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CEO Summit 2008CEO Summit 2008 focused on working together to build successful and sustainable companies. As with previous Highland Summits, the event provided an unsurpassed opportunity for CEOs, company founders and industry leaders to meet, exchange new ideas and insights, share best practices, discuss challenges, and debate strategies and tactics. The agenda consisted of plenary sessions, breakout sector discussions and keynotes. Speakers included: Ed Viesturs (Author, No Shortcuts to the Top), Kevin Keller (Tuck School of Business), Mara Aspinall (Former President of Genzyme Genetics), Larry Weber (Racepoint Group), John Palfrey (Highland / Harvard Law School), Ian Bowles (Commonwealth of Massachusetts), Tobias Levkovich (Salomon Smith Barney), Madge Meyer (State Street), Robert Keane (VistaPrint), Stan Lapidus (Helicos BioSciences), Tom First (owater), Ash Dahod (Starent Networks), Chet Kanojia (Navic Networks), Jim Eisenstein (Optasite), Frank Litvack (Conor MedSystems), Scott Stanford (Goldman Sachs) and Paul Deninger (Jefferies & Co.).
CEO Summit 2008 coincided with Highland’s 20th Anniversary Entrepreneurial Gala Celebration, a special evening designed to connect company founders, CEOs, executives, academics, university-related startups, and other key partners instrumental in driving the entrepreneurial ecosystem. In attendance were special guests, including CEOs, long time limited partners of the firm, employees from Highland-backed companies, and business, technology and thought leaders from around the world.
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"The HCP CEO Summit was one of the best professional development events I've been to. I learned stuff that has already materially affected the way I do my job at StreamBase."
"Thanks for a spectacular event and associated hospitality. While the evening events were clearly superb, I walked away with several good ideas from the speakers and discussions, thanks again!"
"I found the entire function to be enjoyable and very worthwhile. I was impressed with how well organized it was considering the breadth of attendees and agenda." |
