| Speaker : |
Mr. Leslie
Managing Director of Leslie Ventures, a private investment company |
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| Date: |
4 September 2003 (Thursday) |
Seminars organised by
the Entrepreneurship
Centre are now on the
CIT NUSLive website |
| 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.
