Here are the Investor speakers you will get to meet at our AZ Early-Stage Venture Capital & Angel Event, sponsored by Sedona Rouge Hotel & Spa. The event is in Sedona, AZ on Thursday, December 3, 2009.

David  Lam Managing Director WI Harper Group

David Lam brings over 10 years of private equity, technology and investment banking experience to WI Harper. He is responsible for investment activities in information technology companies. Prior to joining WI Harper, David was a Vice President at The Carlyle Group, a global private equity firm, where he led and managed investments in telecommunications and technology-enabled business services sectors for its U.S. venture and growth capital fund. While at Carlyle, Mr. Lam served on the Board of Directors and as the Audit Committee Chair of Actelis Networks, and as a Board Observer of Air2Web, eScreen, Ingenio and Panasas. Previously, David served as Director of Business Development at Panasas, a leading provider of distributed networked storage systems. Mr. Lam also spent several years in marketing and business development roles at CIENA Corporation (Nasdaq �CIEN�), ONI Systems (Nasdaq �ONIS�), Cisco Systems (Nasdaq �CSCO�) and Proxim (Nasdaq �PROX�), and worked in the M&A group at Robertson Stephens & Company. Prior to Robertson, Mr. Lam served as an Executive Fellow in the California Governor�s Office.

David earned an M.B.A. from the MIT Sloan School of Business where he was a Merit Scholar and recipient of the Patrick G. McGovern Award for Entrepreneurship. He earned an MA in Sociology and a BS in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University, and completed coursework at Beijing University and the Beijing Language Institute. Mr. Lam currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Silicon Valley chapter of the Asia America MultiTechnology Association.

Stephen Silver, CEO, MAVN Funding

Stephen the founder of MAVN Funding Advisors which specializes in providing a range of funding and business development services for both investors and emerging growth companies. In the past year Stephen has connected 10 different ventures with over $12M in venture funding.

Stephen currently sits on the board of directors for the Southern California Venture Network (SCVN.org), a professional networking group focused on the entrepreneurial community.

Once in a while, Stephen comes across companies that have the potential to "blowup" very quickly. Some of these companies can greatly benefit from a small investment and his skills in business execution. 4Tweet (4tweet.com) is the perfect example of this ideal fit. Stephen became the CEO of 4Tweet, a marketing solution for online and offline retails to generate viral buzz.

Before starting MAVN, he was a founding partner at Propel. Propel works with early stage companies by packaging their core materials that are necessary to secure funding from private investors.

Prior to founding Propel, he was the Entrepreneur Director for the Southern California Keiretsu Forum, the nation's largest angel investment group. Stephen cherry picked the best deals from over 550 entrepreneurs, matching them with the group's 250 local Angel investors.

Stephen attended Babson College, the nation’s #1 school for entrepreneurship. Babson systematically teaches the intricacies of starting companies from the ground up - from building sustainable business models and creating business plans, to ultimately starting companies, and pitching them to investors. He graduated with a B.S. in business administration, with concentrations in entrepreneurship and marketing.

Hitesh Anand Senior Manager Nokia - Corporate Business Development

Hitesh Anand, veteran in the semiconductor & mobile communications industry with more than 10 years of experience currently serves as Senior Manager, Scouting & Corporate Business Development, for Nokia. Hitesh is responsible for discovering, identifying and validating external innovations in North America, using an "outside-in" venture capital approach, to help create new business opportunities for Nokia. In this role, Hitesh drives the Corporate Business Development open innovation process in North America by screening and analyzing start-ups and proposing & steering high impact candidates for new business opportunities.

Hitesh joined Nokia in 2005, and has held various positions including Senior Manager, Corporate Strategy where he helped drive Nokia�s technology strategy.

At Nokia, Hitesh was instrumental in developing Nokia�s Symbian Strategy leading to its subsequent acquisition; providing guidance to the Web Runtime, Browser, Open Foundation & Linux strategy work; formulating the competitive strategy for Java business group; recommending action and influencing change in Nokia Semiconductor Strategy; as well as analyzing acquisition targets and performing quantitative analysis to drive business decision making for Nokia Software Strategy.

Hitesh has held business & engineering positions at Lucent Technologies, Analog Devices and Motorola Semiconductor Product Sector (now Freescale). Hitesh earned a an MBA from Duke University, USA; an MSE in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University, USA; and a B.Tech in Electronics & Communication Engineering from Guru Nanak Dev University, India.

Scott Caruso General Partner Flywheel Ventures

Scott brings a decade of angel and venture investing experience and over 25 years of technology industry experience as a founder, builder, manager and advisor to over two dozen early-stage ventures in the Internet, Software and IT arenas. A seasoned tech entrepreneur and engineer, he has particular strengths in supporting company transitions from product development to sales-driven businesses and developing effective corporate infrastructure for scale.

Scott joined Flywheel as a General Partner in 2003 and leads the firm’s investments in Groople, Lingotek, Intelisum, Sindhara Supermedia, 4Blox and Trackvia. He is also a board observer for Filtrbox.

Prior to Flywheel, Scott was an active angel investor from 1999 to 2003 investing in 12 start-up companies ranging from biotech to IT infrastructure. He founded and led two successful technology start-ups – as Founder/President HotSpare, a self-financed, profitable internet infrastructure services company and as co-Founder of Compute Intensive, a self-funded ISP services company to the SMB market (acquired by Verio and sold to NTT for $6 billion). Between 1989-1994, Scott was a Systems and Sales Support engineer at Sun Microsystems. Prior to Sun, he managed the computer operations group of New Mexico State University’s Computer Sciences Dept. and was responsible for connecting NMSU to the Arpanet (predecessor to today’s internet) and building the first campus-wide email system.

He is past Director of New Mexico Angels from 2004-2006 and is a board director of Lingotek, Intelisum, 4Blox, and Trackvia, a board observer at Groople and past board observer at SAMBA.

Scott received a BS, with a minor in Computer Science from New Mexico State University in 1987.