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April 16, 2020 @ 9:30 am - 10:30 am PDT
FreefnCurriculum: HR & Recruiting – Outgrowing Your Leadership Team
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Issues with cofounders? Founding teams have the best of intentions but sometimes cannot change with the business needs, pivots or growth. Join fnMembers Elisabeth Maurer and Paul Della Maggiora, Morrison Foerster attorney Murray Indick and Business Growth Expert Eric Hathaway as we explore all angles of what it’s like to identify, shape and let go of teammates.
Presenters
Founder of LightIntegra
Elisabeth is a scientist and entrepreneur who fell in love with blood platelets in July 1988 when she started her PhD in physical chemistry. Then, she knew next to nothing about these marvelous cells she now calls “our trillion defenders”. Being a novice in the field of platelets gave Elisabeth the freedom to discover new things about them. Her passion for platelets grew with every new discovery: their dual role as immune and “blood clotting” cells, their function as serotonin carriers, and their potential to save lives when transfused.
Her desire to unravel the mysteries of platelets provided for an interesting career: from basic research at the Karl-Franzens University, Graz and the University of British Columbia in Vancouver to transfusion medicine with Canadian Blood Services; from inventing assays to founding a company, LightIntegra Technology; and finally to non-profit endeavors: plateletMAP, an online educational tool, and the PlaDisco Society to support blood Platelet Discovery for better health and better transfusions.
Founder of GoBeep
Founder Paul Della Maggiora, Greenville, SC: 25+ years in software sales, pre-sales, and product management. Previous leadership roles at IBM, Cisco Systems, Motorola, Avaya, NCR. Previously bootstrapped a guitar manufacturing startup in 2002 which folded in 2009.
Business Growth Expert
Hathaway’s career has spanned the globe building high performance teams, developing global expansion strategies and managing high growth businesses in global markets. With experience across technology, financial services and telecom he has worked with Credit Suisse, Standard & Poor’s, Microsoft and T-Mobile.
As a Montana native, he returned to the area and is dedicated to supporting the start-up technology sector within the state. He has been a mentor for Early Stage Montana for the past few years, is working with Youth Entrepreneurs to bring leadership and entrepreneurship to smaller schools within the state, has taught at the Jake Jabs Business School and is entrenched in the supporting and mentoring the start-up technology sector.
Partner at Morrison & Foerster
Murray Indick is a partner in the firm’s Corporate Department and Co-chair of the Emerging Companies and Venture Capital practice. Mr. Indick has more than thirty years of corporate law, investment fund and related experience, both in private practice and as partner and general counsel to Blum Capital Partners (1997-2004), and partner and general counsel to Prides Capital Partners (2004-2010). Mr. Indick’s transactional experience covers a wide variety of corporate matters including venture financings, acquisitions, mergers, leveraged buyouts, private equity financings, fund formation, PIPE investments, corporate restructurings, corporate governance, and compliance programs.
Confidentiality Reminder
All information shared within Founders Network is strictly confidential. We are built on a foundation of trust, and the community takes confidentiality seriously. Investors, members, and staff all share experiences and opinions off the record. In this roundtable forum, we continue to model our fnValues of Reciprocity, Humility, Authenticity and Inclusivity.
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