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Julie Pearl
Patti Wilson
Chance Curtiss
Ruth Fischer
Chris McKay
Moderator: Don Steiny
The issue
of "offshoring" is one that is on everyone's lips. How can we meet the
challenge of change economic times?
CCAN's panels are different than many Silicon Valley panel
discussions. The emphasis is on "disucssion" and usually the audience
becomes as involved as the panel. The panels are selected to have
differing points of view, so the result is a dialog where real insight
can happen. The underlying theme is about opportunity, opportunities
for investors, for entrepreneurs and for businesses.
This panel has a mix of top Silicon Valley people with different angles
on the economic changes taking place in Silicon Valley. Come and join
in on a converstation that can lead to action and opportunity.
The Panelists
Julie Pearl -
Julie graduated from law school in 1987, working in politics and
business law for seven years before concentrating on Global Mobility
law. She co-founded the firm in 1994 with Alan Nelson, who headed the
U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) for eight years.
Based on Julie's leadership in legal strategies and pioneering technology,
the firm ranked #210 on the Inc. 500 List of Fastest Growing Companies
in America (Inc. Magazine, 10/02), and #11 among the Fastest Growing
Companies in the Bay Area (S.F. Business Times, 09/02). Most recently,
the firm was listed as the top woman-owned law firm in the Bay Area and
one of the Top-20 Women-Owned Companies in San Francisco (S.F. Business
Times, 09/03).
Julie is passionate about learning and teaching all there is to know
about business immigration. She has served as Co-Chair and Faculty
of the Business Immigration Institute as well as Vice Chair of the
American Bar Association's Immigration Subcommittee. She has been
invited by government agencies to lead several Corporate Day tours and
training sessions for legal and HR professionals from over 100 companies.
Julie has also spoken on immigration topics for dozens of human resources,
legal, and business organizations.
Her awards include an American Jurisprudence Award in Negotiation,
a Rotary International Graduate Fellowship Award and the American Bar
Association's Client Counseling Competition (where she ranked #2 in
the U.S.). Julie is a biographee in Who's Who in American Law and Who's
Who of American Women. She has lived in five countries and speaks three
languages (Spanish, French and English).
Chance J. Curtiss -
Mr. Curtiss began his career Young & Rubicam Advertising (Y&R) San
Francisco. Post a one year engagement at the NASA/Ames Technology
Commercialization Center (NATCC,) where he focused on emerging
technologies, Curtiss served as Director and Vice President of
international sales and marketing for the award winning new media
consulting company, BPG Inc. Curtiss operated a global sales force with
offices located in Mexico, Seoul, Manila and Japan. Under his direction
the company was recognized as one of the top 15 fastest growing media
and technology companies in the Silicon Valley and was ranked Top 100
contract producers in the United States by Hope Reports.
In 1997 Curtiss preempted the global market opportunity offered by
the emerging Generation-Y demographic. In conjunction with Nickelodeon
creator Dr. Vivian Horner and former President of BBC North America,
Sarah Frank and IBM his company would be among the first to develop a
secure content aggregation and distribution network setting the ground
work for President Bush's DOT.KID initiative.
In 1999 Curtiss co-founded a Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati
(WSGR) funded business-to-business financial services exchange called
WorkComp.com. WCC was sold to InsureTrade Inc. in 2001.
Most recently Curtiss joined Keane, Inc. AMEX (KEA) a 38-year old IT
company focused on providing onshore, near shore and offshore application
plan, build and manage solutions to Global 2000 companies.
Mr. Curtiss is a 4th generation Silicon Valley native. He holds a BA
in Advertising and Business from San Jose State University and an MBA
from St. Mary's College Graduate School of Business.
Ruth Fisher, Ph.D. -
Ruth Fisher, Ph.D., is founder and principal of QuantAA, a business
consulting firm that utilizes economic principles to conduct rigorous
quantitative assessments and analyses to maximize businesses' profit
potential. She has helped clients to assess various aspects of their
business operations and to quantify past, present, and future sales,
costs and profits. The information she has provided her clients has
enabled them to make better decisions and to achieve greater profits.
Previous to founding QuantAA, Dr. Fisher spent seven years working with
the premiere economic and management consulting firms, Putnam, Hayes & Bartlett, Inc. and Charles River Associates, Inc. During that time
she worked on cases involving infringement of intellectual property,
licensing disputes, and breaches of contract, including Supreme Corq v.
Nomaco, Supreme Corq v. Neocork, BTG v. Qualcomm, Ericsson v. Qualcomm,
Emory University v. Glaxo Wellcome, Osband v. United, Hot Key v.
Pinnacle, Ortho Pharmaceutical v. Amgen, and Entergy Arkansas v. Union
Pacific Railroad. For these clients, Dr. Fisher oversaw research of
the relevant markets, she directed analyses of both public and private
economic and financial data, she prepared expert reports on damages due
to lost profits, and she rebutted opposing parties' analyses. In every
case in which her analyses were utilized, Dr. Fisher's calculations
resulted in very favorable results for the client.
Dr. Fisher holds a B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania
and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago.
Patti Wilson -
Patti Wilson has counseled and coached literally thousands of Bay Area
professionals to pro-actively choose the perfect career, find the right
job and thrive successfully in any corporate culture. Her fort is the
high technology industry in Silicon Valley.
She is a certified Behaviorial Interviewing Trainer by Behaviordyne Inc.
In July 2001, she founded an innovative an online job and career
networking and support group for high tech and bio tech professionals
called the Wednesdayjobgroup. It has now grown to more than 1500 members
nationwide and is the largest unaffiliated online career and job group
of its kind.
Background Summary
Masters in Career Development, emphasis in Clinical
Psychology, John F Kennedy University.s School of Management.
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Academie des Beaux Arts, Liege, Belgium.
Author of the job search manual and Career Consultant to ResumeMaker
software by Individual Software, 1991.
Certified Corporate Behavioral Interviewing Trainer, Behavioral
Technologies, 1994.
Manager at Apple Computer, AMD, and Sun Microsystems Assistant Director
of Career Services at Santa Clara University.
Manager at the Career Action Center. Authored the manual for the
first version of Individual Software's
Resumemaker Software.
Chris McKay -
Chris is bringing his manufacturing from China to California. He now is
making the only US assembled watch in the world. Components are made in
China, Switzerland and the US, with finally assembly and packaging done
here. The numbers add up, it is easier to protect his patents and the
marketing is priceless.
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