CoolTech Club with Paul Santinelli
Paul A. Santinelli SILIWOOD: Navigating Digital Media.
August 2,2007
As Silicon Valley continues to take on Hollywood, there are obvious (an not so obvious) limitations to technology's approach on conquering an age-old business. Paul Santinelli of North Bridge Venture Partners will be with us to discuss content creation, intellectual property and the impacts of technology on Hollywood.
PRESENTER
Paul Santinelli recently became part of the team at North Bridge Venture Partners, focusing on investments in Open Source, software, security and communications areas. Previously, he served as director of Red Hat Network and was responsible for product definition, strategy, engineering, product management, marketing and lifecycle management for the company’s flagship software services offering. Paul also served as the director of global information systems and technology during his tenure at Red Hat.
Prior to Red Hat, Paul was founder and CEO of NOCpulse, Inc., a Silicon Valley software startup focused on delivering the next generation enterprise systems management platform. NOCpulse was acquired by Red Hat in October 2002. While at NOCpulse, Paul was nominated for the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2002. Before founding NOCpulse, Paul was chief technology officer of Global Center and VP of technology for Global Crossing, a telecommunications company that built and operated the world’s first independent global fiber optic network. During the past twelve years, Paul has held various engineering, product management and marketing positions in companies including Red Hat, IBM, Lotus Development and Compuware.
Prior to North Bridge, Paul served on the advisory boards of Arrowpoint Communications (acquired by Cisco), Inflow, Kiva Software (acquired by Netscape), Mobility.net (acquired by Software.com) and One Secure (acquired by Netscreen).
Paul received a B.S. from Emerson College in Boston.
WHEN
Thursday, August 2, 2007
7:00pm - 10:00pm
(Please be on time - we need to close doors at 7:15.
Feel free to call me at 408-4803190 if you need any assistance).
DLA Piper
2000 University Avenue
East Palo Alto, California
94303
(Just behind Four Seasons hotel)
(driving directions : http://www.dlapiper.com/global/about/offices/office.aspx?office=12&show=directions )
AGENDA
7:00-7:15 - Welcome and Networking
7:15-7:20 - Welcome address and Club news
7:20-9:00 - "SILIWOOD : Navigating digital media" by Paul Santinelli
9:00-9:15 - Break and Networking
9:15-10:00 - Open Discussion and Brainstorm!
COST: $5 to cover Pizza and soft drinks
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