THEY DID IT. YOU CAN, TOO. MEET STAR ENTREPRENEURS
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
6:00PM - 9:00PM
RESERVATIONS NOW CLOSED!
IF YOU'VE EVER DREAMED OF STARTING YOUR OWN BUSINESS, THIS SPECIAL OP EVENT IS THE PLACE TO START.
You'll hear from owners, partners, directors, and venture capitalists who've made the leap themselves. It's part of our popular "Entrepreneurs in the New Economy" series.
If you're thinking of starting a new company, have a great idea, or just wonder how they do it, don't miss this series co-hosted by the UBS Pride Committee at 299 Park Avenue.
Find out how these entrepreneurs succeeded. You'll meet:
Nearly 30% of Out Professionals members either run their own businesses or work in a partnership. And in the last two decades, 80% of job growth has come from companies with fewer than 50 employees
WHERE: |
UBS, 299 Park Ave (at 48th St), 11th Floor |
PROGRAM: |
Mixer at 6pm; panel discussion begins at 6:30 sharp |
PRICE: |
Op Members: FREE; Non-Members: $15 |
If you are not an OP member, send an email to Michael Tracy HERE including your name and email address. You will be put on a waiting list and contacted on Feb. 23 if there is room at the event.
About the panelists:
David Friedensohn
David has led and managed the successful exit of 3 companies in the
last 10 years and held management positions in many others. He built
Upoc Networks as its CEO for over 2 years, increasing its revenues 400%
before selling it to Dada, a publicly traded Italian company. David
was also the founder and CEO of BigStar Entertainment, raising $25
million in private equity financing and guiding it through its 1999 IPO
at a $100 million valuation. He then managed its online marketing
division's sale to Bigfoot Interactive in 2001. Earlier in his career,
David was the CEO of SonicNet Inc, which he merged into Addicted Noise
and ultimately sold to TCI Music which later became Liberty Interactive
and is now part of MTV. David has extensive experience in business
development, mergers and acquisitions advisory services and has held
executive or consulting positions with Viacom, Prodigy, NBC, BMG,
National Geographic Television and BMG among others. David has a BA
from Dartmouth and an MBA from Columbia Business School.
Charlie O'Donnell
Charlie
is an EIR at First Round Capital. He founded New York's largest
independent innovation community group, nextNY, and was voted one of
the 100 Most Influential People in New York Technology the last three
years. He was the founder of Path 101 an innovative startup in the
career guidance and recruiting space, which raised half a million
dollars and was a Business Insider Startup 2009 Finalist. He spend a
year as the Director of Consumer Products at Oddcast after two years at
Union Square Ventures. Previous to that, he was investing in venture
capital funds for General Motors Asset Management. A New York native,
he also teaches entrepreneurship at Fordham University and can be found
blogging at www.thisisgoingtobebig.com.
Rikki Tahta
Rikki Tahta has held a number of senior roles in Finance and Information Services. Currently he is co-founder of Covestor. Previous start-ups include ARK Information (acquired by Thomson Financial), WebTrack (acquired by Jupiter Communications - later public on NASDAQ), Steelhead Systems (acquired by Merrill Lynch) and Bookpages (acquired by Amazon.com). Other positions include Chase Capital Partners (private equity) and Thomson Financial (Securities Data Corporation). Rikki lives in New York and loves fishing.
Sam Mandel
Sam Mandel is EVP of Business Operations for TweetDeck, the leading third party software client for Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and other real time information streams, based in New York at Betaworks, TweetDeck's lead investor. Prior to joining TweetDeck, Sam was COO of Liberation Entertainment, a Los Angeles-based independent film and television start-up backed by Clarity Partners. Sam began his career as an entertainment and IP lawyer at Blanc Gilburne Williams & Johnston (now absorbed into Arnold & Porter), and held a variety of senior business development positions at AOL and Time Warner before entering the start-up world. He is a graduate of the University of California, San Diego, and Yale Law School and lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
