About The Event:

CSPA welcomes PricewaterhouseCoopers and the well established panelists for a mid-late year review.

For those that participated in the Kick off of the 2011 event, smart start-up money hinted at where they see opportunity. Please join us in this follow up event to see where the smart money is headed now.

This mid-year event will focus on the study of venture capital investment activity in the United States.  This is collaboration between PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association based upon data from Thomson Reuters, it is the only industry-endorsed research of its kind. This report is the definitive source of information on emerging companies that receive financing and the venture capital firms that provide it. The study is a staple of the financial community, entrepreneurs, government policymakers and the business press worldwide.

Moderator

• Kathleen Borie, Director, Emerging Company Services Group, PricewaterhouseCoopers

Speakers

• John Scull, Managing Director, Southern Cross Venture Partners 
• Craig Hanson, Partner, Next World Capital
• Bruce K. Taragin, Managing Director, Blumberg Capital
• Vish Mishra, Venture Director, Clearstone Venture Partners
• Curtis L. Mo, Partner, DLA Piper 

Date :  August 25, 2011 (Thursday)

Venue :  DLA Piper, 2000, University Ave, East Palo Alto, CA 94303

Event Schedule :

                                 6:00pm - 7:00pm: Registration and Networking

                                 7:00pm - 7:05pm: Introduction

                                 7:05pm - 7:20pm: MoneyTree Survey Presentation

                                 7:20pm - 8:30pm: Panel Discussion

                                 8:30pm - 8:45pm: Q &A Session

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Biographies

Kathleen Borie, Director, Emerging Company Services Group, PricewaterhouseCoopers

Before joining PwC, Kathleen had 15 years of experience in marketing and business development roles at companies focused on providing finance and accounting solutions to emerging growth companies in the Bay Area and Southern California. Most recently, she was the Director of Business Development at Accretive Solutions, a national consulting firm. Prior to that she held sales leadership positions at Capital Advisors Group (an investment management firm) and Silicon Valley Bank (a lender to technology/life sciences companies).

Kathleen has a BA/MA in Finance from Tufts University.

John Scull Managing Director, Southern Cross Venture Partners

John Scull is a founding Managing Director of Southern Cross Venture Partners and is based in Silicon Valley. Previously, he was a Venture Partner and member of the investment committee of the venture capital firm Allen & Buckeridge for 6 years. He was or still remains a Board of Director member of the following A&B portfolio companies: Aurema, ekit, Wedgetail/Vintela, Fultec Semiconductor, Fiberom, and VaST Systems. As an active board member and investor, he brings a wealth of operational experience to the management and board of an investee company, helping them transition their operations and headquarters to the United States, build their management teams, secure follow-on funding, define their strategy and improve their sales and business development efforts.

Prior to A&B, John had a successful 20-year operational career with leading edge technology companies primarily in Silicon Valley. He has been the CEO of two successful venture backed software companies (Macromind, which merged to form Macromedia (MACR) and PF.Magic, which was successfully sold to The Learning Company). John was also an innovative marketing executive at Apple Computer, where he helped launch the Macintosh personal computer and then started and grew the company's Desktop Publishing business to over US$1B in revenues.

John Scull holds an MBA from Harvard University and a bachelor degree from the University of Oklahoma.

Craig Hanson Partner, Next World Capital
Craig Hanson is a Partner with Next World Capital (NWC), an international expansion-stage venture capital firm operating in the U.S. and Europe through offices in San Francisco and Brussels.  NWC invests in leading enterprise software and internet companies out of a large, evergreen capital allocation.  NWC brings strategic insight, an exceptional, longstanding European network, and deep capital resources to help its portfolio companies.

Craig has extensive experience in venture capital, private equity and company management with a focus on technology. He has been an investor or senior executive in 18 venture-backed companies. Prior to co-founding NWC's venture capital and growth equity group, Craig was a Vice President with FTV Capital, a growth-stage venture capital firm with $1 billion under management investing in enterprise software and business services companies worldwide. He was also a Principal at Vista Ventures, a technology venture capital firm, and a Vice President at Berenson Minella & Company, where he worked on large growth capital and buyout investments, as well as completed several acquisitions and financings, through the firm's private equity and investment banking operations. He has also been the CFO of a venture-backed technology company, and began his career as an investment banker with Credit Suisse First Boston.

Craig has served on the Boards of or been involved with a number of investments, including: LeftHand Networks (acquired by HP), MX Logic (acquired by McAfee), Dante Software (acquired by webMethods), Host Analytics, DynamicOps, Virtual Instruments, Ideeli, SenSage, PSS Systems (acquired by IBM), Cloudmark, Nimsoft/Indicative Software (acquired by CA), StrionAir (acquired by Carrier), Rally Software, Thought Equity, DAFCA (acquired by Ceallaigh), SiGe, Fitness Holdings Worldwide (acquired by Forstmann Little), FM Precision and Stratavia (acquired by HP).

Craig lives in Menlo Park with his wife and two sons and is involved in the fields of foreign policy, economic development and national security.

Craig received a BA magna cum laude from Carleton College and an MS from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was a Sloan Fellow.

Bruce K. Taragin Managing Director, Blumberg Capital

Bruce has 17 years experience as a venture capital investor, entrepreneur, technology investment banker and corporate attorney. Prior to joining Blumberg Capital in 1998, Bruce co-founded and held several senior management positions within technology companies including Charles River Computers. Bruce also structured and managed early-stage technology transactions at Hambrecht & Quist, Mayer Brown & Platt and Bankers Trust Company. A native of New York, Bruce earned his BA in Finance and Communications, cum laude, from Yeshiva University, and his MBA and JD from Fordham University.

Bruce serves as a member or observer on the Board of Directors of DoubleVerify, CaseStack, Insightix, LiteScape, Correlix, Nolio, Revionics, Yap.tv, BringIt, NearbyAd, Mertado, Any.do, and Sonar. He also serves on the board and the investment monitoring committee of the Jewish Community Foundation of Northern California.

Vish Mishra Venture Director, Clearstone Venture Partners

Vish joined Clearstone in March 2002 with over 30 years of leadership and management experience in the high tech industry including software, Internet, networking and telecommunications. He is a founder and served as a board member of Telera, a cutting edge voice web infrastructure company which was sold to Alcatel for $140 million in 2002. Vish was also co-founder of Excelan (1983), which was funded with $7.3 million in venture capital, went public in 1987, sold for $225 million in 1989 and went on to contribute $1 billion to Novell’s revenue in subsequent years.

Vish prides himself in being a mentor capitalist who sits or has sat on boards of many venture-backed companies such as Abeama, Cofix, Onjibe, PostMedia Group, Quantros, Ramp Networks (sold to Nokia), SloMedia, Verano, and Xalted IP Networks. His prior experience includes founding VP of Operations of Excelan and VP Novell and EVP of iPlanet (a unit of Sun Microsystems and AOL), and CEO of four start-ups: Info-Objects, Mindworks, IntelliMatch and Ace Software.

Vish holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the Institute of Technology at Benares Hindu University, an MS in Electrical Engineering from North Dakota State University and MBA work from the University of Minnesota. He is a very active Director and Charter Member of TiE who has dedicated himself to the growth of the organization since its inception.

Vish's focus at Clearstone is deal flow, syndicate networking, portfolio company support and executive coaching. His vast network in Silicon Valley, extended globally through TiE, is an invaluable asset to entrepreneurs and to us. Vish serves on the board of Novariant (formerly IntegriNautics).

Curtis L. Mo Partner, DLA Piper

Curtis Mo is a partner in DLA Piper's Corporate and Securities group, based in Silicon Valley. He comes to DLA Piper from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, where he was partner-in-charge of that firm's Palo Alto office.

Mr. Mo is recognized as a leading corporate and securities lawyer in Silicon Valley. He has represented emerging growth companies, major public companies, investment banks, venture capital funds and private equity funds in hundreds of public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, buyouts, venture capital financings and other complex transactions. He has extensive experience in corporate governance matters and regularly acts as general outside counsel to public and private companies at all stages of development, particularly in the technology, life sciences, clean energy technology and consumer sectors.

Among his clients have been such companies as Cisco Systems, Digital Island, Doubletree Hotels, E*TRADE Group, JetBlue Airways, Restoration Hardware and many top-tier investment banks and venture capital funds.

Mr. Mo has lectured extensively at seminars sponsored by the Practising Law Institute and other professional groups, and has given expert legal commentary on emerging growth companies and the technology sector for CNN Moneyline, CNBC Business Center and various publications. Mr. Mo is the founder and co-chair of PLI's Venture Capital conferences, served as co-chair of the Annual Institute on Securities Regulation from 2001 to 2006 and has been a member of the advisory board for the Annual Securities Regulation Institute in San Diego. He serves a number of community organizations, including as a member of the board of directors of the influential Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network.