Lean, Seen, and from Beantown – TiECON East 2013 Women’s Panel April 24, 2013
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What is common across global giants like Lockheed Martin, Guardian Life, Pepsi, IBM, Xerox, Mylan, Yahoo! and Campbell Soup? They all have female CEOs!
Women hold more power than you think. It is estimated that there are 8.1M women-owned businesses in the US generating $1.3T in revenues and employing 7.7M people. Over the last 15 years, start-up activity by women has leaped 54% and American women are opening 550 new businesses a day. Successful startups had more women in senior positions than unsuccessful ones and more than twice as many women in top jobs than their unsuccessful counterparts.
Yet, women account for just over a third of those starting new businesses. Women receive lower equity funding than men, and only 11% of investing partners at VC firms are women. Only 14% of S&P 1500 board seats are filled by women, while of the more than 1,800 directorships currently held by women, nearly 40% joined their respective boards in the last five years. Although there is a big push to drive change and recognize the impact that women managers have on an organization, we have a long way to go.
With Massachusetts electing its first female senator last year, we are proud to discuss the success of women in business as well as consider ways to increase the rate of change for the next generation of women leaders. Clearly we are celebrating the many paths to success for women.
This diverse panel features Anita Brearton (Executive Chairman, FashionPlaytes.com), Janet Kraus (CEO, Circles & Spire), and Zenobia Moochala (Co-founder, Care.com) and is moderated by Jean Hammond (Founder, LearnLaunch). These leading ladies from Boston will discuss ways to ensure that the next generation of women can fully leverage their potential and contribute to the future. Come to our Friday afternoon Women’s Keynote Panel to hear their stories, celebrate their accomplishments, and get empowered on your unique journey!
Meet Young Entrepreneur Varun Ganapathi at TiECON East 2012! May 23, 2012
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This week, TiECON East 2012: INVENT YOUR FUTURE‘s blog will feature entrepreneurs from the Youth Panel: New Breed of Entrepreneurs. This panel runs on Thursday, May 31st!
Hope you read yesterday’s post on Shakeel Avadhany, who is the President, CEO, and co-founder of Levant Power Corp.
Today, we profile Varun Ganapathi, who is currently a research scientist at Google. His focus is applications for vision.
Before Google, Varun founded Numovis, Inc., which was acquired by Google. At Numovis, Varun developed algorithms for recovering in real time the pose and shape of a human from a single depth camera. This technology was based on work Varun begun as a PhD student in Computer Science at Stanford University, under the supervision of Profs. D. Koller and S. Thrun.
Varun also co-founded EyeApps, LLC, which develops computational photography apps and is best known for Pro HDR as featured on CNET and Gizmodo.
Want to learn more about successful serial entrepreneurship? Then you should attend this panel on the night of Thursday, May 31st, 8:15 – 9:00 pm, to hear Varun share his entrepreneurship journey.
Register now for TiECON East 2012: INVENT YOUR FUTURE … the premier entrepreneurship conference in New England and participate in the future of entrepreneurship. Be inspired! Connect! Network!
Meet Our Speakers! May 2, 2012
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Check out the industry leaders who will be Keynote speakers at TiECON East 2012’s!
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Dr. Ron Breaker
Professor, Yale University and Co-fourcer of Archemix, BioRelix
Dr. Breaker is Chair of the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at Yale University where he holds a Henry Ford II Professorship.
He conducts research on the advanced functions of nucleic acids, including the discovery and analysis of novel ribozymes, deoxyribozymes and noncoding RNAs. His laboratory also studies ligand-binding RNAs called riboswitches that control gene expression in many species from all three domains of life.
Dr. Breaker also co-founded Archemix and BioRelix, which are biotechnology companies.
Carl Dietrich
CEO, CTO & Co-founder, Terrafugia
Terrafugia’s CEO/CTO, Co-Founder, Carl received his BS, MS and Ph.D. from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) shortly after being selected as the 2006 winner of the prestigious Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for Innovation.
Carl has also been recognized by the Aero/Astro Department at MIT as one of sixteen exceptional graduates under the age of 35.
He was also named as one of the Boston Business Journal’s “40 Under 40” in 2009.
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Diane Greene
Board Member, Google, Inuit, and Ex CEO & Founder, VMware
Diane Green serves on the board of Google, Intuit, the MIT Corporation, and the Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST), and she works with entrepreneurs on building companies.
She also serves as a judge for the Queen Elizabeth Prize for engineering, a global prize recognizing and celebrating outstanding advances in engineering that have changed the world.
Diane cofounded and was the CEO of VMWare (VMW) and led the company through an IPO and 7000 employees worldwide from 1998 to 2008. Diane was also the founding CEO of VXtreme, which was sold to Microsoft in 1997 as the basis for their media player.
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Sanjay Mehrotra
Founder & CEO, SanDisk
Sanjay Mehrotra is president and chief executive officer of SanDisk, effective January 2011. He was appointed to the SanDisk board of directors in July 2010, appointed president and chief operating officer in June 2006, and co-founded in 1988.
Mehrotra has more than 30 years of experience in the non-volatile semiconductor memory industry, including engineering and management positions at SanDisk, Integrated Device Technology, Inc., SEEQ Technology, Inc., Intel Corporation and Atmel Corporation.
To learn more about the Keynote speakers at visit TiECON East 2012!
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