SVASE Event: 'VC Breakfast: Adams Capital Management: Focus On Electronics, Optics, Semiconductors, Networking, And Telecommunications' May 11, 2006

SVASE Event: 'VC Breakfast: Adams Capital Management: Focus On Electronics, Optics, Semiconductors, Networking, And Telecommunications'

Event: 'VC Breakfast: Adams Capital Management: Focus On Electronics, Optics, Semiconductors, Networking, And Telecommunications'

Date: Thursday, May 11, 2006 At 08:00
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Minutes
Contact Info:
VCBC Chair: Jai Kumar, contact no. - 408-406-4693 Email: [email protected]
URL: www.svase.org/index.php?option=com_extcalendar&Itemid=149&extmode=view&extid=363

The featured VC will be George Ugras, General Partner, Adams Capital Management. acm.com/

EVENT LOCATION: Law Offices of O'Melveny & Myers, 2765 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025

This event is co-sponsored by O'Melveny & Myers LLP www.omm.com.

Adams Capital Management
Established in 1994, Adams Capital Management is a national venture capital firm noted for its domain expertise in disruptive technologies in the Information Technology and Telecommunications/Semiconductors industries.

ACM is a lead and active investor, deploying a market-centric investment strategy to invest in emerging growth companies, whose value propositions are clearly driven by economics, and are likely to define and dominate their product categories.

Strong technology and market diligence conducted directly by our five general partners in advance of investing in a particular transaction, has earned us the reputation of value investors in our particular fields.

As active, lead investors with $700 million currently under management, we support emerging market leaders in billion dollar industries and help them navigate through their formative stages. We do this by disciplined execution of our five-step structured navigation system. This is how we assist in building value for the businesses and the entrepreneurs, and generate returns for our limited partners.

The domain expertise of our five general partners, which includes: optical networking, wireless communications and semiconductors in the telecommunications industry; and enterprise software solutions for operating support, supply chain management, back-office automation and real time manufacturing software in the information technology (IT) industry, has enabled us to generate and lead more than 90% of our deals.

Our five general partners have over 125 years of combined experience in the key skill positions of start-up companies and public corporations, including: product development, marketing, engineering, business development and senior management positions in direct applied-technology companies, as well as over 40 years of direct venture investing experience.

As early stage investors, we recognize that entrepreneurs often need additional support to get their technology-based businesses up and running. Our ACM Services Group and Entrepreneur Extranet provide critical resources to our entrepreneurs.

George Ugras
George joined Adams Capital Management in 1999 as a General Partner, after spending a year as an investment professional at Apax Partners, a private equity firm in New York. Prior to joining Apax Partners, George spent four years as a Management Consultant at McKinsey & Co. in New York, working closely with clients in the telecommunications and media industries, on strategic and operational issues. George makes investments in and works with portfolio companies in the telecommunications, networking, and semiconductor industries.

George holds current board seats on Touchdown Technologies, Inc., Lovoltech, Inc., NextIO, Inc., Optellios, Inc., and DATAllegro, Inc.

Prior to McKinsey, George worked as a Research Fellow, Physics, in California Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. with honors, Applied Physics, from Yale University, and B.S., Engineering Physics, from Fairleigh Dickinson University.

COST: $25 SVASE Members; $39 Affiliates; $49 Non-members. This event is for ENTREPRENEURS ONLY, BY PREREGISTRATION ONLY.

This event is co-sponsored by O'Melveny & Myers LLP www.omm.com.

CONTACT: VCBC Chair: Jai Kumar, contact no. - 408-406-4693
LOCATION:Law Offices of O'Melveny & Myers, 2765 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025

Official Website: http://www.svase.org/index.php?option=com_extcalendar&Itemid=149&extmode=view&extid=363