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Registration: Required

• OPEN-SV members – Free
• Non-members – $30

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OPEN Silicon Valley Monthly Mentorship Breakfasts provide a terrific opportunity for entrepreneurs and industry professionals to meet with experts in their respective field, in a relaxed, informal setting, to build relationships and get valuable business and career feedback. Participants deliver an elevator pitch for 30 to 60 seconds, and the guest mentor provides immediate feedback, enabling fast, effective, accessible mentoring and relationship development.

This OPEN-SV Mentorship Breakfast event is hosted by Malika Junaid.

Malika Junaid is an award winning Architect, founder and principal of M•Designs Architects. She has won several awards for her exceptional work including a prestigious Environmental Quality Award for the most Green home from the City of Menlo Park, CA. Malika is currently a Planning Commissioner for the City of Los Altos, CA. She is the founder and Director of the the Pakistan Green Building Council, an organization working with private and government organizations in promoting sustainable building practices in Pakistan.

Malika is amongst one of the very few female charter members of Organization of Pakistan Entrepreneur of North America (OPEN). She also currently serves on the board of Development in Literacy (DIL) Silicon Valley chapter. Malika is serving her third year as the Vice President of Business Networking International (BNI) in Mountain View. Malika dedicates a great deal of her time helping non-profit organizations in USA and in Pakistan. Malika strives to bridge the gap between East and West and is always uniting Pakistan and the United States on one platform or another. Malika lives in Los Altos, CA with her Husband Junaid Qurashi and her two daughters Mishal and Alisha.

This will be our first OPEN-SV Mentorship Breakfast event hosted by a woman Charter Member.

Hilaly was formerly the CEO of enterprise-class eDiscovery management platform maker Clearwell systems, which was acquired by Symantec last year for $410 million. While at Clearwell, Hilaly helped the company grow from small group of engineers into a profitable company with over $80 million in annual revenue.

Prior to leading Clearwell, Hilaly was the Founder and CEO of data center automation company CenterRun, which was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2003. Hilaly is no stranger to Sequoia—both Clearwell and CenterRun had raised funding from the firm. Considering Hilaly’s success rate and experience in the enterprise, sounds like a talent win for the firm. TECHCRUNCH

General Description:

The Vice President of Finance with minimum of 5 years experience will be responsible for accounting/financial reporting to include grant reporting, audit oversight, strategic planning/budgeting, capital planning, and new business finance functions.

The position will be responsible for providing executive leadership, financial strategies and the management of financial resources to ensure the achievement of the company’s business plans and objectives. The position is also responsible for the company’s overall financial plans and policies to insure GAAP compliance. A principal responsibility will be to ensure the quality of financial management throughout the organization, including processes and business analysis and providing informative reports to the entire senior management team.

Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting or related field required, MBA or related Master’s degree preferred. CPA preferred but not required.

Specific Responsibilities:

• Provide executive leadership for significant financial growth.

• Establish financial policies, practices and procedures for the company in accordance with GAAP.

• Establish appropriate business controls to engender an appropriate “results focus” in decision making. Lead the business through the challenges of growth and position the business to capitalize on as yet undiscovered opportunities.

• Understand and analyze company financial performance as it relates to forecasted profitability.

• Improve profit as dictated by annual and quarterly business plans.

• Coordinate expenditure programs to coincide with forecasted cash flow.

• Analyze and review every facet of the business, including such things as revenue return, pricing, forecasting and taking the appropriate actions to achieve margin improvement and net profit improvement on every element of the business.

• Participate with the senior management team in preparing financial presentations for company executives, shareholders and financial institutions.

• Take initiative with ideas and actively help lead the company regarding strategic and tactical management issues, bringing financial and general management expertise to the company’s leadership.

• Maintain strict confidentiality of internal and external information.

• Other duties as assigned.

• Ability to travel overseas is a must.

Annual salary based on experience but will range between $100,000-$160,000.

Please email or fax your resume to:

Malea Farsai
Malea.farsai@netsoltech.com

Fax: (818) 222-9197

“Be the entrepreneur of your life,” encouraged Julie Hanna, Chair of the Board at Kiva and keynote speaker for OPEN Silicon Valley: 4^th Annual Women Leadership Forum.  “Think about aligning your greatest passion and your natural talents with the world’s greatest needs.”

Ms. Hanna’s inspirational journey from childhood through the business world kicked off the event held February 11, 2012 at the Computer History Museum and mirrored the forum’s theme:  inspire, impact, and win.  She is a serial entrepreneur who is driven by her belief in information technology as a democratizing force for social, political, and business disruption.  Early on, she set out to change attitudes.

As a 12-year-old, Julie loved baseball.  One problem:  girls were not allowed to register for the baseball league in her hometown.  Not easily deterred, she mustered her courage, went down to the city office where registration was occurring, and explained, “I’m here to register for baseball.”

“Well, bless your heart, hon,” kindly replied the city worker.  “Girls don’t play baseball.”

“Oh, yes they do, “ bravely stated Julie, “and Title IX says you have to let me play.”

As Ms. Hanna reflected on this story, she reminded us  ‘how we respond when someone tells us no’ is very important.  In this situation, her mission had been to prove girls can do anything boys can do and she eventually was allowed to play baseball in a boy’s league.

“Small acts do have a big impact,” shared Ms. Hanna.  “When I see someone struggling financially, I wonder how lack of fair access has determined their fate.   People living in poverty are not victims.  Talent is universal.  Opportunity is not.”

The internet has helped far-flung and domestic entrepreneurs capitalize on opportunities by using Kiva’s micro-lending resources.  Co-founded by Matt Flannery and Jessica Jackley in 2005, Kiva has grown from funding $1 million in loans per year to funding $1 million in 5 days.   The non-profit is closing in on funding $300 million in 2012.  Eighty percent of borrowers are women and Kiva has focused on depressed areas in the US as well as abroad.  In Pakistan, $5 million in loans was awarded to a total of 20,000 entrepreneurs.

Further sparking the aspirations of the attendees, Ms. Hanna shared a quote from  Dr. Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Winner:  “All human beings are entrepreneurs.  When we were in a cave we were all self-employed…finding our food, feeding ourselves.  As civilization came, we suppressed it.  We became labor, because they stamped us ‘you are labor.’  We forgot that we are entrepreneurs.”

When asked how to leverage our resources,  Ms. Hanna advised, “Take an idea you are obsessed about,  get started and  ‘throw yourself off the cliff.’   Try to run experiments as quickly and cheaply as possible.  Be sure to pick the part of your hypothesis that is the most risky and remember, persistence is 90% of what makes an entrepreneur successful.”

For more information, visit:  www.kiva.org and http://www.opensiliconvalley.org/events/wlf/

We work with both startups as well as well as larger companies and help them build their software products and applications.

Folio3 is a mid-sized company with about 200 employees globally. We are expanding our team in Silicon Valley and looking for outstanding individuals for the following positions:

Business Analyst  / Product Manager Job Description:

• Work with customers to elicit and understand business requirements for projects
• Prioritize and translate high-level business requirements into detailed functional specifications, including use cases and wireframes
• Serve as liason between the customer and development team, which will be mostly offshore: coordinate meetings and communication
• Contribute to Project Management deliverables and metrics
• Assist in roll-out strategy as an active participant in user training and post production support needs.
• Assist with the Presales process by understanding customer requirements, engaging customers and working on proposals

Job Requirements:

• 2 years of experience as a Business Analyst or related discipline
• Bachelor’s Degree required, preferably in Computer Science or related technical discipline
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Experience running requirements gathering sessions, documenting the results
• Experience writing detailed specifications including flow charts, wireframes and use case documentation
• Strong experience and interest in designing web and mobile applications
• Experience tracking, resolving and managing specification issues to completion
• Self-motivated, highly organized, able to work on multiple projects in parallel
• Collaborates easily with multidisciplinary teams (Development, Product Management, QA, Implementation Services, Support, Training)

Why work for Folio3:

• Work on the coolest technologies and business domains without being locked into any one: we build cutting edge apps for smartphones, addictive games and disruptive cloud and web products for the enterprise
• We’re a rapidly growing global company building a Silicon Valley presence: be part of our founding team in the Valley
• We believe in a good work / life balance and are flexible with timings, and working from home.

When: Saturday, June 2th 2012
Where: Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA

Registration Now OPEN!

www.opensvforum.org

Visit the OPENSV Forum Site by Clicking  Here! – Register now and take advantage of Early Bird Pricing. Early Bird Pricing ends soon!

OPEN Forum is OPEN SV’s flagship event of the year. It is an all-day conference that features prominent venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders from various industries. Attendees have the opportunity to attend keynote addresses, panel discussions, and focused workshops held by seasoned business leaders. Past OPEN Forum conferences have hosted visionaries such as:

• Imran Khan – former Pakistan cricket team captain, philanthropist, and politician
• Pervez Musharraf – former President of Pakistan
• Syed Babar Ali – Founder of Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)
• Mike Moritz – General Partner, Sequoia Capital
• Howard Dean – Chairman, Democratic National Committee
• Hussain Haqqani – Pakistan’s Ambassador to the USA
• Tom Campbell – Former Congressman and former Dean of the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley

Professional Development activities at OPEN Silicon Valley are aimed to make OPEN more relevant for all the professionals in the community. While OPEN was originally formed to cater to budding entrepreneurs who are interested in meeting investors and peers, coming up with ideas or getting their start-up off the ground, a vast majority of our community comprises excellent professionals who would love to be part of  teams at larger companies and do great work.

These professionals want OPEN to also help them. Whether its to identify new opportunities and jobs or ways to move up the corporate ladder or help with resume critique, OPEN is there to help. Over the years, many of OPEN’s Charter Members and larger community has helped OPEN members and attendees to our events, find new opportunities and jobs. Our aim is to ensure that every significant OPEN event should include tracks focused solely on professionals in the community. In addition, we plan to invite more professionals to join OPEN as members and panelists and Charter Members, as well as attend OPEN events.

Vice President Professional Development: Faisal Jeddy

Chairman of Professional Development Committee: Yasser Z Khan

RESOURCES

Non-Corporate Careers

Gen-Y (Faran Tahir)

I invite you all to join us at our monthly planning and success story meeting, held every second Wednesday at SAP, Palo Alto. If you are interested in event management, marketing, media, membership, sponsorship or have an event to lead using OPEN’s platform, this is the meeting to attend and share your thoughts.

Lastly, I look forward to seeing your active engagement and your continued participation in the future, as we all learn how to better inspire, impact, and win. I hope you benefit from the panels and the stellar panelists at this forum, and choose to be a part of the Women leadership Forum come 2013.

Sincerely,

Moazzam Chaudry
President, OPEN Silicon Valley, 2011-2013

http://www.opensiliconvalley.org/wlf2012

“Congratulations to the OPEN SV Team for setting up this successful event: speakers were phenomenal, turn out was great and very interesting topics were discussed.”

Cloudy Funding Forecast Ahead For Start-Ups or Year of The Entrepreneur? - hear from leading VCs & Angels on how to get started!

• Have a breakthrough idea but don’t know how to get it started or funded?
• How to ensure that you have the right recipe for a successful business?
• How do investors gauge the chances of success for a startup and contribute capital?
• What important legalities should you pay attention to?
• What does it take for an innovative idea to land a top investor in its early stage?

This event will answer all of these questions and more in a casual environment that will help you get started in 2012. Hear from our panel of top angel investors, venture capitalists, and lawyers on how to get your startup funded. This is your chance to ask all of your important questions with some of Silicon Valley’s finest.

Tim Lenderking Office Director for Pakistan Affairs at the State Department

Tim Lenderking is the director of the Office of Pakistan Affairs in the Bureau of Central and South Asian Affairs for the U.S. Department of State.

Prior to joining the Pakistan Office, Lenderking completed two tours in Baghdad, the first as the Senior Democracy Advisor at the U.S. Embassy, and then as the policy advisor to LTG Charles Jacoby at Camp Victory. Before his Iraq tour, Lenderking served as the economic counselor and Acting Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait. He was also the political counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Rabat, Morocco from 2002 to 2006.

Lenderking has also held posts in Lebanon, Bangladesh, and Syria. He joined the Foreign Service in 1993 after a career in the refugee field, where he held numerous positions with American NGOs and with the United Nations, working in New York, Sudan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Thailand.

Lenderking holds a master’s degree in history and international relations from the University of Washington and a bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University. He is the recipient of seven Superior Honor Awards.

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Rehan Jalil is the Venture Advisor at the Mayfield Fund and a Limited Partner at Accel.  Previously he was the SVP at Tellabs.  He led WiChorus as a founder and CEO through inception, product delivery, major customer wins and eventual merger with Tellabs for about $200 million in cash and stock. He was the chief architect at Aperto Networks, where he led development of broadband wireless silicon and carrier-grade systems.  At Sun Microsystems, he contributed in development of one of the industry’s earliest advanced multi-core multithreaded processor for throughput computing and graphics applications.  At Siemens, he managed large-scale projects related to system-level design and implementation.

He contributes to social entrepreneurship projects, is on the board of OPEN-SV and Koshish and is a charter member of TIE.  He holds an AMP from Harvard Business School, an MSEE from Purdue University and BEEE from NED University, and has 25 patents granted or pending.  He was named Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalist for 2010.  [ Top ]

Mamoon Hamid General Partner at The Social+Capital Partnership (S23P)

Mamoon is a General Partner at The Social+Capital Partnership (S23P), an early stage Venture Capital firm based in Palo Alto. Mamoon has 15 years of experience in building and investing in high growth technology businesses. He primarily invests in business and consumer services software companies.

Prior to S23P, Mamoon was a Partner at U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), a firm he joined in 2005. At USVP, Mamoon led investments in Act-On Software, Box, Castlight Health, Supplyframe and Yammer and represented USVP on those company’s boards. He was an advisor at Yelp since its inception and previously worked closely with Optichron (acquired by Netlogic/Broadcom).

Before USVP, Mamoon spent six years various engineering and marketing roles at Xilinx. There he was responsible for defining and implementing sales and marketing strategies that grew the company’s consumer electronics and automotive market segment revenues five-fold to $100M in a span of three years.

Mamoon holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University, an MS in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. He is also a graduate of the Kauffman Fellows Program.

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Tabreez Verjee Impact Investor & Entrepreneur

Tabreez Verjee is three time entrepreneur and recovering Venture Capitalist who is now pursuing his greatest passion of investing in and supporting mission driven technology entrepreneurs who are aligning purpose and profit to change the world and affect positive impact at scale.  Some of his angel investments and advisory roles in this area include ClassDojo, Purpose.com, Novica, Blissmo, StayClassy, Women2.0, FounderLabs, and Priya Living.

Tabreez is an early seed funder and member of the board of directors at Kiva.org, the world’s first peer-to-peer lending platform dedicated to connecting people for the purpose of alleviating poverty.  Kiva has provided over $300M in capital from the internet community to over 600,000 borrowers in more than 60 countries with a 98.9% repayment rate.

Tabreez’s started his first entrepreneural venture at 21 years old, where he co-founded and served as Managing Director of Global Entertainment Capital, which raised $150 million for innovative media financings and completed deals like the first ever stand alone investment grade bond securitization of music royalties for heavy metal band Iron Maiden.  He then moved over to the technology and internet space where he co-headed Sonique, maker of some of the first and most popular internet music software that became the 5^th most downloaded application on the Internet in 1999 and was sold for over $70 million.  After Sonique, Tabreez co-founded Global Asset Capital, which started as an angel investment fund and grew into a venture capital firm where he directed more than $500 million in committed assets across multiple venture capital funds and over 40 portfolio companies in the U.S. and Europe.

Tabreez began his career at Bain & Company and received a bachelor of science in Environmental Engineering with honors from University of California at Berkeley. He is also a charter member of TiE, a global, non-profit network dedicated to the advancement of entrepreneurship. [ Top ]

Abrar Hussain Founder and Managing Director of Elixir Capital

Abrar Hussain is a founder and managing director of Elixir Capital.  An insider in the private equity industry, prior to Elixir he was a corporate partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP and one of the most highly regarded emerging markets private equity experts in the country — regularly sought out by some of the world’s largest investment funds including Apollo Management, Soros Fund Management, the Carlyle Group and New Enterprise Associates.  Abrar is also an adjunct faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law and speaks extensively at institutions such as the Harvard Business School, Harvard’s Kennedy School and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on the subject of private equity and emerging markets investments. [ Top ]

Kamal Ahmed Managing Director at Greenlane Advisors

Kamal Ahmed is Managing Director at Greenlane Advisors, a boutique investment banking firm focused on the technology sector. During his 18 year career as an investment banker, Kamal has advised on over $86 billion in M&A transactions and has raised over $47 billion in financing for his clients. Prior to Greenlane Advisors, Kamal was Managing Director in the technology investment banking group at Morgan Stanley. His prior experience includes investment banking roles at Merrill Lynch and CS First Boston. Kamal received a BA from Yale University and an MBA from Cornell University, where he was a JGSM Scholar. [ Top ]