TechBiz Connection Hosts CEO Roundtable on Managing Business Growth in Early Stage Companies
Irvine, CA, March 14, 2008 --(PR.com)-- TechBiz Connection (http://www.techbizconnection.org) will host a distinguished panel of local chief executive officers who will discuss how to manage growth in early stage companies at its monthly forum on Wednesday, March 19 from 6:00 to 9:00 PM at Calit2 at the University of California, Irvine.
According to Jack Bicer, TechBiz Connection president, there is a lot of chatter about how tough it is for a new business venture to get started. “Defining the business goals and objectives, creating a strategic plan, securing funding, recruiting the management team and launching the business may seem like a daunting challenge,” Bicer explained, “but once traction has been achieved, entrepreneurs will continue to face many new challenges as they begin to generate revenue, margin and costs. The real challenge is how the company will produce sustainable revenue growth and profitability.”
TechBiz Connection has assembled a panel of successful Chief Executives, Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders who will share some of their experiences, insights, obstacles, successes, failures and challenges as they have led the way in transforming an early stage company into a growing and profitable enterprise. This is a great opportunity for entrepreneurs, business owners and management to discuss the ideas, challenges and conflicts that must be managed as an early stage company is led into the next phase of profitable growth.
The roundtable moderator is Paul Ulyett, managing director, RiechesBaird Strategy Group. Ulyett specializes in enabling clients to generate sustainable, profitable revenue growth through brand aligned business strategy, business process reengineering, human performance improvement and customer relationship management. Clients include a wide range of companies including; Microsoft, FileNet, Kaiser Permanente, Blue Shield of California, The Trizetto Group, Dana Capital Management, Encore Credit Corporation, U.S. HealthWorks and American Airlines.
Roundtable participants include:
Matt Ridenour, managing director of Momentum Venture Management who spent more than 10 years working in private equity, venture capital and as a CEO in successful early-stage companies prior to founding MVM. He has been a principal in more than 25 private market transactions with an aggregate value of more than $200 million. Previously, he served as CEO of UNX, the world's largest independent institutional equity trading platform, where he secured $20 million in venture funding. He also founded Gazelle TechVentures, a $60 million VC firm where he continues to serve on the executive committee. Before that, Ridenour was a principal in Blue Capital, a private equity firm spun out of McKinsey & Company, and also spent two years focusing on private equity advisory at Bain & Company.
Frank Lane, CEO of Armorlite, is a seasoned executive with a strong record of serial entrepreneurial achievements in domestic and international business development. His professional background encompasses extensive experience in technology development. In his first CEO venture at 21 years old he created one of the largest interior commercial plantscape companies in Western US. He made his first million dollars upon the sale of this company at 28 years of age. He then led a $3M research and development project for Environ Corporation and sold the company to National Panasonic. Before that, Lane took over a family business and built a national channel of distribution and sold the company. He currently serves on various boards for non- and for-profit corporations and donates his managerial skills to various social organizations including the Catholic Workers Charities.
Dan Morefield, executive and investor, is a dynamic leader with 28 years of management experience in banking and internet companies. Leaving the banking industry as an executive after 19 years, he served as CIO of Overture Services from its early stage growth through its integration into Yahoo! Morefield held positions responsible for annual operating budgets in excess of $100 million and capital expenditure budgets in excess of $40 million. His internet experience spans executive positions with five companies including Overture Services, PayMyBills and Experian Consumer Direct. He was also a founding partner of a small private equity firm that successfully engaged in a wide variety of early stage investments.
The forum discussion and subsequent question-and-answer session is sponsored by Daly-Swartz Public Relations, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, ExactTarget, Inc., Septium Corp., University of California, Irvine, and Brilliant Blue.
Admission to the TechBiz Connection event is $30 prepaid and $40 at the door. For further information and RSVP, visit http://www.techbizconnection.org or e-mail Jack Bicer at president@techbizconnection.org.
TechBiz Connection was created to support Southern California business and technology professionals, companies and entrepreneurs by providing timely education and networking opportunities. The organization focuses on where technology and business intersect; everything a successful high-tech company would want to do.
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Contact:
Daly-Swartz PR for TechBiz Connection
Jeffrey Swartz, 949-470-0075
jeffreyswartz@dsprel.com
According to Jack Bicer, TechBiz Connection president, there is a lot of chatter about how tough it is for a new business venture to get started. “Defining the business goals and objectives, creating a strategic plan, securing funding, recruiting the management team and launching the business may seem like a daunting challenge,” Bicer explained, “but once traction has been achieved, entrepreneurs will continue to face many new challenges as they begin to generate revenue, margin and costs. The real challenge is how the company will produce sustainable revenue growth and profitability.”
TechBiz Connection has assembled a panel of successful Chief Executives, Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders who will share some of their experiences, insights, obstacles, successes, failures and challenges as they have led the way in transforming an early stage company into a growing and profitable enterprise. This is a great opportunity for entrepreneurs, business owners and management to discuss the ideas, challenges and conflicts that must be managed as an early stage company is led into the next phase of profitable growth.
The roundtable moderator is Paul Ulyett, managing director, RiechesBaird Strategy Group. Ulyett specializes in enabling clients to generate sustainable, profitable revenue growth through brand aligned business strategy, business process reengineering, human performance improvement and customer relationship management. Clients include a wide range of companies including; Microsoft, FileNet, Kaiser Permanente, Blue Shield of California, The Trizetto Group, Dana Capital Management, Encore Credit Corporation, U.S. HealthWorks and American Airlines.
Roundtable participants include:
Matt Ridenour, managing director of Momentum Venture Management who spent more than 10 years working in private equity, venture capital and as a CEO in successful early-stage companies prior to founding MVM. He has been a principal in more than 25 private market transactions with an aggregate value of more than $200 million. Previously, he served as CEO of UNX, the world's largest independent institutional equity trading platform, where he secured $20 million in venture funding. He also founded Gazelle TechVentures, a $60 million VC firm where he continues to serve on the executive committee. Before that, Ridenour was a principal in Blue Capital, a private equity firm spun out of McKinsey & Company, and also spent two years focusing on private equity advisory at Bain & Company.
Frank Lane, CEO of Armorlite, is a seasoned executive with a strong record of serial entrepreneurial achievements in domestic and international business development. His professional background encompasses extensive experience in technology development. In his first CEO venture at 21 years old he created one of the largest interior commercial plantscape companies in Western US. He made his first million dollars upon the sale of this company at 28 years of age. He then led a $3M research and development project for Environ Corporation and sold the company to National Panasonic. Before that, Lane took over a family business and built a national channel of distribution and sold the company. He currently serves on various boards for non- and for-profit corporations and donates his managerial skills to various social organizations including the Catholic Workers Charities.
Dan Morefield, executive and investor, is a dynamic leader with 28 years of management experience in banking and internet companies. Leaving the banking industry as an executive after 19 years, he served as CIO of Overture Services from its early stage growth through its integration into Yahoo! Morefield held positions responsible for annual operating budgets in excess of $100 million and capital expenditure budgets in excess of $40 million. His internet experience spans executive positions with five companies including Overture Services, PayMyBills and Experian Consumer Direct. He was also a founding partner of a small private equity firm that successfully engaged in a wide variety of early stage investments.
The forum discussion and subsequent question-and-answer session is sponsored by Daly-Swartz Public Relations, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, ExactTarget, Inc., Septium Corp., University of California, Irvine, and Brilliant Blue.
Admission to the TechBiz Connection event is $30 prepaid and $40 at the door. For further information and RSVP, visit http://www.techbizconnection.org or e-mail Jack Bicer at president@techbizconnection.org.
TechBiz Connection was created to support Southern California business and technology professionals, companies and entrepreneurs by providing timely education and networking opportunities. The organization focuses on where technology and business intersect; everything a successful high-tech company would want to do.
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Contact:
Daly-Swartz PR for TechBiz Connection
Jeffrey Swartz, 949-470-0075
jeffreyswartz@dsprel.com
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