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Speaker : |
Mr. Leslie
Managing Director of Leslie Ventures, a private investment
company |
| Date:
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4
September 2003 (Thursday) |
| Time: |
4.00pm
- 5.30pm |
| Venue: |
NUS
Hon Sui Sen Auditorium (http://www.nus.edu.sg/campusmap/)
Pls click on "Business School"
in the campus map to locate the Auditorium) |
| Driving
and Parking |
Enter
Kent Ridge Drive by Pasir Panjang Road or
Kent Ridge Crescent. The nearest carpark
is just next to Hon Sui Sen Auditorium.
The next nearest carparks are next to Institute
of Materials Research & Engineering
and NUS Guild House. |
Abstract
In this talk, Mark Leslie,
a well-known Silicon Valley Entrepreneur, will
share with us his serial entrepreneurial experience
in Silicon Valley, including in particular how
he grew Veritas into a US$1.5 billion global company.
About the Speaker
Mark Leslie is currently the managing director
of Leslie Ventures, a private investment company.
He is also an Lecturer at Stanford Graduate
School of Business and Stanford University Graduate
Engineering.
Mark Leslie
was the founding CEO of Veritas Software.
He joined the board of Directors of Veritas
Software (NASDQ: VRTS) in May of 1988, and became
the Chairman, President and CEO when Veritas
was restarted as a software company in 1990.
During Mark's tenure as CEO the company went
from 12 employees to 5,500 employees deployed
globally, and from a revenue base of $95,000
per year to $1,500,000,000 per year. In
2000 Veritas was the tenth largest independent
software company by revenue, third largest by
market capitalization, and achieved the distinction
of becoming a Fortune 1000 company.
From 1980 until 1990 he served as president
and chief executive officer of two Silicon Valley
high- tech start up companies.
Prior experience included OS programmer, systems
engineer, sales and sales management in the
computer industry.
Mark currently serves on the boards of Avaya
Corporation (NYSE:AV) and Veritas Software (NASDQ:
VRTS) and a number of privately held high-technology
corporations, including Model N Software, Outerbay
Technologies Corporation, PostX Corporation,
VMware Corporation and Zaplet Corporation, and
is on the boards of non-profit organizations
Community Foundation of Silicon Valley, Leslie
Family Foundation and Veritas Software Foundation.
Mark received a Bachelor
of Arts degree in physics and mathematics from
New York University in 1966 and completed Harvard
Business School's program for management development
in 1980.
About NUS Entrepreneurship
Centre
The NUS Entrepreneurship Centre is a university-wide
centre of the National University of Singapore
(NUS) and is a unit of the NUS Enterprise
Cluster. The mission of the Centre is to nurture
the spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation
among the NUS community, and to advance knowledge
of technology venturing practice. This will
be carried out through a seamless integration
of education, research and outreach activities
that will bring the outside entrepreneurial
world into the NUS campus as well as propel
NUS innovation and enterprise into the larger
community in Singapore and beyond.
About iGlobe Partners
iGlobe Partners is a leading global technology fund with an unparalleled network around the world. With presence in Singapore, Santa Clara, Shanghai, Paris and Frankfurt, the
iGlobe team works closely with its portfolio companies in their quest to become successful in their businesses.
iGlobe focuses on semiconductor, wireless, telecommunication and software sectors.
About Action Community for
Entrepreneurship (ACE)
ACE stands for Action Community for Entrepreneurship.
Led by Mr Raymond Lim (Minister of State for
Trade and
Industry) and comprising of 23 private sector
leaders from various industries, ACE is a
private sector and public sector
collaboration; its goal is to foster greater
entrepreneurship and a more entrepreneurial
culture in Singapore. Organizing or
supporting entrepreneurial talks like this
one is one of ACE's programmes.
We are pleased to invite you and your colleagues
to attend the talk. As there is limited number
of seats available, please click
here
to register for the talk by
4 September 2003
(2pm). Please forward this invitation to
your friends and colleagues who may be interested.
Admission is FREE & we look forward to seeing
you at the seminar.
