SVASE CleanTech BIG - how new Battery & PVC technologies will turbocharge energy, autos.

SVASE CleanTech BIG - how new Battery & PVC technologies will
turbocharge energy, autos.

Start: 09/18/2008 - 6:00pm
End: 09/18/2008 - 8:30pm

WHAT: SVASE CleanTech BIG - how new Battery & PVC technologies
will turbocharge energy, autos.

URL:-www.svase.org/?q=node/1564

WHEN: Thursday, September 18
6:00 - 7:00 pm: Networking and Business Showcase
7:00 - 8:15 pm: Round table panel discussion and Q/A
8:15 - 8:30 pm: Additional networking

WHERE: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP, 3175 Hanover Street, Palo
Alto, CA 94304

WALK-IN RATES: Add $10.00 to the folowing prices

PRE-REGISTERED RATES (All Rates Include Hors Doeuvres):

Members - $20; Affiliates who advertise this event - $29;
General Public - $49;

Business Showcase Exhibit Table  member rate: $149; non-member
rate: $375
(Includes exhibit table and two tickets to the event.)

Solar Electric Energy demand has grown consistently by 20-25%
per annum over the past 20 years. This has been against a
backdrop of rapidly declining costs and prices. Next generation
solar technologies will deliver even higher efficiencies, and
next generation batteries may finally deliver on the promise by
providing effective ways to store energy for use when the sun
isnt shining.

Today, the global market for "large and advanced" batteries is
$8.9 billion. That is expected to increase an average of 5.1%
annually to $11.4 billion by 2012, according to the report.

Next to experimental new research, the largest increase in the
market is projected to come from hybrid electric vehicles,
including plug-in vehicles. This segment of the market is
expected to grow from $789 million to $1.5 billion, an increase
of 14.3%.

This is another example of growth industries that are
benefitting from the green revolution. Both Barack Obama and
Hillary Clinton have proposed programs that would increase
research and development on green technologies and a new "green
collar" workforce. Republican candidates have also talked about
the potential of creating jobs through energy investments,
though with less specificity or allegiance to clean and
renewable fuel technology.

Come and participate in a lively panel discussion on the pros,
cons and opportunities of next generation PVC and battery
technologies!

The Panel - see below for bios:
ï¾·Next Generation Battery development
ï¾·Rajeeva Lahri, Founder & CEO, Signet Solar
ï¾·David Edwards, Partner, CleanTech Team, VantagePoint Venture
Partners
ï¾·Mamoon Hamid, Principal, CleanTech Team, US Venture Partners
ï¾·Legal aspect & Moderator - Frank F. Rahmani, Partner, Cooley
Godward Kronish, LLP

This event is co-sponsored by Cooley Godward Kronish LLP.
Cooley Godward Kronish LLP

Speaker Bios
Dave Edwards, Partner, CleanTech Team, VantagePoint Venture
Partners
Dave joined VantagePoint from Morgan Stanley where he was an
equity research analyst with a focus that spanned the solar,
wind, efficiency, emission reduction, storage, biofuels and
energy biotech markets. Previously, Dave was a partner at
ThinkEquity Partners and founder of the firms CleanTech
practice. He also served as a buy-side analyst for a hedge fund
and as a partner for Charles River Ventures. Dave also worked
in project finance at Kenetech Windpower and product management
at Apple Computer and Macromedia. He received a BA from Yale
University.

Rajeeva Lahri, Founder, President & CEO, Signet Solar
Rajeeva Lahri has over 25 years of experience in the
semiconductor industry, focusing primarily on technology and
operations. Most recently, Rajeeva was CTO and Executive VP of
Worldwide Operations at Intersil Corporation, a leading
manufacturer of high performance analog semiconductors. He was
key in transforming Intersil into a high performance analog
product company with significant improvement in operating
performance. Prior to Intersil Corporation, Dr. Lahri had
served in many operational and technology leadership positions:
Senior VP of Technology and Operations at Elantec (acquired by
Intersil Corp), Deputy CTO of Philips Semiconductors, and
Senior VP of Corporate Technology for VLSI Technology Inc
(acquired by Philips). Prior to those, he held various
management and technical positions at National Semiconductor
and Hewlett Packard. Dr. Lahri holds a MS degree in Physics and
a Master of Technology degree in Materials Science, both from
the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, India. In
addition, Dr. Lahri holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
from State University of New York at Buffalo, New York. Rajeeva
is a charter member of TiE, and a founder of Fab Owners
Association (FOA; www.waferfabs.org), a forum for semiconductor
fabrication owners to discuss and act on specific semiconductor
manufacturing issues in a cooperative environment.

Mamoon Hamid, Principal, CleanTech Team, US Venture Partners
Working at USVP combines Mamoon Hamid's three passions:
technology, people and building businesses.

Mamoon joined USVP in 2005 and became a Principal in 2008. He
has 11 years of experience building and investing in high
growth technology businesses. His investment interests lie in
IT and Cleantech areas. Mamoon led USVP's investments in
box.net, and serves on the company's Board of Directors. He is
actively involved with USVP portfolio companies: Optichron,
Supplyframe and Zannel. He is also an advisor to Yelp.

Prior to joining USVP, Mamoon spent seven years at Xilinx
(XLNX) in various marketing management and engineering roles.
He was responsible for defining and implementing sales and
marketing strategies that grew the company's consumer
electronics and automotive market segment revenues five-fold to
$100 million in a span of three years. As a System Architect at
Xilinx, Mamoon was responsible for evangelizing the role of
Xilinx technology in emerging markets and prior to that, as an
applications engineer, he designed performance and cost
optimized FPGAs which led to key design wins for the company.
Previously, Mamoon has also worked for Deutsche Bank.

Mamoon holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Purdue
University (graduated at age 19), an MS in Management Science &
Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from the
Harvard Business School.

Frank F. Rahmani, Partner, Cooley Godward Kronish, LLP

Frank F. Rahmani is a partner in the Cooley Godward Kronish
Business department. Resident in the Palo Alto office, he has
been with the Firm since 1997.

Mr. Rahmani has a general business and corporate law practice
with an emphasis in the representation of emerging growth
companies, intellectual property transactions, securities
transactions, including private and public financing, and
mergers and acquisitions.

Mr. Rahmani has counseled companies, entrepreneurs and
investors in a broad range of matters including start-up
formation and spin-off transactions, assistance with obtaining
early stage financing, technology acquisition and licensing
matters, to later stage financings, strategic and commercial
relationships, variety of public offerings and mergers and
acquisitions.
Mr. Rahmani counsels companies in a wide range of industries
including medical devices and life sciences, software,
semiconductor and telecommunication equipment.

Mr. Rahmani received a J.D., from Santa Clara University School
of Law in 1997, where he was on the Deans List and was a
representative to the American Bar Association. He received a
business degree from Santa Clara University.
Prior to joining Cooley, Mr. Rahmani was an analyst with Intel
Corporation working with the corporate finance and worldwide
sales organizations.

Mr. Rahmani is a member of the State Bar of California.