ANN ARBOR ? Senior executives from Credit Suisse First Boston, the first manager of the new Venture Michigan Fund, will be on hand Thursday at a panel discussion examining the $150 million Fund of Funds aimed at underwriting some start-up technology companies in Michigan.
CSFB vice presidents David Almodovar and Vikram Bhaskar will be at the
joint Great Lakes Entrepreneur?s Quest, New Enterprise Forum at the new Michigan Information Technology Center in Ann Arbor. They will join State Treasurer Jay Rising and Douglass Diggs, director of community and economic development at Detroit Renaissance, who will shares their thoughts on what impact the Venture Michigan Fund will have on Michigan.
The program will be video broadcast over Internet2 to Automation Alley (2675 Bellingham Drive, Troy) and Kalamazoo Valley Community College (M-Tec building) and Michigan State University (Engineering Building, room 1208). The panelists will be able to field questions from each site and each location will have its own moderator.
There will be two Showcase Presenters, Neil Dueweke, president of nPoint; and Todd Mielke, president of Prezign. nPoint is a homeland security venture that is commercializing its proprietary Radiation Monitoring Strip to help guard against WMD?s and other radiation emitting threats from entering the U.S. Prezign is commercializing Epsys, a new Web based Product Lifecycle Management application that helps manufacturers achieve zero defects.
Networking and registration begins at 5 p.m. with the program starting at 5:45 p.m. The cost is free to NEF members and free to GLEQ members who pre-register at the GLEQ Web site or $20 at the door and for non-members.
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