Hello businesswomen,

As we finish up the year this quarter we have a bit of activity. The "I don't know" to CEO Conference was a success with over 300 attendees, 9 corporate sponsors, 11 student group sponsors, and 25 speakers. Thanks for all who attended! We worked hard over the past quarter to produce the conference. For those who are interested, we will be searching for next year's coordinators soon.

Along the lines of looking for next year...We are now accepting applications for the Stanford Women in Business Executive Board and Leadership Core. Descriptions and applications are available online at: www.stanfordwomeninbusiness.com

There are many exciting events going on this quarter in the Stanford Community - The Women's Leadership Conference is April 28. The first 5 members who e-mail president@stanfordwomeninbusiness.com will be able to have their registration fee waived ($10 value). There are also 2 entrepreneurial summits this week: ASES & SELA. Please look at the Upcoming Events announcements.

We'll be taking a short break from events for now - but for those who missed the conference we will be having one of the speakers, Katherine Barr - the speaker of the Art of Negotiation Session - will give an exclusive SWIB presentation later in the quarter. More on that in the next newsletter.

As always, please e-mail us at president@stanfordwomeninbusiness.com with any questions, comments, or concerns - we'd love to hear from you!

Dana & Heidi

Spotlight Event

Stanford Women in Business is proud to support the ASES Asia-Pacific Student Entrepreneurship Society) and SELA (Society for Entrepreneurship in Latin America) Summits on entrepreneurship this week. These are great chances to hear entrepreneurs speak about their experiences and to learn about the entrepreneurial environments in Asia and Latin America. See details for event themes, times, and locations below in Campus Highlights.

Build the Future:
Executive Board and Leadership Core Applications
Stanford Women in Business has the momentum to move forward and produce even more events valuable to the Stanford Community; we want you to be a part of it.
We are currently accepting applications for the 2007-2008 Stanford Women in Business Executive Board and Leadership Core positions.
Executive Board:

1. Co-Presidents
2. VP Finance
3. VP Marketing
4. VP Member Affairs
5. VP Campus Affairs

Leadership Core:

1. Mentorship Director
2. Member Events Director
3. Community Outreach Director
4. Web Director

More information about each position can be found on our website: www.stanfordwomeninbusiness.com
Application Deadline: Friday, April 20, 2007

See more Upcoming Events

Past Events Recap

Stanford Women in Business' first annual Business Conference, "I don't know to CEO,"cohosted by Stanford Women in Business and many of Stanford's Pre-Professional Organizations, took place this Saturday, April 7th. A terrific turnout of over 300 attendees gathered to hear from Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn for a keynote lecture, then broke up for lunches with conference sponsors. Attendees spoke over sandwiches with leaders from Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, Cisco Systems, Symantec, McKinsey, and EA about internships and job opportunities for the future. Each attendee visited two afternoon panels with topics ranging from "Business Trends in Latin America" to stepping "Inside the Boardroom." A networking session complete with hors d'oeuvres rounded off a day full of learning about the tools needed to succeed in business.

Stanford WIB enjoyed a lively discussion with GAP's May Saunders about the many different jobs available to those interested in corporate fashion. She spoke from her own experience in holding many different positions within GAP, and offered insight into the difference between corporate life at a company like GAP and careers in consulting and investment banking. All SWIB members are encouraged to attend Business Bites sessions, which let members get up close and personal with successful businesswomen like Mary Saunders.

Campus and Recruiting Highlights

**ASES SUMMIT 2007**

You are cordially invited to attend ASES (Asia-Pacific Student Entrepreneurship Society) Summit 2007! Below is a list of the world-class lineup of speakers from Monday April 9th to Friday April 13th.

Admission: Free
Location: Stanford University - Specific buildings are listed under each event

Tuesday April 10th

Speaker: Heidi Roizen - Managing Director of Mobius Venture Capital
Topic: Leading an Early Stage Tech Company with a "Mentor Capital" approach
Time/Location: CIS-X Auditorium - 1:30 - 2:45
Bio: Heidi Roizen is the Managing Director of Mobius Venture Capital, a technology venture fund with $2 billion under management. Heidi serves on the Boards of Directors of Reactrix, Perpetual Entertainment, and Ecast.

Speaker: Mark Jacobstein - Executive VP of Corporate Development and Marketing, Loopt inc.
Topic: The Experience of Loopt: Start-up Skills and Strategies
Time/Location: Tresidder Oak Lounge - 5:30 - 6:45
Bio: Mark Jacobstein is the Executive VP of Corporate Development and Marketing, Loopt inc. Previously Mark was President & COO and part of the founding team for Digital Chocolate one of the world's largest publishers of mobile games.

Wednesday April 11th

Speaker: Max Levchin - Founder of Slide and co-founder of PayPal
Topic: The Culture: Entrepreneurship in the Silicon Valley
Time/Location: CIS-X Auditorium - 9:30 - 10:45 am
Bio: Max Levchin is the founder of Slide. Before slide, Max was the co-founder and CTO of PayPal. Max was a pioneer in the development of network and information security technologies to combat transaction fraud.

Speaker: Paul Graham - Partner at Y-Combinator
Topic: "Understanding Investors"
Time/Location: Cubberly Auditorium 5:30 - 6:45 pm
Bio: Paul Graham is a partner at Y-Combinator, a programming language designer and an essayist. In 1995 he developed with Robert Morris the first web-based application. Paul is the author of On Lisp and ANSI Common Lisp.

Friday April 13th

Speakers: Sanjay Mehrotra - President and COO of Sandisk and Bill Ihrie - Senior Vice President and CTO of Intuit
Topic: From Ideas to Action: How to Make your Entrepreneurial Vision a Reality
Time/Location: Hewlett 200 - 4:15 - 5:45
Bios:
Sanjay Mehrotra - Sanjay Mehrotra is the President and COO of Sandisk. Before Sandisk, he worked in the area of design engineering and engineering management at Intel Corporation, Seeq Technology, Integrated Device Technology and Atmel Corporation.

Bill Ihrie - Bill Ihrie is the Senior Vice President and CTO of Intuit. Prior to Intuit, Mr. Ihrie worked for ADP as the senior vice president of technology for the Claims Solutions group where he led a technology team of over 500 people.

**SELA Summit 2007**
Join student delegates from across Latin America for this week's first annual SELA Summit on Entrepreneurship.

Tuesday, April 10th (Tomorrow)

Speaker: Freddie Seba, VP Business Development, Nexxo Financial
Topic: How to Make a Business Plan
Time/Location: CDC Conference Room, 10:00-11:30am
Bio: Freddie Seba has over 20 years business experience working with Latin American and Mexican nationals in the U.S. and abroad. Mr. Seba's work at large multinationals includes Ingram Micro Inc. and Epson America Inc.; his startup experience includes Print-Nation and Pontiva.

Panelists: Javier Olivan, James Gutierrez, Amit Manna, and Ariel Poler
Topic: Being a Young Entrepreneur
Time/Location: Bechtel Assembly Room, 4:30-5:45pm
Bios:
James Gutierrez - James started Magic Beanstalk, a 3rd party recruiting company that organized campus recruiting events at 40 universities in the US and Brazil. In addition to Progress Financial, James is a General Partner of angel fund Great Oaks Ventures, and has worked at Carpe Diem, Morgan Stanley, and Bain & Company.
Ariel Poler - As Chairman and Co-Founder, Ariel formed Topica in 1998 to leverage the power of email for content delivery and targeted, response-driven marketing. An Internet pioneer, Ariel was also the founder and former CEO of I/PRO (now part of Engage), the first company to measure and audit web traffic.
For more information, visit http://sela.stanford.edu.

Speaker: Victor Miramontes, Managing Director, CityView
Topic: Entrepreneurship in the Public Arena
Time/Location: Bechtel Dining Room, 6:00-7:00pm
Bio: Victor has nearly a quarter-century of experience in investment banking and real estate finance. As CEO of The North American Development Bank, he gained an international reputation as a consensus builder and developed an intimate knowledge of how to finance housing and its related infrastructure.

Wednesday, April 11th

Film Screening: Entrepreneurs for Social Change
Time/Location: Casa Zapata Lounge, 10:30am-12:00pm
Topic: Susan Davis, CEO of Ashoka, donated these videos about the experiences of the world's most inspiring social entrepreneurs.

Panelists: David McClure - Unitus, Ana Maria Enriquez - Semillas, Jessica Flannery, Stephen DeBerry
Time/Location: 200-030, 3:15-5:00pm
Topic: Social Entrepreneurship: Investing in Global Change
Bios:
David McClure - David is currently an advisor or investor for Mint Software, Spock Networks, Mashery, Simply Hired, HealthUnity, and Canopy Financial.  He is a board member for microfinance accelerator Unitus, an advisor to non-profit Kiva.org, and leads user groups and conferences on technology, entrepreneurship, venture capital, and microfinance.  Dave is actively engaged in promoting microfinance awareness and involvement through the Silicon Valley Microfinance Network, and is also a member of the Full Circle Fund, a San Francisco-based non-profit that addresses local issues in affordable housing, education, and technology access. 
Ana Maria Enriquez - Ana María Enríquez is a Senior Philanthropic Advisor and Consultant for Semillas, the first and only women’s grant-making fund in Mexico that invests in women-led organizations working for social change in the country.  She also serves as an advisor on organizational development issues for the newly launched Indigenous Women’s Fund. 
For more information, visit http://sela.stanford.edu .

Thursday, April 12th
Speaker: Tony Seba
Topic: Building a Winning Company
Time/Location: CDC Conference Room 10:00-11:00am
Bio: Tony Seba is an educator, entrepreneur, author, speaker, consultant, and mentor and capitalist.  Tony Seba is the author of "Winners Take All - The 9 Fundamental Rules of High Tech  Strategy." As PrintNation.com's founder and CEO, Seba established the B2B ecommerce company as the undisputed leader in its market segment, winning such top industry awards as the Upside Hot 100 and the Forbes.com B2B 'Best of the Web'.   

Speaker: Reynaldo Gil, Chariman & CEO, Commendo
Topic: Partnership Opportunities in Latin America
Time/Location: CDC Conference Room 2:00-3:00pm
Bio: Reynaldo Gil is the visionary CEO of Commendo with more than 25 years of technology leadership experience.  He launched his career at IBM and has more than 15 years of Internet experience that started with Charles Schwab, one of the consumer service pioneers in the booming 1990's. Prior to Commendo, Mr. Gil founded WorldChain, a leader in web-based supply chain software.

Speaker: Matias de Tezanos
Topic: Entrepreneur, Me?
Time/Location: CDC Conference Room, 3:15-4:15pm
Bio: Among his developments is the creation of one of the leading web-development companies in Central America, which he sold to a local group in 2000. In 2001, Matias created Hoteles.com (the Spanish version of the popular travel site Hotels.com), an online hotel reservation portal in Latin America which grew 500% in the first year of operations.In December of 2003, Matias was one of the two principal founders of ClickDiario.com Network, a Hispanic online advertising network that grew to a user base of 45 million monthly unique visitors.

Speaker: Rodrigo Teijero, Chairman & Founder, FNBOX Ventures, Inc.
Topic: Making Money is the Easy Part
Time/Location: Bechtel Dining Room, 6:00-7:00pm
Bio: A serial entrepreneur that has created many of the top traffic sites in Latin America, including Tupostal.com, Cumplealerta.com, and TarjetasTelefonicas.com. Rodrigo has consolidated all of his assets in Fnbox.com with over 100 employees and is working on developing new web 2.0 businesses, integrating voip technology and expanding mobile services among many other things.

Coming Up Tuesday, April 17th: Goldman Sachs will host two workshops for students interested in finance careers:

Why Work on Wall Street?
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Tressider Student Union, Cypress Lounge (North and South)

Diversity college freshmen are invited to attend this presentation by Goldman Sachs reps on what it means to work on Wall Street, how to get summer internships, and how to develop needed skills. Diversity college freshmen are also encouraged to apply for Goldman Sachs' annual undergraduate camp.

Tips for Turning Your Summer Internship Into A Full-Time Job
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Tressider Student Union, Cypress Lounge (North and South)
RSVP Here

Sophomores and juniors with summer internships in finance, consulting, and related industries are invited to this presentation by Goldman Sachs reps about how to get the most out of your summer internship. Topics include: summer internship do's and don'ts, tips for success from former summer interns, and answers to "what does it mean to 'network'?"

JPMorgan Offers Women's Finance Boot Camp
Friday, June 8
JPMorgan Investment Bank Headquarters, NY

This program is open to female freshmen and sophomores of all majors with a minimum 3.0 GPA. Events will include panels with female JPMorgan analysts and associates, a trading simulation, a trade-floor shadowing program, workshops on interviews and resumes, and more. Travel and hotel accomodations will be provided. To apply, visit www.alumniathlete.com. Application are due May 4th.

Avascent Group, a boutique strategy consulting firm headquarted in Washington, D.C., is searching for new hires for positions starting this fall. Avascent does management consulting and market strategy research for firms in the national defense, homeland security, space and aerospace, and transportation and logistics industries. The Avascent Group will be conducting on-campus interviews on May 4 and accepting resumes through the Stanford Career Development Center from April 2 to April 14. Interested seniors should submit a resume and cover letter online via the Career Development Center. For more information, please contact Katherine McGavin at kmcgavin@avascent.com.

Embracing Change - the 2nd Annual Stanford Women's Leadership Conference
9pm - 4pm Saturday, April 28th, 2007
Tresidder Memorial Union

Opening Address: Priya Haji, '93, Co-Founder and CEO, World of Good, Inc.

Keynote Address: Dr. Telle Whitney, President and CEO, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology

Closing Panel: Solutionary Women: How Can I Create Social Change?

* Britt Bravo, Blogger & Podcaster, Have Fun * Do Good / BigVision Podcast (moderator)
* Alli Chagi-Starr, Co-Founder, Art in Action / Art & MediaDirector, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights' Reclaim the FutureProgram
* Ilyse Hogue, Campaign Director, MoveOn.org
* Melinda Kramer, Founder & Director, Women's Earth Alliance
* Reem Rahim, Co-Founder & Vice President of Marketing, NumiTea

Also featuring 12 break out sessions addressing personal, professional, and social change:

Educational Session I

* Taking off the Mask: Understanding the Imposter Syndrome in theContext of Self-Presentation
* Dr. Doree Allen, M.A. Communication '82, M.A. English '92, Ph.D .English '92, Director, Stanford Oral Communication Program
* Succeed by Failing: Fail Early, Fail Often
* Melissa Gonzalez, B.S. Product Design '01, Founder, @The Studio
* Embrace Your Differences: Diversity in the Workplace
* Debbie Liao, B.A. Economics '01, Harvard Business School MBA '04,Associate Marketing Manager, The Clorox Company
* Reflections on Personal Change
* Dr. Susan Owicki, Marriage and Family Therapist, Stanford FacultyStaff Help Center

Educational Session II

* Next Steps: Young Feminists in the Workplace (panel)
* Walking in on the Boys: Thriving in a Male-Dominated Field
* Dr. Nicole Moayeri, B.S. Biological Sciences '85, M.S. BiologicalSciences '85, M.D. Medicine '89, Neurosurgeon, The Permanente MedicalGroup
* Be a Change Agent: Successful Strategies for Approaching Your Career
* Shanna Prevé, B.A. International Relations '03, B.A. Communications'03, Executive Communications Advisor, Google, Inc.
* Young and Ambitious: Embarking on a Career in Consulting
* Nita Singh, B.S. Electrical Engineering '03, Senior Consultant atPrivate Health Care Strategy, Management, and Operations ConsultingFirm
* Caroline Tsay, B.S. Computer Science &lsquot;04, M.S. ManagementScience and Engineering '04, Senior Consultant, Supply ChainManagement practice at IBM Global Business Services

Educational Session III

* Humanity is Indivisible
* Jasmina Bojic, Lecturer at Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities,Founder and Executive Director of the United Nations Association FilmFestival (UNAFF)
* Going Beyond Your Degree
* Laureen DeBuono, M.A. Political Science '78, NYU School of Law J.D.'81, CFO, Thermage, Inc.
* It's All About the Journey: A Non-Traditional Path to Medicine
* Dr. Cybele Renault, Infectious Diseases Physician, Stanford UniversityMedical Center
* Striking Out on Your Own: Starting a Business in Consulting
* Karilee Wirthlin, Managing Principal, KL Consulting, President, Womenin Consulting
* Sherry Prescott-Willis, Principal, Market This Strategy, VicePresident, Women in Consulting
* Jan Richards, Principal, JG Richards Consulting, Secretary, Women inConsulting
* Linda Popky, President, L2M Associates, Inc., Director ofPartnerships, Women in Consulting

Schedule
9:00am: Breakfast and Opening Session
10:00am: Educational Session I
11:00am: Educational Session II
12:00pm: Networking Luncheon
12:30pm: Keynote Address
1:30pm: Educational Session III
2:30pm: Social Change Panel
3:30pm: Closing Reception

Register today! Space is limited!
Early registration discount ends April 15th.

Conference attendees also have the opportunity to obtain special seating tickets for the Billy Jean King talk at the Title IX Today, Title IX Tomorrow Conference.

If you are interested in attending, be one of the first five to email president@stanfordwomeninbusiness.com with an explanation of why you want to attend the Women’s Leadership Conference, and you will have your $10 registration paid for. This is an opportunity for members to gain leadership skills that will be useful not only as businesswomen but as active members of any group, organization, class, etc. The conference is April 28, 2007.

For more information and to register, visit: http://www.stanford.edu/group/womenscntr/swlc . If you have any questions about the conference, please email or questions regarding the conference, email swlc.register@gmail.com.

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I'm Megan Zoback and I am currently working at a great voice-over IP start up company in Menlo Park called jaxtr (www.jaxtr.com). We are currently looking for a few smart, creative students to help with a marketing project involving social networks (Myspace, Facebook, etc) and cell phones.

This is a great opportunity to see what working at a start up is all about, and to work in the exciting dynamic of a rapidly growing, well-backed startup company. You will be working closely with the management, led by CEO Konstantin Guericke (Co-founder and former CEO of LinkedIn, where he worked before leaving to come work at jaxtr), and will have the opportunity to see your work truly making an impact.

If you are interested or have any questions, please send me and email at mzoback@stanford.edu.

Thanks!
Megan