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Welcome to HTSU 2010
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How To Start Up 101 (HTSU 101) is an annual entrepreneurship conference organized by the Singapore Philadelphia Innovators Network (SPiN).
This year, our 2-part expert panel session aims to address two main issues of Why Start-Ups Fail - Being Out of Cash and Poor Execution..
We have assembled renowned speakers from a variety of backgrounds, from CEOs to VCs to high profile consultants, to ensure a lively and enlightening discussion.
Whether you are a CEO of a startup venture, a small business owner or an aspiring entrepreneur, this is an event NOT TO BE MISSED!
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Thursday, 8th April 2010
5:30 pm- 9:30pm.
The Downtown Club
Panel Discussion Topic
Titan Sponsors
1. People First: Why Executing Your Plan is All About Hiring the Right Talent
2. Financing: Developing Innovative, Non-conventional Ways of Funding Your Start Up Venture.
HTSU 101 Organization team
Director
About Spin
Ervin Lim
Singapore Philadelphia Innovators Network (SPiN for short), is an organization run by aspiring entrepreneurs from the National University of Singapore (NUS); each year, select students from Singapore embark on a one-year NUS Overseas College (NOC) programme, working in high-tech startups in and around Philadelphia while also studying entrepreneurship at the University of Pennsylvania.
SPiN is an avenue for interaction between leaders from the entrepreneurially charged cultures of Philadelphia and Singapore. By facilitating information exchange, SPiN serves as a platform for NOC students to augment their entrepreneurial acumen as well as a medium for them to pay forward to the community.
SPiN formally facilitates interaction through a combination of bi-annual conferences and a number of smaller scale seminars. SPiN also maintains a presence, through its representatives, at networking sessions and start-up related events held in Philadelphia.
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Panelist Team :
Panelist Director
Teh Chih Wen
Vaanithasan
Sponsorship Team:
Sponsorship Directors
Yang Shuwen
Logistics Director
Logistics Team :
Phua Kia Min
Jonathan Ley
Marketing Director
Marketing Team :
Sau Liang, Hui Ying,
Teh Chong Nyen
Vaibhav
Agenda
Keynote
Moderators
Alan J. Kaplan is the Founder and CEO of Kaplan & Associates, Inc. (K&A), a retained executive search firm headquartered in Philadelphia, PA. K&A partners with Boards, investors and CEOs to help growing companies succeed, providing advice on the identification of new CEOs, Directors and senior operating executives. K&A focuses its practice primarily on working with private equity-backed firms; high growth companies in the technology and life sciences sector; and financial services firms. K&A has been named three times to the prestigious Philadelphia 100 list as one of the regions fastest growing private firms. Alan holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from Penn State University, and an MBA in Finance from Temple University. He is the host of Philadelphias KYW Career Report, a weekly business radio commentary on leadership and career management.
Tony Bifano, Managing Partner, SeventySix Captial
Keynote Address: Globalization of Venture Capital
Alan J. Kaplan
CEO, Kaplan & Associates
Tony Bifano is a Managing Partner of SeventySix Capital. Born in Buffalo, New York, Tony received his Bachelors degree in Industrial Engineering from Penn State University. He brings to SeventySix over a decade of hands-on operational experience in early stage technology companies.
Tony began his professional career as a developer in the Technology practice of Anderson Consulting. He launched his first internet company in 1996 and was honored by Philly Tech Magazine as 30 under 30 hottest technology executives in the Philadelphia region. Tony has been a featured speaker at local universities and industry events on how to build high growth technology companies.
Tony currently serves on the boards of ReverbNation, a digital music company, and meetMoi, a mobile location-based dating company, and Ryzing, a social gaming company. An avid TechCruncher, Tony specializes in early stage investing in mobile location-based services, media and entertainment delivery platforms, and social gaming companies.
In 1996, Tony founded egenda.net, an online community for college students that provided web based email, calendaring, and an integrated publishing environment for sharing content and events. The company was acquired by Aroundcampus Inc,. the nations largest yellowpage publisher for college and university directories. Aroundcampus Inc. was subsequently acquired by White Directory, a division of the Hearst Corporation. Prior to SeventySix Capital, Tony served as CEO of Boomi, an enterprise integration company. Tony was also a member of the management team for Health Market Science, an INC 500 fastest growing company which has since been acquired by a private equity firm. Tony currently serves as an advisor to SpecialtyDiets and VisualFund.
Tony resides in the suburbs of Philadelphia with his wife, Dr. Teuta Henci, who is a pediatrician at Maddie Weiser and Associates. They have three children.
Jeffrey P. Bodle is a partner in Morgan Lewis's Business and Finance Practice and its Securities Practice. Mr. Bodle is also a member of the firm's Life Sciences interdisciplinary practice initiative. Mr. Bodle focuses his practice on meeting the business and legal needs of emerging growth companies in the life sciences and technology sectors and of venture capitalists and other investors in emerging growth companies. He coordinates all aspects of the representation of these companies and investors.Mr. Bodle also concentrates his practice in venture capital, corporate finance, and merger and acquisition transactions, and in corporate and securities law. He has represented companies, investment banks, and venture capital firms in a variety of complex transactions, including public and private offerings of equity and debt securities, acquisitions and dispositions of public and private companies, joint ventures and other strategic partnerships. Additionally, he regularly counsels boards of directors and senior management of companies on governance, disclosure, securities law compliance, and transactional matters, as well as on general corporate matters.Mr. Bodle earned his J.D., magna cum laude, from Villanova University School of Law in 1999, where he was managing editor of business and research for the Villanova Law Review. He earned his B.A. from Villanova University in 1995. Mr. Bodle is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania. Education Villanova University School of Law, 1999, J.D.Villanova University, 1995, B.A.
Jeffrey P. Bodle
Partner, Morgan Lewis
Panelists
Financing: Developing Innovative, Non-conventional Ways of Funding Your
Start Up Venture
People First: Why Executing Your Plan is All About Hiring the Right Talent
Ellen Edelman Weber is a Managing Director for Antiphony, a strategic consulting firm that helps companies create sustainable value through innovation. She is also the Executive Director for Robin Hood Ventures, a leading angel investment group in the region.
Ellen was instrumental in the growth of Investor Force, a provider of
technology-based solutions for institutional investment professionals, where she created the company's initial human resources department, facilitated strategic planning, and managed the organizational aspects of the company's mergers and acquisitions. Additionally, Ellen spent twelve years at Shared Medical Systems where she was responsible for initiatives encompassing organizational development, customer support and corporate communications. She also has served as a senior consultant for Andersen Consulting. Ellen graduated from The Wharton School with a B.S. in economics.
Michael King has a diverse background in corporate finance, investment banking, management consulting (McKinsey & Company), Board roles, and as a pharmaceutical company executive. Prior to joining Aprecia, Michael was a member of the US Executive Committee and Head of US Strategic Planning for Sandoz, the generic pharmaceutical subsidiary of Novartis AG
Michael King, CFO, Aprecia Pharmaceuticals
Ellen Weber, MD, Antiphony, Exec. Director, Robin Hood Ventures
Adam Schran is a lifelong entrepreneur, adventurer, and tech aficionado. He is the Founder and CEO of Ascentive, and has been dedicated to growing the companys products and markets for 8 years. Additionally he was a principal shareholder and the Executive Vice President of Profusion LLC, a search engine technology company acquired by Intelliseek, now a part of Nielsen Netratings. Adam graduated from Haverford College in 1998 with an honors degree in computer science with mentorship from one of the Internet's forefathers. He is an avid traveler and aviation enthusiast, and has lived in Germany and Switzerland. He is also currently a member of the Manhattan Software CEO Roundtable and a judge for the Wharton Business Plan Competition.
Bob Cooper is a serial entrepreneur best known for founding Frontier Media Group, LLC., one of North America's first full-service interactive marketing firm. Founded as a multimedia production firm in 1991, he grew it to be a nationally recognized Internet marketing agency of record for Fortune 500 clients, with engagements in the United Kingdom, France, Japan, Brazil and Saudi Arabia.
In 1998, Cooper sold Frontier Media Group to Icon CMT, a NASDAQ listed company, and earned his angel investors a 70X return on their investment. Four months later, Qwest Communications, a $3.5 billion telecommunications company, acquired Icon CMT. At Qwest, Cooper served as Senior Vice President in charge of Strategic Consulting and built a nationwide staff. He worked closely with Qwest's senior management and account teams in developing Internet and e-commerce strategies for Fortune 200 corporations.
Adam Schran, CEO, Ascentive
Bob Cooper, CEO, Frontier Service Design
Mark Talaba joined the Advisory Board of The Gabriel Institute, an institute which help companies develop their people, January of 2009, but his involvement with TGI quickly grew to encompass redevelopment of the organizations business plan, the creation of new market messaging and branding, and guidance of internal business initiatives including funding efforts, TGIs business systems development, and the overhaul of marketing, sales, and partnering strategies.
Between 1996 and 2006, Mark served as the CEO of Softwrite Computer Systems--a software development group that delivered real-time internet e-commerce transaction systems as early as 1988--and also as CEO of RealTime Technologies, Inc., creators of barcode and radio-frequency data capture solutions for manufacturers as varied as Tyco, H.J. Heinz, Campbells Soup, Dewars & Sons, and ITT Industries. During that time, Mark became known as a speaker and thought leader on e-commerce and real-time manufacturing technologies.
More recently, Mark developed and executed the marketing plan and product launch of GEMWorX FlowModeler®, a software suite that helps business users document, execute, and support business process improvement initiatives and process-driven knowledge preservation programs. Mark served as the companys spokesperson via articles authored for industry and academic publications, and through numerous public speaking appearances. GEMWorX has been cited by Gartner and other technology analysts as an innovative solution to the knowledge retention challenges associated with workforce turnover.
Terrence H. Hicks is Vice-President, Investment Group at the Ben Franklin Technology PArtners of Southeastern Pennsylvania (BFTP/SEP). The Ben Franklin Technology PArtners is a State of Pennsylvania supported economic development corporation that supports the development of technology-based enterprises through a variety of investment programs and technology services. Mr. Hicks is responsible for all of the organizations investment activities, and has served in that capacity for over 10 years. BFTP/SEP has a portfolio of over 120 early and emerging stage technology companies; one of the largest such portfolios in the country. BFTP/SEP was recently recognized as the third most active venture capital firm for seed and early stage companies in Entrepreneur Magazines Top 100 Venture Capital Firms for Early Stage Companies.
Mr. Hicks came to the Ben Franklin Technology PArtners in November, 1993 after twenty years of experience in small business lending and corporate treasury activities with Fidelity Bank (currently Wachovia) and Sun Company respectively. Mr. Hicks previously served as Vice President of Sun Company's Specialized Small Business Investment Company, Alliance Enterprise Corporation. He also served in numerous financial management positions at Sun, including manager of internal treasury operations and manager of special projects.
Mr. Hicks has a BA in economics from Swarthmore College and an MBA in finance from LaSalle University. He serves on the Screening Committee of the Mid-Atlantic Diamond Ventures program and is a founder of the Minority Angel Investor Network, the nations only organized network of angel investors focused on investments in high-growth minority owned or led businesses.
Terrence H. Hicks, VP Investment Group BFTP/SEP
Mark Talaba, Exec VP and Principal, The Gabriel Institute
Our Token of Appreciation
Titan Sponsor
SPiN would like to take this opportunity to thank our titan
sponsor as well as company sponsors for their strong support
of our conference. The HTSU 101 Conference would not have
been possible without the sponsors' support. Their kind
contribution has allowed a smooth and seamless build up to the
conference.
Company Sponsors
Conference Sponsors Opportunity
The HTSU Conference offers companies an outstanding opportunity to raise the awareness of their products and services. We work closely with our sponsors to make sure they get the maximum possible coverage from our event and have an extremely valuable experience at the conference. We have a full range of sponsorship opportunities available for companies of all sizes and budgets.
Event Info
Directions
HTSU - How to Start Up 101 will be held on
at the :
The Downtown Club,
600 Chestnut Street,
Philadelphia, PA 19106
USA
Attire: business casual.
Parking is Available at $4 per Entrey.
Please email htsu101_gmail.com for further information
Dinner is Included in the registration
Contact
For more information on the conference, please contact :
htsu_gmail.com
267-255-6043
