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Venture Lab II for Early Stage Entrepreneurs Seeking Venture Capital
Following the success of Venture Lab I, Genius Incubator in association with Cass Business School invites early-stage and growth-stage entrepreneurs, aspiring entrepreneurs, CASS students and alumni to Venture Lab II.
Event Agenda:
10th June 2010, Thursday
Registration: 6:15pm
Talks & Q&A : 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
4 VCs and distinguished entrepreneurs will explain the mechanics of raising venture capital and speak on topics relevant to entrepreneurs on their journey to success.
Confirmed Speakers:
Hussein Kanji, early stage technology investor, Ex- Accel Partners
Hussein spent four years with Accel Partners in Europe, where he invested in Playfish, United Mobile, BountyJobs, Dapper, Netvibes and a still-in-stealth-mode open source risk management startup. A background in Silicon Valley and in enterprise software and consumer internet products influences his venture capital work. He was involved with the Accel's investments in Dapper, Netvibes, Njini and The Cloud, and was an observer on the boards of The Cloud and Njini . Prior to joining Accel, Hussein held several roles at Microsoft Corporation, where he was involved in a leadership program won for his work on its speech recognition business, Sun Microsystems and a bevy of startups. He has an MBA from London Business School and a BS from Stanford University in Symbolic Systems. Hussein is currently a board member of Byhiras and Nivio, two startups in Europe, and spends his time between London and San Francisco. He is an avid blogger http://hkanji.com/
Susan Payne, Chief Executive Officer,
Emergent Asset Management
Susan has had a distinguished career
spanning over 2 decades in the financial industry on both the sell side
and the buy side, as an emerging markets trader at Goldman Sachs and JP
Morgan, and later as a distinguished entrepreneur.
Susan
was listed by Financial News as one of the Top
100 Women in Finance in Europe in both 2007 and 2008. Susan was awarded one of
eight Shell UK Women of the Future Awards 2006.
Susan
was appointed a Merrill Lynch/Shell UK Women of Achievement Ambassador
in 2008.
In 1997, Susan founded Emergent
Asset Management Limited, an award –winning, alternative
investment firm based in the UK, where she is a Principal. In addition
to its stable of hedge funds, Emergent manages the largest agricultural
fund in Africa, where its local office is based in South Africa.
Susan
is on the Board of MyC4,
a microfinance business focused on ending poverty in Africa, and is a
Patron of the Africa-focused charity Medical Aid Films.
Susan is also Head
of the London Chapter of 85 Broads,
the largest professional women’s network
in the world.
Alan Barrell, Managing Partner, Cambridge
Gateway Fund, Early stage investor and mentor
Dr Alan Barrell is a reknowned angel investor
and advisor to numerous international early stage companies, as a member of Cambridge
Angels and Sophia Business Angels ( France ).
He was instrumental in launching the Cambridge
Gateway Fund, a 70 millions Euros fund, to support early stage
technology businesses in the region and was the fund's Managing Partner.
Alan is the Chairman of Eagle Genomics Ltd,
and Pneumacare Ltd, and a Director of Probe
Scientific Ltd, early stage Life Science Companies. He is a
Director of two Chinese Companies – Golden Bough
Intellectual Property Company and Oriental
Investments Ltd. He is also the Chairman of the External Advisory Board
of NACUE – the National Consortium of University Enterprise
Associations. Alan
was CEO of Willett International Group, an industrial
electronics company, and built its global business into a major success.
He has also chaired the Cambridge Enterprise Conference and works
closely with a number of Science Parks and Innovation Centres in
Cambridge, elsewhere in the UK and overseas.Alan is currently an Entrepreneur
in Residence at the Cambridge Judge Business School. Alan has been involved with a number of charities
including the Papworth Trust, the Royal Society of Arts, the Centre for
Tomorrow's Company and The Prince's Trust. He received The Queen's
Award for Enterprise Promotion in 2006. Access his lecture on Finding funding for your entrepreneurial business
here.
James Dimitrios Constantine
Seferis, Founder of Glocal Venture Capital, early stage investor and
distinguished innovator
Dr. James Seferis is an early stage
investor and a distinguished educator in chemical engineering,
management science, environmental health and technology. His research
comprises polymeric composites, materials and processes, clean energy.
Read his ideas on "Catalytic entrepreneurship with social and venture
capital" here
Since 2005, he also invests in his
areas of longstanding expertise incorporating organizations that have a
social mission while allowing for a profit potential. With a team of
full-time professionals in seven countries and a network of over five
hundred collaborators and former students in over one hundred
organizations, Prof. Seferis can harness unprecedented resources for the
benefit of his investments. Among his many Honors and Awards are First White House Presidential Young Investigator Award
(1984) and Alexander Von Humboldt
Foundation of Germany Awards (1987 and 1996).
Read his full profile here.
Topics:
"How
do smart entrepreneurs play on VC greed and fear, to get the bucks they
are after? The inside scoop - What incentives do entrepreneurs offer
VCs : Participating shares, Warrants, Board seats etc" - Hussein Kanji
“The Good, the Bad, The Ugly – Real stories of four companies which struggled to find fiance and made it the world stage - Alan Barrell
Alan Barrell will speak from his experience – as both an entrepreneur and investor of real life businesses – illustrating through stories of four companies, one being a FTSE star with a market capitalisation of £500m. The fortunes of the others have been mixed and one didn’t make it – and Alan will discuss the reasons why he feels it failed. He was the Chairman of the company and an investor at the time. It will also show how when funding businesses – private equity / VC is not the only way to finance fast growth companies – and he has an example of one he ran as CEO to illustrate the point.
"How to leverage human capital and investor partnerships to generate superior economic returns in ventures" - Dr James Constantine Seferis
Prof Seferis will speak as investor in people and organizations spanning the private, government and non profit worlds within the new realities of public/private partnerships. Dr Seferis will also talk about his personal investments in Eco Green Power, a start up in Greece with the potential of globalizing, a regional US bank, and Aquajet, a joint start up venture with Boeing that was featured in the Wall Street Journal and Herald Tribune but failed after September 11 2001.
Networking & Drinks Reception:
9:00 pm onwards
Venue:
Cass Business School
106 Bunhill Row
London, EC1Y 8TZ
Learn more abut the event organiser at http://geniusincubator.com
Sponsors
Cass Business School
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106 Bunhill Row
EC1Y 8TZ London
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Genius Incubator
Genius Incubator helps entrepreneurs realise their dreams. Genius Incubator provides mentoring and advisory services to early stage and growth stage entrepreneurs and helps them raise equity capital of GBP 200000 to GBP 10 million from angel investors, venture capitalists and high networth individuals in Europe. Genius Incubator is based in London.
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