Silicon Valley Indian Professionals Association (SIPA) invites you to our monthly event on April 24, 2004.

The market is still volatile and we see stock market going up and down everyday. Will the job market be better this year? Will the Valley Economy rebound this year? Are we going to see lot of companies hiring IT professionals this year?

Are you wondering where the VC funds are flowing these days?

Would you like to know which is the next hot technology and where the career opportunities are?

Our April event will provide you an insight from leading academic industry experts about the future trends of technology, career opportunities and deal flow patterns

You will find answers to some of your questions like.

- Economy Review and what it means to us?
- What are the current technology trends?
- Where is the technology investment going?
- What ideas the VCs are funding?
- What are the successful companies doing?
- What skill-sets are currently or soon to be in demand?

Please join us for this months event as our panel of experts reviews the economy in Silicon Valley and shares opinions on the current business environment and what's to come in 2004.

Vish joined Clearstone in March 2002 with over 30 years of leadership and management experience in the high tech industry including software, Internet, networking and telecommunications. He is a founder and served as a board member of Telera, a cutting edge voice web infrastructure company funded by Accel and Sequoia, which was sold to Alcatel for $140 million in 2002. Vish was also co-founder of Excelan (1983), which was funded with $7.3 million in venture capital, went public in 1987, sold for $225 million in 1989 and went on to contribute $1 billion to Novell’s revenue in subsequent years.
Vish prides himself in being a mentor capitalist who sits or has sat on boards of many venture-backed companies such as Abeama, Cofix, Onjibe, PostMedia Group, Quantros, Ramp Networks (sold to Nokia), SloMedia, Verano, and Xalted IP Networks. His prior experience includes founding VP of Operations of Excelan and VP Novell and EVP of iPlanet (a unit of Sun Microsystems and AOL), and CEO of four start-ups: Info-Objects, Mindworks, IntelliMatch and Ace Software.
Vish holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the Institute of Technology at Benares Hindu University, an MS in Electrical Engineering from North Dakota State University and MBA work from the University of Minnesota. He is a very active Director and Charter Member of TiE who has dedicated himself to the growth of the organization since its inception.
Vish's focus at Clearstone is deal flow, syndicate networking, portfolio company support and executive coaching. His vast network in Silicon Valley, extended globally through TiE, is an invaluable asset to entrepreneurs and to us. Vish serves on the board of IntegriNautics.

Michael Solt is Professor of Finance of San Jose State University since 1995. He is also visiting professor for California State University, Hayward's Singapore Executive MBA Program, University of Paris XII, Paris, France, Business management program, Business Management. Program, Shanghai, P.R.C, Ecole Superieure de Commmerce, Rouen, France and Indiana University. Micheal published 23 articles in refereed and professional journals. He got his Doctor and Master in Business Administration from Indiana University and Bachelor of Science from Ohio State University.