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| Winter 2008 Lectures: "Technology; Change and Challenge" |
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Thurs. Jan. 17
5:30 pm, ESB 1001
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Jim Andelman
General Partner, Rincon Venture Partners
http://www.rinconvp.com/Team.htm
Served as a Principal at Broadview Capital Partners.
Former member of the Technology Investment Banking Group at Deutsche Banc Alex, Brown. |
Thurs. Jan. 31
5:30 pm
ESB 1001
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Chet Sandberg, P.E.
Altair Nanotechnologies
http://www.altairnano.com
Technical Strategy Manager, Altairnano.
Formerly worked with the Chemelex Division at Raychem Corporation.
Managed development of technology for Shell Oil. |
Thurs. Feb. 7
5:30 pm
ESB 1001
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Bruce Lyon
Chief Executive Officer
Integrated Media Technologies, Inc.
http://www.imtglobalinc.com
Integrated Media Technologies Inc. is a leading provider of products and services for video, storage, and information technology consulting. IMT’s unique value is built on a team of award winning media technology professionals - engineers, software developers, architects, and account executives dedicated to solving each customer’s technology problems with innovative and cost effective solutions in partnership with the world’s best technology companies.
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Thurs. Feb. 14
5:30 pm
ESB 1001
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Krisztina M. Zsebo, Ph.D.
CEO Celladon Corporation
http://www.celladon.net/index.php
Dr. Zsebo is a biopharmaceutical veteran with 24 years of experience in the industry, Dr. Zsebo has been involved in numerous successful ventures. She is CEO of Celladon Corporation, La Jolla, CA. Prior to joining Celladon, she was a Venture Partner at Enterprise Partners Venture Capital, and held executive positions at Remedyne Corporation, Connetics, ALZA, Cell Genesys, and Amgen.
At ALZA Corporation Dr. Zsebo was responsible for the division which developed and filed the NDA for Viadur, an implantable drug/device for prostate cancer patients now marketed by Bayer Corporation. At Cell Genesys, where she was Executive Vice President of Research and Product Development, she was responsible for filing their first IND for a gene therapy product for AIDS. She also managed Cell Genesys' Xenotech division, which was spun off to become Abgenix, one of the most successful biotech companies. Earlier in her career, Kris spent eight years at Amgen in research and product development where she worked on the discovery of NEUPOGEN, as well as STEMGEN, and various aspects of EPOGEN development.
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Thurs. Feb. 28
5:30 pm
ESB 1001
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Alexander Manu
Chief Imaginator, InnoSpa International Partners
http://www.manuinnospainternational.blogspot.com
Alexander Manu is a strategic innovation practitioner, lecturer, and author. He is a Senior Partner and Chief Imaginator at InnoSpa International Partners, a worldwide consulting firm reshaping business thinking by helping large corporations explore and define new competitive spaces. He is also a Professor at the Ontario College of Art and Design and teaches “Strategic Foresight for Pre-Competitive Innovation” at the Rotman School of Management in Toronto.
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| Fall 2007 Lectures: "Entrepreneurship and Society" |
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October 11, 2007
Chairman & CEO, Zions Bancorporation
View QuickTime Video
Lecture Title: "The Right Start: Building Great Relationships with Your Bankers and Other Financial Constituents"
Harris H. Simmons is chairman, president and chief executive officer of Zions Bancorporation; chairman of Zions First National Bank; and a director of Questar Corporation and O.C. Tanner Co. He was president and chief executive officer of Zions First National Bank prior to 1998 and has been an officer of the Company since 1981. He has been president and chief executive officer of Zions Bancorporation since 1990 and chairman since 2002. Simmons first worked for Zions in 1970 and has served in a variety of positions with Zions First National Bank and Zions Bancorporation in more than 30 years with the organization. He is a graduate of the University of Utah and has an M.B.A. from Harvard University. Simmons is a past president of the American Bankers Association.
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October 18, 2007
New Media Entrepreneur,
Former Manager:
'Neil Young, Tracy Chapman, Eagles,
Jackson Browne, America, Poco, CSN&Y,
Ringo Starr, etc.
www.theholodigm.com
View QuickTime Video
Lecture Title: “New Media Entrepreneurship
Strategies for Tomorrow”
John Hartmann began his professional career in the famous mailroom of the William Morris Agency. He later served as the Morris office liason to Colonel Tom Parker the legendary manager of Elvis Presley. A veteran agent, personal manager and record executive, John has provided career direction for such luminaries as Chad & Jeremy, Sonny & Cher, Buffalo Springfield, Canned Heat, Peter, Paul & Mary, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Eagles, Jackson Browne, America, Poco, Ringo Starr and many others. Hartmann is a results oriented operational leader with more than fifty years experience in the entertainment industry. His proven expertise in creating and executing career strategies that integrate the performing, recording, film and television arts is evidenced by the quality of artists he was honored to serve. A serial entrepreneur turned educator, his most recent enterprise theholodigm.com presents an Internet based artist management community dedicated to the discovery and development of the next generation of music superstars. Hartmann lectures in the Recording Arts Program of the School Of Film & Television at Loyola Marymount University where the students voted him Professor Of The Year for 2007." |
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CEO & President,
Wize, Inc.
http://tpatterson.typepad.com/tp/
View QuickTime Video
Lecture Title: "Getting Wize:
Making Sense of Web 2.0"
Tom has held strategic positions at Procter and Gamble, PeopleSoft, and Respond.com. In his last operating role, he was the SVP of Technology Development and Operations for MarketTools where he managed them through 5 years of rapid growth. Most recently Tom was an Entrepreneur in Residence with the Mayfield Fund before joining Wize as CEO. Tom has earned a BS from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Chemical Engineering as well as an MBA from Harvard Business School. Tom also sits on the Wize Board of Directors. |
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Barbara Grant, Ph.D.
Partner
American River Ventures
View QuickTime Video
Lecture Title: "Emerging Technology Ventures...
What is the next Transformation?"
American River Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm started by and for entrepreneurs passionate about starting great companies. John Kunhart, Harry Laswell and Corley Phillips formed American River Ventures with their extensive networks, decades of experience launching start-ups and working inside major corporations, and a shared passion for starting great businesses. Today the investment team has grown to include five professionals, all entrepreneurs at heart who share the same passion. We have been founders, executives or investors in over 70 early-stage companies, from developing the initial product to growing those companies into profitable businesses.
Dr. Barbara Grant joined American River Ventures in 2004. Over the past three decades, she has acquired management, operational and technology development experience working in both start-up companies and major corporations. Barbara was most recently CEO of Siros Technologies, a Silicon Valley start-up that developed innovative optical components and subsystems for the storage and communications markets, While she was at Siros the company raised over $60 million in funding from top-tier venture capital and corporate investors. Prior to joining Siros, Barbara was at IBM for 21 years where she held several executive positions. Her last position was as a Vice President and General Manager in the Data Storage Division, responsible for a $1B line of business. Over the course of her career, Barbara has developed and introduced more than 50 new products. She is the recipient of eight patents and has authored numerous publications in a variety of technology sectors. In 1996, Barbara was recognized for her accomplishments and elected to the inaugural group of the Women in Technology Hall of Fame.
Barbara is passionate about technology and the role it plays in the enterprise and consumer marketplace. She has led or been a member of teams introducing new lithographic materials for semiconductor manufacturing, the flat panel TFT LCD technology utilized in IBM's ThinkPad product line, numerous data processing printer products, and data storage tape and hard disk drives and storage subsystems. Barbara shares her hands-on experience with portfolio companies to help guide them during the crucial phases of mapping out product requirements, product and production launch, and customer adoption.
Barbara's current board memberships include Agoura Technologies, Integrated Materials, Xponent Photonics and Triformix. She is a member of the Research Advisory Board and The Board of Visitors for the University of California, Davis, as well as a member of the SARTA Board of Directors.
In her spare time, you will find Barbara on the golf course or walking her Black Lab Annie.
Barbara holds a B.S. in Chemistry from Arizona State University and a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Stanford University.
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Ann Winblad
Co-Founder, Partner
Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
View QuickTime Video
Lecture Title: "New Venture Creation: Vision, Strategy, Tactics & Implementation"
Ann Winblad is the co-founding Partner of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. She is a well-known and respected software industry entrepreneur and technology leader. Her background and experience have been chronicled in many national business and trade publications.
Ann has over 25 years of experience in the software industry. She began her career as a systems programmer at the Federal Reserve Bank. In 1976 Ann co-founded Open Systems, Inc., a top selling accounting software company, with a $500 investment. She operated Open Systems profitably for six years and then sold it for over $15 million. Prior to co-founding Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Ann served as a strategy consultant for prestigious clients such as IBM, Microsoft, Price Waterhouse, and numerous start-ups. In addition, Ann has co-authored the book Object-Oriented Software and has written articles for numerous publications. Ann received a BA in mathematics and in business administration, as well as an MA in education and international economics from the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota. Ann also has an honorary Doctorate of Laws from the University of St. Thomas.
Ann has served as a Director of start-up and public companies and currently serves as a director of Voltage Security, Krillion and Mulesource. She is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of St. Thomas and is an advisor to numerous entrepreneur groups. |
Winter 2007 Lectures: "Technology; Change and Challenge"
Radical impacts on our economic & social structure: what is next? |
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January 17, 2007
View QuickTime Video
Chairman, Simmons & Company International
Houston, TX
 International Lecturer and best selling author of ‘Twilight in the Desert’.
[Read the write-up in the China Daily]
SCI is an independent investment bank that has acted as financial advisor in > $76B of transactions, including M & A > $54B.
Lecture Title: "Peak Oil - what are some of the implications and energy options for California to consider?"
View Lecture
Slides [PDF]
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February 1, 2007
View QuickTime Video
COO, Genomic Healthcare Strategies,
Boston, MA
Guest Lecturer, Mentor at MIT, Harvard, Boston Univ., Babson College
Lecture Title: “Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Personalized Healthcare”
"…the changes to molecular medicine will be so profound that the future of health and healthcare will be no more like the past than a butterfly is like a caterpillar” - Andrew C. von Eschenbach - Commissioner of the U.S.'s Food and Drug Administration”. |
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February 15, 2007
View QuickTime Video
Executive Director, Stanford Technology Ventures Program
Director of the Stanford Entrepreneurship Network and Co-Director of the Mayfield Fellows Program
Lecture Title: "Can Innovation and Entrepreneurship be Taught?" |
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March 1, 2007
View QuickTime Video
Corporate Practice Group;
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, LLP
www.smrh.com/attorneys/bios/bio.cfm?attorneyid=464
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Great Pacific Capital, www.greatpacificcapital.com/team.html
"The Capital Challenge"
(View Presentation Slides - PDF)
"What are the key ingredients for raising capital for early stage companies and how does a financing deal come together?" |
Fall 2006 Lectures: Special Topics in Engineering, Business and Society
"Building Innovative Ventures" |
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Kelly Perdew
View QuickTime Video
Managing Director
Angel-Leveraged Venture Partners
Winner of Donald Trump's "The Apprentice II"
Author of Take Command www.kellyperdew.com
"A serial entrepreneur and protégé of Donald Trump talks about ‘people, motivation, leadership, ideas and innovation’ "
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Dr. John Bowers
View QuickTime Video
Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, UCSB
Serial Entrepreneur
Founder, Calient Networks
Co-Founder Terabit Technologies
Breakthrough Researcher & Co-PI - Creating Lasers on Chips
Co-Founder, Technology Management Program
www.ece.ucsb.edu/uoeg
"Entrepreneurship and Innovation - From the Lab Bench to the Work Bench"
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Greg Kisor
View QuickTime Video
Vice President, Portfolio Architect
Intellectual Ventures, LLC
Formerly Principal Engineer & Chief Patent Technologist, Intel Corporation
Read Bio [PDF] / www.intven.com
"Intellectual Property and Invention"
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Tim Albinson
View QuickTime Video
CEO and Founder, Aravo Solutions Inc.
www.aravo.com/management.shtml#albinson
"New Venture Roadmap"
How do you build a new venture? Conceive, validate, document, found, finance, operations, administration, sales and marketing...
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TMP Panel Lecture:
View QuickTime Video
Dr. Yulan Wang
President, Intouch-Health Technologies Inc.
www.intouchhealth.com/management_team.html#yulun
David LaFitte
Attorney, Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth
www.sycr.com/screen_bio.php?id=90
“Technology Startups; A serial entrepreneur and an attorney share perspectives” |
Winter 2006 Lectures: Special Topics in Engineering, Business and Society
"Picking Winners: Here's How" |
January 19, 2006:
Martin Moskovits, Dean of Sciences, College of Letters & Science, UC Santa Barbara
Craig Prater, Director of Technology Development, Veeco Instruments Inc.
Dorothy Pavloff, Director, California Technology Ventures
Topic: "Nanotechnology, Where are the Winners?"
ESB, Room 1001, 5:30 pm
View QuickTime Video / View Photos
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Martin Moskovits |
Craig Prater |
Dorothy Pavloff |
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February 2, 2006:
Michael Pfau
Partner, Reicker, Pfau
Topic: "Making Technology Start-ups Work"
ESB, Room 1001,
5:30 pm
View QuickTime Video |
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February 16, 2006:
Ron Werft
President & CEO, Cottage Health System
Topic: "500 Million Dollar Innovations"
ESB, Room 1001, 5:30 pm
View QuickTime Video |
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March 2, 2006:
Virgil Elings, Ph.D.
Technology Pioneer
Topic: "Look at the Big Picture"
ESB, Room 1001,
5:30 pm
View QuickTime Video |
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March 16, 2006:
Susan Block
Co-founder, Block, Bowman & Associates, LLC
Gregory P. Vogel
Portfolio Manager, GKV Capital Management & Expert Panel
Topic: "Financial Considerations for New Ventures"
Expert VC/Financier/Banker Panel Discussion
ESB, Room 1001,
5:30 pm
View QuickTime Video |
| Fall 2005 Lectures: "Entrepreneurship and Society - What are the Implications?" |
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October 6, 2005:
Roland Bryan, President
MachineTalker, Inc.
Topic: "An Internet Founder on 'WIFI', Smart Security Networks and their Implications"
ESB, Room 1001, 5:30 pm
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October 20, 2005:
Topic: "Building an Innovative Technology Enterprise"
Tom Bruggere, Founder, Chairman and CEO (Retired)
Mentor Graphics Corporation
and
Paul Bonderson, Founder, CTO & Vice President
Strategic Development (Retired)
Brocade Communications
ESB, Room 1001, 5:30 pm
View QuickTime Video / View Photos |
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November 3, 2005:
Tom Kemp, President and CEO
Centrify Corporation
Topic: "Innovation, Opportunity, Value Creation"
ESB, Room 1001, 6:30 pm
View QuickTime Video |
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November 17, 2005:
Franklin "Pitch" Johnson, General Partner,
Asset Management Partners Director
Amgen (1980-Present)
Topic: "Democracy & Entrepreneurship"
ESB, Room 1001, 5:30 pm
View QuickTime Video / View Photos |
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John Davies, CEO
Davies Communications
Topic: "Perception, Persuasion, and Communications"
ESB, Room 1001, 5:30 pm
View QuickTime Video |
| Winter 2005 Lectures: "Creativity and Innovation: What are the implications?" |
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Thursday, January 13th, 5:30 pm, Engr II Pavilion
Dr. Herbert Kroemer
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California, Santa Barbara
Nobel Prize in Physics (2000)
View QuickTime Video |
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Thursday, January 27th, 2005, Engr Science Bldg. Rm 1001
David Hofstatter
Co-Founder,
President and CEO
CallWave, Inc.
View QuickTime Video |
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Thursday, February 10th, 2005, Engr Science Bldg. Rm 1001
Joseph E. Nida
Partner
Sheppard, Mullin
View QuickTime Video |
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Thursday, February 24th, 2005, Engr Science Bldg. Rm 1001
Dan Burnham
Chairman and CEO (Ret'd)
Raytheon Corp.
View QuickTime Video |
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March 10, 2005:
Larry Keeley
President
Doblin Inc.
View QuickTime Video |
| Fall 2004 Lectures: What is the same and what is different about creating ventures in leading technologies? |
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Thursday, October 7th, 5:30pm, The Faculty Club: SOFTWARE
Stephen Cooper, Chairman, Skyler Technologies Inc.; Gale Wilson-Steele, CEO, MedSeek Inc.
- Thursday, October 21st, 5:30pm, The Faculty Club: BIO-PHARMA
Lawrence M. Souza, former VP-Research, Amgen, Inc.
- Thursday, November 4th, 5:30pm, The Faculty Club: MATERIALS
Steve Golden, CTO & Co-Founder, Catalytic Solutions, Inc.
- Thursday, November 18th, 5:30pm, Engineering Science Building Room 1001: BIO-DEVICES
Daniel R. Doiron, Founder & former VP-Technology, Miravant Medical Technologies, Inc.
- Thursday, December 2nd, 5:30pm, The Faculty Club: ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE
Brett Caine, CTO, Citrix Online (formerly ExpertCity, Inc.)
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