Where:
GA Boston
51 Melcher St.
Boston, MA 02210
Admission:
FREE
Categories:
Event website:
http://ga.co/a7Q
About This Event
Help us celebrate the kickoff of Boston Region Entrepreneurship World (BREW) 2014 with a fireside chat featuring Tim Rowe, Founder and CEO of Cambridge Innovation Center, the largest facility in the world dedicated to housing early stage technology businesses.
In a chat led by Bill Schnoor, a partner in and co-chair of Goodwin Procter’s Technology Companies & Life Sciences Group, Tim will discuss why Greater Boston has an incredible ecosystem to conceive, launch, and build successful companies. He will explore the resources available to young companies and share real-world examples based on his experience founding CIC.
Agenda
6:00 p.m. Doors Open
6:30 p.m. Welcome from BREW and Bill Schnoor
6:40 p.m. Fireside Chat with Tim Rowe
7:30 pm Networking
About the Speakers
Tim Rowe
Founder and CEO,
CIC
Tim Rowe is the Founder and CEO of Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC), the largest facility in the world dedicated to housing early stage technology businesses. More than US $2B has been invested in companies that grew up at CIC. The best known startup coming out of CIC to date is Google Android, which was co-founded at CIC by Rich Miner. Approximately $7B of venture capital is headquartered within CIC's two main buildings in Massachusetts, which would place it on par with many countries. Tim also serves as a venture partner with New Atlantic Ventures, and sits on the Board of the New England Venture Capital Association.
Previously, Tim has served as a Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, a Manager with the Boston Consulting Group and an analyst with the Mitsubishi Research Institute. Tim speaks Spanish and Japanese fluently, and holds an MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management and a BA from Amherst College.
William Schnoor
Partner,
Goodwin Procter
Bill Schnoor, a partner in and co-chair of Goodwin Procter’s Technology Companies & Life Sciences Group and one of the leaders of the firm’s interdisciplinary practice focusing on investments in alternative energy and clean technologies, concentrates in the areas of business and securities law, private equity and acquisitions. Bill represents start-ups and other private and public companies in a wide range of industries including alternative energy and other clean technologies; ecommerce and other internet-based businesses; enterprise software; life sciences; and healthcare information technology. He has worked with numerous companies from their initial financing through initial public offerings or acquisitions, and has advised numerous public companies and their boards of directors. Bill speaks frequently on financing, entrepreneurship and public offerings. He has presented to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School New Enterprise course on “Legal Issues for Start-Ups,” and has appeared as a guest at the Harvard Business School course on Entrepreneurial Management on legal topics.