150 East San Fernando Street.
San Jose, California 95112

On Tuesday, March 7, 2006, corporate and community leader Dr. Richard Levy, Ph.D., President and CEO, Varian Medical Systems will speak on ?Leading a High-Tech Company?. The presentation will be held from 6:15 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. at Martin Luther King Library (150 East San Fernando Street, San Jose 95112) in room 225. This event is co-sponsored by Business Graduate Programs and the Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship

Dr. Levy will give insights and analysis of Varian Medical Systems? great success since its spin-off from Varian Associates. He will discuss strategy, decision making and issues related to succeeding in the changing global marketplace.

Varian Medical Systems has $1.4 billion in assets and provides high energy radiation machines and associated hardware and software for treating cancer, and x-ray tubes for diagnostic radiology. With over 4,300 radiotherapy systems in place delivering treatments to more than 1 million cancer patients per year, the company holds a clear leadership position in this technology which is used to treat over 50% of all cancer patients in the United States. Varian Medical Systems also ranks as the world?s largest merchant supplier of X-ray tubes, including products for use in CT scanners, mammography units, and other diagnostic systems.

Added by sjsu-cob on February 17, 2006