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Overview

The Houston Chapter of the Private Directors Association® is pleased to offer a three-part series focused on the thriving innovation ecosystem in Houston. The series will provide a roadmap for how PDA Members can become engaged in strategic opportunities with these innovative companies.

The first event was held on June 16th and featured panelists from two Incubators as well as another panelist intimately engaged in the startup financing network known as Angel Investors.

The second event was held on July 21^st offered the perspective of the entrepreneurial team and provided an overview of the areas where PDA members can become engaged as advisors and mentors to help the startup advance to its next stage of development.

The event on August 25th will be the third and final event in the series, providing more detail on the capital stages and sources available to startups, describing the criteria these players use, and offering some perspective on the benefits a board of advisors can provide in the process and where the PDA can add value.

The three-part series will help answer questions and guide our members through this labyrinth, leaving you with a clearer perspective of where your role may be best focused. 

Thank you to our National and Gold Chapter Sponsors!

Panelists

Vivek Raj Founder Geneses Capital Management and EverArc Holdings Ltd.

Vivek is the Founder of Geneses Capital Management, a long-duration private investment firm, and EverArc Holdings Ltd. He previously served as a Managing Director at CSL Capital management and field engineer at Schlumberger. Vivek has also served on several private and public boards. Vivek studied engineering at Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi, India and did his MBA from Harvard Business School.

Ram Shenoy CEO The RBR Group

Ram Shenoy is an angel investor and co-founder/board member of several companies based on different technology areas - machine learning; materials science and sensing; grid-scale renewable energy storage; and operations/logistics. He is the current President of TiE Houston, the Houston Chapter of The Indus Entrepreneurs, a global non-profit organization devoted to entrepreneurship. Shenoy retired after a career in upstream oil & gas, holding a variety of roles around technology development, management and marketing. He previously was Chief Technology Officer of ConocoPhillips, a large upstream oil & gas operator. Shenoy also spent many years with Schlumberger, his last position being Vice-President of Research, managing Schlumberger global corporate research laboratories. He graduated with a B.A and M.A. in Electrical Sciences from the University of Cambridge, UK, a Ph. D. In Electrical Engineering from Cornell University, NY, and an MBA from the Stern School of Business, New York University, NY.

Mark has 25+ years’ experience as a successful leader and operator of businesses in the healthcare, technology and manufacturing space. He has successfully exited companies providing home/physician office infusion services, sterile products and specialty pharmacy, home care, medical wholesale, SaaS and contract research services.

Mark’s passion for entrepreneurship and giving back is exemplified through his position as a mentor for companies in the Texas Medical Center Innovations Institute and the Baylor Angel Network, where he shares knowledge gained from managing, investing, or advising in over 100 companies in the healthcare, retail, entertainment, and software sectors. Alongside his managing director role at BriteOak as an Investment & Executive Advisory Consultant, Mark currently serves as a member and advisor to private boards of directors and is the healthcare investment committee chair for the Baylor Angel Network and the Affinity Fund.  In his free time, Mark enjoys writing/composing, singing and performing original light rock music under the "stage name" @markwintersband.

Moderator

Ken Tubman has over 35 years in energy technology with ConocoPhillips, Veritas DGC, Marathon Oil and ARCO. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board of SAExploration, Chairman of the Advisory Board for Cloudstream Medical imaging, and as an advisor to other start up companies in addition to providing consulting services and on digital transformation and technology delivery.

Tubman earned a PhD in geophysics from MIT and holds a BSc in physics from University of Massachusetts.

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