10:00am - 10:45am | Managing Risk in Pursuit of Growth
Mr. Gleb Chuvpilo
Co-founder and CEO at Authy; Partner and Investor at Initialized Capital
Gleb is an entrepreneur and investor. His latest ventures are Initialized Capital (an early stage venture capital firm), and Authy (a cloud security company). He has been working with Peter Thiel on various ventures since 2007, including Clarium (a global macro hedge fund), Palantir Technologies (a data analysis startup), and The Founders Fund (a venture capital firm). Before he met Peter, Gleb was a seasoned quantitative trader with leading Wall Street banks, including Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers. Before that, Gleb was a researcher and graduate student at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, where he did research and published papers in computer architecture, machine learning, and computer networks. Gleb holds a BS in Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, and Law, with a minor in Sociology from Moscow State University (2000), an MS in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2003), and an FTO degree (now called Master of Finance) from the MIT Sloan School of Management (2005). He was a PhD candidate in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at MIT when he joined the financial services industry in 2005. Gleb is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and an Energy Risk Professional (ERP).
11:00am - 11:45am | Conquering the US Market: Competing against giants and winning the battle
Mr. Isaac Majerowicz
Partner at Globaltech Bridge
Isaac has more than 35 years of professional experience in the areas of education, marketing and sales, service and support, consulting and research.
He is currently partner and director of business consulting of Globaltech Bridge, supporting projects in the areas of telecommunications, education and e-learning, and development of web and mobile applications
Before joining Globaltech, Isaac worked for 16 years at Cisco Systems, a global leader in the telecommunications industry. He was the first country manager of Cisco’s subsidiary in Colombia and Ecuador, responsible for sales, business development, channels management, marketing and customer support. He was then transferred to the company’s headquarters in San Jose California, where he joined the Cisco Networking Academy team first as a technical manager and then as a Product Manager for several of the Program offerings, including the CCNA and CCNP on line curricula content and assessment, a network simulation software application, and several collaboration tools for instructor training and support
Prior to Cisco, he held several executive positions in the Information Technology and Telecommunications sector in Colombia for various companies, including the regional representative of Digital Equipment Corporation, the Swedish manufacturer ASEA Brown Boveri, a major consulting firm for the Electric Sector, and the Central Bank. His Academic experience includes seven years as a full time professor and investigator in the Electrical Engineering Department of Universidad de los Andes, in Bogota, Colombia, and 20 additional years as a part time professor in that same University. He was the Dean of the Electrical Engineering Department for two years.
Isaac has a Bachelor’s and a master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and degrees in Electrical Engineering and Marketing from Universidad de los Andes in Bogota, Colombia.
11:45am - 12:30am | The power of a diversified market: Lessons learned from Silicon Valley
Mr. Russell Hancock
President and CEO at Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network
Russell Hancock is President & CEO of Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network, a position he has held since 2003. In this role Dr. Hancock is best described variously: as a civic leader, community gatherer, institution builder, social entrepreneur, and outspoken advocate for regionalism. Since taking the helm of Joint Venture he has quadrupled the size of the organization; assembled a potent board filled with mayors, CEOs and university presidents; built strategic partnerships; recruited a highly talented staff; and launched initiatives that are delivering measurable results to the region.
Russell is also the founder of the annual State of the Valley conference, a “town hall” meeting attracting more than 1,500 leaders for a day spent in dialogue and discussion about the Valley’s opportunities. The conference features the release of Joint Venture’s Silicon Valley Index, a document now receiving national and international attention.
Dr. Hancock's leadership in the Silicon Valley region builds on earlier work he led as Vice President of the Bay Area Council (1994-1999). There, he spearheaded the campaign extending BART to the San Francisco Airport. He also directed a broadly-based effort which ultimately created the Bay Area Water Transit Authority, charged with delivering a high-speed ferry system to the San Francisco Bay.
Educated at Harvard in the field of government, Russell received a Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University where he currently teaches in the Public Policy Program. Fluent in Japanese, Russell returned to Stanford in 2000 to become the inaugural director of the Shorenstein Forum for Asia-Pacific Studies, Stanford's gathering place for ranking officials, senior executives, journalists, and scholars who shape outcomes in the Pacific Rim. In addition to the research output of the Forum, he built up corporate programs, established international fellowships, raised money, and generated public events featuring a stream of presidents and ministers.
Dr. Hancock was recruited away from Stanford to take the helm of Joint Venture at a time when the organization was in a period of transition and instability. He is credited with the growth and increasing influence of the organization, to the point where today Joint Venture is Silicon Valley’s recognized clearing house for regional analysis, and for collaborative approaches to solving the region’s problems. The Joint Venture model is now being replicated in various metropolitan regions throughout the United States, Europe and Asia, and Dr. Hancock has most recently provided advice to regional governments in Beijing, London, Madrid, the Netherlands, and Taipei. In 2011 the United States Government Accounting Office will launch a national indicators project modeled on Joint Venture’s Index, with Russell providing high-level advice.
In 2008 Silicon Valley Business Journal named Russell to its annual list of Silicon Valley’s most influential “players.” Considered one of Silicon Valley's leading expositors, his interviews regularly appear in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Business Week, The Financial Times and Forbes. He is also a frequent guest on NBC Nightly News and Bloomberg News, and hosts a radio program on Silicon Valley issues heard on KLIV.
Mrs. Marguerite Gong Hancock
Associate Director at Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Marguerite Gong Hancock is the Associate Director of the Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SPRIE), an interdisciplinary and international research program at Stanford University. Educated at Harvard University, Brigham Young University, and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Marguerite joined Stanford in 1987. She has led international research programs at the intersection of business, technology, and policy at the Graduate School of Business and the Shorenstein Asia Pacific Research Center. Marguerite currently leads research initiatives, conferences, and publications on topics ranging from “China 2.0: The Rise of a Digital Superpower” to “Smart Green Cities: New Technologies, New Models, New Strategies” to “The Next Silicon Valley.”
Marguerite is passionate about education and actively mentors students, participates in the Stanford Entrepreneurship Network, as well as co-directs an executive education program for international policymakers at SPRIE. Active in the life of Silicon Valley, she has served as an advisor for the annual Index of Silicon Valley and was featured in the best-selling book, Multipliers, for her role as a community leader. A frequent speaker, Marguerite has delivered keynotes or presentations in more than a dozen countries and briefed government national and local government leaders from the US, Europe and Asia. She is co-editor of three Stanford books on innovation and entrepreneurship: The Silicon Valley Edge (2000), Making IT: Asia's Rise in High Tech (2006), and Greater China's Quest for Innovation (2008) and she is currently working on a book on the rise of China in the internet industry.
12:45pm - 1:15pm | Award Ceremony: EnterPRize 2011
1:15pm - 2:45pm | From Niche to Mainstream: Taking advantage of great business opportunities
Mr. Joshua Whiton (pending to confirm)
Founder and CEO at TransLoc.Inc
Josh Whiton is an entrepreneur with a bent for social and ecological reform. He is the founder and CEO of TransLoc, a company making mass transit easier to use. Already used by NC State and many others across the country, the company was recently awarded a contract to unify the entire Triangle region’s mass transit systems under its technology. The new system, an industry first, will provide information to the riders of these five transit systems via a single real-time interface.