Female Innovation In Competitive Markets – 2 Mar

An exclusive 3-hour workshop with internationally renowned entrepreneur, fund raiser and Silicon Valley mentor capitalist, Margarita Quihuis. You will learn how Astia (formerly known as Women Technology Cluster) raised US$65 million for women-led startups and receive direct insight, advice and techniques to turn your idea into a successful and well-funded business enterprise.

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About The Speaker

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A social entrepreneur and mentor capitalist, Margarita Quihuis’s career has focused on innovation, technology incubation, access to capital and entrepreneurship. Her accomplishments include directorship of Astia (formerly known as the Women’s Technology Cluster) where her portfolio companies raised $67 million in venture funding, venture capitalist, Reuters Fellow at Stanford, and Director of RI Labs for Ricoh Innovations. She is currently a member of the research team at Stanford’s Persuasive Technology Lab. She was most recently Director of RI Labs for Ricoh Innovations, Inc. where she oversaw research efforts centered around discovering market opportunities from generational behavior (Millenials), cloud and mobile computing, emerging social technologies, crowdsourcing and open innovation. Her past efforts include access to development capital through the productive use of remittances in Mexico and developing and advising mobile banking companies that serve the needs of transnational workers and their families. In 2004, Women’s eNews named her as one of their ’21 Leaders for the 21st Century’ and was one of WITI’s Women to Watch in 2003. In 2007 she was named ‘One of The 100 Most Influential Latinos in Silicon Valley’. Ms Quihuis has served as a consultant to the US State Department on entrepreneurship and sits on the boards of UnaMesa, Women’s eNews, and the James Burke Institute. She is a past board member of the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs, and was a member of the screening and coaching committees for Springboard 2000, the venture capital conference for women and was part of the working group for the Business Women’s Initiative on AIDS. She has been widely quoted in the Asian Venture Capital Report, NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, US News & World Report, Forbes ASAP, CNN and CBS MarketWatch.

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Event Details

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When: Wednesday 2nd March 2011
Time: 9.30am-12.30pm
Where: RMI Seminar Room 1, I3 Building, National University of Singapore, 21 Heng Mui Keng Terrance Level 1

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