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START YOUR COMPANY NOW! \nAre you an entrepreneur seeking an idea for a company or a professor or student seeking to commercialize the results of your research? Learn from veteran scientist-entrepreneurs, a corporate leader, and an investor how to commercialize discoveries made in the laboratory and build a successful company.\n\nFeaturing:\nFRED GLUCK\nFred Gluck is Chairman and CEO of CytomX, a newly founded venture to exploit innovative new technologies using bacterial libraries and microfluidic cell sorting in therapeutic development and related areas. He is a former managing partner of McKinsey & Company, Inc., the international management consulting firm. He served with McKinsey from 1967 to 1995 and led the firm as its Managing Director from 1988 to 1994, when he retired from the Firm to join The Bechtel Group, where he served as Vice-Chairman and Director. Mr. Gluck retired from Bechtel in July 1998. He rejoined McKinsey and Company as a consultant to the firm in 1998 and continued in that role until July 2003.\n\nWhile at Bechtel, Mr. Gluck was responsible for overseeing all of Bechtel’s global industry units, as well as corporate support services (including global financial operations, human resources, and public relations); INSERT INTO events2 (id, isopen, title, location, briefdescrip, ldescription, date, [current], attendees, map, [time], capacity, reminders, doorpay) VALUES alliances, and strategic marketing and analysis. Bechtel serves a wide variety of industries including power, petroleum and chemicals, surface transportation, aviation services, buildings, water supply and treatment, infrastructure development, pipelines, mining and metals, pulp and paper, advanced technology, environmental remediation, manufacturing, and telecommunications.\n\nDuring his years at McKinsey, Mr. Gluck consulted extensively with U.S., European, and Far East companies, with particular emphasis in the telecommunications, electronics, heavy machinery, and health care industries. He also led the Firm’s technology and strategic management practices for many years and wrote and spoke extensively on those subjects during that period.\n\nDuring the 6 years he led the Firm, McKinsey doubled in size and greatly expanded its international presence, particularly in Asia and Latin America.\n\nBefore joining McKinsey, Mr. Gluck spent 10 years with Bell Telephone Laboratories working in program management, systems analysis and engineering, and guidance systems design. At the time he left Bell Labs, he was program manager for the Spartan anti-missile missile.\n\nMr. Gluck earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Manhattan College and a master’s degree in the same field from New York University. In addition, he did graduate studies in operations research at Columbia University.\n\nMr. Gluck is a director of AMGEN (Thousand Oaks, CA) [NASDAQ] and was the presiding director of HCA (Nashville, TN) [NY Stock Exchange] prior to its recent LBO.\n\nHe was Vice-Chairman of New York Hospital, prior to its merger with Columbia Presbyterian and recently achieved Emeritus status after 32 years of service. He is also active in eleemosynary activities in Santa Barbara, California, where he is a trustee of the Cottage Health System, the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) Foundation, a member of the Advisory Council of the Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, and a member of the Steering Committee for the Campaign for UCSB. Additionally, Mr. Gluck serves on the Board of Advisors of RAND Health in Santa Monica, CA. and Tennenbaum Capital Partners in Los Angeles, California and the Brookings Budgeting for National Priorities Corporate Advisory Committee. \n\n\nGALEN D. STUCKY, Ph.D.\nE. Khashoggi Industries, LLC Professor in Letters and Science Professor Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry; Materials Department; and, Interdepartmental Program in Biomolecular Science \nand Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara\n\nGalen D. Stucky earned his Ph.D. degree with R. E. Rundle from Iowa State University in 1962. He held positions at the University of Illinois, Sandia National Laboratory, and DuPont Central Research and Development before joining the faculty of the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1985, where he is Professor in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry and the Materials Department and a member of the Interdepartmental Program in Biomolecular Science and Engineering. His current research interests include molecular assembly of nanoscale to macroscale components of composite systems; the interface of inorganics with biomolecules; chemistry associated with the efficient utilization of energy resources; gradient materials and interfaces; understanding Nature's routes to organic/inorganic bioassembly. He has published over 600 scientific articles and has been awarded 13 patents. Recent honors include one of three lecturers at the Symposium in Honor of the 100th Anniversary of the Foundation of the Chemical Institutes at "Hessische Strasse" \n(2000); INSERT INTO events2 (id, isopen, title, location, briefdescrip, ldescription, date, [current], attendees, map, [time], capacity, reminders, doorpay) VALUES an Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist award (2000); INSERT INTO events2 (id, isopen, title, location, briefdescrip, ldescription, date, [current], attendees, map, [time], capacity, reminders, doorpay) VALUES the ACS Award in Chemistry of Materials (2002); INSERT INTO events2 (id, isopen, title, location, briefdescrip, ldescription, date, [current], attendees, map, [time], capacity, reminders, doorpay) VALUES and the IMMA (International Mesostructured Materials Association) Award (2004). He was elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, in 2005.\n\nHe was a co-founder and served on the Scientific Advisory Board of Biosym, Inc., a software modeling company (1991-97); was a co-founder and member of the Board of Directors of SBA Materials, Inc.(2001-2004); was instrumental in the formation of the company \nand is a scientific advisory consultant for High Throughput Experimentation (HTE) GmBH (1998 to the present); co-developed the technology for standed natural gas conversion through a UCSB-investor sponsored research agreement, and now is a scientific consultant for GRT, Inc. (2001 to the present); is on the Scientific Advisory Boards of the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology in Singapore (2004 to the present) and of the Molecular Foundry at LLNL (2000 to the present); and through the Office of Naval Research and University licensing of patents on research carried out at UCSB, has an active program in the development of hemostasis agents for traumatic wounds. He has consulted for numerous other companies including Mobil (now Exxon-Mobil) and Earthshell, Inc. \n\nUMESH MISHRA, Ph.D.\nProfessor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara and\nAssociate Dean of the College of Engineering.\n\nHe received Master's in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University, Pennsylvania and Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University, New York. Prof. Mishra has excelled in research in the domain of semiconductor and solid state devices. He has received several awards, notable being National Science Foundation Award, Presidential Young Investigator Award (1989); INSERT INTO events2 (id, isopen, title, location, briefdescrip, ldescription, date, [current], attendees, map, [time], capacity, reminders, doorpay) VALUESYoung Scientist of the Year Award (1992); INSERT INTO events2 (id, isopen, title, location, briefdescrip, ldescription, date, [current], attendees, map, [time], capacity, reminders, doorpay) VALUES Fellow, IEEE (1995); INSERT INTO events2 (id, isopen, title, location, briefdescrip, ldescription, date, [current], attendees, map, [time], capacity, reminders, doorpay) VALUES and, Compound Semi Conductor Pioneer Award (2003). Prof. Mishra won the "Outstanding Faculty Member" honor 4 times during his 16-year tenure at UCSB. His research has fetched $42 million in research funding, ensuring that UCSB remains a top research and teaching establishment in Electronics Engineering. Over his career, he has published 249 Journal Papers and 188 Conference Papers and graduated 31 Ph.D. students. He has created an enterprise that uses relevant research for developing next generation products in Solid State Lighting, Micro Wave Power Amplifiers and Power Switching.\n\nProf. Mishra was the co-founder of Nitres, Inc., a Gallium-Nitride laser diode company established in 1995 which was purchased by CREE and is currently the CREE Santa Barbara Technology Center, the research arm of CREE, a company with current revenue of over $300 million.\n\nFRANK FOSTER\nFrank H. Foster is the Managing Director of the Gideon Hixon Fund, the venture capital investment vehicle for the Hixon Family and a venture partner of Draper Fisher Jurvetson Frontier and Southern Cross Venture Partners. The Gideon Hixon Fund and its predecessor entities (HixVen and Southwest Venture Partnerships) have a long history in venture capital beginning in the 1970s. The group’s venture capital investments include Apple Computer (NASDAQ & NYSE: AAPL) and Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) as well as more recent successes including CORSolutions (aquired by Matria); INSERT INTO events2 (id, isopen, title, location, briefdescrip, ldescription, date, [current], attendees, map, [time], capacity, reminders, doorpay) VALUES Sensitech (acquired by Carrier); INSERT INTO events2 (id, isopen, title, location, briefdescrip, ldescription, date, [current], attendees, map, [time], capacity, reminders, doorpay) VALUES Medior (acquired by AOL); INSERT INTO events2 (id, isopen, title, location, briefdescrip, ldescription, date, [current], attendees, map, [time], capacity, reminders, doorpay) VALUES Security Dynamics (acquired by RSA); INSERT INTO events2 (id, isopen, title, location, briefdescrip, ldescription, date, [current], attendees, map, [time], capacity, reminders, doorpay) VALUES WebCal (acquired by Yahoo) and Xiotech (acquired by Seagate). Prior to that, he was a General Partner of Allen & Buckeridge PTY LTD, a leading Australian venture capital firm with approximately A$250 million under management. At Allen & Buckeridge he led investment efforts into Hitwise, eKit, Wishlist and Next Generation Entertainment. \n\nFrank also has extensive operational experience through his roles at Virtual Music Entertainment (sold to NAMCO); INSERT INTO events2 (id, isopen, title, location, briefdescrip, ldescription, date, [current], attendees, map, [time], capacity, reminders, doorpay) VALUES Contexture Systems and Prophecy Development Corporation. Recently, he acted as an independent director and consultant to YellowPages.com where he helped guide the company through its successful sale to SBC Communications (NYSE: SBC) and Bell South (NYSE: BLS) in November 2004. He was also a director of Cogent Data technologies through its successful sale to Adaptec Inc (NASDAQ: ADPT) in June 1996. Frank is currently a director of Prolacta Bioscience, eKit.com, Hixon Properties Incorporated, BRAND sense Agency, Ltd and Our Happy Child Productions. He received his MBA from The Harvard Business School and a BA cum laude from Harvard University. |