Canadian VC: Nanon de Gaspé Beaubien-Mattrick, Beehive

Nanon de Gaspé Beaubien-Mattrick, President/Founder of Beehive Holdings.  Nanon is responsible for the deal flow in the USA, shaping the strategy and culture of Beehive Holdings, and for overseeing implementation of its strategic plan.  Born in Montreal, QC, Nanon attended a French Lyceé, then headed to Phillips Academy in Andover, MA.  Nanon received a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) from Harvard College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.   Prior to founding Beehive, Nanon worked in sales and marketing for Playtex International before moving on to become Sr. Vice President of Telemedia Corporation for 10 years.  Nanon resides in BC with her husband and 2 children.   Nanon is currently serving as a Director on the following Boards:   UBC/VGH Hospital Foundation, Forum for Women Entrepreneurs (FWE), and a foundation dedicated to resolving North America’s water crisis and the de Gaspé Beaubien Family Foundation. @BeehiveVC

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Chris Yeh: Make Yourself Known to Investors Early

Chris Yeh has been building Internet businesses since 1995. He is the VP Marketing for PBworks, which provides highly vertical collaboration solutions that help businesses work more efficiently and effectively. Its products serve markets such as advertising and marketing agencies, law firms, and education, as well as the broader business market.  Chris is also a General Partner at Wasabi Ventures, a global venture fund, startup incubator, and consulting firm, where he leads the firm’s investment committee.  Previously, he was the first investor in and interim CEO of Ustream.TV, which provides an open and distributable platform for live interactive online video. He also helped start numerous other companies, including Symphoniq Corporation, TargetFirst, and Juno Online Services and FarSight Financial Services (divisions of D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P.). Chris is an active angel investor and advisor to a wide array of startups. He is also the founder and Chairman of the Harvard Business School Technology Alumni Association.  Chris earned two degrees from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was named a Baker Scholar.  You can find Chris on his blog Adventures in Capitalism & on Twitter @chrisyeh

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Bjoern Herrmann: Benchmarking Female Startups

Video interview with Bjoern Herrmann.  Bjoern is the 26 year-old founder of the Startup Genome. One year ago he & his team set out to find a scalable way to accelerate businesses across the world. After releasing two research reports on success & failure of startups that were downloaded 25,000 times he most recently released the first software product that is best described as a virtual mentor for now more than 13,000 software businesses. The published research has been adopted by more than 50 universities globally -including Stanford and Berkeley. Harvard Business School Professor Thomas Eisenmann called the findings an important contribution. You can try the product at Startup Compass Genome and learn more about the research at their blog. Before, Bjoern founded and led 4 for and nonprofit ventures in Germany, Bangladesh & the US. He also worked as an executive in Russia for one year for a mid sized marketing company. His personal passion or “leitmotif” is: unleashing human potential. His higher purpose is to strive to maximize the capitalization of every single individual. You can find Bjoern on Twitter @bjoernlasse

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