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Keynote
Jeffrey R.
Immelt
Chairman and CEO, General Electric
Jeffrey R. Immelt '78 is chairman of the board
and chief executive officer of GE. Appointed on September 7, 2001,
he is the ninth chairman in the company's 126-year history. Previously
Mr. Immelt was president and CEO of GE Medical Systems, which is
today a $12 billion leader in the health-care industry.
Mr. Immelt began his GE career in 1982 and has held a series of
global leadership roles in GE's plastics, appliance, and medical
businesses. He became an officer of GE in 1989, and joined the GE
Capital board in 1997. He was the Financial Times's "Man of the
Year" for 2003.
He serves on the board of two nonprofit organizations: Catalyst,
devoted to advancing women in business; and Robin Hood, focused
on addressing poverty in New York City.
Mr. Immelt holds a BA in applied mathematics from Dartmouth College
(1978) and an MBA from Harvard University (1982). He and his wife,
Andrea, have one daughter.
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Opening Remarks
Gregg Fairbrothers '76
Gregg Fairbothers '76 is founder and executive director of the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network (DEN). For more than twenty years, he founded, built, and managed oil and gas exploration and production companies on three continents, most recently serving as president of Samson International, Ltd. Since returning to the Upper Valley in 1999 he has been involved in a variety of start-ups, including several with faculty of the Tuck School. Those partnerships led Fairbrothers to propose DEN, the entrepreneurship support initiative for Dartmouth and its professional schools.
Honorable Craig R. Benson
Craig R. Benson is governor of New Hampshire and an ex officio trustee of Dartmouth College. In 1983, he co-founded Cabletron Systems, an infrastructure solutions company based in Rochester, New Hampshire, and for sixteen years served as its chairman, chief executive officer, president, and director of operations. By 1988, Cabletron was ranked sixth on Inc. magazine's list of the fastest-growing, privately held companies in America and in 1991 Benson was named Inc.'s "National Entrepreneur of the Year." He left Cabletron in 1998 to enter politics and was elected governor in 2002. Benson received his BA from Babson College and MBA from Syracuse University. He lives in Rye, New Hampshire, with his wife, Denise, and their two daughters.
James Wright
'64A
James Wright '64A is the sixteenth president
of Dartmouth College. A veteran academic administrator and noted
historian, he has spent more than thirty years in higher education.
Wright joined the faculty of Dartmouth's history department in 1969.
Prior to becoming president in 1998, he chaired a succession of
key committees at the College, including the committee that proposed
changes in the undergraduate curriculum that led to a comprehensive
overhaul in 1993. A specialist in American political history, he
is the author or editor of five books. Wright received a BS from
Wisconsin State University-Platteville and an MA and PhD in history
from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He is married to Susan
DeBevoise Wright.
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Bill
Achtmeyer TU'81
William F. Achtmeyer TU'81 is chairman and managing
partner of The Parthenon Group, which he co-founded in 1991. A business
consultant for more than twenty years, he has advised chief executive
officers from corporations such as Goldman Sachs, the McGraw-Hill
Companies, Saatchi and Saatchi PLC, and Starwood Hotels and Resorts
on corporate strategy. Previously, Achtmeyer was a director of Bain
& Company, responsible for its worldwide mergers and acquisitions
practice. He also led Bain's North American business development.
Achtmeyer is chairman of the Board of Overseers of Tuck School and
president of the board of Lawrence Academy. He holds an AB from
Princeton University and an MBA from Tuck School.
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Michael Barach
Michael I. Barach is a general partner of Village
Ventures, a fund focusing on early stage investments in underserved
geographic regions. He directly oversees three regional funds: Long
River Ventures in central and western Massachusetts, High Peak Ventures
in upstate New York, and Inflexion Partners in central Florida.
Previously, Barach was chief executive officer and president of
Mothernature.com, where he raised $113 million with three private
rounds of capital raising and an IPO. He was also a partner at Bessemer
Venture Partners, specializing in telecommunications, retail, and
electronic commerce. Barach earned a BA summa cum laude from Amherst
College, where he was Phi Beta Kappa, and a JD and an MBA from Harvard.
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Colin Blaydon
Colin Blaydon is the founding director of the
Tuck Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship. He is also
dean emeritus at Tuck and the William and Josephine Buchanan Professor
of Management, teaching entrepreneurship, corporate governance,
and private equity finance. His research interests include private
equity finance (both venture capital and buyout) and strategy and
governance of firms providing or receiving private equity financing.
Formerly on the faculties of Harvard and Duke Universities, Blaydon
has also worked at the Defense Department and Federal Budget Office
and as an executive at a number of private-sector firms. Blaydon
received a BEE from the University of Virginia, and an AM and PhD
in applied mathematics from Harvard University.
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Larry Bridges TU'79
Larry E. Bridges TU '79 is president and chief
executive officer of Red Car, Inc., an editing and design boutique
he founded in Los Angeles in 1982. He started as a film editor,
then in 1988 became a director. Two of his commercials that year
made Advertising Age's annual top 100, and the following year he
was named "Best Advertising Auteur" by Connoisseur magazine. Since
then, he has worked with top advertising agencies and directed a
feature film. Bridges also founded the AVA network, an internet-based
facility enabling creative talent worldwide to collaborate, regardless
of where they are. He received an undergraduate degree in English
from Stanford and an MBA from Tuck School. Bridges lives in Los
Angeles with his wife, Elizabeth, and daughter, Melanie.
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Dana Callow TU'79
A. Dana Callow Jr. TU'79 is founder and managing
general partner of Boston Millennia Partners. He is also a director
of a number of public and private companies and a member of the
advisory board and the executive committee of Tuck's Center for
Private Equity and Entrepreneurship. Callow co-founded Boston Capital
Ventures after working as a senior consultant at Braxton Associates,
an international strategic planning firm formed by professionals
from Boston Consulting Group and Bain & Co. Previously, he worked
with Fortune-100 companies in strategic planning and implementing
merger and acquisition strategies. Before becoming a management
consultant, Callow worked in sales and marketing and was an application
engineer for the Tymshare, Inc. (McDonnell-Douglas), software division.
He received his BA from Tufts University and his MBA from Tuck School.
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Mike Carusi TU'93
Michael Carusi TU'93 has been general partner
of Advanced Technology Ventures since 1998. He provides leadership
and insight for emerging companies in the life sciences and medical
device sectors. ATV's health-care portfolio benefits from his significant
domain expertise and strong industry relationships, a result of
ten years of experience in operations and management consulting.
Prior to joining ATV, Carusi served as director of business development
for Inhale Therapeutic Systems, a venture-backed pulmonary drug
delivery company that went public in 1994. He was also a principal
at the Wilkerson Group, a strategic ATV partner and leading management
consulting firm focused on health care. Carusi has a BS in mechanical
engineering from Lehigh University and an MBA from Tuck School.
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Jeffrey Citron
Jeffrey Citron is chairman and chief executive
officer of Vonage. In 1995, he founded The Island ECN, a computerized
trading system designed to eliminate problems associated with order
execution. Next, Citron founded and was chairman and chief executive
officer of Datek Online Holdings Corp. Under his leadership, Datek
became the fourth-largest online brokerage in the United States.
Recently acquired by Ameritrade Holdings for $1.3 billion, it is
now the second-largest online financial services company. Citron
departed Datek in 1999 and, recognizing a similar opportunity, founded
Vonage. He currently serves on the board of New Jersey's Montclair
Art Museum and through his family foundation funds medical research,
supports the arts, and dedicates time and resources to children's
charities.
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Tim Craycroft '93
Tim Craycroft '93 is co-founder of 842 Technology,
a small software firm based in San Francisco. Prior to 842, he was
the founding chief technology officer of i-drive; later, as chief
executive officer, he led the company's transition from service
provider to software company. Craycroft has twelve years of experience
as a professional software developer, architect, and executive.
Prior to i-drive, he held engineering and technical leadership positions
at Apple and Netscape, where he developed operating system and Internet
software technologies. Craycroft recieved an AB in computer science
from Dartmouth College.
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Bob Cronin '84, TU '89
Robert N. Cronin '84, TU '89 is a founder and
senior managing director of Stonebridge Technology Associates, a
Boston-based investment banking firm that provides corporate finance
advisory services to middle market and emerging growth companies.
He focuses exclusively on raising private capital and providing
merger and acquisition advisory services to early-stage and emerging
growth technology companies. Cronin began his career in the corporate
finance department of Bankers Trust Company. He received an AB in
economics from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Tuck School.
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Don Drakeman '75
Donald L. Drakeman '75 is the co-founder, president,
and chief executive officer of Medarex, a biotechnology company
developing monoclonal antibodies for the treatment of a wide range
of life-threatening and debilitating diseases. He previously served
as vice president of Essex Chemical Corporation, where he was responsible
for several biomedical ventures, as an attorney at the international
firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, and as a faculty member
at Princeton University, where he taught constitutional law and
civil liberties. Drakeman received an AB degree magna cum laude
from Dartmouth College, a JD degree from Columbia Law School, and
a PhD in religion from Princeton University. His wife, Lisa N. Drakeman,
PhD, is president and chief executive officer of Genmab.
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Gregg Engles '79
Gregg L. Engles '79 is chairman and chief executive
officer of Dean Foods Company, the nation's leading dairy processor,
distributor of fresh milk and other dairy products, and a leader
in the specialty foods industry. He founded the company in 1988
by acquiring the Reddy Ice division of The Southland Corporation.
In 1993, the company entered the dairy industry with the purchase
of Suiza Dairy in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Dean Foods completed its
initial public offering in April 1996. Through an aggressive acquisition
strategy, company revenues have grown from $17 million in 1988 to
nearly $10 billion today. Engles has an AB in economics from Dartmouth
College and a JD from Yale University.
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Phil Ferneau '84, TU'96
Phil J. Ferneau '84, TU'96 is co-founder and
managing director of Borealis Ventures, a Hanover-based venture
capital firm that invests in seed and early-stage companies in northern
New England and throughout the national Dartmouth network. Ferneau
formerly served as the founding executive director of Tuck's Center
for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship He is now an advisory director
and an adjunct associate professor teaching private equity and entrepreneurship
at Tuck. Prior experience includes senior operating roles with an
application software company and a private legal practice specializing
in international trade. He received an AB from Dartmouth, a JD from
the University of Virginia School of Law, and an MBA with high distinction
from Tuck.
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Bob Fleming '78
Robert C. Fleming Jr. '78 is general partner
and co-founder of Prism Partners. A venture capitalist for more
than eighteen years, he has served as general partner with Norwest
Venture Capital, and before that with the Vista Group. There, he
managed two Vista-affiliated funds, Vista Ventures III, LP, and
Orien Ventures II, LP. Fleming has also served as a director for
numerous venture-backed companies. Prior to entering the venture
capital industry, Fleming was an early employee at the Gartner Group,
which was then a venture-backed start-up. He founded and managed
Gartner's Local-Area Communications consulting practice, consulted
at Booz, Allen & Hamilton, and designed data communications equipment
for Dataproducts New England. Fleming holds an AB cum laude in engineering
sciences from Dartmouth College and an MBA from the Wharton School.
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Peter Georgiopoulos TU'87
Peter C. Georgiopoulos TU'87 is the chairman,
chief executive officer, president, and founder of General Maritime
Corporation, the second-largest mid-sized tanker company in the
world. Georgiopoulos started his career working for private shipping
companies in New York and Greece, chartering, buying, and selling
vessels. He later joined Drexel Burnham Lambert as an investment
banker specializing in mergers and acquisitions. In 1990 he joined
oil tanker brokerage firm Mallory Jones Lynch & Associates, then
the next year started Maritime Equity Management, a ship owning
and investment company. In 1997 Georgiopoulos launched General Maritime
with one vessel. The company joined the NYSE in 2001 and today owns
and operates a fleet of 46 tankers. Georgiopoulos earned an MBA
from Tuck School.
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Mike Gonnerman '65
Michael Gonnerman '65 has 33 years of combined
business experience: with Arthur Andersen & Co. in Washington, D.C.
and Italy, as the chief financial officer for two public and two
private high-technology companies, and as a financial consultant
to more than fifty companies. He serves on the boards of directors
and advisors of several companies, typically chairing the audit
and compensation committees. Gonnerman has an AB in economics from
Dartmouth College and an MBA from Northwestern University. Married
33 years, he and his wife have three adult children. Gonnerman roots
for the Boston Red Sox and Washington Redskins, enjoys bowling and
long distance running, and has coached ten baseball teams in seven
years.
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Dick Green '75
Richard L. Green '75 is co-founder and managing
director of Granite State Angels, a regional investment group located
in Hanover, New Hampshire. He is a co-founder, director, and former
chairman of VoteHere, Inc., a Seattle-based producer of security
systems for electronic and online voting. In 1983, Green was co-founder
of Corporate Microsystems, Inc., a New Hampshire data communication
software company. He served as CMI's chief executive officer and
chairman until he sold the company to Legent Corporation in 1993.
Green is president of the Grafton County Economic Development Council,
and one of the partners in the planned Dartmouth Regional Technology
Center incubator. A graduate of Dartmouth College, he was awarded
the John G. Kemeny Prize in Computing in 1976.
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David Holveck
David P. Holveck is vice president for corporate
development at Johnson & Johnson. Previously, he was president of
Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation, a title he assumed after
Centocor, Inc., of which he was chief executive officer and a director,
merged with Johnson & Johnson in 1999. Prior to joining Centocor,
Inc., he held positions at General Electric Company, Corning Glass
Works, and Abbott Laboratories. He is on the board of governors
for Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education and serves on
the board of trustees for the Fund for West Chester University.
Holveck received a BS degree in education/science from West Chester
and served in the U.S. Navy. He and his wife have two daughters
and four grandchildren.
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Michael Horvath
Michael Horvath is an associate professor at
Tuck School, research director of the Foster Center for Private
Equity, and chief financial officer for GlycoFi, Inc. He teaches
high-tech entrepreneurship and venture capital electives and is
studying the effects of venture capital, entrepreneurship, and innovation
on regional and macroeconomic growth. Horvath is also a co-founder
of Kana, Inc., which provides web-architected enterprise relationship
management solutions (eRM). Kana delivers a broad range of integrated
e-business and interaction applications for both Internet and Global
2000 companies, including eight of the ten most trafficked websites.
Prior to joining Tuck School, he taught macroeconomics at Stanford
University for six years. Horvath received a BA in economics from
Harvard University and a PhD in economics from Northwestern University.
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Alan Kirby
Alan Kirby is director of engineering in the
VPN and Security Business Unit of Cisco Systems, Inc., and a research
affiliate at MIT's Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems.
He has developed data communications and computer security technology
for nearly thirty years, and holds several networking and network
security patents. Most recently, Kirby was chief technical officer
and vice president of engineering at Okena, Inc., which develops
end-system security products that prevent a variety of intrusions.
Okena was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2003; he remains responsible
for engineering efforts for this product line. Kirby has a BS in
computer science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and an MA
in computer science from the Polytechnic Institute of New York.
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Scott Kirsner
Scott Kirsner is a Boston-based business and
technology writer focusing on new technologies, the people and companies
that create them, and their impact. A contributing editor at Fast
Company and a contributing writer at Wired magazine, he also writes
"@large," a column on the tech sector in New England that appears
each Monday on the front page of the Boston Globe's business section.
Kirsner has also written for the New York Times, Newsweek, CIO Magazine,
Salon.com, and the London Sunday Telegraph, and often discusses
technology issues on TV and radio. He is a founder and program chair
of "Future Forward: The New England Technology Summit," to be held
this November in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and the Nantucket Conference
on Entrepreneurship and Innovation in May.
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Blair LaCorte TU'90
Blair LaCorte TU'90 is executive vice president
of Corporate Development and Strategy at Savi Technology. Named
one of the top ten business-to-business marketers of the year by
Business Marketing and Advertising Age, he takes the lead in determining
corporate strategies. Previously LaCorte was Savi's executive vice
president of Business Development and Marketing. He was instrumental
in the conception and establishment of Smart and Secure Tradelanes,
a global container security and management network at major ports.
Prior to Savi, LaCorte was VerticalNet's senior vice president of
Strategy and E-Commerce, and part of the team that took the company
public in 1999. He received a BA from the University of Maine, an
MBA from Tuck School, and an FMP degree from General Electric.
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Steve Lazarus '52
Steven Lazarus '52 is founder and a managing
director of ARCH Venture Partners. Previously, he was president
and chief executive officer of ARCH and associate dean of the University
of Chicago's Graduate School of Business. Before founding ARCH in
1986, Lazarus was group vice president of Baxter Healthcare's Health
Care Services Group. During his thirteen years at Baxter, he also
served as senior vice president for technology. In the early 1970s,
Lazarus was deputy assistant secretary of commerce and was the founder
and first director of the Bureau of East-West Trade. A 21-year Navy
veteran, he retired with the rank of captain in 1973. He received
a BS with honors from Dartmouth College and an MBA with high distinction
from Harvard University.
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Sean Mahoney
Sean Mahoney is president of Millyard Communications,
Inc., publisher of BusinessNH magazine and producer of EventsNH.
Over the course of his entrepreneurial career, he has built companies
that have been sold to both private equity and strategic buyers.
Mahoney is currently an active investor in several private equity
investment funds and a direct investor in rapidly growing, job-creating
companies. He has also worked in corporate finance, raising capital
in the public equity markets for emerging growth companies. Mahoney
earned a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from
Harvard Business School.
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Rob McGrath '82, TU'92
Robert L. McGrath III '82, TU92 founded Private
Retreats by Abercrombie & Kent in 1998 and serves as president and
chief executive officer. Named "Entrepreneur of the Year"
in 2003 by Ernst and Young for starting the "club of clubs," he
previously developed luxury condominiums in Telluride, Colorado,
and Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Before that he was a commercial mortgage-backed
securities trader at J.P. Morgan and Nomura Securities, financing
real estate. McGrath received an AB in comparative mythology from
Dartmouth College and an MBA from Tuck School, graduating as one
of ten Tuck Scholars. A former competitor on the World Pro Ski Tour,
he lives with wife Susan and their two children in Fairfield, Connecticut.
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Jeff McKinnon
Jeff McKinnon is president and chief executive
officer of Concordia Partners LLC. A serial entrepreneur specializing
in direct marketing to consumers, he has over the past 25 years
developed new businesses as a consultant, as CEO of a venture capital
start-up, and while working within a corporate parent. Most recently,
he founded a bootstrap start-up, Concordia Partners. Launched in
2001, Concordia markets "Women to Women's Personal Program," a natural
approach to hormonal balance. Following two years of testing and
a shift to sales through the internet, Concordia is profitable,
has a positive cash flow, and is growing rapidly. McKinnon holds
an AB from Harvard University.
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Dave Morse TU'67
David S. Morse TU'67 is managing director of
MS Capital, which operates a hedge fund. A Silicon Valley veteran,
he has, over twenty years, founded seven technology companies and
raised more than $100 million in equity. Notable companies Morse
founded include Amiga Computer, 3DO, Crystal Dynamics, and Silicon
Gaming. He has a strong track record of identifying new proprietary
technologies and developing them to profitability. Morse has a BS
in engineering from Tufts University and an MBA from Tuck School.
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Bob Molinari '74, TU'79
Bob Molinari '74, TU'79, owner of Medstars and an angel investor, specializes in biotechnology reagents, genomics, proteomics, and biopharmaceutical research companies. He is a genomics affiliate to the Institute for the Future, a Menlo Park, California-based think tank, and executive director and board member of Intrinsic Bioprobes, Inc., a mass spectrometer-based proteomics company. As co-founder, chief executive officer, and president, Molinari led Protogene Laboratories, Inc., to become the world's largest supplier of custom DNA in the mid-1990s. After Protogene was acquired by Life Technologies, Inc. (now Invitrogen), he ran a spin-off of Protogene that developed ink jet technology for custom DNA chips. Molinari has an AB and an MBA from Dartmouth College and a PhD in biophysical chemistry from Brown University.
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Tom Naughton '89, TU'96
Thomas W. Naughton '89, TU'96 is a managing
director and founder of NeoCarta Ventures, a venture capital partnership
that makes private equity investments in technology companies. Prior
to forming NeoCarta, he was vice president for GE Equity, the private
equity arm of GE and GE Capital. Naughton holds an AB in mathematics
from Dartmouth College and received an MBA from Tuck School, where
he graduated as an Edward Tuck Scholar with high distinction.
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Amanda Reed '86
Amanda Reed '86 is a partner in Palomar Ventures,
which she joined in 2001. She is one of four partners investing
in Palomar II, a $220 million early-stage venture fund focused on
the information technology market. Previously, Reed was the senior
vice president of strategy and development for LogicTier, where
she built and led the sales, business development, and marketing
teams of this internet operations services provider. As vice president
for marketing and business development at Connect, Inc., she supported
the launch of the company's first internet-based product in 1995,
a successful IPO the next year, and the restructuring of the company
to reach profitability in 1998. Reed has an AB in economics from
Dartmouth College.
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Bryan Roberts '89
Bryan Roberts '89 is a general partner of Venrock
Associates. He joined the firm in 1997 and is involved with its
activities in health care. Roberts serves on the boards of athenahealth,
Concurrent Pharmaceuticals, Microbia, Nanosys, Satiety, Sirna Therapeutics,
and Xenoport. Previous, he worked at Kidder Peabody & Co., Inc.
Roberts Bryan received an AB in chemistry from Dartmouth College
and a PhD in chemistry and chemical biology from Harvard University.
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Mark B. Stein '83
Mark B. Stein '83 is a partner in McDermott,
Will & Emery's Corporate Department in Boston. He concentrates his
practice in securities, mergers and acquisitions, and general representation
of start-ups, principally in information technology and health.
Stein is also outside general counsel to several companies in industries
such as software, computer peripherals, internet infrastructure
systems, and health information systems. He speaks regularly to
emerging and growth companies about corporate finance strategies,
corporate governance, equity-based incentive compensation, and other
issues. Previously Stein was acting executive director of the Massachusetts
Office of International Trade and Investment. He earned an AB magna
cum laude in Russian and Soviet studies from Dartmouth College and
a JD magna cum laude from Harvard Law School.
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Rob Utzschneider '79
Rob Utzschneider '79 is executive director of
Ascential Software's Field Engineering organization and sits on
the company's Operating Committee. He is also founder of Torrent
Systems, a venture-backed start-up providing parallel processing
software infrastructure. Since joining Ascential after it aquired
Torrent in 2001, he has helped grow the company's quarterly revenues
from $20 million to $65 million. Utzschneider has an AB with honors
from Dartmouth College and an MBA from the University of Chicago
Graduate School of Business Administration.
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Fred Wainwright TU'02
Fred Wainwright TU '02 is executive director
of Tuck's Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship, and teaches
MBA and executive education courses on those topics. He has more
than ten years of experience in financial services and entrepreneurship
and has written extensively on finance and strategy. Wainwright
is an investor and board member in start-ups, a fellow of the Dartmouth
Entrepreneurial Network (DEN), and executive director of the North
Country Angel Investors and the Granite State Angels. He also serves
on the editorial board of the Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance
and Business Ventures. Wainwright earned his BA in economics and
BS in engineering from Stanford University and his MBA from Tuck
School.
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David Weld '85, TU'90
David L. Weld Jr. '85 TU'90 is president and
chief executive officer of MessageGate, Inc., a messaging security
and compliance company. Previously, he was president and chief operating
officer of Loudeye Technologies, a Seattle-based media technology
and services company that acquired Alive.com, which Weld founded.
He also founded Cognisoft (later acquired by Verity, Inc.) after
a five-year tenure at Microsoft, where he was group program manager
on Windows NT and director on the Microsoft Network (MSN). Weld
also created and led the technical and production team (and came
up with the name) for Slate magazine. Before Microsoft, he worked
in finance and consulting. Weld holds an AB in computer science
and Russian from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Tuck School.
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Barbara Yanni
Barbara Yanni is vice president and chief licensing
officer of Merck & Co., Inc. Working with her scientific colleagues,
she leads the group responsible for negotiating agreements to acquire
compounds, programs, and new technologies to complement research
programs that lead to the development of new medicines. Previously,
she was the company's executive director of corporate development,
negotiating acquisitions, divestitures and other business arrangements.
She also worked in finance. Before joining Merck in 1985, she was
a tax lawyer for several years at Bristol-Myers and in private practice
in New York City. Yanni received an undergraduate degree from Wellesley
College and a JD from Stanford. She also holds a master's of law
in taxation from New York University.
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