Capital Chaos

Like its sister event in Silicon Valley, Venture Summit East is a two-day gathering on April 8th-9th that highlights the significant economic, political and technology trends impacting the global growth investor. Venture Summit East features the most influential institutional investors, venture capitalists, corporate buyers, investment bankers and research analysts in the Eastern US in keynote presentations and panel debates. Venture Summit East will also host 14 “Best of Breed CEO Showcases” handpicked from the AlwaysOn annual top 100 private company list, and 36 other qualified six-minute CEO pitches from companies seeking later-stage capital or potential acquirers.

The goal of Venture Summit East is to match growth-company buyers and sellers and identify the most promising innovation-driven, growth investment opportunities. At the Venture Summit, our editors will also honor the “AO Top DealMakers” and the annual “AO Industry Analyst All-Star Team.”

Who Attends Venture Summit East
Five hundred institutional investors, venture capitalists, investment bankers, research analysts and corporate buyers will attend Venture Summit East. The most influential members of the financial and technology media and blogging wicommunityll also be on hand to moderate debates and cover the action. Executives attend Venture Summit East to identify and debate emerging investment opportunities in venture and private equity funds and private growth companies, and to build high-level relationships with technology and greentech CEOs and corporate buyers.

Confirmed and Invited Speakers

• Magid Abraham, Ph.D. President, CEO and Co-Founder, ComScore
• Roger Altman, Chairman & Co- CEO, Evercore
• Tod Bensen, Founder and former CEO, Cazenove Private Equity
• Lise Buyer, Founder, Class V Group
• Charles Carmel, Senior Director, Corporate Development, Cisco Systems
• Dan Ciporin, Venture Partner, Canaan Partners
• Beau Coash, Fidelity Management & Research
• Levy Cohen, CEO, Collarity
• Danny Cohen, Partner, Gemini Israel Fund
• Drew Curtis, Founder, Fark
• Paul Deninger, Vice Chairman, Jefferies & Company
• Katherine Egbert, Jefferies & Co
• Henry Ellenbogen, T. Rowe Price
• Peter Engel, Vice Chairman, Head of Investment Banking, Western Region, JP Morgan
• Tony Florence, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley
• Chris Fralic, First Round Capital
• Bambi Francisco, Founder and CEO, Vator.TV
• David Friend, CEO, Carbonite
• Markus Frind, Founder, Plenty of Fish
• Jonah Goodhart, Managing Member, Point Ventures Group
• Jef Graham, CEO, RGB Networks
• Seth Hallem, CEO, Coverity
• Omar Hamoui, CEO, Admob
• Mike Hess, CEO, Mariah Power
• Aaron Hill, Managing Director, Head of Telecommunications Investment Banking, Cowen & Company
• Eric Hippeau, Managing Director, Softbank Capital
• John Hodge, Senior Advisor, The Blackstone Group
• Sandra Horbach, Carlyle Group
• Brian Hughes, KPMG
• Wayne Jackson, Chairman & CEO, SourceFire
• Dave Johnson, Head of Corporate Development, IBM
• Deepak Kamra, General Partner, Canaan Partners
• Doug Kehring, SVP, Oracle
• Imran Khan, JPMorgan
• David Kidder, CEO, Clickable
• David Kostman, MD & Head of Internet I-banking, Lehman Brothers
• Warren Lammert, Founder and Chief Investment Officer, Granite Point Capital
• Waikit Lau, Co-Founder, ScanScout
• Mark Mahaney, Citigroup
• Jeff Matthews, RAM Partners
• Brian McAndrews, SVP, Microsoft
• Paul McNamara, CEO, Coghead
• Bob Metcalfe, Polaris Ventures
• Jonathan Miller, Co-Founder, Velocity Investment Group
• Allen Miner, General Partner, SunBridge Partners
• Brian Modoff, Deutsche Bank
• David Moore, CEO, 24/7 Real Media
• Kara Nortman, VP of M&A, IAC
• Gil Penchina, CEO, Wikia
• Tony Perkins, Founder, AlwaysOn
• Leslie Pfrang, Managing Director, Deutsche Bank Securities
• Jack Philbin, President and Co-Founder, Vibes
• John Prior, CEO, Needham & Company
• Lyndon Rive, CEO, SolarCity
• Kevin Ryan, CEO, Alley Corp
• Jit Saxena, CEO, Netezza
• Parag Saxena, Vedanta Capital
• Victor Siegel, CEO, Blue Frog Media
• Christopher Spray, Partner, Atlas Venture
• Youssef Squali, Jefferies & Co
• Greg Strakosch, Co-founder, TechTarget
• Ed Sullivan, KPMG
• Kevin Surace, CEO, Serious Materials
• Kara Swisher, Staff Reporter, Wall Street Journal
• Tom Watts, Managing Director, Cowen and Company
• Paul Wick, Head of the Seligman Technology Group, J & W Seligman
• Ramu Yalamanchi, CEO, Hi5

Trends and Topics

• East Coast VCs Go Green
• Is There Still Upside in the Internet?
• The Boutiques Versus the Bulge Bracket Firms
• So You Wanna be a VC
• Corporate Buyers — Investing in Green
• The AO All Star Analyst Team
• Corporate Buyers — What’s Whetting Their Appetite?
• Corporate Media & Entertainment — What are They Looking For?
• The State of the Tech IPO Buyers & Sellers

Tickets are on sale now and you can get them by registering here.