Budgeting
CLASS SUMMARY
Speaker: Ms. Kerri Golden, PrimaxisBuilding a succesful business is about more than simply running a research project. Ms. Kerri Golden (a chartered accountant and Venture Capitalist), will talk about building realistic budgets for running a start up company - budgets that help you not only identify where you will spend money, but where you will make money!
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP 101 LECTURE SERIES
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DATE | TIME | LOCATION
February 13, 20085:30PM - 6:30PM
MaRS Centre Auditorium
101 College St, Toronto
DOWNLOADS AND RESOURCES
- Webcast
- Blog - "Fail to Plan = Plan to Fail"
- Presentation - "If you fail to plan, will your plan fail?" (PDF)
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Kerri Golden currently operates a consulting business which manages the Primaxis Technology Ventures portfolio of investments in the communications, IT, semiconductor and electronics fields. Kerri also provides business and financial planning, fund raising, mentoring and merger and acquisition (M&A) advisory services for technology businesses and is currently serving as part-time Chief Financial Officer to Infobright Inc., a venture-backed company providing analytic data warehouse solutions.Kerri has 25 years of general management and finance experience in a variety of technology industries. Kerri was a pioneer in the wireless communications business, holding finance positions with Rogers Wireless at launch of commercial service in 1985 and serving in a number of roles with Bell Mobility, including Chief Executive Officer of Bell Mobility Paging and Vice President, Finance for BCE Mobile Communications and other positions in Finance and Information Systems. Her former positions also include: Chief Financial Officer for Alliance Atlantis Communications (entertainment and media) and Lorus Therapeutics (biotechnology). She’s been active in financings of over $1 billion in equity and debt and a number of merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions.
Kerri has served as a director, officer and/or observer in each of the following early-stage technology companies backed by Primaxis: Chantry Networks (company sold to Siemens in 2005), Avendo Wireless (company sold to WaveRider Communications in 2003), Atsana Semiconductor (technology sold to Mtekvision in 2005), Elumina Lighting Technologies Inc. (company sold to American Tack and Hardware in 2005), Spotwave Wireless Inc. (sold to Kavveri Telecom Products in 2008) and manages investments in active Primaxis companies, Natural Convergence, Meriton Networks and Silicon Optix.
Kerri obtained her Chartered Accountant designation while with KPMG and holds an HBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario.
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