of new methods to transmit and manipulate voice and
data, businesses are
looking to increase both their operational efficiencies and service
offerings. At the same time,
reliable and high-performance technology is becoming increasingly
critical for any business operation.
Pacific Swell enables these businesses not only with greater
functionalities than they previously had,
but also creates them in such a fashion that businesses can sleep easily
at night knowing that their new
technologies rest on reliable foundations.
 Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Featuring: Ian D. Smith
Associate, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, LLP
http://www.sheppardmullin.com/attorneys-82.html
Please RSVP with Bill Grant: grant@engineering.ucsb.edu as seating is limited to 10 students.
Ian D. Smith is an attorney in the Corporate Practice Group of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP's Santa Barbara office.
Areas of Practice
Mr. Smith's areas of specialization include public and private securities, venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, business start-ups, intellectual property transactions and representing clients with respect to general corporate law and business matters. Mr. Smith represents clients ranging from individuals and privately held companies to large publicly-traded corporations.
Education
- J.D., University of Southern California, 1999
- B.S., Art Center College of Design, 1990, with honors
Ali Perry is the financial development officer on the founding team that makes up Inogen Corp. Byron Myers, Ali Perry and Brenton Taylor began their entrepreneurial careers while students at the University of California at Santa Barbara. A personal connection to Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) led to a desire to improve patient's lives and the establishment of Inogen. They founded Inogen in 2001 after winning First Place honors in the Center for Entrepreneurship and Engineering Management's (now TMP) 2001 Business Plan Competition. The founders collaborated to build a solid foundation for the business, recruited an experienced management and technical team and secured seed funding.
Virgil Elings, Ph.D., is the founder of Digital Instruments (now a wholly owned subsidiary of Veeco Corporation [Nasdaq: VECO]). He served as the company's president and chairman of the board until his retirement in 1999. Digital Instruments remains the global leader in the design and manufacture of scanning probe microscopes, including scanning tunneling and atomic force microscopes. Dr. Elings is currently Chairman of the Board at NanoDevices and is actively involved in several philanthropic organizations. Dr. Elings earned his Ph.D. in Physics from MIT, was a Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara and holds 42 patents.
www.imtglobalinc.com
John Wilczak was born and raised in New York. Mr. Wilczak attended Brown
University where he received a BA in Anthropology in 1974. He then spent
two years working as an international business development manager,
before attending Columbia University's Graduate School of Business where
he received a Master Degrees in Finance and International Business in
1978. Mr. Wilczak joined the General Electric Company in 1979 where he
provided strategy development and implementation services for the CEO's
office. He also spent several years with Touche Ross and Co. as an
executive management consultant before going out on his own to establish
new businesses. Mr. Wilczak has provided business strategy and
implementation consulting services to a number of organizations
including Bank of America, American Honda, Revlon/Max Factor, the U.S.
Airforce, and Teledyne. Mr. Wilczak is an accomplished speaker and has
presented at numerous conferences and seminars including UBS Warburg
Global Investors, Deutsche Bank Technology, COMDEX, SIGGRAPH, TED and
MACWORLD.
Mr. Wilczak is executive management and a financier of high technology
and pharma/biotech companies. He founded MetaTools, Inc. in 1992 and led
it as Chairman and CEO through a series of private financings including
a $5 million investment by Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen, a successful
IPO (NASDAQ) where the Company raised $62 million in December of 1995,
and then through a series of acquisitions before retiring from the
Company in 1998.
Mr. Wilczak is currently the Chairman and CEO of Cell Ionix, Inc. a
biophysics development stage company with a significant intellectual
property portfolio of patents, trademarks and know-how focused on pH
therapeutics. Mr. Wilczak continues to be the largest shareholder and
board member of NARYX, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical development
company he co-founded which currently has its first drug candidate in
Phase II clinical trials with the FDA. SPI has developed and patented a
breakthrough formulation technology for the treatment of chronic
sinusitis, the leading chronic disease in the United States.
Mr. Wilczak is an outside director and lead investor in introNetworks,
Inc., an ASP of online gated communities which enables pinpointing
valuable connections within virtually any organization or community
served through powerful, proprietary visual interface conventions. Mr.
Wilczak has served on the board of directors of Renal Technologies, a
biotech firm located in New York City and Moscow, which has developed,
patented and is currently seeking FDA approval for a breakthrough
polymer chemistry for the treatment of renal failure and sepsis (toxic
shock).
Mr. Wilczak is active in the education field. He is a board member of
the University of California Santa Barbara Foundation, actively
supporting the Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, The Bren School
of Environmental Management, College of Engineering, Marine Science
Institute and Creative Studies Department. Mr. Wilczak is a member of
the Chancellor's Council and has been a trustee of the UCSB Foundation
since January of 1998.
Mr. Wilczak created a prototype program for UCSB to partner with
businesses in 1995 when he funded and produced the critically acclaimed
CD-ROM "Life in the Universe" with Stephen Hawkings working in concert
with UCSB faculty and students. Mr. Wilczak is also a founding supporter
of the Technology Management Program (TMP) and served on its board. Mr.
Wilczak was instrumental in founding the Multimedia Academy at Santa
Barbara High School and a number of other education related programs in
computer graphics and multimedia.
Mr. Wilczak and his wife, Janet, support numerous child education and
well being related charities in the Santa Barbara area including
Transition House, StoryTeller Foundation and Montecito Union School.
Tuesday, October 24
John Foster
Chairman, CEO, Innovative Micro Technology (IMT)
Thursday, November 2
Steve Golden
CTO, Co-Founder, Catalytic Solutions
Tuesday, November 7
Gale Wilson-Steele
Chair & Co-Founder, MedSeek Inc.
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Tuesday, November 14
Byron Myers
Co-Founder and Product Manager
Monday, November 20
Virgil Elings
Founder of Digital Instruments
Mentor, Lecture Series Guest
Thursday, November 30
Tom Hopkins
Partner, Corporate Practice Group, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, LLP
Thursday, January 11
Fred Steck
Advisory Director of Private Wealth Management, Goldman Sachs
(Formerly Managing Director at GS)
Robert Duggan
Chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Computer Motion, Inc.
John Foster
Chief Executive Officer of Innovative Micro Technology
David Giannini
Vice President of Engineering at CallWave
Mark Jaffe
CEO, Bartlett, Pringle & Wolf, LLP
No bio available
Bruce Meares
Executive Manager of Linvetec
Jim Morouse
Managing Director for The Satori Group
Philip K. Smith
Larry Souza
Senior Vice President of Research at Amgen (retired)
Mark Turk
Senior Vice President at Silicon Valley Bank
David Wong
Ph. D. EE , Chairman and CEO, Previously co-founder and CEO of Spectron Microsystems and Connected Systems. Vice President of Virata. |
