Peter Borish Co-founder Tudor Fund & Robinhood Foundation; Venture Capital advisor  

Date: Monday, April 1, from 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm. 

Location: Huron Consulting, 1166 Sixth Avenue, Third Floor; at 46 street.

Peter Borish co-founded Tudor Fund, a global macro fund, with Paul Tudor Jones. It is one of the most successful hedge funds  Peter served as director of research at Tudor for 10 years, 1985-1995. He then founded Computer Trading Corp. 

Peter, who is on the board of CIBC Bancorp USA, is an adviser to Montageventures.com and Amity.vc; earlier he was an angel investor including in Majestic Research, Skillr.com, OneChicago and Charitybuzz.

In 1988, Peter co-founded the Robin Hood Foundation. Since then the foundation has invested $3 billion to fight poverty in New York City, mainly through educational projects for disadvantaged children. Peter is also a founding board member of Math for America, whose mission is to keep committed teachers teaching in the classroom to make a lasting impact on students,schools and communities.   

Peter was a staff member of the Presidential Task Force on Market Mechanisms (Brady Commission) to study the stock market decline of October 1987. He earned his BA in Economics, 1981, and Masters of Public Policy, 1983, from the University of Michigan.

Can AI Startups Prosper Among the Giants

Monday March 25, 2024. 5 pm to 6 pm. Online.

Use of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning tools require large  expenses for cloud computing power and storage. Also, hiring the necessary PhDs with AI and ML skills is a major cost. This typically means that only big companies with large budgets can benefit from using AI and ML tools.  

Given this business environment, which has unfolded in the past two years, can an AI startup survive and grow? If so, how? 

These issues will be discussed by Frederico Mele, co-founder of Genieai.Tech. Its platform uses Ai and ML tools to manage and integrate data from several vendors and analyze risk and performance for portfolio managers of digital assets. Founded in 2021, Genieai is funded by Bain Ventures, Coinbase and other investors. It's staff includes three PhDs in AI/ML, including co-founder and CTO Lorenzo Gentile, a PhD in machine learning from the University of Strathclyde, Scotland, in 2021. 

Federico, who is based in Brookline, MA, is a fintech operator with prior experience in venture capital at New York-based crossover fund Studio Management, and in Mergers & Acquisition strategy consulting at Strategy&. He earned an MBA in Finance from Wharton in 2020 and an MA and BA in Economics from Boston University in 2015.

The March of AI and ML: Perspective from the Trenches

Speakers: Mike Pieper, ML engineer and Afshin Goodarzi, data scientist, in conversation. Moderator Alan Morley.  

Monday February 5; 6 pm to 8 pm. Host: Huron Consulting

As is known, expanding use of AI and ML tools are impacting most businesses and a wide range of jobs, especially white collar professions. What is it like to be an engineer or data scientist in an advanced AI and ML role? What major short and long term changes do they anticipate in their field of work? How are they preparing to benefit from such changes? These and related questions will be discussed by Mike Pieper and Afshin Goodarzi. 

Mike Pieper is an ML engineer at Rokt, an e-commerce venture that helps sites boost revenues and attract customers. Earlier he was a senior AI engineer at LG Electronics. From 2017 to 2021, he was a researcher at the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (MILA), one of the top AI and ML labs in the world, and an affiliate, institute Polytechnique Montreal. Mike earned a Master's in Computer Science from Washington University, St. Louis, and a Bachelor's in Finance from NYU.  

Afshin Goodarzi is on the board of CapZone Analytics, a compliance platform for investors and businesses operating in opportunity zones. Earlier, he was the chief data scientist at Kargo. a mobile brand advertising company based in New York; from 2011 to 2021, he was the chief analyst at 1010 Data. Afshin earned an MS in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Hartford. 

Alan Morley leads anti-financial crime and fraud detection at Huron Consulting, which has a market value of $2 billion. Alan earned an MBA from Columbia University. 

Education Data Insights from non-profit and business founders

Mike Havis and Paul Hill, co-founders Educate to Career, chat with Patrick Scott, a former New York Times business editor and teacher.

Monday, January 29, 2024, 5 pm to 6 pm. Online.

Register via THIS LINK.

The notion that the most expensive college is the best choice is pure nonsense, say Paul Hill and Mike Havis, co-founders of Educate to Career (ETC). A non-profit, backed by the Google Foundation, ETC offers a college to career planning system for students - and their parents - to get through college and into a real career, while minimizing the financial burden. The ETC platform is used by more than a million students/parents each year. 

Paul Hill is also founder of Jobsearchintelligence.com, a vendor of income data of graduates, based on colleges and courses, to banks and other student lenders.  

How have ETC and JSI grown their business? What insights does their data provide on choosing careers, selecting colleges and securing funding? These and related issues will be discussed by Paul Hill and Mike Havis, co-founders ETC, and Patrick Scott. 

Mike was in various sales roles prior to co-founding ETC in 2013. He earned a BFA in Industrial Product and Design from Wayne State University. Paul is also founder of The Commercial Credit Modeler, which provides analytical data on business failure rates based on industry, location, and size of company.

Patrick Scott was at the New York Times, including as Deputy Business Editor for Europe, based in London. From 2018 to 2022, Patrick taught business communications at the University of Economics, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He was also a full-time teacher, instructing 6th and 7th grade students in public schools in Ho Chi Minh. Patrick earned a Bachelor of Arts, School of Radio, Television and Film, Temple University.

Monday, January 29, 2024, 5 pm to 6 pm. Online.

Celebrate the Holiday Season: An Evening of Art, Music, Cocktails and Networking

When: Friday December 1, 2022. 6 pm to 9.30 pm

Where: Rubin Museum Cafe

Chat with founders, technologists, angel investors, venture capitalists, designers, artists, students and others.

Cash Bar. Music by DJ Bengali.

Estimating Failure of A Business and Reducing Losses

Paul Hill, chats about his easy to use tool, Commercial Credit Modeler, with Dave Schmidt of A2 Resources.

Monday November 13, 2023. 5 pm to 6 pm EST. Online.

The Commercial Credit Modeler, which launched this year, provides analytical data on business failure rates based on industry, location, and size of company. Uses range from assessing client payment risk and estimating probability of losses for credit and collections departments. Also, gives valuable intelligence for potential business investments and for setting up pricing and payment plans for products and services.

Paul Hill, of Credit Modeler, is founder of Jobsearchintelligence.com; it provides data and actuarial services, used by lenders, banks and insurance companies to figure out whether a student can repay education and other loans, based on their grades, majors, schools, industries, locations, and other data.

Dave Schmidt founder of A2 Resources, has decades of experience analyzing business credit risk; he is co-publisher of Your Virtual Credit Manager and editor of Credit Today.

Why Early Stage to Mid Size Companies Outsource: Focus on Growth, Not Infrastructure!

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

Startups, small and mid-size companies find it more productive to outsource infrastructure - accounting, IT, human resources, legal, compliance and other back office tasks. This is not just to control costs but also to benefit from new technologies and other advantages of scale which an outsourcing firm can provide.

Speakers: Jody Chesnov, of Rosenberg Chesnov and Greg Farrington, co-founder Stable Rock Solutions; moderator, Boris Onefater, co-founder Stable Rock Solutions. 

Tuesday September 26; 6 pm to 8 pm.

Host: Rosenberg Chesnov, 2 West 45 street New York, NY.

Impact of $1 Trillion U.S. Subsidies for Clean Energy on Businesses and Jobs

Subsidies for U.S. clean energy projects are already being disbursed. In all about $1 trillion in subsidies will be given out. 

Which businesses will benefit? Which job skills will be in demand? These and related issues were discussed by Jie Zheng, a senior advisor to Clean Hydrogen Works.   

Tuesday August 29 from 6 pm to 8 pm

Host: Huron Consulting, 1166 Sixth Avenue, Third Floor New York

Jie Zheng is a senior advisor to Clean Hydrogen Works, which is building a $7.5 billion clean hydrogen Ammonia project in Louisiana with partners including Mitsui and Denbury Resources. He is also a Managing Director at 5P Capital, New York, which invests in distressed debt. Earlier he was a vice president at WL Ross. Jie earned an MBA from the University of Chicago.

How AI and ML Impacts the Careers of Professionals 

How is the rising use of AI and ML tools by major companies impacting the demand for professional labor? What skills will be in greater demand in the coming years and decades. These and related issues will be discussed by Afshin Goodarzi and Alan Morley.  

Date: July 11; 6 pm to 8 pm. Huron Consulting, 1166 Ave of the Americas, New York.

Afshin Goodarzi was the chief data scientist at Kargo. a mobile brand advertising company based in New York; earlier from 2011 to 2021, he was the chief analyst at 1010 Data. He earned an MS in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Hartford. 

Alan Morley leads anti-financial crime and fraud detection at Huron Consulting, which has a market value of $1.6 billion. Alan has an MBA from Columbia University. 

Art, Music, Cocktails and Networking

Friday June 23, 2023. 6 pm to 10 pm

Rubin Museum Cafe. 150 West 17 Street, between Sixth and Seventh Avenues 

Chat with founders, technologists, angel investors, venture capitalists, designers, artists, students and others.  

21 years or older only.

Finding Jobs Amidst Layoffs. April 24, 2023, 5 pm.  

How to find a job while thousands are being laid off? 

Join a Silley Circuits online chat on this issue with Ronald Katz of Penguin HR Consulting and Chris Loomis of Lee Hecht Harrison.  

Date: April 24, 2023. Time: 5 pm to 6 pm. Online

Birding Picnic: Central Park. Sunday, April 16, 2023.

Photos by Mary Leer using an I Phone 10. Pool, Northwoods and Loch area, Central Park.

Typically, from mid-April to early May is the peak time of the year to see warblers and other birds in Central Park, as they migrate north. Photos of some of the birds we saw. In addition to the migratory birds, we also saw Flaco, the owl that escaped from the Central Park Zoo. He was hooting, which elated some ornithologists who were also there.

Using AI tools for Social Good? March 6, 2023.

Chris Ford, CEO, and Glenn Devitt, CTO, of Stop Soldier Suicide in conversation with Mary Leer, founder Vera Leer Educational Consulting.

Monday March 6. From 5 pm to 6 pm EST.

On February 16, Stop Soldier Suicide (SSS) was named one of two first prize winners, from among 1,200 contestants, for the Mission Daybreak Award. This Veterans Administration award, which comes with a $3 million prize, was for SSS' Black Box Project. It uses machine learning to analyze data from digital devices of veterans who died by suicide to develop models to identify never-before-known risk patterns. The goal is to help with veteran suicide prevention measures.

SSS' CEO Chris Ford and CTO Glenn Devitt will explain how the ML-based system works in a conversation with Mary Leer. Mary is part of the Patient Empowerment Network, is on the adjunct faculty at Bank Street College, New York, and runs Vera Leer Educational Consulting.

Are there ways to protect against - even benefit from - stock and bond market declines?

Monday February 6, 2023. 6 pm to 8 pm

Host: EisnerAmper.

A summary of the event in this link.

Speakers: Yung Lim, co-founder Folio Beyond, and Chris Rich, Managing Director, StoneX.

Yung Lim is co-founder and CEO of Folio Beyond which manages the RISR ETF. The etf provides protection against rising interest rates and has around $80 million in assets.

Earlier, Yung co-founded Treesdale Partners, a fixed income fund of hedge funds which had $2.3 billion in assets at its peak. He was chairman of Pedestal, an online mortgage trading platform backed by Deutsche Bank and Battery Ventures. He earned an MBA from the University of Chicago and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the California Inst of Technology.

Chris Rich is Managing Director, Equity Derivatives, at StoneX. Listed on the NYSE, with a market value of $1.8 billion, it provides institutional access to 39 derivatives exchanges, 175 foreign exchange markets, nearly every global securities marketplace and a number of bi-lateral liquidity venues, as well as retail market access via FOREX.com and City Index.

Chris has spent almost 40 years in the derivatives industry. He started on the floor of the CBOE as a Floor Broker, Trader, and Risk Manager. He founded Rich Advisory Group, an options research and trading firm, he sold to Calyon. He was Managing Director and Head Options Strategist at JonesTrading for 10 years. He earned a B.A. from Loyola.

How Businesses Benefit from Opportunity Zones

Chat with Al Puchala, founder of Capzone 

Monday, January 30, 2023. 5 pm to 6 pm. Online

Capzone invests in and helps businesses identify and locate to federal Opportunity Zones which number more than 8,700 across the U.S. A business set up in the zones can attract low-cost loans while their investors may get sizeable tax benefits for their equity investments. 

This month Capzone launched a compliance and data tech enabled software for companies in the zones to annually file the forms to comply with IRS and federal requirements to continue to qualify and avoid paying likely penalties for non-compliance.

Capzone was founded in 2018 by Al Puchala, a former Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Earlier, he was a Co-Founder of Signal Equity Partners and worked at Lazard Freres and Morgan Stanley. Al holds a BA from Yale University, a JD From Georgetown University, an MA in Economics from New York University and is a member of the New York Bar.

How Physical Art Blends with Virtual Immersive Art

December 15, 2022. Throckmorton Fine Arts.

Michael Blatter, founder Transfix Art, and Spencer Throckmorton, interviewed by Pamela Lubell, filmmaker and artist.

December 15; 2022. 6 pm to 8 pm. Throckmorton Fine Arts, 145 East 57 Street, New York NY

Silley Circuits Annual Holiday Celebrations

Art, Music, Cocktails and Networking. December, 2, 2022.

HOW AI AND MACHINE LEARNING ARE CHANGING BIG DATA AND DATA SCIENCE JOBS

Tuesday November 1, 2022. 6 pm to 8 pm.

Speakers: Phil Kearney, co-founder and COO Symetry ML and Benn Stancil, co-founder Mode.

Location: EisnerAmper, 7th Floor, 733 Third Avenue, 45th and 46th Street

EVENT SPONSORED BY EISNERAMPER

Phil Kearney is a co-founder and COO of SymetryML. It analyzes massive data files with accuracy and substantial time savings and hence improved staff productivity and major cost reduction, including from sharply lower use of cloud computing services - while protecting the privacy of customers through anonymized data.

Founded in 2019, Symetry was spun out of Adtheorent, a digital ad placement platform, which went public in December 2021 at an $800 million valuation. Also, Symetry is a strategic partner to Confluent, a cloud database service provider, with a market value of $6 billion. Earlier, Phil Kearney was a SVP Digital media at American Media and a consultant to CNN. He earned a BA in History and Geography from Bucknell and an MBA from Fairleigh Dickinson.

Benn Stancil is the co-founder and Chief Analytics Officer of Mode. Founded in 2013, Mode unlocks and accelerates human reasoning by providing a fast path to investigate ideas, analyze data, and make decisions as a team. More than 50,000 analysts, including at Shopify, VMWare, Twitch and Lyft, use Mode. The company has raised $81 million.

Benn's blog benn.substack covers data analysis and other issues. Prior to Mode, he was an analyst at Microsoft and Yammer and also worked as an economic analyst at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, DC. He earned a B.S. in Math from Wake Forest.

From Professional Tennis to Selling Espresso Coffee

Monday August 15, 2022. 5 pm to 6 pm. Online.

Alvise Pasqualetti founded Brooklyn-based Moriondo Coffee in 2015. It sells a subscription service to small businesses and consumers which includes an espresso machine and monthly supply of coffee beans. Alvise named his start up after Angelo Moriondo who patented the espresso process in 1884.

Earlier, while a teenager in Italy, Alvise played for three years on the ATP professional tennis circuit and was ranked among the top 1,000 players in the world. An injury forced him to give up playing professional tennis. Then, working as a trading assistant at Chimera Capital in Boston, he earned a BA in Economics from Northeastern University as a part-time student. He worked as a junior trader at Stoever Glass, while earning a Master's in Liberal Arts from the Harvard Extension School.

Jon Bobrow, co-founder Move38 chats with Matt Mankins, founder Monetized.Link.

July 25, 2022.

Is there demand for physical gaming toys, given the dominance of video and online games? 

Jon Bobrow, who co-founded Move38 in 2016, will discuss with Matt Mankins, founder Monetized.Link.

Monday July 25, 2022. 5 pm to 6 pm. Online. 

Register via this link.

Jon Bobrow co-founder Move38

Matt Mankins, founder Monetized.Link

Move38, a spinoff of the MIT Media Lab, seeks to delight hands, challenge minds and inspire curiosity. Jon believes we learn best when at play and that our play shapes who we are. Move38's blink toys are little pucks using light and touch to create complex, ever-changing group of puzzle games, asteroid games, zombie games, and other games. 

Jon's team is also building a digital toy, a tabletop game with components that think for themselves, talk to each other, and come alive under your fingertips, aiming to bring the best of digital to hands-on, face-to-face experiences.

Earlier Jon founded Bit Wise Design. He is an adjunct professor at NYU. A former researcher at the MIT Media Lab, he holds an MS in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT and a BA in Media Arts and Math from UCLA.

Matt Mankins' latest venture Monetized.Link. enables creators to turn their writing, music, videos and other content, with a dedicated URL, into online storefronts. Previously Matt was head of engineering for marketing and ad platforms at Conde Nast, publisher of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker.

In 1998, while at the University of Miami, Matt founded SMTP, whose cloud based protocol is critical to email services. In 2010, SMTP was listed on the Nasdaq. Matt then founded a business to display video ads on taxis. Matt got an MS from MIT's Media Lab. After MIT, he started Lorem Ipsum, an early bricks and clicks bookstore in Cambridge, MA.   

A Mid-Summer Evening: Art, Music, Cocktails and Networking

Friday July 8 2022. 6 pm to 10 pm. Rubin Museum Cafe.

Attendees included Welee Fofanah, Penelope Kara George, Laura and Phil Kearney, Amit Lamba, Mary Leer, Chris Loomis, George Loomis, Jan Lucanus, Mathew Oommen, Abdul Ramirez, Ravi Rao, Anjan Rau, Nitin Ron, Jonathan Tran and Ignatius Chithelen.

For more photos of event click here.

Photos by Mary Leer and Ravi Rao.

David Teten, founder Versatile Capital, chats about Investing in Startups: Who, What, Why, When, Which, and How?

Chat moderated by CIndy Cook, angel investor.

June 28, 2022. Online.

The current tech stock bust creates recruiting opportunities for startups due to layoffs; fewer and weakened competitors; attractive valuations for investors and partners; and an inflow of potential founders who have lost their golden handcuffs. David Teten is our guest for an “Ask me Anything”. He’ll speak very briefly about his background and view on the market, and then take any questions you have.

David has written extensively about best practices in investing and in building tech companies. Check out his Syllabus for how to launch, manage, and invest a VC fund and his Best Practices for Tech Founders. We strongly recommend preparing your questions in advance. David holds an MBA from Harvard and a BA in Economics and Psychology from Yale.

Cindy Cook, is a Board member on New York Angels and Allstar Gaming. She is an advisor to several start-ups and mentors under-represented founders with 1863 and other organizations. She had an extensive operating career leveraging technology to transform businesses in entertainment, education and healthcare. Cindy helped Universal Music Group create the industry’s first digital music products; at Vivendi Games she headed strategy and marketing, where she helped launch World of Warcraft as well as leading console, PC, mobile and online games; at Cengage, she helped create and launch the MindTap learning platform; and at Elsevier, she ran data-driven marketing across its US Healthcare and Education businesses. Cindy has an MBA from NYU and a BS in Finance from Lehigh University.

Date: Tuesday, June 28. Time: 5 pm to 6 pm; Online.

Online storefront for monetizing Creative Content. June 21, 2022

Serial entrepreneur Matt Mankins chats with Pamela Lubell, filmmaker and artist, about his latest venture Monetized.Link.

Date: Tuesday June 21, 2022. 5 pm to 6 pm. Online.

Monetized.Link, Matt Mankins' latest venture, enables creators to turn their writing, music, videos and other content, with a dedicated URL, into online storefronts. The site, whose offerings range from a free version to customizable ones for enterprises, enables building of layouts, description of content, automatic screenshots, and accepts credit card payments - ranging from $1 to $50. Creators own the content and can change or unpublish it at any time -without the need for any coding.

Previously Matt was head of engineering for marketing and ad platforms at Conde Nast, publisher of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker. In 1998, while at the University of Miami, Matt founded SMTP, whose cloud based protocol is critical to email services. In 2010, SMTP was listed on the Nasdaq. Matt then founded a business to display video ads on taxis. Matt got an MS from MIT's Media Lab. After MIT, he started Lorem Ipsum, an early bricks and clicks bookstore in Cambridge, MA.

Pamela Lubell is a filmmaker and artist. Her 2016 Danny Says is a critically acclaimed documentary about Danny Fields, a Harvard Law drop-out who managed the Ramones and worked with The Doors and Judy Collins. Earlier Pamela worked for Miramax films for a decade, including as Director of Creative Advertising. She led a team whose poster for the movie Pulp Fiction won the Directors' Guild of America (DGA) Key Art Award.

Birding Picnic in Central Park. May 8, 2022.

Our photos of some of the birds we saw.

How major new technologies are changing Wall Street

Ronen Rub, founder of RSquared Logic, in conversation with Boris Onefater, founder Constellation Advisors.

Monday April 25; 5 pm to 6 pm.

Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and other Wall Street firms continue to be among the first to use the latest technologies to lift revenues and cut costs. What are the major problems which they seek to solve through technology? Which types of hardware and software are in big demand? How is this impacting their tech hiring? Are fintech startups a threat to the growth and profitability of Wall Street firms, as the venture capitalists in Silicon Valley foresee? These are among the issues to be discussed by Ronen Rub in conversation with Boris Onefater, founder Constellation Advisors.

Ronen Rub, founder of RSquared, was earlier head of Application Development at MSD Capital, Michael Dell's family office for 10 years; Chief Technology Officer at Waterfall Asset Management, a New York based credit manager; and leadership roles Including Tradeworx, a FinTech start-up that focused on real-time analytical tools and wealth management applications. Ronen founded Macron Logic, and was the co-founder of SYNEX. He earned a degree in computer science from Brooklyn College.

Boris Onefater, is founder of Constellation Advisers, now part of IQ-EQ Funds, with over 120 employees in New York, Los Angeles, Dallas and San Francisco. It assists funds and other investment managers with accounting, compliance, governance, due diligence, operations and other back office functions. Earlier he was the CEO, CFO and COO at Dreman Value Management, a $20 billion asset management firm, and Partner and National Hedge Fund Director at Deloitte. He received his B.S. in Accounting and Finance at New York University and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Monday April 25; 5 pm to 6 pm.

What playing poker teaches about Business Strategy and Leadership Skills: Insights from a professional. 

April 11, 2022

In business and careers - in fact in much of life - taking decisive action when the odds are in your favor is a key to success. How can you estimate the odds like a successful poker player? Why observing body language and other signs can enhance your skills as a negotiator, business leader and manager. Ashley Adams, a professional poker player, will discuss with Christine Loomis, a leadership consultant.

Ashley Adams has been playing poker since 1962, when, at age five, he learned it literally at the knee of his grandfather; and professionally since 1992. He is the host of a weekly radio and podcast House of Cards, broadcast on ESPN West radio and other stations. He has played the game in all 50 states and 25 countries and is the author of Winning Poker in 30 Minutes a Day and two other books on poker.
Ashley is an organizer for educators chiefly for the Massachusetts Teachers Association. He earned a B.A. in English and American Studies from Amherst College.

Christine Loomis, a Senior Consultant with Lee Hecht Harrison, coaches business leaders and professionals in career transition. Earlier, her 25-year banking career included being SVP of the US-Russia Investment Fund, based in Moscow; being a VP at NatWest; and working at Chase Manhattan. Chris earned a BA from Princeton University and an MA from Columbia University.

How Imagry's software, based on computer vision & neural networks, transforms autonomous driving

March 22, 2022. 5 pm. Online

Imagry's map-less systems enable cars, shuttles, sidewalk delivery, logistics, robotics and industrial vehicles to drive autonomously. Using Imagry's software, which is powered by neural networks, computer vision and deep learning, the vehicles can figure out the path and learn and plan in real-time. The system, which is undergoing tests, can potentially run a wide range of devices, while improving their operating economics, from vacuum cleaners and lawnmowers to cars, robots and mining trucks.

Eran Ofir, CEO of Imagry, will discuss these issues in a Silley Circuits chat. Earlier, he was a co-founder and CEO of Somatix, a provider of wearable-enabled Remote Patient Monitoring software platform to healthcare providers. He has a B.Sc. in electronics engineering and an MBA from Tel Aviv University.

How Kayrros uses AI, ML and other data tools: Antoine Halff, chief analyst

March 7, 2022

Kayrros uses artificial intelligence and machine learning tools to analyze data from satellites and other alternate sources, about energy, natural resource and industrial markets, helping investors, traders, companies & governments.

Antoine Halff, chief analyst Kayrros, in conversation with Michael Recce, founder AlphaROC.AI, and former head of quant at Neuberger Berman.

Antoine Halff, chief analyst Kayrros, is an adjunct senior research scholar at Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy. Michael Recce, founder of AlphaROC.AI, was previously the chief data scientist at Neuberger Berman, which manages over $400 billion in assets. He is product adviser and a board member of Alqami, which is helping businesses commercialize their alternate data.

Informal chat with (Ret.) Major General John Wharton.

January 22, 2022

Silley Circuits Holiday Gathering

Kimberley Hotel, December 6, 2021.

Attendees included Eran Ofir, CEO, Imagry, autonomous vehicle systems; Rahul Saxena, former SVP, International Corporate Strategy, Verizon; and Bill Schwebel, vice president and head, Buildings Automation Division, Johnson Controls.

Building tech unicorns in New York City: challenges, opportunities and creating jobs.

Alex Yampolskiy, left, co-founder of SecurityScorecard, and Scott Russo, front left in jacket, co-founder of Adtheorent and founder SymetryML. (Photo Ravi Rao.)

October 21, 2021. Princeton Club of New York.

Security Scorecard is the leading cyber security scoring company, which continuously rates over two million companies. The rating system is used by over 1,000 companies for self-monitoring, third party risk management, board reporting and cyber insurance underwriting. Based in New York, Security Scorecard has raised $290 million in venture capital; it was valued at nearly $1 billion in the latest funding round. Investors include Intel Capital and Google Ventures.

Co-founder and CEO Alex Yamploskiy earned a B.A. in mathematics and computer science from New York University and a Ph.D. in Cryptography from Yale University.

Symetry's machine learning software analyzes massive pools of data, especially streaming data, at a fraction of the cost and time of existing data analytics systems. In 2020, it was spun out of Adtheorent, a New York based digital ad placement vehicle, which is going public this month at an $800 million valuation.

Symetry founder Scott Russo, was a managing partner and CFO at Adtheorent from 2012 to 2020. He earned a BA in philosophy from Bucknell University and an MBA from Yale University.

Selling Digital Services to Major Companies. Princeton Club of NY. 10.13.2021

How Symetry ML is accelerating the speed and reducing the costs of data analysis

Phil Kearney, CEO Symetry. Princeton Club of NY. September 22, 2021.

Symetry analyzes massive pools of data, especially streaming data, at a fraction of the cost and time of existing data analytics systems. It was spun out of Adtheorent, a digital ad placement vehicle, which is going public at an $800 million valuation. Also, Symetry is a strategic partner to Confluent, a cloud database service provider, with a market value of $12 billion.

From Writing for the New York Times to Seeking Subscribers

June 21, 2021. Time: 5 pm to 6 pm.

Bill Cohan, best selling author and former Wall Street banker, chatted about his personal journey to co-founding a publishing business. He spoke with Mukul Pandya, senior fellow at the Wharton School and former editor in chief of Knowledge@Wharton.

Bill Cohan is a founding partner of Puck.news, which is owned by its writers. He writes about what’s really happening on Wall Street—and what the practitioners of high finance are really saying behind closed doors. A banker on Wall Street for 17 years, including at Lazard Freres, Bill is the author of four best-selling books and writes for The New York Times, Financial Times, Vanity Fair and other publications.

Mukul Pandya retired last year after 20 years as the editor in chief of Knowledge@Wharton. A senior fellow at the Wharton School, he has written for The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Economist and other publications.

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What we learned during the lockdown. June 7, 2021

Last October Phil Kearney CEO of SymetryML discussed how his business was faring during the pandemic.

Now, with vaccinations and re-opening, he will chat about what they learned during the lockdown and how it has shaped them and their companies.

SymetryML offers tools that vastly speed up real time analysis of large data sets, to assess issues such as insurance risk, detect fraud and make demand forecasts. It was spun off from Adtheorent, a major adtech platform. Phil Kearney was earlier a senior executive and adviser to NBC, CNN and other media companies.

How has the Pandemic impacted the Job market?

Date: Tuesday April 6, 2021. Time: 5 pm to 6 pm.

Register: via this LINK.

As is known, the pandemic and lockdown have vastly boosted demand for professionals with online skills. It has also had other less visible but major impact: for instance, accelerating the automation of several tasks.

How will these and related trends impact the hiring of professionals as the lockdown is lifted?

These issues will be discussed by Charlotte A. Lee, Managing Consultant, Lee Hecht Harrison, one of the world’s largest outplacement firms, in a chat with Christine Loomis, a Senior Consultant at the firm.

How to Survive and find Opportunities during a Crisis?

Monday March 8, 2021. Time: 5 pm to 6 pm.

What strategies can help to get through a sustained crisis like the current pandemic, while seeking major opportunities which often arise, including on a personal level.

These issues will be discussed by (Ret.) Col. Patrick Mahaney, Jr., a Senior Advisor to the National Security Innovation Network, and Brian Kinsella, co-founder of Rappore, a mental health startup.

Date: Monday March 8, 2021. Time: 5 pm to 6 pm.

Host: Constellation Advisers.

Data Nerds Play Music 2. Silley Circuits. January 27. 2021. 6 pm

Silley Circuits first 2021 event is string music from two data nerds. They performed in June last year. 

Afshin Goodarzi, chief analyst at 1010 Data, will play the Setar.

Ravi Rao, former AI expert at IBM and now at Fairleigh Dickinson University, will play the Sitar.

Wednesday January 27, 2021 6.00 pm to 7.00 pm.  
We will start with a minute of silence for those who lost their lives to COVID-19. Also, to thank the nurses, other first responders, grocery staff and all those who risk their lives to make ours easier during the pandemic.

Phil Kearney, Symetry ML: growth, funding and hiring at start-ups amidst lockdown

Monday October 5, 2020. Time 5 to 6 pm

Phil Kearney CEO of SymetryML.

SymetryML offers tools that vastly speed up real time analysis of large data sets, to assess issues such as insurance risk, detect fraud and make demand forecasts. It was spun off from Adtheorent , a major adtech platform. Phil Kearney was earlier a senior executive and adviser to NBC, CNN and other media companies.

Afshin Goodarzi, Ahmed Elsamadisi: data and AI business during the pandemic

September 22, 2020. 5 pm.

Online businesses have benefited enormously since the COVID-19 lock-down began in March. How has this impacted businesses that provide data analysis and artificial intelligence services?

Afshin Goodarzi, chief analyst of 1010 Data, will chat with Ahmed Elsamadisi , a co-founder of Narrator.AI and former head of data at WeWork. Event hosted by Silley Circuits. 

1010 Data analyses data for the retail, consumer brands and financial services companies. Its clients include Wegmans, Nespresso and Rite Aid. Narrator enables companies to ask questions, understand customer behavior, and analyze data across all their systems using a simple Universal Data Model. It has raised over $7 million in funding.

Patrick Sullivan, Bonsai: Launching a third business, this time during COVID-19 lockdown.

September 15,2020. 5.30 pm. 

In April, amidst the pandemic lock-down. Patrick Sullivan launched his third start-up Bonsai. It is a career advice platform, using one on one video meetings, to connect professionals with experts who do the work that interests them at the companies they want to work at. His two earlier firms were bought by Facebook and Google. 

Patrick will chat with Brian Kinsella, co-founder of Rappore, a mental health start-up which is expanding online; earlier Brian was a vice president at Goldman Sachs. Event hosted by Silley Circuits.

Matt Mankins: Can print media publishers and jobs survive post Covid-19?

August 11, 2020. 1 pm.

Speakers: Matt Mankins, serial media entrepreneur & head of engineering for marketing and ad platforms at Conde Nast, publisher of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker. Cindy Cook, angel investor, was a senior executive at Universal Music and other media companies.

COVID-19 has led to further revenue declines and job losses at some traditional and new print publications. One solution is to offer valuable news, analysis and stories in print and digital formats. Good content, coupled with subscriptions and in-house advertising platforms, can enable publishers to avoid the chase for eyeballs and typically diminishing Facebook and Google ad revenues. This strategy has been very successful for The Financial Times and The Economist. Other successful, and some start-up, media companies are using similar strategies in podcasts, videos and music publishing.

Matt Mankins, of Conde Nast, and angel investor Cindy Cook will discuss these issues in a Silley Circuits virtual chat.

In 1998, while at the University of Miami, Matt Mankins founded SMTP, whose cloud based protocol is critical to email services. In 2010, SMTP was listed on the Nasdaq. Matt then founded a business to display video ads on taxis. Matt got an MS from MIT's Media Lab. After MIT, he started Lorem Ipsum, an early bricks and clicks bookstore in Cambridge, MA.  

Cindy Cook is an angel investor and partner at Metaforce. She helped Universal Music Group create the industry’s first digital music products; at Vivendi Games she headed strategy and marketing for leading console, PC and online games; at Cengage, she drove marketing and helped create the MindTap learning platform; and at Elsevier, she ran data-driven marketing across its US Healthcare and Education businesses. Earlier she was at Pepsi and Seagram. Cindy has an MBA from NYU and a BS in Finance from Lehigh University.  

Silley Circuits thanks Constellation Advisers for their support.  

Rev. Galen Guengerich on Selfishness and Gratitude during COVID-19.

Monday July 27, 2020. 5 pm to 6 pm.  

Innate traits of selfishness and generosity are vastly magnified during a major crisis, wrote Albert Camus in his novel The Plague. This insight, of the Nobel prize winning French Algerian writer, is evident today amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. 

How is such behavior affecting society today? Are there ways to enhance kindness in others and us?    

These issues will be discussed by Galen Guengerich, the senior pastor at All Souls Unitarian Church, New York. His book The Way of Gratitude: A New Spirituality for Today was published in May by Random House. Galen’s sermon on 911 is in a collection of speeches with that of President George W. Bush. He got his M.Div. from Princeton University.

Galen will chat with Karen Morris, who is on the board of the non-profit Global Sourcing Council. Karen is an innovation and strategy advisor with DUAL International, the world's largest insurance underwriting agency. Earlier she was the chief innovation officer at AIG. She has a law degree from the University of London.

Silley Circuits thanks Throckmorton Fine Art for their support. 

Brian Kinsella, Rappore : Launching a business amid the lock-down.

June 29, 2020. 5 pm.

Brian Kinsella launched Rappore in New York virtually on May 1, while the city was under lock-down.

The mental health start-up has over 15 professionals on its staff. Rappore's co-founders are Frederic Kass, former head of psychiatry at Columbia University, and Betty Jean Kass, also of Columbia University.

Earlier Brian, who co-founded Stop Soldier Suicide, was a vice president at Goldman Sachs.

DATA NERDS PLAY MUSIC

Monday June 15, 2020. 6.30 pm to 7.30 pm.

Afshin Goodarzi, chief analyst at 1010 Data, will play the Setar. 

Ravi Rao, former AI expert at IBM and now at Fairleigh Dickinson University, will play the Sitar.

VIRTUAL SOCIAL HOUR, May 28, 2020. 5.30 pm

VIRTUAL SOCIAL HOUR, May 14, 2020. 5.30 pm

BUSINESS EXPANSION, START UPS & HIGH PAYING JOBS IN NEW YORK

March 2, 2020; 6 pm to 8 pm.

Speakers: Moderator William Cohan, NY Times best selling author and former Wall Street banker.  (https://williamcohan.com/) Panelists: Ahmed Elmadisi founder Narrator. AI (https://www.narrator.ai/about-us) former chief data scientist at WeWorks; Stefanie Shelley, an Advisor, Board Director and former JP Morgan executive (https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefanieshelley/); and Navi Singh, head of technology at Antler.co (https://www.antler.co/) Introduction by Christine Loomis, a Senior Consultant with Lee Hecht Harrison. ( http://www.christineloomis.com/about-us/) 

Host: Betaworks Studio, 29 Little West 12th Street  

IS THERE A MILLENNIALS MARKET? OR IS IT A FICTION OF AD AGENCIES & CONSULTANTS PURSUING NEW REVENUE SOURCES? 

February 24, 2020; 6 pm to 8 pm

Speakers: Moderator: Cindy Cook, partner Metaforce (https://www.metaforce.co/cindy) Heather Myers, founder Sparkno9. (https://www.sparkno9.com/#our-team)

Host: Betaworks Studio, 29 Little West 12th Street  

PODCAST OF PANEL DISCUSSION:

//drive.google.com/file/d/1ApVtb3PiHb4Iqk0UXDAb-d_LTKEfHu_3/view?ts=5e546f01

Silicon Alley Holiday Celebration

Friday, December 13, 2019; 6:00 PM to 10 PM

Rubin Museum of Art - Cafe Serai

150 West 17th Street , New York, NY, 10011

Is it easy to Change or Restart Careers?

December 2, 2019, 6pm. Host: Betaworks Studio

PODCAST OF PANEL DISCUSSION: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tDPV6NBc5MK2sYbHB5zxY-qf_o5TeaYi/view?usp=sharing

PHOTOS OF THE EVENT: https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipMgVf-rkQ-s6_Og9kyq79FAe2DUbcVn6VNw9iufSvjZzPWF7Ftgj1ZmOXoHeTdXDg?key=eHBfZ2RseHUxQV9YOVo4NHp1UlAxZWhfMkFmX1VR

Photos by Ritesh Bhansal, founder www.verusai.com

Do you change careers because you seek more money, are in a job you dislike or due to a mid-life crisis? Do you restart careers because you are bored or eager for bigger challenges? What is the best motivation for a new focus and renewed energy: financial rewards; greater glory; something to keep busy; chasing an unfulfilled ambition? Do you need to acquire special skills to make career switches? Or is interest in a new career more important for success?

These issues were discussed by a Silley Circuits panel: Annette Herfkens, a best selling author and former banker at ING & Banco Santander; Brian Kinsella, healthcare start-up founder, former vice president at Goldman Sachs & former army captain; Kurt Soderlund, CEO of Safe Water Networks and internet start-up founder; moderated by Christine Loomis, a banker turned professional coach & senior consultant with Lee Hecht Harrison.

Opportunities and hurdles in Financial Technology

Date: Monday October 7, 2019. 6 pm to 8 pm. Location: Sullivan LLP, 1633 Broadway at 50th street.

Potential opportunities for financial technology companies are several hundred billion dollars, from bill collection and payments to student and business loans, automated wealth management and financial services. Several start ups are tackling these opportunities. Yet they face major hurdles, from the high cost of meeting complex regulations to long entrenched finance companies fiercely protecting their markets and profit margins.    

Solutions: focus on niche markets? provide unique products partnering with big incumbent companies? pursue major markets in stealth mode, bypassing big, well funded competitors?

These issues will be discussed by a Silley Circuits panel: Alan Silberstein a trustee of Global Payments (https://engineering.columbia.edu/board-of-visitors/alan-silberstein); David Teten, venture partner at HOF Capital (https://teten.com/people/); Greg Farrington, President, Constellation Advisers. (https://www.constellationadvisers.com/about-us/our-team) and Justin Zhen, co-founder Thinknum (https://www.thinknum.com/about). Heidi Thompson CFO of Diligence Vault will introduce the panel. https://diligencevault.com/about-us.html. Host: Scott Kaufman, parnter Sullivan Law

Why Design is more important in an age of smartphones?

Date: Monday September 16, 2019. 6 pm to 8 pm.

Good design is more important today both online and offline due to the wide use of digital platforms as well as their distraction. This is seen from the ease of shopping on Amazon, which has pushed retailers from Walmart to Macy's to improve their online displays; the ability of Apple and Dyson to charge premium prices for their products; Hermes holding art exhibits in their physical stores to attract new, younger customers; and the increasing competition for admission to the top art & design schools.

These issues will be discussed by a Silley Circuits panel: Nancy Fire, founder of Design Works International; Tiago Estrada, head of Customer Experience at Atmosphere Proximity, a digital marketing company; and Janet Esquirol, who is creative director at TEDxFultonStreet and teaches at CUNY, as moderator. Cliff Schorer, of the Columbia Business School, will introduce the panelists.

Livestream: https://livestream.com/betaworks-studios/20190916-design-in-age-of-smartphones

Celebrate a mid-summer evening - Art, Music, Cocktails and Networking. Friday July 12, 2019.

Silley Circuits, New York's Business Network, invites you to a celebration of summer and networking: 

Chat with founders, technologists, angel investors, venture capitalists, designers, artists, students and if you get lucky bankers, lawyers and accountants.  

When: Friday July 12, 2019. 6 pm to 9 pm

Where: Rubin Museum Cafe 150 West 17 Street, between Sixth and Seventh Avenues 

Is big data turning out to be mostly big hype? June 3, 2019

Two years ago the media was full of reports on how big data was going to change most businesses. Today there is little or no discussion of the issue; media attention is now focused on the "big promise" of Artificial Intelligence. 

Was talk of missing out on use of big data just another hype by consultants to sell their services? What are the major changes taking place in businesses due to the availability and analysis of massive amounts of online and offline data? Where are the business opportunities and jobs?

These issues will be discussed by: Michael Recce, chief data scientist Neuberger Berman, which manages over $330 billion https://battleofthequants.com/michael-recce/ ; and Bruce Taragin managing director at Blumberg Capital. https://www.blumbergcapital.com/team/. Christine Loomis will introduce the panel; she is an executive with global experience in financial services, entrepreneurship and talent development. 

Date: Monday, June 3. 6 pm to 8 pm.

Venue: Sullivan LLP, law firm, at 1633 Broadway and 50th street.Host: Scott Kaufman, partner.

Where are the media start ups & jobs in New York? May 6, 2019

Four years ago, New York had several hundred start ups pursuing digital and mobile e-magazines, videos, film, music, podcasts and related media services. Today most of them have disappeared or shrunk sharply, except for a few podcast producers. There are fewer jobs for writers, designers and others in journalism, at least in the for profit area. What happened? What is the future for founders and investors in media start ups as well as those working or considering a career in journalism? 

These issues will be discussed by Richie Hyden, co-founder of IRIS TV. http://www.iris.tv/about-us; Jordan Lofaro, who manages McClatchy papers venture capital portfolio. https://www.mcclatchy.com/ventures/ and Rob Simmelkjaer, former head of ventur investing at NBC News; earlier with Comcast ventures. Moderator: Ignatius Chithelen, Banyan Tree Capital.

Date: May 6. Time 6 to 8 pm. Location: Betaworks Studio, 29 Little west 12 th street. Hosts: Ben Scheim, Kit Irwin.

The end of brands and marketing? April 22, 2019

Amazon, Costco and other retailers are hurting sales and profit margins of Gillette, Heinz ketchup, Ivory soap and other long established brands. How much further will the market share and pricing power of brands decline? What are the job prospects for the army of MBA's in branding, advertising and marketing?

Panelists: Cindy Cook, former head of marketing for Vivendi Games, Elsevier US Healthcare & Cengage Learning, is a partner at Metaforce, advising early stage companies on go-to-market strategies. Alberto Brea, is Chief Strategist at Dimassimo Goldstein, a marketing agency. He has advised Nestle & other companies. Lori Tauber Marcus, former chief of marketing at Peloton, The Children’s Place Retail Stores and chief global brand officer at Keurig Green Mountain, is founder of Courtyard Connections. It advises corporations as well as digital start ups on marketing, strategy and leadership. Stu Seltzer secures brand licensing and marketing partners for Unilever, Safeway, Starwood Hotels and other clients as founder of Seltzer Licensing. 

Monday April 22, 2019. 

Betaworks Studio, venture firm 29 Little west street New York. Hosts: Ben Scheim, Kit Irwin.

Why Niche Start Ups have a better chance of Success? March 26, 2019

Niche businesses have higher chances of success and can be very profitable, bringing good gains for founders and early employees. 

PANELISTS: Boris Onefater, founder Constellation partners; Don White co-founder Satisfi and Nelson Rockefeller Jr founder Frontier Signal. 

Tuesday March 26, 2019. 6 pm to 8 pm.

Venue: Sullivan & Worcester; 1633 Broadway. Host: Scott Kauffman, partner

Can a philanthropy achieve goals by using profit incentives? Feb. 19, 2019

Warren Buffett and some others say that you can’t mix profits with philanthropic goals. Is this always true? Safe Water Network,founded by the actor Paul Newman, relies on profits to provide clean water. Its CEO Kurt Soderlund will discuss how mxing profits and philanthropy.  

Safe Water supplies clean water to about one million people, through a network of over 300 small entrepreneurs in small towns in India and Ghana.

Tuesday February 19, 2019; 6 pm to 8 pm.

Where: Constellation Advisors, 1212 Avenue of the Americas, 6th Floor, NY NY 10036

https://www.constellationadvisers.com/ Hosts: Boris Onefater & Greg Farrington - Founders

What Role can a Start Up Adviser play, besides Investing? January 29, 2019

Successful entrepreneurs get more than money from their early advisers. The benefits of having advisers include technical, business and managerial expertise and leads to potential customers and other investors. 

These issues will be discussed by Cliff Schorer, a director of Columbia Business School's Lang Entrepreneurship center, and Matt Hartman, a partner at Betaworks Ventures.

Tuesday, January 29, 2019; 6 pm to 8 pm

Venue: Betaworks Studio, 29 Little West Street, New York, NY. Hosts: Ben Scheim, Kit Irwin.

Silley Circuits Holiday Celebrations. November 30, 2018.

Art, Music, Cocktails and Networking

Silley Circuits, New York's Business Network, invites you to an evening of Holiday celebration and networking. 

Chat with founders, technologists, angel investors, venture capitalists, designers, artists, students and if you get lucky bankers, lawyers and accountants.  

When: Friday, November 30, 2018. 6 pm to 9 pm

Where: Rubin Museum Cafe; 150 West 17 Street, between Sixth and Seventh Avenues 

Cash Bar: Two for one Wine, Beer & Well Drinks from 6 pm to 7 pm. Asian tapas menu 

Music by D.J. KindB 

http://rubinmuseum.org/events/event/k2-lounge-11-30-2018

Free museum admission, including an anonymous board to confess your major hope and fear.  

Future of Start Ups and Start Up Jobs in New York. October 2018

 The growth of Start-ups - and jobs at them - in the New York region has slowed. This is due to several factors: unlike in earlier software and web businesses, starting a business in artificial intelligence, data analytics and financial technology requires raising milions of dollars; the city's traditional advertising, publishing and retail businesses have come to be dominated by Google, Facebook and Amazon; and fresh graduates are finding jobs, unlike after the 2008-2009 recession.

Are there still opportunities for start-ups in New York? This will be discussed by (Ret.) Major General John Wharton, founder of R&D and logistics companies; Richie Hayden, co-founder Iris TV; Andrew Guarino, CEO of fire and security systems company; and Jerry Marcus, co-founder 1099 Partners and angel investor.    

October 28, 2018.

Venue: Sullivan & Worcester, law firm at 1633 Broadway; at 51 street. Host: Scott Kaufman, partner

Suggested donation $5 or more at door for Stop Soldier Suicide. https://stopsoldiersuicide.org/donate/

AI displacing high-cost MBAs on Wall Street? Sept. 24, 2018

Michael Recce, Neuberger Berman

Will the spread of artificial intelligence tools slash hiring of MBAs on Wall Street and other financial firms, similar to the negative impact of digital tools on lawyers? Which finance jobs are AI tools replacing? What new jobs are they creating? Are these high paying jobs? Are there opportunities for start ups to provide the AI tools?

Michael Recce chief data scientist at Neuberger Berman will discuss these issues. Neuberger, an employee owned firm, manages $304 billion in assets. Michael is building a team that will leverage large, unstructured, novel data to evaluate a business. Prior to joining Neuberger in 2017, Michael held a similar role at GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, and at Point72 Asset Management.

September 24, 2018.

Where: Constellation Advisors, 1212 Avenue of the Americas, 6th Floor, NY NY 10036

https://www.constellationadvisers.com/ Hosts: Boris Onefater & Greg Farrington - Founders

Growing & Selling an Old Economy Business. July 10, 2018.

Boring old economy businesses provide several attractive opportunities for start-ups and small businesses. There is little or no competition from hundreds of top engineers and MBAs. But most such businesses have their own issues, including long-entrenched operators who seek to squash new entrants, unions and lots of regulations.    

As a CEO and owner of an old economy business, Andrew Guarino will discuss these issues. From 1998 to 2015, Andrew was at Integrated Systems & Power, a fire detection and security systems company. Starting as president, then CEO and later owner, he expanded the company to 150 employees, serving over 300 clients, including NBC Studios and Carnegie Hall. He sold the company to Johnson Controls. 

July 10, 2018

Constellation Advisors, 1212 Avenue of the Americas, 6th Floor, NY NY 10036. Hosts: Boris Onefater; Greg Farrington.

Silicon Alley Summer Celebration: June 15, 2018

Rubin Museum Cafe

Cyber & Data Security: Business Threats & Opportunities May, 7, 2018

What are the business opportunities from the explosive growth in cyber and data breaches? Are there any businesses likely to be hurt? What kinds of skills will have long term demand? These issues will be discussed by Colonel Pat Mahaney, former Director Army Strategic Studies group and Aleksandr Yampolskiy of Security Scorecard. Moderator Afshin Goodarzi of 1010 Data. 

May 7, 2018.

Venue: Sullivan & Worcester, 1633 Broadway. Host Scott Kaufman.

Surviving as a Start up in New York

The New York area has several large businesses including in media, education and finance. But does the region offer the opportunities, talent, access to capital and work space - at the right price - to enable start-ups to grow and flourish? Marc Hustvedt CEO of Above Average, a producer of video comedies, Matt Robins CEO of Deanslist education software and Don White founder of Satis.fi, a customer service app, will discuss with Susanne Greenfield, VP strategy and venture investing at Priceline. 

April 23, 2018

Host: Sullivan & Worcester; Scott Kaufman partner. 1633 Broadway, New York, NY

Raising Capital. Peter Fusaro, EVP, 41 North Securities

January 29, 2018

Some businesses have an easy time raising funds from angels as well as institutions. Others struggle. Is there a formula that works, while speaking to a potential investor? Any secrets about writing a business plan? What should you and should not disclose? Yes team is often important, but is it always a necessity? 

Peter Fusaro, a business adviser who helps companies raise funds as EVP of 41 North Securities, will provide examples while discussing these issues. http://41-north.com/tombstones/

When: Monday, January 29, 2018; 6 pm to 8 pm.

Where: Constellation Advisors, 1212 Avenue of the Americas, 6th Floor, NY NY 10036. Host: Boris Onefater

Celebrate the Holiday Season in Silicon Alley

 Art, Music, Cocktails & Networking. December 8, 2017

When: Friday, December 8, 2017. 6 pm to 10 pm

Where: Rubin Museum Cafe 

150 West 17 Street, between Sixth and Seventh Avenues 

Afshin Goodarzi, 1010 Data: Trends in Big Data. October 23, 2017

When: Monday, October 23, 2017. 6 pm to 8 pm.

Analyzing the rising number of data points offers new opportunities for enabling businesses to grow and prosper. It also requires advanced numerical and technical skills. Afshin Goodarzi, chief analyst at 1010 Data, will discuss these issues. 

1010 Data is a New York start-up, bought for $500 million in 2015 by Advance Communications. It collects and analyzes data for companies in the retail, branded goods and financial services businesses. Clients include Coca Cola, Nestle, Morgan Stanley, Chase Bank and Procter & Gamble. 

Eric Gertler, US News & Bill Day, JW Player: Media Businesses in New York - Will Silicon Valley Obsolete them? September 18, 2017

When: Monday September 18, 2017. 6 pm to 8 pm. Host Wiggin & Dana

How are New York's traditional media businesses - publishing, advertising, television, videos - coping with the digital dominance and competition from Silicon Valley disruptors? How can content creators get paid by aggregators and top-ten list generators? Which areas should entrepreneurs explore for potentially successful start-ups? Where are the good long-term media career opportunities?     

Eric Gertler, Co-Chairman of US News and Bill Day, COO of JW Player, will discuss these issues.

Where: Wiggin & Dana, 437 Madison Avenue at 50th street

Farming - Greens and Fish - in a Brooklyn Warehouse. July 18, 2017.

Where: Constellation Advisers, 1212 Avenue of the Americas

Celebrate A Summer Night in Silicon Alley. June 16, 2017.

June 16, 2017. 6 pm to 10 pm

Silley Circuits, New York's Business Network, invites you to a summer night of celebration and networking at the Rubin museum. 

Chat with founders, technologists, angel investors, venture capitalists, designers, artists, students and if you get lucky bankers, lawyers and accountants. 

Cash Bar: Two for one Wine, Beer & Well Drinks from 6 pm to 7 pm. Asian tapas menu 

Free museum admission: photographs of India by Henri Cartier Bresson. 

Music by D.J. Wah: http://rubinmuseum.org/events/event/k2-lounge-06-16-2017

Business Lessons From Decades as a Senior Executive, Investor and Adviser to Major Companies and Start Ups? May 8, 2017.

May 8, 2017

Cliff Schorer served as CEO of Lucent's GeoVideo Networks, advises Sony, Pfizer, Forbes and Glaxo, invests in tech, medical and real estate and nurtures student start ups at Columbia University's Business School, some of which were later bought for hundreds of million dollars. 

Cliff Schorer is director of Columbia Business School's Lang Entrepreneurship center. He is a serial entrepreneur focused on guidance, acquisition and development of start ups, small and mid-sized companies, including in real estate, office-supply and health care. Cliff is Co-CEO of Greenwich Energy Solutions and is on the boards of Landaeur Metropolitan, a private supplier of medical equipment and non-profit Out2Play. 

He is a consultant to Glaxo, Pfizer, Forbes and Sony. Earlier he was CEO of GeoVideo Networks, a Lucent Technologies Venture. At Columbia, where he has taught since 2001, Cliff got the Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence and a fund was named in his honor for launching new ventures. He has a BA from Lehigh University 1965. 

Where: Constellation Advisers. 1212 Sixth Avenue. 

Constellation Advisers' Greg Farrington: How to Grow a Business from one to over 100 employees. April 12, 2017.

April 12, 2017

What are the Insights from a Start-Up that has grown to over 100 employees and three offices in nine years?

Greg Farrington is a partner at Constellation Advisers, a financial services firm with offices in New York, San Francisco and Dallas. Constellation provides compliance, valuation, risk management, accounting and related services. He also advises start-ups and small businesses.

When: Wednesday April 12, 2017; 6 pm to 8 pm

The Future for Web & Tech Businesses in New York - March 21, 2017

 In what ways are new web, mobile and other technologies, as well as start ups using them, impacting long established businesses in New York? How are the established businesses - Art, Advertising and Marketing, Retail and Finance -  responding? Where will the new businesses succeed and hire staff?   

Hassan Ahmed, business manager at Paypal's Venmo, Daniel Doubrovkine, CTO of Artsy.net, Jon Hyman co-founder & CTO of Appboy and Cliff Schorer, investor and director of Columbia University's Lang Entrepreneur Center, as moderator, will discuss these issues.  

Hassan Ahmed manages Business Operations at Venmo, a payment service of Paypal. (https://venmo.com/team/) developing long-term strategy, launching new products and performance management in partnership with product and operations teams.

Hassan has ten years of experience in fintech and financial services, including at Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse. He has an MBA from Harvard and a BA from Franklin & Marshall College.

Daniel Doubrovkine (aka dB.) is Chief Technology Officer at Artsy.net, an online resource for art collecting and education, featuring fine art, design, and photography. It features galleries, museum collections, foundations, artist estates, art fairs, and benefit auctions. It has a database of 300,000 images by 40,000 artists spanning historical, modern, and contemporary works.

Daniel maintains several popular open-source projects including Java Native Access, Ruby Grape and Hashie. A University of Geneva graduate, in the mid 1990s he founded and sold Vestris Inc., a technology start-up. He was Development Lead at Microsoft, Director at Visible Path and Architect and Development Manager at Application Security.

Jon Hyman is the co-founder and CTO of Appboy, a leading marketing automation platform for mobile apps. (https://www.appboy.com/). Earlier he was a lead engineer at Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund, responsible for the security and stability of trading systems. Jon met co-founder Bill Magnuson during his time at Bridgewater, and together they won the 2011 TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon.

Jon has a B Sc in Computer Science from Harvard. While at school, he was on the research team for CitySense, a citywide wireless sensor network, and advised several tech startups.

Cliff Schorer is director of Columbia Business School's Lang Entrepreneurship center.

He is a serial entrepreneur focused on guidance, acquisition and development of start ups, small and mid-sized companies, including in real estate, office-supply and health care areas. Earlier he was CEO of GeoVideo Networks, a Lucent Technologies Venture. In the early 1990's he was involved in the privatization process in Russia. Bized, one his companies, offers financial management software for business education.

When: Tuesday March 21, 2017. 6 pm to 8 pm.

Where: Wiggin & Dana

Which businesses in financial technology are likely to succeed, competing against multi-billion dollar giants? Alan Silberstein, investor, advisor and former CEO of Western Union, will discuss. February 27, 2017. 

Alan Silberstein offers management services to large corporations and emerging enterprises in the financial services industry as President of Allston Associates. Earlier Alan was CEO of money transfer company Western Union and EVP of First Data, CEO of Claim Services at Travelers Insurance and ran a retail banking business at JPMorgan Chase. He was also a design engineer at Ford. Alan has an MBA from Harvard and a BS in Engineering from Columbia. 

When: Monday February 27, 2017; 6 pm to 8 pm

Where: Constellation Advisors, 1212 Avenue of the Americas, 9th Floor, NY NY 10036

(http://www.constellationadvisers.com/)

Capacity is limited. Kindly RSVP with full names -  building security ID Check. No walk-ins. 21 years or older.  

Riding the Global Boom in Healthcare & Education: For-Profit & Non-Profit

Opportunities in Global Healthcare Education: For-Profit & Non-Profit. January 17, 2017.

The rising global demand for healthcare and for education offers very fertile business potential for entrepreneurs, both for-profit and non-profit. Additionally in the U.S., the new Republican Administration's likely lifting of regulations, lowering of taxes and domestic job policies will benefit the healthcare education business.

Richard Oliver, CEO of American Sentinel will chat about these issues with Frank Mayadas, formerly of the Sloan Foundation. Richard's Denver based private for-profit company has over 2,600 students enrolled in its nursing, management and other medical courses. The company is expanding its digital courses. Revenues this year is expected to rise 18% and it is cash flow positive. (http://www.americansentinel.edu/). A former professor, Richard is a Cornell graduate and has a Ph D in Informatics from SUNY.

Frank (below), while at the Sloan Foundation, led the investments in online education. Sloan has funded over $80 million in online education efforts at U.S. universities and colleges. Frank was earlier a SVP at IBM, working in research, technology and development. He has a PhD from Cornell. (http://engineering.nyu.edu/people/frank-mayadas)

When: Tuesday January 17, 2017

Where: Constellation Advisors, 1212 Avenue of the Americas, 9th Floor, NY NY 10036

(http://www.constellationadvisers.com/) 

Brooklyn Cookie Company - Managing Growth - November 7, 2016.

Brooklyn Cookie Company bakes family recipe based, all natural meringue cookies in chocolate chip and other flavors. They are available at Westside Market, Kings Food Markets in New Jersey, Sahadi's in Brooklyn and online at www.Gourmesso.com & www.FarmtoPeople.com among other outlets. 

Cheryl Surana founder will chat about launching and growing the company. 

(http://www.brooklyncookiecompany.com/) 

Version 1.0, Chocolate Chix she founded in 1996, supplied coookies to Neiman Marcus, Dean & DeLuca & Whole Foods.  

When: Monday November 7, 2016

Where: Constellation Advisors, 1212 Avenue of the Americas, 9th Floor, NY NY 10036

(http://www.constellationadvisers.com/)

Creative Media in an Age of Google & Facebook - October 17, 2017.

How does a media business grow amidst Google and Facebook?  Richie Hyden, co-founder & COO of Iris. TV (http://www.iris.tv/about-us) & R.J.Cupelli, VP Magnet Media ( http://www.magnetmediafilms.com/)  and Phil Kearney, former advisor CNN.com (https://www.linkedin.com/in/philipkearney) will discuss with Eric Sheridan, Managing Director of UBS, as moderator. 

Richie Hyden: is co-founder and COO of IRIS.TV, a cloud-based personalized video programming system that allows publishers and content owners to generate more video views and engage users across all devices. It also helps publishers simplify operations for desktop, mobile, and free or paid open access - over the top - digital distribution of their videos. http://www.iris.tv/about-us

Richie was earlier with Jukebox TV and is a graduate of Bucknell. 

Eric J. Sheridan: a leading internet media analyst on Wall Street, is managing director in the Communications/Media equity research group at UBS, leading coverage of the Internet & Interactive Entertainment sector. Eric has 13 years of prior Wall Street experience, including most recently as a Portfolio Manager at Citadel Asset Management. https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-sheridan-b2866736

R. James Cupelli, VP Marketing, Magnet Media ( http://www.magnetmediafilms.com/)

R. James Cupelli heads the Social Media and Interactive Marketing Services at Magnet, which produces and distributes videos for publishers and brands. Clients include Google, Amazon, NBC, JP Morgan and others; also produces web shows for PBS, Scripps, Starz.

Earlier R.J. was at Nickelodeon and Syfy, a division of NBC Universal. He has an MBA from NYU and a BA from Syacuse. 

Phil Kearney, media consultant. Authored Elle Magazine’s first global digital media strategy, launched the celebrity entertainment brand RadarOnline and took it to 10 million visitors in 12 months, SVP American Media overseeing 16 brands including Shape, Men’s Fitness, Star and National Enquirer, Chief Product Officer for Russell Simmons’ Global Grind and Advisor CNN and CNN Money. He is a graduate of Bucknell. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/philipkearney)

When: Monday October 17, 2016. 6 pm to 8 pm.

Where: Marcum LLP; 750 Third Avenue

COCKTAILS: Courtesy of Marcum, accounting firm: http://www.marcumllp.com/

Financial Innovators: Wall Street Network; Funding Solar Power - June 13, 2017.

A special conversation with Divya Narendra of SumZero and Michael Ruehlman of Tiger backed Sunlight Financial.  Moderator: Cliff Schorer, investor and director of Columbia University's Lang Entrepreneur Center. 

Divya Narendra, founder SumZero, largest network of over 10,000 Wall Street professionals. (https://sumzero.com/about). He co-founded Connect U, while at Harvard and is depicted in the film Social Network.

Divya and other co-founders of Connect U reportedly received a $100 million settlement from Facebook. Earlier he was an associate at Sowood Capital Management, a $3.5B hedge fund and an analyst at Credit Suisse. A math major from Harvard 2004, he has a JD/MBA from Northwestern. 

Michael Ruehlman is co-founder & president of Sunlight Financial, which funds installation of solar power equipment for homes. http://www.sunlightfinancial.com/. Three executives from Tiger Infrastructure Partners are on Sunlight's board of directors.  

Previously, Michael co-founded BrightGrid, a residential solar leasing platform, acquired by Sunnova Energy in 2013. He was a Vice President for Main Street Power, handling securitization. As V.P. at Smart Energy Capital, he developed a residential solar loan platform and helped lead the acquisition by NextEra Energy Resources. An MBA from Columbia, Michael has a BBA and MPA from the University of Texas at Austin.

Cliff Schorer is director of Columbia Business School's Lang Entrepreneurship center.

He is a serial entrepreneur focused on guidance, acquisition and development of start ups, small and mid-sized companies, including in real estate, office-supply and health care areas. Earlier he was CEO of GeoVideo Networks, a Lucent Technologies Venture. In the early 1990's he was involved in the privatization process in Russia. Bized, one his companies, offers financial management software for business education.

When: Monday September 12, 2016. 6 pm to 8 pm.

Where: Wiggin & Dana, 450 Lexington Avenue

COCKTAILS: Courtesy of Wiggin and Dana LLP, a full-service law firm that assists clients throughout the world with their business and legal needs -- http://www.wiggin.com/about.aspx

Satis.fi Boosts Revenues for Macy's and Sports Teams. August 10, 2016

Satis.fi's app enables in-store customers at Macy's in Short Hills, NJ and nine other stores find products, sizes and colors. This pilot program is powered by IBM Watson. Satis.fi's app also enables major teams improve their customer service at games - in one case directing a baseball fan to an open beer stand after the game went to extra innings.  

Don White, co-founder of Satis.fi, will chat informally about these and other ways his start up is boosting revenues at retailers, entertainment and education companies.Earlier Don was head of sales at Bloomberg.  

http://biz.satis.fi/use-cases.html

Wednesday August 10, 2016; 6 pm to 8 pm.

WHERE: West 3rd Common. a bar in the NYU area, which serves $4 draft beers and $5 wines, cosmos, martinis, and well drinks until 8pm

Financial Innovator: SumZero's Divya Narendra. June 13, 2016.

Join us for an informal chat with Divya Narenda - June 13, 2016.

Divya Narendra co-founded Connect U, while at Harvard and is depicted in the film Social Network.

Divya and other co-founders of Connect U reportedly received a $100 million settlement from Facebook. Before founding SumZero, Divya was an Associate at Sowood Capital Management, a $3.5B multi-strategy hedge fund located in Boston, MA. At Sowood, Divya analyzed investment opportunities across the capital structure. Prior to this, he was an analyst in the M&A Group at Credit Suisse in NYC. Divya graduated from Harvard College in 2004 with a degree in Applied Mathematics and earned a JD/MBA from Northwestern University. 

https://sumzero.com/about

Monday June 13, 2016; 6 pm to 8 pm.

Data Analysis For Growth and Profit - May 16, 2016.

As data points continue to increase, sifting through data in order to help businesses prosper has become increasingly complex. The ability to distill this data into clear, actionable insights has become imperative for companies of all sizes. Afshin Goodarzi of 1010 data, Raju Narisetti of The Wall Street Journal and Sameen Karim of Eventable will discuss these issues. 

Afshin Goodarzi, chief analyst 1010 data - which handles data for Coca Cola, Nestle, Morgan Stanley, Pepsi & others

Afshin has led teams in designing, building and delivering predictive models and analytical products to a diverse set of industries. Prior to joining 1010data, Afshin was at Equifax, where he created new data products and the supporting analytics to the financial services industry; he led the development of predictive models for mortgages at Loan Performance (Corelogic); worked at BlackRock; the research center for Verizon and Norkom Technologies. His publications span data mining, data visualization, optimization and artificial intelligence.

 https://www.1010data.com/company/leadership

Raju Narisetti, Senior Vice President, Strategy, News Corp - publisher, Wall Street Journal

Raju is involved in new ventures and acquisitions to drive digital growth and reshape The Wall Street Journal and other News Corp publications. He oversees News Corp’s India businesses, with stakes in PropTiger.com, a digital real-estate business; The VCCircle Network, largest startup/private equity/venture capital information, data, events and training company; and BigDecisions.com. Earlier, Raju was Managing Editor of The Wall Street Journal Digital Network - WSJ.com, MarketWatch.com, WSJ Live video platforms, and Wall Street Journal and MarketWatch Radio Networks; Managing Editor of Washington Post Co.overseeing digital content- editing, design, photo, video, engagement and social media teams. Teams he oversaw won three Pulitzer Prizes. 

http://newscorp.com/2015/03/08/news-corp-announces-acquisition-of-vccircle-indias-leading-digital-data-information-training-conferences-network-for-private-equity-venture-capital-and-start-ups/

Sameen Karim, co-founder Eventable, which connects Brands and Businesses to consumers.

Eventable makes it easy to add events to calendars, enabling brands and businesses to connect directly to consumers. Sameen dropped out of UC Berkeley, where he was studying computer science, to co-found Eventable. Earlier he co-founded feedCal. 

COCKTAILS: Courtesy of Marcum, accounting firm: http://www.marcumllp.com/

Donations of $10 or more WILL be collected at door for: http://www.stopsoldiersuicide.org/   

Capacity is limited. Kindly RSVP with full names -  building security ID Check. No walk-ins. 21 years or older.  

Start Ups Getting Funded in an Age of Unicorns - April 11, 2016

Howard Morgan, of First Round Capital an early investor in Uber, Richard Fuld, former CEO Lehman Brothers, Susanne Greenfield who works on venture investing, mergers & acquisitions at $60 billion Priceline Group & Cliff Schorer, investor and director of Columbia University's Lang Entrepreneur Center.  

Howard Morgan is a partner at First Round Capital, an investor in Uber, Refinery 29, Splice & others. 

Since 1989, at Arca Group, he has taken early stage companies through to initial public offerings. He is a Director and investor in Idealab, served on the Boards of Franklin Electronic Publishers, Internet Brands and others, private companies Fab.com, AxialMarkets, PublicStuff and nonprofits Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories and Math For America.

He has taught at the California Institute of Technology, the Harvard Business School and Wharton. He advised many companies and government agencies on the early uses of electronic and voice mail in the 1970s. Howard, an author, got his Ph.D. in Operations Research from Cornell University and a B.S. from the City University of New York.

Susanne Greenfield, is a director corporate development at Priceline Group, handling mergers, acquisitions and venture investing. Priceline group, a $60 billion market cap company, owns Booking.com, Priceline.com, Agoda.com, Kayak.com, Rentalcars.com and OpenTable.com. Earlier she was a Director of Corporate Development at Griffon Corp., a private equity associate at Corsair Capital, and an investment banking analyst at Merrill Lynch. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from NYU Stern with a double major in Finance and Accounting. 

Cliff Schorer, is a serial entrepreneur focused on guidance, acquisition and development of start ups, small and mid-sized companies, including in real estate, office-supply and health care areas. He is director of Columbia Business School's Lang Entrepreneurship center. Earlier Cliff was CEO of GeoVideo Networks, a Lucent Technologies Venture. In the early 1990's he was involved in the privatization process in Russia. Bized, one his companies, offers financial management software for business education.

Richard Fuld, Matrix Advisors; former Chief Executive Lehman Brothers. 

WHEN: Monday April 11, 2016. Time: 6pm to 8pm. 

Wall Street & Start Ups March 8, 2016.

John Mack, former CEO of Morgan Stanley and investor, chats with Patrick Sullivan founder of Source3, a platform for licensing & distribution of 3D content and co-founder Rightsflow acquired by Google. Moderator Cliff Schorer, director Lang Entrepreneur Center, Columbia University. 

John Mack, former CEO of Morgan Stanley

John is a Senior Advisor of both Morgan Stanley and KKR. He was Chairman of Morgan Stanley till 2011 and served as CEO from 2005 to 2009. John first joined Morgan Stanley in 1972 as a bond trader. He is credited for steering Morgan Stanley through the financial crisis. Before rejoining Morgan Stanley in 2005, he served as Co-CEO of Credit Suisse Group.

John is a strategic investor in Star Mountain Capital, which invests in private small and medium business, is on the board of several companies including Lending Club and serves on the International Advisory Council for China Investment Corporation. He is a graduate of Duke University, where he was on the football team..

Patrick Sullivan, Founder • Chief Executive Officer @ Source3 platform for licensing and distribution of 3D content.

Patrick is an entrepreneur and serial investor who is deeply passionate about the start-up community. He co-founded RightsFlow, an enterprise music licensing and royalty company acquired by Google in 2011.  At the time of acquisition, RightsFlow serviced over 20,000 music labels, distributors, and digital service providers, and managed licensing for over 30 million recordings. As part of Google, RightsFlow became an integral part of YouTube’s music monetization, enabling a substantial expansion of scale. Patrick has held senior executive positions over his 20 year career including positions at The Orchard, eMusic, National Music Publishers’ Association, & The Harry Fox Agency. Patrick also founded and manages Vanham Ventures, an angel fund focused on early stage NYC-based technology start-ups. He is a mentor and frequent lecturer for TechStars, IMPACT, DreamIt, Google IO, Google for Entrepreneurs, Cornell Tech and his alma mater NYU.

Moderator:

Cliff Schorer, Director, Entrepreneur in Residence, Eugene Lange Entrepreneurship Center, Columbia Business School

Cliff is a serial entrepreneur focused on guidance, acquisition and development of start ups, small and mid-sized companies, including in real estate, office-supply and health care areas. He is director of Columbia Business School's Lang Entrepreneurship center. Earlier Cliff was CEO of GeoVideo Networks, a Lucent Technologies Venture. In the early 1990's he was involved in the privatization process in Russia. Bized, one his companies, offers financial management software for business education.

WHEN: Tuesday March 8, 2016. 6:00-8:00 PM.  

WHERE: Wiggin & Dana. 450 Lexington Ave ( at 45th Street), 38th floor.

COCKTAILS: Courtesy of Wiggin and Dana LLP, a full-service law firm that assists clients throughout the world with their business and legal needs -- http://www.wiggin.com/about.aspx

Enjoy 360* midtown views from 38th floor wrap around terrace, including of the Chrysler and Empire State buildings. Also five minutes of fame through photos of event. 

Education Start Ups: Trends & Opportunities - February 23, 2016

Chat with Michael Amigot of IBL Open edX and Gordon Smith, founder Codesters & Tutor Associates. 

IBL enables universities and others to offer online courses based on Open edX platforms. It serves MIT, Cooper Union, NYU, Duke, George Washington, Air Force University, edX, Enthought, Microsoft, ETS (Educational Testing Service), IndonesiaX and over 20 universities and businesses in Europe, Latin America and Asia.

http://iblstudios.com/

Gordon Smith founded Codesters' a web-based coding platform which gives school students a graphics and gaming engine with which they can create visual, interactive games, apps and animations - all in Python. Tutor Associates has 60 tutors and an online global reach. Gordon has a BS Engineering from UC Berkeley and an MBA from NYU Stern.

https://www.codesters.com/ 

WHEN: Tuesday, February 23, 2016. Time: 6pm to 8pm. 

WHERE: West 3rd Common. a bar in the NYU area, which serves $4 draft beers and $5 wines, cosmos, martinis, and well drinks until 8pm.

Limited capacity. 21 years or older only. Kindly Register. 

From Wall Street to Food Start Up, January 25, 2016

Eric Fischler is founder of Drink Yuvia which sells coconut water in various flavors through Amazon and other retail outlets. In business since 2011, he imports the coconut water from Brazil. 

http://www.drinkyuvia.com/

Earlier Eric was at Morgan Stanley for six years, including in London, servicing Prime Brokerage clients, hedge funds and high-net-worth individuals. He was also a Corporate Nutritionist for a major Wall Street firm. He has a Masters from Columbia University

WHEN: Monday, January 25, 2016. Time: 6pm to 8pm. 

WHERE: West 3rd Common. a bar in the NYU area, which serves $4 draft beers and $5 wines, cosmos, martinis, and well drinks until 8pm.

Limited capacity. 21 years or older only. Kindly Register. 

Visit to Artsy.com, November 6th, 2015

Silley Circuits will be visiting Artsy's headquarters early November 2015. 

Our host is Daniel Doubrovkine (aka dB.) Chief Technology Officer at Artsy.net in New York. Artsy is an online resource for art collecting and education, featuring fine art, design, and photography. It features galleries, museum collections, foundations, artist estates, art fairs, and benefit auctions. It has a database of 300,000 images by 40,000 artists spanning historical, modern, and contemporary works.

Daniel maintains several popular open-source projects including Java Native Access, Ruby Grape and Hashie. A University of Geneva graduate, in the mid 1990s he founded and sold Vestris Inc., a technology start-up. He was Development Lead at Microsoft, Director at Visible Path and Architect and Development Manager at Application Security.

Informal Chat with Daniel Doubrovkine, Artsy's Chief of Technology - October 5, 2015

Invite from Silley Circuits, the Silicon Alley Network, Invitation

Chat informally with Daniel Doubrovkine, Artsy's Chief of Technology

Daniel Doubrovkine (aka dB.) is Chief Technology Officer at Artsy.net in New York. Artsy is an online resource for art collecting and education, featuring fine art, design, and photography. It features galleries, museum collections, foundations, artist estates, art fairs, and benefit auctions. It has a database of 300,000 images by 40,000 artists spanning historical, modern, and contemporary works.

Daniel maintains several popular open-source projects including Java Native Access, Ruby Grape and Hashie. A University of Geneva graduate, in the mid 1990s he founded and sold Vestris Inc., a technology start-up. He was Development Lead at Microsoft, Director at Visible Path and Architect and Development Manager at Application Security.

WHEN: Monday, October 5, 2015. 6-8pm. 

WHERE: West 3rd Common. A bar in the NYU area serves $4 draft beers and $5 wines, cosmos, martinis, and well drinks until 8pm.

Cultivating a Creative Business Online - September 9, 2015

Miriam Gottfried reporter at Wall Street Journal will moderate a discussion with industry experts: Patrick Sullivan founder of Source3, a platform for licensing & distribution of 3D content and co-founder Rightsflow acquired by Google; Mukul Pandya Editor In Chief of Knowledge@Wharton, with three million global subscribers and Amanda Huelse, Associate Creative Director and film and video producer - commercial,  documentary and TV -at Magnet Media.  

Miriam Gottfried

Reporter, Heard on the Street, Wall Street Journal

Miriam covers media, telecommunications and retail for Heard on the Street. She was previously a staff writer for Barron’s magazine and has reported for Chicago Public Radio, Crain’s Chicago Business and Forbes magazine.

Patrick Sullivan, Founder

Chief Executive Officer @ Source3 platform for licensing and distribution of 3D content

Patrick is an entrepreneur and serial investor who is deeply passionate about the start-up community. He co-founded RightsFlow, an enterprise music licensing and royalty company acquired by Google in 2011.  At the time of acquisition, RightsFlow serviced over 20,000 music labels, distributors, and digital service providers, and managed licensing for over 30 million recordings. As part of Google, RightsFlow became an integral part of YouTube’s music monetization, enabling a substantial expansion of scale. Patrick has held senior executive positions over his 20 year career including positions at The Orchard, eMusic, National Music Publishers’ Association, & The Harry Fox Agency. Patrick also founded and manages Vanham Ventures, an angel fund focused on early stage NYC-based technology start-ups. He is a mentor and frequent lecturer for TechStars, IMPACT, DreamIt, Google IO, Google for Entrepreneurs, Cornell Tech and his alma mater NYU.

Mukul Pandya, Editor In Chief, Knowledge @ Wharton

http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/

Mukul is a pioneer in web journalism, publishing and podcasting, having started in 1999 as founding editor of Knowledge@Wharton, the web-based journal of research and business analysis published by The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. The journal has a global reach of three million educated affluent subscribers, through six sites including in Chinese, reaching a much sought demographic. A winner of four awards for investigative journalism, his articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Economist and many other publications. Mukul has an M.A. in economics from the University of Bombay.

Amanda Huelse, Assciate Creative Director, Magnet Media

http://www.magnetmediafilms.com/about

Amanda is a filmmaker/director and video producer, including commercials, documentary and television. She helped produce the acclaimed documentary series Keeping Score. Her clients include Adobe, Google, JP Morgan Chase, Sephora and La Cocina. She produced the short film HOME which premiered at the Cannes Festival Short Film Corner in 2013. She has lived in Spain and Italy and supports women’s causes.

Celebrate A Midsummer Night Network In Silicon Alley

Thursday August 6, 2015. 6 pm to 9 pm

Gansevoort Park Hotel Rooftop 

420 Park Avenue South on 29th Street

Silley Circuits, the Silicon Alley Network, invites you to a mid-summer night of celebration and networking. 

Chat with founders, technologists, angel investors, venture capitalists, bankers, designers,  artists, students, lawyers and accountants. 

Enjoy midtown views, including of the Empire State building. Cash Bar. 

Fashion Display:https://www.standardshirt.com/

Art by Dirk McDonnell:http://dirkmcdonnell.net/

Plus Fifteen minutes of fame via photos and video of event. 

Donation of $5 or more at door- All proceeds go to Stop Soldier Suicide: For more information about how SSS is helping US soldiers and veterans, see: http://www.stopsoldiersuicide.org/   

Kindly RSVP with full names. Capacity is limited. Tickets/e-tickets required for security. No walk-ins. 21 years or older only. 

Thanks from the Silley Circuits crew

Photos from previous events

Online Media: Building Audience and Revenue - June 8, 2015 Throckmorton Fine Arts

Silley Circuits, the Silicon Alley Network, invites you to chat with Mark Kahn, with $ 1 billion in media deals, Eric Sheridan, leading Internet Media Analyst, Sree Sreenivasan, Chief Digital Officer, Met Museum, and Jan Renner, who sold his DriverTV to NBC. Network with founders, investors and technologists, as you view famous photographs of Frida Kahlo, sip cocktails, and pose for 15 seconds of fame via event video and photos.   

Monday June 8, 2015, 6 to 8 pm Throckmorton Fine Art 145 E 57th St 
RSVP required as space is limited. 
$10 donation. All proceeds to New York Writers Hall of Fame.  

To Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/online-media-building-audience-revenue-tickets-16621207479

The Gurus:

Mark Kahn, SVP at 1800-Public-Relations Inc. Earlier at News Corp he was SVP of Kesmai, VP of New Media and VP corporate development. At Cisco he oversaw the monetization of their television listings service, locatetv.com.  He has completed over $1 Bil in acquisitions. As founder of TRAFFIQ, Mark raised over $20 million to create a digital advertising exchange for agencies and publishers and grew revenue to over $30 million. Mark was also part of the founding executive team at iVillage, now part of NBC Universal. 

Eric J. Sheridan: a leading internet media analyst on Wall Street, is managing director in the Communications/Media equity research group at UBS, leading coverage of the Internet & Interactive Entertainment sector. Eric has 13 years of prior Wall Street experience, including most recently as a Portfolio Manager at Citadel Asset Management

Sree Sreenivasan, Chief Digital Officer, Metropolitan Museum of Art, leads a team of 70 working on digital, social, mobile, video, data, email apps and more. Earlier, for 20 years he taught at the Columbia Journalism School and for a year was Columbia university's first Chief Digital Officer. He is founder of Social Media One-Night Stand and Social Media Weekend #smwknd (next edition is June 19-20 at CUNY). In 2015, he joined CBS Radio's new PlayIt podcasting network with the immodestly titled "@Sree Show: Talking tech, culture, entrepreneurship": 

Jan Renner is the Managing Partner at Gazer Media.  Gazer helps some of the largest publishers with their digital audience development and revenue strategy.  Gazer also operates a portfolio of their own digital video properties which are YouTube and Facebook publishing partners.

Prior to Gazer, Jan was the Founder and CEO of DriverTV which was acquired by NBC,  and SVP of Product and Business Development at AOL

COCKTAILS

ART: over thirty rare photos of Frida Kahlo. "Mirror Mirror"

To Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/online-media-building-audience-revenue-tickets-16621207479

Metropolitan Museum in the Digital Age: A Private tour - May 16, 2015

Sree Sreenivasan, head of digital media at the Metropolitan Museum, is generously giving a private tour for Silley Circuits. 

Sree Sreenivasan, Chief Digital Officer, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, leads a team of 70 working on digital, social, mobile, video, data, email apps and more. Earlier, for 20 years he taught at the Columbia Journalism School and for a year was Columbia university's first Chief Digital Officer. He is founder of Social Media One-Night Stand and Social Media Weekend #smwknd (next edition is June 19-20 at CUNY). In 2015, he joined CBS Radio's new PlayIt podcasting network with the immodestly titled "@Sree Show: Talking tech, culture, entrepreneurship": http://bit.ly/sreeshow

Spring Celebration & Networking. Gansevoort Rooftop. April 23, 2015

Silley Circuits, the Silicon Alley Network, invites you to celebrate spring and a night of networking.

Chat with founders, technologists, designers, artists, angel investors, venture capitalists, and if you get lucky lawyers and accountants and more. 

Enjoy midtown views, including of the Empire State building. Get five minutes of fame through video and photos of event on the web.

Cash bar and food.

TO REGISTER GO TO LINK: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/silicon-alley-spring-celebration-networking-night-host-silley-circuits-tickets-16433447885

Ten Pictures - The State of Chinese Museums by Keyang Tang:  http://en.cafa.com.cn/tang-keyang-studio.html

WHERE: Gansevoort Park Avenue Hotel Lounge and VIP Red Room. Cash bar and food. LIVE DJ.

WHEN: Thursday, April 23, 2015 from 6:00 pm to 10.00 pm

Kindly RSVP with full names. Capacity is limited. Tickets/e-tickets required for security. So NO WALK-INS. 21 years or older only. 

Donate to Stop Soldier Suicide: For more information about how SSS is helping US soldiers and veterans, please visit: http://www.stopsoldiersuicide.org/   

TO REGISTER GO TO LINK: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/silicon-alley-spring-celebration-networking-night-host-silley-circuits-tickets-16433447885

Funding Start Ups & Small Business: Investors Cliff Schorer, Steve Malkenson and Greg Farrington. Schwab Rockefeller Center. March 23, 2015

Silley Circuits invites you to a discussion with Cliff Schorer, a serial entrepreneur and investor, Steve Malkenson, investor, and Greg Farrington, a partner at Constellation Advisers. 

The Gurus:

Cliff Schorer, is a serial entrepreneur focused on guidance, acquisition and development of start ups, small and mid-sized companies, including in real estate, office-supply and health care areas. He is director of Columbia Business School's Lang Entrepreneurship center. Earlier Cliff was CEO of GeoVideo Networks, a Lucent Technologies Venture. In the early 1990's he was involved in the privatization process in Russia. Bized, one his companies, offers financial management software for business education. 

http://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/cbs-directory/detail/cjs24
 

Steve Malkenson, is an investor in start ups and small businesses, including in restaurants, energy, real estate, industrial technologies and media areas. He is a graduate of the Harvard Business School and was a former teacher. 

Greg Farrington, partner Constellation Advisers currently advises around a dozen start ups and small companies with fund raising and financial strategies, including in publishing and golf simulation businesses. He also advises hedge funds, private equity firms, investment advisors, endowments, foundations, trusts, family offices, high net worth individuals, fund administrators, prime brokers, and other financial institutions.  Prior to Constellation, Greg spent nearly a decade at Deloitte & Touche.  

http://www.constellationadvisers.com/

WHEN: Monday, February 23, 2015. 6:00-8:00 PM.  

WHERE: Charles Schwab Rockefeller Center, 1300 Avenue of the Americas, New York NY 10019 (at 52nd Street)

ART: Ten Pictures - The State of Chinese Museums by Keyang Tang:  http://en.cafa.com.cn/tang-keyang-studio.html

Big Data Insights. February 23rd. Wiggin & Dana 450 Lexington Ave. 6-8 PM

For businesses of all sizes, having the right information often lends itself to making the most astute decisions. This includes formulating strategies on product line expansion, pricing, marketing, advertising, distribution, target markets, and other areas that impact the bottom line. 

The exponential growth and availability of data in today's digital environment has led to the rise of 'Big Data'. Big data is expected to be one of the fastest growing areas in technology and involves the distillation of information from both structured and unstructured data sources. 

Afshin Goodarzi, chief analyst at 1010data,  Philip Bjerknes, digital director at All Day Every Day, and Tom Anderson, CEO of Anderson Analytics will discuss how businesses can reap benefits from analyzing historical, digital, demographic and other sources. 

Afshin Goodarzi serves as chief of analytics at 1010data. 1010data provides data discovery and solutions to many of the world's largest retail, manufacturing, telecom, and financial companies. Example companies include Coca Cola, Procter & Gamble, Morgan Stanley, Pepsi, Rite Aid, and Redbull. Goodarzi leads a team in designing, building, and delivering predictive models and analytical products.

Earlier, Goodarzi was managing director of Mortgage Analytics at Equifax and Corelogic. He also worked at Blackrock and Verizon. Goodarzi's publications span the fields of data mining, data visualization, optimization and artificial intelligence.

www.1010data.com

Philip Bjerknes, serial entrepreneur, is a partner at All Day Every Day, a media and marketing company. Using insights from data, he helps clients like Nike, Conde Nast, Virgin and others with their digital and social media strategies. Earlier, he was e-commerce architect at Prada, helped set up MiuMiu.com and developed shopping, merchandising and content management tools for the global expansion of Gucci.com.

Philip co-founded Coutorture Media, a content partner for Style.com, Instyle and others, which in 2007 was bought by Sugar Inc, a women's media company with over 40 million visitors a month. He was then, for a year, a senior engineer at Sugar. He also co-founded Tangerine Unwired which was acquired in 2003.

www.alldayeveryday.com/

 

Text Analytics Guru Tom H. C. Anderson is Founder and CEO of Anderson Analytics, developers of the Next Generation Text AnalyticsTM software platform OdinText.

A true pioneer in the consumer insights industry, Anderson Analytics was the first market research firm to offer natural language processing to its clients, and their software OdinText is now being used in various industries by clients such as Coca Cola, Disney and Shell Oil.

OdinText goes far beyond first generation text analytics tools allowing users to understand relationships with other data and predict actual behavior and sales. Tom serves on the American Marketing Association’s Insights Council and his work has been featured in several industry journals and decision science text books. www.odintext.com

Viral Videos: Luck or Creativity? Chat informally with Jan Renner 

February 2, 2015 6 pm to 8 pm

Meet with Jan Renner, founder of Gazer Media at West 3rd Common. Gazer invests in opportunities across the video content and technology ecosystem. Jan will informally chat about what makes certain videos go viral and why most do not.

Jan was a member of the founding teams at TNT and NY1 and operated media businesses for Time Warner Cable, AOL, CBS Outdoor, Comcast/NBC, and IPG. Jan’s earlier digital companies were acquired by NBC/Comcast. 

www.gazermedia.com

 WHERE: West 3rd Common. A bar in the NYU area serves $4 draft beers and $5 wines, cosmos, martinis, and well drinks until 8pm.

India: Startups & Outsourcing, Thursday, November 6, 2014 6.30pm

Silley Circuits, the Silicon Alley Network, Invites you to chat informally:

Opportunities in India: Start Ups, Outsourcing

With  Anand Sudarshan, Bangalore based serial entrepreneur

Thursday November 6, 2014, 6.30 pm to 8.30 pm. West Third Commons. 1 West Third Street New York NY.  

Businesses in India most fertile for investments and collaboration. The strengths and weaknesses of Outsourcing work to India. Finding reliable local Indian partners and service providers.

Anand is an investor and on the board of several Indian start up companies, including Go Sylvant, mostly in the education and IT areas.

See: http://gosylvant.com/advisoryportfolio.html  

As CEO of Manipal University he acquired American University of Antigua, a for profit medical college in Antigua. Under him Manipal also bought U21 Global, an online varsity, MeritTrac, a skills assessment and testing firm and a stake in TutorVista, an online education services company. Earlier he was president of Adea International, a sub. of Texas-based Adea Solutions, an information technology company.

In 1989 Anand co-founded The Microland Group and, over the next 14 years, helped build it into a leading privately held Indian IT services company.

An electrical engineer, Anand has an MBA from IIM-Calcutta. For more info on him:

http://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/ex-manipal-ceo-to-be-advisor-for-everonn-112092500115_1.html

West Third Common, in the NYU area, serves $4 draft beers and $5 wine, cosmos, martinis and well drinks till 8 pm.

Kindly register as space is limited. Use password: India

http://www.silleycircuits.com/

Free one-on-one legal consultation: Wiggin & Dana. Monday, October 27th

Monday, October 27, 2014 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM (EDT)

Wiggin and Dana LLP
450 Lexington Avenue, 38th Floor 
New York, NY 10017

Building Brands: Chat with former sr. executive Procter & Gamble US & Asia - September 29th, 6-8pm at 450 Lexington Ave.

Chat with Ravi Chaturvedi, former senior executive at Procter & Gamble.

How do you create and grow brands? In consumer and  luxury brands and online commerce. What is common to building brands in the US, China, India, Japan or elsewhere? What is different about building brands in these countries?

In his 20 years at Procter & Gamble, Ravi was head of hair care in North America, president of P&G Japan & China, head of health and beauty products in China and managed major consumer brands in India, Thailand & Philippines. Ravi is an advisor to Japan's Nikko Denko Corp., Lighthouse private equity fund in Mumbai, which is an investor in cookies, snacks, beauty, organic food and other businesses and also Marico and Emami, both consumer goods companies. An MBA from Bajaj Institute in Mumbai, and based in the US, Ravi is a director of i Discover I, an Indian education start up and Kris Flexipacks, a packaging printer.

WHEN: Monday September 29, 2014 6:00-8:00 PM.  

WHERE: Join us at Wiggin & Dana, 450 LEXINGTON AVE. 38th FLOOR

Digital Advertizing Dollars: Winners & Losers. Charles Cantu Huddled Masses - September 8th 6-8pm

Silley Cicuits, the Silicon Alley Network, Invites you to chat informally about

Digital Advertizing Dollars: Winners and Losers

With  Charles Cantu, founder & CEO Huddled Masses

TIME AND PLACE: West 3rd Common. Monday September 8, 2014, 6 pm to 8 pm.

What are the trends in digital advertizing? Who are likely to be the winners and losers? Ask Charles, CEO and founder of Huddled Masses that enables businesses and their advertizing agencies get access to digital media buying using algorithmic programs.

Huddled Masses,a spinoff of MediaMath, offers banner, video, mobile and other marketing services. Charles also founded a number of companies.

Earlier Charles managed sales for iTV, VOD, Mobile and online for Comcast, Time Warner, Cox Media among others.

 http://www.silleycircuits.com/

Summer Party at the Gansevoort Park Rooftop Pool & Bar - July 31st 6pm - 10pm

420 Park Avenue South at 29th Street

Silley Circuits, the Silicon Alley Network, invites you to a night of summer celebration and networking. 

Chat with founders, technologists, angel investors, venture capitalists, bankers, designers,  artists, students and, if you get lucky, lawyers and accountants. 

WHERE: Gansevoort Park Avenue Hotel, Park Avenue at 29 Street 

WHEN: Thursday July 31, 2014 from 6:00PM to 10PM.

Enjoy art by Pasha Radetzki.

A chat with Jean-Luc Neptune - July 15, 2014

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

6 pm to 8 pm at West Third Common. One West Third Street.

Join us at West 3rd Common with Jean-Luc Neptune. Neptune is a physician-entrepreneur and health technology evangelist. Jean-Luc Neptune currently serves as Senior Vice President at Health 2.0.

He is responsible for managing developer challenges and building out Health 2.0's Innovation Community. He was co-founder of ExpertConsensus, a specialized health advisory firm offering patients second opinions from medical experts as well as other personalized health services.

Prior to co-founding ExpertConsensus, he co-founded Healogica Inc., a technoogy company based in New York that connects patients and clinical trial opportunities through a web-enabled clinical trials matching platform. Jean-Luc Neptune is a licensed physician in the state of New York and has an MBA from Wharton. 

For more information about Health 2.0, please click here.

West Third Common, a bar in the NYU area, serves $4 draft beers and $5 wine, cosmos, martinis and well drinks till 8 pm.

Kindly Register as space is limited.

Start Ups at Columbia University.

Silley Circuits, the Silicon Alley Network, invites you to chat informally with Cliff Schorer, a serial entrepreneur, as well as founders, investors and technologists on start ups at Columbia. And to network as you view famous photographs by Lucien Clergue, sip cocktails, listen to a Juilliard trained musician and pose for 15 seconds of fame via Youtube and the web.  

Wednesday June 4, 6 to 8 pm Throckmorton Fine Art 145 E 57th St 
RSVP required as space is limited. 
$10 donation. Proceeds to New York Writers Hall of Fame.  

The Gurus From Columbia: 

Prof. Cliff Schorer, director of Columbia Business School's Lang Entrepreneurship center, is a serial entrepreneur focused on guidance, acquisition and development of start ups, small and mid-sized companies.  Cliff was CEO of GeoVideo Networks, a Lucent Technologies Venture. He was earlier involved in real estate, office-supply and health care companies. In the early 1990's he was involved in the privatization process in Russia. Bized, his company, offers financial management software for business education.

ART: over thirty rare images spanning and celebrating Lucien Clergue’s career. Photographer, author, educator and filmmaker. 

MUSIC: Louis Schwadron, Juilliard grad and leader of SkywhiteTigers: 

http://www.skywhitetiger.com/index.php?s=the-band

COCKTAILS: courtesy of Throckmorton Fine Arts

New York As Start Up City: Help For New Business. A Silley Circuits Event.

Invitation from Silley Circuits: The Silicon Alley Network

www.silleycircuits.com

In what ways does New York's administration help Silicon Alley start ups? Does your business qualify for assistance? How can you find out about these and other NYC programs?   

WHO: Chat informally with Eric J. Gertler a Managing Director for New York City's Economic Development Corporation. And with Chelsea Rao, head of Digitial & New Media Development for NY State. From financing and incentives to workspaces and incubators, these agencies provide a range of services. See links below:

http://www.nycedc.com/services

httep://www.empire.state.ny.us/

Earlier, Eric served in leadership roles at several technology companies including Altruik, PrimeAxis Media, and Privista. He also served as the president of U.S. News & World Report, Fast Company, and The Atlantic Monthly. An author of the Random House book Prying Eyes: Protect Your Privacy From People Who Sell To You, Snoop on You, or Steal From You, he is a graduate of Brown and a J.D. from American University.

Chelsea develops and implements strategy for new media and digital firms looking to expand in New York State. Previously, Chelsea was an Assistant Director at the New York City Economic Development Corporation, where she developed and oversaw programs such as NYC Big Apps, NYC Media Lab, Pilot Health Tech NYC, and other initiatives to support the growth of Silicon Alley in NYC. She has also held roles at the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, the New Museum, and Christie’s Auction House. Chelsea currently serves on the Board for Girls Write Now. She holds an M.P.A. from NYU and a B.A. from Barnard College.

WHEN: Tuesday April 29, 2014 6:00-8:00 PM.  

WHERE: Join us at Wiggin & Dana, 450 LEXINGTON AVE. 38th FLOOR

Art by Biff Elrod, courtesy Donna Leatherman. See: http://www.biffelrod.com/Paintings%20Facing%20Link%20Page.htm

LIMITED CAPACITY. So kindly register.

For information on recent Silicon Alley events kindly visit: 
www.silleycircuits.com

Spring Networking & Party @ The Gansevoort Park Hotel on March 26, 2014 from 9:00PM to 1:00AM

Usher in Spring with Networking and Celebration

Silley Circuits, the Silicon Alley Network, invites you to a night of networking and celebration. 

Take in views of the empire state building as you chat with other designers, writers, students, founders, technologists, artists, writers, angel investors, venture capitalists, lawyers, and financiers.

If you're feeling a bit more in the celebratory mood, join us in the adjoining red room for live music and dancing. 

WHERE: 420 PARK AVENUE SOUTH. Gansevoort Park Avenue Hotel’s  Lounge and VIP Red Room. Cash bar and food. LIVE DJ.

WHEN: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 from 9:00PM to 1:00AM.

Kindly RSVP. Capacity is limited. Tickets/e-tickets required. Absolutely NO WALK-INS. 

Donate to Stop Soldier Suicide: For more information about how SSS is helping US soldiers and veterans, please visit: stopsoldiersuicide.org. (Minimum suggested donation is $10)

ART:  Biff Elrod, a renowned NYC artist best known for his kaleidoscopic and whimsical murals, including one at the Christopher Street station in Greenwich Village, NYC.  

Courtesy DONNA LEATHERMAN llc. 

ART: Uprise Art is an online gallery featuring contemporary artwork.

Silley Circuits Crew For This Event: Daria Deshuk, Ethan Lowenthal, Chris Bley, Spencer Cheng and Rocco Staino. 

Adviser: Ignatius Chithelen

Thanks to Kelli Carucci, Eric Lee and Doug Brundage.

Silley Circuits February Idea Exchange @ West 3rd Common

February 19, 2014 @ 6:00PM EST

What skills are in demand in Silicon Alley businesses? Engineering degree or coding skills? Who is getting equity and how much? When is equity better than cash and how to get equity?

Chat informally about these and other topics with Jerry Marcus, Board Advisor to several firms including IDRS (security software firm), WorkMarket (enterprise labor software platform) and Co-founder of 1099 Partners which links senior executives to help companies grow revenue, raise capital, and enter new markets.  Earlier Jerry was a Director/Officer of Metromedia Fiber Network, Vice President of one of the first Internet companies IConCMT which went public in 1998 and an executive with Sun Microsystems.

West Third Common, a bar in the NYU area, serves $4 draft beers and $5 wine, cosmos, martinis and well drinks till 8 pm.

Kindly RSVP as space is limited.

Startup Success at The Rubin Museum

Silley Circuits, the Silicon Alley's network, invites you to an informal exchange of ideas with Malcolm Elvey of Elvey Partnership:

• Boards of Directors at The Children’s Place, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCE), a leading specialty retailer of apparel and accessories for children; and PowerHouse Technologies Group (PWHT), the developer of MIGO software (www.migosoftware.com); former director ADT, part of Tyco.  

• Founder and Vice-Chairman of QLIMO, a NY ground transportation company.

• Founder Esquire Communications Ltd., the nation's largest court reporting and legal services company

• CEO of Metro Cash and Carry from 1970-75, a South African company that today is a $7 billion global company operating 400 warehouses in 13 countries. In 1976 0pened Jetro Cash & Carry in Brooklyn which was the precursor of Costco and other warehouse clubs in the US.

Space is limited. So kindly register: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/9835748990?nomo=1

SOLD OUT.  Thanks for your interest. Please stay tuned for future events - we look forward to seeing you in the near future.

Photos to be taken by Ethan Lowenthal.

WHEN: Friday, January 17, 2014. 6:00pm-8:00pm

WHERE: Cafe Serai @ The Rubin Museum 150 W 17th St., New York, NY 10011

Big Data &  Angel Investing at 450 Lexington

What do angel investors look for before investing in a start-up?  Ask Paul Sethi Angel Investor and CEO of REDBOOKS.

Enjoy the jazz trio, video art and cocktails too.

Monday, November 18 from 6 to 8 pm. 
Venue: Wiggin & Dana, 450 Lexington Avenue 38th floor, 45 street.

More details below:
Monday November 18, 2013 from 6 to 8 pm.   
Accepted Registration with full name required for building security. SORRY NO WALK INS. 

Thanks to event host: Wiggin and Dana & Hong Kong Eco. & Trade Office, NY

Chat informally with: 
Afshin Goodarzi, head of Analytics at 1010 Data.  

1010data is a leading provider of cloud-based data analytics, used by large retail, manufacturing, telecom, and financial services companies. Afshin leads several teams at 1010 in delivering predictive and analytical products. Earlier at Equifax he was head of new data products and at Core Logic created predictive models for mortgages. His publications span data mining & visualization, optimization and artificial intelligence.

http://1010data.com/about-us/team/

Paul Sethi: Angel Investor and CEO of REDBOOKS.  

Since 2005, through PKS capital, Paul invests $50K to $300K in start-ups at various stages in technology, media, publishing, real estate and retail, including InstaEdu, BottleNose and SeatGeek. Advertising REDBOOKS is a 100 year old intelligence tool in the advertising & media industry. A director of Jesmar Intl.,an upscale fashion co., Paul was a partner at Iroquois Capital, a long short fund. A Wharton and Columbia Bus. School grad. https://angel.co/paulsethi

NETWORK:  with angel investors, designers, engineers, founders, venture  capitalists and accountants, bankers and lawyers. 

MUSIC: Michael Marcus Jazz Trio. Marcus on clarinet, Jay Rosen drums,  Maitreya Padukone tabla. CD "Jazz Maalika" on sale at $10.

ART:  Video by David Conklin. Video from upcoming Pamela Lubell produced film "John of God"

COCKTAILS: wine, beer.

Confirmation & print/e ticket required for building security. Sorry no walk-ins.   

Silley Circuits crew for event: Daria Deshuk, Pamela Lubell, David Conklin, Niall Chithelen, Alfie Rustom. Adviser:Ignatius Chithelen

Biz Insights, Cocktails, Music, Art at the Rockefeller

Network with fellow Silicon Alley folk as you get a check up on the economics and finance of your start up, business, plan, idea or dream. And, while you network, enjoy the music, art and cocktails.

Thursday October 3, 2013 6 to 8 pm Charles Schwab, Rockefeller Center office, 1300 Avenue of the Americas.  
Registration required as space is limited. SORRY NO WALK INS. 

Those answering your business questions include: 

Rene Baston, director of entrepreneurship, Columbia University's Institute for data sciences and engineering.  Founder of HVBio, a biotech material science start-up. Earlier co-founded Medihub, a health IT startup. Rene has over 20 years of experience in innovation, business development, technology transfer and start ups. Rene got his Masters in Biomedical Informatics from Columbia.

John Cravenho, Senior Director, Alvarez and Marsal a New York based group of 2200 providing leadership, problem-solving & value-creation to underperforming and robust companies across industries. In 1993 John founded a 30 professional consultancy that improved financial results and customer service at AlliedSignal, Lucent, Castrol, Raytheon, etc. He is a graduate of NYU's Stern Business School.

Ram Trichur, co-founder and COO ZYpsee, an online service offering limousines in New York city. He worked at McKinsey for five years, advising tech and telecom companies on operations and mobility. He also worked at GE in operations and audit roles. Ram has an MBA from Columbia University.

Also, senior finance executive to chat about fund raising, financing strategy

NETWORK:  with angel investors, designers, engineers, founders, venture  capitalists and - if lucky - accountants, bankers and lawyers.

ART:  Video by David Conklin. Photos by Dirk McDonnell. www.dirkmcdonnell.net

Video from upcoming Pamela Lubell produced film "John of God"

COCKTAILS: wine, beer.

MUSIC: brass duo - Aaron Kisslinger, trombonist, Abdulah Amer trumpet, La Guardia School

Photos of Event: by Daria Deshuk  

Silley Circuits Organizes Fund Raiser for Kenya Medical Mission.

International Surgical Mission Support - Operation Head and Neck

Cordially invites you to a Cocktail Fundraising, which is tax deductible, 

In support of their October 2013 Surgery mission to Migori, Kenya

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 As you view famous photographs at Throckmorton,

mingle with fellow medical staff and others 

supporting a pro-bono surgical mission to Kenya October 17 to 27 2013. 

THE MISSION: The fund raiser is to assist a team of 24 including four surgeons, internist, nursing staff and support personnel, traveling to a remote area of Kenya to provide medical aid, including head and neck surgeries. The team is providing this assistance pro bono and will be spending two weeks away from their daily responsibilities and families in order to give much needed medical help.

Kenya Relief: The team will partner with a not for profit organization, Kenya relief, which has an orphanage and medical clinic in Migori, Kenya. Many diseases are endemic in this area including malaria, HIV aids, thyroid goiters, and other head and neck cancers. There is fewer than one surgeon per one million citizens. Patients will travel hundreds of miles to attend the clinic. http://www.kenyarelief.org/

Team Leaders: Dr. Stimson Schantz, MD and Nelson Co, CRNA worked with Kenya Relief in Migori, last year.  The mission will take place from October 17 through October 27, 2013. http://ismission.org/operation-head-neck-team/

ART: Throckmorton, which is donating the use of their gallery space, is showing an 1858 portrait of Abraham Lincoln by Matthew Brady, a 1930s portrait of Marlene Dietrich by Cecil Beaton, a 1940s portrait of Frida Kahlo by Manuel Álvarez Bravo and a 1946 portrait of Mahatma Gandhi by Margaret Bourke White. Also, on view the Beatles, Marilyn Monroe, Madonna, Pablo Picasso, James Dean, the Dalai Lama, and Jean Michel Basquiat (with his cat). http://throckmorton-nyc.com/. To view a recent article published in THE NEW YORKER magazine on this exhibit, please visit: http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/art/fame-throckmorton 

PHOTO AUCTION: A photo by Dirk McDonnell, generously provided by Throckmorton, will be live auctioned at this event. To view this artist's work, please visit: Dirk McDonnell | Photography 

COCKTAILS: Wine and cheese will be served

DONATION: $65.00 tax deductible. http://ismission.org/operation-head-neck/

Your tax deductible donation will help cover the cost of travel, purchase medical supplies and provide provisions for the mission. Through your generosity will allow many patients to receive care without any cost to the patient or the host healthcare facility. Lastly we will be able impact the lives of many patients through sharing ideas and working with local healthcare providers.

Thank you for giving our team your support. 

Sincerely,
Stimson Schantz M.D
President, ISMS-Head and Neck Surgical Team

Summer Networking at The Throckmorton Fine Art Gallery

An Evening of Art, Music, Cocktails & 15 seconds of Fame

 July 16, 2013 Tuesday 6 to 8 pm

 At Throckmorton Fine Art 145 E 57th St

Click to register: http://silleycircuits.eventbrite.com
Silley Circuits: the Silicon Alley Network. 

NETWORK:  as you view famous photographs, mingle with angel investors, designers, engineers, founders, venture  capitalists and others - maybe even accountants, bankers and lawyers if you get lucky.

ART: an 1858 portrait of Abraham Lincoln by Matthew Brady, a 1930s portrait of Marlene Dietrich by Cecil Beaton, a 1940s portrait of Frida Kahlo by Manuel Álvarez Bravo and a 1946 portrait of Mahatma Gandhi by Margaret Bourke White. Also, on view the Beatles, Marilyn Monroe, Madonna, Pablo Picasso, James Dean, the Dalai Lama, and Jean Michel Basquiat (with his cat).

http://throckmorton-nyc.com/

COCKTAILS: Special drink from Tim Federle's new book “Tequila Mockingbird: Cocktails with a Literary Twist", Running Press, using New York brewed Dorothy Parker gin. Tim will sign copies of the book which will be on sale. Book buyers will get a free gift bag.

MUSIC: Louis Schwadron, French horn and guitar, Juilliard grad and band leader:http://www.skywhitetiger.com/

FAME: Event video on Youtube by David Conklin. Photos on the web.   

Donation: $10 at the door. Proceeds to the New York Writers Hall of Fame http://empirestatebook.org/nys-writers-hall-of-fame/

Kindly RSVP. Confirmation & print/e ticket required as space is limited. 

Contact: silleycircuits@gmail.com
Click to register: http://silleycircuits.eventbrite.com

Silley Circuits: the Silicon Alley Network.

Crew for this event: Rocco Staino, Niall Chithelen. Adviser: Ignatius Chithelen.