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April 24 2004

8:45 AM

Welcome
Cook Auditorium
Gregg Fairbrothers '76
Executive Director, Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network

8:50 AM

Opening Address
Craig Benson
Governor of New Hampshire
Dartmouth Trustee (ex officio)

8:55 AM

Opening Address
James Wright '64a
President, Dartmouth College

9:05 AM

Keynote
Jeffrey Immelt '78
Chairman & CEO, General Electric

 

Panels

Trends and Opportunities
Stoneman Classroom
Murdough Center


Execution
Cook Auditorium
Murdough Center

Financing and Exiting
Barclay Classroom
Murdough Center

10:00 AM

Life Sciences and Biomedicine
Stoneman Classroom

Moderator:
Don Drakeman '75
President & CEO, Medarex, Inc.

Panelists:
David Holveck
President of Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation

Bryan Roberts '89
General Partner, Venrock Associates

Barbara Yanni
Vice President and Chief Licensing Officer, Merck & Co., Inc.

Dartmouth Entrepreneurs and Their Stories
Cook Auditorium

Moderator:
Phil Ferneau '84, TU'96
Managing Director, Borealis Ventures; Adj. Associate Professor of Business Administration, Tuck

Panelists:
Gregg Engles '79
Chairman & CEO, Dean Foods Co.

Peter Georgiopoulos TU'87
Chairman, CEO, President & Founder, General Maritime Corporation

Amanda Reed '86
Partner, Palomar Ventures

Financing 101
Barclay Classroom

Moderator:

Fred Wainwright TU'02
Adj. Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Tuck; Executive Director, Tuck's Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship

Panelists:

Dick Green '75
Founder, Granite State Angels

Bob Molinari '74, TU '79
Angel Investor, Owner, Medstars

Tom Naughton '89, TU'96
Managing Director, NeoCarta Ventures Inc.

11:00 AM

Break

11:15 AM

Venture Investing - Past and Future
Stoneman Classroom

Moderator:
Bob Fleming '78
General Partner and Co-founder, Prism Venture Partners

Panelist:
Steve Lazarus '52
Managing Director, ARCH Venture Partners

Team Formation - Dating and Marrying
Cook Auditorium

Moderator:
Mike Carusi TU'93
General Partner, Advanced Technology Ventures

Panelists:
Mike Gonnerman '65
Founder & CEO, Michael Gonnerman, Inc.

Rob Utzschneider '79
Executive Director, Ascential Software Corporation

David Weld '85, TU'90
CEO, MessageGate, Inc.

Bootstrapping Your Startup:
Barclay Classroom

Moderator:

Michael Horvath
Assoc. Prof of Business Administration, Tuck; CFO, GlycoFi, Inc.

Panelists:
Rob McGrath 82, TU'92
President & CEO, Private Retreats

Jeff McKinnon
President & CEO, Concordia Partners LLC

Dave Morse TU'67
Managing Director, MS Capital

12:15 PM

Fireside Chat
Jeffrey Immelt '78
Chairman & CEO, General Electric

Moderated by

Bill Achtmeyer TU'81
Co-founder, Chairman & Managing Partner, The Parthenon Group
Stell Hall

12:15 PM

Workshop:
Presenter: Paul Remus
Devine Millimet
IP IN DESERTO: Getting, and Keeping, Patents and Trademarks
Frantz Classroom

1:00 PM

Lunch
Byrne Dining Hall

2:00 PM

IT and Wireless
Stoneman Classroom

Moderator:
Scott Kirsner
@Large columnist, Boston Globe

Panelists:
Jeffrey Citron
Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO, Vonage

Alan Kirby
Director of Engineering, VPN and Security Business Unit, Cisco Systems, Inc.

Blair LaCorte TU'90
Executive Vice President Corporate Development and Strategy, Savi Technology

Making Tough Decisions - Changing Direction and Placing Your Bets
Cook Auditorium

Moderator:
Mark Stein '83
Partner, McDermott, Will & Emery

Panelists:
Michael Barach
General Partner, Village Ventures

Larry Bridges TU'79
President, Red Car, Inc.

Tim Craycroft '93
Co-founder, 842 Technology

Exit Strategies
Barclay Classroom

Moderator:

Colin Blaydon
Buchanan Professor of Management, Tuck; Director, Tuck's Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship

Panelists:
Dana Callow TU'79
Managing General Partner, Boston Millennia Partners

Bob Cronin '84, TU '89
Senior Managing Partner, Stonebridge Technology Associates

Sean Mahoney
President, Millyard Communications

3:00 PM

Break

 

3:15 PM

Business Plan Competition
Cook Auditorium

4:45 PM

Reception
(Business Plan Competition winners announced)
Stell Hall

6:30 PM

Conference Ends