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 .
Breakfast Committee for 2009 – 2011:
OPEN-SV Mentorship Breakfast with Malika Junaid
What: Mentorship Breakfast with Malika Junaid
When: 8:30AM, Friday, May 25th, 2012
Where: To Be Announced the day before the event to attendees only — Los Altos, CA
Registration: Required
- OPEN-SV members – Free
- Non-members – $30
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.
OPEN-SV Mentorship Breakfast with Ammar Hanafi
Mentor:: Ammar Hanafi, General Partner, Alloy Ventures
When: Friday, Nov 11th, 2011
Where: Palo Alto, CA
Ammar Hanafi accepted our request to host a mentorship breakfast and hosted the event in Pal Alto,
CA. This was a highly subscribed event. Ammar Hanaf’s bio can be viewed at OPEN-SV or Alloy Ventures’
websites. As VP of New Business Ventures at Cisco, Ammar led over 100 and M&A transactions including
50 acquisitions. He then transitioned from corporate to venture capital. At Alloy Ventures, where
Ammar is a partner, they act as initial investor and also fund B and C rounds. He clarified they are not
a “debt house” for new entrepreneurs, a business which he feels is better left for local and regional
banks.