“You Can Make IT! Success for Foreign-Born Entrepreneurs & Executives”

Speaker:
Angelika Blendstrup, Ph D
Founder & Principal, Blendstrup & Associates

If you feel you that you might be able to better your chance of success with improved communications and negotiation skills, please join Keizai Society’s July event. This month, Keizai Society will present a panel discussion with successful foreign born professionals and look at the typical kinds of presentation skills they apply to talk to their companies or business groups in the Valley. There will be a practical training session on how to present a more professional and convincing message.

There have been many business books about great leaders but few books have focused uniquely on foreign-born entrepreneurs and executives, specifically ones living and working in Silicon Valley.

The book, They Made It!, is the result of conversations with these foreign-born Silicon Valley entrepreneurs such as Eric Benhamou, Jean-Louis Gassee, Raj Singh, Wu Fu Chen, Suhas Patil, Omid Kordestani, Qi Lu, Dan Maydan, who tell it as it is. Each leader shares a unique and personal perspective about how s/he came to the US and ultimately succeeded.

If you are established in Silicon Valley, or if you are just curious to find out what make these extraordinary individuals tick, come listen to how these foreign-born professionals think and gain some personal insights into the fulfillment of their ambitions and dreams.

In order to make this an effective training session, we will need ~ 3 volunteers to give a short 5 minute talk on a topic of their choice (it can be very technical) with immediate feedback on improving their presentation skills. Please send a message to dan@keizai.org in advanced if you are interested in being a participant/presenting.

RSVP by July 21th, 2008 to reserve your place!

Panelist Bios

Angelika Blendstrup, Ph.D., is the founder and principal of Blendstrup & Associates. She holds a Ph.D. in Bilingual and Bicultural Education from Stanford University and speaks five languages.

Angelika specializes in individualized, intercultural business communication training, accent reduction and presentation skill coaching. Because of her work with international executives and her role as President of Silicon French and LʼExecutive Club,, she got the idea of interviewing the fascinating foreign leaders who are quite accessible in Silicon Valley. With the help of her international friends in this community and the help of the executives themselves, she was able to interview more than 45 foreign leaders in 14 months.

In addition to They Made It!, together with an Italian colleague, she co-wrote Communicating the American Way, a guide to US business communications.

Angelika teaches US business communications skills to international executives in the Silicon Valley as well as classes at Stanford University on topics such as cross - cultural communication, managing virtual teams and the art of interviewing successfully.

“Is Japan Creating an Entrepreneurial Economy?”

Keizai Special Joint Program
with Stanford University’s US-ATMC

Speaker:
Prof. Yoko Ishikura
Hitotsubashi University

Sponsor:

Japan is at a critical turning point in 2008, with two opposing groups and views. One is the view that Japan, with its current social, political and economic system, will have difficulty renewing itself, while the other view is that the past success formula of a closed corporate innovation system supported by engineers and “hardware driven” technology is still viable.

With the accelerating pace of globalization and ICT, what will become of Japan, its private sector and public sector? Will its once-leading clean and green technologies survive and make an impact on the resolution of global issues? What are the potential areas for collaboration with the innovative and dynamic Silicon Valley?

As a professor of business strategy and innovation at the Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy at Hitotsubashi University, Dr. Yoko Ishikura teaches the Competitiveness and Problem Solving courses, is responsible for the Executive Opinion Survey in Japan for the Global Competitiveness Report of the World Economic Forum, and is a member of the Council for Science & Technology Policy at the Japanese Cabinet Office.

She was a board member of Japan Post and Vodafone KK and is currently a member of the board at Mitsui OSK Lines and the advisory board of All Nippon Airways. She received an MBA from the Darden School, University of Virginia and DBA from Harvard Business School. She worked at McKinsey Inc. Japan in the late 1980s. Her “Act Globally, Think Locally” was one of the breakthrough ideas for 2007 in the Harvard Business Review.

“Ingredients for Successful Entrepreneurship with Innovative Technologies”

Case studies of serial Indian and Japanese entrepreneurs

How destructive innovation is achieved?

Participating Panelists:

This month Keizai Society will present two distinguished entrepreneurs who have been able to succeed by capturing the right technologies in the right place and at the right timing. Keizai invited about 20 VCs, business people and lawyers from Japan to this event and hopes to have a productive networking with Silicon Valley entrepreneurs at this event.

Mr. Murthy, serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, will discuss his direct experience in founding and growing venture funded semiconductor and systems companies based in Silicon Valley and India.
He will explain how to successfully use “disruptive innovation” strategy to manage off shore and multi geographic development teams. He will also discuss how he created an extensive network of industry connections including venture capital, Investment banks to source experienced talent for engineering, marketing and sales.

Mr. Yamada, a successful veteran entrepreneur in Japan, will talk about how he implemented a “disruptive reduction” in make tooling for products from 45 days to 45 hours. He achieved process capability of 1 micron accuracy by using IT (Innovative Technology?). The improved automated tooling will allow his manufacturing factory in Japan to compete with overseas operations. 　

Yamada-san will share his experiences about motivating young engineers to tackle “impossible” objectives.

This forum will provide you with knowledge and challenges in the different environments in starting a venture business in Silicon Valley and in Japan.

RSVP by May 11th, 2008 to reserve your place!

Panelist Bios

Samba Murthy

Silicon valley serial entrepreneur and startup CEO from the semiconductor and computer networking industry. Featured in "They made it!", a recent book about silicon valley entrepreneurs (http://www.happyabout.info/theymadeit.php). Direct experience founding and growing venture funded semiconductor and systems companies based in silicon valley and India, managing off shore and multi geographic development teams. Successfully developed and launched industry’s highest performance content processor three times larger than the Pentium with 500+ man years of development. Holds BSEE and MSEE degrees, with 8 patents. www.linkedin.com/in/nssambamurthy

Shinjiro Yamada, Ph. D.

Dr. Shinjiro Yamada distinguished himself as an automobile part designer at Mitsui for 17 years. In 1990, he established INCS, Inc. INCS’ business was to provide services for all phases of the product development cycle including design, prototyping and tooling for the manufacturing industry.

By 1996, INCS initiated studies to perform detailed analysis of development processes and to engineer the process to exploit the network system named “PHARAOH”. As a result, by 1998, tooling for a mobile phone which required 45 days was reduced to 45 hours, a 24 fold improvement.

Canon Chairman Mitarai’s expedition to INCS factory convinced him to request a similar factory built for Canon. This was the birth of INCS lead-time reduction consulting business. INCS refers this process analysis methodology the “Process Technology”.

Process Technology has shown that it may be used to reduce lead-time in software development, airline operation (from landing to take-off), building construction and chemical plant maintenance schedule cycle.

Participating Panelists:
Troy Valdez- Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Senior Associate
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Joseph Rusinovich - HRM Partners Founder & President
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Download Flyer: English | Japanese

Wednesday, March 19, 2008
6:00 p.m. Reception 6:45 – 8:45 p.m. Program
950 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA
Bldg 950 (brick building) of the law firm of
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC

$20.00: Registration by March 15
$35.00: Late Registration and Walk-ins
Walk-ins are welcome, but seating is limited and will be restricted

Keizai society accepts only cash or check for walk-in at the event.

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Today’s “anytime, anywhere” technologies are changing work behavior. With the rise of advancedmobile communication tools, businesses are asking how present employment laws apply whenworkplace boundaries become porous. How should compensation work? How are hours to becounted, especially for employee classified as non-exempt? Of particular importance to most businesses in Silicon Valley, which IT industry jobs are mostly considered exempt and why? How does telecommuting affect the employer-employee relationship? Do employer duties (e.g. workplace safety) extend into the employee’s home? Do any employee rights to privacy change when away from the workplace? While 15% or more of the US workforce participates in some form of work from home, Japanese companies have been slow in allowing telecommuting. Why? In addition to exploring the above, our panelists will present recent developments in employment law compliance that both employers and employees should know about and their implications. For example, cell phone usage will no longer be allowed while driving without a headphone, starting July 1, 2008.

The panel includes an employment attorney, presenting the US and CA employment lawperspective, and the president of a HR management consulting firm, presenting common issues faced by many of their Japanese clients.

Find out how you can avoid costly employment disputes and litigation by being knowledgeable in this technology age. This topic should also appeal to those entrepreneurs who are typically too busy to prepare for pitfalls of human resources management issues. RSVP by March 15th, 2008 to reserve your place!

Panelist Bios
Joseph Rusinovich
Joe Rushnovich is founder and president of HRM Partners, a human resources management consulting company specializing in small- to medium-sized multinational companies. A senior level human resources management consultant with 20 years of HR management expertise, Mr. Rusinovich and HRM Partners specialize in such areas as compensation program development, management communications programs, performance management, benefits, employee relations, conflict management and policy development.

Prior to establishing HRM Partners in 1994, Mr. Rusinovich spent five years as practice leader for PCG, HR management consulting firm which worked with Japanese corporations and was focused on improving employee communications and implementing competitive compensation programs and successful staffing solutions. Before joining PCG, Mr. Rusinovich was with NCR Corporation for 10 years in various HR management positions in several locations including unionized and non-unionized plants, division and subsidiary organizations and corporate headquarters. He received both a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science/History and a Master of Science degree in Industrial Relations from West Virginia University.

Troy A. Valdez
Troy Valdez is a senior associate in Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati’s employment law practice. Troy has extensive experience, focusing his practice on wage and hour class action litigation and prevention, employee trade secret matters, founder/executive disputes, and discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and other traditional employment disputes. Troy counsels and defends a wide array of public and private companies on all aspects of the employer/employee relationship, including implementing wage and hour compliance programs, key individual terminations and recruitment, reductions in force, compensation issues, and navigating the law with respect to employee leaves. In addition, Troy assists clients with mergers and acquisitions, focusing on employment issues that arise in these transactions.

Prior to joining the firm, Troy was an associate at Littler Mendelson P.C., where he specialized in employment litigation. Troy received a BA in history from UC Berkeley and a JD from UC Davis School of Law, where he was Associate Editor, UC Davis Law Review. He is a member of the California State Bar and several related professional associations.