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<div>One of the panel members below is Alok Srivastava who received
his Ph.D in Biology in 2000 and was in Prof. Bob Sauer's lab.</div>
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Ngantung</font><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Georgia">President</font><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Georgia">MIT Science &
Engineering Business Club</font><br>
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face="Georgia">http://web.mit.edu/sebc</font></a><br>
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size="+1" color="#333300"><b>MIT Science and Engineering Business
Club</b></font><br>
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color="#333300"><b>and</b></font><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite align="center"><font face="Trebuchet MS"
size="+1" color="#333300"><b>GSC Professional Development Seminar
Series</b></font><br>
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color="#333300"><b>present:</b></font><br>
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color="#FF0000"><b>Are</b></font><font size="+2" color="#FF0000"><b>
Startups Right for You?</b></font><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite align="center"><font
face="Times New Roman" size="+2" color="#FF0000"><b>Perspectives and
Experiences from MIT Alums</b></font><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite align="center"><font
face="Times New Roman">Thursday, October 16th<br>
</font>6:00 - 7:00 pm<br>
Location: MIT Building<font color="#0000FF"><u> E51-315</u></font><br>
Chinese food served after the talk<br>
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</b></font>Startups are associated with high risks and potential high
rewards. You are thinking about starting your own business or
considering joining one after graduation, but ARE STARTUPS RIGHT FOR
YOU? Find out about the personal experiences of three MIT alums who
joined startups and founded their own.<br>
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Panelists:<br>
Greg Harman - Harman Technologies, Inc.<br>
Abraham McAllister - Polychromix<br>
Alok Srivastava - Bioscale, Inc.<br>
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About Greg Harman, Chairman of Harman Technologies, Inc.:<br>
Greg has spent the last year and a half as a technology consultant
both as an independent (Harman Technologies, Inc.) and for a local
firm, Back Bay Technologies, Inc. In addition, he is currently a
partner in a real-estate investment venture and is involved with Cube,
a $50K semi-finalist this Spring. Prior to these endeavors, he was a
senior engineer and the lead technology evangelist in the Asia/Pacific
region for Clickmarks, a Silicon Valley startup providing
industry-leading tools for the mobile software and legacy integration
spaces. He has been involved with several other software startup
companies, such as Peoplestream, Marine Liens, and Two Ring Systems.
Greg is an MIT alumnus, having earned a Bachelor's degree in
Electrical Engineering, and a Master's Degree from the same department
for a joint project with the Sloan School where he developed a
combined business and technical analysis of online financial
aggregation applications.<br>
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About Abraham McAllister and Polychromix:<br>
Abraham R. McAllister, EECS BS 98 and M.Eng 99, has participated in
three startup companies since graduating from MIT: Lightwave
Instruments LLC, Umech Technologies LLC (www.umech.com), and
Polychromix Inc. (www.polychromix.com). All three companies are active
and are based on technologies developed at MIT. Starting in
1998, Abraham co-founded both Lightwave Instruments and Umech
Technologies with three other MIT graduates. He co-authored a grant
proposal and led the negotiations to obtain a $1.4 million U.S
Department of Defense subcontract to provide the seed money for
Lightwave. During the same time period he worked with another
co-founder to lead the product development and marketing efforts of
Umechs MEMS motion analyzer. In 2001 he joined Polychromix Inc., a
venture capital funded company developing modular optical subsystems
based on an innovative core technology that enables dynamically
configurable optical networks. In the short time since
graduation, Abraham has had a broad range of experiences. He has
participated in both privately financed and venture funded startup
companies and has twice played a key role in taking new technology
from concept to a commercially viable product.<br>
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About Alok Srivastava and BioScale:</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Alok Srivastava is currently at BioScale
Inc., a young startup, developing biosensors using on
Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems and applied in the Life Sciences
markets. He was the first technical and business hire during the
founding of the team and is currently leading the biochemistry side of
the develeopment of the biosensor platform and applications. His
responsibilities also include fund-raising, business strategy
development and market assessment. Prior to BioScale, Alok was on the
business development team at engeneOS, a biotech startup that was
applying the principles of biomolecular engineering to development of
novel protein based products in Life Science discovery tools and
therapeutics. Here too, Alok's responsibilites spanned business and
science. He was responsible for assessing novel technologies to add to
the engeneOS portfolio and develop suitable business plans and
technical development plans leading to product lines in the future.
Dr.Srivastava obtained his Ph.D. in Protein Biochemistry from the
Biology department at MIT in 2000.</blockquote>
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