Budgeting

CLASS SUMMARY

Fail to Plan: Plan to Fail

Building a succesful business is about more than simply running a research project. This coming Tuesday's speaker, 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!

Speaker: Kerry Golden, Managing Partner at Primaxis Technology Ventures

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ENTREPRENEURSHIP 101 LECTURE SERIES

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DATE | TIME | LOCATION

March 6, 2007
5:30PM - 6:30PM
MaRS Centre Auditorium
101 College St, Toronto

DOWNLOADS AND RESOURCES

Blog - class summary, downloads, Q&A
Session presentation - Dial-up connection (mp4)
Session presentation - Broadband connection (mp4)
Presentation: Fail to Plan: Plan to Fail (PDF)
Up-Start Competition Update (PDF)

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Kerri Golden is a Managing Partner at Primaxis Technology Ventures (www.primaxis.com), a seed stage venture capital fund focused on communications and information technologies, semiconductors, electronics and advanced materials. She also runs a part-time consulting business assisting technology companies (including Infobright Inc. - www.infobright.com) with business and financial planning, fund raising, mentoring and merger and acquisition (M&A) advisory services.

Kerri has almost 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 currently serves as Chair of Spotwave Wireless Inc., is a board observer for Natural Convergence and manages Primaxis’ investments in Meriton Networks and Silicon Optix. She 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), and Elumina Lighting Technologies Inc. (company sold to American Tack and Hardware in 2005).

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.