ANN ARBOR ? David Rubenstein, founding partner and managing director of The Carlyle Group, and Tim Draper, founder and managing director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, will present keynote speeches in June at the 2005 Michigan Growth Capital Symposium.
Rubenstein will present on Wednesday, June 15 during lunch. Under Rubenstein’s leadership, The Carlyle Group, a global private equity firm headquartered in the U.S. with offices in Europe and Asia, returned $5.3 billion to investors in 2004 as well as invested $2.7 billion and raised $7.8 billion.
Draper will provide a keynote lunch address on Thursday, June 16. On behalf of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Draper serves on the boards of Skype, Santa Cruz Networks, Digital Path Networks, Chroma Graphics, Homestead, and MailFrontier. His original suggestion to use “viral marketing” in Web-based e-mail to geometrically spread an Internet product to its market was instrumental to the successes of Hotmail and YahooMail, and has been adapted as a standard marketing technique to hundreds of businesses.
“Mr. Rubenstein and Mr. Draper continue the MGCS tradition of presenting outstanding keynote speakers,” said Dr. David J. Brophy, director of the Center for Venture Capital and Private Equity Finance. “These leaders, in entrepreneurial finance, inform and inspire our entrepreneurs and business community, our university students and faculty. They help the Symposium improve the environment for building innovative entrepreneurial businesses in the Midwest.”
MGCS is June 15 and 16 at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, Ann Arbor.
For agenda details and online registration, click on MichiganGCS.Com
