128 Innovation Capital Group

August 12, 2010

7:30 - 10:00 AM
Foley Hoag Emerging Enterprise Center
1000 Winter St., Waltham, MA 02451

Matt Fates, Partner at Ascent Venture Partners

Investment Outlook - Back to the Basics

Matt has worked with emerging technology companies since 1996. Prior to joining Ascent in 2002, Matt worked in business development at Gold Wire Technology, a network configuration management software company and at Norwest Venture Partners where he worked on venture investments such as Broadband Access Systems (acquired by ADC Telecom), Gold Wire Technology (acquired by Intelliden), and COSpace (acquired by InterNAP). Matt also worked in technology investment banking at Alex. Brown & Sons, where he helped execute both equity and M&A transactions, working with companies such as BBN, CIENA, DSET, RSA Security and SwitchBoard.com.

Current board seats include HubCast, StrikeIron, Terascala and The Corporate Marketplace.

Education: Double Major in Computer Science and Economics from Yale University. MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth (Tuck Scholar)..

Guest Moderator - Robert A. Adelson, Esq., Engel & Schultz, LLP

Robert Adelson has been a corporate and tax attorney since 1977. He holds degrees from Boston University, B.A., summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, Northwestern University (Chicago), J.D.and Law Review member, and New York University, LL.M. in Taxation. Mr. Adelson is a partner at Engel & Schultz LLP, a 7-attorney general practice law firm in Boston’s financial district. His main work areas for startup / early stage businesses are Business formation and capitalization; Development of company stock, options and employee benefit plans; Shareholder agreements and cross sales; Trademarks, trade secrets and intellectual property protections; Software and product development and distribution contracts; Partnerships, Joint Ventures, spin-offs, Mergers and Acquisitions; Trademarks, copyrights and intellectual property protection and licensing; Estate and Succession planning and phantom stock arrangements for family business.

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