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Mentorship Breakfasts

OPEN Silicon Valley Monthly Breakfasts provides 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. Participatants deliver an elevator pitch for 30 to 60 seconds, and the guest mentor provides immediate feedback, enabling fast, effective, accessible mentoring and relationship development.

Like some other OPEN events, the partipating in Monthly Breakfasts is available to to all OPEN SV members free of charge. If you are currently not a member and would like to become one click here . If you are interested in hosting or attending a breakfast event please email the Mentorship committee at breakfast@opensiliconvalley.org

Mentorship Breakfast with Osman Rashid

Osman, as co-founder of Chegg, knows something about textbook business. Chegg enabled cash-strapped college students to rent instead of buying textbooks. He is now changing how textbooks are delivered and used. He may have to go head -to-head with Apple who also wants to proliferate use of their iPad based textbooks.

May 07, 2013 | 0 comments | View Post

Mentorship Breakfast with Maria Mohiuddin

This OPEN-SV Mentorship Breakfast event is hosted by Maria Mohiuddin Verjee, the co-founder and partner of Johal & Mohiuddin, LLP, a boutique law firm in downtown San Francisco. Maria’s primary area of practice is immigration law.

Mar 23, 2013 | 0 comments | View Post

Mentorship Breakfast with Nazim Kareemi

Nazim Karimi hosted his mentorship breakfast in Sunnyvale, CA for OPEN SV members. Being a seasoned, serial Silicon Valley entrepreneur, he shared with us nuggets on startups and options in their initial funding…

Feb 10, 2013 | 0 comments | View Post

Mentorship Breakfast with Ashar Aziz of FireEye

This OPEN-SV Mentorship Breakfast event is hosted by Ashar Aziz, Founder, Vice Chairman of the Board, CTO, and Chief Strategy Officer of FireEye

Feb 08, 2013 | 0 comments | View Post

Breakfast w/ Malika

What: Mentorship Breakfast with Malika Junaid When: Friday, May 25th, 2012 Where: Palo Alto, CA Malika invited OPEN-SV members for breakfast at her office in Palo Alto, CA. She is a partner in her architectural firm that deals in commercial, residential and interior designing. Malika graduated in Arcitecture from LSU. After diligence, she had picked [...]

May 25, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post

Breakfast w/ Zulki

Mentor: Zulki Khan Date: Nov 17, 2011 Location: NexLogic, San Jose, CA Zulki Khan is the founder and CEO of NexLogic Technologies primarily invoved in PCB designing, fabrication and manufacturing with list of fortune 100 clients. Prior to founding NexLogic, Zulki was General Manager for Imagineering, Inc., Schaumburg, IL. He graduated in 1988 in Electrical [...]

Nov 17, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post

Breakfast w/ Arif

What: Mentorship Breakfast w/ Arif Jamjua When: Where: Arif Janjua invited the OPEN-SV members for OPEN Mentor Breakfast at Palo Alto Hill Golf and County Club. The topic was, “An insider’s view into Management Consulting”. This event proved to be a great opportunity to learn about management consulting, managing career options after college, and about [...]

Jun 18, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post

Breakfast w/ Zia

What: Mentorship Breakfast with Zia Yusuf When: 8:30AM, Friday, May 13th 2011 Where: Main Street Café, Los Altos, CA Zia Yusuf invited five OPEN SV members for a mentor breakfast event at a café in small Los Altos’s downtown. Zia is the President and CEO of Streetline, Inc that is revolutionizing the way we find [...]

May 13, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post

Breakfast w/ Nadir

What: Mentor Breakfast with Nadir Ali President of Sysorex When: January, 28th, 2011 Where: Al Fornaio, Palo Alto Nadir Ali invited OPEN-SV members for a Mentor Breakfast on Jan 28th at Al Fornaio in Palo Alto. Nadir talked about his experience in clothing industry providing clothing for retailers such as Nordstrom, as a government contractor [...]

Jan 28, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post

Breakfast w/ Faraz

Mentor: Faraz Hoodbhoy, CEO & Founder at Pixsense When: Wednesday, May 5th, 2010 — 8:30 am Click to Sign-up Faraz Hoodbhoy is the founder of PixSense, Inc., a successful Silicon Valley startup that provides a mobile social media platform offered by mobile operators to their subscribers. Faraz is based in Santa Clara and has been an active [...]

May 05, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Breakfast w/ Mahmud

Breakfast with Mahmud: Mentor: Mahmud Virani , Private Wealth Advisor and Vice President UBS When: Monday, May 3rd, 2010 — 8:30 am Click to Sign-up

May 03, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Breakfast w/ Raheel

Breakfast With Raheel Zia , Vice President at Golman, Sachs& Co. When: Monday, April 19, 2010 — 8:30 am Click to Sign-up Where: Brian’s Restuarant, Los Altos, California

Apr 19, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Breakfast w/ Monis

Mentor: Monis Rahman , Chairman and CEO at ROZEE.PK & Naseeb Networks When: Thursday, March 25, 2010 — 8:30 am Click to Sign-up Where: Plug and Play Technology Center, Sunnyvale, California — 8:30 am Monis had a very lively discussion with the mentorship session attendees and he introduced the main idea behind Naseeb as a social networking platform [...]

Mar 25, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Breakfast w/ Faysal

Mentor: Faysal Sohail , Managing Director at CMEA Capital When: Wednesday, March 24, 2010–8:30 am Click to Sign-up Where: Madera Restuarant, Menlo Park, California Faysal started off with introducing himself and how early on he was involved in a venture acquired by Synopsis. Recently at CMEA, he has led the successful growth of Solyndra and A123 in [...]

Mar 24, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Breakfast w/ Fawad

Mentor: Fawad Zakariya , Vice President Business Development at SAP When: hursday, March 18, 2010 – 8:30 am Where: SAP Labs, Palo Alto, California

Mar 18, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Breakfast w/ Shoiab

Mentor: Shoieb Yunus , CEO at Vpype When: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 – 8:30 AM Where: Hobees Cafe, San Jose, CA Shoieb Yunus started off with an introduction of his career with an emphasis on the transition to being an entrepreneur. He discussed his first venture and the valuable experiences that helped him be a more [...]

Jan 26, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Breakfast w/ Rehan

Mentor: Rehan Jalil , President & CEO at Wichorus When: Tue, Dec 21st, 2009 – 8:30 AM Where: Parcel 104 , Santa Clara, CA The following is an exerpt from the summary sent to attendees Rehan met OPEN members over a Monday morning breakfast in the middle of valley. Like previous OPEN breakfast mentors, he too [...]

Dec 21, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

Breakfast w/ Raghib

Mentor: M. Raghib Hussain , CTO & Corp VP, Cavium Networks, Inc. Date: Saturday, Oct 31, 2009 – 8:45 AM Location: Symantec Cafe, Mountain View, CA The eight OPEN members welcomed Raghib on the brisk Friday morning before work for a breakfast. Raghib advised to think through several personal and business considerations when venturing into a [...]

Oct 31, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

Breakfast w/ Bari

Mentor: Bari Abdul , Head of the Consumer Division, Checkpoint; Former Sr. VP for World Wide Consumer Marketing, McAfee Software Date: Saturday, Oct 31, 2009 – 8:45 AM Location: Hobees Cafe, San Jose, CA The breakfast was held at a quiet resturant on a sunny Saturday morning. Bari Abdul greeted the four OPEN members with an [...]