SVASE Event: 'VC Breakfast: Accel Partners: Focus On Enterprise Software And Services, Consumer Internet, Media, Mobile, Computing And Storage Infrastructure' May 31, 2007

SVASE Event: 'VC Breakfast: Accel Partners: Focus On Enterprise Software And Services, Consumer Internet, Media, Mobile, Computing And Storage Infrastructure'

Event: 'VC Breakfast: Accel Partners: Focus On Enterprise Software And Services, Consumer Internet, Media, Mobile, Computing And Storage Infrastructure'

Date: Thursday, May 31, 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=928

VC Breakfast: Accel Partners: Focus on Enterprise Software and Services, Consumer Internet, Media, Mobile, Computing and Storage Infrastructure

The featured VC will be Richard Wong, Venture Partner, Accel Partners. www.accel.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.

Accel Partners

For over 25 years, Accel and its entrepreneurs have shared a common vision: be first. First to see the opportunity, first to define a category, and first to transform the industry.

We partner with entrepreneurs around the world who have unique, breakthrough ideas and the courage to be first.

Accel Partners is a venture capital firm that has been dedicated for over 25 years to supporting entrepreneurs who possess the unique insight to define new categories and build world-class technology companies. These entrepreneurs have led fundamental industry transformations rather than followed predefined market trends. Accel deeply shares our entrepreneur's passion for fundamental uniqueness and their courage to be first.

This emphasis on leadership has engendered category defining companies that have reshaped their industries and in many cases created entirely new sectors. Accel-backed companies have sparked many of the most significant revolutions in technology businesses, such as: Veritas Software, RealNetworks, UUNet, Macromedia, PictureTel, Foundry Networks, Walmart.com, and many others.

Accel's relationship with the entrepreneur is grounded in a shared commitment to success, patience, and a common culture driven by the entrepreneur. In support of every entrepreneur and portfolio executive is a cohesive Accel team rich in both operating and investing experience with a personal empathy for the entrepreneurial process-with all of its challenges and rewards. Indeed, a major source of our inspiration is working intimately with entrepreneurs who possess the character and ambition needed to be first in building world-class technology companies.

Richard Wong

Richard joined Accel in 2006, with a focus on mobile and broadband services software, as well as messaging and security applications. Rich currently serves on the board of AdMob, the leading mobile advertising company, and Sana Security. Through pre-Accel associations, Rich also serves as a board advisor to Plaxo, Simplicita, and 4thMedia. Some of Rich’s writing on key trends in the mobile industry can be found here.

Prior to Accel, Rich was SVP/GM of Products at Openwave. In this capacity, Rich launched several of OPWV’s most successful new products such as the Edge security gateway (anti-abuse), integrated messaging, and location-based services. Rich was previously GM of Messaging Products, growing the business from $50MM to $180MM from 2003 to 2005, and Chief Marketing Officer from 2001 to 2003.

While at Openwave, Rich founded and chaired the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group, a consortium of ISPs and technology providers working together to combat internet abuse.

Previously Rich was the Chief Marketing Officer and EVP/GM of Value-Added Services at Covad Communications, the DSL provider. During his time Covad revenue grew from $5MM to $250MM. Preceding Covad, he was a management consultant for McKinsey & Company, focusing on software and consumer technology. Rich started his career as a Brand Manager at Procter & Gamble

Mr. Wong holds a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received his MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Rich remains active as an EVP of the MIT Club of Northern California, Board Member of the MIT CNC - Entrepreneurship Program, and the CTIA Wireless Internet Caucus.

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

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=928