BOSTON UNIVERSITY

TECHNOLOGYENTREPRENEURSHIPNIGHT 2009

The Boston University Technology Entrepreneurship Night (TEN) is an event which brings together students from the college of engi-neering and the school of management to understand and think constructively about building businesses around the ongoing cutting edge research happening at Boston University.

The event is run entirely by the Student Association of Graduate Engineers (SAGE) and the School of Management's (SMG) Entre-preneurs Club . The TEN has been very successful in the past and is being held for the seventh consecutive year.

The TEN includes a number of panel discussions on various techni-cal topics to help students recognize and understand needs and requirements of product markets. The panels are comprised of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, attorneys, and other profession-als and will discuss issues associated with developing products and applying technology to solve problems in particular markets. Addi-tionally, panelists will share some of their experiences as entrepre-neurs. The panel discussions are the perfect place for budding entrepreneurs to learn and ask questions of people who have already successfully taken technology to the marketplace.

Following the panel discussions, students have the opportunity to meet, talk, and network with panelists at a sit-down dinner.

About TEN 2009Technology Entrepreneurship Night ’09

Event Detail 2

Energy Panel 3

Information Technology Panel 5

Optical Technologies Panel 7

Start Your Own Company 9

Sponsors 11

Credits 12

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Registration and Networking 5:15 - 5:45 pm Atrium

Panel Discussion 6:00 - 7:30 pm

Start Your Own Company Room 208

Optical Technology Room 220

Energy Panel Room 222

IT Panel Room 224

Networking within Panel 7:30 - 7:45 pm

Dinner 8:00 - 9:30 pm 4th Floor Conference Room

Event Detail

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Energy

Nitin R. JoglekarModeratorAssociate Professor of Operations and Technol-ogy ManagementBoston University School of Management

In addition to his role as sector leader, Dr. Joglekar is an associate professor of operations and technology management at the School of Management. His interests span distributed product innovation and technology commercialization/valuation challenges at established and entrepreneurial firms: assessment of business models and market opportunities/risks; project, portfolio and pipeline management; organi-zational learning and innovation leadership; technology adoption and unintended consequences of opportunistic behaviors from a systems thinking perspective.

He is an associate editor of Management Science and senior editor of Production & Operations Management. Dr. Joglekar holds a BA from Indian Institute of Technology, an MA in engineering from MIT and Memorial University (Canada), and a PhD in management science from the MIT Sloan School.

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markets, poses a multitude of problems; high price volatility, supplies that are concentrated in just a few countries, links to environmental damage, and the simple fact that sooner or later, every oil well runs dry. However, the stage is set for us to redesign the way our world gets its energy. In this panel, we will be surveying the renewable energy landscape to see where the technology is at now, what lies further down the road, and what unique challenges face the entrepreneur venturing into clean technology.

Steve KropperPanelistCEOWindPole Ventures

After graduating from Boston University in 1979, Steve Kropper began his career as ‘Energy Czar’ at Boston City Hospital. He lead leading energy saving O&M and capital programs for three hospitals. Next was energy management at Boston City Hall, followed by commercial energy consulting. After super-insulating his triple-decker home, worldwide oil prices tumbled to $11/barrel, and he decamped to Cornell University to earn his MBA.

In 2008, Steve was selected as one of the twelve Founding Fellows of the New England Clean Energy Council. Today, he serves as CEO of WindPole Ventures, a wind power develop-ment and analytics firm repurposing ATT’s national network of 1,150 microwave relay tower sites.

Daniel Schnitzer Panelist Energy AnalystKEMACo-Founder and Co-DirectorInterIntel

Daniel Schnitzer is an Energy Analyst at KEMA and Co-Founder and Co-Director of InterIntel, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. At KEMA, an energy consulting firm, Mr. Schnitzer focuses on demand-side management and renewable energy policy, engineering, and system analysis. He has been an employee of KEMA since August of 2007.

InterIntel is an innovative non-profit organization which aims to redress inequity amongst the world's poor by improving energy services and environmental management. The organization was founded on the premise that social, economic and political development are intrinsi-cally tied to energy and the environment in often complex ways. Therefore, only an integrated solution is capable of truly promoting sustainable development. As Co-Founder and Co-Director, Dan cultivates relationships with communities and partner organizations, designs methodologies for project development, and manages project implementation.

In June 2007, Dan received his Bachelors degree from the University of Chicago, where he triple-majored in Physics, Economics and Environmental Studies. As an undergraduate, he was heavily involved with designing University sustainability policy. His senior thesis paper, "A Link Without a Chain: Assessing the Proposed Return to Repro-cessing in the United States Global Nuclear Energy Partnership" is on spent nuclear fuel policy in the US. He presently lives in Boston, MA.

Christopher R. SauerPanelistPresident & Chief Executive O�cer Ocean Renewable Power Company

Mr. Sauer is President, Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Ocean Renewable Power Company, LLC and has the ultimate day-to-day responsibility for management of the company. He has a wealth of experience (over 30 years) in the formation and management of startup energy and environmental technology companies, development, permitting and financing of power generation projects, and engineering and construction of major industrial projects. Companies that he has held a leader-ship role in include Mazyck Technology Solutions, LLC, Sauer Strategies, Precision Lighting Company, PG&E National Energy Group, and Wheelabrator Technologies. Prior to Wheelabrator Technologies, Mr. Sauer had spent ten years in the structural design, engineering, project engineering and project management of major energy and transportation facility projects in the U.S.

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Jonathan AbePanelist Vice President in Chargeof Business DevelopmentNexamp

Jon Abe joined Nexamp as vice president in charge of business development in 2008.

Prior to joining Nexamp, Jon managed Commonwealth Solar and the Small Renewables and Large Onsite Renewables Initiatives at the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MTC). He also worked as a senior consultant at KEMA and XENERGY. Jon is a director of the Boston Area Solar Energy Association.

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Information Technology

Pete BuletzaPanelistCo-founderCoBu Technology

Mr. Buletza is a Co-founder of CoBu Technology, a Cambridge-based software consulting company providing technical services including mobile and desktop application development, server architecture and design, performance engineering, and agile process implementation, in the greater New England area. Mr. Buletza got his start working for Intuit, before moving to Boston and entering the world of startups. He has spent the last 10 years architecting, building, and managing the teams that provided the technology which made the entrepreneurs'vision a reality. His focus the past 5 years has been solving end-to-end business problems involving mobile devices; he's excited to see the ease with which new ideas are conceived and delivered courtesy of the iPhone and App Store. Mr. Buletza holds a BA in ComputerScience from Harvard University. He currently lives in Davis Sq. with his wife and three children.

Eric CarlstromModeratorMBA BU

Eric Carlstrom comes from the Internet startup world, right here in Boston. After he earned his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from R.I.T., he moved to Boston in 2000.

He has worked for a handful of software startups mostly in the music and gaming industries. In 2004, he co-founded MICS, Inc, a company that provided a hardware and software solution for on-demand inven-tory control in the music retail environment.

His interests remain in Internet startups, with a particular affection for disrupting existing industries with new technology. He is enrolled in the full-time MBA program at Boston University focusing on General Management and Entrepreneurship.

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t ’09 Recent advances in IT make it cheaper and easier than ever before to

start some types of companies. There exists both the opportunity to fulfill this demand as well as the opportunity to leverage these new tools and services for your own company. This panel will discuss how this erosion of a traditional barrier to entry figures into their business

Tim EhrlichPanelistGunderson Dettmer

Tim is a partner heading up the Intellectual Property and Corporate Partnering Group in Gunderson Dettmer's Boston office. He has extensive experience assisting clients in the information technology, biotech and medical device industries in developing, acquiring, licensing and commercializing intellectual property, products and technology. Prior to joining the firm Tim worked for Latham and Watkins, LLP in Silicon Valley where he had a very similar type of practice. He was also previously a corporate counsel for Cisco Systems, Inc. where he was responsible for negotiating, drafting and closing numerous large, strategic sales and licensing transactions for the company and for representing it in all matters related to US and foreign wiretapping laws. Prior to joining Cisco, Tim served as a law clerk to the Honorable Thomas Penfield Jackson of the United States District Court in Washington, D.C. where he was primarily respon-sible for the case of US v. Microsoft.

Prasad ThammineniPanelist CEOPixily

Prasad Thammineni is a serial entrepreneur and founder of four ventures. His latest venture, Pixily, helps professionals, home offices and small businesses go paperless and access them online anywhere, anytime. It short, it is an on-demand document management service for PAPER and digital documents. Prior to Pixily, Prasad founded jPeople, a well-regarded, high-end consulting firm in Boston; Indolis.com, a B2B trading hub connecting enterprise, portals and Intranets; Webelong.com, a social network and Launchpad, a dockable application launcher for Windows 95 that sold thousands of copies around the world.

Prasad graduated with an MBA from The Wharton School and won the prestigious Joseph P. Wharton Award for Leadership and Innovation. Prasad is also a graduate of the BITS, Pilani, India with dual degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science.

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Raj AggarwalPanelistCo-founder, CEOLocalytics

Raj spent 5 years in management consulting, most recently with Bain & Company. His primary focus was the wireless space and in this capacity he helped build some of the world’s most successful wireless companies. Before consulting, Raj completed his MBA with Honors from the Ivey School of Business and London Business School. Prior to this he managed the Pre-Sales Engineering group for an enterprise software provider in Colorado. Raj’s career began in robotics, where he eventually ran the sales and marketing department of a Toronto-based manufacturer.

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Optical Technologies

George AbePanelistCEOCambridge Research & Instrumentation

George Abe has been President and CEO of Cambridge Research and Instrumentation (CRi) since 2003, previously serving as Vice President of Marketing and Development. He has led the successful transformation of the company from an optical technology provider into an innovative biomedical imaging solutions company.

Before joining CRi, Mr. Abe held senior management positions in a variety of high technology businesses over a span of fifteen years; including Vice President positions in Strategy, Development, and Marketing with Genuity (formerly GTE), and also with Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN Corporation), a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based high technology innovator.

Cli� RobinsonModeratorBU OTDBoston University

Dr. Robinson has more than 25 years of senior level operational experience in technology commercialization and business develop-ment gained at four major Fortune 500 companies and from working with numerous, early stage, venture capital funded companies. His experience spans the semiconductor, computer, defense, chemical engineering and photonics industries. He has provided consulting for the governments of France, Canada, U.K., private industry, venture capital and served the National Science Foundation to select universities for federal funding. He is an invited participant and advisor in the angel investment community and is a member of the Board of Directors of Barr Associates. He has incubated more than fifteen companies including FiberGrade, acquired by Agilent in 2006, and Solx, acquired by Occulogix in 2006. Dr. Robinson has a Ph.D. in physics from Cambridge University, U.K., and an MBA from Boston University.

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Its applications have already revolutionized areas ranging from medi-cine to metallurgy, from data storage to detecting Improvised Explo-sive Devices (IEDs). The panel will discuss how exponential growth in optical technologies provides new opportunities in both mature and upcoming industries.

Barry Unger PanelistProfessor at BU METFounder of Kurzweil Computer

SB, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Alfred P. Sloan School of Management); EdD, Harvard University.

An accomplished expert on high technology and venture capital businesses, Dr. Unger has founded and participated in numerous companies, including Kurzweil Computer Products, Inc., which became Xerox Imaging Systems. He is a member of Boston University’s Faculty of Photonics, and co-founder and chair emeritus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technol-ogy Enterprise Forum. Unger served in President Carter’s administration as senior advisor on science and technology, and is recipient of the Vincent A. Fulmer Lifetime Achievement Award at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Ralph FaberPanelistCEOVacuum Process Tech

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Ralph Faber is the CEO of Vacuum Process Tech. Since 1991, VPT has specialized in providing cost-effective vacuum equipment and process solutions to our customer’s require-ments. VPT has supported a wide range of markets and coating applications worldwide and has built a reputation as a world-class supplier of Optical Coating Systems and Custom Vacuum Equipment.

Bunmi AdekoriPanelistCTOLumenz

Bunmi Adekori is the CTO of Lumenz, a leading developer and manufacturer of specialized fiber optic illumination products and optical communication components. Lumenz Technology provides innovative and intelligent solutions for individual applications and OEM customers.

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Start Your Own Company

Pete RussoPanelistBU SMGModerator

Mr. Russo is an Executive-in-Residence who teaches Entrepreneur-ship and Strategy at the Boston University School of Management. He is the Director of Entrepreneurship Programs for the Institute for Technology Entrepreneurship & Commercialization (ITEC). Peter teaches courses at the MBA, Executive and Undergraduate level, is responsible for the School's Entrepreneurship curriculum (both degree and non-degree) and serves as faculty advisor to the students concen-trating in Entrepreneurship at the Graduate and Undergraduate level. Prior to joining the faculty at BU, Peter served as the CEO of Data Instruments, (currently Honeywell Data Instruments). He currently serves on the Boards of Advisors and/or Boards of Directors for a number of commercial and not-for-profit organizations and has a BS in accounting and an MBA from Harvard Business School where he was elected a Baker Scholar.

Socrates Deligeorges PanelistCEO/CTOBioMimetic Systems

Dr. Deligeorges has been CEO/CTO of BioMimetic Systems (BMS) for the past five years leading research teams working on battle field acoustics as well as devices for the hearing and visually impaired. A graduate of Boston University's Biomedical Engineering Dept, his PhD work focused on auditory neurosci-ence and biomimetic algorithms for acoustic processing and cochlear implants. In 2004 Dr. Deligeorges formed BioMimetic Systems to commercialize the technology developed duringhis doctoral work designing and developing counter sniper technology for the Army Research Labs, acoustics sensors for autonomous robotics for iRobot, in addition to SBIR programs through the office of Naval Research on human robot interac-tions. BioMimetic Systems has developed without pursuing venture capital through research grants and partnerships and SBIR program grants.

Got a great idea? That's great, but now what? This panel discussion will cover some of the basic aspects of creating a start-up company, from incorporating to securing your intellectual property to creating a business model and raising venture capital. Come and hear what our experts suggest you should do and should NOT do based on their personal experiences with start-up clients and their own entre-preneurial ventures.

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Brandon Johnson PanelistFounder and PresidentBoston Micro�uidics

Brandon Johnson graduated from BU in 2004 with a bachelors degree in biomedical engineering. He is the founder and President of Boston Microfluidics Inc and has developed a device that can test for multiple diseases instantly, reducing the time it takes to detect sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) from days to minutes. He is the sole inventor of the technology and has two pending patents. Brandon was the first recipient of the ITEC Fellowship at Boston University and advises a number of start ups on both technical and business issues.

Brandon's core competence is fluid flow automation and molecular diagnostics for infectious disease, particularly STDs

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Edmund J. Walsh PanelistShareholderWolf Green�eld

Ed Walsh works with electrical and computer-related clients in IP strategy development and execution, including patent prosecution, clearances and counseling, IP portfolio management, litigation, licensing, consulting agreements, and joint development agreements. His areas of technical expertise include semiconductor processing and high-speed circuit design, wireless communication and signal processing, software, networks and network management, connec-tors and interconnection technology, and many types of test equip-ment.

Ed Walsh served over 14 years as in-house counsel for technology companies, including Chief Intellectual Property Counsel for Teradyne, a position he held for 10 years. Before working for Teradyne, Ed served as Division IP Counsel for Textron Specialty Materials and as a patent attorney for Raytheon. Prior to entering law school, Ed worked as an electrical engineer, developing operating system software and analyzing communica-tions systems.

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Nick is a partner at Gunderson Dettmer in the Venture Capital, Tax, and Private Equity Fund Formation Groups. His practice encompasses representation of emerging growth companies, entrepreneurs and venture capital and private equity funds. He has represented emerging growth companies in a wide variety of transactions, including private financings, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and other strategic arrangements, with a focus on planning and structuring business transactions. He serves as fund counsel for a number of top-tier venture capital firms and regularly provides advice regarding aspects of day-to-day operations, financing activities, and drafting partner-ship, limited liability company and other governance agree-ments.

Nicholas Guittilla PanelistGunderson Dettmer

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Sponsors

HLC, llc is a management consulting firm specializing in human resources and sales development strategies for technology companies Within human resource consulting the firm focuses on implementing hiring best practices for the technology sector with the aim of improving employee retention and performance. Sales development consulting consists of designing programs specifically tailored for clients that maximize sales efforts by increasing the ratio of first meetings to close.

Gunderson Dettmerwww.gunder.com

Highland Capital Partnerswww.hcp.com

SAGE - Student Association of Graduate Engineerspeople.bu.edu/sage/

ITEC - Institute for Technology Entrepre-neurship and Commercializationwww.bu.edu/itec/

BU Engineeringwww.bu.edu/eng/

SAGE

Co Chairs Spring Liu David Spenciner Nishant Mohan

Event Advisors Erhan Ermis -- SAGE President Rohit Kumar -- TEN 2008 Chair

Panel Leaders Stephen Chao -- Energy Panel David Spenciner -- Infomation Technology Panel Nishant Mohan -- Optical Technologies Panel Spring Liu -- Starting Your Own Company Panel

Marketing Krishnan Nair Mehak Gandhi

Logistics Wendy Dong Shawn Doria Aditi Basu

Web Development Javier T. Onglao Viral Doshi Shawn Doria

Sponsorship Walter Puls Mehak Gandhi

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