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Alexa Baggio (Project 2020), David Snider (COO, Urban Compass), Hart Lambur (Co-founder, Openfolio), Hayden Williams (Co-founder, Treatings).
Wed, Feb 19, 2014 @ 07:30 PM   $11   Spark Capital, 138 Spring St, 6th Fl
 
     
 
 
              

  
 
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<P STYLE="padding: 0px 0px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: medium;"><SPAN STYLE="color: #ff0000; font-size: x-large;">From Wall Street to Silicon Alley</SPAN><BR>Wed., Feb. 19th @ 7:30pm | Spark Capital NYC<EM><BR><BR>A roundtable discussion with former investment bankers who made the leap into the world of startups</EM></SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="padding: 0px 0px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><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; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><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;">Roundtable participants:</SPAN><BR></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: small;"><STRONG><BR></STRONG></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: small;"><STRONG>Alexa Baggio, Project 2020</STRONG><SPAN STYLE="color: #333333;"><BR></SPAN>Alexa heads operations and business development for Project 2020, a startup that provides on-site concierge eye care as a health care benefit to corporations and their employees. Prior to Project 2020, Alexa spent 2.5 years in sales at Axial, a financial technology startup and watched the company grow from 15 people to 65+. Alexa began her career in Public Finance for Merrill Lynch after being hired to do Sales & Trading at Bank of America. She is the author and founder of Greener Pastures, a cultural and vocational blog for twentysomethings experiencing a similar career crisis. She received her B.A. from Brown University and is the founder of Brown Women in Business. <BR><STRONG><BR> <STRONG>David Snider, Urban Compass<BR></STRONG></STRONG>David is the Chief Operating Officer of Urban Compass, an online broker that helps people find a great place to live and make the most out of it<SPAN STYLE="line-height: 1.6em;">. Prior to joining Urban Compass David worked in the Private Equity group at Bain Capital and at the management consulting firm Bain & Company. He is the author of Money Makers: Inside the New World of Finance and Business, published by Macmillan in 2010. David is a member of the Steering Committee for the Museum of Modern Art's Junior Associates Program. He received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.A. from Duke University.<BR><BR></SPAN><STRONG STYLE="font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: small; line-height: 1.6em;"><STRONG>Hart Lambur</STRONG></STRONG><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 1.6em;">, </SPAN><STRONG STYLE="font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: small; line-height: 1.6em;">Openfolio<BR></STRONG><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 1.6em;">Hart is Co-Founder at Openfolio, a social network for investing. Prior to founding Openfolio, Hart was a VP at Goldman Sachs where he traded interest rate products for almost 8 years. He graduated from Columbia University with a degree in computer science.<BR><BR></SPAN><STRONG STYLE="font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: small; line-height: 1.6em;">Hayden Williams, Treatings<BR></STRONG>Hayden is Co-Founder/CEO of Treatings, a professional networking platform that facilitates one-on-one meetups over coffee. Prior to Treatings, Hayden spent four years as an investment banker at BofA Merrill Lynch. He graduated from Vanderbilt with a degree in Economics and Corporate Strategy.<BR><BR><STRONG STYLE="font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: small; line-height: 1.6em;">Moderator: Sameer Syed, Genesis Media<BR></STRONG><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 1.6em;">Sameer is Director of Business Development at Genesis Media, an AdTech startup changing the way publishers monetize content. Prior to joining Genesis Media, Sameer was as an investment banking analyst at JPMorgan for three years and also spent a year in JPM's internal consulting program. Sameer is the founder of Wall Street to Silicon Alley quarterly roundtable. He received a B.A. in Economics from the University of Michigan.</SPAN></SPAN></P>
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<P STYLE="padding: 0px 0px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><EM><SPAN STYLE="font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: small;"><BR>Special thanks to our roundtable sponsor:</SPAN></EM><SPAN STYLE="color: #000000; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; display: inline !important; float: none;"><A HREF="http://sparkcapital.com"><IMG STYLE="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" SRC="https://evbdn.eventbrite.com/s3-s3/eventlogos/5432839/spark.logogrey1316xx7402816x929withboarder-1.jpg" ALT="" WIDTH="175" HEIGHT="95"></A><SPAN STYLE="font-family: georgia,palatino; color: #333333;">Founded eight years ago, Spark Capital is a leading venture capital firm focused on early stage startups. Spark's portfolio includes companies such as Twitter, Tumblr (acq Yahoo!), Foursquare, AdMeld (acq Google), Warby Parker, OMGPOP (acq Zynga), ThePlatform (acq Comcast), and 5Min (acq AOL).</SPAN></SPAN></P>
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