The 2008 MIT Venture Capital Conference is brought to you by the MIT VCPE Club

About the MIT VCPE Club
The MIT Venture Capital & Private Equity Club (VCPE) is one of MIT's most visible cross-campus organizations. It has established deep partnerships throughout MIT and a broad portfolio of activities which range across venture capital, entrepreneurship, private equity, and the commercialization of MIT technologies. The MIT VCPE club runs a range of successful student-driven events including

• MIT Venture Capital Conference
• MIT Venture Capital Competition
• VC Speaker series
• MIT Private Equity Symposium

For more information, visit mitvcpe.com

Special Thanks to our Advisors and Supporters at the MIT Entrepreneurship Center
We would like to thank Kenneth Morse, Managing Director, Bill Aulet, Senior Lecturer, and Howard Anderson, Senior Lecturer, for their seasoned advice and constant support. We also extend our thanks to Jose Pacheco, Pat Fuligni and Audrey Dobek-Bell at the MIT Entrepreneurship Center for their help and support.

Conference Organizing Team

The Organizing team includes current MBA students from the MIT Sloan School of Management. Special thanks to each individual for their ideas, time and efforts to make this conference happen.

• Irina Starikova, Conference Chair
• Gitika Srivastava, Conference Chair
• Saad Fazil, Conference Chair
• Bennett Fisher, President VCPE Club, VC
• Josh Miller, President VCPE Club, Ventures

• Christiaan Vorkink, VP Entrepreneur Showcase
• David Nelson, VP Entrepreneur Showcase
• Max Sadler, VP Entrepreneur Showcase
• Shobin Uralil, VP Marketing
• Leland Cheung, VP Marketing
• Murali Govindaswamy, VP Marketing
• Chase Behringer, VP Speakers
• Ravi Inukonda, VP Speakers
• Crede Kinder, VP Operations
• Divya Jani,  VP Operations
• Julie Christensen, VP VIP Events
• Alex Hsi, VP VIP Events
• Deepak Janakiraman, Registration Director
• Justin Rachwalski, Sponsorships Director
• F. Ali Ahmad, VP of Operations
  
  Panel Managers: Jonathan Alspaugh, Chase Behringer, Manny Duenas, Alex Hsi, Ravi Inukonda, Arun Keswani, Mahesh Konduru, Allen Lamb, Chizoba Nnaemeka, Onimisi Jacob Ojeba, Adam Rein, Rakesh Sahu, Ayusman Sarangi, Jeff Shi, Courtney Skay, Vinay Subramanian, Eduard Viladesau, Chris Walti, Anand Paka, Sanghyun Lee

Mentors: Inaki Berenguer, Bikui Chen, Atul Gupta, Chad Lovell, Akshay Nanduri, Jean Ng, Rick Moore, Sameer Sabir, Sagarika Sengupta, Akbar Thobhani, Susan Zawaski, Aaron Zucker, Justin Jow