Free seminar on how to interest investors
STC.UNM, the University’s technology-transfer office, will be hosting the first of its fall seminars Wednesday, Sept. 24, from noon to 1 p.m. in the UNM Student Union Building Trailblazer/Spirit Room. The speaker for the seminar will be Roger D. O’Brien, president of O’Brien Associates LLC, who will be speaking on “What Investors Need to Know—Preparing to Raise Money.” This seminar is free and open to the public. Box lunches will be provided.
O’Brien will discuss what investors look for when investing in early-stage companies—the minimum information needed to attract them and the questions they typically ask of those seeking funding.
O’Brien will also provide basic information on angel and venture-capital funding and the various levels of funding that correspond to the stages of a company’s growth.
O’Brien Associates LLC is a general management consulting firm providing management advisory and implantation services with a special focus on growth positioning, technology commercialization, marketing and business plan development and profit improvement.
Prior to starting his firm, O’Brien was COO at Ultralife Batteries Inc. (NASDAQ-ULBI) as well as CEO and major shareholder of Holotek Ltd. His corporate background also includes serving as a corporate officer of Sun Microsystems, CFO of Tenneco Automotive and various management positions with Exxon, Xerox and Combustion Engineering Inc., as well as coaching more than 400 entrepreneurs during his career.
He is a participating member of the New Mexico Angels and an advisor to the Santa Fe Business Incubator and to Technology Ventures Corporation. In addition, he sits on the boards of EMRT and Odyssey Software, is a Trustee and Vice Chair of the Rochester (NY) General Hospital Foundation, and is an Adjunct Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
O’Brien holds a B.S. in Nuclear Engineering from New York University and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School.
To register for this seminar, visit: http://www.stc.unm.edu/news/registration.php?eid=74 or contact Denise Bissell at 272-7310 or dbissell@stc.unm.edu.