WHEN? Saturday, April 3, 2004
WHAT ? Panel Discussion
TITLE: Creating Opportunities through Professional Networking: How ?
HOW MUCH ? Free event with complimentary coffee and cookies
3 REASONS WHY YOU CAN'T MISS IT:
* You will meet the speakers from Technology Entrepreneurship, Private Equity Investment, Academia and more...
* You will learn how to get a job, change your career or start a company
* You will network with engineers, technologists, doctors, bankers, managers, senior executives, social workers and more
BLURB:
The panel will explore different ways networking has created career and business opportunities for our panelists. It aims to bring into discussion the value of such networking seen in diverse range of fields (like Entrepreneurship, Academia, Banking etc) and at different levels of experience (a student looking for a job, a professional thinking of a career change, an engineer planning to take an entrepreneurial dive etc).
SPEAKERS:
* Abhaya Shrestha, Vice President, Behrman Capital, New York
* Sanjay Manandhar, Chief Technology Officer, Intellisign, Ireland
* Shiva Prasad Gautam, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
MODERATOR:
* Saubhagya Shah, Doctoral Fellow, Harvard University
AGENDA:
12:00 pm - Registration, Networking and COFFEE
12:45 pm - PDN Group and Speakers Introduction
1:00 pm - Speakers Presentation
2:00 pm - Panel discussion (Moderated)
2:15 pm - Q & A from Audience
2:25 pm - More Networking (Bring your business card, email or phone number)
WHERE ?
MIT Tang Center, E51-376
70 Memorial Drive,
Cambridge, MA 02139
PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:
http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=E51&Buildings=go. E-51 is at the corner of Amherst and Wadsworth Streets. The Kendall Square station, on the red line of the MBTA, is a quick walk away from building E51. It is also the recommended option for getting to the this event.
QUESTIONS ?
Dibesh Karmacharya: dibesh.karmacharya@amersham.com
Sworupa Khadka: sworupa@hotmail.com
Shailendra Yadav: yadav@mit.edu
About PDN-Boston:
PDN-Boston, an initiative of GBNC (Greater Boston Nepali Community), was launched in late 2003 to bring together extremely diverse group of Nepali professionals, entrepreneurs and students, to different forums, to:
1. Form a network of Nepali Professionals and facilitate discussions on various topics
2. Create career and business opportunities through membership and participation
3. Create mentoring opportunities for Nepali students, for making transition into "real" world
4. Capitalize on growing Nepali social networks to expand them into future professional network
Abhaya Shrestha, Vice President, Behrman Capital
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Abhaya Shrestha joined Behrman Capital in August 1998 as an Associate. Prior to that, he was a Financial Analyst in Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc.’s Technology Investment Banking Group, where he worked on strategic advisory and corporate finance assignments for technology companies. He currently serves on the boards of ADVENTIS Corporation and ACS Communications, Inc. Mr. Shrestha graduated with honors from Amherst College in 1996 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Computer Science and Economics.
Sanjay Manandhar, Chief Technology Officer, Intellisign
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Sanjay brings experiences in technology, finance and business in helping young
companies in an executive management capacity. Currently, he is CTO and member
of the Board of an Irish wireless applications company and has other startup
interests in the Boston area.Sanjay’s early career was in developing software
solutions both in product and advanced development teams of various companies
like Sun Microsystems, Olivetti, NYNEX, Siemens. Sanjay’s specialism was in
speech/telephony, data networks and IP-based server technologies. In 1994, he
took a break to set up the first and second ISP in Nepal, which were works that
went from concept to launch and operation within 3 months. Both the companies
are still in operation today. Sanjay also has international finance experience
from working in technology investments both in public markets as well as in
venture capital in London. Later, as VP of Innovation of a UK technology
company, Sanjay took the responsibility of building the Innovation Centre and
conceived the themes and built the teams that created solutions in wireless
applications, search-and-retrieval, natural language and 3D characterization.
He has a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from
MIT and a Master’s degree from MIT Media Lab and an MBA from INSEAD.
Shiva Prasad Gautam, Assistant Professor, Harvarad Medical School
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Dr. Gautam is Biostatistician by profession. Currently, he is an Assistant
Professor at Harvard Med School, and Biostatistics Director of
Harvard-Thorndike Clinical Research Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical
Center. Prior to joining Harvard, he was an Associate Professor at Vanderbilt
University. He was also in the faculty at Vermont University and Northeaster
Ohio Universities College of Medicine. He received his PhD in statistics in
1991 from U of Texas, Dallas and Post Doc from Medical University of South
Carolina. He received his undergraduate degree from Nepal. He has taught at
Pokhara, Kirtipur, Biratnagar and Min Bhawan campuses of Tribhuvan University.
He actually started his teaching career at an elementary school in Morang. He
has taught at a High school in Bhojpur too.
Saubhagya Shah, Doctoral Fellow, Harvard University
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Saubhagya is an eighth year Ph.D. student in the Anthropology department. His
research examines the interface between local experiences of global political
and economic processes through the prism of a women’s social movement in
southeast Nepal. He is studying the relationship between a rural women’s civic
organization, the Nepali state and an international development organization.
His project analyzes the local reception, reaction and resistance to larger
national and international processes and discourses of development, democracy
and the free market. He is interested in the roles of international
nongovernmental organizations and civil society organizations in the Third
World. Prior to his Ph.D. program, he taught sociology at Tribhuvan University
in Kathmandu after having been a newspaper journalist and development
consultant in Nepal.
Shakun Karki, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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Shakun Karki has been working at Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Medical Oncology Department since fall 2002. She received her MS in Nutrition from University of New Hampshire.
She has been involved in cutting edge research in Glioblastoma and other primary brain tumors, as well as other CNS diseases like Alzheimer's. Beside Dana Farber, she is in a process of opening new sister institute which will focus on the pipeline of the research, starting from in-vitro, in-vivo, clinical to drug discovery, focusing on four prevalent cancers Multiple Mylenoma, Pancreatic, lung and glioblastoma. She is also involved in process of establishing a neuronal stem cell core facility.
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