The Investment Side of Technology
“The Purse Strings of Development”
What does it take in today’s sluggish economic climate to get an idea funded? Not only has the venture capital landscape changed radically over the past decade but the very nature of start-ups has also fundamentally evolved. What makes a public tech company a successful investment for an institutional investor? Moderated by Senior Editor of Technology for OTR Global, John Harrington, this panel will explore what type of start-ups VCs and angel investors are looking to fund, how equity investors see the technology landscape and how the latest trends in enterprise technology continue to fuel the search for the Next Big Thing.
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Moderator:
John Harrington
Sector Leader for tech/networking research for OTR Global
John Harrington is the Sector Leader for tech/networking research for OTR Global in San Francisco. He leads a team of reporters in Asia, Europe, India, South America and North America in producing extensive research that covers all layer seven communications and networking services and equipment up and down the OSI stack from the tier one long hail IP networking optical plane through to layer seven application servers hosted in data facilities.
John is a multiple Emmy Award winning investigative with a background in IP networking. He is a past member of the 1nService board of directors, where he served as the director for the identification of market development and business trends. www.otrglobal.com
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Panelist:
Bill McAleer, Managing Director,Voyager Capital
Bill brings to Voyager over 30 years of business experience and 20 years of senior executive and equity financing experience in the information technology industry.
Bill has participated on the boards of 18 companies, including 13 portfolio companies, focusing on software and services, digital media, and wireless. Eight portfolio companies were sold for exits including Amplitude, Attenex, NetPodium, and Tegic Communications. He currently serves on the boards of Melodeo and Yapta and recently was a Director for Avocent (NASDAQ: AVCT), a public technology company acquired in late 2009 by Emerson for $1.2 billion.
Prior to co-founding Voyager in 1997, Bill was President of e.liance Partners, a consulting firm that advised information technology companies on strategy, venture financing and corporate partnering.
He served as Vice President of Finance, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary of Aldus from 1988 to 1994, when the company's revenues grew from $39 to $240 million. He was responsible for global finance, legal, operations, and acquisition activities, including completing the merger with Adobe in 1994. He also served as a senior executive with Westin Hotels from 1979 to 1987.
Bill is active in several industry organizations, including serving as a director for the Washington Technology Industry Association and the Washington Technology Alliance as well as on the Advisory Board for DEMO, one of the industry's premier events. He is the chair of the Advisory Board for the University of Washington Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He also serves on the Advisory Board for Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Business and the Cornell Center for Entrepreneurship as well as a former member of the Cornell Council. He has been a featured speaker at industry conferences and panels. Bill earned a B.S. and an M.B.A. from Cornell University.
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