EVENT DETAILS

LAVA Special Event
LAVA's 6th Annual Venture Awards Dinner

Thursday January 22, 2009
6:00pm-9:00pm

Beverly Hills Hotel, 9641 W Sunset Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA 90210 (map)

Generously Sponsored by:

LAVA's 6th Annual Venture Awards Dinner

Table Hosts:

• PricewaterhouseCoopers
• Cresa Partners
• Prism Ventureworks
• Elevation Partners
• Ernst & Young
  
• DLA Piper
  
• Red Point Ventures
  
• Vicente Capital Partners
  
• Silicon Valley Bank
  
• Total Beauty Media

Lifetime Achievement Award in Entrepreneurism

• Ted Meisel – Elevation Partners
  

  Ted Meisel is a Senior Advisor with Elevation Partners. Prior to Elevation and the basis for winning this award, Ted was the former CEO of Overture Services, the pioneer of search advertising. He joined the company (originally GoTo.com) in 1998 and led it to $1 billion in worldwide revenues by 2003, its fifth full year of operations – when Yahoo! acquired Overture for $1.8 billion. Ted stayed on as president of the newly-named Yahoo! Search Marketing division for two years, integrating with other Yahoo! units and leading it to continued and rapid revenue growth and an expanded worldwide footprint.
  
  
  Prior to Overture, Ted was an executive at CitySearch, now a division of IAC/Interactive Corp. CitySearch became the leading internet city guide, ultimately absorbing its main competitor, Microsoft’s Sidewalk. Ted’s primary focus was the development of the individual city guides and the supporting software platform. His responsibilities included the areas of content, product management, product design, professional services, business development, and engineering. Before he became an internet executive, Ted spent eight years with the consulting firms of McKinsey & Company and Strategic Planning Associates (now Mercer Management Consulting) in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. and Singapore. Ted holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.
  

7 Awards this year with multiple nominees:

• Hottest New Company* 
  CFX Battery    SocialVibe    Total Beauty     
  
• Best Venture Funding in New Media* 
  Buzznet         SixDegrees    SodaHead       
• Best Venture Funding in Online Advertising* 
  Think Passenger       Rubicon Project         OpenX                       
• Best Venture Funding in Clean/Green Technology* 
  eSolar         NanoH2O       SolarReserve  
• Best Venture Funding in Bio-tech and Medical Devices 
  Kythera Biopharmaceuticals, Inc.      
• Best IPO Deal 
  IPC, Inc.       
• Best M&A Deal 
  Blackboard Connect, Inc.    
  

* Multiple nominees, winner will be announced at the dinner in these categories. 

Featuring the music of Darwin 5 featuring David Cremin and special guest, Barking Big Dog.

Master of Ceremonies

• Douglas Burke, General Manager, FatTail
  

Event Pricing

Event Sponsorship - $5,000

• Promotional exposure before, during and after the dinner
• Listing as a Sponsor of LAVA
• Posting on LAVA's Website
• Promotion through e-blasts to the LAVA database of 7,500 individuals
• Your logo, link, business descriptor and a bio on Sponsors Page
• Ten guests at LAVA Awards Dinner
• Named award recognition
• Presents Award to recipient

To arrange an event sponsorship or to purchase a table, please use our online system or contact info@lava.org

Cancellation Policy

• Breakfast/Event cancellations must be received and confirmed by NOON the day before the breakfast/event to receive a refund. Email info@lava.org to submit a cancellation. Your cancellation is not effective until LAVA Member Services responds to confirm.
• No-shows and late cancellations will be charged the full breakfast/event price
• Late registrations (after the online pre-reg cutoff) are non-refundable

Payment Policy

Registrations must be made online via Credit Card - Visa, MasterCard and American Express cards are welcomed. In special circumstances, checks will be accepted before the event at the discretion of LAVA Member Services. Any checks not received in time will require credit card payment onsite.

Sponsor Profiles

BDO Seidman, LLPis a national professional services firm providing assurance, tax, financial advisory and consulting services to public and private companies since 1910. BDO Seidman serves clients through 34 offices and more than 300 independent alliance firm locations nationwide.

 

As a Member Firm of BDO International, BDO Seidman, LLP serves multi-national clients by leveraging a global network of resources comprised of 601 Member Firm offices in 105 countries. BDO International is a worldwide network of public accounting firms, called BDO Member Firms, serving international clients. Each BDO Member Firm is an independent legal entity in its own country.