EVENT OVERVIEW:
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MITCHELL KERTZMAN Mitchell served as President of the Massachusetts Software Council from 1994 to 1996 and was 1990 chairman of the American Electronics Association. He is founder and former chairman of the Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth (MassINC), a think tank focused on issues related to the standard of living and quality of life of America?s middle class. He served on the New York State Commission on Industrial Competitiveness and chaired its task force on industrial policy. Mitchell was awarded an honorary doctorate of humane letters from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. He currently sits on the Boards of Five9, Flite, HubPages, NuoDB, and Palamida.
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GAURAV TEWARI Managing Director, Sapphire Ventures Gaurav has led or been instrumental with our investments in Recommind, Criteo, Marin Software (MRIN), and Violin Memory (VMEM). Previously, he was Principal of Highland Capital and led or managed investments in Coremetrics (IBM), Navic (MSFT), StyleFeeder (TWX), Beyond the Rack, and Rent the Runway. Prior to that, Gaurav was with McKinsey & Company and also held engineering and product leadership roles at Microsoft and IBM Research. Gaurav has lived in the UK, Egypt and India and, within the Bay Area, serves as Entrepreneurship Director for the MIT Alumni Network. He holds Bachelors and Masters degrees in Computer Science with high distinction from MIT and an MBA from Wharton, where he graduated as Ford Fellow (Valedictorian). Gaurav holds 9 issued patents. |
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SHARON WIENBAR Managing Director, Scale Venture Partners
Prior to ScaleVP in 2001, Sharon was Vice President, Marketing for Critical Path and Amplitude Software. She spent most of the 1990?s at Adobe Systems, starting as Product Manager for Asian Products and later led marketing for many of Adobe?s applications, and spearheaded numerous cross-product initiatives. Before her technology line experience, Sharon practiced strategy consulting at Bain & Company for nearly five years. Sharon holds an A.M. and an A.B. in Engineering from Harvard University, and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Sharon also serves on the board of directors of the non-profit Myelin Repair Foundation and on Microsoft?s Venture Advisory Committee. Sharon is a 2013 "AlwaysOn Power Players in Digital Media" winner and she was also recognized by the Huffington Post as one of the ?Top 25 Women in Tech to Follow on Twitter?. |
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MODERATOR RICHARD WATERS West Coast Editor, The Financial Times
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Wednesday Feb 25, 2015
5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PST
Wednesday, February 25, 2014
5:30 - 8,30pm
Quadrus Conference Center
2400 Sand Hill Road
Menlo Park, CA 94025
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