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to Silicon Valley, California, United States
7 days in the center of worlds` most innovative business haven
More than 15 practical seminars concerning how venture business works, how investors and venture funds can be found and dealt with, how to patent your proprietary technology, how to market your start-up and make business in the Silicon Valley etc.
More than 20 meetings with key managers, lead investors, business angels plus law, marketing and finance consultants.
Who should participate:
Venture entrepreneurs, IT-specialists/CIOs, early stage development investors (angels), institutional investor representatives, senior researchers and engineers in different fields.
Top 3 reasons why you should go:
- To obtain unique experience, that was accumulated in the Silicon Valley, in order to understand basic approaches and priciples of building a successful venture business using innovative technology.
- To establish interpersonal contact with investors, entrepreneurs, consultants or engineers from Silicon Valley, who have already succeeded and became legends of venture business.
- To gain access to intellectual and financial resources of worlds` most prominent innovations and investment hub.
AGENDA
Tours` agenda is five exciting meeting-intensive days that will allow you to receive information directly from legendary Silicon Valley professionals.
Each day is devoted to an individual set of topics concerning initial launching, financing and development of a successful project in Silicon Valley.
Day 1 - Silicon Valley as a unique hub of innovations and technologies. Possibilities for cooperation and partnerships.
Day 2 - Intellectual property rights. Patenting and licensing technology in USA. Who needs a patent?
Day 3 - From idea to start-up. Successful launch strategies in the USA.
Day 4 - How to get financing on early stages of project development. Venture Capital Funds` selection criteria.
Day 5 - Business development from start-up to IPO. Master classes from successful companies. "Entrepreneur vs investor" discussion panel.
You`ll be able to obtain information directly from key management, consultants, financial managers and entrepreneurs, who have launched many successful projects and have high authority in Silicon Valley.
Speakers1, who have confirmed the master-classes2 include:
- Yan Breek
Serial entrepreneur, angel investor
Yan Breek is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and business adviser. He founded three start-up companies in the field of real estate services, financial services, and software. Yan is a member of Keiretsu, the largest organization of angel investors in the US. He was born in Russia and lived in Silicon Valley since 1991. Yan has a MS degree in Physics from Russia, MS in Management from Stanford Business School, and has undertaken PhD studies in Computer Science.
- Navin Chaddha
Navin Chaddha is a proven serial entrepreneur, corporate executive and venture investor. Navin was named on the Forbes Midas List as a top 100 dealmaker in 2007. He invests in the software, enterprise infrastructure, networking systems, communications, Internet infrastructure and semiconductor sectors in the U.S. Navin leads Mayfield’s investments in India. His current Mayfield investments include Mimosa Systems, Seedfund, Tejas Networks and WiChorus.
Navin has made 25 investments in the past of which 9 have had IPOs and 6 have been acquired. Some of his past investments include LVL7 Systems (acquired by Broadcom), NeoPath Networks (acquired by Cisco Systems), ReaMetrix, Still Secure, Test Quest, and Vendavo in the U.S. and GCI Solutions, Indya.com (acquired by News Corp), Makemytrip, and Persistent Systems in India. His notable investments that had an IPO include Allsec, IL&FS Investsmart, Provogue and Shree Renuka Sugars in India and Akamai, Northpoint Communications, Qwest Communications and Rhythms NetConnections in the U.S.
Navin was founder and CTO of VXtreme, a streaming media software company that was acquired by Microsoft and became Windows Media. He served in various management roles at Microsoft after that. Navin was also the co-founder of iBeam Broadcasting (NASDAQ IPO) and CEO of Rivio (acquired by CPA2Biz). His venture investing experience includes Managing Director at Gabriel Venture Partners and Venture Partner at Mobius Venture Capital.
Navin holds an MS degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University (received the Stanford and IBM Graduate Fellowships) and a B.Tech degree in electrical engineering from IIT Delhi (received the Director’s Medal for being first in his class) and was honored with the prestigious distinguished IIT Alumni Award in 2006. Navin is a Charter Member of TiE and AAMA; serves on the Board of TiE, and is a Global Leader of Tomorrow Member of the World Economic Forum. He holds over 35 patents and has been recognized as an industry thought leader by several publications including Aspatore Books, Business 2.0, Forbes, Fortune, Upside and The Wall Street Journal.
- Ori Cohen
Co-founder, Skyrider
Mr. Cohen is a technology pioneer, leading innovation in the telecom and video arenas. Prior to founding Skyrider, Cohen founded Narus, a global leader in software and technology for the telecom industry and government agencies. Cohen had previously served as Vice President of Business and Technology Development for VDOnet, an early leader in internet video. Additionally, Cohen served as Chief Executive Officer for IntelliCom Ltd. He holds a Ph.D. in physics from Imperial College in London, U.K.- Olga Danilevitch
Consultant, Resources Global Professionals
Olga is a consultant in the area of corporate governance and regulatory compliance with GAAP, IFRS and SEC Reporting Standards. She is a founder of MARYTREE Corp, a startup company that develops a technology that utilizes XBRL taxonomy for GAAP and Global Financial Reporting standards. She also works part-time as Interim Controller at Moody’s Wall Street Analytics, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Moody’s Investor Services.
Prior to launching her own consulting practice Olga was with Resources Global Professionals, an international professional services firm (NASDAQ: RECN) that provides 500 Fortune public companies with highly experienced executive-level professionals on a project basis. Among Olga’s projects were the Restatement/Recertification of Financial Statements of Mercury Interactive Corp; acquisition of a BioTech company, Xenogen Inc, by Caliper Life Sciences, and acquisition of Wall Street Analytics by Moody’s Financial Services.
Before joining Resources Olga worked as a Controller at OpenTable, Inc, a leading provider of a software marketing and online reservation tool for restaurant industry, and as an Assistant Controller at Communication Intelligence Corp. (CIC), a public company that manufactures biometric signature verification software. Olga moved to the US in 2001 from Minsk, Belarus, where she worked for 9 years in the banking industry, from an Associate to Controller and Chief Financial Officer of two commercial banks.
Olga holds Masters of Art in Linguistics degree from the Minsk State Linguistic University and an MBA degree with Honors (focused in Finance) from the Belarusian State Economic University. She is a member of the Institute of Management Accountants, Financial Women Association of San Francisco and XBRL US Inc.
- Anna Dvornikova
Director, American Business Association of Russian Professionals (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.
- Renat Khasanshyn
Apatar Open Source
Renat Khasanshyn is a subject matter expert in enterprise software and open source business models, and is responsible for driving the vision of data integration solutions at Apatar Open Source. Renat was recently named a finalist for the Emerging Executive of the Year award by Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council. He is a frequent speaker at a wide rage of events. Prior to founding Apatar, Renat Khasanshyn was CEO for Altoros Systems, a distributed product life cycle management company. Prior to Altoros, Renat was VP of Engineering for PriMed, a discount insurance company in Tampa, Florida where he was responsible for creating an e-commerce portal to help consumers to find, compare, and purchase health insurance plans online. Before immigrating to the U.S. in 2001, Renat was CTO for OOO BelLight "EFA", a manufacturing and distribution firm of lighting equipment in Belarus and Russia. He studied Engineering and then Marketing at the Belarussian State Technical University. You can read his blog, "Naked Open Source", at http://www.nakedopensource.com/.
- Stas Khirman
Ñî-founder and CTO, Skyrider
Prior to founding Skyrider, Mr. Khirman founded Narus, a global leader in software and technology for the telecom industry and government agencies, where he helped designed the world`s most scalable network transaction analysis system. Mr. Khirman had previously served as the networking group leader at VDOnet, a pioneer in internet video.
Mr. Khirman brings more than 20 years of experience in the software industry as an architect, manager, visionary, and inventor; he was behind the development of a number of standards organizations and participated in the early definition of the VoIP protocol. Mr. Khirman holds a Master`s degree in Mathematics from the University of Kiev.
- Edward Kozel
President and CEO, Skyrider
Prior to joining Skyrider, Mr. Kozel served a Managing Director of Integrated Finance, Ltd., a private advisory services firm and spent five years as Managing Member of Open Range LLC., a private venture firm. Mr. Kozel, an early employee at Cisco Systems, helped to grow the company into a multinational technology leader as its Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Business Development.Mr. Kozel is an industry innovator who previously worked at Boeing, McDonnell Douglas and SRI International, where he participated in the early design and development of the Internetwork Protocol (IP) model and TCP/IP, packet radio networks and highly distributed information systems. Mr. Kozel serves on the boards of Yahoo! Inc., Reuters PLC and Network Appliances. He graduated from the University of California, Davis with a degree in electrical engineering.
- Carol Kristen-Burns
Serial entrepreneur, investor, and business strategist
Carol Kristen-Burns is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and business strategist. She co-founded three start-up companies in the field of investment management with Caterpillar Inc. (sold to T. Rowe Price) and co-founded a series of quantitative hedge fund strategies with SIEMENS Austria. She was VP and Head, Global Product Development, at AIG in New York City prior to moving to Silicon Valley in 2004. Carol has a BAS from University of Illinois, and attended the MBA program at Georgia State University and the executive program in financial marketing at University of Chicago. She also serves as an advisor to several start-ups and is a partner with Yan Breek to develop and launch successful start-up companies using technology from Eastern Europe.
- Natasha Krol
Managing Partner, Alexander & Krol Executive Search
Natasha Krol is a Managing Partner at Alexander and Krol, an Executive Search firm specializing in the US and Eastern European Technology Markets. Prior to that, she was a Senior Client Partner with Korn/Ferry International’s Global Technology Market, based in the firm’s Silicon Valley office. Her clients included companies like Google, HP, Audatex, TransUnion and others.
Ms. Krol has more than twenty years of experience in the development and application of information technology. Most recently, Ms. Krol led overall marketing efforts for several start-up and medium-size Silicon Valley software companies, including Evoke Software (now Informatica) and eMotion (now Corbis).
Previously, Ms. Krol was a Founding Member, Vice President and Service Director of Advanced Information Management Strategies for the META Group (now Gartner), the leading provider of information technology research, advisory services and strategic consulting in Stamford, CT. Her clients included senior executives in Global 2000 companies, as well as the venture capital community. She was also instrumental in establishing company subsidiaries throughout Europe, South Africa and Asia Pacific. Prior to Gartner, Ms. Krol managed advanced technologies for John Hancock Financial Services in Boston, MA, where she developed strategic technology plans and overall information architecture.
She began her career as a Marketing Officer in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in St. Petersburg, Russia. Ms. Krol holds an M.S. degree in Linguistics from St. Petersburg University. Ms. Krol has served on the technical advisory board for American Express, and has been a featured keynote speaker at more than 50 international conferences.
- Patrina Mack
Patrina Mack, founder and Managing Partner of Vision & Execution, has 20 years of marketing experience in both small entrepreneurial and large corporate organizations. She has extensive experience in business-to-consumer and business-to-business marketing strategy and implementation. Her industry expertise spans the Internet, telecom, software, financial services, and consumer products industries. She has been instrumental in key product innovations in new and emerging markets, and has been responsible for many product and process improvements for Fortune 500 companies.
Ms. Mack has held product marketing positions with AirTouch Communications (now Vodafone), where she was responsible for identifying market opportunities for PCS wireless, and with NetGravity (now DoubleClick), where she was responsible for hosted interactive advertising solutions. In previous consulting roles, Ms. Mack has worked with many Fortune 500 companies, including: Adobe Systems, Allen-Bradley Company, Bankers Trust, Del Monte, Mellon Bank, Microsoft, Nabisco Brands, Pacific Bell, Silicon Graphics, Visa.
- Gopan Madathil
Gopan Madathil brings a wealth of high tech marketing and entrepreneurial business creation experience to Vision & Execution. Gopan helps high-tech companies overcome their marketing and product development challenges by providing coaching and/or interim leadership in the areas of marketing, product management, and strategic business development. He also coaches entrepreneurs through the company creation and fundraising process. Gopan provides strategic vision and operational expertise from his 17 years of experience in IT and telecom and advisory roles in a variety of high technology industries.
Gopan has held marketing and fundraising roles with stealth mode and early stage start-up firms. He has provided senior marketing leadership for Jamcracker, an online service provider, leading their expansion into the telecom space. He was Director of Product Marketing for Venturi Wireless. Gopan led the wireless strategic marketing efforts at Agilent Technologies, guiding new products and solutions for Agilent`s $ 200 M a year Wireless OSS business. He also served as an advisor to Agilent Ventures, the venture arm of Agilent Technologies. Before that, as Director of Product Management, Gopan led Objective Systems Integrators` entry into the IP marketplace. He created systems management software at ESQ for Tandem Computers after starting his career with Wipro InfoTech in India, applying engineering and business expertise as R&D engineer, marketing analyst, and product manager. Gopan has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from Madras University in India.
Gopan Madathil is the Founder and President of TechCoire, the largest network of technology entrepreneurs and executives from the greater Sacramento region. He is a frequent speaker at leading industry conferences and has authored over two-dozen papers on telecommunications and software.
- Tom Marchok
Tom Marchok is a Director of Strategic Investments in Intel Capital, which is Intel`s corporate business development arm. Tom is responsible for strategic investment and business development activity on behalf of Intel`s Corporate Technology Group (i.e., central R&D labs). His activities focus on emerging technologies that will impact Intel`s future microprocessor and communications platforms. His responsibilities include developing investment strategies, executing strategic investment and business/licensing deals, and company building. Tom has been with Intel for 13 years, including Intel Capital for eight years. He represents Intel as an observer to the Board of Directors for four companies. Tom is part of a team that recently received of an Intel Achievement Award – Intel’s highest honor - for developing ultra-wideband technology, the associated standards, favorable worldwide regulatory environment, and establishing an aligned external ecosystem of suppliers.
Tom holds BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Electrical & Computer Engineering, all from Carnegie Mellon University, and has completed the Executive Program at Stanford University`s Graduate School of Business. He lives in Mountain View, CA with his wife and two children.
- Lydia Mazzie
Senior Program Manager, Google`s International Engineering Operations
Lydia Mazzie is responsible for researching and identifying new international locations for Google engineering offices, setting up new development sites and managing operations of existing ones. As one of her recent projects, Lydia lead the establishment of Google Moscow development center.From 2003 to 2005, Lydia was a manager in Google`s Corporate Development group responsible for international acquisitions and investments. From 2002 to 2003 Lydia worked in Google`s finance team.
Prior to Google, Lydia spent three and a half years working at the investment bank of JPMorgan Securities, Inc., advising technology companies in their merger and acquisition strategy and execution.
During her tenure at JPMorgan Securities, Inc., Lydia advised on over 15 transactions. Lydia graduated with high honors from the University of California in Berkeley with a degree in Business Administration.
- Pavel Pogodin
Partner, Sughrue`s Silicon Valley office
Pavel Pogodin, Ph.D., is a partner in Sughrue`s Silicon Valley office. Dr. Pogodin was formerly Patent Counsel for Oracle Corporation and Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he provided full service patent support for his clients, which included patent portfolio management, litigation management, opinion management and intellectual property licensing.
Dr. Pogodin comes to the firm with extensive experience in obtaining patent protection for software inventions, as well as inventions in telecommunications and hardware, image analysis, electronic circuit design and manufacture, physics and semiconductor chip design, manufacture and testing. His practice includes patent preparation and prosecution, preparation of opinions on issues of patentability and infringement/non-infringement, as well as litigation, licensing and client counseling.
Pavel Pogodin is a member of U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, as well as US District Court for the Northern District of California. Pavel received legal education at The University of Iowa College of Law, Ph.D. in Physics at University of Iowa, resuming his study, that he initially started at Moscow State University.
- Julia Pogodina
Principal IBCI Law Group
Julia Pogodina is a business attorney with over 10 years of legal experience and is qualified to practice law in California and Russian Federation. She specializes in business, corporate, international and intellectual property law. She also is "of counsel" at Intellectual Property Law Group.
Besides legal Ms. Pogodina also has an extensive business experience. She was the Director of North-Western Branch of Miel Real Estate Agency in Moscow where she managed legal, financial, and sales activities. Prior to Miel she worked for Trud Joint Stock Company, where she handled a variety of legal and business matters including international business transactions and real estate.
- Marina Portnova
Lawyer, Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman, LLP
Patent prosecution (US and foreign), patent validity and infringement analysis and opinions, IP due diligence work, and strategic IP counseling for start-ups and industry leaders.
Technology areas of emphasis include computer architecture, software, networking, communications, image processing, and business methods.
Prior to becoming an attorney, worked as a software developer and a database administrator.
Affiliations: CA State Bar; American Intellectual Property Law Association; American CA State Bar; American Intellectual Property Law Association; American Bar Association.
- Don Wood
Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Don Wood is a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, where he leads the global expansion of DFJ`s Network Affiliate Funds into new geographic and sector markets. Most recently, Mr. Wood was a General Partner at Vanguard Ventures where he invested in information technology, Internet services, and energy technologies. Mr. Wood serves as board member of Casabi, Cooking.com, Sylantro Systems, Vocera Communications and ZipRealty (ZIPR). Mr. Wood also serves as Chairman of the Board of the Entrepreneurs Foundation, a non-profit community organization.Prior to Vanguard Ventures, Mr. Wood was President of Metricom and a member of its Board of Directors, where he led the creation of the wireless Internet service known as Ricochet. Prior to Metricom, Mr. Wood was with Octel Communications, Inc., worldwide leader in voicemail systems, where he was responsible for marketing, product management and sales engineering. In 1987, he co-founded Wood-Howard Products and licensed his patent for a folding, laminated publishing format to Simon and Schuster, Rand McNally, FastMark and others. Today more than 100 million products have been sold under these licenses. Earlier, he was Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing with International Power Technology, supplier of micro-turbine, co-generation power systems, and was a management consultant with McKinsey and Company. Mr. Wood also worked in the policy-planning department of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C.
Mr. Wood earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Stanford University, and a Master in Business Administration degree from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
- Evgeny Zaytsev
Partner, Asset Management Company
Dr. Evgeny Zaytsev joined Asset Management Company in 2001 bringing diverse professional experience in operations and biomedical research.
He has been Chief Scientific Officer of Medico-Ecological Institute in Barnaul, Russia, which was responsible for studying the health and environmental effects of the former Soviet Union`s nuclear testing program. The Institute developed into an internationally recognized research center during his seven-year tenure in that position. Evgeny is an author of 39 scientific and business publications, including 8 books. He received his M.D. cum laude and a Ph.D. from Altai Medical University, Russia in 1991, and his M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2002.
At Asset Management Company, Evgeny focuses on early stage investments in biotechnology and medical device companies. He is a Board Member of a number of private life sciences companies. Evgeny is an active business community leader. He is a founder of the US-Russia Technology Symposium at Stanford University, and the annual Silicon Valley Open Doors technology investment conference. Evgeny is a Board member and past president of the American Business Association of Russian Professionals (AmBAR).
You`ll also have a chance to visit and meet with top management of leading Silicon Valley business incubators and venture funds, specifically:
Plug and Play Tech Center, business incubator
Plug and Play Tech Center is a strategic partner to technology start-up companies in Silicon Valley. Based in Sunnyvale, it has become a home to vibrant community of more than 90 start-ups offering a full range of services from full service office space to strategic advice to direct investments (via investment arm Amidzad Ventures).
Since it opened doors in January of 2006, it has assisted its resident companies in securing more than USD million via Amizad Partners and venture capital partners. P&P Tech Center is committed to cultivating the next generation of revolutionary start-ups in Silicon Valley that will impact people globally.
US Market Access Center, business incubator
The US Market Access Center (US MAC) is the leading trade gateway into the United States for international companies. The US MAC specializes in cost-effective US market entry for small to mid-sized, high-growth technology and life science companies planning to expand their marketing reach to the United States. The US MAC offers marketing and business consulting services as well as office space in a dynamic, international business environment.
The US MAC team is comprised of top notch marketing and sales consultants including former CEO`s and Marketing VP`s of both public and early stage high-growth technology companies, former Gartner Group Vice Presidents, and market experts in a range of technology industries from wireless infrastructure to healthcare services to enterprise software. This highly qualified, highly connected team offers market assessments, market strategy reports, and customer acquisition services.
Draper Fisher Jurvetson, venture fund
Draper Fisher Jurvetson is the pre-eminent venture capital firm with global presence through a network of affiliated funds, with offices in more than 30 cities around the world and over .5 billion in capital commitments.
DFJ`s mission is to identify, serve, and provide capital for extraordinary entrepreneurs anywhere who are determined to change the world. Over the past twenty years, DFJ has been proud to back more than 300 companies across many sectors including such industry-changing catalysts as Hotmail (acquired by MSFT), Baidu (BIDU), Skype (acquired by EBAY), United Online (UNTD), Overture (acquired by YHOO), Interwoven (IWOV), Four11 (acquired by YHOO), Parametric (PMTC), and Digidesign (acquired by AVID).
SRI International
SRI International is an independent, nonprofit research institute conducting client-sponsored research and development for government agencies, commercial businesses, foundations, and other organizations. SRI also brings its innovations to the marketplace by licensing its intellectual property and creating new ventures.
For more than 60 years, since our beginnings when we were called Stanford Research Institute, our strengths have been our staff`s world-leading expertise and passion for working with clients on important challenges. SRI is well known for its legacy of innovations in communications and networks, computing, economic development and science and technology policy, education, energy and the environment, engineering systems, pharmaceuticals and health sciences, homeland security and national defense, and materials and structures.
Tour partners Capital Strategy consulting company, Ñommerce Magazine, IT Ukraine Association.
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Tour participant`s package includes:
- Arrangement of no less than 20 meetings according to the schedule
- Printed handouts
- "All-inclusive" trip
- Kiev Borispol - San Francisco flight, land trip to Silicon Valley
- Transportation to every meeting
- Accommodation in a five-star hotel in the heart of the Silicon Valley
- Three meals a day
- Guided tours and sightseeing (San Francisco)
- Visa support
1 In alphabetical order
2 We are arranging meetings with real people, who might not be able to manage their time freely. Therefore, we ask for your understanding should there be any changes to the schedule and/or speaker list.
