Events for January 2018
BABC Northern California
Jan 9    BABC Young Professionals Happy Hour - Tuesday, January 9th, 2018


PLEASE NOTE:

THE YP HAPPY HOUR IS NOW ON THE SECOND TUESDAY OF THE MONTH.


IT'S FREE TO ATTEND BUT ONLINE REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.
COME ALONG AND LOOK FOR THE UNION JACK FLAG!  
 
 
The Young Professionals Group of BABC Northern California is a group of young people who meet up regularly to network and socialize in San Francisco and Silicon Valley.

 

We welcome members and non-members to come along to this free event and you don't have to be British or American to attend!

Aside from our social meet-ups we also aim to hold a number of business-focused events several times a year. The official mission of the Young Professionals Group is to cultivate professional relationship building, entrepreneurial endeavors, and provide young business leaders with the opportunity to network for business and social purposes. Through building relationships with other young professionals we hope to inspire and assist all our members to further their careers and become leaders in their industries.

For further details, or to be added to the email list for future Young Professionals events, please contact the Young Professionals Co-Chairs, Barbara Taylor/Rebecca Murphy at
youngprofessionals@babcsf.org or call the BABC Office on (415) 296-8645. 

You can also join our
Linked-In group online here.



Date: January 9, 2018
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location:

Cafe Americano
8 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94105

Contact: YP Co-chairs: Barbara Taylor / Rebecca Murphy at: youngprofessionals@babcsf.org or call the BABC Office on (415) 296-8645
EMail: youngprofessionals@babcsf.org
Date/Time Details: Tuesday, January 9th, 2018
6.00 - 8.00pm

The Young Professional Happy Hours take place every second Tuesday of the month!
Fees/Admission:

No charge to attend!
Register Here

 

Jan 27 - Feb 3    Goldschmidt Vineyards Tahiti & The Society Islands Winemaker Cruise



Join Nick and Yolyn Goldschmidt on an exclusive wine voyage to Tahiti & the Society Islands onboard Paul Gauguin Cruises’ m/s Paul Gauguin!

Enjoy their fine wines at a hosted Winemaker’s Dinner and throughout the voyage. You will also have the option to join your Goldschmidt Vineyards hosts on an exclusive, private onshore excursion for an additional fee.

With this voyage you also receive an exclusive $400 Shipboard Credit per cabin as well as a group savings discount.

Date: January 27, 2018
Time: 12:00 PM - 12:00 PM
Website: http://www.goldmarkwines.com/tahiti.html
Location: ROUNDTRIP FROM PAPEETE | PAUL GAUGUIN CRUISES
Contact: Christina Turrini 415.532.8664 | christina.turrini@frosch.com
EMail: karen@goldschmidtvineyards.com
Date/Time Details: JAN 27 - FEB 3, 2018 | 7 NIGHTS
Fees/Admission: From $5,691* per person
Jan 29    The British Consulate Presents - Insurance and Long Term Risk Management Resilience Solutions


The British Consulate-General of San Francisco, together with the City & County of San Francisco, invite you to attend a networking lunch and seminar on "Insurance and Long Term Risk Management Resilience Solutions".

Please join us at the San Francisco City Hall to explore UK-US current thinking and best practice on innovative insurance and economic risk mitigation solutions.

This seminar will bring together government officials from the UK and City & County of San Francisco and UK insurance, finance, risk modelling and infrastructure specialists to discuss insurance, risk management and economic solutions for resilience. Current UK-US best practices in economic risk mitigation will be discussed.
 

Moderated by: Andrew Whittaker, British Consul General to San Francisco


Featuring keynote speaker: Dave Jones, California Insurance Commissioner


Register for free here
Date: January 29, 2018
Time: 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: San Francisco City Hall, Room 201
Contact: Please Contact Jacob Whitish for more details
EMail: Jacob.Whitish@mobile.trade.gov.uk
Date/Time Details: Monday, January 29, 2018 12.00 – 5.00pm
Fees/Admission: Free to attend (lunch provided)

Register here
Jan 31    BABC 28th Annual Economic Lunch 2018 (Presented by Squire Patton Boggs and ACCA USA)

The British-American Business Council Northern California cordially invites you to the 28th Annual BABC Economic Forecast Luncheon.
 
Once again, our panel of experts will engage in an interactive discussion and share their projections on how local and global economic patterns will affect your business in 2018. We'll be presenting economic forecasts for the Bay Area and the global economy and their likely impact on the US and regional economies as a whole.  We will also dig into the probable outcomes of the currently booming conditions here in the US and the Bay Area, including predictions on the markets and the environment for IPOs and M&A exits.
  • Will tax reform propel the stock markets to even higher records or are we in a bubble?
  • Will Brexit and the travails of the May government start to have a measurable impact? 
  • What about the impact of deregulation and the volatile Trump administration?

You will no doubt have many other questions!

This year we are pleased to bring back Sean Randolph of the Bay Area Economic Institute and Hannah Kuchler of The Financial Times and to welcome Ninh Chung of SVB ASset Management.





 

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES


Sean Randolph
President

LinkedIn Profile

   
Sean Randolph is President & CEO of the Bay Area Council Economic Institute, a public-private partnership of business, labor, government and higher education that works to foster a competitive economy in California and the San Francisco Bay Area, including San Francisco, Oakland and Silicon Valley.

Dr. Randolph previously served as President & CEO of the Bay Area Economic Forum, which merged with the Bay Area Council in January 2008, and as director of international trade for the State of California, where he developed trade strategy and directed international business programs to stimulate exports and introduce California companies to overseas markets. Before service with the state, he was Managing Director of the RSR Pacific Group, an international business consulting firm specializing in Asia and Latin America, and before that served as International Director General of the Pacific Basin Economic Council, a 15-nation international organization of leading U.S., Asian and Latin American corporations.

His professional career includes extensive experience in the U.S. Government, including the U.S. Congress staff, and the White House staff. From 1981-85 he served in the U.S. State Department, as officer for Asia on the Policy Planning Staff, as Special Adviser for Policy in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, and as Deputy/Ambassador-at Large for Pacific Basin affairs. From 1985-88 he served as U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy for International Affairs, managing nuclear non-proliferation, energy research, and global oil and gas issues.

Dr. Randolph holds a JD from the Georgetown University Law Center, a Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts and Harvard Universities), a B.S.F.S. from Georgetown's School of Foreign Service, and studied at the London School of Economics.









Ninh Chung
Head of Investment Strategy
& Portfolio Management






Linkedin Profile

    Ninh Chung is Head of Investment Strategy and Portfolio Management for SVB Asset Management. He has more than 13 years of investment experience.
 
Prior to joining SVB Asset Management, Chung held various finance and investment positions and at Silicon Valley Bank and SVB Securities. Chung was instrumental in the development of SVB and SVB Securities' liquidity products and automated settlement process between clearing broker and bank operations. Chung began his financial services career as a corporate services manager for Smith Barney, where he worked with Fortune 50 companies to administer corporate stock option and employee benefit plans. With his team of registered representatives Chung implemented optionee's strategies while working closely with plan sponsors, financial advisors, and counterparties.
 
Chung earned his MS from Saint Mary?s College of California and BA from University of California, Irvine and holds FINRA securities licenses 7, 9, 10, and 63. He has taught summer youth basketball camps and plays golf in his spare time. He resides in San Ramon.

 

 
Pete Flint                            
Managing Partner NFX, Co-Founder and Former CEO, Trulia inc


LinkedIn profile
   

Pete Flint is a Managing Partner of NFX (www.nfx.com),

an early stage Venture Capital fund with offices in Silicon Valley and Israel focused on network effects businesses. The Partners at NFX are a team of entrepreneurs and investors that have collectively founded 10 companies that have had exits of $10 billion and have made more than 300 investments. Prior to NFX, in 2005 Pete founded the online real estate company Trulia (www.trulia.com), now one of the most popular real estate websites and mobile apps in the U.S. He was its CEO and Chairman from inception to acquisition. In July 2014, rival property service Zillow purchased Trulia for $3.5 billion, with both brands continuing to operate side-by-side.

Before founding Trulia, Pete was part of the founding team at lastminute.coma leading European online travel company that was acquired by Sabre/Travelocity in 2005 for over $1 billion.


Pete is a founding Board member of New Story Charity (www.newstorycharity.org), a technology enabled platform focused on eliminating homelessness by building sustainable communities around the world.

He is also a founder and co-chair of GBx (www.gbxglobal.org), the leading British technology community based in Silicon Valley helping to connect and scale technology ecosystems in the UK and Silicon Valley.

He is a frequent speaker at Internet, entrepreneurship and technology conferences, and additionally is a guest lecturer at Stanford's Graduate School of Business and at Oxford's Said Business School. He has been named E&Y Northern Californian Entrepreneur of the Year, ?Most Admired CEO? by the San Francisco Business Times, and one of the ?Most Powerful CEOs Under 40? by Forbes.

 


   









Moderator:
Leslie Hook

San Francisco Correspondent




LinkedIn Profile


 

   

Leslie Hook is San Francisco Correspondent for the Financial Times and a columnist for FT Magazine. She writes about technology with a particular focus on transportation and cities ? and companies like Uber, Lyft, and Amazon.
 
Since joining the Financial Times in 2010, she has been Beijing Correspondent, covering energy and the environment, and a Lex columnist, covering public tech companies.
 
She was a fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University during the 2013-2014 academic year, and a recipient of the FT?s Jones-Mauthner Memorial Prize (runner-up) in 2017.
 
Previously she was at The Wall Street Journal and the Far Eastern Economic Review





 

 


 







 

 

Date: January 31, 2018
Time: 11:30 AM - 2:00 PM
Location:
The Stock Exchange Tower
155 Sansome Street (Main Dining Room, 11th Floor)
San Francisco, CA 94104
Contact: (415) 296 8645
EMail: events@babcsf.org
Date/Time Details:
Date: Wednesday, January 31st, 2018
Time: 11.30 - 2.00pm
   
Networking: 11.30 - 12.00pm (No host bar)
Luncheon Commences: 12.00
Panel Discussion: 12.30 - 2.00pm

 
Fees/Admission:

Ticket includes a three course luncheon, tea/coffee. No-Host Bar.

$100 BABC Member Ticket
$85 BABC Young Professionals Member Ticket
$1,000 BABC Member Table of 10
   
$150 Non Member Ticket
$1,500 Non-Member Table of 10
   
$100 Participating Chamber Individual Ticket (Code: PromoPartnerTicket)
$1,000 Participating Chamber Table of 10 (PromoPartnerTable)