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SUMMARY:Paths to Success - Irish Entrepreneurship in the Bay Area
LOCATION:South Beach Yacht Club
DESCRIPTION:http://in-ba.org/ViewEvent.ashx?eventId=30419\n\n\nPaths to Success - Irish Entrepreneurship in the Bay Area\nWe're excited to present our first major event that brings together a group of successful and interesting entrepreneurs to talk about their experiences in starting their business here. Some are on their 2nd or 3rd startup while for others it's their first. The aim is not necessarily for each speaker to tell their business life story\, but to pick aspects of their experiences and discuss what they learnt from it. We hope you will leave this event inspired or at least have met some new and interesting people. \n\n\n\nEvent Moderator:\n\nJohn Downey\, Vice President Bear Stearns & Co.\n\nJohn moved to the Bay Area in 1998 with UBS Securities to focus on Corporate & Venture Services. Prior to 1998 John worked in New York and Denver in Asset Management industry since moving to the US in 1992. Corporate & Venture Services involves working with an Investment Bank's client and their Venture Capital backers before and during an IPO or an M&A transaction. This can involve pre-IPO planning\, coordination of placement of shares post-IPO both for the firm's employees\, founders and VCs\, maximizing liquidity pre and post an M&A transaction\, financial planning etc.. During his time in San Francisco John has worked with UBS Securities\, Volpe Brown Whelan\, Lehman Brothers and he currently works at Bear Stearns. \n\nJohn has worked with many Software\, Hardware\, Biotech and MedTech startups and Venture Capital funds in the Bay Area and throughout the US and Europe. His role requires that he be up to date with Industry events and Venture Capital funding trends. He graduated from DIT with a B Sc. Mgmt in 1992 and has lived in Marin since 1998. \n\n\nSpeakers:\n\nJason Devitt.\n\nJason was born and raised in Dublin\, and has a Master's Degree in Electronic Engineering from UCD and a Diploma in Law from the King's Inns. After college he spent four years working for the US hedge fund D. E. Shaw & Co.\, first in London and then in New York. It was in New York that he discovered that there were such things as entrepreneurs and he resolved to become one. \n\nIn 1999 Jason founded Vindigo\, one of the first companies in the US to develop content and applications for mobile phones. Vindigo raised its first round of venture capital in March 2000\, just before the bubble first\, and Jason spent the next four years reassuring his investors that they weren't idiots. He built the company from zero to $12 million in revenues and profitability\, and sold it in 2004 to the largest mobile content company in Japan. He spent a statutory year working for the acquirer\, then took a year off to get married and travel around the Pacific with his wife. \n\nThey returned to the US in the Fall. Jason spent several months working as an entrepreneur-in-residence for a VC firm in New York\, developing the idea for his next company\, Skydeck. Unfortunately Jason won't tell us what Skydeck is doing\, but he recently relocated from New York to the Bay Area to do it. \n\nSinead Foley\, Co-Founder and Partner - Premier Source Consulting\n\nSinead Foley is a co-founder and Partner in Premier Source Consulting\, a South San Francisco based consultancy that specializes in designing and administering reimbursement and patient support programs for pharmaceutical\, biotechnology\, and medical device manufacturers as well as other life sciences companies. Since launching in early 2004\, Sinead has worked diligently to develop Premier Source into the preferred consulting firm for companies seeking to develop strategies to mitigate coverage and patient support issues as barriers to access to their products and services. Sinead is highly regarded as an expert in the area of reimbursement and patient support services and has worked with many cutting edge companies in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology space including Novartis\, Genentech\, Genzyme\, and Celgene. \n\nPrior to starting Premier Source\, Sinead was the Associate Director of Genentech's reimbursement support programs and the Chief Operating Officer of the Genentech Access to Care Foundation. In this role\, she lead a team of over 100 employees responsible for ensuring that physicians and patients had access to Genentech's portfolio of oncology\, endocrinology\, respiratory\, dermatology\, and cardiovascular products. Sinead also lead the redesign / expansion of this group to accomodate Genentech's launch of 3 new products in a 12 month period\, a historic feat in the biotech industry. Under Sinead's leadership\, Genentech was considered to have a best in class reimbursement program and has served as a model for many other companies' reimbursement and patient support programs. \n\nSinead is a native of Clonmel\, Co. Tipperary and is a graduate of the University College Cork. Sinead moved to the US in 1997 and has been a resident of San Francisco ever since. \n\nPeter Kelly\, Vice President - Strategic Initiatives (ATC-Onlane) \n\nPeter is a native of Co. Roscommon\, and a graduate in Civil Engineering from University College Dublin. \n\nIn 1997 Peter moved to the US to undertake an MBA at Stanford University. He worked for McKinsey and Company during his first year summer internship but on his return to Stanford decided to focus his second year on entrepreneurial coursework and on trying to get a new business off the ground. He and two of his classmates began to research various business opportunities which led to them founding a company called Autodaq (an online B2B marketplace for used vehicles) upon graduation in June 1999. \n\nEight years\, three venture financings\, one dot-com bust and two acquisitions later\, Autodaq is now known as ATC-Onlane and is the leading provider of online B2B used vehicle auction services in North America. The company employs 300 people\, is headquartered in Menlo Park\, CA with significant offices in Mesa\, AZ and Toronto\, Ont. \n\nPeter Kelly heads up the Strategic Initiatives group within ATC-Onlane\, which includes Strategic Development\, Data and Analytics\, Marketing\, Product Management and Program Implementation. \n\nHe is married to Vicki and loves living in the Bay Area. \n\nSeamus McAteer\, Chief Product Architect\, M:Metrics\n\nAs co-founder\, chief product architect and senior analyst at M:Metrics\, Seamus determines how services are shaped to match client needs. He is also the company's primary evangelist. \n\nSeamus has been analyzing the wireless industry since its inception and has been assisting clients in the wireless and portable computing sectors since the early 1990s. Most recently\, Seamus was managing partner at Zelos Group\, a boutique advisory services firm focused on wireless and voice applications. Prior to founding Zeros Group\, Seamus was a director and research fellow with Jupiter Research\, where he headed Jupiter's coverage of new technologies and services. Before joining Jupiter\, Seamus focused on wireless services and pervasive computing as a senior analyst with SRI International. \n\nSeamus is frequently sought as a speaker and expert commentator. He has been quoted in numerous international media outlets\, including: the New York Times\, USA Today\, Nikkei Weekly\, Wired Magazine\, the Associated Press and a variety of trade journals. He has made frequent TV and radio appearances\, commenting on technology issues for CNN\, Fox News\, NPR and TechTV. Seamus often speaks at prestigious industry events. He received an undergraduate degree at Trinity College Dublin\, and a Diploma in Advanced Marketing Techniques from the Dublin Institute of Technology. \n\nCaroline McGrath\, Founder Yosemite Bug.\n\nCaroline\, a native of Clashmore\, Co. Waterford\, has been an entrepreneur in the travel industry for quite some time. Having studied hotel management in Cork and Ramsgrange\, Co. Wexford\, she hit the road with her backpack in search of an opportunity. There were some along the way in which she invested\, namely in San Francisco but not quite what she was looking for. Ten years ago she found and developed a property outside of Yosemite National Park\, which today is the only property of its kind. It was tough going at first\, but Caroline is not afraid of getting her hands dirty. She developed the property from 3 cabins to 25\, from accommodating 30 guests to over 200. "The Bug" as it is fondly known\, has rooms to accommodate workshops\, retreats\, conferences and music events. The Spa includes massage\, sauna\, cold plunge and yoga. \n\nCaroline is currently the CMO for the bug. She splits her time between Mid-Pines and San Francisco. She comes from a large Irish family of whom 5 are in the Bay Area. \n\nBob Quinn\, 3Leaf Systems\, Chief Executive Officer and Founder\n\nBob Quinn has more than 20 years of high-tech industry experience. Before 3Leaf\, he was founder and CEO of Network Virtual Systems (NVS)\, which developed scalable architectures and chips for x86 and Itanium SMP servers. Prior to NVS\, he was founder and chairman of iMODL\, an Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software company. \n\nHe has served as chairman of TransEDA\, an EDA software company traded on the London Exchange\; and has held senior management positions at Unisys\, Trilogy\, Arix and Exxon. \n\nMr. Quinn received an honors BSEEdegree from University College\, Cork\, Ireland.
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