Every
software company faces the need to obtain funding for start up
funds or to grow the business. There are more than 45 different
alternatives management can consider using to meet their funding
needs. This is your opportunity to learn about sources you never
knew existed.
Topics
will include:
* Advantages and disadvantages of each type of funding
* Company characteristics necessary to obtain the funding
* Documentation necessary to obtain the funding and
* Key factors to consider when raising capital.
Panelists:
Moderator: Blase Dillingham, Parnter of Manatt,
Phelps & Phillips
About
the Panel
John Isaacson,
Director of Pasadena Angels
John Isaacson is a Director of the Pasadena Angels and serves
on the board of Bluebeam Software, an Angel-funded company. John
has been an investment manager for thrirty years in New York and
Los Angeles. He has managed both equity and fixed income portfolios
and as Chief Investment Officer of Payden & Rygel was responsible
for the developing and managing high-yield and emerging market
investment teams. He has undergraduate degree in graduate degrees
in economics from MIT and Yale University and is a Chartered Financial
Analyst. He resides in Brentwood.
Gregg Marston,
CFO of Foundstone
Gregg Marston, chief financial officer, brings more than 28 years
of financial and accounting experience to Foundstone. He joined
the company as vice president and corporate controller before
becoming CFO. Marston used his venture capital and industry contacts
to successfully close $25.0 million in venture and corporate funding.
Marston’s talents include mergers and acquisitions, capital
raising, SEC compliance, profit planning, cash management, and
procedural controls with high technology businesses in a variety
of industries. Prior to Foundstone, he was director of finance
for Games2Learn.com. There he was a key member of the management
team that repositioned the direct-response marketer of The Phonics
Game into an e-commerce company that distributed over 4,500 educational
products through five warehouses.
Marston served
as vice president of finance at Intek Global, the fourth largest
distributor of radio products in the U.S. Through a reverse acquisition,
he was instrumental in creating the publicly held, multinational
wireless communications company which raised corporate funding
from international sources. He gained additional accounting and
executive management experience at Triconex, Inc., a manufacturer
of fault-tolerant factory-control systems; at Kratos, Inc. a publicly
held, multinational manufacturer of scientific and aviation instruments;
and at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), the world's leading
management consulting and technology services company.
Marston earned
a bachelor of science degree in Industrial & Systems engineering
and a Masters Degree in Business Administration from the University
of Southern California. He is a Certified Public Accountant.
