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"Building a career with improved Soft
skills"
Saturday, 3rd
August 2002 at HP OAK Room
Announcement | Speakers
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Bio's
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Announcement
"Building a career with improved Soft skills - Acquire
the skills you
need to get the new job or promotion you want, even when
competition
is tough - Part II"
Earlier this year SIPA hosted a joint event with NetIP
on acquiring
soft skills. The event was a huge success.
We have been approached by many members requesting a
more interactive
session with the distinguished speakers. We have created
a round
table event where our speakers will be able to be more
interactive
with delegates and be able to present personal problems
and
experiences in order to gain practical help and advice.
It will
finish with a presentation from each group outlining their
"learns"
from this session.
As someone once said, "no man is an island"
and this is truer now
than ever before. In today's complex world, the ability
to interact
and work well with others, the capacity to clearly communicate
ideas,
the skill to sell an idea or concept and the talent to
negotiate a
desired outcome are all as important as pure technical
ability.
These factors are critical when dealing up, down and sideways
in a
organizations involved with complex technologies or bodies
of
knowledge, where one person can not possibly know or do
everything.
Being a successful leader, manager or entrepreneur is
predicated on a
competency in these areas.
This discussions will discuss intimately about some of
these new-
millennium skills that are vital for finding a new job,
retaining an
existing job and enhancing a career or business venture
as well as
dealing with ambiguity and managing conflict. Suggestions,
drawn for
real-life experiences by the speaker, will be offered
on how to
improve these skills.
"The following event is an interactive round
table meet, and members are requested to RSVP latest by
the 1st of August, Thrusday, and be present at the Oakroom
Auditorium by 3.00pm latest for the seating to be made
in their respective tables"
Speakers:
Dr.Prasad Kaipa,
Founder and CEO of SelfCorp.
Craig Silverman,
Vice President, Sales, TMP Worldwide.
Seema Handu,
Co-founder, President & CEO, PharmQuest
Agenda
- Date: Saturday, August 3, 2002
- Time: 2.00 PM to 6.00 PM
- Venue:HP, Oak Room Auditorium, 19447, Pruneridge Ave, Cupertino, CA.
- Fee: Free for SIPA and NetIP members, $10 for
non-members.
| Registration & Networking |
2.00 - 2.30 pm |
| pm Round Tables Discussions
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2.30 - 5.30 |
LocationHP, Oak Room Auditorium, 19447, Pruneridge Ave, Cupertino, CA.
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Dr.
Prasad Kaipa,
Founder and CEO,
SelfCorp.
Prasad Kaipa is the founder and CEO of SelfCorp.
At SelfCorp, Prasad
is developing approaches and tools that allows executives
to `map the
genetic code of organizations' so that they can
`re-wire' their
organizations for superior performance. These tools
can also be used
for mapping future scenarios, assess success factors
in mergers and
acquisitions as well as for developing personal
strategies. Cisco and
HP have worked recently with Prasad in developing
knowledge business
models for creating a new business and in coming
up with unique,
brandable product design that is consistent with
their culture.
Prasad has a doctorate in Physics and helped build
an international
radiation research laboratory in the University
of Utah with Dr. Ed
Haskell. Prasad also worked as an educator/researcher
(Saybrook
Institute, as an international product marketing
manager and a
technology advisor at Apple and received several
awards for his
contributions. Prasad is currently on the board
of directors/advisors
for Aankhen inc., Intertec Communications, Spirit
of India.com,
Partnerships for Change, Athena Interactive, Communities
for the
Future, DannemillerTyson Associates, Chinmaya Institute
of Higher
Learning and Gatherings for Ecoculture.
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Craig
Silverman,
Regional Vice President of Sales,
TMP Worldwide.
Craig recently joined TMP Worldwide,
eResourcing as their Western
Regional Vice President of Sales. He is responsible
for a $40M
IT Services and Outsourcing division with over 300
employees. Prior
to TMP, Craig was with Hall Kinion (HK) for 6 years
as Executive Vice
President and was in charge if the international
Recruiting Services
division, executive search, training, and corporate
marketing. He was
successful in growing the HK technical recruiting
business from
annual revenues of $30M to $296M while opening 40
new sales offices,
and hiring 400 recruiters. During this time, Craig
was an active
member of the HK executive team helping with the
company IPO (HAKI on
NASDAQ) in August of 1997 and with the due diligence
and integration
of five acquisitions. Craig spent six years as vice
president of
sales & strategic consulting with Strategic
Mapping, Inc. -- a
leading developer of GIS software and data for business
applications
from 1989 –1996. During his time with the company
he grew software
sales from $1M to $25M, and headcount grew from
10 people to over 250.
Craig's professional sales and sales management
career spans 16
years. During this time he has amassed substantial
experience in
building sales, marketing, recruiting, hiring, training,
and
motivating. Craig is considered to be an expert
on the staffing
industry and recruiting market trends. He has been
often quoted by
the press in publications such as USA Today, San
Francisco Business
Journal, Silicon Valley Business Ink, Fortune.com,
Knowledge
Management Magazine, Staffing Industry Report, and
Purple Squirrel.
Craig has been invited to speak regularly to groups
such as the
Churchill Club, NACCB, and the Software Publisher's
Association.
He attended the University of Texas at Austin and
recently completed
the Harvard Business School OPM Key Executive Program.
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Seema
Handu,
President & Chief Executive
Officer,
PharmQuest.
Seema Handu, Ph.D., is a co-founder,
President & Chief Executive
Officer at PharmQuest. Prior to PharmQuest, she
was a drug
development consultant and a scientist in the Pharmaceutical
industry
for over 10 years. For two years in a row, the Forum
for Women
Entrepreneurs awarded Dr. Handu with the distinguished
Trailblazer
Award in recognition of her entrepreneurial accomplishments
and
selected her for executive training in the NextGen
CEO program.
Dr. Handu has also played an active leadership role
at the American
Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS).
Dr. Handu was also
a founder of the Enterprising Pharmaceutical Professionals
from the
Indian subContinent (EPPIC), a 300 member organization
geared towards
providing an environment that promotes networking
and entrepreneurial
mentoring for professionals from the Indian subcontinent
in the
pharmaceutical, biotechnology and related industries.
EPPIC has
chapters in Bangalore and Hyderabad. She holds a
B.Pharm. from M.S.
University, Baroda and a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutics
from the University
of Iowa, Iowa City.
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