Mid-Summer Meet and Greet
August 18th, 2007August 24, 2007
Mid-Summer Arts Festival
ENventure
The Network for Entrepreneurs
This is it! Our big summer networking event! You’re invited to the 2nd Annual Summer gathering for the ENventure network. It’s a meet and greet, but also a mini-arts festival at the Country Village in Bothell. There’s a full roster of activities to go along with your networking.
When: 5:00 to 9:00 pm Friday, August 24, 2007
Where: Country Village in Bothell
* A dessert table at Papa’s Place It acts as a gathering place! It’s air conditioned. You may consider throwing in $5 or $10, or even something small to defray the costs. If you can’t, we’d rather you come anyways and sample the desserts and enjoy the networking.
* A “Meet the VIP” program over the dessert tables at Papa’s Place; we’ve asked a number of experienced business professionals as well city and university officials to make an appearance. We’ve published a tentative schedule but we’ll be adding more VIPs after the weekend.
* Silent Auction – Items and Services of all kinds are being auctioned. There are valuable and light-hearted items. All proceeds to go the Center for Student Entrepreneurship. The Fund’s intent is to award grants to support student startups.
* Wine Tasting – Country Cottage Wines is sponsoring a wine tasting. They have also donated a wine tasting event to the silent auction. They have also donated their facility for many of our meetings. After your sip of wine, please be sure to thank the owners: Rudy and Betty!
* Special Art Show – The Art & Soul Gallery is showing paintings by talented female artists. These artists will be present to answer your questions. The Gallery will have some wine and chocolate to complement your viewing. It’s the annual “Wine Woman & Chocolate” affair.
* Native American Flute Quest – You’ll hear flute performances as well as view some of the “flutes” being used by local artists.
* Late Night Merchants – Because of the strong turnout to last year’s event, some of the merchants are doing extended hours and have also donated items to the event.
We’d love it if you can RSVP. If you can’t RSVP, come anyways. A headcount helps. Just email Dave Thomson (david@designer-web.com) or Alan Leong (aleong@gmail.com) for an evite.
The VIP’s Corner - Schedule
August 16th, 2007The following people will be hovering at 30 minute intervals around the Dessert Tables at Papa’s Place during the Festival. You may wish to strike up a conversation with one or more of them. Many of them have a strong interest in the Center for Student Entrepreneurship (CSE).
5:00 pm Terrie Battuello - Terrie is the Assistant to the City Manager of Bothell and is Responsible for Economic Development. She’ll be bringing city staff to this event. Center students and staff have crossed paths over her interest in bringing biotech businesses and environmental demonstration projects to the city.
5:30 pm Brandon Snow & Eliece Colbert - Brandon is the president of the UWB Student Entrepreneurs Club and Eliece is the president of the UWB Student Body. Both are available to talk with you about the club or the university.
6:00 pm Mike Gold - Since 1990, President and Chair of CNI Corporation - a supplier of computer systems for (newspaper) publishing. Before that, he held positions as founder and president of Archetype Inc., VP of Contex. Mike is a successful serial entrepreneur and has also been a college and university level instructor since 1969. Mike has been assisting us with taking the Center for Student Entrepreneurship to the next phase.
6:30 pm Alan Leong, Gabe Frost - Alan is the Director for the Center for Student Entrepreneurship (CSE) and also the co-founder of Biotech Stock Research. Gabe Frost is an architect and subject expert at Microsoft; Gabe is also on the CSE advisory board. They’re excited to talk about where the Center is heading: a successful past and present, but an even brighter future.
7:00 pm Julie Eastland - is the CFO of VLST Corporation, a privately held biotech dedicated to the development of novel drugs for treating inflammatory and autoimmune disorders. Prior to VLST, Ms. Eastland was employed at Dendreon Corporation from 2000 to 2005, where she held various finance positions, most recently as the VP of Strategic Planning. From 1996 to 1998, Ms. Eastland was employed at Amgen, Inc. as Area Finance Manager and Assistant Controller of Amgen BioPharma. Ms. Eastland also held positions as Director of Finance at Biovail Corporation, Director of Finance & Planning for Encore Media Group, International Finance & Business Manager for SCIENCE Magazine and Financial Manager for the Discovery Channel.