Private Equity 2003 - National Venture Forum

Successful Fundraising Strategies for VC’s and Fund Managers to be Spotlighted at National Private Equity and Venture Forum Grand Ballroom - Yale Club New York - March 10th, 2004

We are pleased to announce that Jyoti Aggarwala, New York-based partner of S.S.Thomas & Associates and a leading authority on raising capital for investment funds will be a Special Guest Speaker at our upcoming private equity and venture capital forum to be held in the Grand Ballroom of the Yale Club New York on Wednesday, March 10th, 2004. Jyoti has more than fifteen years of institutional sales & marketing experience of alternative assets, and US, South Asian, and South East Asian equities. She has worked with leading international and domestic firms like Nomura Securities, Peregrine Brokerage Inc. and Ladenburg Thalmann. Jyoti and S.S. Thomas team has raised in excess of $1 billion for its clients, which include foremost investment funds such as Thomas Weisel Global Growth Partners, Strategic Investment Group, Altos Ventures III, Starview Partners Fund, North star Mezzanine Partners III and Burrill Life Sciences Fund

Fundraising Strategies for 2004

Jyoti will address the current trends in fundraising and the outlook for 2004-2005. She will also focus on the marketing strategies and techniques that can help to ensure successful fundraising by venture capital, private equity and hedge funds managers. Conference attendees will gain critical insight on dealing with the factors that can influence potential limited partners before committing their capital. These include such topics as Trustees Questioning the Merits of this Asset Class, Higher “Threshold of Expectation” of GP’s Operating Practices, Demand for More Disclosure, A Slower Investor Decision Process and Past Performance Issues. Jyoti remarks should be most instructive guiding you in the pre-marketing and launch of a new fund. We expect her remarks to be particularly helpful in enabling you to better identify the market opportunity, differentiate your fund’s strategy, quantify your team’s experience and articulate your track record.

Conference Overview

Private Equity 2004 - National Venture Forum will be the ninth in our highly-successful series of exclusive invitation-only events designed to assemble a select group of business visionaries, entrepreneurs, angel investors, venture capitalists, investment professionals, and money managers. In addition to presenting "one-of-a-kind" private investment opportunities, this prestigious event at the Yale Club New York is designed to be an ideal setting for new business development, exchange of ideas, creation of deal flow, location of capital sources and ultra high-end networking. Guests at the National Venture Forum will see up to fifteen early, later-stage and emerging growth investment opportunities from throughout the U.S. These companies feature new breakthrough technologies and innovative business models that have been pre-screened to address the "common sense" criteria of value, proof of concept, proprietary edge, competitive advantage and potential for success; applied by venture capitalists, investment partnerships, private equity funds, and Small Business Investment Corporations.

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