Angel Investors New Role

Angel Investors New Role

The Venture Capital community has been rocked by turbulent times and changes in the industry. Venture funds are available yet diminishing and focus by the venture community has been on existing ventures with more investments made in later-stage ventures. The funding gap for opportunities that range from seed stage funding ($500 K and less) and startup's ($2M and less) has been filled by Angel Investors.

Organized Angel Investors either a managed group, an angel fund or a formal or informal network has sprouted in recent years. The classic sense of an Angel investment has turned into a fund. With this in mind, we invite you to learn more from a renown panel:

• What is in store for Entrepreneurs?
• What support network and systems are in place in the Angel community?
• How do you reach out to an Angel Investor (i.e. business plan)?
• How do Angels invest and in what industries/sectors?
• How do you work with an Angel in comparison to the VC?
• What is the impact on later stage investment and company expansion?

Moderator:

Rebecca Fannin, Writer, Forbes Asia and Author, Silicon Dragon

Investors:

Darrell Kong, Director of Venture Capital Services, Fenwick & West LLP.

Kuldip Sethi, Chairman & CEO, SV Green Tech Co-chair Clean Tech Angel investor Group, Keiretsu Forum

Dean Sirovica, Chair Clean Tech SIG, Band of Angels

Sherman Ting, Board Member, Sand Hill Angels

Henry Wong, Venture Partner, Garage Technology Venture

Time:

6:00p.m.- 6:30p.m. Registration/Networking

6:30p.m.- 8:30p.m. Program begins

General Event Information:

FREE for CCICE  Members (join CCICE http://ccicemembership.eventbrite.com/)
Member Register at ccice-event@ccice.org
$25 Members of Affiliate Organizations
$30 Non-Members
$10 Live webcast
$40 At the door

Additional Information:  http://www.ccice.org/AngelInvestment.html

BIO's

Rebecca Fannin is an internationally recognized author and journalist. Her book, Silicon Dragon, was published by McGraw-Hill in 2008, translated into several languages and favorably reviewed by The Wall Street Journal and Financial Times.  

Rebecca has developed an expertise on entrepreneurship, innovation and venture capital in emerging markets, and she also writes about global business strategies, marketing and digital media. Currently, she is a columnist for Forbes.com and a writer at Forbes Asia and Chief Executive. Ms. Fannin served as editor-in-chief of International Business (1990-1994) and deputy editor at Ad Age International (1996-1999).  During the height of the dotcom boom, she moved to Silicon Valley to become international news editor at Red Herring (2000-2002), later joining the Asian Venture Capital Journal in Hong Kong and Beijing as international editor, blogging for Huffington Post and developing the Silicon Dragon brand with newsletters and events. Her work has appeared in Inc., Worth, Fast Company, Wired, AsiaWeek, Asia Inc., and The Deal as well as in custom magazines published by NASDAQ and Merrill Lynch. In addition, she is the author of “A New Dawn,” a white paper on China for KPMG’s Thought Leadership Series.

Rebecca is a graduate of the Ohio University Scripps School of Journalism and a recipient of an Asian studies fellowship from the Freedom Forum. Combining her love of travel and passion for international reporting, Rebecca has been on assignment in many of the world’s capitals. She is a frequent moderator, panelist and presenter at industry events in Asia, Europe and the U.S., and has been featured as a guest expert on Fox Business News, Sky TV, CCTV, and several radio news programs.

Darrell Kong focuses on strengthening Fenwick's relationships with both venture capital investors and the entrepreneur community. He has worked with emerging technology companies in a variety of roles. Prior to
joining Fenwick and West, he managed Gray Cary's Venture Pipeline group. His investment experience includes positions with Ex'tent (a private Dutch investment fund) and Sylvan Ventures where he worked on
capital deployments totaling more than $40M into early stage companies. In addition to his investment experience Darrell launched myBschool.com, an on-line affinity marketing company targeting professional school students, while completing his graduate studies.

Darrell graduated from UCLA with a BA in Economics and holds an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Kuldip Sethi Kuldip is Chairman and CEO of SV Green Tech Corp.,  a company dedicated to pursuing green technologies, particularly in renewable energy and creating green jobs.  He has an extensive experience of more than 38 years in semiconductor industry. As a serial entrepreneur, he has founded four companies and was the  CEO of one of them. For the last 5 years,  he has devoted his time to global warming issues. He has  mentored clean tech start-up companies at Clean Tech Open. He is a co-chair of clean tech angel investors’ group at Keiretsu Forum, an active member of Environmental Entrepreneurs, NRDC, Indo-American Chamber of commerce, a member of TiE, SIPA, former member of AAMA and former chair of Green Challenge as member of board of directors at Volunteer Center of Silicon Valley, a non-profit organization. He holds two masters degrees one in Electrical Power Engineering and the other in Solid State Electronics. He has lived in the Silicon Valley since 1971.  

Dean Sirovica is an entrepreneur and consultant with 20 years of experience in the wireless space.

Most recently Dean was Managing Director of Vodafone Group Research and Development USA. The department bridged technology and business strategy. It supported Vodafone Group on strategic initiatives including absorbing innovation from the Venture Capital ecosystem through Vodafone Ventures. Dean was founding President and Chairman of the Mobile Wireless Internet Forum. MWIF had 100 member companies working to converge mobile, fixed and internet networks. MWIF merged with OMA. Prior to Vodafone, Dean was one of four cofounders of Malibu Networks responsible for product strategy and business development. Prior to Malibu Dean was Director with Sprint PCS where he deployed the CDMA network for Sprint in Southern California and Nevada. Prior to Sprint PCS Dean was a Director at USWEST Technologies where he was responsible for wireless strategy and its integration with fixed access.

Dean spent several years in academic research on communications and distributed systems. He is involved with a number of startups. Current and past Advisory Boards: Tatara Systems, Telesoft Partners, Radar Corp. Boards: MWIF, Center for Telecom Management – USC Marshall. Dean holds BSEE and PhD from the University of Sussex, UK, and MBA from Golden Gate University, San Francisco.

Sherman Ting is a Board Director of Sand Hill Angels. He also serves as Co-Chair of the Membership and External Relationships Committees.

Sherman has over 25 years of experience in the high technology industry, in engineering, executive management and as an entrepreneur. He is an active angel investor in start-up ventures. Most recently, Sherman was Founder and CEO of Century A Technologies, a company which built a marketing/sales/support infrastructure in China, for new breeds of Internet-based enterprise software products designed in the US. Previously, Sherman was Vice President at Oracle Corporation, where he founded the HP Products Division and grew the business into the number one product line, with over $300M in product license revenue. While at Oracle, he also established the Asia Products Division to spearhead the cultivation of business in the Asia Pacific region, which later became the fastest growing market for Oracle. As a result, Oracle's Japanese subsidiary experienced one of the most successful high tech IPOs in Japanese history. In addition, Sherman was on the Oracle CEO's hand-picked team to start up a Network Computer business, to revolutionize how people and businesses use the Internet. Prior to Oracle, Sherman held engineering positions at Hewlett Packard, developing relational database systems for HP's cutting edge RISC computer servers, and at Intel, developing computer language processors for Intel's advanced chip architecture.

Sherman received an MSE in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania.

Henry Wong Henry H. Wong found Diamond TechVentures and a Venture Partner at GarageTechnology Ventures has resided in China & Silicon Valley for the last 25 years.  From being a Serial Entrepreneur to a
Venture Capitalist, Wong is in a unique position where he can fully utilize his operational experience, and investment talent to help build companies with a global vision and encourage entrepreneurship.

In his prior Fund, Crystal Ventures, Wong was active with portfolio companies including SMIC, LGC Wireless, Infinera, and Exavio.  A seasoned investor and entrepreneur, Wong has succeeded as the
founder, chairman & CEO of SS8 Networks Inc., IP Communications, XaQti Semiconductor, CNet Technology Inc., and Combinet (ISDN Systems).  His success, experience and leadership are invaluable in his role as an Investor, Serial Entrepreneur and mentor in Silicon Valley.

In 2002, Wong was the finalist to receive the “Entrepreneur of the Year Award”.  Wong is an Advisor to 6 non-profit organizations and is active with community events.  In education, Mr. Wong received a B.Sc. degree in Business Administration (Major in Finance and Minor in Marketing) from University of Utah 1980, and a MBA in Telecom Management from Golden Gate University 1983.   He is also a Mentor in the Stanford
Graduate School of Business GSB S-356 MBA Program, and a Team Mentor in the Technology Venture Formation course MS&E 273 at  Stanford's School of Engineering.