ADVISORY/Regis McKenna, CEO, The McKenna Group, 'The Five Laws: Making Sense of the Digital Economy'.News/Assignment Editors ADVISORY...for Wednesday (Oct. 11) --(BUSINESS WIRE)
When: Oct. 11, 2000
7:15-9:00 a.m.
Where: Santa Clara Westin Hotel -- Tasman & Great America Parkway
What: SC University CIE's CEO Global Breakfast Series
Regis McKenna This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. is "one of the 100 people who made Silicon Valley what it is today" (SJ Mercury). For 30 years The McKenna Group has given cutting edge advice on information and telecom technologies and markets. Pennsylvania born and raised, Regis moved in 1965 to Silicon Valley where he played influential marketing roles in the early years of AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. , Apple, Compaq, Electronic Arts, Genentech, Intel, Linear Technology, Lotus, Microsoft, National Semiconductor, Silicon Graphics, 3COM (1) (Computer Output Microfilm) Creating microfilm or microfiche from the computer. A COM machine receives print-image output from the computer either online or via tape or disk and creates a film image of each page. , and others. He helped launch many "firsts": the microprocessor (Intel Corporation), the PC (Apple Computer), a recombinant DNA recombinant DNA n. Genetically engineered DNA prepared by transplanting or splicing one or more segments of DNA into the chromosomes of an organism from a different species. Such DNA becomes part of the host's genetic makeup and is replicated. genetically engineered genetically engineered adjective Recombinant, see there product (Genentech, Inc.), and the retail computer store (The Byte Shop). Regis is a widely sought international consultant and active with startups as a partner in the VC firm of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. His pioneering theories and influential strategies are articulated in his many books: The Regis Touch ('85); Who's Afraid of Big Blue, Relationship Marketing ('92), Real Time, Preparing for the Age of the Never Satisfied Customer ('97). He has appeared on TV's NightLine, Leher Report, and The Today Show. He attended Saint Vincent College History Founded in 1846 by Boniface Wimmer as a men's college, in 1983 it became coeducational. In 2004 the college hired a professional lobbyist and, later that year, two paragraphs were tucked into federal appropriation bills with the help of Representative John P. and Duquesne University and serves on many business, non-profit, and university boards. Come to breakfast and hear about the 5 laws of the digital economy -- Moore's Metcalfe's, Gilder's, Horn's and Darwin's (revised). |
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