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<P STYLE="padding: 0px 0px 8px; margin: 0px;"><SPAN STYLE="color: #ff0000; font-size: x-large; font-family: georgia, palatino; line-height: 1.6em;">From Wall Street to Silicon Alley</SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="padding: 0px 0px 8px; margin: 0px;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.6em;">Monday, March 7th @ 7:30pm | Cooley LLP</SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="padding: 0px 0px 8px; margin: 0px;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: medium;"><EM><BR>A roundtable discussion with former investment bankers and finance professionals who made the leap into the world of startups</EM></SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="padding: 0px 0px 8px; margin: 0px;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: medium;"><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 20px; font-size: small;">Investment bankers are becoming a driving force behind many of today's successful startups. If you're tired of building excel models, editing powerpoints and running "scenarios" then join four reformed investment bankers as they discuss their journey from Wall Street to Silicon Alley and learn how you too can make the leap.</SPAN></SPAN></P>
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<P STYLE="padding: 0px 0px 8px; margin: 0px;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: medium;"><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 20px;"><SPAN STYLE="text-decoration: underline;"><BR><SPAN STYLE="font-size: small; color: #333333; text-decoration: underline;">Roundtable participants:</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN STYLE="font-family: georgia, palatino; color: #333333;"><STRONG><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Adam Besvinick, Deep Fork Capital -<BR></SPAN></STRONG></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-family: georgia, palatino; color: #333333;">Adam is a VC at Deep Fork Capital, where he focuses primarily on seed stage investments. Prior to joining Deep Fork, he was the first business hire at Wanelo and led their partnerships efforts. Previously, Adam worked at Lowercase Capital, Gumroad, and other early starge companies. He started his career as an investment banking analyst at Jefferies covering telecom. Adam has a BA from Duke and MBA from Harvard Business School. <A HREF="https://twitter.com/Besvinick" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow">@Besvinick</A></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN STYLE="font-family: georgia, palatino; color: #333333;"><STRONG STYLE="line-height: 1.6em;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Will Morel,</SPAN></STRONG><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"></SPAN><STRONG STYLE="line-height: 1.6em;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Ampush -<BR></SPAN></STRONG></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-family: georgia, palatino; color: #333333;">Will is the Director of Media analytics for Ampush's New York office, where he oversees campaign execution teams for clients advertising on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest. Previously, he served in leadership roles at Likeable Local and ZocDoc. Earlier, he worked in Private Equity at VSS and started his career as an investment banking analyst at Morgan Stanley. Will holds a BSc and MBA from Wharton. <A HREF="https://twitter.com/wamorel" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow">@wamorel</A></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN STYLE="font-family: georgia, palatino; color: #333333;"><STRONG><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Vinicius Vacanti, YipitData -</SPAN></STRONG><STRONG><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><BR> </SPAN></STRONG>Vinicius is CEO and co-founder of YipitData, a research firm that analyzes web data for institutional investors. Prior to Yipit, Vinicius worked at Quadrangle Group and The Blackstone Group. He writes frequently on entrepenurship and serves as a mentor for TechStars. Vinicius holds a BS in Applied Mathematics from Harvard. <A HREF="https://twitter.com/vacanti" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow">@vacanti</A></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN STYLE="font-family: georgia, palatino; color: #333333;"> <STRONG><EM>Moderator: Sameer Syed, Google -</EM></STRONG><STRONG><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><BR> </SPAN></STRONG>Sameer works in strategic partnerships at Google, where he is responsible for managing relationships with large media partners. Previously, Sameer worked in business development roles at Tremor Video and at ad tech startup, Genesis Media.</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-family: georgia, palatino; color: #333333;"> He began his career as an investment banking analyst at J.P. Morgan and also spent a year in JPM's internal consulting program. Sameer is the organizer and founder of Wall Street to Silicon Alley. He received a BA in Economics from the University of Michigan. <A HREF="https://twitter.com/mrsameersyed" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow">@mrsameersyed</A></SPAN></P>
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<P STYLE="padding: 0px 0px 8px; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><EM><SPAN STYLE="font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: small;"><BR>Special thanks to our roundtable sponsor:<BR></SPAN></EM></P>
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