Upcoming Events

ANZA Technology Network in conjunction with ADVANCE present a panel discussion on Start Up Funding
Alternatives - October 5th 2005.

Bootstrapping or Venture Backing
What is the best option for technology entrepreneurs?

In Silicon Valley the traditional growth path for many technology entrepreneurs is via venture funding. In contrast, Australian entrepreneurs are notorious bootstrappers who build their businesses on the smell of an oily rag. Each path represents unique challenges to the entrepreneur as they build and scale successful technology businesses.

This panel of seasoned Australian entrepreneurs who have vast experience in Silicon Valley will explore the issues and provide insights from both sides of the argument. Not only will this be a lively debate, but it will be a celebration of Aussie entrepreneurship here in Silicon Valley.

Date of Event: Wednesday, October 5th 2005, 6:30pm – 9:00pm

Location: Stanford University, Palo Alto. (Specific directions will be provided to registrants).

Registration: This is a free event however pre-registration is required.

Register at: http://www.anzatechnet.com/conference2005/reg_all/panel_reg1.jsp

Panelists

Greg Clark – President and CEO, E2Open

Gower Smith - Founder & CEO, Zoom Systems

Adrian Turner - CEO Mocana

Moderator: George Foster, Professor, Graduate School of Business, Stanford

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Panelists Bio’s

Greg Clark – President and CEO, E2Open

Greg is responsible for leading E2open's overall operations, focusing on the development of new products and technologies, and the successful delivery of customer projects. Clark previously held the positions of Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technology Officer at E2open where he drove all activities associated with deploying and scaling E2open's products and services, and led the company in ensuring customer satisfaction. He joined the company in January 2001 as E2open's Chief Technology Officer responsible for building the technology team and delivering the company's first generation of products. He had served as an E2open virtual employee from the company's inception in June 2000

Before joining E2open, Clark was an IBM Distinguished Engineer and Vice President at IBM's Tivoli Systems Inc. headquartered in Austin, Texas. He led Tivoli's security architecture group and spearheaded product architecture and strategy for Tivoli's net generation management and control offerings.

Prior to joining IBM, Clark founded, was majority stockholder, and served in multiple executive positions including Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer of Dascom, Inc., a web security management technology company acquired by IBM in 1999. Founded by Clark in 1994, Dascom is recognized as a visionary web application security pioneer, and its products were licensed to industry leaders, such as IBM, HP, Netscape, Candle, and the Japanese security bellwether Secom Corporation. After IBM acquired Dascom and consolidated the Tivoli, Dascom, and IBM security product lines, Clark joined Tivoli. The Dascom products now form the core of security and policy management products within IBM. Prior to the IBM acquisition, Dascom was a global company with offices in Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan, Australia, the UK and Europe. Prior to Dascom, Clark led the Asia Pacific development and porting team at AT&T UNIX System Laboratories (USL), a division of Bell Labs, responsible for the integration and support of UNIX technologies in the Pacific Rim. Clark spent several years as a key contributor and leader of the team that worked on the Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) standard, UNIX ports to SMP hardware, and ports of network management technology to telecommunications transmission equipment. His team was influential in the development of the network communications software for SVR4, which is the foundation of Sun's Solaris platform. Prior to USL, Clark worked in the advance manufacturing division of BDM Corporation and led the core technical team at the serial I/O hardware manufacturer Stallion Technologies.

Clark has been instrumental in the security standards arena, driving authorization standards in The Open Group, the Object Management Group, the Securities Industry Middleware Council, and the Internet Engineering Task Force. Clark attended the University of New Mexico for post-graduate studies in computer science and received a bachelor's degree in physics from Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia.

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Gower Smith, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Zoom Systems

Gower has created shareholder wealth in 6 technology businesses in the Asian region including 4 successful start-ups. These included Computerland, a retail business, Australian distribution for Apple Computer Products (www.apple.com), Archives Computers, a successful networking and software company, which was sold to Impact Systems in 1987, and Boomerang Imaging Supplies which was sold in 1997. Gower led the turnaround of Impact Systems (publicly listed business) which was acquired by Gestetner, and he became responsible for Asian region marketing operations for Gestetner (www.Gestetner.com), a $1.5 billion company. He relocated Zoom Systems to San Francisco in January 2000 to capitalize on a significant global opportunity.

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Adrian Turner, CEO Mocana

Adrian Turner has more than 15 years of international business experience. Prior to founding Mocana, Adrian was responsible for west coast Business Development and Alliances for Kenamea; was responsible for Marketing and Business Development for Evite.com - which grew to 14 million users during his tenure before being acquired by what is now Interactive Corp (NASD:IACI) and had P&L responsibility for developing infrastructure to support Philips Electronics' (NYSE:PHG) connected consumer and business devices. Adrian began his career in Australia with News Corporation (NYSE:NEWS).

Adrian holds a business degree in Marketing and Finance from the University of Technology in Sydney Australia and has completed the Executive Program for Managing Growth Companies at Stanford University.

Adrian is also on the Board of Directors of Advance (http://www.advance.org/).

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George Foster

Paul L. and Phyllis Wattis Professor of Management; Director of the Executive Program for Growing Companies; Dhirubhai Ambani Faculty Fellow in Entrepreneurship for 2005-2006

BEc, Univ. of Sydney, 1970, MEc, 1972; PhD, Stanford Univ., 1975; Doctor Honoris Causa, Univ. of Ghent, 1987; Doctor Honoris Causa, Univ. of Vaasa, 1988. AICPA Award for Outstanding Contribution to Accounting Literature, 1981 and 1983; California Society of CPAs, Faculty Excellence Award, 1989; Distinguished Teaching Award, Stanford Business School, 1988–89; Outstanding Educator Award, American Accounting Assn., 1993. Asst. Prof., Univ. of Chicago, 1974–77; Assoc. Prof., Australian Graduate School of Management, 1977–78. At Stanford 1978—.

Research Interests

George Foster’s teaching and research interests are new venture globalization strategies, sports business management, strategic cost analysis, and business modeling in litigation analysis. He is active in venture capital, and the Silicon Valley business community. He serves on the board of several startups and is an advisor to entrepreneurs. He directs the Executive Program for Growing Companies at Stanford University and works with MBA’s in the development of business plans. His MBA courses on “Startup Globalization Strategies” and “Managing to IPO” are popular electives with students in the business and engineering schools at Stanford. His MBA electives in the sports area are "Sports Business Management" (joint with Bill Walsh), "Sports Business Finance", and "Sports Marketing". Foster received a Bachelor and Master’s Degree in Economics (first class honours and University medal) from The University of Sydney and a Ph.D. degree in business from Stanford University. He also has been awarded honorary doctorates from University of Ghent, Belgium and University of Vaasa, Finland. He has previously taught at University of Chicago and Australian Graduate School of Management. Foster is author or co-author of seven books or monographs, including Financial Statement Analysis and Cost Accounting: A Management Emphasis. He is author or co-author of over 30 articles and has received multiple research awards from academic and business associations. He has also been awarded the Distinguished Teaching Award by the Stanford MBA students. Companies he has worked with include Apple Computer, ARCO, Australian Stock Exchange, Borland, DEC, Exxon Corp., Frito-Lay, Hewlett Packard, McDonald’s Corp., and PepsiCo. He regularly gives executive seminars, including one-day seminars in North and South America, Australia, Asia, and Europe.
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