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EDUCATION SESSION #836
Alpha Girls – Meet the Women of Venture Capital
Get a close-up look at venture capital investing from the perspective of Sonja Hoel Perkins and Magdalena Yesil, two of Silicon Valley's leading venture capitalists. Having achieved stellar results investing in technology companies, they co-founded Broadway Angels, an angel investment group composed of world-class women investors. Perkins and Yesil will share their success secrets with journalist Julian Guthrie, whose forthcoming book Alpha Girls profiles the trailblazing women in venture investing. Prepare to be inspired.

Note: Magdelena Yesil’s book, Power UP: How Smart Women Win in the New Economy, offers lessons based on her challenges and accomplishments, together with empowering stories from more than two dozen successful women entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley.
DATE
5 September 2018
TIME
4:30 PM Registration and Networking
5:30 PM Event Begins
The program will begin promptly at 5:30PM ; allow time to get through building security and to register before the event begins. Those arriving after registration has closed will NOT be admitted and will be subject to a "No-Show Fee" (see below).
Networking reception prior to session.
LOCATION
Winston & Strawn
101 California Street
35th Floor
San Francisco , CA  
PARTICIPANTS
Sonja Hoel Perkins
The Perkins Fund; Broadway Angels

Magdalena Yesil
Broadway Angels

Julian Guthrie
Moderator
HOSTS
Winston & Strawn LLP
Silicon Valley Risk & Insurance Services
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BIOGRAPHIES
Sonja Hoel Perkins
Venture Investor; Founder, The Perkins Fund; Broadway Angels

Sonja Hoel Perkins is the Managing Director of The Perkins Fund, Founder of Broadway Angels and Founder of Project Glimmer. Considered one of the best performing and most senior professionals in venture capital, she invests broadly in all stages and areas of information technology including Internet, mobile, security, data, communications, consumer and software. She has invested in several startups that have achieved multi billion dollar valuations. Her investment “hall of fame” includes McAfee Associates, F5, Acme Packet and Q1 Labs. In 2015, Worth Magazine ranked Sonja among the 100 Most Powerful People in Finance in the World.

Magdalena Yesil
Venture Investor; Founder, Broadway Angels

Magdalena Yesil is a founder, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist of many of the world’s top technology companies, including Salesforce, where she was the first investor. She served on the board from inception to post IPO. A former general partner at U.S. Venture Partners, she oversaw investments in more than thirty early-stage companies and served on the boards of many. Yesil is a founder of Broadway Angels, a group of female venture capitalists and angel investors. Author of Power UP, she is currently working on her fourth startup.

Julian Guthrie
Author and Journalist

Award-winning journalist and NY Times best-selling author, Julian Guthrie spent twenty years at the San Francisco Chronicle, where she won numerous awards. Her feature writing and enterprise reporting were nominated multiple times for the Pulitzer Prize. Ms. Guthrie's most recent book is How to Make a Spaceship , a NYT best-seller about the private race to space, with an afterword by the late Stephen Hawking. Alpha Girls , about a group of trailblazing women in tech, will be out early next year and has been optioned for film.
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Winston & Strawn LLP
Winston & Strawn LLP is an international law firm with 1,000 attorneys across 16 offices in Brussels, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Dubai, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Moscow, New York, Paris, San Francisco, Shanghai, Silicon Valley, and Washington, D.C. The exceptional depth and geographic reach of our resources enable Winston & Strawn to manage virtually every type of business-related legal issue. We serve the needs of enterprises of all types and sizes, in both the private and the public sector. We understand that clients are looking for value beyond just legal talent. With this in mind, we work hard to understand the level of involvement our clients want from us. We take time to learn about our clients’ organizations and their business objectives. And, we place significant emphasis on technology and teamwork in an effort to respond quickly and effectively to our clients’ needs. Visit winston.com if you would like more information about our legal services, our experience, or the industries we serve.

Silicon Valley Risk & Insurance Services
Silicon Valley Risk & Insurance Services (“SVRIS”) is the Northern California affiliate of Wood Gutmann & Bogard Insurance Brokers, a thirty-year old leading West Coast risk management advisory firm. SVRIS typically advises 150 small- to medium-size corporate clients based primarily in SF Bay Area. Leveraging an extensive network of insurance carriers, the team routinely plans and puts in place health benefits, workers compensation and property-liability insurance coverage for companies from a variety of sectors, including investment managers and directors/officers of private and public companies. Additionally, SVRIS offers cutting-edge human resources, finance and risk management technology solutions through various industry partnerships.
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