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2003 2nd Quarter Roundtable (NYC)

Event Date: April 30, 2003
Location: New York, NY

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Roundtable Presentations

Commercializing Intellectual Property Rights

Kenneth Slade, Co-Chair, Technology Transactions, Hale and Dorr LLP

Kenneth Slade focuses his practice primarily on representing information technology and other high technology clients in the formation of licensing, distribution and sales representative arrangements. He handles a substantial number of international transactions for both U.S. and foreign-based clients.

Mr. Slade has written and lectured on Internet and e-commerce law, the enforceability of electronic agreements accepted over the Internet, the European Union's various e-commerce and privacy directives, international licensing and distribution, international aspects of strategic alliances, franchising, international negotiating strategies, and alternative methods by which foreign companies introduce new goods and services in the United States. Mr. Slade has also authored computer "expert system" programs which generate customized international distribution agreements, license agreements, value-added reseller agreements and related memoranda from attorneys in 55 different countries, based on the responses given by the user to interactive computer questionnaires.

Mr. Slade, who practiced as an American attorney resident in London from 1982 through 1984, has extensive experience advising international clients with respect to their various business transactions in the United States, and in advising domestic companies in their business transactions in Europe, East Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East while based in Los Angeles. He also spent approximately one quarter of his time working in Tokyo from 1988 through 1991.

He is a member of the American Bar Association, and its sections of International Law and Practice, and Science and Technology. He is also a member of the bars of Massachusetts, the District of Columbia, New York, and California. Mr. Slade received a J.D. degree from the Columbia University School of Law in 1979, and an A.B., magna cum laude, from Princeton University in 1977, where he majored in international affairs at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Protection for General Partners

Steve Blount, Senior Vice President, Marsh USA, Inc.

Steve Blount is a Senior Vice President with Marsh USA, Inc. in its Private Equity and Merger & Acquisition group ("PEMA"). Steve has been with Marsh & McLennan Companies for 14+ years: 1988-1995 with Mercer Consulting Group in its Corporate Finance group; 1996-1998 with FINPRO specializing in Professional Liability; 1998-2000 with Marsh & McLennan Securities, MMC's licensed investment banking unit, focusing on credit-related and financial guarantee insurance placements and 2000-present with Marsh's Private Equity and Merger & Acquisition (PEMA) group in NY focusing on Marsh's private equity client base, specializing in Private Equity Liability coverage, Directors & Officers Liability coverage and transactional risk products. Steve was awarded his BSBA from Bucknell University in 1988 and his MBA from Fordham University in 1993.

Venture Accounting Update

Robert Fish, Managing Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers’ NY VC Practice

Bob has extensive experience addressing the needs of owner-managed companies, venture capital firms and venture-backed start-ups. Presently, Bob is the senior engagement partner for venture capital fund clients including AT&T Ventures, Constellation Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson Gotham Ventures, L.P., East River Ventures, Ericsson Venture Partners, Euclid Partners, FS Private Investments, Hudson Ventures, KBL Healthcare Ventures and Soundview Ventures. Bob is a regional director of PwC’s quarterly Money Tree Venture Capital Survey, which is widely considered to be the clearest measure of "core" investments in venture-backed companies in the United States. Bob is co-chairman of the NY Software Industry Association (NYSIA) and a charter member of the NY New Media Association.

Presented By

PricewaterhouseCoopers Hale and Dorr LLP
VC Experts Marsh & McLennan Companies