128 VENTURE NORTH BREAKFAST

Pitching Your Company to Investors and Lenders

Your presentation to investors could make or break their decision to invest in your company. Learn from our experts what they look for in a presentation and why it matters so much in their decision making process.

Speakers:

Anita Brearton, Co-Leader of Boston Forum, Golden Seeds

Anita Brearton is a marketing executive with more than 28 years working in high technology. Ms. Brearton served as vice president of corporate marketing at Sycamore Networks, where she took the company from its infancy through its highly successful IPO to become one of the leading companies in the Intelligent Optical Networking market. Prior to Sycamore, Ms. Brearton held senior marketing management positions with Cascade Communications, Artel Video Systems, and General DataComm. She currently works with technology startup companies as a marketing and strategy consultant. In this capacity Ms. Brearton has worked with A123 Systems, Airvana, Altruik, Azuki Systems and others. Anita serves on the advisory boards of Connect2 Communications and Altruik. In addition, Ms. Brearton works with the Simmons Graduate Entrepreneurship program as a coach and mentor to first time entrepreneurs.

Leonard Morrissey, Vice President, SBA Specialist, Eastern Bank

Leonard Morrissey's mission is to ensure that Eastern Bank continues to aid small businesses within Massachusetts through its partnership with the Small Business Administration (SBA). Eastern Bank was the No. 1 SBA lender in 2009 by way of the most SBA-related loans of all banks in Massachusetts. Morrissey has worked as a commercial and small business lender for 14 years and has been directly involved with SBA lending for nine years.

Co-sponsored by the Small Business Development Center
and the North Shore Alliance for Economic Development