INSEAD: Startup Night

Special Guest Speaker:

Paul Kewene-Hite Professor of Entrepreneurship, INSEAD, will be talking about entrepreneurship at 01Booster.

Event outline

Date/Time: 28th Feb, 2013 (Thur) 19:00 - 21:00

Place: 01Booster (Higashi-azabu)

Theme: "Do I have it in me to be an entrepreneur?"

Language: English

18:30 Registration
19:00 Speech and Q&A session
19:45 Networking drinks

About Paul Kewene-Hite:

INSEAD Director of the Entrepreneurship Accelerator, the Head Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EiR) as well as an Affiliate Professor of Entrepreneurship

Professor Kewene-Hite has over 23 years business experience with start-ups and major technology companies.

He actively mentors and consults to business and social entrepreneurs as well as governments and companies of all sizes. He has successfully worked in every corner of a technology company from tech support to finance to sales and business development to CEO.

He was a Technology Evangelist at Apple, and Director of Strategic Planning and New Business Development at NEC Computers. He was a venture capitalist and has served as VP, President and CEO of technology startups in the USA and Ireland.

In addition to building technology companies, he has restructured and turned around companies in Australia and the US, he has launched a new venture in China, he built a strategic plan for an initiative by the Welsh government. He has opened new markets for businesses around the world. He has been instrumental in landing hundreds of millions in revenue for companies, and he has been intimately involved in raising millions in venture capital for multiple ventures.

He has authored technology white papers and business plans, and has performed extensive business planning from full P&Ls to operations to market launches.