February 11, 2004

CEOs: Who VCs will and won't back....and why
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Come and listen to a select set of VCs who will share their perspectives on the scaleable CEO, what skills/characteristics are important in today's economy and how CEO's have been able to make, break and transform their portfolio of companies.

Moderator:
Tom Chaffin - Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop.

Panelists:
Matt Miller, General Partner - WaldenVC (former CEO of Moai)
Mitchell Kertzman, Partner - Hummer Winblad (former Chairman/CEO of Liberate Technologies)
Len Rand, Managing Director - Granite Ventures (former CEO/Founder of NetBoost)

Enduring business success only comes from growth, consistently achieved over many years. While today's low inflation, highly competitive environment can make sustained growth more difficult to achieve, investor and market demands on CEOs to achieve growth is as insistent as ever.

The increased demands, pressures and visibility placed on CEO's has the venture community turning back the clock; returning to the tried-and-true, battled-tested veterans for their most prized emerging company CEO posts. Which begs the question; "who will VC's backŠand why"?