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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, November 15, 2011
6:30 - 9:30 PM
Location: Emerging Center at Foley Hoag the Bay Colony Corporate Center, Waltham, MACyber Security - Risks and Rewards for New Venture Launch
Are you launching a new business in cyber security and looking for insights on successful strategy, fund raising and trends to grow your business. Perhaps you need to better understand cyber security risks in order to protect and grow your business? Whether you are starting a business or you’re an entrepreneur in cyber security, you need to have effective strategies, an understanding of growing trends and financing methods to succeed in the internet marketplace.
Assessing the risks and opportunities is critical to any business so you can best deploy appropriate strategies for raising business capital, avoid missing profitable opportunities, prevent a serious business disruption, or halt theft of critical intellectual property due to Cyber Crime. What strategies are effective in starting-growing a business in cyber security and how can you successfully capitalize on this? What are the risks to start-ups from cyber threats that can prevent a successful launch? How do you keep security costs low and effectiveness high? What are the new technologies and growth areas on the horizon? Does your business need to gain a better picture of growing cyber threat trends or the needs of potential customers?
In the next EntreTech Forum, cyber security industry insiders we will investigate two directions for the audience; cyber security threats and business insights to help raise money and build successful business and growth strategies. We will open up the floor for an interactive discussion with our panelists and audience. We welcome startups in all fields to join us. The forum’s panel will draw from leaders in industry, academic and government fields. The panel’s goal is to help startups and businesses in cyber security better understand, utilize and leverage the panelist’s experience in launching businesses, identifying major changes in technology and protecting businesses. Please join us for what will be an informative and interactive discussion.
Panel:
Terry B. Anderton
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Trunity, Inc.Mr. Anderton serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Change Dynamics, Inc. He spearheads Change Dynamics's strategic direction and corporate operations, overseeing engineering, sales, marketing, and finance functions. Prior to joining Change Dynamics, he co-founded NitroSecurity, where he served as President and Chief Executive Officer. He was the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Vynamic. He served as Global Enterprise Director of Network Associates/McAfee. He served as Director of Global Sales at Cabletron Systems. He was a co-founder of the National Survival Game - the inventors of the game of Paintball and served as its Vice President of sales. Prior to NitroSecurity, Mr. Anderton held senior leadership roles with NMI, a security consultancy. He has 15+ years of high technology leadership experience working with small and large companies. Over his professional career, he has raised more than $30M in venture capital financing, built strong sales and marketing teams, and developed companies from start-up through expansion stage. Mr. Anderton holds a B.S. degree in Organizational Behavior from Daniel Webster College.
Richard Pietravalle
Principal, MITRE CorporationRichard Pietravalle is a Principal at MITRE corporation (www.mitre.org ) in the Center for Integrated Intelligence Systems. He has been a project manager and consultant for applications in defense and civilian agencies, the intelligence community, and homeland security, including technologies for computer network defense, information protection, and tamper resistance. He serves as MITRE’s representative to the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection (www.thei3p.org). Richard also has over twenty years experience in the private sector in the USA and Europe including information science, security, networking, personal computers, and systems management technologies.
Peter Ross
Management Consultant,
Managing Director at Mass Tech Partners and Board Member at the Green Data Center AllianceAs a senior manager in Information Technology, Peter has extensive experience in Information Technology, security planning, and risk assessment. Peter specializes in Strategic IT planning, large scale project management, deployment, network and systems stability and is a holder of secret clearance. He’s led implementations of technologies such as: ArcSight, CyberArk, RSA SecureID, Computer Associates RCM/IDM, Tripwire, Cisco IronPort(Email & Web), EnCase, Symantec and InfoBlox. Peter is an active member of FBI InfraGard and a member of the Boston Society for Information Management.
Peter has previously served as Vice President of Information Technology & HIPAA Privacy Officer at Sentinel Benefits & Financial Group, EVP & CIO & Compliance Officer at BME Gateway, VP of IT (CIO) at Vedior North America.
He received a Bachelors of Science degree in Engineering Technology at Northeastern University and is currently pursuing an Executive Management Certificate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School of Management
Moderator:
Frederic Bowne is the Founder and Managing Principle of Perpetuation, LLC a Management Consulting and Investment Company (est. 2007). Fred has over 20 of years experience in Financial Service Information Technology and private investing. Other market segments he has served include government administration and finance, and non-profit. Perpetuation helps startups and growth companies with organization, planning and strategy in business development and information technology. The company actively manages a private fund that invests in technology and other markets. Fred also works with market risk analysis, technology research, project management, business continuity, cyber security and disaster relief.
