ADVISORY/Kodiak's Ilan Carmi to Moderate Fabless Semiconductor Association Panel at Semiconductor Venture Fair Conference.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers ADVISORY...for Thursday Thursday: see week. (Feb. 27, 2003) Semiconductor Venture Fair Conference --(BUSINESS WIRE) Panel to Discuss "Building a Successful Fabless Business Model: From A to IPO (Initial Public Offering) The first time a company offers shares of stock to the public. While not a computer term per se, many founders, employees and insiders of computer companies have found this acronym more exciting than any tech term they ever heard. " Ilan Carmi, Partner at Kodiak Venture Partners and co-chair of the second annual Semiconductor Venture Fair Conference, will moderate a panel of fabless semiconductor company A fabless semiconductor company specializes in the design and sale of hardware devices implemented on semiconductor chips. It achieves an advantage by outsourcing the fabrication of the devices to a specialized semiconductor manufacturer called a semiconductor foundry or "fab. executives who will discuss "Building a Successful Fabless Business Model: From A to IPO." The panel is sponsored by the Fabless Semiconductor Association. The panel discussion, which is targeted to executives of start-up companies start-up company A new business. , will cover topics ranging from assembling a winning management team, developing a clear business plan, funding and financing. In addition, the panel will discuss how to build infrastructure with customers, partners and suppliers, as well as how to determine the right market technology, enter the market and sustain a winning position. In addition to moderator moderator - A person, or small group of people, who manages a moderated mailing list or Usenet newsgroup. Moderators are responsible for determining which email submissions are passed on to the list or newsgroup. Carmi, panel members will include:
-- Paul Russo, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Silicon Optix
-- Jim Boyd, chief financial officer of ESS Technology, Inc.
-- Steve Michael, vice president of operations of Exar Corporation
-- Dan Steere, vice president of marketing and acting chief financial officer of Matrix Semiconductor
Details
What: Ilan Carmi of Kodiak will moderate a panel of fabless
company executives. The panelists will discuss how to build
a successful fabless semiconductor business model.
Where: Semiconductor Venture Fair Conference
Wyndham San Jose
1350 N. First Street
San Jose, CA 95112-4789
When: Thursday, February 27, 2003 from 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. PT
Ilan Carmi Biography Ilan Carmi, a Partner at Kodiak Venture Partners, has extensive entrepreneurial en·tre·pre·neur n. A person who organizes, operates, and assumes the risk for a business venture. [French, from Old French, from entreprendre, to undertake; see enterprise. , engineering leadership and general management experience in the chip, data and communications markets in companies such as Nortel Networks (Nortel Networks Limited, Brampton, Ontario, www.nortelnetworks.com) A world leader in telecommunications products, which includes switching, wireless and broadband systems for service providers and carriers, telephones and systems for residential and business users, computer telephony , 3Com and Chipcom Corporation. At Kodiak, he focuses on semiconductor and communications/IT investment opportunities. He is Chairman of the Board of CipherOptics and Trebia and serves on the boards of Azimuth azimuth (ăz`əməth), in astronomy, one coordinate in the altazimuth coordinate system. It is the angular distance of a body measured westward along the celestial horizon from the observer's south point. Networks, BTI BTI Beverage Testing Institute BTI Boyce Thompson Institute BTI British American Tobacco (stock symbol) BTI Boston Theological Institute Bti Bacillus Thuringiensis Israelensis BTI BioTechnology Institute BTI Binding Tariff Information Photonics, and Tiaris. Carmi will be available for one-on-one press interviews following the panel. About Kodiak Venture Partners Kodiak Venture Partners is a Waltham, Mass.-based venture capital firm focused on seed and early stage investments in emerging communications/IT, semiconductor and software companies. With a focus in the eastern regions of the U.S. and Canada, Kodiak Venture Partners builds relationships with entrepreneurs seeking accelerated market success. Kodiak's investment partners are successful high-technology business entrepreneurs who take a high-impact, hands-on approach to forming, operating, building and funding market leaders. For more information, visit www.kodiakvp.com. |
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