Panel Discussion Speaker Bio:
Panel 1. " M&A Trends in US and China "
Moderator:
Kerry Smith , Partner, Montgomery & Hansen, LLP
Kerry Smith has more than 20 years experience in the practice of corporate and securities law
at major U.S. law firms and has been CFO of a NASDAQ listed public company. His primary
focus is on international and domestic M&A, public and private offerings of debt and equity,
MBO's, LBO's, recapitalizations, spin-offs, venture capital and private equity transactions, as
well as general corporate representation. He has represented international and domestic
public companies, emerging growth corporations, venture capital funds and private equity
funds in a broad array of industries including, telecommunications, banking, insurance, high
tech, e-commerce, pharmaceutical and medical delivery, energy, business process outsourcing
and manufacturing. He advises clients in the area of general corporate governance matters,
including matters relating to Sarbanes-Oxley, NASDAQ and NYSE rules and regulations and
1934 Act reporting and compliance.
Kerry serves as general counsel to many clients and their management and boards of directors
helping to shape and execute their business, acquisitions and liquidity strategies, as well as
advising them on day-to-day legal, corporate, regulatory and other strategic issues.
Kerry holds a J.D. from Loyola University of Chicago School of Law and a B.S. in Accountancy
from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is a CPA (inactive) and practiced at Deloitte
& Touche prior to attending law school.
John Moriarty , Managing Director, Investment Banking, Robert W. Baird
John Moriarty joined Baird in December 2007 as a Managing Director and Head of Baird’s Palo
Alto Investment Banking office. John is the Co-Head of Baird’s Technology Investment Banking
effort and is also responsible for Baird’s coverage of West Coast Financial Sponsors and
Growth Equity Investors. Prior to joining Baird, John spent 13 years in the Investment Banking
group at A.G. Edwards and established A.G. Edwards’ West Coast Technology Investment
Banking practice. John has led his clients in a variety of transactions, totaling over $15 billion,
including buy- and sell-side merger and acquisition assignments, public and private equity
financings, convertible securities offerings and other financial advisory activities. From 1989 to
1992, John worked for KPMG Peat Marwick where he was a senior level auditor responsible
for public and private company financial audits.
John received a B.S. degree in Accounting, cum laude, from Georgetown University, and a
M.B.A. in Finance and Marketing from The Kellogg Graduate School of Management at
Northwestern University. John is also a graduate from the Securities Industry Institute at The
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and is a Certified Public Accountant. John is
a member of the Board of Directors of the Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San
Mateo Counties.
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Christopher Cooper, Partner, Deloitte & Touche LLP
Christopher Cooper Partner, Deloitte & Touche LLP
Chris Cooper, partner, Deloitte & Touche LLP, is the Americas Leader of the Deloitte Chinese
Services Group (CSG) who also serves as the national leader for CSG in the United States. As
the leader of CSG, Chris and his team collaborate with colleagues throughout the global
organization to assist clients throughout the Americas region and China to realize sustainable
value from their cross-border investments.
Prior to this, Chris was a partner on the transaction services merger and acquisitions (M&A)
team in the Deloitte Beijing office. He was the leader of Deloitte’s China Private Equity (PE)
practice specializing in PE deals and inbound investment into China.
For more than 20 years, Chris has worked on a variety of business and financial advisory
projects with an emphasis on manufacturing, automotive, energy and Asian business. Chris
has advised, and in most cases led, more than 200 M&A diligence transactions of all sizes.
While working in San Jose, California, Chris advised on a variety of public and private M&A
transactions with deal values ranging from several million to over one billion dollars.
Chris serves on the board of directors for The 100K Strong Foundation, an organization
focusing on promoting the expansion and diversification of Americans learning Mandarin and
studying abroad in China. Furthermore, Chris is also a board member of the International
School of the Peninsula and the Golden Bridges Foundation.
In 1988, Chris graduated from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. Chris
is a qualified member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accounts and he holds a
CPA license in both Michigan and California.
Ting Louie, Senior Director, NASDAQ Private Market (sharespost & Nasdaq JV)
Ting Louie is a managing director with the newly formed NASDAQ Private Market, a joint
venture between the NASDAQ OMX Group and SharesPost. The NASDAQ Private Market is a
newly launched exchange where private companies, shareholders, investors and brokerdealers can transact in private company stock in leading growth companies. Mr. Louie is
responsible for business and corporate development for the NASDAQ Private Market,
managing relationships with private companies and venture capital investors.
Before joining the NASDAQ Private Market/ SharesPost, Mr. Louie was an investment banker
with Deutsche Bank and Jefferies & Company, covering technology companies in the Internet,
Digital Media and Software sectors. Mr. Louie as worked on over $20 billion dollars of
transactions including initial public offerings, financings and mergers & acquisitions for leading
growth companies in the technology sector. Some representative clients include Yelp,
HomeAway, CafePress, Reply!, eBay, Nimsoft, Efficient Frontier, GSI Commerce, RenRen,
Tudou, SMART Technologies, Motricity, Flextronics, The Motley Fool.
Mr. Louie received his MBA from the University of Southern California – Marshall School of
Business and an AB in Economics from Occidental College.
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Edward Lambert, Senior Vice President, Bridge Bank
Edward Lambert’s career in Banking and Business spans four decades. Mr. Lambert began his
career with Bank of America and branched out afterwards into the Private Sector for a
number of years as a CFO and COO for a number of start-ups. He then returned to the
Banking/Lending world and worked with many well-known Banks, including NationsBank,
Comerica, Silicon Valley Bank, Imperial Bank and Bridge Bank, where he currently serves as a
Senior Vice-President.
Ed has provided hundreds of millions in credit to companies from start-up to Public. His
endeavors include the creation of an International Business eco-system to allow for the free
exchange of ideas and capital throughout the world. Mr. Lambert has served on Advisories
and Board of Directors to several companies and community organizations with local, national
and international focuses. He has appeared in conferences in the US and Europe serving on
panels covering a varied and diverse series of subjects.
Mr. Lambert graduated in 1977 with a BA in History and a Masters in Business (Marketing
focus) in 1980 from Santa Clara University. He lives in San Jose and is married with 2 sons. Mr.
Lambert holds a Dual US-European Citizenship and is fluent in French.
Daniel Hansen, Partner, Montgomery & Hansen, LLP
Dan has been practicing law in Silicon Valley for over 20 years. His practice concentrates on
corporate and securities law for early stage companies, investor-side representation, and
mergers and acquisitions.
Dan represents companies in all aspects of corporate transactions, including formations,
equity and debt financings, stock sales, secondary transactions, license and intellectual
property technology agreements, and asset sales. He counsels venture funds, individual
investors, and angel investors with regard to investment transactions and partnership
formations.
Dan has represented multiple companies in mergers and acquisitions on both the buy-side
and sell-side. Acquiring companies he has represented include Samsung, Electronics for
Imaging and Vista Wealth Management; companies he has helped to sell include TVN
Entertainment, Multigig, Gale Technologies, AddVal, Beyond3 and Utopy.
Dan is a regular speaker and guest lecturer on matters affecting startup companies and
investors. He is member of the Angel Capital Association’s Public Policy Advisory
Council. Prior to co-founding M&H in 2003, Dan was a partner at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison,
LLP in Palo Alto, California, where he practiced for 10 years.
Dan holds a J.D., M.B.A, and B.S.M.E. from the University of Utah and an L.L.M in Trade
Regulation from New York University. In addition to California, he is admitted to practice in
the United State Patent & Trademark Office.
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Panel 2. "Healthcare and Technology: A New Era of Digital Health"
Moderator:
Chu Chang, Former Vice President, International, Asia Pacific at Genomic Health
Chu Chang is an accomplished strategic marketing and business development executive in the
Life Sciences industry. Her experience spans the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and
diagnostics sectors. She has demonstrated success in driving entrepreneurial initiatives within
multinational corporations as well as in a private venture start-ups setting. By pioneering
diagnostic and therapeutic businesses founded on genetics- and genomics-based
technologies, Chu has supported patients and communities to improve health and wellness.
For over 7 years, she helped to establish Genomic Health as the leading company in cancer
molecular diagnostics to advance personalized medicine, negotiating key collaborations for
product development and international expansion. She was the sole executive responsible for
market development across Asia Pacific, including Japan, Australia, Greater China region,
South Korea, India, and parts of the Gulf region.
Chu earned a Masters from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a Bachelors in Biology
from MIT. She is a member of the Licensing Executive Society, contributor to the MIT alum life
sciences group and participant in multiple industry organizations. Chu also serves as a Board
Member for Monte Jade. Chu is multilingual and thrives on diverse cultures in her life. She
currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, two children, and their lovely
Australian Shepherd dog.
Anil Sethi, Founder, CEO, Gliimpse
Anil Sethi has founded or co-founded numerous HealthcareIT startups with multiples exits and
IPOs. Anil returned to the US after an extended sabbatical off-the-grid, to self-fund his 5th
startup, a platform for consumer-health called Gliimpse. Gliimpse is plug-and-play hardware
and software that collects health data from the 1,000+ different electronic health record
systems to give consumers access to their healthcare information.
Sethi is a product strategy guy, a geek and nerd, foremost a roll-your-sleeves-up tech
strategist. For over 20 years, he has vetted deals for NEA, Baker, Anthem, Mid-Atlantic
Ventures and others in Private Equity and Venture Capital. He mentors at StartX MED, UCSF
and Korea's Sparklabs, and has taught Entrepreneurship at the AES in India and Stanford's
Biodesign program in mHealth.
In the past, Sethi was CEO/CTO of Xlipstream, a plug-and-play appliance exporting to Personal
Health Records. Sethi previously founded Sequoia Software and led the company through
venture rounds, IPO, and acquisition. Sethi’s first startup, Dakota Imaging, was acquired by
WebMD in 2004.
Sethi’s technical achievements include organizing Operation Jumpstart, which founded Health
Level 7’s Clinical Document Architecture (HL7’s CDA) used as CMS's standard for Obamacare.
Sethi holds a patent for XML indexing. His wife accuses him of being a "car guy."
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Darren Schulte, MD, MPP, President, Apixio
Darren Schulte is the President of Apixio, the leading provider of big data analytics solution for
at-risk healthcare organizations to drive optimal quality, outcomes, cost and revenue using
both coded and textual data. He is passionate about understanding how to model healthcare
delivery to achieve high value using data-driven insights. Previous to his current position,
Darren was Chief Medical Officer of Apixio.
Darren has a long and successful career in the healthcare space, including former Vice
President of Strategy at Anvita Health, a subsidiary of Humana; former Executive Vice
President of Collaborative Care and former Senior Vice President of Clinical Innovation at
Alere. Darren is a graduate of UCSF Medical Center Internal Medicine Program.
Matthew Douglass, Technical Co-Founder and VP of Platform , Practice Fusion
Matthew Douglass joined Practice Fusion in 2007 as the founding engineer and oversaw the
development of the underlying SaaS technology framework that now enables rapid, quality
development of the Practice Fusion Health and Wellness Platform. He was responsible for
establishing Practice Fusion's scalable C#.Net/MSSQL infrastructure and API platform. Matt
has been instrumental in growing the Practice Fusion Technology department from 1 to 110+
and growing.
Matt has a passion for:
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socially responsible startup-building
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creating scalable apps and web-based products
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democratizing healthcare
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leading by example
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helping those less fortunate
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advancing Progressive political causes
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Panel 3. "Leaning In: How Women Leaders Have Adopted a Variation of ‘Lean In’ to Rise"
Moderator:
Carol Carpenter, Chief Marketing Officer at ClearSlide
As Chief Marketing Officer, Carol Carpenter leads all marketing initiatives at ClearSlide. Before
joining ClearSlide, Carol was the General Manager of Consumer and Small Business for Trend
Micro. In that role, Carol led and managed global strategy, sales, development, marketing, and
alliances. A technology industry veteran, Carol has held previous marketing leadership roles at
startups like Keynote Systems, Enviz, Tumbleweed and Apple. Carol earned a Bachelor’s
degree at Stanford University and her MBA from the Harvard Business School (HBS). As a
certified multi-tasker, she serves as a mentor for the HBS Women in Technology group, as a
board member of Monte Jade, and also advises a few cool startups in both the Consumer and
B2B segments.
Erica Peng, Leadership and Organization Development Consultant and Coach
Erica Peng is a leadership and organization development consultant and coach. She is also a
Facilitator at Stanford University Graduate School of Business on two courses: Influence and
Interpersonal Dynamics and Women in Management. As Adjunct Professor at University of
San Francisco School of Law, she helps deliver a course on Negotiation and Conflict
Resolution. Erica designs and leads leadership workshops for companies, organizations,
Women’s and Asian Women’s groups, and also supports individuals with one-on-one
coaching.
The foundation of her practice is helping clients navigate the complexities of social context,
culture, language (verbal and non-verbal), and internal barriers that impede personal and
professional leadership. Through somatic coaching techniques, individuals practice and
embody desired leadership competencies and behaviors to build effective relationships and
accomplish individual, team, and organizational performance objectives.
Her international work includes leading “Learning Journeys” to indigenous villages in
Guatemala through Reading Village, a youth empowerment and literacy organization. She also
recently designed and led a musical collaboration and cultural exchange trip to Cuba for the
Grammy-nominated Pacific Mozart Ensemble.
Erica holds an MA in Organization Development from Sonoma State University and a BA in
Architecture and Urban Design from Stanford University.
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Monica Hein
Vice President, Enterprise Transformation, IBM
Monica Hein, Vice President for Enterprise Transformation at IBM, is responsible for
worldwide development of IBM’s Enterprise Transformation program for a globally integrated
enterprise. Prior to this role, Mrs. Hein held executive position in IBM’s Banking Center of
Excellence, managing IBM cross brand global team in the design, integration, re-engineering,
transformation and implementation of next generation banking and payment solutions
Mrs. Hein has 20 years of experience in software development and management, business
and technology leadership, and customer relationship management. She started her career
with IBM, and returned to IBM after spending 3 years at Oracle Corporation serving in a
number of leadership roles, and 2 years as Worldwide Director for Professional Services at
Backweb Technologies specializing in internet technologies, and worked with global clients
and partners.
Mrs. Hein has a Masters degree in Computer Science and a Bachelors degree in Mathematics.
Outside her professional work, Mrs. Hein is actively involved in community effort such as
Women in Technology International. She also holds a position on the Advisory Board of other
non-profit organization.
Susan S. Wang, Board of Directors, Cirrus Logic, Nektar Therapeutics, Premier, Inc.
Susan S. Wang retired from Solectron Corporation in 2002 after 18 years, having served as
Executive Vice President for Corporate Development, Chief Financial Officer, and Corporate
Secretary. She oversaw Solectron’s initial public offering and subsequent growth from a $40
million organization to a global corporation with more than $12 billion in revenue. A CPA, she
began her career with Price Waterhouse and earlier held financial and managerial positions
with Xerox Corporation and Westvaco Corporation. She currently serves on the Board of
Directors and is Audit Committee Chair for Cirrus Logic, Nektar Therapeutics and Premier, Inc.
and serves on Cirrus Logic’s Compensation Committee. She also serves as Chair of the Board
of Directors and member of the Audit Committee for Suntech Power. Previously, Susan
served on the Board of Directors of Calpine, Corp., Avanex, Inc., Rae Systems, Inc. and Altera
Corp.
Joy Chen, Chief Executive Officer, Yes To, Inc.
Joy Chen is the Chief Executive Officer for Yes To, Inc., which specializes in Natural Skincare
globally. In the last three years, she has transformed the business and has catapulted the
brand to the #2 category leadership position in natural personal care. Despite the economic
downturn in the last several years, she successfully quadrupled the business revenue and
increased the valuation of the company by five times since she joined. Prior to Yes To Inc., Joy
has spent 16 years at the Clorox Company, and was the Vice President General Manager of
the Laundry business. She had responsibilities for a business over $1Billion, handled the
company’s most valuable brand equity, Clorox, and managed a large multi-functional
organization. Her other Clorox positions included senior leadership roles in Marketing, Sales
and Operations. Her work experience spans large and small companies, focuses on tackling
complex, business turnarounds and shows her leadership effectiveness through leading
organizations through change.
Joy is an active Board member and advisor for start-up businesses and non profits.
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Specifically, she is active with 18 Rabbits and 479 popcorn. She supports many women
entrepreneurs by providing guidance and coaching to starting founders/CEOs in the Bay Area.
Additionally, she is on the Board for Junior Achievement. She is also active with Network of
Executive Women, both the executive and diversity women groups. Recently, she was
awarded 2012 Most Admired CEO of the Year and 2013 Most Influential Women in the San
Francisco Bay Area. Joy received her undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley and a Masters
of Business Administration from Harvard University. For fun, she and her husband enjoy
adventure travel, NASCAR and searching for the next new, undiscovered Michelin star
restaurant around the world.
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