Join us on January 17, 2012, at ASU SkySong from 6:30 – 9:00 pm. REGISTER HERE to save a seat to this special event.

The speakers are:

Anu Bhardwaj, Partner at Venture Catalyst, President, 85 Broads AZ Chapter
Ms. Anu Bhardwaj, a 2008 US Fulbright Scholar to the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai, has been engaged in a global canvass of women entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, and over 750 senior executives in private equity/venture capital within high-tech clusters of innovation. Ms. Bhardwaj has worked on global fundraising and strategy for an early stage US venture capital firm specializing in health care services and health care information technology, an India based private equity fund investing in real estate, and an Abu Dhabi based MENA focused buyout fund, after having spent a decade fundraising for non-profits in North America, Asia, Europe, & Africa. Anu was a Xerox Corporation Scholar in the M.A. in Communication, Culture, & Technology Program at Georgetown University, a Class of 2007- Mary Walshok Scholar in the MBA program at the Stockholm School of Economics and a graduate of the Venture Capitalist Development Program at the Indian School of Business. Ms. Bhardwaj is the Founder of the Nordic Chapter of The Indus Entrepreneurs, the ATMA SEVA Foundation, and Venture Catalyst Private Equity Partners.

Heidi Jannenga, PT, MPT, ATC/L, Founder, WebPT
Heidi has been a practicing physical therapist for over 15 years and continues to complete patient care daily in Tempe, Arizona, splitting her time between clinical practice and WebPT. Her PT specialties include extremity post surgical rehabilitation, ACL prevention programs, and sport specific training. She has completed certifications in Manual Therapy from the University of St. Augustine, Athletic Training and the National Strength and Conditioning Association. As COO for WebPT, Heidi is responsible for sales, product management, and customer support. As a co-founder of the company, she has led the vision for the product and all aspects of customer engagement. She has served on sports medicine teams for the Ladies Professional Golf Association, Phoenix Roadrunners hockey, Chicago Cubs baseball, Anaheim Angels baseball, and the Tempe Union High School District. She has been a member of the American Physical Therapy Association since 1994 and has contributed many articles to industry publications. Heidi was a scholarship athlete at the University of California, Davis. Her interest in physical therapy was sparked following a knee injury and successful rehabilitation during her college basketball career. She started her career in Physical Therapy after graduating with her Masters from the Institute of Physical Therapy in St. Augustine, Florida.

Courtney Klein, Founder, New Global Citizens
Courtney Klein Johnson is a global Change Agent. Courtney Klein Johnson is an Arizona native and graduate of Arizona State Universityʼs Barrett Honors College where she received her undergraduate and Masterʼs degree in Nonprofit Management. Courtneyʼs entrepreneurial and humanitarian passions manifested at a young age. At the age of 21, after traveling overseas and realizing how little American youth knew about global challenges, Courtney launched New Global Citizens; a nonprofit organization with a mission to educate, empower, and mobilize young people to take action for global change. Courtney guided the organization from conception to international expansion during her tenure as CEO. New Global Citizens now reaches high school students in 20 states across the country, supports grassroots partners in over 30 countries around the world, and is recognized as a Top 10 Program by the U.S. Center for Citizen Diplomacy. After New Global Citizens, Courtney went on to lead Strategic Planning with a focus on attracting exceptional globally-minded businesses to the Greater Phoenix region from around the world. Courtney served as an advocate and champion for foundational efforts to improve the region. In 2009, Courtney was named “One of 12 Women Who Move the Valley” by Arizona Foothills Magazine. In 2008, Courtney received the first Athena Award for young professionals, and was honored by bizAZ as one of “35 Entrepreneurs under 35”. In 2007 she was named one of “20 Woman to Change Arizona by 2020” by Arizona Woman Magazine and the Arizona Republic. In 2006, Courtney was profiled in the Arizona Republic as one of Arizona’s most intriguing Chief Executives, highlighted as one of the six to watch.

MODERATOR:
Aly Saxe, CEO and Founder, Ubiquity Public Relations, TiE AZ Charter Member
With 15 years experience in the mass communication industry, Aly has created award winning PR campaigns and helped clients start and grow successful businesses. Aly started her career as a broadcast journalist, working as a writer and producer at KVOA in Tucson, then KTVK in Phoenix. After working as a spokesperson for the Arizona Department of Transportation, Aly moved into the PR agency world where she focused on technology, BtoB services and consumer public relations on a national scale. Her clients are regularly featured in top industry press including Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, Forbes and Ziff Davis Media. Aly earned a Bachelors degree in Media Art and Communication from the University of Arizona and a Master’s degree in Journalism and Mass Communication from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University. Aly enjoys running, yoga, and spending what limited free time she has building amazing castles, boats, and other structures out of wooden blocks with her daughter Lola.

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CEO and Executive Roundtable Guests

• Dr. Brenda McCaffrey, Kolea Technology
• Keith Weiner, Arizona Technology Investor Forum
• BJ Raval, Executive Vice President, GIS Southwest
• Greg Head, Chief Marketing Officer, Infusionsoft

EVENT INFORMATION:
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
5:30 pm to 9:00 pm
NEW LOCATION: ASU Karsten Golf Course, 1125 E. Rio Salado Parkway, Tempe, Arizona

5:30-6:30pm: Registration & Networking
6:30-7:00pm: Dinner
7:00-8:30pm: Program
8:30-9:00pm: Networking and Wrap up

Members & Students: $25
Non Members: $35

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Join the Arizona investment and entrepreneur community at this year’s Venture Capital Roundtable to hear the latest in financing trends for high growth entrepreneurs.

• How are venture capital firms investing today?
• What is the forecast for early stage investing?
• Are we in another tech investment “bubble?”

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Join us for an enlightening evening with our distinguished panel. Learn about the wide ranging and valuable resources that Arizona’s universities have to offer in an informative and interactive format.

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Date: Tuesday, September 13th
Time: 5:30 pm
Location: ASU SkySong
1475 N Scottsdale Rd
Scottsdale , AZ 85257

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ADMISSION
Members & Students: $25
Non Members: $35

FEATURED PANELISTS INCLUDE:

Charlie Lewis, VP of Venture Development, AzTE

Brian Martin, Associate Director, The Biodesign Institute, Impact Accelerator

Gordon McConnell, Executive Director for Venture Acceleration

Sidnee Peck, Director, Entrepreneurship Initiatives, WP Carey School of Business

Steven Stralser, Clinical Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship, Thunderbird School of Global Management

Carl Yamashiro, Associate Director, Center for Healthcare Innovation

*Invitation pending for The University of Arizona

*Please contact saratieaz@gmail.com if you are interested in attending.

In recent years, we have experienced an exponential growth in software innovations.  From fueling the new health and medical records storage and retrieval, to social networking, to new applications for mobile devices, software has been a valuable intellectual property asset.  The United States Supreme Court has decided key issues last year in its opinion in the Bilski matter that have impact on all software companies.  Come hear the rules that apply and strategies that can be followed to protect software intellectual property in this interactive discussion.

FREE for members, $25 admission for non-members, $10 admission for students

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Get a 30% discount until June 30th!

Promotion code: TiExm219

Date: Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Time: 6:00– 8:00 PM
Location: ASU SkySong
1475 N Scottsdale Rd
Scottsdale , AZ 85257

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Robert Atkins

Robert Atkins practices nationally and internationally in the areas of patents, trademarks, trade secrets, copyright, licensing and technology transactions, software and computer law, and litigation. His experience includes patent prosecution, patent portfolio development, licensing, writing and negotiating technology agreements, joint ventures, strategic alliances and intellectual property client counseling, as well as trademark screening and clearance searches, trademark application prosecution and maintenance, monitoring and enforcement, oppositions, litigation, infringement analysis and opinions, and licensing.

Mr. Atkins’ areas of technical expertise are semiconductors, analog and digital circuit designs, computer science, software, control systems, electro-mechanical, aerospace, medical, music, retail, automotive and alternative energy.

Michael Hool

For 23 years Michael Hool has worked almost exclusively with select emerging companies and investors, and has a large number of software company clients. Mr. Hool’s services include corporate and commercial representation, securities, finance and venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, and licensing, distribution agreements and joint ventures. Mr. Hool has lectured and authored papers on a broad variety of topics and is active as an investor in several emerging companies. Hool Law Group, PLC is a law firm of experienced professionals practicing exclusively on business transactional matters. Mr. Hool and Mr. Atkins work together with a variety of clients with software intellectual property assets.

TiE AZ Annual Sponsor

Supporting Organization

Alan Hochman with Sedona Energy Labs

Manthou Tsiouris with Pfhotonika

Mark Gaalswyk with Easy Energy

Thank you Barry Broome for a fabulous talk on our economic future and helpful advice.

Barry Broome, CEO of GPEC -  Spoke June14, 2011 at : Solar and Alternative Energy: Arizona’s New Entrepreneurial Frontier

Barry Broome

Hear Barry Broome speak & Hear pitches from 5 local alternative energy startups

Tuesday, June 14th 5:30 pm

An Evening with Barry Broome, CEO of GPEC*
* Greater Phoenix Economic Council

If you are a startup in the Alternative Energy space and would like to pitch your company, send a 2pg executive summary to TiE AZ President, Steve Stralser (stralser@gmail.com) by June 1, 2011 at 5pm AZ time. 5 companies (must be in Solar or Alternative Energy sector), will be selected to present a 2 minute pitch at the beginning of the May 14 program. To qualify to present, you must be a TiE Member (Student Membership does not qualify) and pay the program registration fee.

Event Details:

Date: Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
Time: 5:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Location: Studio
Tempe Center for the Arts
700 W. Rio Salado Parkway,
Tempe, AZ
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Contact: saratieaz@gmail.com

Register Here

*Register online to save $10 late registration fee

GPEC, Greater Phoenix Economic Council, is a driving force in making Arizona a global player in solar and alternative energy technologies and entrepreneurial economic development opportunity. GPEC has a mission to attract quality businesses to the Greater Phoenix region from around the world, and to advocate and champion foundational efforts to improve the region’s competitiveness.

Speaker Bio
Broome is at the helm of one of the longest-standing regional public-private partnerships for economic development. He is a proven leader with 20-plus years of experience in community-building and economic development, new company creation, formation of public-private partnerships and public policy design.

Broome’s tenure at GPEC has led to the attraction of 120 plus companies creating more than 22,500 jobs and over $5.8 billion in capital investment to Greater Phoenix.

In Arizona, Broome has been credited with developing economic development programs that have redefined public policy and improved statewide competitiveness.

In 2009, Broome worked with the business community, public-sector leaders and state partners to orchestrate the passage of Arizona’s landmark Renewable Energy Tax Incentive Program, a $350 million tax credit to stimulate renewable energy investment in Arizona. The program has already drawn eight companies to Greater Phoenix since January, resulting in more than 1,350 jobs and $153.2 million in capital investment.
Broome also designed the Arizona Global Network, a collaborative model that unites the urban and rural markets of Greater Phoenix, Tucson, Flagstaff and Yuma in attracting foreign direct investment to Arizona. GPEC’s international focus has led to foreign direct investment wins for Greater Phoenix, most notably the attraction of China-based Suntech-the world’s largest producer of solar panels. Suntech is the first Chinese renewable leader to bring manufacturing jobs to the U.S., and this expansion marks the company’s first-ever U.S. manufacturing investment.

TiE AZ Annual Sponsor

David Engelthaler

Bioscience is Arizona’s new entrepreneurial frontier…David Engelthaler has a key leadership role in TGen, the state’s crown jewel of bioscience innovation and life sciences research…hear David’s story as both a scientist and an “entrepreneur inside” an organization that’s moving science from the bench into the marketplace.

*Translational Genomics Research Institute

Event Details:

Date: Tuesday, May 1oth, 2011
Time: 5:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Location: Lakeside Room
Tempe Center for the Arts
700 W. Rio Salado Parkway,
Tempe, AZ
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Contact: saratieaz@gmail.com

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Bio

David M. Engelthaler is the Director of TGen North in Flagstaff, AZ, part of the non-profit Translational Genomics Research Institute. TGen North is focused on advancing public health, clinical medicine and biodefense through targeted microbial genomics. Besides directing the day-to-day operations at TGen North, Dave oversees a number of research groups working on developing tools to detect and analyze infectious diseases such as influenza, valley fever, MRSA, plague, anthrax and others. He is also the co-founder of PathoGene LLC, a Flagstaff for-profit company developed to transform mid to late stage diagnostic intellectual property into market-ready assays.