Pizza with M&T Grad Fellow Kunal Gupta – 11/14, 5 pm, JMHH F96
Do you know what field you want to go into after your M&T experience? Do you really know about investment banking, asset management, private equity, hedge fund, and venture capital? Do you feel lost at alumni and networking events when people talk in detail about all the fields out there? Then come and chat with M&T alum and MBA student Kunal Gupta to learn more in detail about all these fields. Have all your questions answered about what people in these fields actually do.
The event will take place in F96 from 5:00-6:00PM on Monday, Nov. 14th. Pizza and drinks will be served! RSVP HERE!
BBL with Steve Heyman (CTO and Co-Founder, Dynamic Signal, Inc.) – 11/15, 12 pm, M&T Office
Come to the M&T Office at 12pm 11/15, to have lunch with Steve Heyman. RSPV HERE.
Steve is a veteran of five startups in the Internet Media space. Steve’s latest role is the CTO and Co-Founder Dynamic Signal, Inc., an early stage VC-backed startup. He is responsible for development of the Dynamic Signal product and for setting the company’s technology vision and standards. Steve’s experience includes leading the engineering team as CTO at Adify, an online ad platform, which was sold to Cox Enterprises for $300MM in 2008. Prior to Adify, Mr. Heyman was Chief Architect of the Yahoo! Music Engine product. As Director of Special Projects at comScore, he developed their survey system and client-side software platform. Steve served as CTO for Freeport, a startup focusing on small business marketing applications and began his career at Flycast Communications as one of the senior engineers on the ad server development team, where he later became the Director of Server Development. Steve is a Penn M&T Alum and holds a B.S.E. (cum laude) in Electrical Engineering from the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and a B.S (cum laude) in Finance from the Wharton School.
BBL with Jeff Horing (MD, Insight Venture Partners) – 11/17, 12 pm, M&T Office
Come to the M&T Office at 12pm 11/15, to have lunch with Jeff Horing.RSPV HERE.
Jeff Horing is a Managing Director at Insight Venture Partners which he co-founded in 1995. Under his leadership Insight has become the leading private equity firm focused on growth investments in software and internet businesses, with $3 billion under management. Mr. Horing’s areas of focus include mobile, online gaming, data, infrastructure and internet software. Mr. Horing is a former member of the board of directors of Airborne Entertainment (acquired by Cybird Co.), CTSpace (acquired by Sword Group), Beechwood Data Systems (acquired by The Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Group), Greenfield Online (NASDAQ: SRVY, acquired by Microsoft), Hitwise (acquired by Experian Group Limited), IAG Research (acquired by The Nielsen Company), Promira Software (acquired by Manugistics), Shunra Software (WAN emulation), SLP Infoware (acquired by Gemplus) and Xchange (NASDAQ: EXAP).
Mr. Horing currently serves on the board of directors of Datacore Software (storage virtualization), GFI/Teamviewer (security & messaging/remote desktop collaboration), Jagex Ltd (online gaming), Mentez (publisher of online social games), 6Waves (publisher of online social games) and SolarWinds (NYSE: SWI) (network monitoring).
Prior to founding Insight, Jeff Horing was a member of the technology investing team at Warburg, Pincus. Earlier in his career he worked at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in the Capital Markets group.
Mr. Horing holds an MBA from the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management. He has dual undergraduate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School of Engineering and Wharton School, where he graduated with high honors and was Phi Beta Kappa.
