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For more information about sponsorship of ITEC, please contact ITEC Executive Director Jonathan Rosen

OUR SPONSORS

$50K Business Plan Competition Platinum Sponsor Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels LLP
Brown Rudnick is an international law firm with offices in the United States and Europe. The firm represents clients from around the world, providing business-focused solutions that address today's ever-changing, ever-demanding competitive marketplace. With an entrepreneurial and collaborative mindset, Brown Rudnick offers a broad slate of capabilities and talents in areas that include: Bankruptcy & Corporate Restructuring, Complex Litigation, Corporate & Securities, Energy, Finance, Government Law & Strategies, Health Law, Intellectual Property and Real Estate. The Brown Rudnick Center for the Public Interest is a measure of the Firm's strong commitment to the community and serves as an umbrella entity encompassing the Firm's pro bono legal work, charitable giving, community involvement and public interest efforts.

In addition to their continuing support of the $50K Business Plan Competition, Brown Rudnick sponsored an audience response system to gather input and feedback from the audience during the Business Plan Competition, as well as test knowledge and be more responsive to the audience's needs in the classroom and at other ITEC events and workshops.

$50K Business Plan Competition Gold Sponsor
With over 750 attorneys in 10 offices, Seyfarth Shaw LLP provides legal services to a range of clients, from early-stage ventures to Fortune 500 companies. Seyfarth’s Entrepreneurial Services Group, based in Boston, focuses on providing quality, low cost legal services to start-up and early-stage companies and offers coordinated, cross-practice legal expertise including corporate, intellectual property, employee benefits, labor & employment, trade secrets, real estate & litigation services.

Goodwin Procter LLP
Goodwin Procter LLP is one of the nation's leading law firms, with a team of 850 attorneys serving clients through offices in Boston, Los Angeles, New York, San Diego, San Francisco, Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C. The firm's Technology Companies Group is a highly focused team of 160 lawyers who provide dedicated representation to over 500 emerging companies and entrepreneurs, 200 venture capital and private equity firms, and many of the leading investment banks in the country. Goodwin Procter takes pride in understanding its clients' businesses, shares their entrepreneurial spirit and drive, and provides counsel in connection with venture financings, IPOs, securities offerings, M&A transactions, fund formations and other corporate matters. The Group's areas of industry focus include software, information services, life sciences, cleantech and telecommunications and networking, among others.

UK Trade & Investment
As part of the British Consulate, UK Trade & Investment is the UK Government's international business development organization, supporting innovative businesses seeking collaborative R&D relationships and business establishment in the UK, and helping UK companies grow internationally. UK Trade & Investment brings together a network of business sector specialists and support teams in British embassies and Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) posts around the world, as well as key experts in government departments across the UK to drive two-way trade and investment and help organizations optimize their US/UK footprint.

Grand Banks Capital
GrandBanks Capital partners with entrepreneurs to create and build dominant, market-leading companies through our established experience set, operating expertise and insight, and extensive top-level industry relationships. Understanding the challenges that arise when building a world-class company, GrandBanks Capital guides entrepreneurs in the direction of market leadership by utilizing the team's early-stage investing experience and broad network of contacts through some of the fastest growing industry sectors. These markets include Internet infrastructure, software and software services, security and storage applications, media technologies and services, financial technologies and services, and wireless technologies and services.

Kodiak Venture Partners
Kodiak invests in seed and early stage technology companies that are exploiting fundamental shifts in very large markets or are bringing disruptive products, technologies or services to fast-growing, emerging markets. We invest in entrepreneurs who understand what it takes to build world-class organizations, and who are world experts in their company's technology and markets.

Kodiak focuses on building companies in eastern North America. The partners spend their time in markets where they have had proven success in building successful companies. This approach enables us to actively work with entrepreneurs at the earliest formation of their ventures to positively impact their long-term success. Our seed and first round investments typically range in size from $500K to $5M. Kodiak also focuses on emerging communications/wireless, semiconductor/equipment, software/services, internet/new media, and life technology companies.

Our investment partners are successful high-technology business entrepreneurs who take a hands-on approach to building market leaders.

Polachi Access Executive Search
Polachi provides Access Executive Search™ services to technology, life sciences, clean tech, consumer electronics, venture capital and private equity clients. The firm’s partners and principals, all search industry veterans with decades of experience, understand that leading companies deserve access to the absolute best talent on the planet. While traditional executive search firms limit candidate access due to “off-limit” protocol, and newer search firms lack the breadth and depth of connections, Polachi’s Access Executive Search™ model, coupled with unmatched agility, delivers the most accelerated results. Polachi is a sponsor of the New England Clean Energy Council (NEIC).

Jefferies
Focused on growing and mid-sized companies and their investors for nearly 45 years, Jefferies is a global, full service investment banking and institutional securities firm operating in more than 25 offices in six countries spanning three continents. We provide world-class investment banking, sales & trading, research and asset management to a diverse range of corporate clients, institutional investors and high net worth individuals. We are industry experts, specializing in aerospace & defense, energy, financial & business services, gaming & leisure, healthcare, industrials, maritime & oil service, media & communications, retail & consumer and technology, with a dedicated private equity coverage group.

World Wide Entrepreneurship Holdings Corporation

Cummings Properties
Cummings Properties is a full-service real estate development, property management and construction firm with more than 70 buildings in 10 greater Boston communities. Since 1970, Cummings has offered its clients the value of full-service leases including maintenance, snow removal, plentiful free parking, property management and more. Its facilities are business homes to nearly 2,000 clients in office, laboratory, R&D, retail and general commercial space. Cummings is very entrepreneur friendly offering cost-effective small suites for start-up companies and incubator labs for early stage lab clients as well as guaranteed expansion space to accommodate future growth of your business.

TeleEMG (2005 ITEC $30K Business Plan Competition Winner)
TeleEMG is an EMG and Nerve Conductions company that assists healthcare professionals to improve the quality of care they provide to their patients with neuropathy. TeleEMG offers a full range of EMG and Nerve Conduction services, including audio-visual EMG and NCV courses, training, electrodes, and supplies. TeleEMG's critically acclaimed NCV ExpertT service is a custom-tailored program to train the healthcare professional in the performance of nerve conduction studies, assist them with the setup of a full fledged NCV practice, and provide them with a state of the art live analysis of their nerve conductions reports.

Paul Horn & Associates
A coach and public speaking instructor for the past 15 years, Paul Horn draws on a unique background in business, government and the non-profit world as well as his experience as a professional actor. Paul's clients represent a variety of fields –high tech, architecture and engineering, financial services, medical technology, construction management, and human services–to name a few. Paul earned his MBA at Boston University and worked for many years in government and community development at the local, state and federal levels. Apart from his consulting work and coaching role with ITEC, Paul currently teaches graduate courses at Babson College (where he oversees the MBA first year speaking program) and at Northeastern University.

SV Life Sciences
SV Life Sciences is a venture capital adviser and manager that makes selected investments in businesses with experienced entrepreneurs and management teams. SV Life Sciences provides finance to businesses at all stages of development and across the human life sciences sector. These sectors range from biotechnology & pharmaceuticals to medical devices & instruments, to healthcare information technology and services. SV Life Sciences currently advises or manages five funds with capital commitments of approximately $1.6 billion which primarily invest amounts of between $1m and $20m in North America and Europe, but will consider innovative investments in other regions. Our team of 28 professionals has a diverse, complimentary set of skills and experience that allow us to tailor a team to work with almost any life sciences business.

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