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Meeting Location:
Emerging Enterprise Center at
Foley Hoag the Bay Colony Corporate Center
1000 Winter Street, Suite 4000 (North Entrance)
Waltham, MAMeeting Time: 6:30 - 9:30 pm
Meeting Cost:
$25 public, $10 students
and active military; Promotional Registrations
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
6:30 - 9:30 PM
Location: Emerging Center at Foley Hoag the Bay Colony Corporate Center, Waltham, MADUE TO WEATHER CONDITIONS, THE JANUARY 18TH MEETING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. We will reschedule on a late date.
Communications - Intersections of Smart-Phone/Netbook/Laptop/Desktop Web Services
The changing communications landscape is driven in large part by the proliferation of multiple platforms for delivery of web services. These platforms are as frequently compatible as they are competitive, and are evolving so quickly that web service developers/providers must operate in a state of high alert for new paradigms/emerging standards. Further, new mobile delivery platforms are frequently challenged to deliver enterprise-scale performance over a wireless infrastructure that can barely handle more modest consumer-level requirements. Also, and depending on your position, the legislative environment and recent FCC decisions re. net neutrality have either simplified or complicated all of the above.
The January 18th EntreTech Forum panel discussion will take on these issues and explore them in an engaging and street-wise manner that delivers real-world understanding to the audience. Our panelists are drawn from locally-based leaders in the various worlds of telecom innovation, web analytics, and mobile app development.
Moderator:
Richard D. Lane President – Blue Danube Labs and Entrepreneurial Ventures; Angel Investor – Walnut Venture AssociatesPanelists:
Michael Kuperstein – Co-founder & CTO – Mobiflex, Inc.
Ryder Daniels – President – Capsaicin LLC
Paul Berman – Founder – Tortuga 22, Inc.Meeting Organizers:
Andrew Fairbairn – Managing Principal – Fairbairn Ventures
Larry Grumer – Managing Director – TAA Corp.
Moderator:
Richard D. Lane
Entrepreneurial Ventures and Blue Danube Labs – PresidentAs a mobile technology professional, serial entrepreneur and angel investor, Rich has spent the better part of the past 25 years building companies — primarily in mobile technologies — and maximizing shareholder value in those companies. Currently Richard is an Advisor to Red Pagoda Networks, AWare Technologies and is involved in a number of other start-ups with relevance to the mobile tech sector. In 2008 he merged Airpath Wireless (which he joined as CEO a little over a year earlier) into Aptilo Networks.
Before Airpath Richard had started Jitterbug by GreatCall, a cellular phone solution targeted at the boomer market. Rich specializes in launching early stage companies/business units as well as taking over troubled/stalled companies and repositioning them in the marketplace. In addition, as a senior team member for the planning and launch of several cellular service providers, his sales, marketing and distribution channel background contributed to the early success in bringing innovative telecommunications/technology products to market.
Rich holds an M.B.A. and B.S. from the Wharton School.Panel:
Ryder Daniels
President/CEO – Capsaicin LLC
http://www.capsaicin-llc.com/site
Ryder Daniels - Founder/CEO – Capsaicin LLC
As CEO of Capsaicin, Ryder Daniels is focused on delivering world-class cross-channel marketing analytics to CMOs at major F500 clients via a configurable SaaS business model. Capsaicin’s team partners with marketing agencies to deliver configuration services, and then offers service and support directly and/or through the marketing agency channel.
Ryder has built his career in software & product architecture and development, business intelligence, and shared services operations across multiple industries. Ryder was previously co-founder and Head of Solutions at JVKellyGroup, Inc., a New York-based consulting, outsourcing and software development firm. Capsaicin is a spin out of JVKellyGroup, which was sold to D&B Corp in 2009. Prior to JVKellyGroup, Ryder has held leadership positions at Nextera and Citigroup.
Ryder graduated with honors from Washington College and received the Clark-Porter Medal for Leadership.
Michael Kuperstein
Founder & CTO – Mobiflex
http://mobiflexinc.comMichael was voted as one of the top ten most influential leaders in e-commerce in 2001 by the Mass eComm Association. Michael got his Ph.D. from MIT, and has 12 patents issued and pending. He has more than 25 years experience in academics, technology and entrepreneurship.
MobiFlex provides an online service to create and deploy native mobile apps without coding at 1/10 the cost and 1/10 the time of custom development shops. The service works across the major smartphones, iPads and tablets.
Prior to MobiFlex, Michael Founded and was CEO of Metaphor Solutions, online service to create and deploy packaged Voice Response solutions. In 1999, Michael founded eTrue, a biometric company that authenticates people for computer network access using fingerprints and/or face images. While there, he got several patents for his face recognition inventions. eTrue was sold to Viisage (Nasdaq: VISG) in 2002. Before that, he founded Symbus Technology, Inc., which developed software for automated data entry. In 1993, Symbus merged into Captiva Software Corp and became the global leader in information capture. It was acquired by EMC in 2005 for $245M.
Michael has published over 25 journal articles and invented the world's first neural network robot in 1987 that learns from its own experience and co-authored a book on how the brain achieves motor coordination in 1988.
Paul Berman
Founder & CEO – Tortuga 22, Inc.
http://www.tortuga22.com
Paul Berman – Tortuga 22 – Founder and CEO (www.tortuga22.com and www.screenchalk.com)Paul is Founder and CEO at Tortuga 22, Inc., which is the developer of ScreenChalk -- a simple application for video telestration -- and iOS consulting with an emphasis on UX and video capabilities.
Before Tortuga 22, Paul spent several years at the social-networking startup Sconex, LLC, which was acquired by Alloy Media + Marketing, Inc.
Paul earned his A.B. in Mathematics from Harvard University.
Meeting Organizers:
Andrew Fairbairn – Fairbairn Ventures – Managing Principal
http://fairbairnventures.comAndrew is a Cambridge-based investor, entrepreneur and advisor who partners with driven entrepreneurs to rapidly prove out value propositions and to build solid businesses. He has worked with many executive teams over the course of his career to launch, build, expand, transition and/or retool their businesses.
Prior to establishing Fairbairn Ventures, Andrew was a founding partner of JVKellyGroup, Inc. (JVKG), a New York-based management consulting, performance management and software development firm recently sold to D&B. He has also served as Vice President of Deutsche Bank, focused on corporate venturing in financial technology companies and strategic planning roles in New York and London. Andrew began his career with UBS Securities in New York, where he worked on global networking and telecommunications industry financings, across a range of geographies and investment banking product disciplines.
Andrew earned his B.A. in Economics and M.A. in International Development Policy from Stanford University.
Lawrence C. Grumer – Managing Director – TAA Corp., iVEST, LLC
(http://www.taacorp.com/, http://ivest.us)
Larry is an expert in the commercialization of technology. He has partnered to launch ten companies, across wireless internet, web 3.0, mobile power sources, propulsion systems, software defined test and measurement, corporate marketing, and a 30-person engineering consultancy. He is a Phase 2 proposal Grant Reviewer for the National Science Foundation.TAA is the management advisory and investment firm Larry formed in 1994 that commercializes and capitalizes technology for early-stage technology ventures and corporate spin-outs. He is Managing Partner of iVEST Partners LLC providing corporate development, finance advisory and investment banking affiliation. Larry is Chairman of the EntreTech Forum and Chairman Emeritus of the Boston Entrepreneur’s Network and. He has held management positions at Arthur D. Little, Textron and Foster-Miller, led a US-CDN joint venture and managed business restarts, turnarounds and restructures. Larry received a BSME and an MBA from Northeastern University. He has held a Top Secret clearance.
