SVASE Event: 'VC Breakfast: Adams Capital Management, Inc., Focus Information Technology, Networking Infrastructure And Semiconductor March 13, 2008

Event: 'VC Breakfast: Adams Capital Management, Inc., Focus Information Technology, Networking Infrastructure And Semiconductor '

Date: Thursday, March 13, 2008 At 08:00 AM
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Minutes
Contact Info:
Greenberg Traurig, 1900 University Ave, 5th Floor Palo Alto, CA 94303 Program Chair: Jai Kumar 408-406-4693 Email: jai@vigyana.com
URL: www.svase.org/index.php?option=com_extcalendar&Itemid=149&extmode=view&extid=1392

Adams Capital Management, Inc. (ACM) is a national venture capital firm specializing in early-stage applied technology investments. Established in 1994, ACM is a lead Series A investor and currently manages $810 million. Our general partners have extensive domain and operations expertise in the following industries:

Information Technology
Networking Infrastructure
Semiconductor

ACM's well-defined, markets-first, investment strategy is driven by the identification and exploitation of market discontinuities. This strategy recognizes emerging growth companies with value propositions driven by economics and product roadmaps that have the potential to define and dominate product categories. ACM's national presence and expansive resources, networks and experiences, offer our entrepreneurs the opportunity to develop their visions into market-leading companies.

Featured VC N. George Ugras, General Partner
George joined Adams Capital Management in 1999 as a General Partner, after spending a year as an investment professional at Apax Partners, a private equity firm in New York.

Prior to joining Apax Partners, George spent four years as a Management Consultant at McKinsey & Co. in New York, working closely with clients in the telecommunications and media industries, on strategic and operational issues. George makes investments in and works with portfolio companies in the networking infrastructure and semiconductor industries.

Domain Expertise:
Electronics
Optics
Semiconductors
Telecommunications

Education:
Research Fellow, Physics - California Institute of Technology
Ph.D. with honors, Applied Physics - Yale University
B.S. Engineering Physics - Fairleigh Dickinson University

Current Board Seats:
DATAllegro, Inc.
NextIO, Inc.
Optellios, Inc.
Qspeed, Inc.
TouchdownTechnologies, Inc.

This event is co-sponsored by Greenberg Traurig www.gtlaw.com.

COST: $25 SVASE Members; $39 Affiliates; $49 Non-members.

This event is for ENTREPRENEURS ONLY, BY PREREGISTRATION ONLY.

CONTACT: VCBC Chair: Jai Kumar, 408-406-4693

Official Website: http://www.svase.org/index.php?option=com_extcalendar&Itemid=149&extmode=view&extid=1392