Grab a VCs Attention Before it's Gone
Learn how to take your business idea or new venture to the next level with this series of practical workshops presented from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business and the 2008 China Business Plan Competition. For more information about us please call (010) 8282 5358
Grab a VCs Attention Before it's Gone, September 19 Register!

If you have the opportunity to present your business plan to a VC you have all of five minutes to capture attention and hold it. This workshop will help attendees craft and deliver a succinct, compelling and effective presentation to potential investors.

Join us from 5:00-7:00 pm, at the at Renaissance Beijing Capital Hotel, 61 Dongsanhuan Middle Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100022 (Hotel Tel: 010-58638888)
Schedule:
5:00-5:10 pm Welcome from Asher Epstein
5:10-6:00 pm How to Catch a VC's Attention, Benson Tam
6:00-7:00 pm cocktails and networking

Main speaker: Benson Tam, partner, Fidelity Asia Ventures

Benson has been active in Asian private equity since 1992 and developed and mentored numerous investee companies to become billion dollar enterprises.

These include Hurray! Holding (now a leader of mobile media & technology in China, listed on Nasdaq), Locus Corp. (Korea’s leading softswitch manufacturer & systems integrator listed on Kosdaq), Locus Holdings (Korea’s dominant media distributor and talent manager listed on Kosdaq), Kertih Petrochemical Sdn Bhd (Asia’s largest centralized petrochemical storage facility co-developed with Petronas), Dialog Group (Asia’s leading petrochemical engineering company listed on KLSE) and Hongkong International Terminals (the world’s largest container terminals group headquartered in Hong Kong).

Prior to joining FAV, Benson was a partner of Electra Partners Asia for four years, covering South Korea, China, Singapore and India, and was the previous founding director of Hellman & Friedman Asia based in Hong Kong, Malaysia and San Francisco.? (Both are leading buyout funds in Europe and the US respectively.)

He now serves on the boards of iSoftstone Holdings, Datuu Holding, Dianji Holdings and China Search Inc.

Benson has a financial and an engineering background. He is a UK Chartered Accountant and during the late eighties worked in M&A Corporate Finance at S.G. Warburg in London, Europe and Hong Kong.? He is a Civil Engineering graduate from the Imperial College of London University and holds a Master of Science (Computing) from Oxford University.

Guest speaker: Asher Epstein, managing director of the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business

As managing director of the Smith School’s Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship, Asher Epstein is responsible for directing the center’s leading services and programs to successfully guide and support student and regional entrepreneur growth.
Mr. Epstein joined the Dingman Center in 2004. Prior to that he held a variety of management and operational positions working with Fortune 500 companies and startups – including founding his own start up, SilentFrog. SilentFrog operated as an internet marketplace to facilitate hiring in the “microservices’ market for local tasks ranging from lawn-mowing and babysitting to plumbing and car repair.
Mr. Epstein has an undergraduate degree in English and History as well as a Certificate of Management Studies from the University of Rochester. Mr. Epstein received an MBA from the Robert H. Smith School of Business.

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