Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship: Calendar of Events



		October 3, 2005 Visiting Lecturer William Hart T'67, Retired Founder & Managing Partner, Technology Partners & Hart Vineyard The speaker will discuss Securities in the Private Equity Finance Course. Tuck Students sign up » October 4, 2005 Visiting Lecturer A. Dana Callow Jr. T'79, Managing General Partner, Boston Millennia Partners Dennis Mitchell, Vice Chair and Chief Executive Officer, MedAptus The speakers will discuss Valuation in the Private Equity Finance Course. Tuck Students sign up » October 5, 2005 Visiting Lecturer Andrew H. Palmer T'94, Co-Founder & CEO, Vertica Systems, Inc. and SVP Operations, Infinity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. The speaker will address the Advanced Entrepreneurship Course. Tuck Students sign up » October 10, 2005 Visiting Lecturer Charles Hutchinson Ph.D., Co-Founder & Executive Chairman of the Board, GlycoFi James Posada, Senior Vice President Business and Market Development, GlycoFi Effie Toshav, Vice President, Legal, GlycoFi The speaker will discuss Venture Capital Investing and Intellectual Property in the Private Equity Finance course. Tuck students sign up » October 11, 2005 Visiting Lecturer Bruce V. Rauner D'78, Senior Principal, GTCR Golder Rauner, LLC The speaker will discuss Roll-ups and Consolidations in the Private Equity Finance Course. Tuck Students sign up » October 15, 2005 Greener Ventures 2005 Greener Ventures is an annual conference on entrepreneurship for students, faculty, researchers, alumni, and staff at Dartmouth and the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Aimed at encouraging entrepreneurial activity among members of the Dartmouth community, this day-long event brings nationally-recognized entrepreneurial leaders (many of whom are Tuck alumni) to discuss pertinent topics and issues involved with entrepreneurial initiatives. In addition to the perennial objectives of providing networking opportunities and learning about entrepreneurial ideas and execution, Greener Ventures always has a broad theme relevant to entrepreneurship, such as commercialization of research. Greener Ventures 2005 will focus on the personal qualities it takes to be entrepreneurially successful. What does it take? When asked to rank factors in evaluating an investment opportunity, angel investors and venture capitalists consistently rank people as the most important key to success. Contrary to accepted wisdom in some quarters, we strongly believe entrepreneurial aptitude can be learned and cultivated. Successful entrepreneurial leaders in business (as well as in other settings) have spent a lifetime developing innate abilities to create a vision, communicate it to others, and motivate a team of talented people to execute successful business ventures. In Greener Ventures 2005 we don't want to just tell our students and other attendees what it takes to succeed entrepreneurially; we also want to show them through exposure to visibly successful and entrepreneurial leaders. New events at this year�s conference will include "E-ship Improv," a unique business competition that underscores this year's focus on people. Three teams of Tuck students will work throughout the day with alumni player-coaches on the same business idea. At the end of the day, each team and its coach will pitch to the conference audience how they would execute the concept. The alumni-player coaches include John Bello T'74, Founder, former CEO, SoBe Beverages; Blair LaCorte T'90, VP, Savi Technology; and Gordie Nye D'76, T'81, General Partner, Prism Venture Partners. In addition, Dartmouth startup companies will be presenting themselves throughout the day and networking with conference participants. These moderated presentations will also include time for questions from the audience, and should be a valuable educational experience for our early-stage companies and conference participants. Greener Ventures 2005 is jointly organized by the Center for Private Equity & Entrepreneurship (Tuck School), Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network (Dartmouth College), the Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth Medical School, and Norris Cotton Cancer Center (Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center). Learn more about Greener Ventures » October 17, 2005 Visiting Lecturer Warren C. Smith Jr. T'83, Managing Director, TH Lee Putnam Ventures The speaker will discuss VC vs. LBO and Career Development in the Private Equity Finance Course. Tuck Students sign up » October 18, 2005 Visiting Lecturer Leon D. Black D'73, Founding Partner, Apollo Management L.P. The visitor will speak in the Private Equity Finance Course. Tuck Students sign up » October 18 & 19, 2005 The 2005 Private Equity Deal Professionals Forum Hotel Sofitel in New York Knowing that in today's fast-paced deal environment there is often little time for professional development within private equity firms, Private Equity International Magazine has created the 2005 Private Equity Deal Professionals Forum, a unique event specifically designed to bolster the skills of talented investment professionals who are interested in being one of tomorrow's private equity leaders. Learn more about this event » October 19, 2005 Visiting Lecturer Richard L. Green D'75, Managing Director, Granite State Angels The speaker will address the Advanced Entrepreneurship Course. Tuck Students sign up » October 20, 2005 Visiting Lecturers Liam S. Donohue T'95, Co-founder & Partner, Arcadia Partners Stuart Pompian, Founder & CFO, Dartware, LLC The speakers will address the Advanced Entrepreneurship Course. Tuck Students sign up » October 31, 2005 Visiting Lecturers James A. Conroy, General Partner, Olympus Partners Robert S. Morris T'80, Managing Partner, Olympus Partners The speakers will discuss Buyouts in the Private Equity Finance Course. Tuck Students sign up »

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This calendar includes Tuck Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship events and other events of interest to the private equity community at large. If you would like to have your event included, please email meagan.pryor@dartmouth.edu.