Overview

This training seminar is geared towards new entrepreneurs in business or who aspire to be entrepreneurs and want to start their own high tech business. The 3-days training seminar covers, mainly, key functional areas of an enterprise where the top management must make decisions that could have serious consequences for the success and failure of the company. In most cases, during the training seminar, it is assumed that each participant is a member of the management team of a corporation. Discussion therefore will mainly focus on decision making process, involving all facets of business. Each attendee is expected to be an active participant for their own benefit and for the benefit of others.

Knowing well that the participants in this training seminar will have some technical and or business background, Dr. Akram Chowdry will emphasize the role of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and a founder in the company and how his or her decisions could impact the performance of all departments of the corporation. Furthermore, how a CEO and other key managers must be aware of the relationship and inter-dependence of market environments, product development, manufacturing, financial matters, technical support and related services.

The content of this 3-days training seminar will entail real life examples with emphasis on high tech industry. Instead of theoretical discussions on various topics, Dr. Akram Chowdry and the participants will get involved by offering their perspective, arguments and logic when addressing a real life business problem.

Objective of Training

After attending the training, you will be able to:

1. Elevate and sharpen the thinking and acting process of recognising needs as well as developing a plan to execution to meet the needs.
2. To gain insight and understanding on how to take advantage of any window of opportunity and compete in the market.
3. To identify the risks involved in starting and managing a new venture for the founders, investors and others.
4. Develop a proper business plan, learn about team building, fund raising, product development and marketing, managing all facets of operations, personnel matters, financial and legal matters, and harvesting the rewards of risk and sweat equity.

Who Should Attend

• CEO’s and Managing Directors • CFO’s and Finance Professionals • Sales and Marketing Managers • Business Development Managers • Investment Bankers and Financial Analysts • Academicians and MBA Students • Government and Research Agencies • Industrialist and Entrepreneurs.

Speaker's Background

The unique combination of academic qualification, teaching and business experience of Dr. Chowdry will enable him to share his experience as entrepreneur in USA. After getting his doctorate from UC Berkeley he was a professor of business at San Jose State University, California. After teaching for a few years, he decided to try his luck as an entrepreneur and started a computer manufacturing company (Prime Circuit Technology) by borrowing $25,000 against his house in 1983. At that time, he was the first and only Pakistani who was founder, CEO of such an enterprise in Silicon Valley,.

Later, he acquired Mylex Computer Corporation, a product company. He remained the CEO and Chairman of Mylex for almost 10 years. Mylex was publicly traded company (NASDAQ). In 1998 Mylex was acquired by IBM for over $500 million, with its revenues over $250,000,000.

Mylex was the first company in the world that introduced cache memory on a 386 motherboard. It was again the first company that introduced, SCSI controller with CPU and cache and state-of-the-art software suite for networking. In 1992, Mylex introduced RAID technology for storage area networks with complete hardware, firmware and software package. The technology was so advanced and timely that Mylex customers included IBM, HP, Intel, Siemens, DEC, Sony, NEC, AST, Acer and Samsung.

In 1991, US NEWS & World Report conducted a survey of thousands of small public companies in USA. Mylex was ranked # 1 in overall performance and stock appreciation.

For the last few years, Dr. Chowdry has been a General Partner of High-Tech Venture Capital Fund located in the Silicon Valley of California. He has tremendous experience of being on both sides of the funding equation. He is a charter member, and was member of the board of directors of TIE (The Indus Entrepreneurs www.tie.org) and has been involved in mentoring start-ups in Silicon Valley. As CEO of Mylex, Dr. Chowdry traveled all over the world,

In the past, he volunteered to teach entrepreneurship and venture capital at LUMS, Pakistan and TISBI in Kazan, Russia, KIMEP in Almaty, Malaysia Telekom and Kuwait Finance house in Bahrain. He made presentations at OIC conferences in Malaysia and Pakistan.

It is a great opportunity to learn from his vast experience and knowledge in this field. It is important to know that the major of Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital are fastest growing fields in USA and Europe.

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