Swissnex hosted the third meeting of the Strategic Investors Forum
Swissnex hosted the third meeting of the Strategic Investors Forum
On Monday September 22nd Swissnex hosted the third meeting of the Strategic Investors Forum. SIF was founded in January of 2008 by Andrew Jay, partner at Siemens Ventures, and Val Livada, a Boston based technology consultant and Senior Lecturer at the Sloan School of Management at MIT.
The Forum, which has a close working relationship with Sloan, is intended to provide an active social network for large corporations which have venture capital arms or other investment activities for emerging technologies.
At Monday's meeting the group heard from Leon Sandler, Director of MIT's Deshpande Center, and Prof. Chris Ober, Head of Technology Transfer at Cornell's School of Engineering. The audience included Kodak, Astra Zeneca, WR Grace, Johnson & Johnson, Partners Health, Silicon Valley Bank, Siemens.
