Past MindShare Graduates

"Hottest invite in town."
- Washington Technology

""It's like a rite of passage as a technology CEO.""
- Elliott Frutkin,
MindShare Class of 2000

""Consistently one of the best places to identify promising
new companies and hear the latest from-the-front sagas.""
- Shannon Henry,
The Washington Post

"I enjoyed the networking, the knowledge and inspiration of the group."
- Richard Tworek,
MindShare Class of 2003

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Past MindShare Graduates

Joe Crupi, Telogy Networks
(acquired in 1999 by Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN) for $500M)

Raul Fernandez, Proxicom
(IPO in 1999 and acquired by Dimension Data in 2001 for $400M)

Amir Hudda, Entevo
(acquired by Bindview for $125M)

Hemant Kanakia, Torrent Networking Technologies
(acquired by Ericsson in 1999
for $450M)

Rick Kay, OTG Software
(IPO in 2000 and acquired by Legato in 2002 for $455M)

Phillip Merrick, webMethods
(IPO in 2000 - closing with the fourth-best first-day gain ever for a new-IPO
issue on the Nasdaq)

Ed Peters, DataDirect
(acquired by Progress Software in 2003 for $88M)

Rick Rudman, Vocus
(IPO in 2005)

Dan Simpkins, Salix Technologies
(acquired by Tellabs in 2000 for $300M)

Charlie Thomas, Net2000
(IPO in 2000 and acquired by Cavalier)

Lev Volftsun, Lightspeed International
(acquired by Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) for $200M)