19th Annual Private Equity and Venture Capital Symposium
Presented by the Yale School of Management Private Equity / Venture Capital Club
ON FRIDAY, MARCH 29th, 2019
AT EVANS HALL
YALE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
The Yale School of Management Private Equity / Venture Capital Club is delighted to invite you to attend the 19th Annual Private Equity & Venture Capital Symposium
Friday, March 29th, 2019: 8:30AM- 5:00PM
The symposium will take place at the Yale School of Management campus: Evans Hall, 165 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, CT 06511
Please register for tickets below and scroll through to learn more about this year’s panels and speakers.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Nancy Pfund
Founder and Managing Partner, DBL Partners
Founder, DBL Investors
Co-Chair, Yale School of Management Program on Entrepreneurship
In Conversation with Richard Kauffman
Chairman, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority
Lecturer, Yale School of Management
Steve Case
Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO, Revolution
Partner, Revolution Growth, Revolution Ventures, and Rise of the Rest
Co-Founder, Former CEO & Chairman, AOL
Chairman, Case Foundation
In Conversation with Susan Carter
Former CEO, Commonfund Capital
PANELS
Explore the panel topics and panelists coming together to make this year’s Symposium a historic SOM event.
Frontier Technologies: Venture Capital and Growth Equity Perspectives
Dan Ciporin, General Partner at Canaan Partners
Vivek Ladsariya, General Partner at SineWave Ventures
Matthew Brennan, Partner at General Catalyst
Moderated by Gregory Clark, Managing Partner at Horizon Technology Finance
Accelerators, Incubators, and Startup Studios: Hands-On Early Stage Investing
Steven Price, Founder/CEO at 25Madison
June Choi, Founder/CEO at Serval Ventures
Mar Hershenson, Co-Founder/Managing Partner at Pear
Matt McCooe, CEO at Connecticut Innovations
Moderated by Olav Sorenson, Frederick Frank '54 and Mary C. Tanner Professor of Management at Yale SOM
Impact Investing: From Alternative Asset Class to Mainstream
Sarah Cone, Founder/Managing Partner at Social Impact Capital
Arrun Kapoor, Managing Director at SJF Ventures
Seth Goldman, Co-founder and TeaEO Emeritus, Honest® Tea , Innovation Catalyst at Coca-Cola’s Venturing and Emerging Brands unit, and Executive Chairman at Beyond Meat
Ryan Bloomer, Partner at Kairos
Moderated by Mark Berryman, Managing Director at Caprock
Investing in Healthcare and Life Sciences
Alex de Winter, Managing Director at GE Ventures
Steve Kraus, Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners
Doug Karp, CEO at Pacific Partners
Konstantine Drakonakis, PE, Venture Partner, LaunchCapital/Pritzker Vlock Family Office
Moderated by Donna Lecky, Managing Director at HealthVenture Capital
Private Equity and Sponsor-Backed Management Teams: A Case Discussion
Jamie Manges, Partner at Trilantic Capital Partners
Steve Hughes, CEO at Sunrise Strategic Partners
Moderated by Bob Davis, Managing Partner at Nebrodi Partners
Portfolio Operations and Post-Acquisition Strategies
Kate Rubenstein, Managing Director - Portfolio Operations at Blackstone
Bob Lobley, Operating Partner at Juna Equity Partners
CP Shankar, Managing Partner, Genius Ventures; formerly MD at Davidson Capital; CEO for firms backed by Madison Dearborn Partners and Linsang Partners
Moderated by AJ Wasserstein, Eugene F. Williams, Jr. Lecturer in the Practice of Management at Yale SOM
Sustainable Energy Investing
Bryan Martin, Managing Director/Co-Head of U.S. Growth and Buyout at DE Shaw & Co., Founder and CEO of DESRI
Matthew Runkle, Managing Director at Blackstone
Vishal Shah, Partner at Hudson Sustainable Investments
Jeff Possick, Partner and Managing Director at Mission Driven Capital Partners, Managing Director at MissionPoint Capital Partners
Moderated by Richard Kauffman, Chairman, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority and Lecturer at Yale SOM
Venture Capital Investing in Consumer and Retail
JoBeth Abecassis, Managing Director at Assembled Brands
Rosemary Ripley, Managing Director at NGEN Partners
Sarah Foley, Managing Director at SWAT Equity Partners
Andrew Leventhal, Partner and COO, TAU Investment Management
Moderated by Jennifer McFacdden, Associate Director of Entrepreneurship and Lecturer in the Practice of Management at Yale SOM
Reflections with Entrepreneurs: Raising Venture Capital and Collaborating with Investors
Wade Eyerly, Founder of Education Insurance Corp. and Surf Air
Megan O’Connor, Founder/CEO of Hi Clark
Kevin Rocco, CEO of Biorez
Moderated by Onyeka Obiocha, Associate Director at the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale (Tsai CITY)
AGENDA
Join us for vigorous discussion and insightful conversations with the leaders of private equity and venture investing.
FRIDAY, MARCH 29TH, 2019
8:15 AM Registration and Light Breakfast - Ligon-Lamsam Student Commons
9:15 AM Introductory Remarks - Zhang Auditorium
9:30 AM Opening Keynote with Nancy Pfund, Moderated by Richard Kauffman - Zhang Auditorium
10:30 AM Panels: Investing in Frontier Technologies | Accelerators, Incubators, and Startup Studios: Hands-On Early Stage Investing
11:30 AM Panels: Impact Investing: From Alternative Asset Class to Mainstream | Investing in Healthcare and Life Sciences
12:40 PM Lunch concurrent with Panels: Portfolio Operations and Post-Acquisition Strategies | Private Equity and Sponsor-Backed Management Teams: A Case Discussion
1:40 PM Afternoon Keynote with Steve Case, Moderated by Susan Carter - Zhang Auditorium
2:40 PM Panels: Sustainable Energy Investing | Venture Capital Investing in Consumer and Retail | Reflections with Entrepreneurs
3:40 PM Closing Remarks
4:00 PM Reception - Ligon-Lamsam Student Commons
Dress Code: Business Formal
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