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Seminar: Morgan Dene Oliver - CEO OliverMcMillan

Today’s speaker was Morgan Dene Oliver who is a CEO of OliverMcMillan, a real estate development and management firm. While his projector was getting fixed, he started by doing some show-of-hands about who in the audience:
1. believes “Art and Design” are essential for their future success ? (Many hands went up)
2. believes they are left [...]

Posted 02 November 2007 † amit § Investment ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Seminar: Leo Spiegel - Mission Ventures

This was the first professional seminar. Leo Spiegel is a managing partner with Mission Ventures, a hi-tech venture capital firm. Leo has been a president of Digital Island, CEO of Sandpiper Networks. He is also a member of Dean’s advisory Council of Rady School of Management, UCSD.
This was an interesting and engaging presentation about [...]

Posted 01 November 2007 † amit § Investment § entrepreneurship ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Seminar: John Mutch - MV Advisors

John Mutch has been a CEO of HNC software and was appointed the CEO of Peregrine Systems by Federal Bankruptcy court. He took Peregrine Systems from bankruptcy condition to the price tag of $425 millions (HP was the buyer). Since then he started a MV Advisors, an “Activist hedge fund”.
What is an Activist Hedge Fund [...]

Posted 01 November 2007 † amit § Investment ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,