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7:30 am

Registration & Breakfast


8:00 am

Welcome

Maxine Ballen, Founder, President & CEO, NJTC

Keynote Speaker
:
Jeff Bussgang, General Partner, Flybridge Capital Partners

Breakfast Panel:
Where's the Money?
Moderator: David Sorin, Co-Managing Partner, SorinRoyerCooper LLC
Panelists: Robert Adams, Managing Partner, NextStage Capital, L.P.
Bill Carson, Managing Director, Hudson Venture Partners, L.P.
Kenneth Damato, CEO, DoughMain
Russ Hawkins, President & CEO, Agilence, Inc.
Nathanael V. Lentz, Managing Partner, Osage Venture Partners
Jiren Parikh, President & CEO, Snap MyLife, Inc.

Panel Discussions:

The Art of Raising Your First Round of Institutional Capital
Moderator:
Philip H. Politziner, Chairman Emeritus, EisnerAmper LLP
Panelists: Robert Dennerlein, CFO, Raritan Inc.
Tom Gordon, Senior Vice President, Silicon Valley Bank
Stephen J. Socolof, Managing Partner, New Venture Partners
Michael Wehrs, President & CEO, ScanBuy
Max Yankelevich, Chief Architect, Crowd Control Software

As the World Flattens -- Implications for the Technology Companies of an Increasingly Globalized Economy
Moderator:
Jeffrey H. Nicholas, Partner, Fox Rothschild
Panelists: Robert Adams, Managing Partner, NextStage Capital, L.P.
Ron Burns, Founder & CEO, ProtonMedia, Inc.
Maria L. Maccecchini, PhD, President & CEO, QR Pharma
Scott Nicholas, CEO & Co-Founder, Quantum Global Technologies, LLC.
Nicholas U. Spring, Founder, Topaz Pharmaceuticals Inc (recently acquired by Sanofi Pasteur. )

Valuations - Behind the Curtain
Moderator:
Steve M. Cohen, partner in, and co-manager, Emerging Business & Technology Practice, Morgan Lewis
Panelists: Richard M. Fox, Managing Director, Cross Atlantic Capital Partners
William Johnston, Managing Director, Empire Valuation Consultants, LLC
Alan Wink, Director, Capital Markets, EisnerAmper LLP

Luncheon/Featured Speaker/Luncheon Panel:

Luncheon Panel:
Driving Liquidity Through Secondary Market Transactions
Moderator: Peter "Chip" Korn, Partner, SNR Denton
Panelists: Greg Besner, CFO, SecondMarket 
Max C. Chee, Partner, Millennium Technology Value Partners
Patrick Quay, Partner, Ernst & Young

Featured Speaker:
Mark Heesen, President, NVCA