Bessemer Venture Partners Announces Boston Career Fairs and Technology Symposium.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers WELLESLEY HILLS, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 12, 2000 Over 40 Portfolio Companies to Recruit for Key Positions; Industry Experts to Address Trends and Developments to Watch in 2001 Bessemer Venture Partners Bessemer Venture Partners is a private venture capital firm with offices in Silicon Valley, New York, Massachusetts, China, and India. It has backed such companies as Ciena, Flarion, Parametric Technologies, Skype, Staples, VeriSign and Veritas. (www.bvp.com), the nation's original venture capital practice, today announced that more than 40 of its portfolio companies will be participating in the firm's first-ever Boston career fairs. To be held on Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2001 at the Westford Regency Hotel The Regency Hotel was a hotel in Denver, Colorado. Built in the 1960s to serve as a regional convention center, it was famous locally for its large gold dome and the luxury of the rooms within. in Westford, Mass., and Thursday, Jan. 11, 2001 at the Wyndham Westborough in Westborough, Mass., the career fairs will be held from 4:00-8:00 p.m. in each location. In conjunction with the fairs, BVP also announced today that it is sponsoring "Technology Forecast: 2001," a symposium with leading industry experts in telecommunications, wireless and optical networking Communications between computers, telephones and other electronic devices using light. An optical network is far more reliable and has far greater potential transmission capacity than networking in the electrical domain. See optical fiber. that will be held from 6:00-7:00 p.m. each evening. Companies participating in the career fair include: Allegro Networks, AP Engines, AXSUN Technologies, Azanda Network Devices, BeachFire Technologies, BroaDSLate Networks, Broadsoft Inc., Calmar Optcom, CoManage Corporation, Crescent Networks, DataPower Technology, Ellacoya Network, Envoy Networks, Excara, Gotham Networks, Hatteras Networks, InCert Software, Metratech Corp., Mophics Technology, NetGenesis, Notara, Octave Communications, Optigrab, Oresis Communications, Pelago Networks, Pirus Networks, Sonus Networks, StarGen, Taqua, Telephotonics, Tiburon, Tripwire trip·wire n. 1. A wire stretched near ground level to trip or ensnare an enemy. 2. A wire or line that activates a weapon, trap, or camera, for example, when pulled. 3. , ValiCert, WaveSmith Networks, WorldChain and more. "Over the past six months, Bessemer has made a strong commitment to assisting our companies in recruiting experienced employees and filling critical positions," said Rob Soni, general partner in BVP's Wellesley Hills office. "With the success of our Silicon Valley Career Fair in September 2000, our portfolio companies asked us to develop a similar program in Boston, where they are also experiencing a human capital shortage, especially for skilled engineers, R&D personnel, and IT professionals. Together with the technology symposium, these events will enable our portfolio companies to attract the talent they need to succeed in the marketplace." In conjunction with the career fairs, Bessemer has assembled a stellar cast of high-profile industry experts and luminaries to participate in the "Technology Forecast: 2001" symposiums. The panels, to be held each evening and moderated by Bessemer's communications investors, will discuss key trends and developments to watch in the areas of communications, wireless and optical networking in the coming year. Participants include: Tom Burkardt, COO of Unisphere Networks (www.unispherenetworks.com); Kurt Dobbins, founder and president of Ellacoya Networks (www.ellacoya.com); Inder Gopal, founder and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of ReefEdge (www.reefedge.com) and former Internet Architect at AT&T; Pattie Maes, associate professor, MIT Media Lab 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. ; Maribel Lopez-Dolinov, senior analyst, Telecommunications, Forrester Research (www.forrester.com); R. Scott Raynovich, executive editor, Light Reading (www.lightreading.com); and Jonathan Reeves, vice president and general manager of optical edge, Sycamore Networks (www.sycamore.com). For more information on the career fairs and "Technology Forecast: 2001" symposium, and to pre-register for the events, please visit www.bvp.com or contact us at 650/853-7000. About Bessemer Venture Partners Bessemer Venture Partners, with offices in California, Massachusetts and New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , is the leading national, early-stage venture capital firm in communications technology and Internet infrastructure. The firm manages more than a billion dollars of venture funds, carrying on a tradition of hands-on, active venture investing venture investing The acquiring of a stake in a start-up company by a brokerage firm or analyst by obtaining discounted, pre-IPO shares. Critics claim venture investing causes analysts to have a vested interest in seeing a stock appreciate in value and so that has continued since 1911. Many leading-edge communications companies, including Cascade, Ciena, Flarion, OMM OMM Organisation Météorologique Mondiale (French: World Meteorological Organization) OMM Organización Meteorológica Mundial (Spanish: World Meteorological Organization) OMM Organizzazione Meteorologica Mondiale , Parametric, PSI-Net, QED QED abbr. Latin quod erat demonstrandum (which was to be demonstrated) QED which was to be shown or proved [Latin quod erat demonstrandum] Noun 1. , Sirocco sirocco (sərŏk`ō) [Ital., from Arab. sharq=east], hot, dust-laden, dry, southerly wind originating in the N African desert (most commonly in the spring) and reaching Italy and nearby Mediterranean areas. , Sonus Networks and VeriSign, selected BVP as their early-stage venture partner. For more information, visit www.bvp.com. Note to Editors: All marks are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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