| Chamber of Commerce International Consortium For Entrepreneurs |
CCICE Events
| AN ENTREPRENEUR'S JOURNEY |
July 27, 2010
Time: 6:00p.m.– 6:30p.m. Registration (Hors D'oeuvres provided)
6:30p.m. – 8:30p.m. Program begins
Venue:
Fenwick & West LLP, Silicon Valley Center
801 California Street, Room 101, Mountain View, CA. 94041
General Event Information:
FREE for CCICE Members (join CCICE)
Member Register at ccice-event@ccice.org
$20 Student (Must provide student ID at registration)
$30 Members of Affiliate Organizations
$40 Non-Members
$10 Live webcast - (if you can not attend watch the program live)
http://ccice.tv/entrepreneursjourney
$50 At the door
HP's cloud guru, Russ Daniels, once famously said that "ten years consists
of two foreverness" in the field of technology. New technology comes into
the market at a rapid pace, forcing existing companies, large and small, to
continuously reinvent itself to survive in the market place.
IBM went through a ten-year transformation to go from hardware to a
software centric company. Amazon is now as much known for their EC2
platform as they are for their online retail store. Google is now a significant
player in mobility in addition to their core search business. This list of
companies transforming itself goes on and on.
While large companies benefit from their resources during a
transformation, a startup benefits from its agile nature. We have invited a
panel of successful entrepreneurs to talk about their stories on their journey
to success. Some of the questions that will be addressed by the panel are:
Introduction: Lois Wong, Business Development VP, CCICE
Moderator: Vivian Li, Director of Marketing, CCICE
Panelists:
Sam Guilaume, Founder, Movea
Patrick Kremer, CEO, Mtivity
K.V Rao, Founder, Zuora
Bernard Slede, Managing Director, Startup Ecosystem Programs, HP
Terence Swee, CEO, Muvee
Bio's
Vivian Li is the newest member of the CCICE team. Vivian was part of HP
Strategy & Corporate Development, where she was responsible for
managing the equity portfolio and venture outreach. Vivian identified and
worked closely with startups to help them navigate the HP landscape and
formulate strategic relationships with different HP businesses.
Vivian’s HP career started in Corporate Strategy, where she focused on
operational improvement projects for the CEO. Projects included vertical
strategy, sales coverage strategy, competitive analysis, and turning around
business units key to HP’s growth.
Prior to HP, Vivian was a management consultant with Deloitte Consulting,
where she identified acquisition targets, designed management metrics,
developed sales effectiveness, customer targeting, and go-to-market
strategy for key clients.
Vivian holds a bachelor of science from Haas School of Business at UC
Berkeley and a MBA from Booth School of Business at The University of
Chicago.
Sam Gulaumeof Movea has 20 years experience in the microelectronic
industry where he has held positions in Development, Production and
Sales & Marketing Management. A French native, he has spent over 10
years abroad specifically USA and Germany. Sam has worked as a
development engineer in the Advanced Technology group at Thomson
Consumer Electronics in Villigen (Germany), Indianapolis (IN) and Illkirch
(France). He had multiple management roles in the Automated Test
Equipment division for Schlumberger (acquired by Credence), in San-Jose
(CA) and Grenoble (France). After an experience in a start-up (TraciT
Technologies, Grenoble) as Director of Sales, he co-founded Movea in 2007
as a spin-off from CEA-Léti. Since then as the CEO, Sam has lead the
company through the acquisition of Gyration, a San-Jose based motion
sensing product company and developed Movea as the leader in motion
sensing technology for the Consumer Electronics industry.
Sam holds a Master of Science in Electronics Engineering from ESEO
(Angers, France) and a business recognition from the Bill Daniels College
of Business (University of Denver, CO).
Patrick Kremer, is CEO of Mtivity, a European venture backed SaaS
provider, headquartered in London, UK with offices in London and New
York. Patrick has over 20 years of senior management experience as both a
Venture Capitalist and an exec at leading technology companies. After
working in business development at IBM, Patrick joined Sybase in the early
90s and formed a group focused on developing partnerships with emerging
technology companies. He then worked in Silicon Valley as a business
development exec for 3 early stage technology companies which were
backed by Sequoia, Lightspeed, Trinity Ventures, and other Silicon Valley
VCs. All three companies exited – one via NASDAQ IPO in 1997, one via
acquisition by Macromedia in 1999 and one to Scene7, which was
subsequently acquired by Adobe. Patrick then moved to London and spent
two years with a Venture Capital firm evaluating and investing in pan
European early stage technology companies. Patrick met the founder of an
interesting SaaS company, Mtivity, and helped him raise initial seed capital,
and ultimately stepped in as CEO and has since raised $15 million for the
business. Patrick graduated from the University of California, Davis with a
degree in Economics and received his Masters as a Sloan Fellow from
London Business School where he focused on European and US
technology investing and returns.
K. V. Rao founded Zuora after five years at WebEx Communications where
he reported directly to the founder and President with strategic marketing
and business development responsibilities and played a key role in the
growth of this successful start-up. Prior to WebEx, K. V. worked in sales and
customer support at SGI. He started his career as the proverbial rocket
scientist (Associate Scientist) at NASA and then spent several years
developing products at General Motors. K. V. obtained his Ph. D. in
Engineering from Iowa State University, an M. S. from the University of
Missouri-Rolla, and a B. Tech from IIT, Bombay. K.V is a US patent-holder in
computing technology.
Bernard Slede Managing Director is in charge of HP's startup ecosystem
programs. Bernard Slede has held a number of positions in
entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship, venture capital and innovation in the US
and in Europe. He worked in venture capital at Elf Aquitaine and at HP;
delivered acceleration to startups for a Lockheed Martin foundation;
launched and spun out a satellite TV business for the European media
giant RTL Group and has played a key role at numerous startup companies.
Now the largest IT company in the world, HP was once the original “garage”
startup; in fact, the HP Garage is recognized as the official birthplace of
Silicon Valley. HP provides startups with many programs and benefits to
develop and commercialize their products as well as to purchase HP
equipment with startup-only discounts: www.hp.com/go/startups.
Terence Swee, Founder & Chief Executive Officer is muvee's chief deal-
seeking missile. He has been instrumental in identifying and negotiating
multi-million dollar licensing deals with the number one players in every
consumer electronic segment that muvee participates in, and putting
muvee's product on the world map within 2 years of founding the company.
Terence pursued a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering. He has
published academic papers on Wavelets and Multi Resolutional Analysis in
the USA, Israel, Turkey and Australia. During that time, Terence also started
Pinkspider Productions, where he composed and sold commercial music
ranging from radio jingles to pre-natal training soundtracks. He later joined
Kent Ridge Digital Labs, where he combined his music knowledge and
signal processing background to develop algorithms to aesthetically fuse
voice and music using spectral manipulation techniques. He went on to
develop Beat Extraction and Tempo Analysis techniques and created
means to measure the 'Emotional Index' of music. These were later
implemented into muvee’s flagship autoProducer product. Ever since
muvee filed its patents in 2001, Terence has been showing autoProducer
off Internationally.
During his spare time, Terence is also an Ironman. He took on the full
226km swim-bike-run triathlon challenge in 2000, and was only the 25th
Singaporean to have completed it. Terence's Ironman story was
documented in a non-fiction title by Breakaway Books, NY.
6:30p.m. – 8:30p.m. Program begins
Venue:
Fenwick & West LLP, Silicon Valley Center
801 California Street, Room 101, Mountain View, CA. 94041
General Event Information:
FREE for CCICE Members (join CCICE)
Member Register at ccice-event@ccice.org
$20 Student (Must provide student ID at registration)
$30 Members of Affiliate Organizations
$40 Non-Members
$10 Live webcast - (if you can not attend watch the program live)
http://ccice.tv/entrepreneursjourney
$50 At the door
HP's cloud guru, Russ Daniels, once famously said that "ten years consists
of two foreverness" in the field of technology. New technology comes into
the market at a rapid pace, forcing existing companies, large and small, to
continuously reinvent itself to survive in the market place.
IBM went through a ten-year transformation to go from hardware to a
software centric company. Amazon is now as much known for their EC2
platform as they are for their online retail store. Google is now a significant
player in mobility in addition to their core search business. This list of
companies transforming itself goes on and on.
While large companies benefit from their resources during a
transformation, a startup benefits from its agile nature. We have invited a
panel of successful entrepreneurs to talk about their stories on their journey
to success. Some of the questions that will be addressed by the panel are:
- What were the signs that notified them that changes were required?
- What was the thought process they went through to redesign their
business? - What were the changes that the business went through (i.e. target
market, revenue model, team, etc.)? - What were their key lessons learned during the journey?
Introduction: Lois Wong, Business Development VP, CCICE
Moderator: Vivian Li, Director of Marketing, CCICE
Panelists:
Sam Guilaume, Founder, Movea
Patrick Kremer, CEO, Mtivity
K.V Rao, Founder, Zuora
Bernard Slede, Managing Director, Startup Ecosystem Programs, HP
Terence Swee, CEO, Muvee
Bio's
Vivian Li is the newest member of the CCICE team. Vivian was part of HP
Strategy & Corporate Development, where she was responsible for
managing the equity portfolio and venture outreach. Vivian identified and
worked closely with startups to help them navigate the HP landscape and
formulate strategic relationships with different HP businesses.
Vivian’s HP career started in Corporate Strategy, where she focused on
operational improvement projects for the CEO. Projects included vertical
strategy, sales coverage strategy, competitive analysis, and turning around
business units key to HP’s growth.
Prior to HP, Vivian was a management consultant with Deloitte Consulting,
where she identified acquisition targets, designed management metrics,
developed sales effectiveness, customer targeting, and go-to-market
strategy for key clients.
Vivian holds a bachelor of science from Haas School of Business at UC
Berkeley and a MBA from Booth School of Business at The University of
Chicago.
Sam Gulaumeof Movea has 20 years experience in the microelectronic
industry where he has held positions in Development, Production and
Sales & Marketing Management. A French native, he has spent over 10
years abroad specifically USA and Germany. Sam has worked as a
development engineer in the Advanced Technology group at Thomson
Consumer Electronics in Villigen (Germany), Indianapolis (IN) and Illkirch
(France). He had multiple management roles in the Automated Test
Equipment division for Schlumberger (acquired by Credence), in San-Jose
(CA) and Grenoble (France). After an experience in a start-up (TraciT
Technologies, Grenoble) as Director of Sales, he co-founded Movea in 2007
as a spin-off from CEA-Léti. Since then as the CEO, Sam has lead the
company through the acquisition of Gyration, a San-Jose based motion
sensing product company and developed Movea as the leader in motion
sensing technology for the Consumer Electronics industry.
Sam holds a Master of Science in Electronics Engineering from ESEO
(Angers, France) and a business recognition from the Bill Daniels College
of Business (University of Denver, CO).
Patrick Kremer, is CEO of Mtivity, a European venture backed SaaS
provider, headquartered in London, UK with offices in London and New
York. Patrick has over 20 years of senior management experience as both a
Venture Capitalist and an exec at leading technology companies. After
working in business development at IBM, Patrick joined Sybase in the early
90s and formed a group focused on developing partnerships with emerging
technology companies. He then worked in Silicon Valley as a business
development exec for 3 early stage technology companies which were
backed by Sequoia, Lightspeed, Trinity Ventures, and other Silicon Valley
VCs. All three companies exited – one via NASDAQ IPO in 1997, one via
acquisition by Macromedia in 1999 and one to Scene7, which was
subsequently acquired by Adobe. Patrick then moved to London and spent
two years with a Venture Capital firm evaluating and investing in pan
European early stage technology companies. Patrick met the founder of an
interesting SaaS company, Mtivity, and helped him raise initial seed capital,
and ultimately stepped in as CEO and has since raised $15 million for the
business. Patrick graduated from the University of California, Davis with a
degree in Economics and received his Masters as a Sloan Fellow from
London Business School where he focused on European and US
technology investing and returns.
K. V. Rao founded Zuora after five years at WebEx Communications where
he reported directly to the founder and President with strategic marketing
and business development responsibilities and played a key role in the
growth of this successful start-up. Prior to WebEx, K. V. worked in sales and
customer support at SGI. He started his career as the proverbial rocket
scientist (Associate Scientist) at NASA and then spent several years
developing products at General Motors. K. V. obtained his Ph. D. in
Engineering from Iowa State University, an M. S. from the University of
Missouri-Rolla, and a B. Tech from IIT, Bombay. K.V is a US patent-holder in
computing technology.
Bernard Slede Managing Director is in charge of HP's startup ecosystem
programs. Bernard Slede has held a number of positions in
entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship, venture capital and innovation in the US
and in Europe. He worked in venture capital at Elf Aquitaine and at HP;
delivered acceleration to startups for a Lockheed Martin foundation;
launched and spun out a satellite TV business for the European media
giant RTL Group and has played a key role at numerous startup companies.
Now the largest IT company in the world, HP was once the original “garage”
startup; in fact, the HP Garage is recognized as the official birthplace of
Silicon Valley. HP provides startups with many programs and benefits to
develop and commercialize their products as well as to purchase HP
equipment with startup-only discounts: www.hp.com/go/startups.
Terence Swee, Founder & Chief Executive Officer is muvee's chief deal-
seeking missile. He has been instrumental in identifying and negotiating
multi-million dollar licensing deals with the number one players in every
consumer electronic segment that muvee participates in, and putting
muvee's product on the world map within 2 years of founding the company.
Terence pursued a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering. He has
published academic papers on Wavelets and Multi Resolutional Analysis in
the USA, Israel, Turkey and Australia. During that time, Terence also started
Pinkspider Productions, where he composed and sold commercial music
ranging from radio jingles to pre-natal training soundtracks. He later joined
Kent Ridge Digital Labs, where he combined his music knowledge and
signal processing background to develop algorithms to aesthetically fuse
voice and music using spectral manipulation techniques. He went on to
develop Beat Extraction and Tempo Analysis techniques and created
means to measure the 'Emotional Index' of music. These were later
implemented into muvee’s flagship autoProducer product. Ever since
muvee filed its patents in 2001, Terence has been showing autoProducer
off Internationally.
During his spare time, Terence is also an Ironman. He took on the full
226km swim-bike-run triathlon challenge in 2000, and was only the 25th
Singaporean to have completed it. Terence's Ironman story was
documented in a non-fiction title by Breakaway Books, NY.
 |
| |
 |
| |
 |
| |
 |
| |
 |
| |
 |
| |
 |
| |
 |
| |
 |
