THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS, INC.
COMMUNICATIONS & VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY SOCIETY
 - Dallas Chapter -
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 THE MIT ENTERPRISE FORUM OF DALLAS - FORT WORTH
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 STARTECH FOUNDATION
-Jointly Present-
A TWO PART ENTREPRENEUR SERIES

DATE: Tuesday, 17 June 2003

TIME: Luncheon starts at 11:00 am; Main Presentation is from 11:30-1:00pm

PLACE: Holiday Inn Select, 1655 N. Central, Richardson Please call 972 238 1900 for directions

TOPIC: Part 2 "Funding Your Startup" Panel Session

MODERATOR: Neil Kaden, Chairman MIT Enterprise Forum of Dallas - Fort Worth (www,mitforum.com) and President, Texas Venture Post (www.texasventurepost.com)

PANELISTS: Mike Camp, President and CEO, VocalData, www.vocaldata.com
David Rex, Partner, Jackson Walker, LLC, www.jw.com
Roman Kikta, Managing Partner and co-founder, Genesis Campus, www.genesiscampus.com

No reservations - LUNCH IS LIMITED TO THE FIRST 150 PERSONS
Lunch for IEEE/STARTECH/MIT FORUM Members - $5.00
Lunch for Non - IEEE/STARTECH/MIT FORUM Members - $10.00
Lunch for Full Time Students - No charge

Please catch our web site at www.cvt-dallas.org, or STARTECH's web page at www.startech.org, or MIT FORUM's at www.mitforum.com

For further information contact: Bob Shapiro, IEEE Dallas CVT General Chair, at 972.599.1165 or rcshapiro@att.net

PROGRAM

"Funding Your Startup" panel for IEEE, MIT Forum and STARTech

As the founder of a start-up you've taken your great idea, refined it, done some market positioning, validated your idea with potential customers and partners, pulled together an initial management team, created a corporate structure, developed some competitive advantage and written your business plan. Somewhere in all this your attention turns to funding. As your start-up grows and develops you will again and again have to deal with the alternatives you are faced with for financing your company.

The MIT Enterprise Forum of Dallas - Fort Worth, the IEEE Communications & Vehicular Technology Society, and STARTech Foundation will be jointly sponsoring a luncheon panel on June 17th from 11am - 1pm at the Holiday Inn Select. A panel comprising a Venture Capitalist, a CEO of a funded start-up, and a service provider will explore "Funding Your Startup."

David Rex of Jackson Walker, LLP will briefly talk about the wide spectrum of funding alternatives - bootstrapping, bank loans, business angels, etc. Michael Camp, President & CEO of Richardson-based VocalData will give his perspective of the options available. A leading local Venture Capitalist will discuss what VCs look for in fundable start-ups. Neil Kaden, of the MIT Forum and the Angel / Entrepreneur matching organization Texas Venture Post, will moderate.

BIOS:

Michael Camp is President and Chief Executive Officer for VocalData, Inc. and a member of the company's board of directors. Mr. Camp has over 20 years of successful P&L experience in the software, data communications and data/voice convergence industries. His experience ranges from fast growth start-ups, including SAS Institute and Tangram Systems Corporation, where he was respectively a senior vice-president and CEO/principal founder, to divisional general management at Nortel Networks. His most recent responsibilities were as Chairman and CEO of NYSE-traded Tech-Sym Corporation where he engineered a successful financial turnaround and its subsequent sale to Veritas Capital. Mr. Camp received a B.S. in Mathematics from Stetson University.

Neil Kaden, Principal, manages circleNK, a small consulting practice offering personalized business, technology and customer service advice to start-ups and small fast-growing enterprises (www.circleNK.com). Previously at Nortel Networks, he developed extensive expertise in product and customer support, in launching new businesses and in managing small intrepreneurial start-ups from within a large enterprise. While at Nortel Neil handled operations leadership roles for businesses in different stages of maturity, and has led numerous customer-facing product support teams. He has experience in management throughout the high tech product life cycle. Neil is Chairman of the MIT Enterprise Forum of Dallas - Fort Worth, and President of non-profit Texas Venture Post. He earned a BSc Degree from MIT, and an M.Sc. Degree from University of Toronto. Neil has also partnered with Positive Software Systems, Inc. in a business development role to help partners, channels and customers understand how Positive's customer interaction data warehouse solutions create the Universal Contact Center.

Roman Kikta is the Managing Partner and co-founder of Genesis Campus, a technology and business accelerator and venture capital fund. A wireless industry pioneer, Mr. Kikta's visionary approach to technological innovation is well documented. Mr. Kikta is an acknowledged expert on market trends globally from anthropological, sociological and psychological perspectives, and on the role of technologies on society. Mr. Kikta has held senior management positions in marketing, strategy, planning & development with leading wireless industry companies: Nokia, Panasonic, GoldStar and OKI where he led the development of the first cellular payphone, the first cellular PBX/ inbuilding system and voice recognition dialer, in addition to several generations of mobile, transportable and portable phone designs, features and functions, as well as the initial product launch of PCS in the US. Mr. Kikta is also the founder of E-Life, Inc., (a proposed spin-off from Nokia Corporation), and co-founder of SpeedLink Communications (DSL/ Broadband Services Provider in the UK), and GWH, Inc. (Global Wireless Holdings).

Mr. Kikta is distinguished by an outstanding track record in attracting, evaluating and advising portfolio companies based on his considerable experience in technology, marketing, business development, product planning and development, program management and general operations management.

In addition to developing several industry firsts, Mr. Kikta is the co-author of four books published by McGraw-Hill on communication technologies: "Wireless Internet Crash Course"; "3G for Wireless Demystified"; "Delivering xDSL", and "CDMA IS-95 for Cellular and PCS: Technology, Economics and Services". Mr. Kikta was most recently the Director of Strategy and Business Creation at Nokia Ventures Organization, a unit of Nokia Corporation, were he was responsible for the identification, assessment of and investment in new product concepts, applications, technologies and ventures that extended Nokia's traditional boundaries.

Mr. Kikta was named a "2001 High Tech All-Star" by Dallas/ Ft. Worth TechBiz magazine and is an inventor on two patents. Mr. Kikta is a Fellow of the Radio Club of America; Member of the AeA's Texas Council Board of Directors; Charter Member TIE-DFW; Member of the Richardson Economic Development Technology Advisory Board; Member of the Advisory Council, Entrepreneurs North Texas Foundation; Member of the Board of Directors of Transat Technologies, Mobile Radius, and Prophesi Technologies. Mr. Kikta is a frequently invited speaker on the future of wireless technologies, Innovation and Entrepreneurship and venture capital issues both in the US and Internationally. He has a B.A. degree in History and Economics from Rutgers University.

David C. Rex is the Managing Director of the Technology Ventures Group and a Partner of Jackson Walker L.L.P. specializing in assisting entrepreneurs and emerging growth companies from formation to exit, with an emphasis on securities, mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances, venture capital financing and general corporate finance. Mr. Rex is a member of Jackson Walker's Biotechnology, Internet/E-Commerce, Securities, Technology and Transactions practice groups.

Mr. Rex is the creator of the Basic Training for Entrepreneurs conferences for entrepreneurs which are designed to expand their knowledge of the process for taking their business concepts from idea to IPO and to help improve the odds of success for their venture. Mr. Rex also operates the Startup Venture Toolbox web site that provides free information and assistance to entrepreneurs with the goal of helping entrepreneurs achieve their objectives as well as providing a forum for the exploration of entrepreneurial ideas and issues. He regularly speaks on legal and business issues related to private equity and other alternatives for financing businesses.

Mr. Rex is the President and a member of the Board of Directors of the Texas Nanotechnology Initiative, a consortium of industry, universities, government and venture capitalists whose mission is to establish Texas as a world leader in the discoveries, development and commercialization of nanotechnology. He is also a Stakeholder Advisory Board Member of STARTech Early Ventures, a high-tech business accelerator that assists startups in maturing their business and business plan until they receive first round funding. Mr. Rex is an advisory board member of the MIT Enterprise Forum of Dallas - Fort Worth whose mission is to nurture the infrastructure for technology-oriented companies in North Texas. He is a member of The Nesheim Group, a group of professionals around the world that collaborate on the process of converting ideas into world-class new enterprises that is led by John L. Nesheim, best selling author of High Tech Start Up: The Complete Handbook for Creating Successful New High Tech Companies.