ARE YOU READY TO BE AN ENTREPRENEUR?
Our Santa Fe Tech Friday series kicks off with serial startup pro, Roger O’Brien asking perhaps the most important question of all: “Are you ready to be an entrepreneur?”
Do you have the skills, styles and values to be a successful entrepreneur? Our speaker, Roger O’Brien shares his 30+ years experiences with entrepreneurs – the good and the bad – to provide 10 key traits that are critical.
Roger O'Brien
ABOUT ROGER O’BRIEN
Mr. O’Brien is President of O’Brien Associates, LLC (www.ROBrienAssociates.com), a general management consulting firm providing advisory and implementation services to managements in a variety of competitive industries, with special focus on interim general management, technology commercialization, marketing and strategy development. The firm was founded in 1999 and has offices in Rochester, New York and Santa Fe, New Mexico. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Nuclear Engineering from New York University and a MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Mr. O’Brien’s background includes a past role in helping to turn-around Ultralife Batteries, Inc. during 1998-99 as Chief Operating Officer for this publicly-held manufacturer of advanced battery power sources. From 1991 to 1996 he was Chief Executive Officer as well as a major shareholder of Holotek Ltd., a high-technology company with a proprietary position in the design, development, manufacture and sales of laser imaging systems worldwide. O’Brien, along with the Company’s founder and outside Board of Directors, represented approximately 120 shareholders of Holotek. He successfully negotiated the sale of the company to an OEM customer in 1996.
In Santa Fe, New Mexico he is a visiting speaker for Technology Ventures Corporation and also a member of the Equity Capital Advisory Team for TVC. Mr. O’Brien is a participating member in New Mexico Angels, based in Albuquerque, NM.
More at: http://bit.ly/ROBrien_Bio