Ernst & Young Strategic Growth Forum®
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National sponsors
About SAP
Headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, SAP is the market leader in enterprise application software. Founded in 1972, SAP (which stands for "Systems, Applications, and Products in Data Processing") has a rich history of innovation and growth as a true industry leader. SAP applications and services enable more than 183,000 customers worldwide to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and grow sustainably. With revenue (IFRS) of €12.5 billion for the year 2010, SAP has more than 55,000 employees and sales and development locations in more than 50 countries worldwide. SAP is listed on several exchanges, including the Frankfurt stock exchange and NYSE, under the symbol "SAP."
About the Kauffman Foundation
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is a private nonpartisan foundation that works to harness the power of entrepreneurship and innovation to grow economies and improve human welfare. The Kauffman Foundation aims to open young people's eyes to the possibility of entrepreneurship, promote entrepreneurship education, raise awareness of entrepreneurship-friendly policies, and find alternative pathways for the commercialization of new knowledge and technologies.
The Foundation also focuses on initiatives in the Kansas City region to advance students’ math and science skills and improve the educational achievement of urban students. For more information, and to follow the Foundation on Facebook and Twitter, visit www.kauffman.org.
Forum sponsor
About Steelcase, Inc.
For more than 100 years, Steelcase has been bringing human insight to business by studying how people work, wherever they work. Those insights can help organizations achieve a higher level of performance, by creating places that unlock the promise of their people. Our goal is to help organizations create spaces that support how they work. Our passion is to help people love how they work.
Broadcast media sponsor
About CNBC
With CNBC World, CNBC HD+ and affiliates in the US, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific, CNBC is recognized as the world leader in business news. The company provides real-time financial market coverage and business information to approximately 390 million homes worldwide, including more than 100 million households in the US and Canada. CNBC also provides daily business updates to 400 million households across China. The network’s 16 live hours a day of business programming in North America (weekdays 4:00 a.m.–8:00 p.m. EST) is produced at CNBC’s global headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, NJ, and includes reports from CNBC News bureaus worldwide.
CNBC also has a vast portfolio of digital products that deliver real-time financial market news and information across a variety of platforms. These include CNBC.com, the online destination for global business; CNBC PRO, the premium, integrated desktop/mobile service that provides real-time global market data and live access to CNBC global programming; and a suite of CNBC Mobile products, including the CNBC Real-Time iPhone and iPad apps.
Print sponsor
About Merrill DataSite®
Merrill DataSite is a secure virtual data room (VDR) solution optimizing the due diligence process by providing an efficient and secure method for sharing key business information between multiple parties. Merrill DataSite provides unlimited access for users worldwide, as well as real-time activity reports, site-wide search at the document level, enhanced communications through the Q&A feature and superior project management service — all of which reduce transaction time and expense. Merrill DataSite’s multilingual support staff is available around the world, 24/7, and can have your VDR up and running with thousands of pages loaded within 24 hours or less. Visit www.datasite.com for more information or to schedule a demo.
Session sponsors
About Barclays
Barclays is a leading global investment bank providing large corporate, government and institutional clients with a full spectrum of solutions to their strategic advisory, financing and risk management needs. With offices around the world, employing 25,000 people, Barclays has the global reach, advisory services and distribution power to meet the needs of issuers and investors worldwide. Barclays is the investment banking division of Barclays Bank PLC, which is the major global financial services provider. With over 300 years of history and expertise in banking, Barclays operates in over 50 countries.
About Cooley LLP
With roots in Silicon Valley and an international network of offices and clients, Cooley attorneys are regarded as premier counselors to venture-backed companies striving to reach the next stage of growth by accessing the public capital markets. We regularly represent both issuers and underwriters in IPOs, follow-on offerings, PIPEs and a range of debt financings. Our issuer side practice ranks 2nd nationally based on the number of IPOs completed since 1996. In addition, we have represented investment banks as the underwriters of more than 150 offerings. Recent high-profile IPOs include Zynga, Yelp, Millennial Media and Enphase Energy as issuer counsel and LinkedIn, Tangoe, Proto Labs and Vocera Communications as underwriter counsel.
About Spencer Stuart
Spencer Stuart is one of the world’s leading executive search consulting firms. Privately held since 1956, Spencer Stuart applies its extensive knowledge of industries, functions and talent to advise select clients — ranging from major multinationals to emerging companies to nonprofit organizations — and address their leadership requirements. Through 53 offices in 29 countries and a broad range of practice groups, Spencer Stuart consultants focus on senior-level executive search, board director appointments, succession planning and in-depth senior executive management assessments. For more information on Spencer Stuart, please visit www.spencerstuart.com.
About Square 1 Bank
Square 1 Bank is a full-service commercial bank dedicated exclusively to serving the financial needs of the venture capital community and entrepreneurs in all stages of growth and expansion. Square 1’s expertise, focus and strong capital base provide solid support for its clients, offering tailored products and solutions for the particular needs of entrepreneurs. From the latest in convenient, technology-based banking to the banker you’ll know as a partner, Square 1 believes that a banking relationship should be anticipatory, responsive and active. Square 1 has offices coast to coast in Austin, Boston, Boulder, Durham, McLean, New York, San Diego, Santa Monica, Seattle and Silicon Valley. For more information, visit www.square1bank.com.
About Woodruff Sawyer
Representing over 40% of California-based IPOs that have priced since 2010, Woodruff-Sawyer is the insurance broker of choice for high-growth private, IPO & public companies. Supporting clients world-wide with effective insurance, employee benefits and risk management solutions—and especially well-known for its D&O liability and cyber-liability practices—Woodruff-Sawyer is one of the nation’s largest independent brokers.
Hospitality sponsor
About Solomon Edwards
As a national business advisory and staffing solutions firm, SolomonEdwards understands and celebrates the success of entrepreneurs. Our customized solutions provide companies with the right combination of talent and expertise to achieve their business objectives. We assist with public offering readiness and execution, transaction support and integration, business process improvement, finance and accounting optimization and regulatory compliance requirements. We operate in seven major cities and maintain a global network of partners to serve clients through business advisory, interim staffing and professional search. SolomonEdwards is not a registered public accounting firm.
