Best Practices for Achieving and Maintaining Profitable Growth.

Profitable growth is a primary goal for most technology business leaders, but can be quite difficult to achieve and maintain. TechBiz Connection, Southern California’s largest non-profit trade association for technology business professionals, has assembled a top caliber panel of CEOs and business strategy consultants to discuss lessons they have learned and best practices that should be considered by today’s technology business leaders. Attend this panel discussion to learn more about business success factors relating to:

• - Business Structure
• - Finance
• - Leadership and Organization
• - Planning and Alignment
• - Globalization
• - Culture
• - And More!

PANELISTS:

Bitfone Corporation | Gene Wang | Chief Executive Officer and Chairman
Gene has more than 21 years of experience in leading successful high-technology companies and has participated as the CEO in three startups. Prior to Bitfone, Gene was CEO and chairman of Photo Access, where he successfully sold its hardware business unit to Agilent Technologies in August 2000. Gene was the CEO of Computer Motion, which he led through a successful IPO in August 1997. Gene was executive vice president at Symantec where he managed four divisions and helped that company grow from $172 million to $412 million in annual sales. Prior to this, Gene was VP and general manager at Borland.

Caneum, Inc. | Alan S. Knitowski | Chief Executive Officer and Chairman
Mr. Knitowski is Chairman of both Caneum, and Trycera Financial. He is also Founder and Managing Director of Ecewa Capital Group, Co-Founder and Co-Manager of Trymetris Capital Management and the Trymetris Capital Fund, and Director of WindSpring. Previously, Mr. Knitowski was Co-Founder and Director of Telverse Communications, which was acquired in July 2003 by Level 3 Communications. Most recently, he was Director of Marketing for the Voice Technology Group at Cisco Systems, having joined Cisco in 2000 as part of the Vovida Networks acquisition, where he served as Co-Founder, President and CEO.

Invigorate Consulting | Matthew Wolk | Managing Partner
Matthew Wolk has created more than $6B in incremental growth for his clients and affiliations over his twenty years of diversified domestic and international experience in management consulting, venture funding, and global-1000 operations. Prior to founding Invigorate Management Consulting, Matt was a partner in the strategy and organization practice of A.T. Kearney, a $1B global management consulting firm. Matt serves (or has served) on public, private, non-profit, and advisory boards, and is recognized for his expertise in the development and execution of business strategies, growth strategies, M&A planning and integration, and company revitalization.

New Client Marketing Institute | Henry DeVries | Managing Partner
Henry DeVries is a best-selling author, adjunct professor at the University of California, San Diego, syndicated newspaper columnist and group research director at the New Client Marketing Institute. Through his 25-year marketing and business career Henry has researched specific systems, behaviors and strategies that can launch ordinary professionals, consultants and entrepreneurs into extraordinary success. His step-by-step systems have helped them achieve marketing returns of 400% to 2000%.

MODERATOR:

Howard Fletcher Associates | Howard Fletcher | Owner/Founder
Howard Fletcher is an author, speaker and consultant who is noted for his expertise in helping emerging companies become successful growth stories. Mr. Fletcher has been CEO of five companies and COO of three others. Capitalizing on his thirty years experience managing and financing both public and private companies, he has developed Foundations for Growth, a three-part program that focuses on the internal factors necessary to sustain rapid growth – CEO scaling, infrastructure development and capital formation.