A Call for high school students who dare to dream big!
Take your idea, build a team, win the TiE Young Entrepreneurs Business Plan Competition, and become a Leader!
TYE Thank You and Welcome Dinner
It gives us great pleasure to invite you to the 4th Annual TiE Young Entrepreneurs $10k Business Plan competition program launch and dinner event
6:30pm on Friday, July 31, 2009
Reservoir Woods
930 Winter Street
Waltham, MA 02451
Program
6:30pm to 7:30pm Registration, Networking & Dinner
7:30pm to 8:00pm TiE and TyE Welcome Address Sponsor Presentation
Keynote Speeches
8:00pm to 8:30pm Larry O’Toole, CEO, Gentle Giant
8:30pm to 9:00pm Eswar Priyadarshan, Co-Founder & CTO, Quattro Wireless
9:00pm to 9:30pm Closing Remarks and Further Networking
Please rsvp to Suneha at suneha@tie-boston.org or call 781-272-3875
To learn more about TyE, please visit www.tieyoungentrepreneurs.org or http://tieyoungentrepreneurs.blogspot.com/
Speaker Bios
Eswar Priyadarshan
Co-Founder & CTO, Quattro Wireless
Prior to co-founding Quattro, Eswar was the co-founder and CTO of m-Qube, Inc. While at m-Qube, Eswar led technology research and development. m-Qube was acquired by VeriSign for $250 million in April of 2006. Eswar's previous positions include VP, Engineering at Open Market, Technical Lead at Adobe Systems, and various engineering positions with Sun Microsystems. Eswar holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Computer Science from Boston University. Eswar also serves as the Co-Chair of the m-Commerce Committee for the Mobile Marketing Association.
Larry O’Toole
CEO, Gentle Giant
A native of Ireland and 1973 engineering graduate of Northeastern University, where he rowed competitively, Larry O'Toole was a rising executive at Eaton Corporation when he quit his job to "escape corporate slavery" and pursue his writing interests while investigating the possibilities of starting a light manufacturing company. On a quest for start-up cash, the 6 foot 6 inch O'Toole - the original Gentle Giant - was urged by his friends to add moving to his list of odd jobs. In 1980, Larry O'Toole founded Gentle Giant with a friend’s borrowed truck and a $17 investment: a one-time ad in the Boston Phoenix. O'Toole felt strongly that Massachusetts sorely needed an infusion of quality into the moving industry, and in 1984 committed himself fully to that mission. As noted in the company mission statement, written by O'Toole himself, "We treat our employees with respect and compassion, and expect that they will extend the same courtesy to our customers". His efforts have been rewarded, since O'Toole has been recognized for his excellence in leadership by The United States Small Business Administration as its 2004 Massachusetts Small Business Person of the Year and The Cambridge Chamber of Commerce as its 2004 Business Person of the Year. |