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New England 2003 Venture Capital Forum
About New England: 2003
Co-hosted by the Center for Women & Enterprise and Springboard Enterprises, Springboard: New England 2003 took place November 21, 2003 at Babson College in Wellesley, MA. New England 2003 featured the next generation of high-growth women entrepreneurs in technology and life sciences from the New England and New York areas. The Forum showcased 16 of the strongest women entrepreneurs to an audience of the area's top corporate, angel, and venture investors.
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Venture-catalyst Springboard Enterprises is the platform where entrepreneurs, investors, corporate officials, sector experts and service providers meet to build great women-led businesses together. Springboard sources, qualifies, coaches, showcases and supports high growth potential companies seeking equity capital for product development and expansion.
Center for Women & Enterprises
Established in 1995, the Center for Women & Enterprise (CWE) is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping women start and grow their own businesses. CWE is a national leader among women's business development agencies. CWE's mission is to empower women to become economically self-sufficient and prosperous through entrepreneurship. CWE offers education, training, technical assistance, women's business enterprise certification and access to both debt and equity capital to entrepreneurs at every stage of business development.
Partner Sponsors:
- Babson College
- Boston Business Journal
- Deloitte & Touche
- FleetBoston Financial and Fleet Development Ventures
- Goodwin Procter LLP
- Grant Thornton LLP
- Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault LLP
Supporter Sponsors:
- Bingham McCutchen LLP
- The Castle Group
- Edwards & Angell LLP
- Ernst & Young
- Foley Hoag LLP
- Hale and Dorr LLP
- Harvard Business School
- PricewatherhouseCoopers
- Weston Presidio Capital Management
Contributor Sponsors:
- Adams, Harkness & Hill
- Burns & Levinson LLP
- Choate, Hall & Stewart
- Day, Berry & Howard LLP
- Holland & Knight LLP
- Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton, P.C.
- Ridge Hill Consulting LLC
- Sullivan & Worcester, LLP
- Boston Entrepreneurs' Network
- The Commonwealth Institute
- Empire State Venture Group
- MA Women in Technology
- MA Biotechnology Council
- MA Interactive Media Council
- Tie-Boston
- Women Entrepreneurs in Science & Technology
- Women Presidents' Organization
Co-Chairs
- Michael Fetters, Provost, Babson College
- Nan Langowitz, Center for Women's Leadership, Babson College
- Pamela Lenehan, Ridge Hill Consulting
Members
- Geraldine Alias, Battery Ventures
- Elizabeth Ames
- Mara Aspinall, Genzyme Genetics
- Joseph Caruso, Bantam Group
- Elaine Caughey, Advanced Technology Ventures
- John Choi, Venrock Associates
- Thomas Claflin, Claflin Capital Management
- Linda DeRenzo, Testa, Hurwitz & Thiebault LLP
- Daphne Dufresne, Weston Presidio Capital
- Janet Dunlap, Goodwin Procter LLP
- Kathy Elliott, 8 Wings Ventures
- Michael Greeley, IDG Ventures
- Karin Gregory, Dover Medical Ventures
- Maia Heymann, BancBoston Ventures
- Marcia Hooper, Castile Ventures
- Don Jeffrey, Grant Thornton
- Anita Karcz, Healthcare Opportunities Fund & MIT Enterprise Forum
- Kay Koplovitz, Springboard Enterprises
- James Matheson, Flagship Ventures
- Amy Millman, Springboard Enterprises
- Paige Montgomery, Boston Business Journal
- James Nahirny, BainCapital Ventures
- Jeremy Perisho, Deloitte & Touche LLP
- Jill Preotle
- Kishore Rao, Trident Capital
- Michael Roberts, HBS Entrepreneurial Studies, Harvard Business School
- >Angelo Santinelli, North Bridge Venture Partners
- Jennifer Schmelter, Fleet Development Ventures
- Andrea Silbert, Center for Women & Enterprise
- Alison Taunton-Rigby, Forester Biotech
- Clark Waterfall, Boston Search Group
- Sharon Whiteley, 8 Wings Ventures
- Nader Yaghoubi, Zero Stage Capital
- Andrew Zacharakis, Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship, Babson College
