SVASE VC Breakfast Club with Richard Irving of Pond Ventures, focus on consumer and mobile software, Wireless, Internet media, web based services and Infrastructure August 7, 2008

SVASE VC Breakfast Club with Richard Irving of Pond Ventures, focus on consumer and mobile software, Wireless, Internet media, web based services and Infrastructure

Start: 08/07/2008 - 8:00am
End: 08/07/2008 - 9:30am

WHAT:VC Breakfast Club with Richard Irving of Pond Ventures, focus on consumer and mobile software, Wireless, Internet media, web based services and Infrastructure

WHEN:Thu Aug 7th from 8:00am – 9:30am

WHERE:Nixon Peabody
200 Page Mill Rd, Palo Alto, CA 94306
www.nixonpeabody.com

URL:- www.svase.org/?q=node/1576

CONTACT:Jai Kumar, Program Chair, jai@vigyana.com Cell: 408-406-4693

COST: $25 SVASE Members; $39 Affiliates; $49 Non-members. This event is for ENTREPRENEURS ONLY, BY PREREGISTRATION ONLY.

This event is co-sponsored by Nixon Peabody, www.nixonpeabody.com.

VC Breakfast Club with Richard Irving of Pond Ventures, focus on consumer and mobile software, Wireless, Internet media, web based services and Infrastructure

Pond Ventures
With over $200 million under management, Pond is the only team in Silicon Valley & London dedicated to building European technology into global companies. Our partners have lived and worked in Silicon Valley, the US, Asia, and Europe. We can get you going internationally from day one — help you recruit team members, customers, suppliers and partners from our excellent contact network. Our team of experts, partners, consultants, advisors and other associates will provide top-level professional help without charge to our portfolio companies. The company's success is our sole reward. We are looking forward to working with you.

We are looking for companies whose products meet a clear market need, have defensible technology advantages and need the capital to grow rapidly into a large, profitable company.

Pond will supply the funding and help entrepreneurs, fill talent gaps, establish US, Japanese and Asian operations, build global strategic partnerships.

Richard Irving
Based in Silicon Valley, Richard co-founded Pond in 1997 and brings twenty-five years' experience in venture capital, business management, marketing and engineering in technology companies including AT&T Bell Labs, AMD, Brooktree, and Irving International. Starting as a chip designer at Bell Labs, and strategic marketing manager at AMD, Richard later managed three business units at Brooktree with full P&L responsibility both prior to and following the company's initial public offering. These grew from as small as $1M up to $90M. Richard has been involved in numerous IPOs, acquisitions, and private financings. Richard serves as Director of Transitive, picoChip, Gigle, and Nanotech. Richard has a B.Sc. (1st Class Hons.) and an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Manchester University.