as a part of seminar series
"Silicon Valley Best Practices. Kiev Master Classes"
August 3, 2007
 Kiev

BayView Innovations and Yuri Boyko continue their exclusive venture business seminar series, and invite you to a meeting with Anna Dvornikova – director of influential community of Russian-language venture entrepreneurs, developers and managers of Silicon Valley - AmBAR.

Anna is a Founder and CEO of Entana Corp., an entrepreneurship and venture advisory firm that focuses on providing business strategy, planning, fundraising, and positioning services to the early-stage technology start-ups.  It also provides a part-time executive management and angel financing.

Anna is also a Co-Founder of Kovalsky Art Gallery, a contemporary art boutique that gives art lovers around the world unique access to some of the most famous Russian artists. The gallery specializes in art from the mid 20th century onwards with an emphasis on post-impressionism, avant-garde, primitivism, expressionism, and abstract art.

Previously, Anna was a Co-Founder and the VP of Business Development at BKP Security, a government IT security company. Prior to that, she was a Foreign Advisor at the international law firm, Coudert Brothers.
Before moving into private business, Anna held academic research positions at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (Stanford University) and the Moscow office of the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies (Harvard University).

Anna has her J.D. from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) and her Master of Laws degree from Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley. Anna is an active member of the Board of Directors of American Business Association of Russian Professionals (AmBAR). She was 2005 AmBAR President and Chairperson of the Executive Committee of the first Silicon Valley Open Doors (SVOD-2005) Technology Investment Conference.

Master Class Key Topics
- Building and Financing a Growing Technology Venture
- preparing the presentation for investors in Silicon Valley
- project review criteria
- role of founders’ personal and professional qualities for successful start-up development and management

Seminar Participants
Entrepreneurs and innovators, emerging and perspective technological companies as well as projects in biotech; institutional investors, private investors, business media.

Schedule:

09:30 - 10:00	Registration
10:00 - 11:30	Master class
11:30 - 12:00	Coffee break
12:30 - 13:30	Q&A section
13:30 - 14:00	Press section

BayView Innovations has a broad partner network in the Silicon Valley: venture capital funds, developers and entrepreneurs, thus complementing ideas and technological potential of Ukrainian innovators with management, knowledge and capital.

Seminar partners:
Сommerce Magazine, Capital Strategy consulting company, project http://www.developers.org.ua/, IT Ukraine association, community Mobile Monday, Technobridge international fund.