Geoff Darby on Entrepreneurship

"From Engineering Graduate to a Start-up to Being a CFO of a Public Company"

Featuring Geoff Darby
Independent Venture Capital and Private Equity Professional

Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium
Free and open to the public

 

The Entrepreneurship Course for Scientists and Engineers provides a real-world introduction to the theory and practice of entrepreneurship.  Through a series of presentations by prestigious entrepreneurs and industry leaders, participants will explore the various organizational, strategic and financial challenges facing successful and unsuccessful entrepreneurs.  Topics include start-up strategies, business idea evaluation, business plan writing, and introduction to venture capital.

About the Speaker:
Geoff Darby has more than 30 years of experience with both domestic (Compaq, IBM, Rockwell) and International (Unilever, Forasol-Foramer) companies, and has worked in more than 20 countries. In 1976, he moved to the , and has been involved at a senior level in building technology companies in Silicon Valley, taking three companies public as chief financial officer. His last company, Redback Networks, achieved one of the most successful IPO’s in the history of NASDAQ in 1999. Darby graduated from Southampton University with a B.Sc. (Hons) in mechanical engineering and is a Fellow of the United Kingdom Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.