Haas Welcome Parties

Berkeley, California

Date: Thursday, August 27, 2009

Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm

Location: “Jupiter,” 2181 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley CA 94704 (upstairs room reserved for party) Registration: http://acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaID=184602

For questions, contact:

Lindy Vejar at lindy_vejar@bio-rad.com

San Francisco, California

Date: Thursday, September 10, 2009

Time: 5:30pm – 7:00 pm

Location: Downstairs room @ Taverna Aventine, 582 Washington Street, (nearest cross street Montgomery), San Francisco CA 94111

RSVP: Michael Sowa at michael.sowa@bankofamerica.com

Alumni Dinner Series: Entrepreneurship & VC

Update: Registration Closed

Date: August 27th, Thursday

Time: 6:30 p.m.

Location: La Strada Italian Restaurant, 335 University Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94301

Costs: Alumni Guests – Free, Students - Open your own tab

This month's dinner event is for students who are interested in the Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital. 12 seats will be open to EWMBA students and registration will be on a first-come, first-serve basis.

If you are interested in attending the event, please email Sunder Thirupapuliyur (sunder@mba.berkeley.edu).

The following guest alumni will be attending:

Mat Fogarty, MBA 01, Founder and CEO, Crowdcast.

Mat is an entrepreneur and visionary in organizational dynamics. Featured on the cover of Inc. Magazine, Mat is a regular speaker on the enterprise forecasting and prediction markets circuit. Prior to founding Crowdcast, Mat held senior positions in FP&A at EA and Unilever. While at EA, he pioneered the use of prediction markets for forecasting key metrics, an initiative which has since expanded company-wide. Mat is a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) and holds an MBA from UC Berkeley and BS in Management Science from the London School of Economics.

Arun Ramamoorthy, MBA 05, Principal, Pinnacle Ventures.

Before joining Pinnacle, Arun was in the Corporate Branding and Strategic Marketing team within the Sales and Marketing Group at Intel, where his focus was on technology leadership marketing. Prior to his marketing role, Arun spent over six years managing technology development programs at Intel. As a Program Manager at Intel, he was responsible for lithography infrastructure development. In this role, he managed several development programs at suppliers, universities and National Labs, worked with industry consortia and Intel Capital on collaborations and investments in the lithography supply-chain. Early in his career, he spent several years working on next generation assembly and test technology development. Arun has an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India.