FACT:

As a leader of a growing business you recognize the value of experienced and knowledgeable advisors to help you and your team navigate a complex business environment. A great advisor can provide you with advice, introductions, investment, social proof, access to new markets, and more.

DILEMMA:

How to find great advisors, and why would they want to help me? How to tell if an advisor is any good? A poor advisor can also be a waste of your time and resources...

SOLUTION:

Connect, meet Mark Coopersmith - Advisor to DirecTV and Intel and also Adjunct Professor, Entrepreneurship at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. Learn from someone who has been there and done that from many sides of this complex issue. Understand everything you ever wanted to know about finding a great advisor.

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Have you ever wondered…

• What good advisors really do?

• Difference between advisor, advisory board, and board of directors?

• How to get the most value from advisors?

• How to find great advisors, and why would they want to help me?

• How to tell if an advisor is any good?

• Why, what and how to pay advisors?

• What to do when an advisor turns out not to deliver the hoped-for value?

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Who Will You Meet?

Mark Coopersmith, The Argonauts Group

Mark Coopersmith has spent more than 20 years launching, building and restructuring high-growth global businesses as an entrepreneur, intrapreneur and advisor, with a focus on technology, consumer brands and media. He has been a senior executive in public companies such as Sony and Newell Rubbermaid, and also held leadership roles in private companies, including as a start-up CEO. He is an advisor, advisory board member and on the Board of Directors for companies ranging from pre-revenue and early-stage ventures to global corporations such as Intel, and DirecTV. Mark is also on the faculty at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business where he lectures and mentors on Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Through his advisory firm The Argonauts Group, Mark works with executives, advisors and investors to identify new opportunities, restructure companies, and accelerate revenues for business ranging from growth stage ventures through global corporations. 

Plus Over 100 local entrepreneurs.

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Cost:

• $30 - Regular
• $40 - At the Door

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For media inquiries, please contact Luanne Teoh (luanne@iconnectlab.com)

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