Annual West Coast Limited Partners Summit by Dow Jones Private Equity Analyst to Feature John Doerr.SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- The Summit Also Will Feature Views From Prominent Limited Partners Including Stanford Management Company, CalSTRS, Kaiser Family Foundation The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), or just Kaiser Family Foundation, is a U.S.-based non-profit, private operating foundation headquartered in Menlo Park, California. and General Motors Asset Management, Among Others. Dow Jones Dow Jones the best known of several U.S. indexes of movements in price on Wall Street. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 202] See : Finance Private Equity Analyst today announced that venture-capital visionary John Doerr L. John Doerr (born June 29, 1951 in St. Louis, Missouri) is a successful venture capitalist at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers in Menlo Park, California, in the Silicon Valley. will give a wide-ranging talk about the future of technology investing at the Limited Partners Summit West. The Summit will be held Dec. 1 and 2, 2004 at San Francisco's grand Renaissance Stanford Court Hotel The Stanford Court hotel is a hotel in the Nob Hill district of San Francisco, California. It is located between Fisherman's Wharf and Union Square and it is directly on the cable car line. It has 393 room on 8 floors and 3 lifts. atop Nob Hill Noun 1. Nob Hill - a fashionable neighborhood in San Francisco San Francisco - a port in western California near the Golden Gate that is one of the major industrial and transportation centers; it has one of the world's finest harbors; site of the Golden Gate Bridge . In the three years that this summit has been held, Private Equity Analyst has attracted the leading institutional investors, fund-of-funds managers, general partners and other premier private-equity professionals, to this annual event. This year's event features eight panel discussions, two keynote presentations, Mr. Doerr's talk, plus a post-conference workshop that will answer key questions about the risks and rewards of including China in your private-equity strategy. Mr. Doerr, a partner with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, will offer his insights into the future of venture capital, culled from more than 20 years of working at one of the premier West Coast firms in the industry. His sponsorship of investments has included Compaq, Cypress Semiconductor Cypress Semiconductor is a semiconductor design and manufacturing company. It began operations in 1982 and listed publicly in 1986. Two years later, the company shifted over to the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol, (NYSE: CY). , Intuit(R), Macromedia, Netscape(R), Sun(R) Microsystems, Amazon.com(R), Symantec(TM) and Google(TM). Before joining the venture capital firm, Mr. Doerr spent eight years at the front row of the chip revolution at Intel(R). Other highlights of the conference include a panel on the outlook for technology buyouts, featuring Dipanjan Deb of Francisco Partners, Terry Garnett of Garnett & Helfrich, and Scott Honour of Gores Technology Group. Conference attendees also will hear from leading West Coast limited partners including CalSTRS, Stanford Management Company, Kaiser Family Foundation and the San Francisco Employees' Retirement System. Leading venture capitalists from ONSET Ventures, Alta Partners, Palomar Ventures, Institutional Venture Partners and InterWest Partners also will provide a peek into what industries they're currently funding. Dow Jones Venture Capital Analyst's Managing Editor Dave Barry will lead this session. The Summit is a must-attend event for limited partners who want to identify new ways to manage their GP relationships and maximize returns in 2005; general partners who want to raise new funds and improve existing LP relations; and service providers who want to make contact with more than 400 leading private-equity professionals. For more information, or if you are interested in attending this year's summit, please go to http://www.lpsummitwest.com About Private Equity Analyst The Private Equity Analyst (www.PrivateEquityAnalyst.com), published by Dow Jones & Company, Inc., is the leading provider of data, news and analysis for private equity professionals. 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