SVASE Event: 'VC Breakfast: New Enterprise Associates: Focus On Software And Services, Life Sciences, Medical Devices, Health Care And Information Technology' May 10, 2007

SVASE Event: 'VC Breakfast: New Enterprise Associates: Focus On Software And Services, Life Sciences, Medical Devices, Health Care And Information Technology'

Event: 'VC Breakfast: New Enterprise Associates: Focus On Software And Services, Life Sciences, Medical Devices, Health Care And Information Technology'

Date: Thursday, May 10, 2007 At 08:00
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Minutes
Contact Info:
CONTACT: VCBC Chair: Jai Kumar, contact no. - 408-406-4693 Email: [email protected]
URL: svase.org/index.php?option=com_extcalendar&Itemid=149&extmode=view&extid=913

VC Breakfast: New Enterprise Associates: Focus on Software and Services, Life Sciences, Medical Devices, Health Care and Information Technology

The featured VC will be Forrest Baskett, General Partner, New Enterprise Associates. www.nea.com

EVENT LOCATION: Greenberg Traurig, 1900 University Avenue, 5th Floor, East Palo Alto, CA 94303

This event is co-sponsored by Greenberg Traurig LLP. www.gtlaw.com.

New Enterprise Associates

NEA has been helping to build great companies since 1978. Our committed capital has grown to approximately $8.5 billion and we’ve funded over 500 companies in the IT and Healthcare sectors. Yet, even as we’ve grown, we’ve remained nimble—able to respond quickly to shifting markets and emerging opportunities.

NEA believes in:

* Supporting entrepreneurs—whose ideas and enthusiasm are the raw materials of success.
* Investing with ethics and respect—whose rewards cannot be bought at any price.
* Team performance —because common purpose leads to superior results.

NEA excels at helping to create great companies. That success, in turn, has helped us attract new generations of talented entrepreneurs as they seek funding for the ideas that will shape tomorrow.

Our track record speaks for itself. NEA has:

* Ranked consistently among the top firms in portfolio IPOs every year.
* Backed over 150 companies that have gone public.
* Invested in more than 200 NEA portfolio companies that have been successfully merged or acquired.

NEA is a strong supporter of the Kaufman Fellows program which trains future venture investors and leaders of great companies. We have mentored 5 fellows since the founding of the program in 1995.

Forrest Baskett

Forest joined NEA in 1999 as a Venture Partner and became a General Partner in 2004. Forest focuses on information technology investments. Present board memberships include Aeluros, Aprius, Arch Rock, Atheros Communications (NASDAQ: ATHR), Audience, Catalytic, Chelsio Communications, Foveon, Fulcrum Microsystems, Luxtera, Rinera Networks, SiBEAM and T-RAM Semiconductor. He also serves as an advisor to Cassatt, Data Domain, SiTime, Tableau Software and Telegent Systems. Previous board memberships include, among others, E2O, Nanochip, Newisys and RingCube Technologies. Forest also previously held an advisory position with FineGround, PolyServe, ReShape and SMIC. Prior to NEA, Forest was Senior Vice President of R&D and Chief Technology Officer of Silicon Graphics Inc. He founded and directed the Western Research Laboratory of Digital Equipment Corporation from 1982 to 1986 before joining SGI. Prior to that, he was a Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University from 1971 to 1982. He also spent two years at Los Alamos National Laboratory building an operating system for the original Cray-1 computer and a year and a half at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center as a Principal Scientist doing VLSI research. At Stanford, he worked with Andy Bechtolsheim on the SUN workstation project, with Jim Clark on the Geometry Engine project, and with John Hennessy on the MIPS microprocessor project. Dr. Baskett received a BA in Mathematics from Rice University, a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

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

This event is co-sponsored by Greenberg Traurig LLP. www.gtlaw.com.

CONTACT: VCBC Chair: Jai Kumar, contact no. - 408-406-4693

LOCATION: Greenberg Traurig, 1900 University Avenue, 5th Floor, East Palo Alto, CA 94303

Official Website: http://svase.org/index.php?option=com_extcalendar&Itemid=149&extmode=view&extid=913