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Upcoming Event
Women in Technology: Career Strategies for Success
Organized by Women in Licensing, Bay Area (WILBA)
Sponsored by White & Case LLP
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
5:30 - 8:00 p.m.
The Garden Court Hotel:
Grove Ballroom
520 Cowper Street
Palo Alto, CA 94301
Phone: 650-322-9000
* Complimentary valet service is available to all attendees. Please tell the valet, you are attending the Women in Licensing event.
Women in Licensing, Bay Area and White & Case LLP invite you to attend a cocktail reception and roundtable discussion of the unique issues facing women in high tech careers.
Our panel of senior professional women in the legal and high tech fields will share the experiences and challenges they encountered along the way, including:
- Obstacles they overcame while climbing the corporate ladder
- Career advice they wished someone had shared with them
- The role of mentors
- Maintaining a work/life balance while juggling career responsibilities and other life priorities
- Defining success, and the strategies they used to achieve it
Registration**:
Option #1:
On-line Registration & Credit card payment: https://www.usa-canada.les.org/registration.asp?ID=370
Option #2:
Download Registration Form
E-mail Registration & Check payment
E-mail Registration: womeninlicensing@gmail.com
Make checks payable to “LES WIL” and mail to:
LES Women in Licensing Bay Area
PO Box 96
Mountain View, CA 94042-0096
PLEASE DO NOT SEND CASH BY MAIL.
Cost:
$30 (for registrations received prior to September 5th)
$40 (for registrations received after September 5th)
Space is limited to 80 seats, so register early to ensure your spot!
Questions? Please contact: womeninlicensing@gmail.com or Kanda Ishihara: 650.335.7805
Panelists:
Anna Han, Esq., Senior Counsel, White & Case LLP
Mary Cranston, Esq., Senior Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Penny Herscher, President & CEO, First Rain, Inc.
Nora Denzel, Former Sr. Vice President, Global Software Business, Hewlett Packard Company
Moderators:
Susan Lewis, Corporate Counsel, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Wendy Lim, Senior Attorney, Intel Corporation
About the Panelists:
Anna Han is senior counsel with White & Case LLP, a global law firm with 35 offices in 23 countries. She advises companies on all aspects of investing in China with structuring, negotiation and approval advice, and she also advises Asian clients on investing in the US. In addition to her law practice, Anna is also a Professor at Santa Clara University’s School of Law. Prior to joining White and Case, she was a partner with a national firm advising US, European and Japanese companies doing business in China, including offshore oil explorations. She opened and managed that firm's China office in 1985 and was resident in China until 1988. She was the first foreign lawyer to open an office and represent a foreign law firm in Shanghai, China. Anna’s complete bio is available at: http://www.whitecase.com/ahan/
Mary Cranston is the Firm Senior Partner and Immediate Past Chair of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP, an international law firm. In her eight years as Chair, Ms. Cranston expanded the firm from a regional California base into an international platform through two large mergers and the addition of seven offices. The firm was one of three law firms ranked in the top 100 companies in the U.S. for working mothers in 2006. Ms. Cranston has been practicing complex litigation, including antitrust, telecommunications and securities litigation since 1975. Ms. Cranston has been named one of “The 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America” by the National Law Journal, one of two “Best Law Firm Leaders in the United States” by Of Counsel, and one of the “Top 100 Lawyers in California” by the San Francisco Daily Journal and the Los Angeles Daily Journal. Ms. Cranston was the recipient of the 2005 Margaret Brent Award, the American Bar Association’s highest award for women lawyers, given for legal excellence and for paving the way for other women lawyers. Mary’s complete bio is available at: http://www.pillsburylaw.com/mary.cranston
Penny Herscher is President and CEO of FirstRain and has developed the company as the leading search-driven application provider to the financial services market. Prior to FirstRain, Penny was Chairman and CEO of Simplex Solutions where she led the company to an IPO and through the sale to Cadence Design Systems. Penny serves on the boards of FirstRain, Rambus, the Anita Borg Institute, California Community Partners for Youth (CCPY), and Planned Parenthood Mar Monte. She speaks at numerous academic and industry events, and holds a B.A. with honors in mathematics from Cambridge University in England. For more information on Penny, or FirstRain, please visit: http://www.firstrain.com/Management.php
Nora Denzel recently retired from Hewlett Packard as the senior vice president and general manager of HP’s over one-billion dollar software division. At HP, she led one of the most dramatic turn-arounds in the software industry by reinvigorating HP’s OpenView and OpenCall software product lines through internal product development and the successful integration of over eight acquisitions. During her tenure as HP’s software chief, sales more than doubled, and the bottom line improved by over 72%. She has been named as one of the top 20 "Storage Movers and Shakers" by Storage, Inc. magazine and one of the most powerful people in networking by Network World magazine.
About Women in Licensing:
Women in Licensing is dedicated to accelerating the advancement of women in the technology and licensing professions. Women in Licensing is a committee of the Licensing Executives Society (USA and Canada), Inc. Established in 1965, LES is a professional society comprised of over 6,000 members engaged in the transfer, use, development, manufacture and marketing of intellectual property. For more information on Women in Licensing, please visit: www.womeninlicensing.com. For more information on the Licensing Executives Society, please visit:
http://www.usa-canada.les.org/aboutus/
About White & Case LLP:
White & Case LLP is a leading global law firm with more than 2,000 lawyers in 35 offices in 23 countries. For more information, please visit: www.whitecase.com
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