Endeavor

8 VINNIE LAURIA Managing Partner, Golden Gate Ventures Singapore Vinnie Lauria is an entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is a Managing Partner at Golden Gate Ventures, and a Kauffman Fellow. Additionally, he is an active mentor and advisor to startups around the globe through organizations such as the Founder's Institute. He is a mentor and guest lecturer at the National University of Singapore. Prior to setting up Golden Gate Ventures in Singapore, Vinnie built two startups in Silicon Valley: Meetro.com, a location-based chat service which was dissolved with many lessons learned in 2007; and Lefora.com, a hosted forum service which grew to over 100,000+ communities and was acquired by CrowdGather in 2010. In 2006, Vinnie founded the Silicon Valley NewTech Meetup, which has featured over 300 startups to a monthly audience with thousands of followers. PENG ONG Managing Partner, Monk's Hill Ventures Singapore Peng T. Ong is a Managing Partner at Monk's Hill Ventures, a tech venture fund investing in post-seed stage startups in Southeast Asia. Peng was the co-founder and CTO of Match. com (acquired by IAC). After Match.com, he founded Interwoven, the leading provider of content infrastructure, which went public on NASDAQ and grew to a $10B market cap, before being acquired by HP. After Interwoven, Peng founded Encentuate (acquired by IBM). The businesses he created now generate annual revenues of over US$1 billion in total. Most recently, Peng was a Partner at GSR Ventures, a leading VC in China. He was also on the chair of Infocomm Investments and was the Chairman of Jungle Ventures. FERISH PATEL Corporate Partner, Gunderson Dettmer Singapore JONATHAN PENTZIEN Corporate Partner, Gunderson Dettmer LLP Singapore Ferish Patel is a corporate partner with Gunderson Dettmer's Singapore office. Ferish advises on venture- and private equity-financings, M&A transactions and capital markets offerings. For over 13 years, Ferish has led transactions in Asia (China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam) and the United States. He has practiced in New York, India, Hong Kong and Singapore, and has been based in Asia for the last seven years. He started his career at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, in New York, and was seconded to Amarchand Mangaldas and AZB & Partners in Mumbai. Ferish speaks English, Gujarati and Hindi, and he is a member of the bars of Hong Kong and the State of New York. Jon Pentzien is a corporate partner with Gunderson Dettmer LLP, based in the firm's Singapore office. He represents global emerging growth technology companies throughout their lifecycles, and the venture capital and growth equity funds that invest in those companies. Jon has provided counsel on numerous public and private cross-border transactions in India, Singapore, the UAE, China, England and the United States, including U.S.-listed initial public offerings of foreign private issuers (FPIs) and domestic issuers, private securities offerings, acquisition finance transactions, and mergers and acquisitions. He also advises his clients on matters of corporate governance, public disclosure, and executive compensation.

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