In Conjunction with
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCE

8:00am - 9:30am

Women's Networking Breakfast
Hosted by Mary Bechmann '79, General Partner, Sherbrooke Capital and Kef Kasdin '85, General Partner, Battelle Ventures

Panelists:
Dr. Barbara Schwartz *79, Worldwide President, Gynecare of Johnson & Johnson
Diane Gargano '84, President, Harvard Clinical Technology;
Kristen Heissenbuttel '99, General Manager, Doyle Sailmakers;

9:30am - 9:45am

Opening Remarks
Charles Goodwin '93, President of PrincetonEN
Maria Klawe, Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science

9:45am - 10:30am

Keynote Address
John C. Bogle '51, Founder, Vanguard Group Inc.

Mr. Bogle is Founder of The Vanguard Group Inc. and President of the Bogle Financial Markets Research Center. He created Vanguard in 1974 and served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer until 1996 and Senior Chairman until 2000. The Vanguard Group is one of the two largest mutual fund organizations in the world with more than 100 mutual funds with current assets totaling about $650 billion. Vanguard 500 Index Fund, the largest fund in the group, was founded by Mr. Bogle in 1975. It was the first index mutual fund. Fortune magazine named Mr. Bogle as one of the investment industry’s four "Giants of the 20th Century" in 1999, and in 1997, he was named one of the "Financial Leaders of the 20th Century" in Leadership in Financial Services (Macmillan Press Ltd., 1997).

For more information read the February 25, 2004 article about John Bogle '51 from the Princeton Alumni Weekly.

10:40am - 11:30am

Session I - Panel Discussions & Entrepreneurs' Workshops

Early Stage Entrepreneurship

• Panel Discussion: Taking The Plunge
  Coming up with an idea, committing to a new venture, and starting the business
  

  Panelists:
  Richard Sun '72, Principal, Sun & Co. (Moderator)
  Mac Lewis '68, Partner, Sherpa Partners;
  Mark Searle '86, Co-Founder and CEO, Addamark Technologies;
  Dr. Stephen Forrest, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Princeton Materials Institute, Princeton University
  John Quigley, Managing Partner, Nassau Capital;

• Entrepreneurs Workshop: How To Write A Star Business Plan
  

  Presenter:
  Ray Thek, Director, Lowenstein Sandler PC

• Panel Discussion: Acquisitions
  When do they make sense, what is the process, who can help, how to integrate, how to pay for them
  

  Panelists:
  Jay Finkelstein '75, Partner, Piper Rudnick (Moderator)
  Terry Macaleer '72, President & CEO, Tremont Health Systems
  Tom Ward '85, Senior Partner, Hale & Dorr LLP
  Stephanie Schnabel '87, Partner, Accenture

• Entrepreneurs Workshop: Making Money
  How to create buzz on the cheap, developing marketing strategies, working with partners
  

  Presenter:
  Scott Laughlin '90, Partner, LM&O Advertising
  

Corporate Entrepreneurship

• Panel Discussion: Entrepreneurship in a Fortune 500 company
  Is it possible, how to avoid the bureaucracy, how to make the breadth and depth work for you
  

  Panelists:
  Joshua Glantz '90 (Moderator) John Pittenger '78, Senior Vice President for Corporate Strategy, Koch Industries, Inc.
  Erna Prickett Adelson '79, Chief Information Officer, Sony eSolutions

11:40am - 12:30pm

Session II - Panel Discussions & Entrepreneurs Workshops

Early Stage Entrepreneurship

• Discussion Panel: Financing Strategies
  Whether and how to approach a VC, when to self-finance, what help does the government provide
  

  Panelists:
  Edward Zimmerman, Chair of the Tech Group , Lowenstein Sandler PC (Moderator)
  Andrew Lerner '87, Managing Director, Inter-Atlantic Group
  Daniel Flatley, General Partner, Masthead Venture Partners
  Ramana Jampala, Principal, SAS Investors
  
  

• Entrepreneurs Workshop: Corporate Formation & Structure
  What type of corporation, where to incorporate, what is the process, & who can help
  

  Presenter:
  William J. Thomas, Partner, Hale and Dorr LLP

Later Stage Entrepreneurship

• Discussion Panel: Outsourcing
  When to do it, what functions, using off-shore resources, managing the relationships
  

  Panelists:
  Rochelle Smith '89, Managing Partner, Marincorp Partners (Moderator)
  Mike Patterson '99, Transpac Access
  Ed Walters, CEO, Fastcase
  John Nicholson, Technology Outsourcing Group, Shaw Pittman, LLP

• Entrepreneurs Workshop: Selling Your Business
  When should you sell, how do you sell, what is the value of your business, how do you structure the deal
  

  Presenter:
  David F. Kroenlein P93 P96 P01, Partner, Winston & Strawn LLP

Corporate Entrepreneurship

• Discussion Panel: Growing Your Business Internationally
  When to take the plunge, what countries to target, should you partner, what about acquisitions
  

  Panelists:
  Dorothy Adams '83, Capital Value (Moderator)
  Jane Dietze '87, Partner, Columbia Capital;
  Jack Hellmann '92, CFO, Genessee & Wyoming Inc.;
  John Rooke, Director of Business Development, Montréal International.

Companies will compete in one of three categories and a winner will be announced for each category:
• Seed Company/Start-up
• Early Stage
• Expansion/Mezzanine

If you are interested in participating in the competition, please enter by sending your business plan to businessplans@princetonen.org no later than April 30, 2004. We welcome all submissions. All Business plans will be kept confidential. Companies who have been selected to compete will be notified by May 14, 2004.

Panel Discussion: Taking the Plunge & Starting a Not-For-Profit
Coming up with an idea, committing to a new venture, and starting the business

Panelists:
Augie Wolf '83, President, Ivy Athletic Trust
Mark Robert Gordon '91, Founding Artistic/Executive Director, Do Gooder Productions, Inc.
Michael Weiksner '95, Founder, e-thepeople
Diane K. Weeks '75, Law Office of Diane K. Weeks
Suzanne Tufts '77
Sherry Riva, P55 Social Venture Fund

2:10pm - 2:50pm

Business Plan Competition - Finals

Not-For-Profit Business Plan Showcase

3:00pm - 5:00pm

Launch of the SEAS Strategic Plan
Introduction by President Tilghman, Princeton University
Presentation by Dean Klawe, School of Engineering and Applied Science

5:00pm - 7:00pm

Networking Social