Investor Panel: What's Hot in 2018
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2017 was an eventful, interesting year in the Silicon Valley startup funding ecosystem. 2018 has started off with a bang.
Our distinguished panel will discuss some of the trends of 2017 and look ahead at what to expect in the rest of 2018.
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Tabler - Th 2/15
Agenda
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm Check In, Food, Networking Reception
7:00 pm to 8:30 pm Panel Discussion, Q & A
8:30 pm to 9:00 pm More Networking
About the Panelists
(More panelists TBA.)
Praveen Gupta has an extensive background in corporate business development, strategy, venture capital, general management, and product development. He is currently Vice President of Corporate Investment & Development at HTC. He focuses on virtual/augmented reality, smart phone, and IoT technologies. He held a similar role at SK Telecom with a focus on mobile technologies. Earlier at CDIB Ventures, Praveen was a partner and involved in raising two venture capital funds and several successful investments in enterprise software, infrastructure, and semiconductor companies. He has authored three books related to venture capital. Praveen has held management and technical roles at Lucent, Ericsson, ICL, and Halliburton. Praveen has an MBA and an M.S. in Physics, EE, and Computer Science.
John Hullar is the chairman and managing partner of WRH+Co. Previously, John spent 11 years at Wells Fargo Securities, serving as President and CEO, and, most recently as Managing Director, Western Region. Before joining Wells Fargo Securities, John was Director of Worldwide Sales at Hambrecht & Quist, where he oversaw all aspects of U.S. and International Institutional Sales and Accounts, Executive Financial Services and Venture Services Sales. He was also a member of the Operating Committee, Brokerage Committee, and Equity Commitment Committee. Prior to joining Hambrecht & Quist, John was an Executive Director at Morgan Stanley where he held leadership positions in Institutional Equities in New York, Tokyo, and London. John holds a B.A. from Yale University. He was a member of the Yale University Development Board; a Trustee and Chair of Finance at The Hamlin School and The Branson School; and a Trustee of The First Tee Chapter of San Francisco.
Valery Komissarova is a principal at Grishin Robotics, the world's first hardware-only venture capital firm, currently with $100M under management. Valery sourced multiple investments in firm's portfolio, including Spire, littleBits, Zipline, Sphero and others. Prior to Grishin Robotics, Valery worked in engineering, marketing and business development roles at multiple startups, most recently - Mail.Ru Group, now the largest internet-company in Eastern Europe that went public on the London Stock Exchange in 2010.
Istvan Jonyer in an investor at NexStar Partners, an early stage venture capital fund. Istvan focuses on machine learning, artificial intelligence, smart robotics, self-driving technology, as well as virtual reality and augmented reality. Prior to NexStar, Istvan was an entrepreneur and startup advisor focused on product and business strategy for a number of successful venture backed startups. He has also held various operating and engineering roles at Google (head of partnerships at Google TV) and Nortel (software design engineer, 3G infrastructure). Earlier in his career Istvan was an academic with a National Science Foundation and Department of Transportation-funded research program in several sub-branches of machine learning.
Istvan holds an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University, a PhD in Machine Learning, and MS and BS degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from The University of Texas at Arlington.
Andre Gueziec is an entrepreneur, board member and investor.
André founded Beat the Traffic in 2001 and sold it to the Canadian media group, Pelmorex (The Weather Network and Meteo Media) in 2012. As an investor, he has done well with his past angel investments leveraging his technical depth, start up expertise and valuation/deal methodology.
Andre recently published a book titled "You can Be a Silicon Valley Success" and available at http://www.amazon.com/You-Can-Silicon-Valley-Success/dp/1625351399 . It's a practical, down to earth account on how to start and grow a tech business with little outside funding.
Andre holds a PhD in Computer Science from INRIA Univ Paris 11, is an inventor of 48 patents and has more than 40 publications in the fields of computer vision, computational geometry, data visualization, medical imaging and traffic data modeling and management
Investor Panel: What's Hot in 2018