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LES-New York Chapter Meeting - January 30, 2008

THE NEW YORK CHAPTER & THE CANADIAN CONSULATE GENERAL IN NYC

Come to our second annual joint meeting between the NY Chapter of LES and the Canadian Consulate of NY. This was our best-attended meeting last year and we are fast approaching matching those numbers this year.  It’s a great opportunity to meet and mingle with the Top 10 Biotech, Top 10 IT, and Top 10 Alternative Energy companies in Canada before and after the panel.

TOPIC:
THE CURRENT TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENT CLIMATE AND RELATED CROSS BORDER ISSUES

Moderator:
Richard J. Pinto
Chair, Venture, Technology and Entrepreneurial Services Practices of Stevens & Lee and Managing Shareholder of its Princeton Office.

Rick handles corporate governance, financings, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, licensing, and complex commercial agreements for companies in information technology, the life sciences, and a variety of other  industries. He represents both U.S. and foreign-based private equity and venture capital funds, banks and investment banks in connection with investment related transactions. He is also recognized as a mentor and facilitator of entrepreneurship, whether for new companies or for new projects within larger organizations.  Rick serves on the Boards of the New Jersey Technology Council, its IT/Software Industry Group, the New Jersey Entrepreneur's Forum, and the Business Law Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association, for which he also serves as Chair of its Life Sciences Committee and Co-Editor of its "Corporate and Business Law" newsletter.

Speakers:
Dr. Randy Giles
Director, Optical Networks
Bell Labs Fellow
Alcatel-Lucent
Bell Laboratories 

Randy has varied experience as a research manager at Bell Labs in the area of IP, with both national and international concerns.  He deals business negotiations beginning with non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) and ending in licensing agreements, Joint Development Agreements (JDAs), patents, International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and Export Administration Regulations (EAR), international pre-competitive joint research, technology flight, etc.

John McCulloch
MaRS Discovery
BUSINESS SERVICES
Venture Group Advisor 

John advises entrepreneurs and high growth companies in the life sciences sector to help them realize the commercial value of their discoveries.

Prior to joining MaRS (Medical and Related Sciences), John spent over 13 years advising life sciences investors and evaluated clinical, regulatory, intellectual property and competitive issues in a $1.0 billion life sciences investment fund. He collaborated with stakeholders from all areas of the life sciences continuum, including individual inventors, universities, hospitals, start-up biotechs, small and large pharma. John’s medical research career included studies in the UK, Canada and Japan and explored aspects of immunity in health and disease.

Joe Allegra
Partner, Edison Venture Fund

Edison is one of the largest and most visible venture firms on the east coast, with a focus on expansion stage IT/software companies. Joe is the former founder and CEO of a successful software company.

Greg Stock
CEO Signum BioSciences

Signum BioSciences is an emerging privately held biotech company. Greg is a nationally known speaker on medicine, science and technology.

DATE & TIME:
January 30, 2008
6:00 - 9:00 PM

NOTE DIFFERENT LOCATION FOR THE JANUARY MEETING!!!!

LOCATION:
The Palace Hotel
455 Madison Avenue @ 50th Street
Telephone 1-212-888-7000

SCHEDULE:
Meeting details:
6 pm – 7 pm networking
7 pm – 8 pm panel discussion with Q&A
8 pm – 9 pm more networking

REGISTRATION (Online registration closes Monday, January 28 at 5 PM – walk-ins accepted after the deadline closes depending on space – please do not wait, this event was sold out last year and we had to turn people away).

1) Register Online and pay with a credit card

LES Members and online account holders:
To register online for this event you will need your log in and password. Please click here to register.

Non LES Members:
You will need to create an account prior to registering for this event.
Please click here to create an account.

Once your account has been created proceed to registration as an online account holder.

2) Register by check:
Please mail your check to:

LES NY Chapter
1800 Diagonal Road, Suite 280
Alexandria, VA 22314

Make sure to reference which meeting the registration is for.

SPONSOR:

COST:  
Due to the generous sponsorship of the Canadian Consulate of NY, we are able to offer a significantly reduced admission to this event.

Member attendance: Panel and networking $20.00 for members pre-registration, $25.00 at the door.
Non-members are $30.00 pre-registration, $35.00 at the door.

Complete a membership application and receive a $15.00 rebate for the next meeting!

(Sorry, no charge cards at the door, we do accept corporate and personal checks, and cash.)

DIRECTIONS to The Palace Hotel.  You can easily walk from Grand Central Station at 42nd St. Or - You may take the #6 local IRT Lexington Avenue train to 51st Street and the E and V trains to the 5th Avenue or Lexington Avenue stop and walk from there (about 1 block from the 5th Avenue stop and about 4 blocks from the Lexington Avenue stop).