Will Porteous, General Partner, RRE Ventures Presents
"The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: Case Studies from a Venture Portfolio"
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 - 4:30 to 6:00 pm - B8 Sage Hall
Webinar Available (to register for webinar, visit www.cctec.cornell.edu/events/ess/ESSregistration.php5)
Speaker Bio: Will Porteous is a General Partner with RRE Ventures. Will focuses on early and expansion stage investments across RRE's multiple technology verticals, with a concentration on enterprise, consumer & digital media and mobile technology. Before joining the venture capital industry, Mr. Porteous held senior management positions in marketing and product management with SupplyWorks and NetMarket, the e-commerce pioneer now owned by Cendant Corp. Mr. Porteous is a Director of BuzzFeed, Data Robotics, HowAboutWe, Peek, Skyhook Wireless, Whiptail and Xobni and a former Director of Frictionless Commerce (acquired by SAP) and Tacit Networks (acquired by PKTR). He also serves as an Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia Business School and as Chairman of the Dockery Farms Foundation which he founded. Mr. Porteous holds an MBA from Harvard University, an MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a BA with Honors from Stanford University where he served as Captain of the Varsity Crew.
Speaker Series Sponsors: Entrepreneurship@Cornell, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute at Johnson, The Pillsbury Institute for Hospitality Entrepreneurship, Finger Lakes Entrepreneurs Forum, Cornell Center for Technology Enterprise and Commercialization (CCTEC), Office of Land Grant Affairs, Cornell Economic Development Administration (EDA) University Center, Community and Regional Development Institute, Cornell Cooperative Extension, and Tompkins County Area Development.