FountainBlue offers networking, education and support for entrepreneurs in the Silicon Valley by conducting monthly entrepreneurs' forums for high tech and life science and clean energy entrepreneurs. These monthly lunch meetings are designed to share successes and challenges in a safe environment, focused on helping fellow members run and grow their entrepreneurial ventures.
About Our Entrepreneurs' Forums
FountainBlue's Life Science Entrepreneurs' Forums are open to clean energy entrepreneurs & their teams (such as staff members, advisers, board members or investors) with a wide range of entrepreneurial experience, at various stages of growing or supporting a new or existing entrepreneurial venture. In general, the program topics for the first six months of the year are focused on securing funds for clean energy organizations while the topics for the second six months of the year focus more on executing and running a business. For notes on previous sessions, visit http://www.fountainblue.biz/resources/lifesciencenotes.html.
Life Sciences Entrepreneurs include:
Medical devices, including therapeutic devices and diagnostic tools
Drug delivery - Pharmaceuticals and other drug delivery
Bio-nano, etc.,
Who Is Invited
Please note that we help ensure the quality of our programs by strictly restricting attendance to entrepreneurs and investors only, no service providers, except for presenters and sponsors, which are limited and by invitation only. We thank you in advance for respecting our policy.
Rough Meeting Agenda
5:30 Registration, Lunch and Networking
6:00 Welcomes and Introductions
6:15 Facilitator Comments and Panelist Introductions
6:20 Interactive Panelist Discussion
6:50 Questions from the Audience
7:25 Final Comments from Facilitators
7:30 Thank Yous and Close, Networking
Sponsorship
Past sponsors for the series include KeyPoint Credit Union http://www.keypointcu.com and Perkins Coie LLP and we thank them for their generous sponsorship of FountainBlue's Life Science Entrepreneurs' Forum. Our thanks also to Sanford Rose and Associates for their ongoing support of our series.
Effective June 18, DLA Piper will be sponsoring the series. The June and July events will be conducted at Bay Cafe, 1875 Embarcadero Road in Palo Alto, but future events will be conducted at the DLA Piper offices at 2000 University in East Palo Alto.
Our August 20 Meeting:
Outsourcing Options for Life Science Execsfacilitated by Simon Goldbard, Ph.D., Matt Perez, NearSoft
For this month's life science entrepreneurs' forum, we have gathered corporate execs from research and development, clinical and regulatory affairs, and engineering to talk about their R&D efforts and processes and how they collaborate with outside vendors to co-development devices, pharmacological solutions, and other life science products and services. The discussion will be facilitated by an esteemed panel:
Co-Facilitator Simon Goldbard, Ph.D., Corex
Co-Facilitator Matt Perez, COO, NearSoft
PanelistOren Beske, Ph.D.,Director,Aragen Bioscience, Inc.
Panelist Simon Greenwood, Senior Manager, Business Development, Genentech, Inc.
Panelist Alshad S. Lalani, Ph.D.,Director, Preclinical & Translational Oncology, Novacea, Inc.
Panelist Angie You, COO Ren Pharmaceuticals
Thank you to our sponsors Perkins Coie LLP!
See below for a list of program topics and speakers for 2007.
Date
Title
Facilitator
Tuesday, February 20
Corporate Investments in Life Science Companies
Facilitator Geetha Rao Panelist Linda Greub, Business Development, Applied Biosystems Panelist Eran Raber, Director, New Business and Venture Investments, Agilent Technologies Panelist Simon Greenwood, Ph.D., Senior Manager, Business Development, Genentech, Inc.
Monday, March 19
Positioning Your Life Science Company for Outside Funding
Facilitator Geetha Rao Panelist Brian Boyer, Perkins Coie LLP Panelist John Cornwell Life Science Angel Panelist Ken Martin, Onset Ventures Panelist David Miller Founder, InnoSpine
Monday, April 16
R&D Funding Opportunities
Facilitator Brian Boyer, Perkins Coie LLP Panelist Jeff Fairman, founder and senior research director, Juvaris Panelist Tom Gutshall, Founder and Former CEO, Current Chairman of Cepheid Panelist David Light, Business Builders
Tuesday, May 22
Trends in Life Science Investing
Facilitator Roy Fiebiger, Sanford Rose and Associates Panelist Andrew Farquharson, InCube Ventures Panelist Nina Kjellson, Partner, InterWest Partners Panelist John Maroney, General Partner, Delphi Ventures Panelist Kevin Wasserstein, Versant Ventures
Monday, June 18
Successful Entrepreneur Panel
Facilitator Roy Fiebiger, Sanford Rose and Associates Panelist Brent Contstantz, Skeletal Kinetics LLC Panelist Charlie Wen, Current founder and CTO, Tensegrity, former CEO of OrthoClear, Karegiver, former director of engineering and Align Technology Panelist Tony Zhang, PhD President, CEO and Chairman Formurex
Monday, July 16
Your Company's Value Proposition
Facilitator Sharon Lewis, President, Strategic Impact, Inc. Panelist – Valli Bindana, President & Creative Director, KreativeVistas Panelist – Ruth Cavagnaro, CEO, ChorusWare (Astia Portfolio Company) Panelist – Chisato Ishii, Investment Partner, JAIC America, Inc. Panelist – Ken Macrae, PhD, MD, EVP and Serial CEO Panelist – John Reed, Global Operations, Agilent Technologies Panelist - Fred Seddiqui, CEO, Avantis Medical Systems, Inc.
Monday, August 20
Outsourcing Options for Life Science Companies
Co-Facilitator Simon Goldbard, Ph.D., Corex Co-Facilitator Matt Perez, NearSoft Panelist Oren Beske, Ph.D., Director, Aragen Bioscience, Inc. Panelist Simon Greenwood, Senior Manager, Business Development, Genentech, Inc. Panelist Alshad S. Lalani, Ph.D., Director, Preclinical & Translational Oncology, Novacea, Inc. Panelist Angie You, COO Ren Pharmaceuticals
Monday, September 17
Navigating Government Regulations
Facilitator from DLA Piper Panelist from RAPS(to be confirmed) Panelist Geetha Rao (to be confirmed) Panelist Alan Jacobs, Acorn Biomedical (early stage clinical development) Other Panelists to be confirmed
Monday, October 15
Marketing and Sales Operations for Life Science Entrepreneurs
Sharon Lewis, Strategic Impact
Monday, November 19
Building An A+ Life Science Management Team
Roy Fiebiger, Sanford Rose Associates, Silicon Valley
Monday, December 17
Holiday Break
n/a
Our list of speakers and topics for 2006 are below for your reference.
Date
Title
Facilitator
Monday, September 18
Life Sciences Entrepreneurs' Forum, Theme: Bringing the Product to Market
Melinda Richter, San Jose Bioscience Center Michael Shuster, Fenwick & West
Monday, October 16
Life Sciences Entrepreneurs' Forum Theme: Preparing for Outside Investors
Ken Macrae Geetha Rao Sergio Garcia
Monday, November 20
Life Sciences Entrepreneurs' Forum Theme: Building an A+ Life Science Management Team
Roy Fiebieger Tom Afzal, CEO of SpinalKinetics Andrew Farquharson, InCube Mike Hall, Latham & Watkins
