Mobile apps successful startups

Building Apps is not enough. Build your company!

Agenda:

5:30PM Networking
6PM Introduction
6:10 Speakers

Carl Showalter, General Partner, Opus Capital

Herman A. White, Jr. – Senior Vice President, Business Banking, Technology Credit Union

Nolan Wright, CTO & Co-founder, Appcelerator

Shawn Shen, Developer Advocate, Google

Zvika, Founder, Mobile App Loader

Panel Moderator: Mark F. Radcliffe, Partner, DLA Piper

7:40 Panel Discussion

Carl Showalter is investing in Internet and data communications startups and brings more than 12 years of operating experience to Opus. Previously, Carl was a General Partner with Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Prior to this Carl served as Vice President of Marketing at Juniper Networks, where he built and led a global marketing and product management organization. Before Juniper, Carl was Vice President of Dial and Broadband Services for UUNET, overseeing the 300-person, $1B revenue division.

He also held various sales and management positions at ANS, an AOL company, where he helped build AOL’s modem access network and then helped launch hardware-based firewalls and IP VPNs in the mid 1990’s. Carl began his career at Bellcore, focusing on network security and data service delivery. At Bellcore, Carl performed logical and physical attacks on phone company infrastructure, helping them fix these vulnerabilities.

Carl holds a BS degree in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia and an MS degree in Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford University.

Herman White has been working with technology companies and startups throughout
Silicon Valley, the US and Asia for over 20 years. Prior to joining Tech CU, he
was a co-founder and Partner at CrossBridge Venture Partners, where he invested in
such companies as Good Technology (acquired by Motorola), eSilicon, Bytemobile,
Orchestria, and HedgeStreet (acquired by IG Group). Before founding CrossBridge,
Herman worked in a variety of positions at Silicon Valley Bank, and was also involved in venture debt and venture lending to early stage companies. Earlier in his career, Herman
worked in technology lending, project finance, public finance, trade finance, real estate finance, and international banking at The Sumitomo Bank, Limited and Mercantile Bank, N.A.

Herman holds a BA in Economics from The University of Utah and a Masters in International Management from Thunderbird School of Global Management. He was formerly a Director of Thunderbird’s North America Alumni Council. Herman is a frequent speaker to groups on such topics as startups and entrepreneurship.

Along with his passion for working with entrepreneurs and making early stage investments, Herman enjoys spending time with his family.

Nolan leads engineering and product management at Appcelerator. Before
co-founding Appcelerator, Nolan led engineering and product management for
Vocalocity, a VoiceXML platform company. Nolan started his career at
Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), and then went to work for Netscape.
Nolan graduated from Vanderbilt University with a degree in Electrical
Engineering.