The Next Wave of Growth - Creating Startups with billion $ potential

Genius Incubator in association with The Private Equity & Venture Capital club of London Business School proudly presents

The Next Wave of Growth - Creating startups with a billion $ potential

A panel disussion like never before, with veteran venture capitalists from Silicon Valley and Europe

Venue 

London Business School

Regent Park

London NW14SA

Date

30th September 2010

Time

6:45 pm to 9:30 pm

Registration starts at 6:30pm

Panel discussions 6:45pm onwards

Networking Drinks & Reception 9:00 pm onwards

Featuring Speakers

Anne Glover, CEO, Amadeus Capital Partners

Anne is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Amadeus Capital Partners. Anne brings together many threads of experience, as a scientist, operating manager and venture capitalist. She is a non-executive director on the board of Optos, a laser based imaging device, and an observer on the board of Covestor, a real trade sharing service. Anne was in the investment team of Apax Partners & Co Ventures for five years. She also has significant operating experience, most recently as COO of Virtuality Group plc, a virtual reality peripherals company. Anne was the Chairman of British Venture Capital Association (BVCA) in 2004-2005, which represents around 165 UK-based private equity and venture capital firms. She is currently a non-executive Director of the UK Government's Technology Strategy Board. She is also a member of London Business School's Private Equity Institute Advisory Board and a member of the Women's Enterprise Task Force.  

Sonali De Rycker, Partner, Accel Partners

Sonali has been active in the European venture business for nearly a decade. At Accel Partners, Sonali focuses on investments in the internet (consumer and business centric), digital media and software markets. Sonali sits on the boards of KupiVIP, Wonga, Seatwave.com, Ubiquisys and Watagame.com. Prior to Accel, Sonali was a Partner at Atlas Venture in London where she invested primarily in internet businesses for 8 years. While at Atlas Venture Sonali sat on the boards of Moo, Bizzenergy, Globoforce, Skinstore and Seatwave (where she was the founding investor). She was also a board member at Magicalia (acquired by Exponent Private Equity), Sendit (acquired by Pilton) and Moreover (acquired by Verisign). Before joining Atlas Venture, Sonali was a member of Deutsche Bank’s Venture Group in London.

Sonali started her career as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs in New York City where she was actively involved in M&A and financings for a number of clients including many high growth technology businesses. While at Goldman Sachs Sonali co-founded the Business Development Group, a new business unit within the investment banking division successfully set up to exclusively source and execute on acquisitions of smaller, fast growing businesses for the Fortune 50.

Sonali attended Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania where she received a full merit based scholarship and graduated magna cum laude in Economics with Honours. Sonali holds an M.B.A from Harvard Business School. Sonali was born and raised in Bombay, India and speaks fluent Hindi and some Punjabi.

Davor Hebel, Principal, Fidelity Growth Partners

Davor is a Principal in the London office of Fidelity Growth Partners and focuses on internet, software investments and gaming. He is currently on the Board of Directors of Asset Control , Seatwave and Innogames. Davor was co-founder and supervisory board member for private equity-funded Experia, a tourism startup based in Croatia. Davor spent several years at McKinsey and Company, where he advised companies in the United States and Europe on issues in strategy and technology.

Davor holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Angelo State University, a Masters in Science in Information Systems Management from Carnegie Mellon University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Nigel Grierson, Managing Director and Founder of the Doughty Hanson Technology Fund.    

Nigel's specific areas of expertise include financial venture investment, high technology marketing and organisation development.

Previously Nigel was the Group Director for Intel Capital Europe, managing a team responsible for making strategic equity investments and developing new business opportunities throughout Europe.  He and the team together originated and invested in over 35 technology start-up companies, many of which became substantial public companies. Prior to joining Intel Nigel worked at AT&T in the Communications Product Division leading a team developing high performance silicon processors, and also at Schneider Electric developing industrial process control systems.

Charles Elliott,  Founder, Inflection Point Investments

Charles is a veteran of stock markets for over 30 years. He joined SG Warburg & Warburg Investment Management in 1977 as a graduate trainee before moving to Rowe & Pitman in 1979 to found their Tokyo Equity Research Department. In 1985, Charles joined Goldman Sachs to run their Japanese Equity Research Department. Key  multibagger recommendations made over the period included Nintendo, Tokyo Electron, Shimano and Unicharm, and he was voted No. 1 foreign analyst in Japan 19871990 in the Nikkei polls of investors.

In 1992, Charles moved back to Europe, and ran Goldman Sachs' Special Opportunities/ emerging Growth research products for 15 years nad was voted No. 1/ No. 2 PanEuropean Technology analyst 1997-2000 based on polls by institutional Investor, Reuters and Extel. Charles founded Inflection Point Investments in February 2007 with the aim of geerating high absolute returns in a wide variety of market conditions.

Kathleen Bacon, Partner, Harbourvest Partners

Kathleen Bacon is a managing director who concentrates on managing European and other non-U.S. primary partnership investments.  She has also been involved with direct and secondary partnership investments.  Kathleen joined the Firm's London subsidiary in 1994 and serves on the advisory boards of a number of private equity partnerships. 

Kathleen's prior experience includes a position with the First National Bank of Boston, where she was responsible for lending to U.S. subsidiaries of U.K.-owned companies. 

Kathleen received a BA in Russian from Dartmouth College in 1986 and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College in 1993. 

Patrick Reeve, Partner, Albion Ventures

Patrick qualified as a chartered accountant with Deloitte Haskins & Sells before joining Cazenove & Co where he spent three years in the corporate finance department. He joined Close Brothers Group in 1989, initially in the development capital subsidiary, where he was a director specialising in the financing of smaller unquoted companies. He joined the corporate finance division in 1991, where he was also a director. He established Close Ventures' activities with the launch of Close Brothers Venture Capital Trust PLC in the spring of 1996. Patrick became managing partner of Albion Ventures (formerly Close Ventures) in 2009. He read modern languages at Oxford University. Patrick's investments inclcude:

• Evolutions Television
• Q Gardens
• Sparesfinder

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