WEDNESDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2006
Organised by: Asia-Pacific Technology Network and Asian Programme (Chatham House)
Location: Chatham House, 10 St James' Square, London, SW1Y 4LE
Nearest Tube Station: Piccadilly Circus or Green Park
Time: 16.30 - 18.00
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Speakers Shantanu Bhagwat, Business Development Partner (Asia), Amadeus Capital Partners Ltd
Matt Rothman, Managing Partner, Hemisphere Capital
Professor Sumit K Majumbar, Professor of Technology Strategy, University of Texas at Dallas
William Gillespie, Director and International Counsel, Tiger Capital Partners
The Venture Capital scene is moving fast in both China and India. Western Venture Capital companies have been moving into both countries, but indigenous companies are emerging as well. What is happening? Is the scene equally healthy in the two countries. Shantanu Bhagwat and Sumit Majumbar will look at the Indian scene. William Gillespie will talk about Chinese developments. Matt Rothman will analyse the relative attractions of the two countries. Shantanu, Sumit and William are all Venture Capitalists who actively monitor Asian developments. Sumit (who talked to our seminar series earlier in the year) is monitoring the Indian High-Tech scene.
Background:
Shantanu Bhagwat, Amadeus Capital Partners Ltd., London
In his role as Business Development Partner for Asia at Amadeus, Shantanu is deeply involved in supporting portfolio companies doing business in the region, providing business development resources throughout Asia. He is also involved in due diligence and developing strategic VC partnerships for Amadeus in the region. Shantanu brings to his work 17 years of broad international experience - in Europe as well as in Asia - where he worked for several years in Japan and in India. He joined Amadeus in 2001 from Monitor Co. in London. At Amadeus, his portfolio responsibilities include Power Paper (a deal that he co-led in 2003), Red-M and NanoMagnetics. Prior to Monitor, at SmithKline Beecham, Shantanu wrote the e-business strategy document for SmithKline’s International division. Before that, Shantanu spent several years in the Indian Foreign Service as a fast-track career diplomat, including a 4-year stint in Japan.A graduate in Computer Engineering from India, Shantanu is also a Charter Member of TiE. He holds an MBA from London Business School where he was a Chevening Scholar and is a frequent speaker & panellist at conferences on emerging opportunities in Asia.
Amadeus Capital Partners (www.amadeuscapital.com)
Amadeus invests venture capital in new technologies from offices in London and Cambridge, UK. Since its inception in 1997, Amadeus has backed 48 companies in the UK and continental Europe, covering computer hardware and software, mobile and fixed communications technologies and medical technologies. Investments include Cambridge Silicon Radio, producing single chip bluetooth radios for short range connections and floated on the London Stock Exchange in 2004, Optos, a manufacturer of laser retinal scanners and number one in 2003’s Tech Track 100, Cambridge Broadband, developing technologies for wireless broadband networks in countries with poor infrastructure and number one in 2004’s Tech Track 100, Valista, an electronic payments company, Solexa, developing ultra high speed gene sequencing machines and AePONA, a developer of standards-based software gateways for the telecoms industry. Successful realisations from the Amadeus portfolio include Entropic, bought by Microsoft and Element-14, bought by Broadcom Corporation.