“Staying Alive:
Resuscitating Business in the Golden State”

Tuesday, August 2, 2011 - 7:00am - 9:00am

While CA is beloved for its climate, that’s where the loving ends. Its business climate is a whole different affair. For mangement and directors, there is no more pressing topic!

According to Chief Executive.net, California continues to conduct a war on its own economy. In its 7th annual ranking of the best states for doing business, CA ranks 50th—and has held this “distinction” for 2009, 2010 and 2011.

Our speakers—from the floor of the CA State Assembly, and the hub of high-tech innovation in the Silicon Valley—will talk about how to stop the madness, nurture business and reward innovation, instead of strangling it.

Nathan Fletcher Assemblyman - 75th District, State of California more Assemblyman Fletcher was instrumental in passing a major tax code revision that will help create 144,000 new CA jobs, including many in the biotech and high tech industries. He was awarded BIOCOM's Legislator of the Year. Prior to taking office, he served in the U.S. Marine Corps for 10 years, working in counterintelligence in the Horn of Africa and the Near East. Before that, he served in the Sunni Triangle region of Iraq, earning the Navy/Marine Corps Achievement Medal with Combat "V" for valor, among others, and is the first combat veteran of the Global War on Terror to serve in the California Legislature. He also authored the landmark bill, Chelsea’s Law.

Henry R. “Hank” Nothhaft Bestselling Author; Former CEO, Tessera, Danger, Concentric Network & others more A serial start-up entrepreneur, and one of the Silicon Valley’s most respected high-tech CEOs, he was at the forefront in pioneering the 1st email network. One of his companies developed T-Mobile’s Sidekick phone, which was acquired for $500 million by Microsoft in 2008. Now a best selling author of Great Again: Revitalizing America’s Entrepreneurial Leadership (WSJ review), the former U.S. Marine Corps Captain tirelessly speaks out against our “backlogged and underfunded patent office, foolish tax structure, short-sighted public policy” and advocates for revitalizing creative vigor and innovation. Plan to stay for the book-signing after the program!

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