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May 13, 2008
WPI Campus Center - Odeum Room
Doors open: 5:30 p.m.
Meeting: 6:30 - 9 p.m.
Pizza and beverages provided.
Cost: $15 members, $25 non-members
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May 13, 2008

Succeed with Your Start-up Team

Tom Crotty and Vic Odryna

Tom Crotty

The management team is critical to the success or failure of a start-up. But for first-time entrepreneurs, and even some seasoned veterans, building the team can be a daunting enterprise. How do you attract, identify and keep top talent? When should you add key positions, and when should you fire executives who aren’t working out? And how will your investors be evaluating you?

The keynote speakers for the May 13 WPI Venture Forum meeting, Tom Crotty and Vic Odryna, will address these questions and more from the perspectives of an investor and an entrepreneur.

Vic Odryna

Tom Crotty is General Partner at Battery Ventures, a leading venture capital firm that focuses on technology investments. Vic Odryna is a serial entrepreneur who is co-Founder and CEO of ZeeVee, a start-up that is bridging the last fifty feet between home computers and HDTVs. He will share his experiences building teams in his companies.

Case Presenter: LTSave, Inc., Sunil Bhatia

Sunil Bhatia

The case for the evening is LTSave, Inc., a technology-enabled business services provider to employers, banks and bank platforms, affinity groups and membership organizations that provides retirement planning and investment management services to individuals for the management of their retirement assets. The case will be presented by Founder, Chairman and CEO, Sunil Bhatia. Bhatia was also Founder of Asset Sciences, one of the first Internet-based investment advice companies.

Caset Panelists

Ross Gibson

Ross Gibson will join Crotty and Odryna as a panelist reviewing the case. Gibson is currently Corporate Vice President, Human Resources - North America at Charles River Laboratories, a global company advancing the search for drugs from discovery through market approval.

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