January 20, 2010
Breakfast Meeting 

Early Stage Company Advisors, Advisory Board Members
and Fiduciary Board Members   

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Program Overview:  In early stage companies, the roles of advisors, advisory board members and fiduciary board members are often blurred.  Many early stage companies recognize the need for advisory boards but do not know how to recruit, compensate and manage them.  Some advisors are effective corporate board members, many are not.  Our panelists bring experience as advisors, CEO's and board members who can talk about how to cultivate actionable advice without compromising effective corporate governance.

Mark Soane (Moderator) is a Managing Director of Appian Venture Partners, an early-stage technology fund based in Denver.  Mr. Soane serves on or has served on over a dozen corporate boards, including Voyant Technologies (sold to Polycom), Carefx, OneRiot, OpenLogic and Ischemia Technologies (sold to Inverness Medical) and was a board observer at Veritas Software (acquired by Symantec).  He served as Executive Chairman of Controlled Products Group and led its turnaround and sale to Pilgrim Capital.  He has also held executive level marketing and operations positions at several venture-backed companies, including Personics Corporation, TRADE Inc. and Multum Information Services.  Mr. Soane is a former Chairman of the Colorado Venture Capital Association and Chairman of the Colorado Fourteeners Initiative.  He was recently reappointed by Colorado Senate President to the Colorado Venture Capital Authority.  He holds a bachelor's degree in History from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Stanford Business School.

Tim Bour has successfully developed business and sales in excess of $100 million dollars. Before taking the helm of the Boulder Innovation Center in August of 2007, Mr. Bour was Executive Vice President of Engineering and Manufacturing at Circle Graphics, the leading printer of wide format media for the outdoor advertising market. As founder and CEO of Cielo Communications from 1997 to 2001, Tim secured over $45 million in venture capital while overseeing the development of the first gigabit optical transceiver used by Cisco Systems. Previously, Tim spent thirteen years at Hewlett Packard where he worked as marketing manager for the fiber optics components business, during which sales grew from $20 million to $200 million annually. Tim was an Ernst and Young Finalist "Entrepreneur of the Year" in the Rocky Mountain Region in June 1999. He received a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering (magna cum laude) from the University of Cincinnati and an MBA from Ohio State University.

Dr. Richard Duke is a biotechnology executive, inventor, biomedical researcher and serial entrepreneur with over fourteen years of experience in building, financing and managing start-up biotechnology companies based on inventions made in Colorado's non-profit research institutions. He is currently Co-scientific Founder, President and CEO of ApopLogic Pharmaceuticals. He is a Co-scientific Founder and former CEO, President and Director of GlobeImmune, Inc. and its predecessor Ceres Pharmaceuticals. These Colorado-based companies have raised in excess of $100 million in private financing and have multiple products in preclinical, phase 1 and 2 human clinical trials in cancer and infectious diseases. In addition to his entrepreneurial activities, Dr. Duke has over twenty-five years of experience in biomedical research and is a tenured faculty member in the Departments of Medicine (Medical Oncology) and Immunology at the University of Colorado Denver. He also serves as a Director of the newly formed Colorado Institute for Drug, Device and Diagnostic Development whose mission is to accelerate the process of transforming research discoveries into commercial products to cure and treat human disease while creating new jobs and life science companies in Colorado.

Bill Perry co-founded SoftBridge Advisors twenty years ago.  Under his leadership, SoftBridge has logged three IPOs, seventeen successful mergers and raised or assisted in over forty financings totaling $350 million.  Mr. Perry came to Colorado in 1982 as President of Precision Visuals, Inc. (a graphics software company).  He built the venture from a ten person garage shop into number 49 on the Top 100 Software Company list.  More recently, he developed Webroot Software, Inc. into his second Top 100 company and has added clean technology ventures to SoftBridge’s activities.  Mr. Perry spent the early years of his career in large corporations, with key assignments as marketing manager for a $1billion line of industrial products, and as chief financial officer of a rapidly growing, Latin American telecom group. He holds an engineering degree from MIT, an MBA from Harvard, and is a recipient of Esprit’s Lifetime Achievement Award for Entrepreneurship.

Time:  7:00 AM
Cost:   Members-$29/Non-Member-$44

Location:  Denver Country Club
                  1700 E. 1st Avenue
                  Denver, CO 80218

Agenda:
7:00 AM             Coffee & Networking
7:15 AM             Breakfast
7:45-9:00 AM    Program 

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